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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: ASHBERY, JOHN Matches Found: 756 Ashbery, John Poet's Biography 756 poems available by this author ... BY AN EARTHQUAKE Poem Text First Line: A hears by chance a familiar name, and the name involves a riddle of the past Subject(s): Satire 37 HAIKU First Line: Old-fashioned shadows hanging down, that difficulty in love too soon A BLESSING IN DISGUISE Poem Text First Line: Yes, they are alive and can have those colors Subject(s): Love A BLESSING IN DISGUISE Poem Text First Line: Yes, they are alive and can have those colors Subject(s): Love A MAN OF WORDS Poem Text First Line: His case inspires interest A POEM OF UNREST Poem Text First Line: Men duly understand the river of life ABE'S COLLISION First Line: So much energy deployed Last Line: The slate will light up and read itself ABOUT TO MOVE First Line: And the bellybuttons all danced around Last Line: And the others backtracked and soon all was well enough ABSENCE OF A NOBLE PRESENCE First Line: If it was treason it was so well handled that it ABSTENTIONS Poem Text First Line: Not the shy tourist, hopping up the salty steps of rome ADAM SNOW Poem Text First Line: Let's try the ingenuous way, if for no better ADAM SNOW First Line: Let's try the ingenuous mode, if for no better ADDITIONAL POEM First Line: Where then shall hope and fear their objects find Last Line: Rise with the night let out of the box of wind ALBUM LEAF First Line: The other marigolds and the cloths Last Line: If a bug fell from so high, would it land ALCOVE Poem Text First Line: Is it possible that spring could be Subject(s): Spring ALLOTTED SPREE First Line: How the past filled its designated space Last Line: List of the apartment, to the gemstone-crusted tankard ALONE IN THE LUMBER BUSINESS First Line: It's still too early to make concessions AMERICA First Line: Piling upward Last Line: A signal from the great outside AMID MOUNTING EVIDENCE Poem Text First Line: I was reading about dinosaurs AMID MOUNTING EVIDENCE First Line: I was reading about dinosaurs AMNESIA GOES TO THE BALL First Line: In the avuncular waiting rooms they begin handing out the handouts. For Last Line: And probably lie at your side. We'll phone the neighbors and have them in AN OUTING Poem Text First Line: These things - that you are going to have AND AGAIN, MARCH IS ALMOST HERE Poem Text First Line: If I were a tree you'd say Last Line: They offered me bluebeard Subject(s): March (month); Trees AND AGAIN, MARCH IS ALMOST HERE First Line: If I were a tree you'd say Last Line: Who asks you this secret again Subject(s): March (month); Trees AND I'D LOVE YOU TO BE IN IT First Line: Playing alone, I found the wall AND OTHERS, VAGUER PRESENCES First Line: Are built out of the meshing of life and space AND SOME WERE PLAYING CARDS, AND SOME WERE PLAYING DICE First Line: And there you have it. I can't overpraise your response AND THE STARS WERE SHINING: 1 First Line: It was the solstice, and it was jumping on you like a friendly dog Last Line: The steed returned home alone, requiting all previous loves AND THE STARS WERE SHINING: 10 First Line: Of course some of us were more risible--then Last Line: Shooting the breeze with night and her swift promontories AND THE STARS WERE SHINING: 11 First Line: There is still another thing I have to do Last Line: Improbably a little distance from the given grave AND THE STARS WERE SHINING: 12 First Line: A late glimmer read into it Last Line: And the dead-letter office dissolves in the blue acquiescence of %spring AND THE STARS WERE SHINING: 13 First Line: You get hungry Last Line: My shoelaces were untied, and--am I forgetting anything? AND THE STARS WERE SHINING: 2 First Line: To have been robbed of a downturn Last Line: Uncovering what till now has been everyone's pill AND THE STARS WERE SHINING: 3 First Line: The nude thing was taken around Last Line: To the toll-places the mind suggests AND THE STARS WERE SHINING: 4 First Line: Divide the answer among them Last Line: Just another thing to fear AND THE STARS WERE SHINING: 5 First Line: The problem %would have to have had so many other things wrong with it Last Line: That my mind is full of eyes, days like this AND THE STARS WERE SHINING: 6 First Line: A silly place to have landed Last Line: As a small table with a cordless telephone on it, next to a television AND THE STARS WERE SHINING: 7 First Line: Rummaging through some old poems Last Line: Roses are so beautiful. It doesn't mater if the corn is faded AND THE STARS WERE SHINING: 8 First Line: I've never really done this before Last Line: Your ear's just the place for it AND THE STARS WERE SHINING: 9 First Line: New technology approaches the bridge Last Line: Strange, how a few decibels can make your day AND UT PICTURA POESIS IS HER NAME Poem Text Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AND UT PICTURA POESIS IS HER NAME First Line: You can't say it that way any more Last Line: May begin, and in doing so be undone AND YOU KNOW Poem Text First Line: The girls, protected by gold wire from the gaze ANGELS (YOU First Line: Know who you are), come back Last Line: Suddenly the day is crocus-sweet ANOTHER AARDVARK First Line: I cannot recommend your curls too highly Last Line: That is sure to follow in its wake ANOTHER CHAIN LETTER First Line: He had had it told to him on the sward ANSWERING A QUESTION IN THE MOUNTAINS First Line: I went into the mountains to interest myself Last Line: The hosts of my young days ANTICIPATED STRANGER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The bruise will stop by later Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ANXIETY AND HARDWOOD FLOORS First Line: Only a breath of this region Last Line: Curtains. Pass me that box of gin %will you APRIL GALLEONS First Line: Something was burning. And besides ARCHIPELAGO First Line: Well, folks, and how Last Line: But in the end they flag you down AROUND THE ROUGH AND RUGGED ROCKS THE RAGGED RASCAL First Line: I think a lot about it ART OF SPEEDING First Line: And when some sidle awkwardly Last Line: With us to say we do. And then the game is darker; %no one pauses in the rain ART SONGS First Line: While in the consulate a smell of onion AS ONE PUT DRUNK INTO THE PACKET-BOAT First Line: I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free Last Line: But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes AS UMBRELLAS FOLLOW RAIN First Line: Too bad he never tried it- %he might have liked it Last Line: She said as rain came and stole the king AS WE KNOW First Line: All that we see is penetrated by it AS YOU CAME FROM THE HOLY LAND Poem Text First Line: Of western new york state Subject(s): Emptiness; Experience; Time AS YOU CAME FROM THE HOLY LAND First Line: Of western new york state Last Line: When that time is already past AS YOU KNOW First Line: The girls protected by gold wire from the gaze Last Line: And the night, the endless, muggy night that is invading our school ASCETIC SENSUALISTS First Line: All- all these numbers easily - why Last Line: Correctly ask that one day and now nothing more, politeness and the broad seas ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING First Line: I like the integrity of what you have to say Last Line: For now your glass prayer encases both of us AT FIRST I THOUGHT I WOULDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT First Line: But then I thought keeping quiet about it might appear even ruder Last Line: Go over everything that was stated. I prefer flowers and breathing AT LIBERTY AND CRANBERRY First Line: The car bounds forward eagerly, and for a mement Last Line: And, unruffled, we do AT NORTH FARM First Line: Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you Last Line: Sometimes and always, with mixed feelings? AT THE INN First Line: It was me here. Though. And whether this ATONAL MUSIC First Line: The hamlet strokd its reflection in a Last Line: They observed me once, you know AUTUMN BASEMENT First Line: I lost my notes, or they were useless. Luckily Last Line: Or so I've been told AVENUE MOZART First Line: Some of these houses are startlingly old Last Line: But nobody feels like reading now AWFUL EFFECTS OF TWO COMETS First Line: There will not always be a step Last Line: With hunger and a big cow to fill BAKED ALASKA Poem Text First Line: It will do. It's not Last Line: That's all there is to say, babe, make it a good one for me Subject(s): Food & Eating BAKED ALASKA First Line: It will do. It's not Last Line: As the door is shutting, o shaft of life, o excellent, irascible Subject(s): Food And Eating BECALMED ON STRANGE WATERS First Line: In the presence of both, each mistook BEER DRINKERS First Line: Think of it as something that is happening Last Line: Rather, and hope I shall see him long %one of these evenings before the new snow starts BEFUDDLED First Line: Ah, the farts %we used to let back then Last Line: We sit beside a stone and grieve for them BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK (1) First Line: It's wind, it's sleeting Last Line: The roof at night, the rent, and the violet pallor flooding us now always BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK (2) First Line: It's wind, it's raining Last Line: No real need to reply BIG CLOUD First Line: For ages man has labored to put his dreams in order. Look at the result BILKING THE STATUES First Line: If I come to you empty-handed, thaumaturge-like BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE TOOL AND DIE CO. First Line: For a long time I used to get up early BLESSING IN DISGUISE First Line: Yes, they are alive and can have those colors Last Line: And then I start getting this feeling of exaltation Subject(s): Love BLOODFITS First Line: As inevitable as a barking dog, second-hand music Last Line: Triggering bloody nostalgia %for a hypotenuse that never was BLOT PEOPLE First Line: Something's not right. There were vibrations Last Line: That built the long log road from here to the east BLUE SONATA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Long ago was the then beginning to seem like now BLUE SONATA First Line: Long ago was the then beginning to seem like now BOBINSKI BROTHERS First Line: Her name is liz, and I need her in my biz,' I hummed wantonly. A band Last Line: That's what I think, he slapped BOUNDARY ISSUES Poem Text First Line: Here in life, they would understand BOY First Line: I'll do what the raids suggest Last Line: The observer, the mincing flag. An unendurable age BRAND LOYALTY First Line: Father, you're destroying the collectibles!' Last Line: Sounds like my friend casper, the girl said BROMELIADS First Line: In my original philosophy for the age of gink Last Line: And weary as the first gables of spring BRUTE IMAGE First Line: It's a question of altitude, or latitude Last Line: So thta what must come to pass shall pass BUNGALOWS First Line: Impatient as we were for all of them to join us Last Line: Moving on towards death. But sometimes standing still is %also life BUSINESS PERSONALS First Line: The disquieting muses again: what are 'leftovers?' BUT NOT THAT ONE First Line: The works, the days, uh %and weariness of the days Last Line: Sometimes the agog spectator wrenches a cry %from its own h ouse. He thought he heard BUT WHAT IS THE READER TO MAKE OF THIS First Line: A lake of pain, an absence BY AN EARTHQUAKE First Line: A hears by chance a familiar name, and the name involves a riddle Last Line: Gwen, falls into the trap and cannot escape BY GUESS AND BY GOSH First Line: Even so, we have forgotten their graves Last Line: In these unsightly parts. And who would want mothers %for supper BY THE FLOODED CANAL First Line: Which custard? The dish of not-so-clean snow CAESURA Poem Text First Line: Job sat in a corner of the dump eating asparagus Last Line: The weather of the soul, vandalized, out-at-elbow. A blight, spared though Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology CAESURA First Line: Job sat in a corner of the dump eating asparagus Last Line: The weather of the soul, vandalized, out-at-elbow. A blight. Spared, though Subject(s): Bible; Religion CAN YOU HEAR, BIRD First Line: And for all the says it doesn't happen Last Line: After all who blubbered the truth %it wasn't I CANTILEVER First Line: I knew we should have stopped back there Last Line: I am numb with thrips CANZONE First Line: Until the first chill Last Line: Fall on sinking clay CAPTIVE SENSE First Line: Nothing I'd ever want to own Last Line: Not fiends, surely. But not friends, either CARAVAGGIO AND HIS FOLLOWERS First Line: You are my most favorite artist. Though I know Last Line: Is ending. The time for standing to one side is near %now, very near CHAOS First Line: Don't ask me to go there again Last Line: But land flows more silently CHAPTER II, BOOK 35 First Line: He was a soldier or a shaker Last Line: And he was a humorist, a genuine american humorist for the ages CHATEAU HARDWARE First Line: It was always november there. The farms CHINESE WHISPERS Poem Text First Line: And in a little while we broke under the strain CHRONIC SYMBIOSIS First Line: These things can be arranged, he said Last Line: We need for today. We can feed it to crows CINEMA VERITE First Line: Be kind to your web-footed friends, I murmur to myself half anxiously, Last Line: Side on the slippery alabaster stairs. Or in the roomful of people? CITY AFTERNOON First Line: A veil of haze protects this Last Line: Air lifting the hair of one %upside down in the reflecting pool CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS Poem Text First Line: A people chained to aurora CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS First Line: A people chained to aurora Last Line: Performing once again, for you and for me CLEPSYDRA First Line: Hasn't the sky? Returned from moving the other CLOUD OF UNKNOWING First Line: Is not cloud at all Last Line: To say urdu, which she did CLOUDS First Line: All this time he had only been waiting Last Line: Moves away, puzzled at the brown light above the fields COLLECTED PLACES First Line: When you come on Last Line: A place you want to hear COMING DOWN FROM NEW YORK First Line: The harshness isn't intentional Last Line: Only the insufficiently trained ought to try COMMERCIAL BREAK First Line: Take care of values. The rest is shopping Last Line: Sand in my shoes. The witch squints at the fire CONFRONTERS First Line: Which of the incredible lies will prove true Last Line: Impatient dawns arrive CONVENTIONAL WISDOM First Line: Although I have known you for a long time Last Line: And of a lost slip with my name on it in the cradle of the ages CORRUPT TEXT First Line: The child is feather to the man Last Line: Now is only sun, sunstrife and sea COUPLE IN THE NEXT ROOM First Line: She liked the blue drapes. They made a star COVENTRY First Line: There was one who was put out of his house Last Line: Yet strangely dumb and rumorless %like all the sleep and games that jammed us here CRAZY WEATHER First Line: It's this crazy weather we've been having CROSSROADS IN THE PAST Poem Text First Line: That night the wind stirred in the forsythia bushes Subject(s): Time CROSSROADS IN THE PAST First Line: That night the wind stirred in the forsythia bushes Last Line: Amid the gray snow falling. Twilight had already set in CROWD CONDITIONS Poem Text First Line: Across the frontier, imperfect sympathies are twinkling Last Line: Such, my friends, is life wondered the president Variant Title(s): Always Merry And Bright Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Joy; Delight CROWD CONDITIONS First Line: Across the frontier, imperfect sympathies are twinkling Last Line: Such, my friends, is life, wondered the president Variant Title(s): Always Merry And Brigh Subject(s): Happiness; Life DAFFY DUCK IN HOLLYWOOD Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema DAFFY DUCK IN HOLLYWOOD First Line: Something strange is creeping across me Last Line: Always invoking the echo, a summer's day DANGEROUS MOONLIGHT First Line: Of course you will. It happens even after you're dead Last Line: Betterment, actually. Here, hand me that cod DARLENE'S HOSPITAL First Line: The hospital: it wasn't her idea DAY AT THE GATE First Line: A loose and dispiriting Last Line: Said the sky shall be kelly green tonight DE SENECTUTE First Line: Whatever charms is alien Last Line: So we packed up and went home that day DEBIT NIGHT First Line: We were coming down from the city the city is where you come Last Line: All along along what I wanted all along DECLINE OF THE WEST First Line: O oswald, o spengler, this is very sad to find Last Line: Positions. O who could taste the crust of this love DECOY First Line: We hold these truths to be self-evident Last Line: Husband and wife %man and wife DEFINITION OF BLUE First Line: The rise of capitalism parallels the advance of romanticism Last Line: Waken each morning to the exact value of what you did and said, which remains DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM First Line: Hell no, the creatures weren't anguished Last Line: By all means, though I guarantee he won't know what you're saying DESOLATE BEAUTY PARLOR ON BEACH AVENUE First Line: So much has impaired here Last Line: For when the clipper blows astray and the %cheap shot is parted DESPERATE HOURS First Line: The man, someone's uncle, went down Last Line: Your intention to have made this once it has passed DINOSAUR COUNTRY First Line: So, with a bath and tin words Last Line: With the white haired acrobats DISAGREEABLE GLIMPSES First Line: After my fall from the sixteenth floor my bones were lovingly assembled Last Line: The last trail unspools beyond ohio DISGUISED ZENITH First Line: All to do, all over again DO HUSBANDS MATTER? First Line: Let's get this going again. It might work. To ask pardon Last Line: Sometimes it comes from even farther back DON'S BEQUEST First Line: It's often more crazy like this Last Line: Yes, that's what we all do best DOUBLE DREAM OF SPRING First Line: Mixed days, the mindless years, perceived Last Line: As day comes up DOWN BY THE STATION, EARLY IN THE MORNING First Line: It all wears out. I keep telling myself this, but Last Line: From the lighthouse that protects as it pushes us away DREAM SEQUENCE (UNTITLED) First Line: Yes, she chopped down a big tree Last Line: To today's busy horizon, like hay, that seems to know where it's moving %when it's moving DREAMS OF ADULTHOOD First Line: Who does he do it like they say it like that you might ask DULL MAUVE First Line: Twenty miles away, in the colder Last Line: To make one's task any easier, though we loved her ECCLESIAST First Line: Worst than the sunflower, she had said Last Line: We are together at last, though far apart ECLOGUE First Line: Slowly all your secret is had Last Line: And I depart unhurt EL DORADO Poem Text First Line: We have a friend in common, the retired sophomore ENDLESS VARIATION First Line: At some point in the pageant there is a moment ENJOYS WATCHING FOREIGN FILMS First Line: To stay here forever. To lie down Last Line: And I've just landed in your hotel ERRORS First Line: Jealousy. Whispered weather reports Last Line: In the prophet's silence. Who doubts it is true ETERNITY SINGS THE BLUES First Line: Music lovers everywhere Last Line: And bold. Not to put too fine a point on it EUROPE First Line: To employ her Last Line: Light skyward, slowly sweeping in a circle %the breath EVENING IN THE COUNTRY First Line: I am still completely happy EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY Poem Text First Line: In the outlying districts where we know something Last Line: And open it in my face. You knew that Subject(s): Books; Reading EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY First Line: In the outlying districts where we know something Last Line: And open it in my face. You knew that Subject(s): Books FADE IN First Line: Continually detouring among the mountains Last Line: Canceled civility, forcing huge residents to flee FAINT OF HEART First Line: Were always right Last Line: Someone said. But that's what I'm trying to oppose %how you been FALL PAGEANT First Line: From this valley they say you are leaving FALLS TO THE FLOOR, COMES TO THE DOOR First Line: That arrival, a foretaste of which appalls some Last Line: The past was peaches then FANTASIA ON THE NUT-BROWN MAID Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Be it right or wrong, these men among FANTASIA ON THE NUT-BROWN MAID, SELS. First Line: Unless this is the shelf of whatever happens? FARM IMPLEMENTS AND RUTABAGAS IN A LANDSCAPE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The first of the undecoded messages read: 'popeye sits in thunder.' Subject(s): Comic Strips FARM IMPLEMENTS AND RUTABAGAS IN A LANDSCAPE First Line: The first of the undecoded messages read: 'popeye sits in thunder.' Last Line: It sure was pleasant to spend a day in the country Subject(s): Comic Strips FASCICLE First Line: No one ever had to face such turmoil Last Line: Know what I mean FAUST Poem Text Recitation First Line: If only the phantom would stop reappearing! Subject(s): Faust; Opera; Phantom Of The Opera (movie, 1925), The FAUST First Line: If only the phantom would stop reappearing! Last Line: On the bare, sunlit stage the hungers could begin Subject(s): Faust; Opera; Phantom Of The Opera (movie, 1925), The FAVOR OF A REPLY First Line: Is requested. That's where it began Last Line: Hung high up in the sky FEAR OF DEATH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What is it now with me Last Line: But the breeze has dropped and silence is the last word Subject(s): Old Age; Mortality FEAR OF DEATH First Line: What is it now with me Subject(s): Old Age FILE ON THELMA JORDAN First Line: Coldly, we put away the cabin flatware Last Line: Though, a great one. Want to hear FINNISH RHAPSODY First Line: He managed the shower, coped with the small spattering drops FIVE O'CLOCK SHADOW First Line: Don't just stand there, kiki Last Line: Climbing, tooth by tooth FIVE PEDANTIC PIECES Poem Text First Line: An idea I had and talked about FLOW CHART Poem Text First Line: Still in the published city but not yet Last Line: Put up to warm us and as soon expunged, in part of wholly Subject(s): Language Poetry; Life FLOW CHART First Line: Still in the published city but not yet Last Line: Again in earnest, color-coded. It's open: the bridge, that way Subject(s): Language Poetry FLOWERING DEATH Poem Text First Line: Ahead. Starting from the far north, it wanders FLOWERING DEATH First Line: Ahead, starting from the far north, it wanders FOOTFALLS First Line: O did he see something yesterday Last Line: Two have already been supportive FOR JOHN CLARE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Kind of empty in the way it sees everything Subject(s): Clare, John (1793-1864) FOR JOHN CLARE First Line: Kind of empty in the way it sees everything, the earth gets to its feet FORGOTTEN SEX Poem