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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: ATWOOD, MARGARET Matches Found: 286 Atwood, Margaret Poet's Biography 286 poems available by this author 1837 WAR IN RETROSPECT First Line: One of the %things I found out be being Last Line: Made actual through a child's fingers A HOLIDAY Poem Text First Line: My child in the smoke of the fire Last Line: And no farther Subject(s): Nature A WOMAN'S ISSUE Poem Text First Line: The woman in the spiked device Last Line: Who invented the word love? Subject(s): Women ACCIDENT HAS OCCURRED Last Line: Which of us will survive %which of us will survive the other AFTER ALL First Line: After all you are quite Last Line: Only alive & stuck with it AFTER THE FLOOD, WE First Line: We must be the only ones Last Line: Brutal faces forming %(slowly) %out of stone AGAINST STILL LIFE First Line: Orange in the middle of a table Last Line: Just as it was %from the beginning ALTERNATE THOUGHTS FROM UNDERGROUND First Line: Down. Shovelled. Can hear Last Line: Uncalloused and armourless mammals ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY First Line: In that country the animals Last Line: They have faces of %no-one Subject(s): Animals ASPARAGUS Poem Text First Line: This afternoon a man leans over Last Line: You're very lucky Subject(s): Asparagus; Love - Nature Of; Vegetables ASPARAGUS First Line: This afternoon a man leans over Last Line: Listen, I say to him, %you're very lucky Subject(s): Asparagus; Love - Nature Of; Vegetables AT FIRST I WAS GIVEN Poem Text First Line: At first I was given centuries Last Line: Before you run out into the street and they shoot Subject(s): War; Life Change Events; Memor AT FIRST I WAS GIVEN First Line: At first I was given centuries Last Line: Before you run out into the street and they shoot Subject(s): Widows And Widowers AT THE TOURIST CENTER IN BOSTON Poem Text First Line: There is my country under glass Subject(s): Canada; Canadians AT THE TOURIST CENTER IN BOSTON First Line: There is my country under glass Last Line: Was the sky ever that blue? %who really lives there Subject(s): Canada AVA GARDNER REINCARNATED AS A MAGNOLIA First Line: Somehow I never succeeded Last Line: I ever had for anything. The joy AXIOM First Line: Axiom: you are a sea Last Line: All earth: a known %land, a country BACKDROP ADDRESSES COWBOY Poem Text First Line: Starspangled cowboy Subject(s): Cowboys BACKDROP ADDRESSES COWBOY First Line: Starspangled cowboy %sauntering out of the almost Last Line: I am the space you desecrate %as you pass through BEYOND TRUTH Last Line: The best it can BLACKIE ON ANTARCTICA First Line: My sister phones long distance: %blackie's been put out Last Line: Justice is what we'll turn into. %then there's mercy) BOOK OF ANCESTORS First Line: Book of ancestors: these brutal, with curled Last Line: Alive, open yourself like this and become whole BORED First Line: All those times I was bored Last Line: Now I would know BUFFALO IN COMPOUND, ALBERTA First Line: The marsh flat where they graze Last Line: The shade of the gold-edged trees BULL SONG Poem Text First Line: For me there was no audience Subject(s): Bullfights & Bullfighters BULL SONG First Line: For me there was no audience Last Line: But the grace with which they disguise it %justifies them BUS ALONG ST CLAIR: DECEMBER First Line: It would take more than that to banish Last Line: Your place is empty CARRYING FOOD HOME IN WINTER Poem Text First Line: I walk uphill through the snow CARRYING FOOD HOME IN WINTER First Line: I walk uphill through the snow Last Line: This grapefruit %will become a thought CELL First Line: Now look objectively. You have to Last Line: Are not unknown. Look in the mirror CHAPECHANGERS IN WINTER First Line: Through the slit of our open window, the wind Last Line: It's still you. It's still you CHARIVARI First Line: They capped their heads with feathers, masked Last Line: Drumbeats. Stop