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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SNAKESKIN, by LIZ BEASLEY First Line: Clouds thin into form: a hawk / pulling a tail of rings-beads Last Line: Remembers what it once held. | |||
Clouds thin into form: a hawk pulling a tail of rings -- beads of an abacus, the mathematics of light -- a lengthening spine, snakeskin no longer inhabited. All day I'm giving a name for what isn't there. Yet somewhere we've left our likeness, the hollow shapes of us. Even though the snake has slipped into the shade, the shed skin, deceptively whole, hidden in the sun-flecked grass, remembers what it once held. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SOLDIER by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: OCTOBER by EDMUND SPENSER SONG OF THE ANGELS AT THE NATIVITY by NAHUM TATE THE INNOCENT MAGICIAN; OR, A CHARM AGAINST LOVE by PHILIP AYRES SONG: 5 by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD TO L.E.L. ON THE DEATH OF FELICIA HEMANS by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT SERVICE FLAG - 1517 STARS by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY |
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