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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: BELL, MARVIN Matches Found: 512 Bell, Marvin Poet's Biography 512 poems available by this author 3 CORNERS OF REALITY First Line: One might speak to great length 3 STANZAS ABOUT A TREE First Line: The tree, too, wants to bend over A LESSON FROM THE CORPS Poem Text First Line: When you find the body, it has cauliflower ears Last Line: Only the dead can tell you the distance from here to there - see more at: http://iwp.Uiowa.Edu/91st/ Subject(s): Politics & Government; War A MAN MAY CHANGE Poem Text First Line: As simply as a self-effacing bar of soap Subject(s): Change A MOTOR Poem Text First Line: The heavy, wet, guttural Last Line: Now and later. Subject(s): Air; Aviation & Aviators; Blake, William (1757-1827); Cancer (disease); Airplanes; Air Pilots A PICTURE OF SOLDIERS Poem Text First Line: They are doughboys, of doughboy bearing Last Line: The next invention, the next impossible president. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War A POOR JEW Poem Text First Line: Left in a world of relatives Subject(s): Jews; Judaism A PRIMER ABOUT THE FLAG Poem Text First Line: Or certain ones. There are bed & breakfast flags Last Line: But didn't first tell people what it stood for Subject(s): Flags A SKY Poem Text First Line: The sky had been burning for some time, and our eyes hurt Subject(s): Sky A TRUE STORY Poem Text First Line: One afternoon in my room Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE NATIONAL PASTIME First Line: When the dead man sees a rock, he remembers the hidden ball trick Last Line: The dead man knows why the players don't step on the chalk lines as they %change from out to up and ACCEPTANCE SPEECH First Line: My friends ADDRESS TO THE PARENTS First Line: The children are not visas, sure to enter AFTER THE DUCKS WENT IN First Line: We picked up eggs AFTER TU FU (THEY SAY YOU'RE STAYING IN A MOUNTAIN TEMPLE) Poem Text First Line: In the damp evenings of summertime Last Line: On the other side of the clouds Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Summer; Winter; Fall AFTERWORD TO MY FATHER First Line: Still the wood I knocked on AGAINST STUFF First Line: What is it that I should be AMSTERDAM, THE DAM First Line: Milk-spills, guitars, drums and some smoke Last Line: And the didgeridoo player sneaks a breath AN AFTERWORD TO MY FATHER Poem Text First Line: Still the wood I knocked on Subject(s): Fathers & Sons AN ELEGY FOR THE PAST Poem Text First Line: It will be darker soon, colder. You see Last Line: To do was wait, and everything was time Subject(s): Change; Evolution; Fate; Universe; Destiny AN INTRODUCTION TO MY ANTHOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Such a book must contain Last Line: But only as a peacock among barn fowl. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Love; Poetry & Poets; Reading AN OLD TREMBLING Poem Text First Line: Often one wonders what the snake does all day in its pit Subject(s): Nature; Snakes ANOTHER PRIMER ABOUT THE FLAG First Line: And what it means. Flags have been planted Last Line: Sometimes it just means you gave up your shirt AROUND US Poem Text First Line: We need some pines to assuage the darkness Last Line: Of whatever good we did Subject(s): Gratitude; Pleasure; Thought; Thinking AROUND US First Line: We need some pines to assuage the darkness Last Line: Of whatever good we did Subject(s): Gratitude; Pleasure; Thought ARS POETICA AT THE WINDOW First Line: The history of this moment lengthens in shadow Last Line: True today, true tomorrow, true in the posthumous present ASHES POETICA First Line: Concerning a pair of shoes that stands beside the bed Last Line: And because of fate someone has had to invent fire AT THE WRITERS' CONFERENCE First Line: This is the writers' conference, blankingly overhead Last Line: The poetry police will tell us %when it's time for poetry. %for now, it's been done BAGRAM, AFGHANISTAN, 2002 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The interrogation celebrated spikes and cuffs Subject(s): Afghanistan War BANYAN TREE BEFORE THE CIVIC CENTER, HONOLULU First Line: Hairy %like a man wearing a dress BEING IN LOVE Poem Text First Line: With someone who is not in love with Last Line: Love, being in love with being in love Subject(s): Love BEING IN LOVE First Line: With someone who is not in love with Last Line: Love, being in love with being in love Subject(s): Love BONES REPEAT THEMSELVES FROM THE BOTTOM UPWARD First Line: It was not the time to be thinking of spring Last Line: See the end coming BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#27) First Line: The dead man thinks he is hungry when he hears his Last Line: The resident tautologist in an oval universe that is %robin's-egg-blue to future generations BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#34) First Line: Disquieting muses disquiet the dead man Last Line: His is the commonplace essence that maketh us do things %twice BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#36): 1. DRINKING GLASS, PENCIL AND COMB First Line: This dead man's threesome is the true menagerie Last Line: Will the pencil have been fingerprinted, the graphite carbon-dated? BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#36): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S DRINKING First Line: The dead man's comb shall fall from favor, his glass shall kiss Last Line: The dead man's relics are primitive by any standard BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#37): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND LITTLE MUCH First Line: High density sunshine adds weight to the dead man's eyelids Last Line: The dead man doesn't spit straight up BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#37): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND LITTLE First Line: It's little enough to be voiceless in a clamor Last Line: His lips, his covenant unbroken BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#38): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND SAP First Line: The dead man will not add 1 + 1 Last Line: Okay it's the way it is, not the way we remember BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#38): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND SAP First Line: The milk, juice and pitch of the dead man ebb and flow Last Line: Departed who was just leaving BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#39) 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE INTERIOR First Line: When the dead man's arm goes numb, he thinks an emotion is leaving Last Line: For all who attended the dead man, none carries a key to the interior BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#39) 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE First Line: The dead man is the forked bearer of a swaddling cloth, many Last Line: Why did the dead man step on the gas when the tank was empty? BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#40) 1. SOCKS, SOAP AND HANDKERCHIEF First Line: The dead man is haunted by socks and soap Last Line: The dead man wears socks on his hands to effect the look of mittens BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#40) 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S SOCKS First Line: The dead man slid on soap, eased his way, stepped with care, wiped his glasses Last Line: The dead man, gathering the used and lost, adds one more BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#41) 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND HOT ... First Line: The dead man has a bone to pick Last Line: The dead man loves you because your brain kills him BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#41): ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND HOT TOPICS First Line: Reactive, resurgent, the dead man welcomes a steamy updraft Last Line: Tell me that, says the dead man, tell me, why not that? BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#43): ABOUT DEAD THE MAN ... YUGOSLAVIA First Line: When the dead man feels nausea, he thinks he is in the balkans Last Line: The dead man is the last one of many BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#43): MORE ABOUT ... CORPSE OF YUGOSLAVIA First Line: The dead man sees the head, then the heart, of a dismembered state Last Line: The dead man picks among the living for future specimens BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#44) 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND HUMOR First Line: The dead man is very very laughing Last Line: The dead man very very laughing to be open and thought BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#44) 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND HUMOR First Line: Too hard to be the only survivor terrifies Last Line: He laughs to be knowing when knowing is laughing, with the punch line riding up just in time BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#44): ABOUT DEAD MAN AND DEADLINES First Line: Under deadline, the dead man hunkers down and Last Line: The dead man is at hand BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#44): MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND DEADLINES First Line: The dead man has manned the news desk, the sports Last Line: The dead man hastens so that late he may have all %the time in the world BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#45) First Line: The dead man's parable is loosed like a fish that eats air and Last Line: Wait under your feet BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#45) 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE GREAT BLU First Line: When the dead man stands on one leg, he thinks he's a heron Last Line: Habitual, the proximate flocks took stock until nightfall BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#45) 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE GREA First Line: The dead man, rickety, compelled to wade the shallows with a Last Line: Why is because he is dizzy, not daft BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#46) 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S DOG First Line: The dead man, that man, consorted with canines in the turmoil of a Last Line: The dead man's dog plays dead BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#46) 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S DOG First Line: When there is no more approbation, no license, no all-time Last Line: He bestirs the dead man's fortitude BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#48) 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND DIMINISHMENT First Line: Haply, the dead man has been reduced to the basics Last Line: But the dead man is happy to be sleepy BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#48) 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND DIMINISH First Line: After tea, the dead man traces his chronology as well as those early Last Line: Kook, weirdo, oddball, nut, the dead man's makeup is one-part matter to one-part essence BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#49) 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN First Line: The dead man is very very laughing Last Line: The dead man very very laughing to be open and thought BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#49) 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE ELUSIVE First Line: The dead man has not and, having not, has Last Line: A fox, and once by an animal like a large weasel BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#49) 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN First Line: Too hard to be the only survivor terrifies Last Line: Riding up just in time BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#49) 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE ELUS First Line: You will not rid yourself of the dead man at the margins Last Line: His time is the space between two hands about to clap BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#50) 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND ONE OR First Line: Enthralled, the dead man lay waste to the picayune by gathering them into one Last Line: Particle upon particle the dead man heaps to slay the beast by its own weight BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#50): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND ONE OR ... First Line: Within the range of the sodden fanfare Last Line: It is apt to stay the course if one would see the flayed reclothed BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#51): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND TAXIDERMY First Line: Out of a suitcase of discards there came dead lilacs and a dead abe Last Line: The dead man will put the world back together, wait and see BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#51): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND TAXIDER First Line: It is as if you were a roustabout in outer space, collecting the burntout hardw Last Line: It is as if you were the last one, out looking for a tar pit so that later they will know BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#51): ABOUT DEAD MAN & EVIDENCE OF DEAD MAN First Line: Having appendages, the dead man has donned shoes Last Line: The dead man's bones will be turned up as rods and %staffs BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#51): MORE ABOUT DEAD MAN & EVIDENCE ... First Line: Ornamentally, the dead man is as spare as a white Last Line: Terrestrial accounts, to the dead man, are no more %than gross sums BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#52): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S CONTRITION First Line: The dead man's acquired cackle is a kind of repentence Last Line: The distance has narrowed between the known and the unmentionable BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#52): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S CONTRITIO First Line: It is as if the dead man employed a skull hammer to drive home his point Last Line: Chauffer who knew only the road to the cemetery BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#53) 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND SAP First Line: The dead man will not add 1 + 1 Last Line: Okay it's the way it is, not the way we remember BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#53) 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN... First Line: The milk, juice and pitch of the dead man ebb and flow Last Line: Departed who was just leaving BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#53): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE CARDBOAR First Line: Low sounds roll over the dead man in his cardboard box Last Line: The dead man stifles deconstruction of the homeless BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#53): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE CAR First Line: The dead man goes home, he goes back to where he came from, he Last Line: The dead man finds out after the fact whether or not he has made the rent BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#54): ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND DR. SCIENCE First Line: When the dead man meets dr. Science, he can't Last Line: Aerial world of witness, neighbors-to-be in the %humus BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#54): MORE ABOUT DEAD MAN AND DR. SCIENCE First Line: The dead man's preposthumous condition is Last Line: Shall call the preposthumous to their task BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#55): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND FAMINE First Line: When the dead man feels pangs, he thinks he is in the sudan or Last Line: The dead man is free to go BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#55): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND FAMINE First Line: The dead man's condemnation would be for all time, so he does not condemn Last Line: The dead man wonders not what but when BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#56): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE JURY First Line: Hast thou witnessed what the dead man hath witnessed, seeing the Last Line: The dead man was the first to arm the sentence BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#56): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE JUR First Line: When nothing more can be done, when the jurors have sunk into Last Line: Was part of a hand at the time of the crime BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#57): 1. 'HE IS NOT KAFKA AND YET HE IS KAPK First Line: Like the hero of the trial, the dead man is and is not Last Line: Nothing else, a garden beyond the grasp of prolonged sighs BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#57): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND KAFKA First Line: Nothing more than a white apron now holds a residue of the dead Last Line: The dead man is and is not an insect and a dog BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#58) 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN First Line: The dead man has up-the-stairs walking disorder Last Line: The dead mans language for love is largely blue-collar whatchamacallit BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#58) 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN First Line: The dead man rubs salt in his wound anyway Last Line: The dead man stands for living anyway BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#59) 1. ABOUT ... DEATHSTYLE First Line: The dead man practices a healthy deathstyle Last Line: Forgive me, whispers the dead man, rehearsing an apology for your %imminent long memory BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#59) 2. MORE ABOUT ... DEATHSTYLE First Line: The dead man will last, but not for the usual reasons Last Line: Of the green reed a whistle on which to solo BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#59): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND CONSCIOUSNES First Line: If numb, the dead man may think himself unfeeling Last Line: Time is moving through him, unwavering, insensate BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#59): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND CONSCIO First Line: In the domestic alphabet, the symbol for the dead man is a clothespin