Head, Perhaps Of An Angel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGHI JKLH MNOP LHQR STUV HWXY ZHA2B2 C2D2E2D F2G2YA YH2DOlimestone with traces of polychrony c | A |
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Point Dume was the point | B |
he said but we never came close | C |
no matter how far we walked the shale | D |
broken from California | E |
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Someone's garden | F |
had slipped hanging itself by a vine | G |
from the cliffs of some new Babylon | H |
past Malibu | I |
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Drowning the words | J |
the wind didn't fling back in our faces | K |
the Pacific washed up a shell | L |
around an alabastron | H |
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of salt water for the dead | M |
seaweed rustled its papers drying them out | N |
until it died Waves kept crashing | O |
into the heart | P |
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of each shell | L |
I held to my ear like a phone | H |
but they were just the waves of my blood | Q |
And through it all | R |
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I heard him say | S |
how could it be nine months ago | T |
his grandson had taken his own life | U |
somewhere back east | V |
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He was fifteen | H |
O Pacific what good is our grief | W |
Something screamed at the sandy child | X |
who poured seawater | Y |
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into a hole | Z |
Child you'll never empty the ocean | H |
Augustine said How can I believe | A2 |
The wet fist of a wave | B2 |
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dissolved in sand | C2 |
Like a saint a seagull flapped down the beach | D2 |
in search of something raw an angel | E2 |
with an empty pail | D |
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No a teenage boy | F2 |
hands big as a man's held a sea slug | G2 |
quaking like an aspic Under a rock another | Y |
drew into its body | A |
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a creature | Y |
larger than itself Live said Death | H2 |
to child and childless alike indifferently | D |
I am coming | O |
Debora Greger
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