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MILLER WILLIAMS


Poems found: 383

AFTER THE REVOLUTION FOR JESUS A SECULAR MAN PREPARES FINAL REMARKS

FOR VICTOR JARA

RUBAIYAT FOR SUE ELLA TUCKER

THE BOOK

THE FIREBREATHERS AT THE CAFE DEUX MAGOTS

WIEDERSEHEN

A POEM FOR EMILY

A SHORT PLAY

A TENTH ANNIVERSARY PHOTOGRAPH, 1952

BIRTH OF THE BLUES

EVENING: A STUDIO IN ROME

FOR A GIRL I KNOW ABOUT TO BECOME A WOMAN

FOR J.W., ON HIS MARRIAGE IN THE FAITH

FOR REBECCA, FOR WHOM NOTHING HAS BEEN WRITTEN PAGE AFTER PAGE

IF EVER THERE WAS ONE

JUNE TWENTY, THREE DAYS AFTER

LOGOS

LOVE AND HOW IT BECOMES IMPORTANT IN OUR DAY TO DAY LIFE

OF HISTORY AND HOPE

ON A TRAILWAYS BUS A MAN WHO HOLDS HIS HEAD STRAGELY SPEAKS TO THE SEAT NEXT TO HIM

ON THE REBURIAL OF A SECOND LIEUTENANT

REBECCA AT PLAY

STYLE

THE AGING ACTRESS SEES HERSELF A STARLET ON THE LATE SHOW

TEARING DOWN THE HOTEL

THE CURATOR

THE GIRL

THE WOMAN IN THE ROOM

TRYING

I GO OUT OF THE HOUSE FOR THE FIRST TIME

IF EVERY PERSON THERE IS BUT ONE

IT IS NOT THAT IT CAME TO NOTHING, EMILIANO

YEAR THEY OUTLAWED BASEBALL

THINK OF JUDAS THAT HE DID LOVE JESUS

10,000 YEAR OLD TREE DISCOVERED SHADES TWO AND HALF ACRES

1:30 - MRS. SIMMONS

71 SOUTH

CHRISTMAS POEM

DAY IN THE DEATH

GLASS DARKLY

GOOD SON

LITTLE POEM

MAN IN THE BAR SAYS HE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY

NEWSPAPER PICTURE OF SPECTATORS AT A HOTEL FIRE

NOTE TO GOD CONCERNING A POINT FROM AN EARLIER COMMUNICATION

NOTE TO THE ENGLISH POETS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

POEM FOR FLANNERY BUT NOT THE ONE I PROMISED

POET FOR EMILY

QUESTION OF TIME

SHORT HISTORY OF THE GAME

SHORT PLAY

STORY

SUMMER AFTERNOON AN OLD MAN GIVES SOME THOUGHT TO CENTRAL QUESTIONS

TENTH ANNIVERSARY PHOTOGRAPH, 1952

THOUGHT AS IT TURNS

TOAST TO FLOYD COLLINS

VISITOR'S GUIDE TO THE BLUE PLANET

WALK IN THE WOODS

ADJUSTING TO THE LIGHT

AESTHETIC DISTANCE

AFTER A BRUBECK CONCERT

AFTER THE FUNERAL FOR A YOUNG WOMAN

AFTER THE READING SHE WALKED UP AND ASKED HIM

AFTER THE REVOLUTION FOR JESUS A SECULAR MAN PREPARES FINAL REMARKS

AFTER YOU DIE YOU DON'T GIVE A PIDDLING DAMN

AGREEING

ALLEGORY OF A MEMORY AND HIS MAN

ALLENDE AT THE END

AUGUST EVENING OUTSIDE OF NASHVILLE

OLD MAN LEAVES HIS CHURCH FOR THE LAST TIME

AND ALSO MUCH CATTLE

AND THEN

AND THEN I HEADED ON BACK HOME

AND WHEN IN SCENES OF GLORY

ANIMALS

ARCHITECTURE OF THE AMERICAN MIND

AS YOU BOTH SHALL LIVE

AT SEVENTY SUDDENLY

AT THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IN LITTLE ROCK

AT THE CHRISTENING OF AN INFANT THE MIND OF THE YOUNG PREACHER WANDERS

AT THE SANITY HEARING HE SPEAKS IN HIS OWN DEFENSE

AT THREE EVERY THURSDAY AFTERNOON

AUBADE

AUTOPSY

BALLAD OF A LITTLE DELTA TOWN

BEFORE

BEING HERE

