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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: ALCOSSER, SANDRA Matches Found: 66 Alcosser, Sandra Poet's Biography 66 poems available by this author ANATOMY OF AIR First Line: Two clouds form, writhe Last Line: By the palpitating air APPROACHING AUGUST Poem Text First Line: Night takes on its own elegance Last Line: And then the moon Subject(s): Nature APPROACHING AUGUST First Line: Night takes on its own elegance Last Line: And then the moon Subject(s): Nature ARTIE First Line: Among the claw-foot sofas, under the looming Last Line: Who'd curl on their beaten mohair sofa cooing just like us ASSEMBLY LINE First Line: If you saw mercedes-benz flying Last Line: Poses from girlie magazines? AZALEAS First Line: Sisters climb the bedroom window, lay themselves on the night table like Last Line: Hours between the wicker and dying rafters like opulent clouds of steam BECAUSE THE BODY IS NOT A WEAPON First Line: In this town of date palms Last Line: Have I become a foreign country? BUREAU OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY First Line: The progranm's two-person staff is too small to do much searching Last Line: Others have value known %only to the dead BURYING THE CARNIVAL First Line: Fat tuesday the parade route turned Last Line: The watery faces watching through the trees BUT THIS IS NOT THE YUCATAN First Line: No grandmother twinkles BY THE NAPE First Line: Though sun rubbed honey slow Last Line: The vulnerable question of a nape CARD GAME BLIND RIVER First Line: I was not afraid of the alligator gar exploding round the boat Last Line: Damnit to hell. Was I the only human CRY Poem Text First Line: White legs and pink footpads, the black cat Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women; Southwest; Pacific States CRY First Line: White legs and pink footpads, the black cat Last Line: In his teeth and offers half to me Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women DANCING THE TARENTELLA AT THE COUNTY FARM First Line: Our teachers prepared us years ahead Last Line: Not a drop would be left EACH BONE A PRAYER First Line: Your letters arrive frail from nepal ENTOMOLOGIST'S LANDSCAPE First Line: He picks through the couchgrass, here a black-eared FEEDING THE BABIES First Line: In her eightieth year, my mother cries for a baby, she lifts her hands Last Line: The topknots of the little ones, in unison, begin to quiver FLAME First Line: When my husband went away FOX FIRE First Line: Once, I thought we would know everything GLORY MONSTER Poem Text First Line: Tipped goblets, the blue heron Last Line: Against the damp / and shivering flesh Subject(s): Nature GLORY MONSTER First Line: Tipped goblets, the blue heron Last Line: And shriveling flesh Subject(s): Nature GOLDEN-MANTLED GROUND SQUIRREL Poem Text First Line: Obsequious. You come begging Last Line: They smell so sweet Subject(s): Nature GOLDEN-MANTLED GROUND SQUIRREL First Line: Obsequious. You come begging Last Line: They smell so sweet Subject(s): Nature GREENHAND First Line: She's crying again Last Line: Digs deeply at my back HATS Poem Text First Line: Auntie lies in the rest home Last Line: Point their fingers, run as fast as they can in the opposite direction Subject(s): Prose Poem; Old Age; Illness HATS First Line: Auntie lies in the rest home with a feeding tube and a bedpan, she Last Line: Point their fingers, run as fast as they can in the opposite direction HE PAINTS THE KINGDOM OF DECAY: HIS GODDESS ESCAPES First Line: Thirty-one days of october the opalescent monsoons Last Line: Sigh from her radio to the saturated leaves IN CASE OF RAPTURE THIS TAXI WILL EXPLODE First Line: Would you ride with a man who advertised Last Line: Company into my life IN THE JITTERING WORLD First Line: I carry a chameleon in a glass as if he were wild game Last Line: Aquatic, otherworldly %slow like mine INTRICACY OF THE SONG INVERSE TO THE DULL LORES First Line: We learned the song of swainson's thrush Last Line: Twenty decibels in the womb LIKE LEONARDO, LIKE A DOG First Line: I'll sit by the ditch this morning like leonardo da vinci Last Line: Afraid of being eaten--sleep best LIMITS OF BEAUTY First Line: When I am sad I buff and shine Last Line: The dark bristles of my body just fly away MAXIMUM SECURITY First Line: So I was sticking Last Line: I listen for his breathing MICHAEL'S WINE First