Last Line: The dead man is a means to an end, the later that defines the now BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#60) First Line: This dead man's threesome is the true menagerie Last Line: The dead man's relics are primitive by any standard BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#60): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND LESS First Line: Now the dead man quivers with increasing abnormality Last Line: The dead man does not come from this direction or that one BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#60): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND LESS First Line: To the dead man, all is written but not in so many words Last Line: The dead man is a proponent of winner-take-less BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#61): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE LATE CON First Line: The dead man heard a clucking in the trees at maple-sugaring time Last Line: The dead man feels like the tree which was tapped for syrup, all in good time BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#61): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE LAT First Line: The dead man readies himself for the ice skaters whirling overhead Last Line: The dead man has written an elegy for autumn and a postscript to the apocalypse BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#63) First Line: The dead man lives in the flesh, in memory, in absentia, in fact Last Line: Sweetmeat, slices and scraps and a mouthful of quills BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#64): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S DEATHSTYLE First Line: The dead man practices a healthy deathstyle Last Line: Forgive me, whispers the dead man, rehearsing an apology for your imminent long memory BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#64): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S DEATHSTYL First Line: The dead man will last, but not for the usual reasons Last Line: Of the green reed a whistle on which to solo BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#67): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S FURTHER HAPPPI First Line: If truth begins in heresy, then the dead man's capacity is the root cause Last Line: The dead man in his earthly joy has taken transcendence down a peg BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#67): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S FURTHER First Line: That he wanted to be there and not there was to him to feel desire doubly Last Line: Measured by their distance from the moon BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#68) First Line: The dead man, that man, consorted with canines in the turmoil Last Line: He bestirs the dead man's fortitude Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#69): 1. IN WHICH THE DEAD MAN SPEAKS FOR First Line: Conclusively, concussively, decidedly - the dead man went beyond Last Line: I leave it to the future to say why BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#69): 2. IN WHICH THE DEAD MAN SPEAKS AGAIN First Line: That there was an I who saw it all Last Line: He makes me smile BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#70) First Line: Ten to one, the one in question made it home safely Last Line: Not a man or woman does not envy the owl its privacy, the dead %man besides BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#87): 1. ACCOUNTS OF THE DEAD MAN First Line: The dead man likes it when the soup simmers and the kettle hisses Last Line: Now he must scrub his brain before a jury of his peers BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#87): 2. MORE ACCOUNTS OF THE DEAD First Line: The dead man has caused a consternation, but he didn't mean to Last Line: Some day the dead man was miserable to be so happy BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#10): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND HIS POETRY First Line: The dead man has poetry in his stomach, bowels and genitals Last Line: Reflecting, the dead man is one of one, two of two, three of %three, etc BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#10): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND HIS... First Line: When the dead man writes a poem worth preserving, he immediately %burns it Last Line: No manifestation bypasses his bottomless hourglass BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#12): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND MIRRORS First Line: The dead man is a receptacle for ideas, not images! Last Line: Goes because he admires optical artifice BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#12): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND MIRRORS First Line: To the dead man, the surface of a lake is a window, not a mirror Last Line: Image, each statement, each crystalline midnight BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#16): 1. THE DEAD MAN'S DEBT TO HARRY HOUDINI First Line: The dead man thinks himself invisible because of harry houdini Last Line: The dead man thinks houdini is a real einstein BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#16): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S DEBT TO... First Line: The dead man challenges the living to escape from his cuffs Last Line: The dead man's broken wings deny gravity BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#17): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND DREAMS First Line: Enough,' says the dead man, grinding his teeth, checking his bite Last Line: Interrupts, he insists, he bends light BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#17): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND DREAMS First Line: To the dead man, north dakota is in the closet Last Line: The dead man drinks from a fractured goblet BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#18): 1. THE DEAD MAN'S ADVICE First Line: Well, I wouldn't be so hurry if I was you' Last Line: The dead man sees the leaves sweat before they lose their umbilicals BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#18): 2. MORE DEAD MAN'S ADVICE First Line: Between a rock and a hard place, between sleeping and waking Last Line: Oh, how slappy the dead man chokes time, heimlich to make it talk BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#2): 1. FIRST POSTSCRIPT: ABOUT A DEAD MAN First Line: The dead man thinks he is alive when he hears his bones rattle Last Line: When the dead man turns his neck, it's something to see from %a distance BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#2): 2. SECOND POSTSCRIPT: MORE ABOUT THE ... First Line: Asleep, the dead man sinks to the bottom like teeth in water Last Line: The dead man's shoes are muddy from being constantly on stage BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#20): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND MEDICINAL... First Line: The dead man's press makes a balm of beeswax Last Line: The dead man uses death and dying for medicinal purposes BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#20): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND ...... First Line: When the dead man's fever breaks, he thinks the earth sweats Last Line: The condition of the dead man has been upgraded BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#22): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND MONEY First Line: Strange to say it, but the dead man needs sleep Last Line: Faithful, and the dead man needs sleep BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#22): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND MONEY First Line: The dead man made a living-an outpouring of roses at the end Last Line: The dead man keeps no accounts BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#24): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S NOT SLEEPING First Line: The dead man squirms under a cow-jumped-over-the-moon moon Last Line: Flatbed of minuses that lead a change to ground BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#24): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S NOT .... First Line: The dead man's blood rises and falls with the days: monday Last Line: The dead man short-circuits infinity to bring life to the eyes of cattle BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#25): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND SIN First Line: The dead man's brain has undergone metaphysical surgery Last Line: The dead man mixes with those in black suits to hear who judges BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#25): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND SIN First Line: When the dead man finds a coin, he wants it to be heads-up Last Line: The dead man's good deeds are ever-bearing fruit BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#26): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND HIS CORTEGE First Line: Dead man says 'cortege' because, who knows?, means to be watched Last Line: The dead man's shoulders a faulty yoke, ill-fit to the oxen BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#26): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND HIS.... First Line: Drying, the dead man rises at dawn like active yeast Last Line: The dead man has plenty of company BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#27): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE BOOK OF.. First Line: The dead man thinks he is hungry when he hears his stomach %rumble Last Line: The dead man lives on hunger because, what is more filling? BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#27): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE .... First Line: The dead man thinks he is satisfied when he is satiated, a mistake Last Line: Tautologist in an oval universe that is robin's-egg blue to %future generations BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#28): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE CONTINUUM First Line: Music stirs the dead man to nostalgia, he bubbles, he ferments Last Line: To the dead man, body heat is something to die for BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#28): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE... First Line: Like rip van winkle, the dead man is not dead, he is just sleeping Last Line: Time was, the dead man could see his face on the bottom BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#31): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE DEAD First Line: The dead man and his wife have an ongoing conversation, make that Last Line: To wit: if they can't go together they aren't going at all BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#31): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE .... First Line: The dead man asks the lanterns to please whisper Last Line: Because night tickles his fancy, strikes his funny bone and %otherwise breaks him up BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#32): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE ....... First Line: When the dead man feels the heat, he thinks he's in the spotlight Last Line: Eyeball into space to start the whole thing up again BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#32): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE ... First Line: To have come to an impassable barrier, to have reached an Last Line: The dead man's love for you is timeless and free BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#33): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND A PARALLEL... First Line: Perhaps it is not so important that the dead man lives Last Line: Him, this is mental parallax BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#33): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND A .... First Line: It is as if there were being a woven a cloth shirt made of the fibers of Last Line: The dead man is over the top BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#4): 1. SHOES, LAMP AND WRISTWATCH First Line: The dead man has a fixation on shoes Last Line: Long since the dead man made a fetish of entropy-shoes, lamp %and wristwatch BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#4): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S SHOES.... First Line: The dead man's shoes are two columns of x's, two fabricated facts Last Line: Man stands upright but weightless in his still beautiful shoes BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#5): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND PAIN First Line: When the dead man's ankle breaks, he is stoical Last Line: Precursor events of the future in which the dead man would %forever be victorious BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#5): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND PAIN First Line: The dead man's condition is chronic, no longer acute, a constant Last Line: The dead man is like a stone reduced to tears BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#6): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S SPEECH First Line: The dead man is part of the chorus that sings the music of the %spheres Last Line: When the dead man, in a gravelly voice, sings gospel, hammers %descend upon anvils BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#7): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE NATIONAL.. First Line: When the dead man sees a rock, he remembers the hidden ball trick Last Line: They change from out to up and up to out BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#7): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE ... First Line: The dead man remembers the great individualists: ruth swinging Last Line: Keeping hidden until the end of the seventh inning stretch BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#8): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S HEAD First Line: The dead man puts another head on his shoulder and thinks he's a Last Line: Compared to the wealth of petrified knowledge he already %contains BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#8): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S HEAD First Line: When the dead man stays up too late, his brain empties out, whoosh Last Line: The presence of the dead man means two of everything BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#9): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND NATURE First Line: When the dead man emerges in high grass, he thinks he sees his %shadow Last Line: Eurydice depends on the dead man too BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN(#9): 2. MORE ABUT THE DEAD MAN AND NATURE First Line: Under his malthusian covers, all is not lost Last Line: All but the dead man shall bow down for nothing BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN: ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND HIS CORTEGE First Line: Dead man says 'cortege' because, who knows? Means to be watched from Last Line: The dead man's shoulders a faulty yoke, ill-fit to the oxen BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN: MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND HIS CORTEGE First Line: Drying, the dead man rises at dawn like active yeast Last Line: The dead man has plenty of company BOYS WALKING First Line: When the famine had spread as far as the shadow Last Line: Found hundreds of miles from home BRIGHT LIGHTS OF JANUARY First Line: An oak branch chewed down to the meat Last Line: Man may be king but the gods are blind BY ALL ACCOUNTS: A DROWNING First Line: Lamps running the riverbank draw a bead Last Line: Forever damp, fresh and posthumous BY DIFFERENT PATHS First Line: We have all had our heads in a book Last Line: Now love is easy, pleases; no answer. Subject(s): Love; Roads; Paths; Trails CARGO MOVING TO GAZA (1988) Poem Text First Line: A tree donated years back struggles Subject(s): Arabs; Israel (state); Life; Middle East - Conflicts; Arab-israeli Conflict CASE FOR THE POSTHUMOUS PRESENT First Line: Fat twists down a rope like suet at the flaming end of the world Last Line: More than just alive, we are possible CASTLE First Line: There is a house being moved uphill Last Line: When I wake again, the castle is dark CAT WHO CAUGHT A PIGEON First Line: Walking a proud line to dinner CATALOG WITH ILLUSTRATIONS First Line: The beauty of an old desk blotter where ink stains grew into Last Line: Under the glass that covered the desktop, a map and %family photos CATATONIA First Line: In the country of catatonia Last Line: Wait all year to go to camp CHANGES First Line: I have hung and hung around CHICAGO, 1959 First Line: That was the time when photography approached CHILDREN First Line: The death of the father is my shepherd CLIMBING MT. BALDY AT THE DUNES First Line: There's always a boom in sand-a business Last Line: Hourglass,' we answered, gripping %our way up. 'broken', itsaid, and, 'c'mon' CODA: SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (ABANDONMENT OF.. First Line: When there is no good or bad, no useful or useless, no up, no down, no Last Line: As he blows a kiss through the wispy curtain of closure COFFEE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The house smells of coffee, and I want some Subject(s): Coffee; Vietnamese Conflict COMMUNICATION ON HIS THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY First Line: You didn't have to travel to become an airplane Last Line: Under the antenna, down the long path intended for your feet CONSIDERING MY WORDS UNDER THE WILD CHERRY TREE First Line: Already twenty-two years have elapsed CONSTANT FEELINGS Poem Text First Line: Some acts I could never, not Last Line: Which are lives, but do not depend on lives. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Sex CORALVILLE, IN IOWA First Line: Worldly skiinflints! We have your homestead - remember the one you wanted Last Line: In several times in this place %then as now, a coral city %is rising from the hardest parts of us Subject(s): Coral CORNET First Line: Still the grass contsins for me the notes DANGER AT FUNNY JUNCTION First Line: A gallon of gas at a gaudy igloo DEAD HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BY TELLING THE TRUTH First Line: He sees the leaves fly free Last Line: He feels the human cry in his bones DEFEAT OF THE INTELLECT First Line: We have boxed it into a corner, where DELICATE BIRD WHO IS FLYING UP OUR ASSES DELUGE First Line: That a single drop of rain might hold within it a mile Last Line: When as now I am wet through to my liquid bones DRAFT AGE Poem Text First Line: You probably thought you were going to go through life Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service DRAFT AGE First Line: You probably thought you were going to go through life DRAWN BY STONES, BY EARTH, BY THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN IN FIRE First Line: I can tell you about this because I have held in my hand Last Line: Like inky sponges that walk away in the deep water. Subject(s): Craftsmanship; Elephants DREAM JOURNALS Poem Text First Line: A pen wearing its sock for a cap rested on paper Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAM...OR WAS IT? First Line: After a certain time, an uncertain time Last Line: Granted, things are usually fine. %when the mind leaves the brain-that's scary DURING THE WAR First Line: I was one of those who sees something EASTERN LONG ISLAND Poem Text First Line: Beach grass tangled by wind--the sound rushes Last Line: Reclamation by the proximate meek, who shall inherit. Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Nature; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seashore; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore EINSTEIN POEMS First Line: Fall, and the sick elms pour themselves ELM WE LOST First Line: On it we wrote a little essay ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR Poem Text First Line: I will try to remember. It was light Last Line: Never. Never. Never. Never. Never. Subject(s): Children; Dramatists; Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Lear, King; Parents; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Childhood; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood; Dramatists EPITHALAMIUM First Line: If you twist a rope Last Line: Forever in darkness ESCAPE INTO YOU First Line: Eight years of making it, who deserves EXOTICA: 1. BRAIN, GRAIN AND BUCKLE First Line: These rainfalls gossip of summer to the corn seeds and beans Last Line: Acres held by a belt with no buckle EXOTICA: 2. BEAN, SICKLE AND BUCKER First Line: There will be no baseball in circe's garden Last Line: They had history in their thoughts, but they could dance EXTRAVAGANZA: DISMAL WATER OF THE SWAMP First Line: This I know. As scientists who long to ride a beam of sunlight Last Line: Hear a sputtering under the rushes, beneath the mud EYELASHES, DOORKNOB AND PEN First Line: He who has no handhold will slide over the edge Last Line: Then he blinks, and blinks again, his lashes sticky in the heat FAIRY TALES First Line: When he finds in myth FIFTIES First Line: Miles davis is on a night off Last Line: Miles has started to use a mute %on all standards Subject(s): Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music And Musicians FISH: ON BEAUTY First Line: The catfish I'd caught was more whiskery FROM THE WARDROBE First Line: Collecting hearts, drawing you out FURTHER PULSATIONS First Line: One sees the leaves let go, and sees the leaves falling Last Line: One smells the leaves burning and thinks of them falling Subject(s): Nature FUTURE TALK First Line: Germs, viruses and parasites Last Line: Which they did not have or need GETTING LOST IN NAZI GERMANY Poem Text First Line: You do not move about, but try Last Line: Calling you home, little jewboy in alarm. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism GIVE BACK, GIVE BACK Poem Text First Line: If I married him for length Last Line: At the long entrance of the children. Subject(s): Children; Disappointment; Marriage; Pleasure; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GIVING IN First Line: Once I could ignore %birds everywhere GLOSS OF THE POEM SALOME First Line: They say to eat your peas or the children will starve in somalia and the sudan Last Line: That moment when you change your mind about who is in charge GOLDFINCH First Line: The baltimore oriole, seldom an iowan GONE First Line: The sound of the piano being moved Last Line: And so on, and so on, with the piano and so on %untuned, wrapped, closeted, ready and still GRADUALLY, IT OCCURS TO US Poem Text Last Line: Time is memory. We have the time Subject(s): Time; Love; Absence GREEN Poem Text First Line: We are victims of wars we didn't start Last Line: The regret. Grief is a long time green Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 GREEN First Line: We are victims of wars we didn't start Last Line: Not to remember the wars - but not to forget %the regret. Grief is a long time green Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 GROWTH First Line: It's the great leap forward HALEAKALA CRATER, MAUI First Line: I'm not going to reveal HE HAD A GOOD YEAR Poem Text First Line: While he was going blind. Autumnal light Last Line: He said, “he would see things this way.” Subject(s): Autumn; Blindness; God; Rainbows; Seasons; Fall; Visually Handicapped HE SAID TO Poem Text First Line: Crawl toward the machine guns Last Line: Being a man. Subject(s): Army Life; Men; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics HE SEES HIMSELF Last Line: He keeps his thoughts to himself HEADLINES First Line: In the big world, the flame bites through the beams HEDGEAPPLE First Line: I wish we'd gone back HEN First Line: Hungers to whistle. She longs to hear a cry ring out Last Line: A straw mattress and an underestimated egg Subject(s): Farm Life HER DREAM HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Birds cannot fly over it Subject(s): Houses HERE First Line: On venus, time passes slowly because HISTORY OF CAMERAS AND CAMERAMEN First Line: Once it took 5 minutes and 20 seconds to make a portrait. (dark HOMAGE TO ALFRED STIEGLITZ Poem Text First Line: The address of the equivalent Subject(s): Stieglitz, Alfred (1864-1946); Homage & Respect HOMAGE TO ALFRED STIEGLITZ First Line: The address of the equivalent HOMAGE TO THE RUNNER First Line: The form of this 'sport' is pain HOW I CAME TO RULE THE WORLD First Line: It was easy %I was appointed from the very first HOW I GOT THE WORDS First Line: I was in hawaii, but the letter HOW TO EVERYTHING Poem Text First Line: These half-glasses I wear on my nose HOW TO EVERYTHING First Line: These half-glasses I wear on my nose Last Line: And bad there. 'what became of pythias?' %'the dog?' 'he never could keep his mouth shut.' HURT TREES First Line: These are bit black flowers I DIDN'T SLEEP Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Sleep; Vietnamese Conflict I WILL NOT BE CLAIMED Poem Text First Line: When I am happy, nothing can divide me Last Line: I see the white stuff and the black stuff and decide Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Humanity; Strength; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight I'LL BE THERE First Line: The grass and the water receive me I, OR SOMEONE LIKE ME Poem Text First Line: In a wilderness, in some orchestral swing Subject(s): Forests; Music & Musicians; Vision; Woods I, OR SOMEONE LIKE ME First Line: In a wilderness, in some orchestral swing Last Line: And someone like me listening for a resolution Subject(s): Forests; Music And Musicians; Vision ICARUS THOUGHT Poem Text First Line: The nature of a circle prevents it Last Line: And a dawn that looks like evening Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Sun IF I HAD ONE THING TO SAY First Line: I see words effaced in the footprints of the conquered Subject(s): Creation; Life; Modern Man IN First Line: In the earth, where there are stones, dimes, fingers IN AMERICA First Line: These things happen: I am taken Last Line: America, thought - %too big to be seen IN BEIRUT, AT THE WORST OF IT Last Line: Makes a bird you can make the tail wave on IN THE HOME Poem Text First Line: Nothing in thick clothes is Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives INITIAL CONDITIONS Poem Text First Line: The way the sun will slant Last Line: As you breathe, let your chest sag to feel bone Subject(s): Books; History; Restaurants; United States; Washington (state); Reading; Historians; Cafes; Diners; America INSTRUCTIONS TO BE LEFT BEHIND Poem Text First Line: I've included this letter in the group Last Line: All that you (and I too) wanted to be: you. Subject(s): Legacies; Letters; Love; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers INTERVIEW First Line: Do you believe that actors are dumb? Writers? Last Line: Are there things you would say to one sex but not to the other? Subject(s): Death; Ignorance; Privacy; Torture; Dead, The; Dullness; Stupdity IOWA LAND First Line: O barn reality! I saw you swimming Subject(s): Labor And Laborers IT'S WHO I AM First Line: The smell of dead fish belly-up in the creek Last Line: And an incoming tide wrap the clam boats at the pier ITALIAN Poem Text First Line: It would be enough Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALIAN First Line: It would be enough JANE WAS WITH ME Poem Text Last Line: If jane were with me Subject(s): Death – Animals; Squirrels JAY'S ALMOSTS First Line: To have almost see a whale crossing an ocean JUST A MOMENT€”I AM BUSY BEING A MAN Poem Text LANDSCAPE WITH OPEN SPACES Poem Text First Line: