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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 FOR WALT WHITMAN by DAVID IGNATOW WAITER IN A CALIFORNIA VIETNAMESE RESTURANT by CLARENCE MAJOR IN THE STREETS by LOUIS UNTERMEYER NOTHING BUT LEAVES by LUCY EVELINA AKERMAN MY LADY'S PLEASURE by ROBERT GRAHAM AUNTIE'S SKIRTS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON IN MEMORY OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE ST. SIMEON STYLITES by ALFRED TENNYSON INDEPENDENCE DAY by ROYALL TYLER ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 5. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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