BELIEVING

BELIEVING IN SYMBOLS

BESIDE AN OPEN GRAVE THE MIND OF YOUNG PREACHER COMES ALMOST TO TERMS

BIRTH OF THE BLUES

BUYING AND SELLING

CATCH WITH REUBEN

CAUTION

CHILDREN'S GAMES

CLOSING THE HOUSE

CLUTTER OF SILENCE: INVENTION FOR TWO VOICES

COMING OUT

COMPASSION

COPING

DEADSONG FOR A NEIGHBOR CHILD WHO RAN AWAY TO THE WOODS

DESPAIRING OF UNDERSTANDING WE FALL INTO DECADENCE

DIVORCE

DOCUMENTING IT

DURING A FUNERAL SERVICE THE MIND OF THE YOUNG PREACHER WANDERS AGAIN

DURING HYMN BEFORE CHRISTMAS SERMON MIND OF YOUNG PREACHER WANDERS

DUST

E-MAIL

ENTROPY

EUGLENA

EVENING: A STUDIO IN ROME

EVERYONE DIES IN A LIGHT RAIN

EVERYTHING IS FINE HERE. HOW ARE YOU?

EXCUSE ME

FIFTY

FIRST DATE

FLESH

FLY ME TO THE MOON

FOLDING HIS USA TODAY HE MAKES HIS POINT IN THE BLUE STAR CAFE

FOOTNOTE ON THE INVENTION OF SMALL PLEASURES

FOR A GIRL I KNOW ABOUT TO BE A WOMAN

FOR ALL OUR GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN

FOR FRED CARPENTER WHO DIED IN HIS SLEEP

FOR J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT ON THE DAY OF HIS DEATH

FOR JORDAN WITH LOVE THE EIGHTH YEAR OF THE SLAUGHTER: A MINUET FOR AR

FOR LUCINDA, ROBERT, AND KARYN

FOR LUCY, ON HER BIRTHDAY

FOR LUCY, ON THE TWELFTH MONTH

FOR REBECCA, FOR WHOM NOTHING HAS BEEN WRITTEN PAGE AFTER PAGE

FOR REUBEN, AT TWELVE MONTHS

FOR ROBERT, SON OF MAN

FOR VICTOR JARA

FORM AND THEORY OF POETRY

FRED

FUNERAL

GETTING CLOSE

GETTING EXPERIENCE

GETTING THE MESSAGE

GHOSTS

GLASTNOST: MOSCOW, THE ARABAT

GOD

GOING

GOING DEAF

GREEN MANSIONS

HE GLIMPSES A NOBLER VISION

HE SHUTS HIS EYES FOR THE LAYMAN'S LONG PRAYER ABOUT LUST ...

HE SPEAKS TO HIS ARGUING FRIENDS AND TO HIMSELF

HELLO

HELLO. I'LL BET YOU DON'T KNOW WHO THIS IS

HER, THOUGH

HISTORY 101

HOLIDAY INN: SURROUNDED BY SOMEONE ELSE'S REUNION HE COMES TO TERMS

HOME FROM THE GRAVE TO NEWS OF WAR AND MADNESS

HOME YOUNG FROM EUROPE WITH ALL NEW UNDERWEAR

HOW DID YOU EVER LIVE WITHOUT IT? A PEPPERMILL WITH A LIGHT!

HOW DOES A MADSONG KNOW THAT'S WHAT IT IS?

HOW IT'S BORN IN US TO UNDERSTAND THAT ... TWO SIDES TO EVERY QUESTION

HOW STEP BY STEP WE HAVE COME TO UNDERSTAND

HOW THE ELEPHANT GOT HIS HUMP

HOW TO STOP SMOKING

HOW WE MAY BY CHANCE PRONOUNCE THE UNSUSPECTED RESIDENCE OF A GHOST

HUSBAND

I CAN ONLY STAY FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES

ICU: SPACE/TIME IN THE WAITING ROOM

IF EVER THERE WAS ONE

IN A GRADUALLY MOVING CAR SOMEWHERE IN CALCUTTA

IN A MOTEL ROOM AFTER COMING UPON A CAR WRECK

IN A TIME OF TRIBULATION

IN ANOTHER TOWN

IN DEFENSE OF UNCERTAINTY AND DISARRAY

IN EXTREMIS IN HARDY, ARKANSAS

IN MEDIAS RES

IN NASHVILLE, STANDING IN THE WOODEN CIRCLE .. PICKER HAS A VISION

IN THE BEGINNING

IN YOUR OWN WORDS WITHOUT LYING TELL SOMETHING OF YOUR BACKROUND ...