Text First Line: They tore down the old movie palaces Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FORGOTTEN SEX First Line: They tore down the old movie palaces Last Line: In a particular dream, they cannot always be seen Subject(s): Homosexuality FORGOTTEN SONG First Line: O mary, go and call the cattle home FORTIES FLICK First Line: The shadow of the venetian blind on the painted wall FORTUNE COOKIE CRUMBLES First Line: You have a kind and gentle nature. Not overly Last Line: I mean, what am I going to tell my shoe? FOURTH PRIZE First Line: Only the desire to get lost in everything FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: The last block is closed in april. You FRAGMENT First Line: The last block is closed in april Last Line: Brown under the advancing signs of the air FREE NAIL POLISH First Line: Cool enough. Granted Last Line: Over the wallpaper's lilac lozenges FRENCH POEMS First Line: The sources of these things being very distant Last Line: The ether dividing our victories, past and future: teeth and blood FRIENDLY CITY First Line: Unless you put it away Last Line: Finally, a ducal palace, upended FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: I saw a cottage in the sky Last Line: Thre feeling is a jewel like a pearl Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Nijinsky, Vaslav (1890-1950) FRIENDS First Line: I saw a cottage in the sky Last Line: The feeling is a jewel like a pearl Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Nijinsky, Vaslav (1890-1950) FROGS AND GOSPELS First Line: A chance balloon drew these settlers nigh Last Line: And still the feeling comes on FROM THE OBSERVATORY First Line: When hey had climbed the valley of thieves Last Line: Unknotted itself; the second agreeable ordeal began FRONTISPIECE First Line: Expecting rain, the profile of a day FROST First Line: Trapped in the wrong dream, you turn FUCKIN' SARCOPHAGI First Line: And when they had mounted it on the flatbed Last Line: Betimes the betises fall where they may FULL TILT First Line: Disturbing news emanates from the wind tunnel Last Line: Then this scene too faded away like a fable GAZING GRAIN First Line: The tires slowly came to a rubbery stop GENTLE READER First Line: Abruptly, unasertively, the year starts Last Line: Will take it from you, needy thing GET ME REWRITE First Line: The %ghoulish %resonance %of %a %cello %resonates in a neighbor's cabana Last Line: Ah, %it is good %to be back %in the muck GETTING BACK IN First Line: Melodies of the past, fibres, tangled tracings Last Line: It's so lissome, the light! Rabbits everywhere GHOST RIDERS OF THE MOON First Line: Today I would leave it just as it is Last Line: That, and their tendency to fall apart GIRLS ON THE RUN: 1 Poem Text First Line: A great plane flew across the sun Last Line: Before they get back. And, quivering, I took the pen Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 1 First Line: A great plane flew across the sun Last Line: And they all ran, and got out, and that was that for that day Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 10 Poem Text First Line: Often a strange desire Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 10 First Line: Often a strange desire Last Line: He counted good-humoredly. And these are our intuitions! Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 11 First Line: First the cellos rebelled. Then a broader breaking-out erupted Last Line: From itself, and if more sleep hadn't built up on the other side Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 12 First Line: Other dreams. Judy the petulant watered her flowers Last Line: If a cannonball was your uncle. Yipes, %the general said Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 13 First Line: And some were vortices Last Line: But it was too late to use it Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 14 Poem Text First Line: Heightened with a sense of mysterious confusion, or completion Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 14 First Line: Heightened with a sense of mysterious confusion, or completion Last Line: Until we are found at last behind the bathroom door, with the broom Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 15 First Line: Fred began to get chills: it sure was his mission, he averred Last Line: Another way, or brought our chairs back to where the laundry was spread out, effectively %drying Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 16 First Line: Dolores...You wisteria Last Line: She was begged. Bring us all to your birch tree Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 17 First Line: After a few rounds of this the leader fell silent Last Line: So the bad angels went away, and other creatures returned Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 18 First Line: Did you read that book I was telling you about? Ach, it concerns puberty Last Line: And fat disappointment, tears in the rain. Somebody is coming over the %radio. %a lull Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 19 First Line: He complicated everything by dying. He wouldn't hear Last Line: As pamela was at last captured Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 2 Poem Text First Line: Hungeringly, tidbit approached the crone who held the bowl Last Line: If I had a handle, laure thought Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 2 First Line: Hungeringly, tidbit approached the crone who held the bowl Last Line: If I had a handle, laure thought Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 20 First Line: A virtual rout ensued. Tell me, can you tell it any Last Line: It was like everywhere. It was just average Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 21 First Line: When more and more people come to you, you know Last Line: The wide avenue smiles Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 3 Poem Text First Line: Out in michigan, or was it minnesota, though, time had stopped Last Line: Of wood, yet it can cause everything to take place and change for you Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 3 First Line: Out in michigan, or was it minnesota, though, time had stopped Last Line: Of wood, yet it can cause everything to take place and change for you Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 4 First Line: Dearest, we had waited for this star Last Line: Worse, it was traditional to feel this way Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 5 First Line: Just as a good pianist will adjust the piano stool Last Line: Only I think we're...It's all coming nearer Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 6 First Line: Nov 7. Returned again to the exhibition. How strange it is that when we Last Line: So may it be until the end that is eternity Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 7 Poem Text First Line: The thread ended up on the floor Last Line: And so they left home that day Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 7 First Line: The thread ended up on the floor Last Line: And so they left home that day Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 8 First Line: All aboard! If there's one thing I hate it's a loner,' Last Line: Sinks and dies of its own weight. All the marbles have rolled inside the house Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 9 Poem Text First Line: And now everyone must sleep Last Line: On the iniquity scale, and nobody wanted to get involved Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 9 First Line: And now everyone must sleep Last Line: On the iniquity scale, and nobody wanted to get involved Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GLADYS PALMER First Line: Do not go into hawaii Last Line: Feet over these smooth pebbles, the prisoner's %last question GLAZUNOVIANA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The man with the red hat Subject(s): Bears GLAZUNOVIANA First Line: The man with the red hat Last Line: In the flickering evening the martins grow denser. %rivers of wings surround us and vast tribulation GODS OF FAIRNESS First Line: The failure to see god is not a problem Last Line: Of spring planting, and the marvelous harvests to come GOING AWAY ANY TIME SOON Poem Text First Line: I'll see you in my dreams she said Last Line: Puckered mists trash the hill ecstatic as lozenges Subject(s): Abandonment; Dreams; Desertion; Nightmares GOING AWAY ANY TIME SOON First Line: I'll see you in my dreams she said Last Line: Puckered mists trash the hill ecstatic as lozenges Subject(s): Abandonment; Dreams GORBODUC First Line: Well, I graduated, so you'll have to GRADUAL First Line: This book of hours is piebald Last Line: Just about anything %looks good under glass GRAND ABACUS Poem Text First Line: Perhaps this valley too leads into the head of long-ago days GRAND ABACUS First Line: Perhaps this valley too leads into the head of long-ago days Last Line: We do not want to fly away. But it is already too late. The children have vanished GRAND GALOP Poem Text First Line: All things seem mention of themselves GRAND GALOP First Line: All things seem mention of themselves GRAPEVINE First Line: Of who we and all they are Last Line: To die, so you live and we know GREEN MUMMIES First Line: Avuncular and teeming, the kind luggage Last Line: The wrong kind of medlars GUMMED REINFORCEMENTS First Line: Insane, trapped together in a Last Line: Sign here for the coat of burrs, please HAIBUN 6 First Line: To be involved in every phase of directing, acting, producing and so on Last Line: Throckmorton, white opera glasses and more HANG-UP CALL First Line: Preposterous. That was the word she used Last Line: Back and join the others. They're crying, you know HARD TIMES First Line: Trust me. The world is run on a shoestring HAS TO BE SOMEWHERE First Line: Having escaped the first box Last Line: That's what you think,' came the curt reply. Now all is darkness HAUNTED LANDSCAPE First Line: Something brought them here. It was an outcropping of peace HE First Line: He cuts down the lakes so they appear straight Last Line: He is dangerous even though asleep and unarmed HEARTACHE First Line: Sometimes a dangerous slice-of-life Last Line: Red. 