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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHEN HE EMERGED, by MARGARET AHO First Line: Exposing through a bottomless | |||
exposing through a bottomless foxhole the kitchen carpet carpet glue linoleum linoleum adhesive ply wood sub floor boards above the cellar ceiling cellar floor geo pitch and plates he'd somehow augered through and stood there on his hind legs, drawing on his gloves: chrome and citron -- I didn't know him. He held a ferule. It was blue for music. He was virgulate himself, leaning toward me: a rust-red slash between worlds. Copyright © Margaret Aho. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EYE-SHAPED, MOUTH-SHAPED by MARGARET AHO I DREAM I'M LEAVING by MARGARET AHO I LOOK IN MY HEART by SARA TEASDALE A HILLSIDE THAW by ROBERT FROST THE PETRIFIED FERN by MARY LYDIA BOLLES BRANCH NAPOLEON by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE SANCTUARY by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY SONNET: 20 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PATERNITY by WILLIAM ROSE BENET THE BLIND LEGION by WILLIAM ROSE BENET BODY AND SOUL: A METAPHYSICAL ARGUMENT by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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