INFERENCE

IT CAME TO PASS ON A PLANET THIRD FROM A MINOR SUN IN A SOLAR SYSTEM

IT IS THE MAN/WOMAN OUTSIDE WHO JUDGES

IT'S HARD TO THINK THE BRAIN

JONAH ON HIS DEATHBED

JONATHAN AGING

JONATHAN AT LAST

JONATHAN CONFRONTS THE QUESTION

JONATHAN ENTERTAINING

JONATHAN HAPPY

JONATHAN IN AWE

JONATHAN IN MOURNING

JONATHAN LOSING

JONATHAN SEDUCED

JONATHAN'S SECRET

JUNE TWENTY, THREE DAYS AFTER

LA ULTIMA CARTA: A YOUNG WIFE WRITES TO HER HUSBAND IN THE MOUNTAINS

LATE SHOW

LAY OF THE BADDE WYL

LEARNING

LEARNING RUSSIAN

LEARNING TO READ

LET ME TELL YOU

LETTERS

LISTEN

LIVING ON THE SURFACE

LIVING WILL

LOGOS (1)

LOGOS (2)

LOOKING FOR JOHNNY CASH

LOST IN LADISPOLI

LOVE AND HOW IT BECOMES IMPORTANT IN OUR DAY-TO-DAY-LIVES

LOVE IN THE CATHEDRAL

LOVE POEM

LOVE POEM WITH TOAST

MAIN STREET

MECANIC ON DUTY AT ALL TIMES

MEMORY

MEMPHIS, 2:00 P.M.

MISE-EN-SCENE

MISSING PERSONS

MONEY

MORNING AT THE ZAGORSK MONASTERY OUTSIDE MOSCOW

MUSE OF THE EVENING

MY WIFE READS THE PAPER AT BREAKFAST

NATURAL HISTORY

NORMANDY BEACH

NOTES FROM THE AGENT ON EARTH: HOW TO BE HUMAN

NOTES TOWARD A COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS

ON A PHOTOGRAPH OF MY MOTHER AT SEVENTEEN

ON A TRAILWAYS BUS A MAN WHO HOLDS HIS HEAD STRANGELY SPEAKS ...

ON HEARING ABOUT THE DEATH OF MITZI MAYFAIR

ON HEARING SOME BLACK STUDENTS FLIP EPITHETS AT ASIAN...

ON NOT WRITING A LOVE POEM

ON SEEING A PHOTOGRAPH BY MATTHEW BRADY

ON SEEING PROJECTED FIGURES FOR WAR DEAD IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

ON THE DEATH OF A MIDDLE-AGED MAN

ON THE LAST PAGE OF THE LAST YELLOW PAD IN ROME

ON THE SACRIFICE OF A SIAMESE TWIN AT BIRTH

ON THE SYMBOLIC CONSIDERATION OF HANDS AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DEATH

ON THE WAY HOME FROM NOWHERE, NEW YEAR'S EVE

ON WORD THAT THE OLD CHILDREN'S STORIES HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP TO DATE

ONE DAY A WOMAN

ONE OF THE CROWD ON THE SHORE TELLS HOW IT WAS

ONE OF THOSE RARE OCCURRENCES ON A CITY BUS

ORIGAMI

ORIGINAL SIN

OUT OF A CLEAR SKY

PAYING SOME SLIGHT ATTENTION TO HIS BIRTHDAY ... OF PRAISE

PEOPLE

PERSONALS

PICKER

PITY AND FEAR

PLAIN

POEM WITHOUT A TITLE OR CLOSING LINE

POLITICS

POTTER, VIDALIA

PRISON

PROFESSOR

PULLING BACK (1)

PULLING BACK (2)

QUANTUM THEORY MADE SIMPLE

RAISING A GLASS TO A PASSING OF SOME IMPORTANCE AND COMING

READING THE NEWSPAPER ON MICROFILM

REBECCA AT PLAY

RECOGNITION

REMEMBERING THE MAN

REMEMBERING WALTER

RITUALS

ROCK

RODIN: THE CATHEDRAL; ON COMING UPON IT UNPREPARED

ROMANCE

RUBAIYAT FOR SUE ELLA TUCKER

RUBY TELLS ALL

RUNNING INTO THINGS

SALE

SCHUMANN ADDS TROMBONES TO SECOND SYMPHONY AFTER MENDELSSON CONDUCTS

SELF-CONTROL

SHE PRAYS FOR HER HUSBAND, THE GOOD PASTOR, LYING ON HIS DEATHBED ..

