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Author: BECKMAN, JOSHUA Matches Found: 66 Beckman, Joshua Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Beckman, Joshua Saul 58 poems available by this author LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF A BULLFIGHTER: 1 First Line: At the news of your death %children could hold back their giggling no more Last Line: Frantically bouncing up and down LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF A BULLFIGHTER: 2 First Line: At the news of your death, %pardon me, the mail is slow from there to here Last Line: Before any trouble got started LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF A BULLFIGHTER: 3 First Line: At the news of your death %the computers at the phone company Last Line: Budded from the sparks of that confusion LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF A BULLFIGHTER: 4 First Line: At the news of your death %couples who had never heard of you Last Line: And has not been heard from since LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF A BULLFIGHTER: 5 First Line: At the news of your death %in every hospital in america Last Line: And answered their teacher's questions %in rhyme LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF A BULLFIGHTER: 6 First Line: At the news of your death %not a good poem was written Last Line: Not for a good long while LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF A BULLFIGHTER: 7 First Line: At the news of your death %everyone turned on the tv Last Line: Than anyone could have imagined LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF A BULLFIGHTER: 8 First Line: At the news of your death %on the day that you died Last Line: And I expect it will be a point of contention for a while LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF A BULLFIGHTER: 9 First Line: David, at the news of your death %the trees became sad Last Line: Yes, they are determined to keep this up %until you return MY STORY First Line: My story is that I will not be able to eat for days Last Line: What makes us happy. This is my story ODE PETALUMA First Line: Bought stuff rolled by in cars. I saw them Last Line: And go away,' say the people on the bus to each other ODE TO OLD WATERMELON HANDS: 1 First Line: Old watermelon hands sped into town Last Line: He was looking at me, %but he was looking at the wrong man ODE TO OLD WATERMELON HANDS: 10 First Line: He talked warmly about island life Last Line: About me talking %in my sleep ODE TO OLD WATERMELON HANDS: 11 First Line: Watermelon hands would cook a good meal %and put the kids to bed Last Line: Through my arms and past my wrists ODE TO OLD WATERMELON HANDS: 2 First Line: Banging his crazy hands on my desk Last Line: His blind and grave %momentum ODE TO OLD WATERMELON HANDS: 3 First Line: Then, he was quiet, %and as I looked up Last Line: Stabbed the piece in the corner of the room %and was gone ODE TO OLD WATERMELON HANDS: 4 First Line: Old watermelon hands %spent the night at the neighbors Last Line: A body like apair of shoes %over a pair of shoes ODE TO OLD WATERMELON HANDS: 5 First Line: I saw him leave %and the neighbors will never Last Line: Charmed out of their beds %like snakes out of baskets ODE TO OLD WATERMELON HANDS: 6 First Line: Old watermelon hands told me %that I lack any real talent Last Line: And it had become hard to turn on him ODE TO OLD WATERMELON HANDS: 7 First Line: I couldn't work %and old watermelon hands Last Line: And it was a beautiful song, %it was a song about mothers ODE TO OLD WATERMELON HANDS: 8 First Line: Watermelon hands told the kids %to come in and watch tv Last Line: But we waited and waited %to have a second child ODE TO OLD WATERMELON HANDS: 9 First Line: Watermelon hands %banged around the shower Last Line: And wanted to tell him %that he had gone soft ODE TO THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER Poem Text First Line: Melbourne, perth, darwin, townsville, / belem, durban, lima, xai-xai planes Last Line: Do please please circle Subject(s): Air Travel ODE TO THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER First Line: Melbourne, perth, darwin, townsville, %belem, durban, lima, xai-xai planes Last Line: Tiny planes please circle oh tiny planes %do please please circle Subject(s): Air Travel PEONY First Line: The quiet sound of your voice has slipped away Last Line: You are my peony, sweet in the west PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 1 First Line: Frank %bee between flowers Last Line: The fastest lanes, the most stranded shoulders PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 10 First Line: I wanted to see you again %leaving down the driveway Last Line: A handful of you %swept away like love PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 11 First Line: When I was young %they put a school teacher in a space shuttle Last Line: To the ones who watch it go PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 12 