Other Lives And Dimensions And Finally A Love Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DEFE FFGH FIJK LMNO CPQR FSTU VEVW EXYZ| My left hand will live longer than my right The rivers | A |
| of my palms tell me so | B |
| Never argue with rivers Never expect your lives to finish | C |
| at the same time I think | D |
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| praying I think clapping is how hands mourn I think | D |
| staying up and waiting | E |
| for paintings to sigh is science In another dimension this | F |
| is exactly what's happening | E |
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| it's what they write grants about the chromodynamics | F |
| of mournful Whistlers | F |
| the audible sorrow and beta decay of Old Battersea Bridge | G |
| I like the idea of different | H |
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| theres and elsewheres an Idaho known for bluegrass | F |
| a Bronx where people talk | I |
| like violets smell Perhaps I am somewhere patient somehow | J |
| kind perhaps in the nook | K |
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| of a cousin universe I've never defiled or betrayed | L |
| anyone Here I have | M |
| two hands and they are vanishing the hollow of your back | N |
| to rest my cheek against | O |
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| your voice and little else but my assiduous fear to cherish | C |
| My hands are webbed | P |
| like the wind torn work of a spider like they squeezed | Q |
| something in the womb | R |
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| but couldn't hang on One of those other worlds | F |
| or a life I felt | S |
| passing through mine or the ocean inside my mother's belly | T |
| she had to scream out | U |
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| Here when I say I never want to be without you | V |
| somewhere else I am saying | E |
| I never want to be without you again And when I touch you | V |
| in each of the places we meet | W |
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| in all of the lives we are it's with hands that are dying | E |
| and resurrected | X |
| When I don't touch you it's a mistake in any life | Y |
| in each place and forever | Z |
Bob Hicok
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