SHE TALKS TO HER SISTER, BRIEFLY BY ON THE WAY TO WEST MEMPHIS

SHOWING LATE SYMPTOMS SHE FIRST TRIES TO FIX HERSELF IN THE

SIR

SITTING ALONE AT SUNRISE: PROBLEMS IN THE SPACE - TIME CONTINUUM

SIX LINES PROBABLY IN F-MINOR

SIX O'CLOCK, THE AIRPORT IN ATHENS

SLEEPING WITH FRIENDS

SOME LINES FINISHED JUST BEFORE DAWN ... SNOWED ALL NIGHT

SOME LINES TO A DOG WHO DOESN'T SEE THE DIFFERENCE

SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN

STANDING CLOSE TO GREATNESS

STOPPING TO LOOK AT A CRECHE IN A JEWELRY STORE WINDOW

STYLE

SUM, ES, EST

SUNSET: THE CANARY ISLANDS

TALKING TO HIMSELF HE GETS A FEW THINGS SETTLED IN HIS MIND

TEARING DOWN THE HOTEL

THANATOPSIS

AFFAIR

AGING ACTRESS SEES HERSELF A STARLET ON THE LATE SHOW

ART PHOTOGRAPHER PUTS HIS MODEL AT EASE

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (MAD SCIENTIST) TO (HIS LOVE) HIS STUDENT IN P

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DELIVERS AN EXHORTATION TO HIS FAILING STUDENT

BOOK

CATERPILLAR

CONSOLATION WE FIND IN THE NATURE OF THINGS

CURATOR

DEAD IN WAR

DEATH OF CHET BAKER

END IS HERE. NUKE RUSSIA

FIREBREATHERS AT THE CAFE DEUX MAGOTS

FRIEND

GEOGRAPHY OF TIME

GHOST OF HIS WIFE COMES TO TELL HIM HOW IT IS

GIFT OF PROPHECY LOST

GROOM KISSES THE BRIDE AND THE MIND OF THE YOUNG PREACHER WANDERS

HEAD OF THE WANDERING FAMILY SPEAKS OF HIS BROTHER

HOUSE IN THE VACANT LOT

JOURNALIST BUYS A PIG FARM

LAST PERSON TO SPEAK HIS LANGUAGE IS DYING

LAW AND THE PROPHET

LIBERAL IMAGINATION

LIGHT IN THE EYES

LONGING

MAN WHO BELIEVES IN FIVE

MAN WHO STAYS UP LATE

MANIFOLD USEFULNESS OF AN EDUCATION

MORE THINGS CHANGE

MUSE

NEIGHBOR

OFFICE PARTY

OLD DETECTIVE BEGINS HIS LAST INTERROGATION LOOKING FOR THE TRUTH

OLD PROFESSOR DEALS WITH DEATH AND DYING

OLD PROFESSOR FAST-FORWARDS HIS LAST LECTURE AND GOES

ONES THAT ARE THROWN OUT

PROMOTION

SENATOR EXPLAINS A VOTE

SENSE OF LONELINESS IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING

SERIAL MURDERER SAYS SOMETHING TO THE PRIEST

SHRINKING LONESOME SESTINA [STARTING WITH LONG LINES]

SISSY

SIX MORAL VIRTUES: GRACE, STYLE, CLASS, HUMILITY, KINDNESS, WISDOM

STORY

STRIPPER

SUM OF ITS PARTS

SURVIVOR

TRUE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED

TRUTH AT THE HEART OF GEOMETRY

UNKNOWN SAILOR

VANISHING POINT

VONDARC

WELL-ORDERED LIFE

WIDOW

WOMAN IN THE ROOM

WOMAN ON THE PORCH

YOUNG INSTRUCTOR TALKS TO HIMSELF WINDING UP THE SEMESTER

YOUNG LT. COL.

THINGS

THINK ALSO OF HORSESHOES

THINKING ABOUT BILL, DEAD OF AIDS

THINKING FRIDAY NIGHT WITH A GOTHIC STORM GOING ABOUT FINAL CAUSES ...

THREE RUBRICS: RUNNING OUT OF ANYTHING TO SAY

TO A FRIEND, AN UNHAPPY POET

TO ONE WHO WENT TOO FAR

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY

TRUTH AND TRUTHFULNESS

TRYING

TRYING TO REMEMBER

UNTO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE

VISION AND PRAYER

VOICE OF AMERICA

WAITING FOR THE PAPER TO BE DELIVERED

WAKING FROM A DREAM

WALKING AFTER SUPPER

WAR AND PEACE

WE

WEATHERMAN

WHEN I AM DEAD, MY DEAREST

WHERE TO TURN WHEN SORROW COMES LIKE A BLACK BULL IN YOUR DREAMS

WHY GOD PERMITS EVIL: FOR ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION OF INTEREST ...

WHY PEOPLE FEEL LONELY AT ODD TIMES

WIDE PLACE IN THE ROAD

WIEDERSEHEN

WOMAN WITH DOG

WORDS

WW I

WWI

YESTERDAY, TODAY

YOU WOULDN'T SAY THEY DIDN'T GET ALONG EXACTLY



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