June Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI AJEKLMNOPD QRSHTUVE| The blue forest chilled and blue like the lips of the dead | A |
| if the lips were gone The year has been cut in half | B |
| with dull scissors the solstice still looking for its square | C |
| on the calendar Perhaps the scissors were really | D |
| lawn mowers or hoes Perhaps God's calendar is Chinese | E |
| As first I didn't understand those burlap dolls | F |
| slouched in Central Pennsylvania craft stores | G |
| Where were the button eyes the tiny pearl nostrils | H |
| the smudgy pink watercolor cheeks | I |
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| I enter the woods part Gretel part Little Red | A |
| Such a small patch of sun makes it to the ground | J |
| through the leaves The tree trunks are all elbows and knees | E |
| all arthritis and gripes The Amish think it's wrong | K |
| to render nature quilts abstracting each pattern's name | L |
| of tree buggy corn horse farm | M |
| My uncle not Amish but superstitious holds his palm | N |
| to the camera in a Christmas photo Before she died | O |
| my grandmother ripped up all the pictures of herself | P |
| She liked a novel with mystery magazines without nudity | D |
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| The boy was killed by a drunk driver My Amish neighbors | Q |
| forgive I prefer seeing it all the snot the optical nerve the liver | R |
| behind the belly's skin I prefer a good fight | S |
| a wailing of grief The Farmers' Market sells apples | H |
| as red as tricycles The dolls without faces | T |
| want it silent The forest all anger and yesterday | U |
| newspapers blank as white cotton sheets | V |
| the branches the teeth the awful vees | E |
Denise Duhamel
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