I can't stand this much open space, with joy Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight LATE NAPS First Line: There is a dead part of the day LEAVING A RESORT TOWN First Line: Get away, said something that wasn't LESSON FROM THE CORPS First Line: When you find the body, it has cauliflower ears Last Line: Only the dead can tell you the distance from here to there Subject(s): Politics; War LETTERS FROM AFRICA First Line: The self is small, and growing smaller LIGHT POEM First Line: I'm in a phone booth in saratoga springs LOCATION OF THE QUESTION: SEURAT'S ILE DE LA GRANDE JATTE First Line: He sat before the canvas and asked it, 'what is beauty?' Last Line: It was warm and wet, and the leaves dripped ink into his veins LONG ISLAND Poem Text First Line: The things I did, I did because of trees Last Line: And life in the upturned bellies of the fishkill in the creek. Subject(s): Children; Long Island (n.y.); Mathematics; Memory; Childhood LOUIS BRAILLE First Line: The disinterment of louis braille carried out Last Line: Speak and who has chosen %not to LOVESONG Poem Text First Line: Even cream in a wound would hurt Subject(s): Love MAKING WAY First Line: The husband's ribs like the tree MAN MAY CHANGE First Line: As simply as a self-effacing bar of soap Last Line: And lives and dies before anyone can find out Subject(s): Change MARCO POLO Poem Text First Line: He was heroic, fugitive, in love with the machinery Last Line: Devoured by the oriental machinery of the silkworm Subject(s): Explorers; Insects; Money; Polo, Marco (1254-1324); Sea; Skeletons; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Bugs; Ocean MARS BEING RED Poem Text First Line: Being red is the color of a white sun where it lingers Subject(s): Red (color) MEDITATION Poem Text First Line: You have to place a chair in the middle of the room MEDITATION First Line: You have to place a chair in the middle of the room Last Line: And twenty strings of beads, the room was bare MEMORIES OF BRAGG AND KLEIN Poem Text First Line: All this was fine, you said Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict (1961-1975) MEMORY First Line: The first wife floats in memory calmly MOON IS VISIBLE TONIGHT First Line: The moon is visible tonight even to the realists among us MORE ABOUT DEAD MAN AND DEAD MAN'S BELOVED First Line: The dead man asks the lanterns to please whisper Last Line: Tickles his fancy, strikes his funny bone and otherwise breaks him up MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THE NATIONAL PASTIME First Line: The dead man remembers the great individualists: ruth swinging just beneath Last Line: Popup which landed nearby and which he is keeping hidden until the end %of the seventh inning stretc MORE GOING FOR WALKS Poem Text First Line: This was the moon, which once was green MUSIC LESSONS First Line: The best place to hear a cornet played is the local gymnasium MY HATE Poem Text First Line: My hate is like ripe fruit Last Line: I must be stopped. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Hate NATURE First Line: A hand that tries to shake a hand Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World NATURE MORTE? First Line: I was standing at the corner of main street Last Line: In its resolution but distorted by the aged glass NEW STUDENTS Poem Text First Line: Old already? Provable still Subject(s): Students NEW WORLD First Line: Light hung back at the horizon Last Line: The whitecaps are part of their future NOTHWEST PASSAGE First Line: In eastern washington OBSESSIVE Poem Text First Line: It could be a clip, it could be a comb Last Line: The father of a friend just sickened and sickened. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Games; Obsessions; Childhood; Relatives; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements OF A STUDENT First Line: A lit cigarette is building an ash column Last Line: In air now too brittle to reach zero OF SALOME: ON DEATH AND BEAUTY First Line: I was not, in the beginning of time, a head on a plate Last Line: Others judge me by the resolve with which I continue to speak OF THE FILM DANCER IN THE DARK : ON THE RELATION OF EMPATHY TO BEAUTY First Line: I told them it was powerful, don't go Last Line: Told them not to tell me about it ON RETURNING TO TEACH Poem Text First Line: At a distance. Young voices are whooping Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors ON RETURNING TO TEACH First Line: At a distance, young voices are whooping ON THE DEATH OF A GREAT CRITIC Poem Text First Line: I look up into the death of my father Subject(s): Death - Fathers ON THE INSULARITY OF THE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE: THE USELESS UMBRELLA First Line: Today we will find out art hand- and wind-tossed Last Line: Ballast from a gale made of sense and nonsense ON UTILITARIANISM First Line: Everyone wants to feed everyone else ONE OF THE ANIMALS Poem Text First Line: Why does a dog get sick Last Line: — you tell me. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Dead, The OPERA OF THE ICE First Line: Once more, icy fingers Last Line: Your town again, ok Subject(s): Ice OUR NEIGHBOR'S CAKE First Line: Today I prefer the cup to the coffee OUR ROMANCE First Line: The road is narrow which leads to that house Last Line: And saved the parents, being children. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Home; Parents; Childhood; Relatives; Parenthood PAGES, SELS. First Line: The new ink mixes with the old in the fall. The booming of PAPERS First Line: Peer over the edge of the paper if you dare Last Line: Too, and it burned away the evidence PARABOLIC CURVE OF THE RED STEM OF A DANDELION GONE TO SEED First Line: Anything tasting like moist straw is good now Last Line: And carry it awhile, and taste it and drop it PARIS, BASTILLE DAY 2002 First Line: Let's film it wherever there is venom Last Line: But distort it a bit for art's sake PASTICHE First Line: Were we ever in nimes at the temple of diana? Last Line: I have met a man who lives in utopia, which is not a place PATH AMONG THE DUNES First Line: Long waves of form PERFECTION OF DENTISTRY First Line: Here I am, an industry without chimneys Last Line: The masterful units of his siesta, and always did PERSISTENT MEMORY First Line: There was a twenty-four greasy spoon Last Line: Of one breast. I have a cold spot in my brain %where the light settled PERSONAL REASONS Poem Text First Line: Your hair - short, long, stars, a bed Last Line: Or not so very much that very way — us. Subject(s): Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PIONEER NIGHT First Line: After the parade, the indians scattered POEM First Line: Would you like me more POEM AFTER CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Poem Text First Line: It's life that is hard: waking, sleeping, eating, loving Last Line: Arrive once more at the house where love seemed to be in the air Subject(s): Andrade, Carlos Drummond De; Death; Life; Dead, The POEM IN ORANGE TONES Poem Text First Line: Curtains hung closed, sealing off the window Last Line: To come out on top. Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; Waking; Sunrise PORTAL First Line: He was given to see through time Last Line: City is city PRICE IS RIGHT First Line: They turned over the wrong card but then PULSATIONS First Line: One sees the trees ahead and the shadows underneath them Last Line: Thought how birds are so little bother considering their numbers Subject(s): Nature PUT BACK THE DARK Poem Text First Line: Let's not stop in cold, in drought Last Line: When your hand into mine put back the dark. Subject(s): Death; Decay; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence QUESTIONS TO ANSWERS First Line: For my unique voice QUILT, DUTCH CHINA PLATE First Line: This was sanity - of star and snowflake RAMPANT First Line: His eyes have lodged in the mirror Last Line: Not knowing %what is out there REFLEXES First Line: There was a powder the druggist had Subject(s): Family Life REPLICA Poem Text First Line: The fake parthenon in nashville, stonehenge reduced by a quarter Last Line: Everything of which there's one only in the form of its only maker. Subject(s): Life; Reproduction; Statues; Mating REPORT FROM THE WRITERS' CONVENTION First Line: Someone said the eskimos have thirteen words for snow Last Line: The subject should be, 'writers versus writers.' %anyway, the unanimous conclusion was that bad poet RESCUE, RESCUE First Line: I need you like a sailor needs Last Line: The rescues succeed without regrets. Subject(s): Desire; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails RESIDUE OF SONG First Line: You were writing a long poem, yes RESOLVING THE COLD First Line: Sunshine greases the streets at thirty degrees Last Line: To start from fresh, intoxicated by youth SCHOOLS OF LITTLE FISH Poem Text First Line: Falling in snow beyond the window Last Line: Until you can carry your brains in your open hands Subject(s): Film (photography); Fish & Fishing; Photography & Photographers; Anglers SERVICE FOR TWO Poem Text First Line: Those rose-colored glasses - effacement SEVENS (VERSION 3): IN THE CLOSED IRIS OF CREATION Poem Text First Line: A pair of heavy scissors lay across the