this. Become human CIRCE/MUD POEMS, SELS. CIRCLE GAME First Line: The children on the lawn Last Line: I want the circle %broken CITY PLANNERS First Line: Cruising these residential sunday COMIC BOOKS VS. HISTORY (1949, 1969) First Line: On the blackboard map your country Last Line: Of campfires, pieces of fur CORPSE SONG Poem Text First Line: I enter your night CORPSE SONG First Line: I enter your night Last Line: Not as I am but as I am CRESSIDA TO TROILUS: A GIFT First Line: You forced me to give you poisonous gifts Last Line: You won't be cured CRICKETS Poem Text First Line: Spetember. Wild aster. Fox grapes Last Line: Come back as our heartbeats Subject(s): Crickets CRICKETS First Line: Spetember. Wild aster. Fox grapes Last Line: Come back as our heartbeats Subject(s): Crickets CROW SONG Poem Text First Line: In the arid sun, over the field CROW SONG First Line: In the arid sun, over the field Last Line: And left me alone with politics CYCLOPS First Line: You, going along the path Last Line: You are the hugest monster DAGUERREOTYPE TAKEN IN OLD AGE Poem Text First Line: I know I change Subject(s): Old Age DAGUERREOTYPE TAKEN IN OLD AGE First Line: I know I change Subject(s): Old Age DAMSIDE First Line: This used to be a dam Last Line: And the stained river %a prayer, a sewer, a prayer DANCING First Line: It was my father taught my mother Last Line: He didn't want to DAPHNE AND LAURA AND SO FORTH First Line: He was the one who saw me Last Line: He wanted something or other DEATH OF A YOUNG SON BY DROWNING Poem Text First Line: He, who navigated with success Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Death - Babies DEATH OF A YOUNG SON BY DROWNING First Line: He, who navigated with success Last Line: I planted him in this country %like a flag Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning DEATHS OF THE OTHER CHILDREN First Line: The body dies Last Line: They catch at my heels with their fingers DEPARTURE FROM THE BUSH First Line: I, who had been erased Last Line: I came away not having learned DIGGING First Line: In this yard, barnyard Last Line: Symbols, monuments, %forgiveness, treaties, love DISEMBARKING AT QUEBEC First Line: Is it my clothes, my way of walking Last Line: I am a word %in a foreign language DOUBLE VOICE First Line: Two voices %took turns using my eyes Last Line: Half-buried among the sweet peas DOWN First Line: They were wrong about the sun Last Line: With all this loss DREAM 1: THE BUSH GARDEN First Line: I stood once more in that garden Last Line: Anything planted here %would come up blood DREAM 2: BRIAN THE STILL-HUNTER First Line: The man I saw in the forest Last Line: I remembered: he has been gone %twenty years and not heard from DREAM 3: NIGHT BEAR WHICH FRIGHTENED CATTLE First Line: Horns crowding toward us Last Line: A mute vibration passing %between my ears DREAM: BLUEJAY OR ARCHEOPTERYX Poem Text First Line: Kneeling on rock DREAMS OF THE ANIMALS Poem Text First Line: Mostly the animals dream / of other animals Last Line: Dreams of sawdust Subject(s): Animals; Dreams DREAMS OF THE ANIMALS First Line: Mostly the animals dream %of other animals Last Line: Dreams of sawdust Subject(s): Animals EATING FIRE First Line: Eating fire %is your ambition Last Line: As it falls. In its own way ELEGY FOR THE GIANT TORTOISES Poem Text First Line: Let others pray for the passenger pigeon Last Line: Our holy and obsolete symbols Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises ELEGY FOR THE GIANT TORTOISES First Line: Let others pray for the passenger pigeon Last Line: The relics of what we have destroyed, %our holy and obsolete symbols Subject(s): Turtles EVENTUAL PROTEUS First Line: I held you %through all your shifts Last Line: The caustic remark of your kiss EXPLORERS First Line: The explorers will come Last Line: At the two skeletons FEBRUARY Poem Text First Line: Winter. Time to eat fat Subject(s): Winter; Cats; Food & Eating FEBRUARY First Line: Winter. Time