'all beer on tap,' it said, and %'booths for ladies' HEAVENLY DAYS First Line: The philosopher walked over to me and tapped me on the brow Last Line: Go on turning themselves inside out for us, and trees warble for us, %but not often and not very wel HEGEL First Line: Like a coffee table, the chair slides Last Line: Always has the last word HELD THING First Line: Then he sort of lobbed it Last Line: It's colors, just like the ones were at the beginning HERE EVERYTHING IS STILL FLOATING First Line: But, it's because the liquor of summer nights HERE WE GO LOOBY First Line: Where is that tricycle, man? Last Line: And a few of us learn something HERO First Line: Whose face is this Last Line: Dislike, the accurate one HISTORY OF MY LIFE First Line: Once upon a time there were two brothers Last Line: It up, for what seemed like months or years Subject(s): History; Life HOD CARRIER First Line: You have been declining the land's Last Line: Light grinding into your heels HONORED GUEST First Line: Accept these nice things we have no use for Last Line: Boxed in forever, always getting closer HOP O' MY THUMB First Line: The grand hotels, dancing girls Last Line: Sucking the sherbets, crooning the tunes, naming the names HOTEL DAUPHIN First Line: It was not something identical with my carnation-world Last Line: In cheap gardens, fortunes. Or we might never depart HOTEL LAUTRéAMONT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Research has shown that ballads were produced by all of society Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Chaos HOUSEBOAT DAYS First Line: The skin is broken. The hotel breakfast china HOW DANGEROUS First Line: Like a summer kangaroo, each of us is a part Last Line: A happy hospital-and that, yes, it would be worth waiting for HOW MUCH LONGER WILL I BE ABLE TO INHABIT THE DIVINE SEPULCHER Last Line: Of the long sepulcher that hid death and hides me HOW TO CONTINUE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Oh there once was a woman Subject(s): Friendship HUMBLE PIE First Line: Various flavors recite us Last Line: Never to return, it seems, %though HUNDRED ALBUMS First Line: Acts have been cleaned up Last Line: What wretch hasn't taught me that I SAW NO NEED First Line: I saw no need to paint the sky Last Line: And leave these cherries in the urn I, TOO First Line: Happy thoughts weren't made to last Last Line: Kept it all in. That may be changing ICE CREAM IN AMERICA First Line: All of us getting our licks Last Line: Fill your cap with nuts ICE STORM First Line: Isn't really a storm of course because unlike most storms it isn't one till ICE-CREAM WARS First Line: Although I mean it, and project the meaning Last Line: A randomness, a darkness of one's own Subject(s): Homosexuality IDAHO First Line: During the past few months, biff had become quite a frequent visitor Last Line: A whistle blew shrilly IF THE BIRDS KNEW Poem Text First Line: Have their backs turned to the light IF THE BIRDS KNEW First Line: It is better this year IF YOU SAID YOU WOULD COME WITH ME Poem Text First Line: In town it was very urban but in the country cows were covering the hills Subject(s): Friendship IF YOU SAID YOU WOULD COME WITH ME First Line: In town it was very urban but in the country cows were covering the hills Last Line: Own time.' you should have paid attention. Now adjustments will have to be %made' ILLUSTRATION First Line: A novice was sitting on a cornice Last Line: Not meant for us, as the leaves are not %winter's because it is the end IMPLICIT FOG First Line: We began adulating %what we were staring at %too Last Line: It got lovely and then a little hirsute IMPROVEMENT First Line: Is that where it happens Last Line: See, our lips bend IMPURE First Line: Your story...Most enjoyable Last Line: We think we like you, ben IN AN INCHOATE PLACE First Line: Is there another person you would like me to invite Last Line: Through the vanilla-flavored venetian blinds IN ANOTHER TIME First Line: Actually it was because you stopped IN OLD OKLAHOMA First Line: A tad triste I too found it Last Line: That flows as fondly as conversation among acquaintances %and as discreetly IN THE MEANTIME, DARLING First Line: The time is for going out Last Line: As night approaches IN THE TIME OF PUSSY WILLOWS First Line: This is going to take some time Last Line: Angel, come back please. Let us smell your heavenly smell again INDUSTRIAL COLLAGE First Line: We are constantly running checks Last Line: Only this new background, a finer needle to thread INSANE DECISIONS First Line: Somehow I always do manage but INSTEAD OF LOSING Poem Text First Line: Anyone, growing up in a space you hadn't used yet INTO THE DUSK-CHARGED AIR Poem Text First Line: Far from the rappahannock, the silent INTO THE DUSK-CHARGED AIR First Line: Far from the rappahannock, the silent Last Line: The ardeche glistens feebly through the freezing rain INTRODUCTION First Line: To be a writer and write things INVASIVE PROCEDURES First Line: Massachusetts rests its feet Last Line: Not like the frayed december night IRRESOLUTIONS ON A THEME OF LA ROCHEFOUCAULD First Line: We leave out old regrets Last Line: And I try to cherish you IT MUST BE SOPHISTICATED First Line: There are attics in old houses Last Line: Here is another one unread, not written. Time for you to choose IT WAS RAINING IN THE CAPITAL Poem Text IT WAS RAINING IN THE CAPITAL IVORY TOWER First Line: Another season, proposing a name and a distant resolution JUST FOR STARTERS First Line: Charges about this unhappiness Last Line: Maybe unimportance isn't such a bad thing after all JUST WALKING AROUND Poem Text Recitation First Line: What name do I have for you Last Line: But if I am still there, grant that we may see each other Subject(s): Love JUST WALKING AROUND First Line: What name do I have for you Last Line: But if I am still there, grant that we may see each other Subject(s): Love JUST WHAT'S THERE First Line: Haven't you arrived yet Last Line: The ushers will please take their seats KNOCKING AROUND First Line: I really thought that drinking here would Last Line: And would make lousy characters in a novel KOREAN SOAP OPERA First Line: My sister and I don't seem to get along too well anymore Last Line: Where anything can and does happen, and hours and hours %go by LAMENT UPON THE WATERS First Line: For the disciple nothing has changed. The mood was still LANDSCAPE First Line: The pest asked us to re-examine the screws he held Last Line: The original paper outside. The ladder failed LANDSCAPEOPLE First Line: Long desired, the journey is begun. The suppliants Last Line: Until it ceases to be a problem LAST LEGS First Line: My nephew-you remember him Last Line: Besides, the tramp steamer was heading for bahia %or some such LAST MONTH Poem Text Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives LAST MONTH First Line: No changes of support -- only Last Line: And in the garden, cries and colors LAST WORLD First Line: These wonderful things Last Line: As we gallop into the flame LATE ECHO Poem Text First Line: Alone with our madness and favorite flower LATE ECHO First Line: Alone with our madness and favorite flower LATVIAN First Line: Knowing john, it might have been Last Line: Let's leave it that way LAUGHTER OF DEAD MEN First Line: Candid jeremiads drizzle from his lips Last Line: And all the singular adventures it implies Subject(s): Homosexuality LE LIVRE EST SUR LA TABLE First Line: All beauty, resonance, integrity Last Line: In the waves' minutes, or did the land advance LEASING OF SEPTEMBER First Line: The sleeping map lay green, and we who were never much LEAVE THE HAND IN Poem Text First Line: Furthermore, mr. Tuttle used to have to run in the streets LEAVING THE ATOCHA STATION First Line: The arctic honey blabbed over the report causing darkness Last Line: False loam imports %next time round LEEWARD Poem Text First Line: Up, up it rises LEEWARD First Line: Up, up it rises Last Line: The travesty of night %we all must wear %for awhile? LEMURS AND PHARISEES First Line: And of course one does run on too long Last Line: Next time, you write this LEOPARD AND THE LEMUR First Line: The voice is stilled, that once LETTERS I DID OR DID NOT GET First Line: Because whenever we go somewhere we LIFE AS A BOOK THAT HAS BEEN PUT DOWN First Line: We have erased each letter LIFE DRAMA First Line: Yellow curtains Last Line: The child falls sleep on the chalk breast LIFE IS A DREAM First Line: A talent for self-realization Last Line: So securely into mine, as though it intends to stay LIKE A SENTENCE Poem Text First Line: How little we know Subject(s): Life' Time LIKE A SENTENCE First Line: How little we know Last Line: Only that a motion is etched there, shaking to be free LIMITED LIABILITY First Line: And one wants to know everything about everything Last Line: Then meet me under the larch when the storm crackles. I'll tell you then LINNET First Line: It crossed the road so as to avoid having to greet me. 'poor thing but mine Last Line: Which he was so bent on fixing that wall LITANY, SELS. First Line: Some certified nut %will try to tell you it's poetry LIVELONG DAYS First Line: Feather in your cap? Not from heeding Last Line: For the pauses just past, multiplying like mythologies, apples LOCAL TIME First Line: What can we do Last Line: Things were probably supposed to be all along anyway LONEDALE OPERATOR First Line: The first movie I ever saw was the walt disney cartoon the three little pigs LONG NOVEL First Line: What will his crimes become, now that her hands Last Line: As it grew in the eyes of the beloved LOST PROFILE First Line: I had a voice once Last Line: Forever, and the dream of the oppressor had come true LOT OF CATCHING UP TO DO First Line: Dark days, lit by a falling flame %from time to time. A door stands open Last Line: It took off prudently, however %then there were many napkins, many knives in the seine LOUNGE First Line: That it was a relief to him, my lord Last Line: The old way: cash and carry %no refunds LOVE IN BOOTS Recitation LOVE IN BOOTS First Line: Our first assignment was to make a square Last Line: Or demolish us. Thank heaven for zeno's paradox LOVE POEM First Line: And they have to get it right. We just need Last Line: Our notes to each other, always repated, always the same LOVE SCENES First Line: After ten years, my lamp Last Line: Where they may. Leaves say it's ok LOVE'S STRATAGEM First Line: The comparison says enough, really, nay is eloquent on the subject Last Line: The boiling point of minnesota, the town in nebraska LOZENGES First Line: The division was unsuitable Last Line: The broken pageant, the girls' %dormitory LYRICIST First Line: So I was bewildered, ok? %around here we keep the toilets flushed Last Line: Great looms the shadow of the shuttle %anglefish bloom in aquaria MAN IN LUREX First Line: It's only a matter of days now Last Line: Of home. As snowshoes are meant for snow MANDRILL ON THE TURNPIKE First Line: It's an art, knowing who to put with what Last Line: Why it was let for a song, and that seasons ago MANY ARE DISSATISFIED First Line: Yet the wind from seattle blows over and over Last Line: Mouthing the old pulchritude a house has MANY WAGONS AGO Poem Text First Line: At first it was as though you had passed MANY WAGONS AGO First Line: At first it was as though you had passed Last Line: The injured, the adored MARCHENBILDER First Line: Es war einmal ... No, it's too heavy Last Line: Lying down in the frugality of sleep MEANINGFUL LOVE Poem Text First Line: What the bad news was Subject(s): Maidens MEANWHILE / FAR ABOVE Last Line: On us, on youth MEASLES First Line: There was no longer any need for the world to be divided Last Line: Can you let yourself, a moment, put down your work MEDITATIONS OF A PARROT Poem Text First Line: Oh the rocks and the thimble Last Line: And all day: robin hood! Robin hood! Subject(s): Parrots MEDITATIONS OF A PARROT First Line: Oh the rocks and the thimble Last Line: And all day: robin hood! Robin hood! Subject(s): Parrots MEET ME TONIGHT IN DREAMLAND First Line: It was an hour ago. I walked upstairs to dreamland Last Line: If it was me I'd take a trip like this every day of my life MELODIC TRAINS Poem Text Recitation First Line: A little girl with scarlet enameled fingernails Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains MELODIC TRAINS First Line: A little girl with scarlet enameled fingernails Last Line: And we had focused back on the furniture of the air Subject(s): Railroads MEMORIES OF IMPERIALISM First Line: Dewey took manila %and soon after invented the decimal system Last Line: Would have been the first to acknowledge MERRILY WE LIVE First Line: Sometimes the drums would actually let us play Last Line: And don't touch any breasts, at least until I get there MILITARY BASE First Line: Now, in summer, the handiwork of spring Last Line: Or insane buggery behind altars MILITARY PASTORAL First Line: Hello, blubberface. You can come in now Last Line: Might as well unpack the laurels -- they're starting to arrive MINOR TRAVELER First Line: Then, everybody loved what they saw Last Line: And sessions of internal rhyme, %too easily to climb. %we flowers fade, happy, at sunset MIXED FEELINGS First Line: A pleasant smell of frying sausages Last Line: As we babble about the sky and the weather and the forests of change MODERATELY First Line: The fox brooding and the old people smelling Last Line: It says about you, whatever saves MOOD OF QUIET BEAUTY First Line: The evening light was like honey in the trees MORE HOCKETING First Line: The fear was that they would not come Last Line: Till one of them dies, whichever is shorter MORE PLEASANT ADVENTURES First Line: The first year was like icing MORNING JITTERS Poem Text First Line: And the storm re-established itself Subject(s): Storms; Night; Bedtime MORNING JITTERS First Line: And the storm re-established itself MOTTLED TUESDAY Poem Text First Line: Something was about to go laughably wrong MOURNING FORBIDDING VALEDICTION First Line: And who, when all is said and done MOUSE First Line: I like what you have given me MUTT AND JEFF First Line: Actually the intent of Last Line: As bluebottles kept a respectful distance MY EROTIC DOUBLE Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Self; Love - Erotic MY EROTIC DOUBLE First Line: He says he doesn't feel like working today Last Line: Thank you. You are too MY GOLD CHAIN First Line: Under the big greenway hat, the diva Last Line: So dark sometimes, you just want to stand and shake MY NAME IS DIMITRI First Line: I am going to be your host tonight Last Line: And the lives that extend it down to this trough MY PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Just when I thought there wasn't room enough MY PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE First Line: Just when I thought there wasn't room enough Last Line: They don't come along every day. Look out! There's a big one MYRTLE Poem Text Recitation First Line: How funny your name would be Last Line: Do what I want to do. But I want to stay here Subject(s): Names MYRTLE First Line: How funny your name would be Last Line: While all along she is thinking, I can %do what I want to do. But I want to stay here Subject(s): Names MYTHOLOGICAL POET First Line: The music brought us what it seemed Last Line: From loss grown merely a gesture NEVER SEEK TO TELL THY LOVE First Line: Many colors will take you to themselves Last Line: Tender speeches, until they feed us to the truth NEVER TO GET IT REALLY RIGHT First Line: A tan light stalks the rooms now NEW OCTAGON First Line: Over a cup of flaming tea, the ogre assessed Last Line: The variance sequestered by others NEW REALISM First Line: I have lost the beautiful dreams Last Line: Yellow over the hot sand, green as the green trees NEW SPIRIT First Line: I thought tht if I could put it all down, that would be one way. Last Line: Kinds, to be proposed but never formulated NICE MORNING BLUES First Line: The promised 'great getaway' turned out to be Last Line: Like a child getting lost. What is there left to do NICE PRESENTATION First Line: I have a friendly disposition but am forgetful Last Line: It's all about this observatory a shout fills NIGHT First Line: The evening I offer you the easy aspirin of death Last Line: The kids came and we all went the briars NO EARTHLY REASON First Line: There are additional reasons having to do with security Last Line: I always linger. Behnd a tree. I capture a great big bonus NO I DON'T First Line: I have no adventures, the adventurous one began NO LONGER VERY CLEAR First Line: It is true that I can no longer remember very well Last Line: I should have waited before I learned this NO TWO ALIKE First Line: Wait - it has some kind of finish on it. No NOBODY IS GOING ANYWHERE First Line: I don't really understand why you object Last Line: Waiting to be considered, maybe loved a little %eventually. And I do, I do NOT A FIST First Line: It's one of those days I guess NOT ONLY / BUT ALSO Poem Text First Line: Having transferred the one to the other NOT PLANNING A TRIP BACK First Line: And the ignorance on your hands is august Last Line: Of sleep. Forgets what there is to hide NOT YOU AGAIN First Line: Thought I'd write you this poem. Yes Last Line: No longer spewing. Just so you know NOTES FROM THE AIR First Line: A yak is a prehistoric cabbage: of that, at least, we may be sure Last Line: Chairs enough %for everbody to be seated in time for the lesson to begin NOTHING TO STEAL First Line: What's growing? Will it start? NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: BENEFITS EXPLAINED FOR ... First Line: The little zebras are too young to understand anne Last Line: But worse to be a pigeon with handcuffs always hanging over your head NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: EISENHOWER SURE PROGRAM... First Line: His books get under my wheels Last Line: O last labor-cut adjective! Subject(s): Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969) NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: FLOODS WRECK MOUNTAIN... First Line: Pelvises teach boxing weekends to cheap summers Last Line: Remember to come on over, though NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: FRENCH AIM TO SEE BAO DAI... First Line: Passing the playground I noticed the mayor Last Line: A shower of pumpkins fell down from the skies NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: FRENCH BEAT BACK FOE IN... First Line: The last retreat in the snow Last Line: Can you not accept this page of funnies? NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: FRENCH SAIL FROM KOREA First Line: The plaid ladders reaped unearthly fire Last Line: I sensed how the foxes could have written up grapes in their%weekly paper NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: INDIA GETS FOUR JET PLANES First Line: Henry! His name is henry Last Line: They really should grate cheese with such people! NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: ITALY FAVORS CUT IN... First Line: As I passed one day Last Line: And, besides, her niece is in tripoli NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: JAPAN GETS NEW IMPORT FUND First Line: Spending your diamond liverwurst on gas Last Line: As largesse dazzled the pickets? NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: MAJOR SPORTS NEWS First Line: White wove, bright white Last Line: Each covers a red beach basket. %and wool, too wobbly berries NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: MILK STRIKE OFF FOR 24... First Line: The next time I visit randolph tooth Last Line: I am going to take along my own grvy booth! NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: MUSHROOMING OF TROT RACES... First Line: Clay pants,' she screamed, and miles, miles of mushrooms Last Line: Is my kind of february NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: NEUTRAL DEADLOCK ON... First Line: Which prisoner sighing of gravel Last Line: And the prank lesson too came to an end NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: NEW KASHMIR HEAD SEEKS AID.. First Line: Purple lemon and sailor Last Line: Passion melts doves' blasting boss NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: NIXONS IN SINGAPORE GET A... First Line: Help the sandwich-pan in front Last Line: I hope you have beefsteaked the shore NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: OFFICER WHO SOLVED KIDNAP... First Line: Foreign may socked jeer curio simplicity Last Line: Blossom can't cheat sumps. Three witnesses NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: PAKISTANIS SPEED BIG POWER.. First Line: The food lines dreamt of me Last Line: Lanternslides cooped up like hazy strawberries NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: PAKISTANIS SPEED BIG POWER.. First Line: Puffed money %large cherry-roll Last Line: And big cabinet NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: PARLEY SET FOR KASHMIR POW'S First Line: The federation of tulips has been bleached by the tides Last Line: When will each cry quietly shrimp its own beautiful city, %headless protector? NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: PIER CONCERNS FACE A ... First Line: The carbon flame of resentments Last Line: And no fly flame in rosicrucian somersaults NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: POWER FOR PAKISTAN First Line: A funny but domineering ape Last Line: Favors outrageous housecoats NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: SEA BED TO YIELD TIN ORE First Line: Ten o'clock,' said napoleon Last Line: Owls have made a skating rink in peter pan's coffin NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: SOVIET GETS EAST GERMAN... First Line: I met my radiator on the street Last Line: I kissed her good-bye and was awarded seventy points NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: SUIT TO FORCE STATE TO... First Line: O violent snag! Last Line: And fay may hit no snag in albany NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: TOKYO MISSION OFF TO MOSCOW. First Line: Amazing for the largest booth in the world! Last Line: Lest our doorknobs receive the franchise, o fragmentary %zoom! NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: U.S. SEEKS ACCORD OF ... First Line: A toy radio once spoke of mistrust Last Line: Whispered father, 'and my bare feet are cold.' NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: VARGAS RIDES IN JET PLANE First Line: The clouds were rinsed by moonlit zeppelins and silverware Last Line: The cookie has glanced off its copper ricksha OBEDIENCE SCHOOL First Line: Let us leave the obedience school Last Line: But dad's with them now. Dad can conquer this thing OBSIDIAN HOUSE First Line: As was proven %when they entered the house Last Line: Among the madness of whirling wheat OCTOBER AT THE WINDOW First Line: Do I really want to go to the city? ODE TO JOHN KEATS First Line: From a dark land of figs Last Line: Or lurking under a weeping beech OEUVRES COMPLETES First Line: Everyone seemed pleased, even the then-invisible statisticians Last Line: Anything, but you are loved and it's your responsibility OF A PARTICULAR STRANGER First Line: My country is but scrubland Last Line: To be read, lots of pages in this warehouse OF DREAMS AND DREAMING First Line: Tell me more about that long street. Actually we're overextended Last Line: No, that other one. Besides, when in doubt you can strike a match OF LINNETS AND DULL TIME First Line: You said you don't want to know any more Last Line: He may be up there now, trying to find us %if you let me, I'll drive you back to the fairgrounds OF THE LIGHT First Line: That watery light, so undervalued Last Line: From the thirties, when we and this light were all that mattered OFFSHORE BREEZE First Line: Perhaps I have merely forgotten OLD HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY First Line: The walls are whitish. Is it cold enough in here? No Last Line: And that will save us some time OLEUM MISERICORDIAE First Line: To rub it out, make it less virulent Last Line: Without dog or woman %so far alone, unasked ON A WHITE HORSE First Line: So unlike you too, though I had not Last Line: The horse sits. It is my fate ON AUTUMN LAKE First Line: Leading liot act to foriage is activity