Head, Perhaps Of An Angel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGHI JKLH MNOP LHQR STUV HWXY ZHA2B2 C2D2E2D F2G2YA YH2DO

limestone with traces of polychrony cA
-
Point Dume was the pointB
he said but we never came closeC
no matter how far we walked the shaleD
broken from CaliforniaE
-
Someone's gardenF
had slipped hanging itself by a vineG
from the cliffs of some new BabylonH
past MalibuI
-
Drowning the wordsJ
the wind didn't fling back in our facesK
the Pacific washed up a shellL
around an alabastronH
-
of salt water for the deadM
seaweed rustled its papers drying them outN
until it died Waves kept crashingO
into the heartP
-
of each shellL
I held to my ear like a phoneH
but they were just the waves of my bloodQ
And through it allR
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I heard him sayS
how could it be nine months agoT
his grandson had taken his own lifeU
somewhere back eastV
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He was fifteenH
O Pacific what good is our griefW
Something screamed at the sandy childX
who poured seawaterY
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into a holeZ
Child you'll never empty the oceanH
Augustine said How can I believeA2
The wet fist of a waveB2
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dissolved in sandC2
Like a saint a seagull flapped down the beachD2
in search of something raw an angelE2
with an empty pailD
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No a teenage boyF2
hands big as a man's held a sea slugG2
quaking like an aspic Under a rock anotherY
drew into its bodyA
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a creatureY
larger than itself Live said DeathH2
to child and childless alike indifferentlyD
I am comingO

Debora Greger



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