to eat fat Last Line: Get rid of death. Celebrate increase. Make it be spring FEMALE BODY First Line: I agree, it's a hot topic. But only one? Look around, there' Last Line: As if it were flesh and blood, hunting for what's out there,tle it down, so I can never get away fro FIRE PLACE First Line: Here is the place where the lightning fire one time Last Line: Only we could call it a wound FIRST NEIGHBOURS First Line: The people I live among, unforgivingly Last Line: Prediction is forever impossible FISHING FOR EEL TOTEMS First Line: I stood on the reed bank Last Line: By the first tribes, the fish %people FIST, WITHERED AND STRUNG Last Line: You order me to trust you FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: Right now I am the flower girl Last Line: Hoping I could still save him Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS First Line: Right now I am the flower girl Last Line: Hoping I could still save him Subject(s): Flowers FOOTNOTE TO THE AMNESTY REPORT ON TORTURE First Line: The torture chamber is not like anything FOR ARCHEOLOGISTS Poem Text First Line: Deep under, far back FORTIFICATION First Line: Upon waking a nerve complains in the Last Line: Back to the lost forest of being vulnerable FOUNDLING First Line: He left himself on my doorstep Last Line: That no-one else has ever been FOX/FIRE SONG Poem Text First Line: I don't enjoy it here FROGLESS First Line: The sore trees cast their leaves Last Line: Travel anywhere in a year, five years, %and you'll end up here FROM AN ITALIAN POSTCARD FACTORY Recitation by Author FURTHER ARRIVALS First Line: After we had crossed the long illness Last Line: Real or not %depends on who lives there GAME AFTER SUPPER Poem Text First Line: This is before electricity Last Line: If we are lucky Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements GAME AFTER SUPPER First Line: This is before electricity Last Line: He will be an uncle %if we are lucky Subject(s): Games GIRL AND HORSE, 1928 First Line: You are younger than I am, you are Last Line: As though you do not notice GIRL WITHOUT HANDS First Line: Walking through the ruins Last Line: And you would feel nothing, but you would be %touched all the same HABITATION Poem Text First Line: Marriage is not / a house or even a tent Subject(s): Love HABITATION First Line: Marriage is not %a house or even a tent Last Line: We are learning to make fire Subject(s): Love HALF-HANGED MARY First Line: Rumour was loose in the air Last Line: All fullness, all vacancy HEADS AGAINST WHITE First Line: Swift curve of the lip, nose, forehead Last Line: Faces, burials %to rise up living HEART Poem Text First Line: Some people sell their blood. You sell your heart Last Line: Deep in your shirt and chest / shyly, heartless Subject(s): Soul HEART First Line: Some people sell their blood. You sell your heart Last Line: Deep in your shirt and chest, %shyly, heartless Subject(s): Soul HELEN OF TROY DOES COUNTER DANCING Poem Text First Line: The world is full of women Last Line: Touch me and you’ll burn Subject(s): Troy HELEN OF TROY DOES COUNTER DANCING First Line: The world is full of women Last Line: Touch me and you'll burn Subject(s): Troy HERE ARE THE HOLY BIRDS, Last Line: Round as a target, stopped %dead, intense as love HESITATIONS OUTSIDE THE DOOR Poem Text First Line: I'm telling the wrong lies Subject(s): Loss HESITATIONS OUTSIDE THE DOOR First Line: I'm telling the wrong lies Last Line: In the room we will find each other HIGHEST ALTITUDE First Line: Here, our possessions are cut Last Line: Not the mountains but the moving %car, and each other HOLDING MY ARMS DOWN Last Line: What do yu want me to admit HOLIDAY First Line: My child in the smoke of the fire Last Line: Too much dust in the stratosphere %this year, they say. Unseasonal Subject(s): Nature I AM SITTING First Line: I am sitting on the Last Line: Shine briefly in your empty hands I CAN'T TELL YOU First Line: I can't tell you my name Last Line: When you are lost already I LOOK UP First Line: I look up, you are standing Last Line: You descend on me like earth I SEE YOU First Line: I see you fugitive, stumbling across the prairie Last Line: Now you have one enemy %instead of many I WAS READING A SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE First Line: They have photographed the brain Last Line: Its other air %its claws %its paradise rivers IMMIGRANTS First Line: They are allowed to inherit Last Line: Land to an unknown land IN LOVE WITH RAYMOND CHANDLER First Line: An affair with raymond chandler, what a joy! Not because of the Last Line: Lime-green chenille-covered?), ready at last to do the same things to %each other IN THE SECULAR NIGHT Poem Text First Line: In the secular night you wander around Subject(s): Night; Bedtime IN THE SECULAR NIGHT First Line: In the secular night you wander around Last Line: The century grinds on INTERVIEW WITH A TOURIST First Line: You speed by with your camera and your spear Last Line: Now this country is underwear; %we can love only the drowned IS/NOT First Line: Love is not a profession Last Line: Fighting our ways, our way %not out but through IT IS DANGEROUS TO READ NEWSPAPERS Poem Text First Line: While I was building neat Last Line: Another village explodes Subject(s): Newspapers; War; Journalism; Journalists IT IS DANGEROUS TO READ NEWSPAPERS First Line: While I was building neat Subject(s): Newspapers; War IT'S THE STORY THAT COUNTS. NO USE TELLING ME THIS Last Line: The story and the story is ruthless JOURNEY TO THE INTERIOR First Line: There are similarities Last Line: It is easier for me to lose my way %forever here, than in other landscapes KING LEAR IN RESPITE CARE First Line: The daughters have their parties Last Line: He hears her say - %I love you like salt LANDCRAB First Line: A lie, that we come from water Last Line: My momentary face in the mirror %my tiny nightmare LANDLADY First Line: This is the lair of the landlady Last Line: Of what is real, %solid as bacon LAST POEM First Line: Tonight words fall away from me like shed clothing Last Line: Each poem is my last and so is this one LAST YEAR I ABSTAINED Last Line: Which is also an art LATE AUGUST First Line: This is the plum season, the nights LATER IN BELLEVILLE: CAREER First Line: Once by a bitter candle Last Line: There is no use for art LONELINESS OF THE MILITARY HISTORIAN First Line: Confess: it's my profession Last Line: For every year of peace there have been four hundred %years of war LOOKING IN A MIRROR First Line: It was as if I woke Last Line: Or discover you %have never known LYING HERE, EVERYTHING IN ME Last Line: I bend and enter MAN IN A GLACIER First Line: Now see: they've found a man in a glacier Last Line: The curse on us: you will not sleep forever MAN LOOKS First Line: A man looks at a beautiful woman Last Line: He thinks, I will die soon MANET'S OLYMPIA First Line: She reclines, more or less Last Line: You, sir, are furniture %get stuffed MARRYING THE HANGMAN Poem Text First Line: She has been condemned to death by hanging Last Line: They both kept their promises. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals MARRYING THE HANGMAN Poem Text First Line: She has been condemned to death by hanging. A man Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty MARRYING THE HANGMAN First Line: She has been condemned to death by hanging Last Line: They both kept their promises Subject(s): Crime And Criminals MARSH LANGUAGES Poem Text First Line: The dark soft languages are being silenced Last Line: The one language that has eaten all the others. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary MEN WITH THE HEADS OF EAGLES Last Line: Wrong somehow, they would rather be trees MIDWINTER, PRESOLSTICE First Line: The cold rises around Last Line: Turnips and apples and my %head, the eyes closed MIGRATION: C.P.R. First Line: Escaping from allegories Last Line: In the %inescapabale mists MISS JULY GROWS OLDER First Line: How much longer can I get away Last Line: What you get is no longer %what you see MOMENT First Line: The moment when, after many years Last Line: It was always the other way round MORE AND MORE First Line: More and more frequently the edges Last Line: A starved dog's logic about bones MORNING First Line: Because we couldn't sleep we went on Last Line: We knew we had been there before MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE Poem Text First Line: In the burned house I am eating breakfast Subject(s): Breakfast MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE First Line: In the burned house I am eating breakfast Last Line: Radiant fresh. Incandescent MY BEAUTIFUL WOODEN LEADER Last Line: Ride off in the other direction MY FACE, MY OTHER FACES Last Line: Look at me and see your reflection NATURE OF GOTHIC First Line: I show you a girl running at night Last Line: To choose. To make your way NEWSREEL: MAN AND FIRING SQUAD First Line: A botched job Last Line: Bodies, from a distance we could be dancing NINE UNTITLED POEMS: 3 First Line: After the agony in the guest Last Line: Are sick in the bathtub NINE UNTITLED POEMS: 5 First Line: Your back is rough all NINE UNTITLED POEMS: 7 First Line: This year I intended children NINE UNTITLED POEMS: 8 First Line: We are standing facing each other NOT YOU I FEAR BUT THAT OTHER Last Line: Get out of here. %get out of here NOTES TOWARDS A POEM THAT CAN NEVER BE WRITTEN First Line: This is the place Last Line: Elsewhere you must write this poem %because there is nothing more to do NOVEMBER First Line: This creature kneeling Last Line: It is always heavier than you thought NOW IT IS WINTER. Last Line: Wall, this puzzle. You solve it OH First Line: It's christmas, and the green wreaths Last Line: This is a good thought OTTAWA RIVER BY NIGHT First Line: In the full moon you dream more Last Line: To decipher where you are OWL BURNING First Line: A few inches down and the soil stops Last Line: So close to bedrock OWL SONG Poem Text First Line: I am the heart of a murdered woman Subject(s): Owls; Death; Dead, The OWL SONG First Line: I am the heart of a murdered woman PATHS AND THINGSCAPE First Line: Those who went ahead Last Line: Around me %into its place PEOPLE COME FROM ALL OVER TO CONSULT ME, Last Line: I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he ahd in mind PINK HOTEL IN CALIFORNIA First Line: My father chops with is axe Last Line: Where everything recurs %and nothing is elsewhere PLACE: FRAGMENTS First Line: Here on the rim, cringing Last Line: Something too huge and simple %for us to see PLANTERS First Line: They move between the jagged edge Last Line: In upon by branches, roots, tendrils, the dark %side of light %as I am POSTCARD First Line: I'm thinking about you. What else can I say? PRE-AMPHIBIAN First Line: Again so I subside Last Line: With sunlight steaming merciless on the shores of morning PROCEDURES FOR UNDERGROUND First Line: The counry beneath %the earth has a green sun Last Line: With love, none without fear PROGRESSIVE INSANITIES OF A PIONEER First Line: He stood, a point Last Line: The green %vision, the unnamed %whale invaded PROJECTED SLIDE OF AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER Poem Text First Line: Upon a wall a face PROJECTED SLIDE OF AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER First Line: Upon the wall a face Last Line: Uttered itself, pushing %aside the light PROVISIONS First Line: What should we have taken Last Line: Printed with important facts PUPPET OF THE WOLF QUESTIONING THE DEAD First Line: Go the the mouth of a cave Last Line: You should have asked. %also the answer QUESTIONS THAT EXPECT THE ANSWER YES First Line: Are you a morning person %or a night person? Last Line: When can we go home? %how long have we got? RAT SONG Poem Text First Line: When you hear me singing Subject(s): Rats RAT SONG First Line: When you hear me singing Last Line: I can hear him singing