Last Line: In each the potential is realized, the two wires %are crossing ON HIS RELUCTANCE TO TAKE DOWN THE CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS Poem Text First Line: A nice. Normal morning Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The ON HIS RELUCTANCE TO TAKE DOWN THE CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS First Line: A nice, normal morning: %feet setting out as though in a trance Last Line: It's great that you can be here too. %passivity rests its case ON THE TOWPATH First Line: At the sign 'fred muffin's antiques' they turned off the road ONE COAT OF PAINT First Line: We will all have to just hang on for a while ONE THING THAT CAN SAVE AMERICA First Line: Is anything central? Last Line: Our country, in fenced areas, in cool shady streets ONGOING STORY First Line: I could say it's the happiest period of my life Last Line: The people who own them seem rock-true and marvelously self-sufficient ONION SKIN First Line: In the end it was their tales of warning stampedes Last Line: Then I should have some pain, too?' OPERATORS ARE STANDING BY First Line: In some of the stores they sell a cheese rinse Last Line: On the plate glass for the benefit of some fish or other OR IN MY THROAT First Line: To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps ORIOLES First Line: What time the orioles came flying Last Line: You know the peace they brought was long overdue OSTENSIBLY Poem Text First Line: One might like to rest or read OSTENSIBLY First Line: One might like to rest or read OTHER CINDY First Line: A breeze came to the aid of that wilted day OTHER TRADITION First Line: They all came, some wore sentiments Last Line: Rescues them at last, as a star absorbs the night OTHERS SHIED AWAY First Line: And they have cooler armchairs Last Line: Crude language, distemper -- wound into a ball for you OTHERWISE First Line: I'm glad it didn't offend me OUR LEADER IS DREAMING First Line: Up there our leader is dreaming again Last Line: So the great brazen hump saw us, gazed out over the landscape OUR YOUTH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Of bricks. Who built it? Like some crazy balloon Subject(s): Youth OUR YOUTH First Line: Of bricks - who built it? Like some crazy balloon Last Line: Down the cloud ladder, but the problem has not been solved OUTING First Line: These things that you are going to have Last Line: The faucet drips, the minutes apply, denmark OVER AT THE MUTTS' First Line: Funny, it says 'hidden drive.' look where you're going! Last Line: And it'll be all right in the morning too. I guarantee it PALE SIBLINGS First Line: Cheerio. Nothing on the shore Last Line: Say, and leave it at that. Yes, I said, by all means, let's PALINDROME First Line: In the days of french film and infanticide Last Line: Etched on the air of my room PANTOUM First Line: Eyes shining without mystery Last Line: Through the vague snow of many clay pipes PAPERWORK First Line: Waste time on these riddles? Last Line: He is the one you ought to have invited PARADOX: THE BIRDS First Line: Wrong about birds. I cannot call Last Line: To love you for your turn and wheel and glide and song PARADOXES AND OXYMORONS Poem Text First Line: This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary PARADOXES AND OXYMORONS First Line: This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level Last Line: Has set me softly down beside you. The poem is you Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets PARAPH First Line: I have to sign my name Last Line: No chime break PARERGON First Line: We are happy in our way of life PASSIVE PREACHER First Line: The year books Last Line: On that needle land PASTILLES FOR THE VOYAGE First Line: If it is spring it matters a little Last Line: I must try the new, fluid approach PASTORAL First Line: Perhaps no vice endears me to the showboat Last Line: You are my melodies, and you are handsome' PATHETIC FALLACY First Line: A cautionary mister, %and thaumaturge poked holes in my trope Last Line: As all were going away, thankful the affair had ended PATHLESS WANDERINGS First Line: Whereas I, efficacious ruin Last Line: And to have the exact change, %teeth for this meat PEACE PLAN First Line: These are the eyes I have stared out Last Line: As the virgins on the porch circle round, take up a collect ion %of obliging smiles PEARL FISHERS First Line: And he would say, 'you ought to write him and thank him for it,' and I'd Last Line: You can't rely on those, %they always win PENITENT First Line: What are these apples doing here Last Line: In the forest, with the cool sky %ambient with rubbings PENTHESILEA First Line: No more odes, the good doctor said Last Line: Half a century from the grouches of home PICTURE OF LITTLE J.A. IN A PROSPECT OF FLOWERS First Line: Darkness falls like a wet sponge Last Line: And only in the light of lost words %can we imagine our rewards PIED PIPER First Line: Under the day's crust a half-eaten child Last Line: Most civil, laughing not to return PLAIN AS DAY First Line: With all its accoutrements Last Line: Are you big bang PLAINNESS IN DIVERSITY First Line: Silly girls your heads full of boys PLEASURE BOATS First Line: Wash it again Last Line: The four-leaf clover loses PLURAL OF 'JACK-IN-THE-BOX.' First Line: How quiet the diversion stands POEM First Line: While we were walking under the top Last Line: Waiting for a tropical sky POEM OF UNREST First Line: Men duly understand the river of life Last Line: So the thought can erect itself, like plywood battlements POEM ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS First Line: In truth there is room for disquiet Last Line: It will turn out to be a popular color in the new century. %they will call it 'white' POINT LOOKOUT First Line: The object of the game is, after all, not to die but to grow into easeful Last Line: We mourn those who do briefly paddle POLITE DISTORTIONS First Line: Already the conning tower is issuing conflicting bulletins POOR KNIGHTS OF WINDSOR First Line: Say it was any day Last Line: And the way back is polluted, the spears %almost indecent POPULAR SONGS First Line: He continued to consult her for her beauty Last Line: The actors prepare their first decline POSTCARD FROM PONTEVEDRA First Line: Just how I feel %I feel today Last Line: Though they answer me %like the risen sea POSTCARD TO POPEYE First Line: Paolo heard the record of brahms' requiem in downtown Last Line: Is inaudible. And the record of beer citrus fruits rolled over the %hill and was seen no more POSTURE OF UNEASE First Line: It all seems like dirt now POT LUCK First Line: You always leave me where we left off Last Line: I thought I had gone to hell. Too bad I woke up in time PRETTY QUESTIONS First Line: The two parks interfaced Last Line: And the day that comes with them PROBLEM OF ANXIETY First Line: Fifty years have passed Last Line: From the bronze mantel, and will never be appeased Subject(s): Anxiety; Time PROXIMITY First Line: It was great to see you the other day Last Line: At noon, for a moment of silence PUNISHING THE MYTH First Line: At first it came easily, with the knowledge of the shadow line PURISTS WILL OBJECT First Line: We have the looks you want PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS First Line: It came aboujt that there was no way of passing PYROGRAPHY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Out here on cottage grove it matters. The galloping Subject(s): United States; America PYROGRAPHY First Line: Out here on cottage grove it matters. The galloping Last Line: To these bare fields, built at today's expense QUALM First Line: Warren g. Harding invented the word 'normalcy.' QUICK QUESTION First Line: We took to the lake Last Line: When a favorable wind rustles the sheets RAILROAD BRIDGE First Line: My relatives asked me over. Because I know RAILROADED First Line: Job on the hills... %is that wrong too? Last Line: No more angelfish for a while, at least. Too bad RAIN First Line: The spoon of your head Last Line: The flat sea rushing away RAIN IN THE SOUP First Line: Raindrops fall on the treetops. A rainy day Last Line: Good day mrs. Smith. Your daughter is as cute as anything RAIN MOVING IN First Line: The blackboard is erased in the attic Last Line: A place to be from, and have people ask about RECENT PAST First Line: Perhaps we ought to feel with more imagination RECITAL First Line: All right. The problem is that there is no new problem REDEEMED AREA First Line: Do you know where you live? Probably Last Line: All the fuss has put me in a good mood, %o great sun REVERIE AND CAPRICE First Line: It seems very unlikely that my wishes will Last Line: All along you were trying to make me give up the other REVISED WEATHER REPORT First Line: The rain continues and then stops RIDDLE ME Poem Text First Line: Rainy days are best RIDDLE ME First Line: Rainy days are best RIDICULOUS TRANSLATOR'S HOPES First Line: Gracious exterior, but the rooms are small and mean Last Line: To the cliff's edge as the photographer gets ready to smile RITUAL II Poem Text First Line: When the maids returned with the oil they'd bought RITUAL II First Line: When the maids returned with the oil they'd bought Last Line: Knowing it would all be on the evening news RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: On the secret map the assassins Subject(s): Separation; War; Cities; Urban Life RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS First Line: On the secret map the assassins Last Line: And the affliction of june ride %slowly out into the sun-blackened landscape ROBIN HOOD'S BARN Recitation by Author ROMANTIC ENTANGLEMENT First Line: Ah, you don't know what fun it is ROOF ARTIST Poem Text First Line: Crash baby, the new recruits have arrived ROOF ARTIST First Line: Crash baby, the new recruits have arrived Last Line: The chord desires resolution RUNWAY First Line: We crawled out of the car %into the rest stop. Lady baltimore cake Last Line: Just as the wind starts and darkness longs %to take us down a peg RURAL OBJECTS First Line: Wasn't there some way in which you too understood Last Line: Touching forever, water lifted out of the sea SACRED AND PROFANE DANCES First Line: If all you want is kittens Last Line: I said, it's funny the way things work out SAFE CONDUCT First Line: The coast is clear. Bring me my scallop shell of quiet Last Line: Is being fine-tuned for tonight's one-person recital SALON DE THE First Line: Some time before you wore that belt Last Line: And the shade was lowered as it is every doomsday SAVAGE MENACE First Line: The castle was infested with rats SAYING IT TO KEEP IT FROM HAPPENING First Line: Some departure from the norm SCHEHERAZADE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Unsupported by reason's enigma SCHEHERAZADE First Line: Unsupported by reason's enigma SEA First Line: We carry our anxiety about the land with us Last Line: Unsure of what to grab. The tuneless sing to me SEE HOW YOU LIKE MY SHOES First Line: Two twisted dry turds on the sidewalk Last Line: You. I like to titter SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR Poem Text First Line: As parmigianino did it, the right hand SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR First Line: As parmigianino did it, the right hand Last Line: Here and there, in cold pockets %of remembrance, whispers out of time SHADOW TRAIN First Line: Violence, how smoothly it came Last Line: The violence dreams. You are half-asleep at your instrument table SHOCKER