Line: Winter again and we want Last Line: This moment in my glass MICHEL'S WINE Poem Text First Line: Winter again and we want Last Line: This moment in my glass Subject(s): Wine; Automobile Accidents MY NUMBER First Line: My number is small. A hundred pounds of water Last Line: Together we dance-my number and her best dresses ON THE VERANDA WE DRINK GIN AND TONIC First Line: The elephant ears Last Line: With zippers, as if anyone could %enter his curious skin POLE BOAT AT HONEY ISLAND First Line: The way he pushes deeper Last Line: We begin to screech POSSESSIONS First Line: Veronika said when her father died, the mother moved from their Last Line: Photograph of veronika. Later still, the entire family album. And %that was all RAGS First Line: The piebald dog, the scalded shreds Last Line: Through a ragged face RED DRESS First Line: Cousin char and I are doing the splelndor in the grass thing, where the Last Line: Blood oranges from mexico, this boy makes our blood tingle SALVATION ARMY First Line: Pennsylvania dutch, my family taught me Last Line: His cardgame, his moon-shaped platter of brains and eggs SAWYER'S WIFE First Line: We could go like your grandmother, over Last Line: And how seductive, the dark broth Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women SKIING BY MOONLIGHT First Line: Gray cloud like a sweater pulled over the heart of the moon Last Line: Except by nature-as a woman, I will be ungovernable SPITTLE BUG First Line: I watched an insect dive Last Line: I think I shall call it %gossip bug STRAY SOD First Line: Even though you started on a small errand Last Line: See if you can find a pulse SWEAT Poem Text First Line: Friday night I entered a dark corridor Last Line: From the raunchy fume of strangers Subject(s): Odors SWEAT First Line: Friday night I entered a dark corridor Last Line: From the raunchy fume of strangers TABOO First Line: Like a marriage. Like a nation. Like a haunting, this story tells me Last Line: A life's work. To sip and gather. To hover. Above these murky waters THICKET AND THORN First Line: Anthers of wildflowers close when damp. All the voices Last Line: To do with the existence of the world all brief flesh and %stiletto THIRST First Line: Smack, smack, go our heels on the earth Last Line: Our bodies rub together, powder like dirt THROUGHOUT THE DURATION OF A PULSE A HEART CHANGES FORM First Line: Tonight as you return Last Line: They ripped open everything. They spit out the seeds TO TOUCH WITH A SMOOTHING IRON First Line: Yellow with water stains Last Line: At he the same time TRACKS Poem Text First Line: There is a man under the wheel of my truck Last Line: Sweeping the hills with branches Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women; Southwest; Pacific States TRACKS First Line: There is a man under the wheel of my truck Last Line: It smells of tar and sage. There is blood on the tip, %still wet Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women TRAJECTORY First Line: The ice dam broke, slabs Last Line: As we know it-radiant, beyond rescue WARRIOR'S TALE First Line: We sat under a rotunda, so the smallest sound reverberated, came back Last Line: Heard richard's story, but she broke down in another room so that the %men could not see her WHAT MAKES THE GRIZZLIES DANCE Poem Text First Line: June and finally the snowpeas Last Line: To waltz the hills / like a beast? Subject(s): Nature WHAT MAKES THE GRIZZLIES DANCE First Line: June and finally the snowpeas Last Line: Have you never wanted %to waltz the hills %like a beast? Subject(s): Nature WILDCAT PATH First Line: What if I tell you I walked with a lion Last Line: Nothing else will ever give me such pleasure in my body WOODPECKER Poem Text First Line: On the day the poppies Last Line: Undulantg, raw flight Subject(s): Nature WOODPECKER First Line: On the day the poppies Last Line: The irregular flags of our body %into undulant, raw flight Subject(s): Nature WORMS Poem Text First Line: Some days he'd rub two pegs together Last Line: Through the slippery tunnels of worms Subject(s): Worms WORMS First Line: Some days he'd rub two pegs together Last Line: Through the slippery tunnels of worms ZULU TIME First Line: Only my cousin with high blood pressure traveled widely. He was Last Line: Shakes the jar. Does it only appear to be drying up, to be getting %smaller |
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