RED FOX First Line: The red fox crosses the ice Last Line: Some chicken, or one more chance, %or other life REINCARNATION OF CAPTAIN COOK First Line: Earlier than I could learn Last Line: Its beach gleaming with arrows RESURRECTION First Line: I see now I see Last Line: Judgement we will all be trees RIVER First Line: Here the river %closes on twigs, dried weeds Last Line: Hook %locked in the ice Subject(s): Rivers ROBBER BRIDEGROOM First Line: He would like not to kill. He would like Last Line: White stone, ignorant and singing %dreaming of him as he is ROMANTIC First Line: Men and their mournful romanticisms Last Line: Scars, and the chance to touch them ROOMINGHOUSE, WINTER First Line: Catprints, dogprints, marks Last Line: Nobody ever survives SAD CHILD First Line: You're sad because you're sad Last Line: Or else we all are SEKHMET, THE LION-HEADED GODDESS OF WAR ET AL CONTEMPLATES First Line: He was the sort of man Last Line: And caress you into darkness and paradise SETTLERS First Line: A second after %the first boat touched the shore Last Line: The fields of our open hands SHE CONSIDERS EVADING HIM First Line: I can change my- %self more easily Last Line: Which would be inconvenient %but final SIGNER First Line: In city after city Last Line: One; and the hands also) SIREN SONG Poem Text First Line: This is the one song everyone Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Sirens (mythology); Women's Rights; Iliad; Odyssey; Male-female Relations; Feminism SIREN SONG First Line: This is the one song everyone Last Line: But it works every time Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Poetry And Poets; Sirens (mythology); Women's Rights SMALL CABIN First Line: The house we built gradually Last Line: When we have said them SNAKE WOMAN Poem Text First Line: I was once the snake woman Last Line: Now I'd consider the snake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE WOMAN First Line: I was once the snake woman Last Line: Now, I don't know. %now I'd consider the snake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SOLIPSISM WHILE DYING First Line: The skeleton produces flesh -- enemy Last Line: I held between. The lake %boats %t o r o n to o SOME OBJECTS OF WOOD AND STONE: I. TOTEMS First Line: We went to the park Last Line: Dead roots bleaching in the swamps SOME OBJECTS OF WOOD AND STONE: II. PEBBLES First Line: Talking was difficultg. Instead Last Line: Against the sky %flight of words SOME OBJECTS OF WOOD AND STONE: III. CARVED ANIMALS First Line: The small carved Last Line: Hands holding %the half-formed air SONG OF THE FOX First Line: Dear man with the accurate mafia Last Line: Licks through your body also SONG OF THE HEN'S HEAD Poem Text First Line: But you were serious SONG OF THE HEN'S HEAD First Line: After the abrupt collision Last Line: The word is no SONG OF THE WORMS Poem Text First Line: We have been underground too long Subject(s): Worms SONG OF THE WORMS First Line: We have been underground too long Last Line: You will hear nothing %at first SONGS OF THE TRANSFORMED: PIG SONG Poem Text First Line: This is what you changed me to Last Line: This is a hymn Subject(s): Pigs; Boars; Hogs SONGS OF THE TRANSFORMED: PIG SONG First Line: This is what you changed me to Last Line: I will sing a song of garbage. %this is a hymn Subject(s): Pigs SOR JUANA WORKS IN THE GARDEN First Line: Time for gardening again; for poetry; for arms Last Line: To heaven, your exploding %syllables litter the lawn SOUL, GEOLOGICALLY First Line: The longer we stay here the harder Last Line: To the sun and erode slowly SPEECHES FOR DR FRANKENSTEIN First Line: I, the performer Last Line: I will not come when you call SPELLING Poem Text First Line: My daughter plays on the floor Last Line: Your first word Subject(s): Daughters; Women; Language SPELLING First Line: My daughter plays on the floor Last Line: Your first naming, your first name, %your first word Subject(s): Daughters; Women SPRING