First Line: Picked up two boys on their way to the beach Last Line: And them still as apples in a bag PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 13 First Line: People are gone %they come and are gone Last Line: Then, rushing high overhead PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 14 First Line: I became uneasy %with the notions of health and permanency Last Line: And unrelieved, human, completely unbruised PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 15 First Line: I am just now learning things about myself Last Line: Instability, lack of focus, and a similar and confusing isolation PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 16 First Line: Our lives begin and begin in such disconcerting ways Last Line: Back and forth in the middle of the kitchen PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 17 First Line: Maybe you don't know how a new apartment works Last Line: And expect a strange taste to not ever go away PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 18 First Line: I have broken down. %my sense of what it takes to be comfortable Last Line: Cotton fabric of sky PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 19 First Line: Day comes %moves through a deep blue brush of flowers Last Line: Sand leaves my body %the entire walk home PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 2 First Line: The signs are off %knocked down by wind Last Line: Or if any longer have the means to get there PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 20 First Line: Funny %but there it goes Last Line: But everything's going to be all right PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 3 First Line: One day you are like an animal Last Line: From which you can get nothing to wake PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 4 First Line: Down at the beach %early this morning Last Line: As if they peeled off trees %a minute before PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 5 First Line: One day a man will point to my wheel Last Line: With our immediate and uncontrollable futures PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 6 First Line: What is certain is that the disappearance Last Line: For anything, take me away PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 7 First Line: Sometimes I wish for people %to come in through every window Last Line: A sand inching its way %happily to china PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 8 First Line: I woke up on someone's couch Last Line: Free his mouth behind bars %and it will never forget you PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY: 9 First Line: Coldness without blankets Last Line: Of the lung's lightest dream REDWOODS: A TRAGEDY: 1 First Line: Leaves everywhere %and everywhere things Last Line: To become tired %and to sleep REDWOODS: A TRAGEDY: 10 First Line: Two nights in a row %the black half of the forest unpeeled Last Line: Could be someone who wouldn't talk back REDWOODS: A TRAGEDY: 11 First Line: First I find myself %in the kitchen Last Line: The staring promise %of something completely hollow REDWOODS: A TRAGEDY: 2 First Line: Oranges and redwoods %and orange trees Last Line: The same for you %and for anyone REDWOODS: A TRAGEDY: 3 First Line: I know you want %to hear about the redwoods Last Line: And if you read this in the night %it will be about the man REDWOODS: A TRAGEDY: 4 First Line: Three lawns worth of grass %and sometimes you go outside Last Line: Such a queer thing %with all this water REDWOODS: A TRAGEDY: 5 First Line: It is only three busses %and an hour and a half to san jose Last Line: And wished I could hear it %sounding like a creek REDWOODS: A TRAGEDY: 6 First Line: What came down the river %besides turning bellies of water Last Line: So unaccountable %so far away REDWOODS: A TRAGEDY: 7 First Line: Your dream %a narrative Last Line: More redowwods %and more redwoods REDWOODS: A TRAGEDY: 8 First Line: You do not know %how many redwoods Last Line: So tall %so white REDWOODS: A TRAGEDY: 9 First Line: Picture three paths %maybe four Last Line: How much a tree can grow %how great a shadow it can project TO CLIMB THE MANY FLIGHTS Last Line: And so don't leave %and here 'and cold' WINTER'S HORIZON First Line: Returning %to where you are Last Line: A terrible sense that things like this %will continue to happen Beckman. Joshua Poet's Biography 8 poems available by this author OH, ATLAS Poem Text SEAGULLS BESIDE FERRY BOAT Poem Text Subject(s): Sea Gulls THE GOING. THE LETTERS. THE STAYING Poem Text THEY'LL SPEND THE SUMMER Poem Text Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening UNTITLED POEM Poem Text First Line: Unslide the door [IN COLORADO, IN OREGON, UPON] Poem Text [LYING IN BED I THINK ABOUT YOU] Poem Text Subject(s): Love; Desire [THE DEAD GIRL BY THE BEAUTIFUL BARTLETT] Poem Text Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness |
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