First Line: What would I learn? That this vale Last Line: Briefly. Is that a hand on my sleeve SHORT-TERM MEMORY First Line: A few things came to observe me Last Line: And you'd want to be around me SHOWER First Line: The water began to fall quite quietly Last Line: These things that are the property of only the few SICILIAN BIRD First Line: The perfume climbs into my tree Last Line: In mist. Pardon. The landlord locked us out Variant Title(s): Andante Misterios SIGHS AND INHIBITIONS First Line: Starting well after the beginning, one invests SILHOUETTE First Line: Of how that current ran in, and turned SKATERS: 1 First Line: These decibels %are a kind of flagellation, an entity of sound Last Line: Yet knowing where men are coming from. It is this, to hold the %candle up to the album SKATERS: 2 First Line: Under the window marked 'general delivery' Last Line: Holding a few horizontal lines. Then this vision, too, fades slowly away SKATERS: 3 First Line: Now you must shield with your body if necessary (you Last Line: Is the continuation of your ecstasy and apprehension SKATERS: 4 First Line: The wind thrashes the maple seed-pods Last Line: In perfect order: taurus, leo, gemini SLEEPERS AWAKE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Cervantes was asleep when he wrote don quixote Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Sleep SLEEPERS AWAKE First Line: Cervantes was asleep when he wrote don quixote Last Line: Them, in a wordless implosion of sleep SLUMBERER First Line: Bug-eyed at the possibilities %she slumbers Last Line: To extricate ourselves, should we ever really want to SMALL CITY First Line: Small city where I lived for some years in total darkness Last Line: It is not a happy place to be %until after the rain has ended SNOW FENCE Poem Text First Line: Dieting aids posture SNOW FENCE First Line: Dieting aids posture Last Line: And the actors walked with me to those calms SNOWBALL IN HELL First Line: In the beginning there are those who don't quite fit in SOME MONEY First Line: I said I am awkward SOME OLD TIRES First Line: This was mine, and I let it slip through my fingers SOME TREES Poem Text First Line: These are amazing: each Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SOME TREES First Line: These are amazing: each Last Line: These accents seem their own defense Subject(s): Environment; Trees SOMEONE YOU HAVE SEEN BEFORE First Line: It was a night for listening to corelli, geminiani SOMETHING SIMILAR First Line: I, the city mouse, have traveled from a long ways away SOMETHING TOO CHINESE First Line: For me now Last Line: These are mere cavils SONATINE MELANCOLIQUE First Line: Then I walked on a ways Last Line: Pale bluster, flubbing today again and again SONG First Line: The song tells us of our old way of living SONG OF THE WINDSHIELD WIPERS First Line: We've kept these old things SONG: 'MOSTLY PLACES ...' First Line: The quarries are closed now SONGS WE KNOW BEST First Line: Just like a shadow in an empty room SONNET First Line: Each servant stamps the reader with a look Last Line: Worms be your words, you not safe from ours SONNET First Line: The barber at his chair Last Line: You guessed the reason for the storm SOONEST MENDED Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Barely tolerated, living on the margin Subject(s): Language; Time; Words; Vocabulary SOONEST MENDED First Line: Barely tolerated, living on the margin Last Line: To the mooring of starting out, that day so long ago SORTES VERGILIANAE Poem Text First Line: You have been living now for a long time and there is nothing you do not know Last Line: Only long patience, as the star climbs and sinks, leaving illumuniation to the setting sun Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SORTES VERGILIANAE First Line: You have been living now for a long time and there is nothing you do not know Last Line: Only long patience, as the star climbs and sinks, leaving illumination to the setting sun Subject(s): Homosexuality SPACIOUS FIRMAMENT First Line: Say that this is a street therefore people walk down it Last Line: No, something to lug up behind the office at noon Subject(s): Change SPOTLIGHT ON AMERICA First Line: I must proceed unflustered Last Line: Passing moment be the last to know, as usual SPRING CRIES First Line: Our worst fears are realized Last Line: To the bight: adult swimmers, all of them SPRING DAY First Line: The immense hope, and forbearance Last Line: We shall soon give all our attention to you STANZAS BEFORE TIME First Line: Quietly as if it could be Last Line: In my flivver, miss ocean, honest, if I could STAR BELCHED First Line: On she danced, but had forgotten Last Line: The moment I stare I kiss you STATUARY First Line: The prevailing winds lied in intent STILL-LIFE WITH STRANGER First Line: Come on, ullrich, the great octagon STONE-DEAF ALBERT LEAVES THE CONCERTINA First Line: All things being equal in this reservoir Last Line: A man of state nonetheless, of many liaisons STORY OF NEXT WEEK First Line: Yes, but right reason dictates...Yes, but the wolf is at the door Last Line: Your passprt's in there too STRANGE CINEMA First Line: In sooth, I come here sadly Last Line: That is all I can offer you, %my lost, my beloved one STRANGE OCCUPATIONS First Line: Once after school, hobbling from place to place Last Line: Is even now humming her old song of antipathies STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN AT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Without thinking too much about it STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN AT NIGHT First Line: Without thinking too much about it Last Line: Once the bosses and their beagles have passed through STREET MUSICIANS Poem Text First Line: One died, and the soul was wrenched out Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Homeless STREET MUSICIANS First Line: One died, and the soul was wrenched out Last Line: On the landscape, to make of us what we could SUIT First Line: Maybe it only looks bedraggled Last Line: Yes, I could have told you that some time ago SUMMER First Line: There is that sound like the wind SUNRISE IN SUBURBIA First Line: The tone is hard is heard Last Line: In the morning holocaust become one vast furnace, engaging all tears SUSPENDED LIFE First Line: She is under heavy sedation Last Line: The weather continues, the children are on their way to school SWAYING, THE APT TRAVELER EXITED MY HOUSE First Line: It's so easy to be attractive when Last Line: To the overextended fruit of this day %this dream SYRINGA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Orpheus liked the glad personal quality SYRINGA First Line: Orpheus liked the glad personal quality Last Line: In some small town, one indifferent summer SYSTEM First Line: The system was breaking down Last Line: Way leads to the pragmatic and kinetic future TAHITI TROT Poem Text First Line: We close in on ourselves TAHITI TROT First Line: We close in on ourselves Last Line: Can I get you anything?' TAPESTRY First Line: It is difficult to separate the tapestry TASK First Line: They are preparing to begin again TAXI IN THE GLEN First Line: You throw matches on the floor Last Line: To calm his romantic hopes TENNIS COURT OATH First Line: What had you been thinking about Last Line: Lilacs blowing across his face glad he brought you TENTH SYMPHONY First Line: I have not told you Last Line: Hope to have more time to tell you about %the latter in the foreseeable future TERMINAL First Line: Didn't you get my card? Last Line: In the garden. It can be anything TERNINAL Poem Text First Line: Didn't you get my card? Last Line: In the garden, it can be anything Subject(s): Speeches & Addresses; Travel THANK YOU FOR NOT COOPERATING First Line: Down in the street there are ice-cream parlors to go to THE BUNGALOWS Poem Text First Line: Impatient as we were for all of them to join us THE HISTORY OF MY LIFE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Once upon a time there were two brothers Last Line: It up for what seemed like months or years Subject(s): History; Life; Historians THE ICE-CREAM WARS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Although I mean it, and project the meaning Last Line: A randomness, a darkness of one's own Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE IDIOT Poem Text First Line: Oh how this sullen, careless world THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL Poem Text Recitation First Line: As I sit looking out of a window of the building Last Line: Rights reserved. Subject(s): Boredom; Dreams; Guadalajara; Imagination; Ennui; Nightmares; Fancy THE LAUGHTER OF DEAD MEN Poem Text First Line: Candid jeremiads drizzle from his lips Last Line: And all the singular adventures it implies Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE NEW HIGHER Poem Text First Line: You meant more than life to me. I lived through THE PAINTER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Sitting between the sea and the buildings Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE PIED PIPER Poem Text First Line: Under the day's crust a half-eaten child THE PROBLEM OF ANXIETY Poem Text First Line: Fifty years have passed Last Line: From the bronze mantel, and will never be appeased Subject(s): Anxiety; Time THE RECENT PAST Poem Text First Line: Perhaps we ought to feel with more imagination Subject(s): Separation THE SPACIOUS FIRMAMENT Poem Text First Line: Say that this is a street therefore people walk down it Last Line: No, something to lug up behind the office at noon Subject(s): Change THE SUN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The watermark said it was alone with us THE TENNIS COURT OATH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What had you been thinking about THEIR DAY First Line: Each act of criticism is general THEME Poem Text First Line: If I were a piano shawl THEME First Line: If I were a piano shawl Last Line: Around here and cannot find itself THESE LACUSTRINE CITIES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: These lacustrine cities grew out of loathing Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THESE LACUSTRINE CITIES First Line: These lacustrine cities grew out of loathing Last Line: Whose disappointment broke into a rainbow of tears THEY DON'T JUST GO AWAY, EITHER First Line: In scandinavia, where snow falls frequently Last Line: And the rabbit who await us in the dooryard Subject(s): Children; Memory; Winter THEY DREAM ONLY OF AMERICA Poem Text Recitation by Author THEY DREAM ONLY OF AMERICA Last Line: And I am lost without you Subject(s): Homosexuality THINNEST SHADOW First Line: He is sherrier Last Line: And his eyes are full of mold THIS CONFIGURATION First Line: This movie deals with the epidemic of the way we live now THIS ROOM Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The room I entered was a dream of this room Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THIS ROOM First Line: The room I entered was a dream of this room Last Line: You are not even here THOUGHTS OF A YOUNG GIRL Poem Text Recitation First Line: It is such a beautiful day I had to write you a letter Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THOUGHTS OF A YOUNG GIRL First Line: It is such a beautiful day I had to write you a letter Last Line: May you not be long on the way! Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters THOUSAND ISLANDS First Line: Keeping warm now, while it lasts Last Line: As clouds reappear after rains THREE DUSKS First Line: I think it's nice of me Last Line: The cranes have flown far from their perch TICKET First Line: The experience of writing you these love letters Last Line: Automatically taking the things in, that had not been spoiled, sordid TILL THE BUS STARTS First Line: I like napping in transit Last Line: Cover me with buttons TITLE SEARCH First Line: Voices of spring. Vienna bonbons Last Line: Less is roar. The bicyclist. The father TO GOOD PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE GOING SOMEWHERE ELSE First Line: Many couldn't stop being in love with you Last Line: The fruit concurs. And now very seldom TO REDOUTE First Line: To true roses uplifted on the bilious tide of evening Last Line: Tears that streak the dusty firmament TO THE SAME DEGREE First Line: From the frozen yelps squirted lust Last Line: In little groups first, then by tens TODAY'S ACADEMICIANS First Line: Again, what forces the critic to bury his Last Line: More meteor magic. Seems like TOKEN RESISTANCE First Line: As one turns to one in a dream Last Line: My own shoes have scarred the walk I've taken TONE POEM First Line: It is not longer night. But there is a sameness TOO HAPPY, HAPPY TREE First Line: If the green felicity sits too readily on the lower lip TOO MUCH SLEEP IS BAD Poem Text First Line: I don't have a chronic cough TOO MUCH SLEEP IS BAD First Line: I don't have a chronic cough Last Line: And they finally get it wrong TOUCHING, THE SIMILARITIES First Line: Surely it was the same blank wall of twenty years ago Last Line: Yet the obtuse angle of evening is mum on the subject TOWER OF DARKNESS Poem Text First Line: I cannot remain outside any longer TOWER OF DARKNESS First Line: I cannot remain outside any longer Last Line: Unlike the old healing that will come again in time TOWN AND COUNTRY First Line: Enormous shadow, be gone Last Line: Bull moose in a maine lake, %summer 1971 TOY SYMPHONY First Line: Out on the terrace the projector had begun Last Line: Backward perhaps, into a cab TRAIN RISING OUT OF THE SEA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It is written in the book of usable minutes TRAIN RISING OUT OF THE SEA First Line: It is written in the book of usable minutes TREMENDOUS OUTPOURING First Line: According to most of these people, a good 'ladle' Last Line: To chill those ways TUESDAY EVENING First Line: She plundered the fun in his hair Last Line: Slips nervously past. The heat, the stillness are oppressive, iguanas TWILIGHT PARK First Line: Surely the lodger hadn't returned yet Last Line: The ending is considered particularly fine TWO FOR THE ROAD First Line: Did you want it plain or frosted? (plain vanilla or busted?) Last Line: Soiled herself and brought eternal night upon our shy little country TWO PIECES First Line: Edith and julian Last Line: The horse's mane tears TWO SCENES: 1 First Line: We see us as we truly behave Last Line: Air resting around the tips of mountains TWO SCENES: 2 First Line: A fine rain anoints the canal machinery Last Line: Everything has a schedule, if you can find out what it is TWO SONNETS: 1. DIDO First Line: The body's products become Last Line: Inside it they had a record of 'the st. Louis blues' TWO SONNETS: 2. THE IDIOT First Line: O how this sullen, careless world Last Line: The spray made as it hit the front of the boat UMPTEEN First Line: In this childhood you can Last Line: These files have nothing on you UNCTUOUS PLATITUDES First Line: There is no reason for the surcharge to bother you UNDERWRITERS First Line: Sir joshua lipton drank this tea Last Line: A little, you'll lean against my hip for comfort UNKNOWN TRAVELERS First Line: Lugged to the gray arbor Last Line: Purple and gray she starts upright in her chair UNRELEASED MOVIE Poem Text First Line: Let's start in the middle as usual. Ever since I burnt my mouth UNRELEASED MOVIE First Line: Let's start in the middle, as usual. Ever since I burnt my mouth UNTILTED First Line: How tall the buildings were as I began UNUSUAL PRECAUTIONS First Line: We, we children, why our lives are circumscribed, circumferential UPTICK Poem Text First Line: We were sitting there, and VARIANT First Line: Sometimes a word will start it, like VARIATIONS ON LA FOLIA First Line: Now another one who said it is gone Last Line: I'm sick of that one VARIATIONS, CALYPSO AND FUGUE ON A THEME OF ELLA WHEELER WILCOX First Line: For the pleasures of the many Last Line: I will tell you nothing! Nothing, do you hear? He shrieked. Go away! Go away! VASE OF FLOWERS First Line: The vase is white and would be a cylinder Last Line: They mean absolutely nothing to me VAUCANSON First Line: It was snowing as he wrote VEGETARIANS First Line: In front of you, long tables, leading down to the sun VENDANGES First Line: A tall building in the fifteenth arrondissement faded away slowly and then Last Line: Wondering, what have I done to deserve this or anything else? VETIVER First Line: Ages passed slowly, like a load of hay VINTAGE MASQUERADE First Line: That article I'd meant to read Last Line: Of your being, shaken clear of you like duck feathers VOWELS First Line: Instant insufficiency edged eerily over our oasis Last Line: Everything was at peace with everybody. A dark stone glistened WAITING CEREMONY First Line: The binding clause Last Line: Resuming and resuming. We are the thick %and the thin WAKEFULNESS First Line: An immodest little white wine, some scattered seraphs Last Line: Funny, none of us heard the roar WAKING DREAM First Line: And the failing panopticon? That happened before Last Line: To know, which way is upstream WALKWAYS First Line: The man behind you spoke to the tracery Last Line: Like a partially opened umbrella WALTZ DREAM First Line: She wasn't having one of her strange headaches tonight Last Line: All what am I doing Variant Title(s): Heavenly Arts Polk WATER CARRIER First Line: I did not, then Last Line: Who do daylong things WATER INSPECTOR First Line: Scramble the 'believer' buttons. Silence the chickens. We have more Last Line: What I consider. Once it was all grace in the lifting. Awkward, yes, and not %a little disconcertin WAVE First Line: To pass through pain and not know it WAY THEY TOOK First Line: The green bars on you grew soberer Last Line: Bye now. The jewels are for luck WE HESITATE First Line: The days to come are a watershed WEATHER AND TURTLES First Line: And patient, exacting Last Line: No, that was mine WEEKEND First Line: Swan filets and straw wine Last Line: Thistles, dandelions, what do we care? WELL, YES, ACTUALLY First Line: To whom it may concern: listen up Last Line: With a wedge-shaped piece of wood, so that it stayed open all the time WET ARE THE BOARDS First Line: Not liking what life has in it WET CASEMENTS First Line: The concept is interesting: to see, as though reflected Last Line: I shall not repeat others' comments about me WHAT DO YOU CALL IT WHEN First Line: The fire betokened it Last Line: I repeat it in paragraphs in these parts and am not ready togo home yet WHAT IS POETRY Poem Text First Line: The medieval town, with frieze / of boy scouts from nagoa? Last Line: It might give us--what?--some flowers soon? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WHAT IS POETRY First Line: The medieval town, with frieze %of boy scouts from nagoa? Last Line: It might give us -- what? -- some flowers soon? Subject(s): Poetry And Poets WHAT IS WRITTEN First Line: What is written on the paper Last Line: To call the shots pretty much as they come. %poor, bald thing WHAT THE PLANTS SAY First Line: Don't cry it's lentil soup Last Line: For sure we got to go. Now's %the time, ida WHATEVER IT IS, WHEREVER YOU ARE First Line: The cross-hatching technique which allowed our ancestors to exchange Last Line: Firmly in the good-natured circle of your ancestors' games and entertainments WHEN ALL HER NEIGHBORS CAME First Line: The most beautiful combination appeared Last Line: Is the essential spoon. We may live more patently %more expectantly now WHEN HALF THE TIME THEY DON'T KNOW THEMSELVES First Line: Old cathedrals, old markets, good and firm things WHEN PRESSED First Line: Why has the sailor come in Last Line: Note that the box has been 'discontinued' WHERE IT WAS DECIDED WE SHOULD BE TAKEN First Line: Your name here invisible as a headache Last Line: Feed the horse on brambles the moon %is coming WHETHER IT EXISTS First Line: All through the fifties and sixties the land tilted WHITE PAPER First Line: And if he thought that Last Line: The crushed paper heaps WHITE ROSES First Line: The worst side of it all Last Line: The new white flowers that are beginnng to shoot up about now WHO KNOWS WHAT CONSTITUTES A LIFE First Line: Really? Uncle pedro is coming Last Line: Or the calf given birth to calflets WILLIAM BYRD First Line: With the precision of one who fights, slowly, the shadow of the battering Last Line: In them we become magic and empty again WING First Line: Among cool recesses of tombs Last Line: Kilted men, some carrying birds WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY First Line: What have we proved? That we don't have the one idea WITHIN THE HOUR First Line: The tea is too hot Last Line: Why yes. Remember %me? Remember me %in any case WOMAN LEANING First Line: However it may come back to you Last Line: For our benefit, if we should ever get to know them WOODEN BUILDINGS First Line: The tests are good. You need a million of them WORKS ON PAPER 1 First Line: Life in japan is one of the most famous with all these Last Line: Before the tremendous dogs are unleashed WORLD'S END First Line: Sometimes it's more time than we care to be Last Line: And buy some cherries, greet old friends WORSENING SITUATION First Line: Like a rainstorm, he said, the braided colors Last Line: To get them really wife again. My wife %thinks I'm in oslo -oslo, france, that is WRONG KIND OF INSURANCE First Line: I teach in a high school YEARS OF INDISCRETION First Line: Whatever your eye alights on this morning is yours Last Line: And yesterday the place where we left off a little while ago YES, DR. GRENZMER. HOW MAY I BE OF ASSISTANCE TO YOU? First Line: We were stayng at the golden something-or-other Last Line: With tellers and guards. Who liked the flowers YESTERDAY, FOR INSTANCE First Line: No longer available is the hare Last Line: Trailer ends. I promise the sun was a switch, or tickler YOU DROPPED SOMETHING First Line: So what if it's brackish my love Last Line: And the bride you brought from back east %nailed to the sun YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT First Line: Meanwhile, back in Last Line: The stone path wearying YOU, MY ACADEMY First Line: Maybe untwine my breath, like Last Line: Stops to give us a lift to the nearest menstruating sun YOUNG MAN WITH LETTER First Line: Another feeble, wonderful creature is making the rounds again Last Line: The sieved dark can tell you about it YOUNG PEOPLE First Line: Slowly he is eating the stars Last Line: Never to know what cut us loose YOUNG PRINCE AND THE YOUNG PRINCESS First Line: The grass cuts our feet as we wend our way Last Line: You will say, 'that is how we lived, you and I' YOUNG SON First Line: The screen of supreme good fortune curved his absolute smile Last Line: Lit, one by one, in the hushed and fast darkening room YOUR NAME HERE First Line: But how can I be in this bar and also be a recluse? Last Line: Light a candle in my wreath, I'll be yours forever and will kiss you |
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