AGAIN, CAN I STAND IT Last Line: Wind, long hairs of water STATUARY First Line: Wingtips, fingertips, nipples, and penises Last Line: And embody, like you. Until we are like you THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY Poem Text Subject(s): Animals; Animals THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: In that country the animals Subject(s): Animals THE CIRCLE GAME Poem Text First Line: The children on the lawn Subject(s): Games; Children; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Childhood THE LONELINESS OF THE MILITARY HISTORIAN Poem Text Subject(s): War THEIR ATTITUDES DIFFER First Line: To understand %each other: anything Last Line: So I can write about it THERE ARE HOSTILE NATIONS Poem Text First Line: In view of the fading animals Subject(s): Togetherness; Survival THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS I WANT Last Line: Without noticing it, %you know how to take THERE ARE TWO ISLANDS Last Line: Beside it the track of a deer THERE IS ONLY ONE OF EVERYTHING First Line: Not a tree but the tree Last Line: Last: I want this. I want %this THERE WAS ONCE First Line: There was once a poor girl, as beautiful as she was good Last Line: So, why not here? THEY ARE HOSTILE NATIONS First Line: In view of the fading animals Last Line: The (possibly) last summer THEY EAT OUT Poem Text First Line: In restaurants we argue Variant Title(s): Nine Untitled Poems: 2 Subject(s): Restaurants; Immortality; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners; Cafes; Diners THEY EAT OUT Poem Text First Line: In restaurants we argue Variant Title(s): Nine Untitled Poems: 2 Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners THEY EAT OUT First Line: In restaurants we argue Last Line: I liked you better the way you were, %but you were always ambitious Variant Title(s): Nine Untitled Poems: Subject(s): Restaurants THEY WERE ALL INACURRATE Last Line: My reasons but your own THIS IS A MISTAKE Last Line: Choose in advance what to kill THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF ME Poem Text First Line: It was taken some time ago Subject(s): Drowning THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF ME First Line: It was taken some time ago Last Line: You will be able to see me Subject(s): Drowning THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT CAN BE RENOUNCED. Last Line: The hand clutches at freedom THIS STORY WAS TOLD TO ME BY ANOTHER TRAVELLER Last Line: This is what I would like to be? It would be so simple THOUGHTS FROM UNDERGROUND First Line: When I first reached this country Last Line: Fast belleville is growing %(though it is still no place for an english gentleman) THREE DESK OBJECTS Poem Text First Line: What suns had to rise and set Subject(s): Machines THREE DESK OBJECTS First Line: What suns had to rise and set Last Line: I think you will be warm, like skin THROUGH THIS FOREST Last Line: You find what there is TIME First Line: You'd better come down, my brother said Last Line: With him. Not very long. Alone TRAINRIDE, VIENNA-BONN First Line: It's those helmets we remember Last Line: The backs of three men returning from the hunt, their hounds following %stark lines against the snow TRICKS WITH MIRRORS First Line: It's no coincidence %this is a used Last Line: Perhaps I am a pool. %think about pools TWO DREAMS First Line: In the seven days before his death Last Line: The bright leaves rustle, we can't call %he doesn't look TWO DREAMS, 2 First Line: Sitting at noon over the carrot salad Last Line: We won't let go TWO FIRES First Line: One, the summer fire Last Line: Now around which I %try to grow UP First Line: You wake up filled with dread Last Line: Who is it, exactly, you have needed %all these years to forgive? VARIATION ON THE WORD SLEEP Poem Text First Line: I would like to watch you sleeping Subject(s): Love - Marital; Sleep; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love VARIATION ON THE WORD SLEEP First Line: I would like to watch you sleeping Last Line: Only. Would like to be that unnoticed %& thay necessary Subject(s): Love - Marital; Sleep VARIATIONS ON THE WORD LOVE First Line: This is a word we use to plug VERMILION FLYCATCHER, SAN PEDRO RIVER, ARIZONA Poem Text First Line: The river's been here, violent, right where we're standing Last Line: "only. I would like to be that unnoticed Subject(s): Rivers VERMILION FLYCATCHER, SAN PEDRO RIVER, ARIZONA First Line: The river's been here, violent, right where we're standing Last Line: You could drown in, face down Subject(s): Rivers VISIT First Line: Gone are the days Last Line: Which is now a beach VISIT TO TORONTO, WITH COMPANIONS First Line: The streets are new, the harbour Last Line: All kinds of answers VOICE First Line: A voice from the other country Last Line: How he had managed to think us VULTURES Poem Text First Line: Hung there in the thermal / whiteout of noon Last Line: Carnage, could you do better? Subject(s): Birds VULTURES First Line: Hung there in the thermal %whiteout of noon Last Line: Well, heart, out of all this %carnage, could you do better? Subject(s): Birds WAITING First Line: Here it is then, the dark thing Last Line: You have long since forgotten %and that has now come true WAKING AT 3 A.M. First Line: Evein in the cave of the night when you WAVE First Line: He was sitting in a chair at dinner Last Line: It will be bad WE ARE HARD First Line: We are hard on each other Last Line: It is only %here or not here WE HEAR NOTHING First Line: We hear nothing these days Last Line: Is for the weak only WE WALK IN THE CEDAR GROVES Last Line: The heart; as long %as there is blood WEREMAN First Line: My husband walks in the frosted field Last Line: When he opens the door WHAT IS IT First Line: What is it, it does not Last Line: Last chance for freedom WHEN YOU LOOK AT NOTHING Last Line: The only one you will hear WISH: METAMORPHOSIS TO HERALDIC EMBLEM First Line: I balance myself carefully Last Line: Opal %no %eyes glowing WOMAN SKATING Poem Text First Line: A lake sunken among Last Line: Over all I place / a glass bell Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Sports WOMAN SKATING First Line: A lake sunken among Last Line: Over all I place %a glass bell Subject(s): Skating And Skaters; Sports WOMAN WHO COULD NOT LIVE WITH HER FAULTY HEART First Line: I do not mean the symbol Last Line: One night I will say to it: heart, be still %and it will WOMAN'S ISSUE First Line: The woman in the spiked device Subject(s): Women WOMEN'S NOVELS First Line: 1. Men's novels are about men. Women's novels are about men too Last Line: Air. Which one? YES AT FIRST First Line: Yes at first you Last Line: Each time/too much of %this is fatal YOU ARE HAPPY First Line: The water turns %a long way down over the raw stone Last Line: Like needles, crystals, you are happy YOU ARE THE SUN Last Line: Why did I create you YOU BEGIN Poem Text Recitation by Author YOU BEGIN First Line: You begin this way Last Line: Come back to, this is your hand YOU COME BACK First Line: You come back into the room Last Line: Words for you, because there was no time off YOU DID IT Last Line: I judge you as the trees do %by dying YOU FIT INTO ME Poem Text YOU FIT INTO ME Last Line: An open eye Subject(s): Hate YOU MAY WONDER WHY I'M NOT DESCRIBING THE LANDSCAPE Last Line: Right now I %mean. See for yourself YOU REFUSE TO OWN Last Line: Only the eyes show through YOU STAND AT THE DOOR Last Line: These are your choices YOU TAKE MY HAND AND Last Line: The smell of popcorn and worn plush %lingers for weeks YOU THINK YOU ARE SAFE AT LAST. AFTER YOUR MISADVENTURES, Last Line: So much for art. So much for prophecy YOU WANT TO GO BACK Last Line: This is the way it is, get used to it YOUNGER SISTER, GOING SWIMMING First Line: Beside this lake Last Line: Move outwards toward the shore YOUR FLAWED BODY, SICKLE Last Line: But I want this also |
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