sky Last Line: Began to sever us Subject(s): Creation; Humanity; Life; Perception SHE CAN'T STOP HERSELF First Line: Where is 'desire like a leaf without a twig' SHOULDERS OF TROPICAL RAIN First Line: It was plenty SHRUG First Line: Let's see SIX POEMS TO TAO YUAN-MING First Line: A friend first showed me your poems SKY First Line: The sky had been burning for some time, and our eyes hurt Last Line: But the new sky was still out of reach, though it seemed lower SLOW Poem Text First Line: I go out to find whatever comes / but the first fifteen minutes Last Line: When it gets easier Subject(s): Running & Runners SLOW First Line: I go out to find whatever comes %but the first fifteen minutes Last Line: After the first two hours %(when it gets easier) Subject(s): Sports SOME SHADOWS First Line: On the snow at night SOMEONE IS PROBABLY DEAD First Line: I already knew the secrets of light SONG FOR A LITTLE BIT OF BREATH First Line: I still have this vertical pain under my left shoulder blade SONG OF SOCIAL DESPAIR Poem Text First Line: Ethics without faith, excuse me Last Line: Inevitably on the wrong side looking out. Subject(s): Faith; Family Life; Morality; Belief; Creed; Relatives; Ethics SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS #52 Poem Text First Line: William shakespeare of an actual presence SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS #68 Poem Text First Line: These raindrops gossip of summer SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS #68: 1. BRAIN, GRAIN First Line: These rainfalls gossip of summer to the corn seeds and %beans Last Line: They had history in their thoughts, but they could %dance SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#12) Poem Text First Line: One day I have fifteen minutes to stop the ruination Last Line: Other places, other days, but today tibet Subject(s): Tibet SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#15) Poem Text First Line: The growth underfoot, the amputated remains Last Line: An egg that was dropped from a rooftop to see what. Subject(s): Firel; Fear SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#2) Poem Text First Line: Oh, said a piece of tree bark in the wind, and the night froze Last Line: Colorful yarmulke that lifted the high holy days Subject(s): Skulls; Jews SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 1. SHAKESPEARE Poem Text First Line: William shakespeare of an actual presence Last Line: That hamlet will kill himself first in word, then in deed. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 2. SHAKESPEARE Poem Text First Line: I can't say why he thinks himself shakespeare at the window Last Line: Across the stage when she thought he was not coming. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#21): 2. LESS SELF Poem Text First Line: Throwing your voice is one of those things also Last Line: Green remains. Subject(s): Self; Ventriloquists & Ventriloquist Dummies SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#24) First Line: A common goal-to defy gravity Last Line: He is not mass but ballast %his fingerprints are intimate with gravity Subject(s): Athletes; Sports SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#26): 1. BODY ... First Line: A chip on the shoulder and bedroom eyes Last Line: Don't say you don't remember it SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#26): 2. BODY ... First Line: Leaned down to say goodnight, kiss kiss Last Line: Some kisses irregular but when it feels that good who's counting SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#27) First Line: Rolls up his sleeves to work on a paper Last Line: Tries not to leave a mess for the maid SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#29) First Line: Sami's memory returned and kelly came clean Last Line: There's more, but much of it concerns trying to find christina SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 1. BEAST, PEACH.. Poem Text First Line: He couldn't say it or write it or sign it or give it a name Last Line: His small star would someday pass close to him but not yet. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Religion; Spirituality; Nativity, The; Theology SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ... Poem Text First Line: The hands that were nailed, the ankles that were pierced as if one Last Line: The cloud appeared to him by day and the little star by night. Subject(s): Angels; Concentration Camps; Crucifixion; Death; Jews; Religion; Spirituality; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#62): 1. MODEL OF... First Line: His dingy crooked teeth the skill of a scavenger Last Line: These miniature grim reapers are funny to the young SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#62): 2. OUR LIVES... First Line: Age has its secrets, starting with the new lucidity Last Line: The crab can't swim straight ahead so he rows sideways SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#8) Poem Text First Line: Whereas yesterday he made his hand feel the sky, his leg fathom the Last Line: Ask me again if who I was is who I have become Subject(s): Middle Age SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#9): 1. BRACELET ... First Line: I'll give myself an hour, I said, and then it was over Last Line: I could feel the ground reshaping itself under my feet Subject(s): Love SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#9): 2. SOUP TOAST ... Poem Text First Line: The dead man must deal with life Last Line: Love is not pretty. Subject(s): Love; Death SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#9): 2. SOUP TOAST ... First Line: I married my shy mistress, the one who made two eggs, bacon and toast Last Line: She can sit for hours watching the fireflies showing off in the dark Subject(s): Love SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN? (#17): 2. WALKING IN THE DROWNING FOREST Poem Text First Line: Pitch pine, thirty-five foot oaks to their necks in sand Last Line: To be spoken of, though nobody knows Subject(s): Seashore SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN?ÇÖS FOOTSTEPS #17 Poem Text First Line: That a bent piece of straw made a circle in the sand Last Line: Sand: the moral infinitude of a single rock Subject(s): Seashore; Long Island (n.y,) SPECIFIC TO OAHU First Line: Goofyfoot is through the tall grasses and down Last Line: They are standing up on the water as it coils SPOT SIX DIFFERENCES Poem Text First Line: Hand is moved. Sleeve is longer. Hat is Last Line: Shapes are open. Gloves are general- ized. / mouth is open. Hand is hiding Subject(s): Riddles STARS WHICH SEE, STARS WHICH DO NOT SEE Poem Text First Line: They sat by the water. The fine women Last Line: And then its promise, but never the water. Subject(s): Beauty; Seine (river), France; Water; Women STUDY GUIDE FOR THE ODYSSEY First Line: Briefly %in ten years what happened TALL SHIPS Poem Text First Line: The one who reaches the crow's-nest Last Line: And by turning his face to the blind dial of the cosmos Subject(s): Boats; Perception; Vision TEMPER Poem Text First Line: The seed, in its grave Last Line: Clear through to the center. Subject(s): Anger TEN THOUSAND QUESTIONS ANSWERED First Line: It is close, large, moving up rapidly THE ADMISSION Poem Text Recitation First Line: If you love me Last Line: To you. Subject(s): Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary THE AFFAIR Poem Text First Line: He could do no wrong Subject(s): Love Affairs THE BODY BREAKING Poem Text First Line: I have been wiping the clear lens Last Line: That I know of Subject(s): Bodies THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#1): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN Poem Text First Line: The dead man thinks he is alive when he sees blood in his stool Subject(s): Blood; Death; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#1): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN Poem Text First Line: The dead man can balance a glass of water on his head without trembling Subject(s): Bodies; Corpses; Death; Cadavers; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#11): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND MEDUSA First Line: When the dead man splays his arms and legs, he is a kind of medusa Last Line: Mortal among immortals, the dead man can change you to stone. Subject(s): Death; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Vanity; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#11): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND MEDUSA First Line: The dead man mistakes his rounded shoulders for wings Last Line: The dead man speaks also for those who were turned into stone. Subject(s): Death; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Women; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#13): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THUNDER First Line: When the dead man hears thunder, he thinks someone is speaking Last Line: The dead man speaks god's language. Subject(s): Death; God; Language; Religion; Speech; Spirituality; Thunder; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Theology; Oratory; Orators THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#13): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THUNDER First Line: The dead man counts the seconds between lightning and thunder to Last Line: Smell of solder at the junction of earth and sky. Subject(s): Death; God; Lightning; Religion; Speech; Spirituality; Thunder; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Theology; Oratory; Orators THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#14) Poem Text First Line: Under communism, the dead man's poems were passed around hand-to-hand Last Line: You have only to believe in the past Subject(s): Death; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-18665); Communism THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#15) Poem Text First Line: The dead man thinks his resolve has stiffened when the ground dries Last Line: You think it’s hilarious, comedy upstanding, crackers to make sense of? THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#15): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND RIGOR First Line: You think it's funny, the dead man being stiff? Last Line: You think it's hilarious, comedy upstanding, crackers to make sense of? Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Humorists; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER First Line: When the dead man's skin turns black and blue, he thinks it is winter Last Line: The dead man in winter is not just winter. Subject(s): Death; Winter; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER First Line: The dead man in winter is the source of spring Last Line: The dead man in winter is in heaven. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Spring; Winter; Dead, The; Paradise THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#21): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S HAPPINESS First Line: When the dead man hears the thunderous steps of an ant, he feels eager Last Line: The dead man has it all, even the worms and the dogs. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Nature; Dead, The; Joy; Delight THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#21): MORE ABOUT DEAD MAN'S HAPPINESS First Line: The dead man wanted more until he had everything and wanted none of it Last Line: The dead man did the same with substance and shadow. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Dead, The; Joy; Delight THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#23) Poem Text First Line: When the dead man thinks himself exposed, he puts on a mask Last Line: The dead man's first mask was a hand over his mouth Subject(s): Death; Masks THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#27) Poem Text First Line: The dead man thinks he is hungry when he hears his stomach rumble THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#29) Poem Text First Line: The dead man lowers standards, ha ha, sinking, steadily sinking Last Line: All these things the dead man does and more Subject(s): Death; Sex THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#30) Poem Text First Line: When the dead man cannot go to sleep, he squeezes blood from a stone Last Line: The dead man is mad to ride the wheel to the end of the circle Subject(s): Death; Night THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#34) First Line: The dead man is slag ash soot cinders grime powder embers flakes Last Line: Sides of a simple box. Subject(s): Death; Dust; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#35) First Line: In an evening of icicles, tree branches crackling as they break Last Line: Of the old songbooks, taped and yellowed, held there in time. Subject(s): Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#42) Poem Text First Line: The dead man encounters horrific conditions infused with beauty Last Line: The dead man counts by ones and is shy before your mildest adoration Subject(s): Death THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#43) First Line: When the dead man itches, he thinks he has picked up a splinter Last Line: Stinger that cost something its life. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Touch (sense); Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#44) Poem Text First Line: Under deadline, the dead man hunkers down and lightens up THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#47) First Line: The dead man lives in the flesh, in memory, in absentia, in fact and Last Line: Scraps and a mouthful of quills. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Death; Cookery; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#51) Poem Text First Line: Having appendages, the dead man has shoes THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#54) Poem Text First Line: When the dead man feels nausea, he thinks he is in the balkans Last Line: Shall call the preposthumous to their task Subject(s): Death; Science THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#58) First Line: They came to the door because he was small or went to some Last Line: This time the dead man will see them in hell. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Dissenters; Exiles; Funerals; Graves; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#59) Poem Text First Line: The dead man practices a healthy deathstyle. THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#6) First Line: Will the dead man speak? Speak, says the lion, and the dead man Last Line: Anvils. Subject(s): Death; Nature; Speech; Dead, The; Oratory; Orators THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#62) First Line: When the dead man opens himself up, he is blown about, showered Last Line: Music, and your heart blows up when you gasp. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#63) First Line: The dead man has up-the-stairs walking disorder Last Line: The dead man stands for living anyway. Subject(s): Death; Language; Love; Sickness; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Illness THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#65) First Line: The dead man struggles not to become crabby, chronic or hypothetical Last Line: When the river met the shore. Subject(s): Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Poetry & Poets; Reason; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#66) First Line: That one was lost at sea and another to rot, that one threw himself Last Line: Do not let them tell you that the dead man has gone on ahead. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#67) First Line: The dead man, that man, consorted with canines in the turmoil Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#68) First Line: The dead man likes it when the soup simmers and the kettle hisses Last Line: Some say the dead man was miserable to be so happy. Subject(s): Death; Language; Happiness; Story-telling; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (DRUGS) Poem Text First Line: The dead man tried to read the small type, but it was too small. Subject(s): Medicine; Drugs, Prescription THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (FOOD) Poem Text First Line: The dead man likes chocolate, dark chocolate THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (FUNGI) Poem Text First Line: The dead man has changed his mind about moss and mold THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (NOTHING) Poem Text First Line: The dead man knows nothing THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (PEACETIME) Poem Text THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (RHINO) Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The dead man rode a rhino into congress. THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (THE FOUNDRY) Poem Text First Line: The dead man hath founded the dead man's foundry THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (WARTIME) Poem Text First Line: The dead man, dead and alive at the same time, joins up. THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (YOUR HANDS) Poem Text First Line: Mornings, he keeps out the world awhile, the dead man THE BRIDE IN WHITE Poem Text First Line: It is customary to conceive Subject(s): Brides THE COAT OF ARMS Poem Text First Line: I am seen in a landscape sometime before THE CONDITION Poem Text First Line: The darkness within me is growing Last Line: Like a thing seen. Subject(s): Growth; Self THE DAILY GRIND Poem Text First Line: How to account - if you can't THE DIFFERENCE Poem Text First Line: The moon is descending on china THE DRIFTING Poem Text First Line: Who called a crisis a spade? THE ESCAPE INTO YOU Poem Text First Line: Eight years of making it, who deserves Subject(s): Togetherness THE EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS; TO DONALD JUSTICE Poem Text First Line: A thousand years from now / they will be remembered as heroes Last Line: Continues ceasing and ceasing. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Survival; Shoah; Judaism THE FIFTIES First Line: Miles davis is on a night off Subject(s): Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music & Musicians THE HOLE IN THE SEA First Line: It's there Last Line: The driest thing there is. Subject(s): Courage; Language; Religion; Sea; Secrets; Spirituality; Story-telling; Valor; Bravery; Words; Vocabulary; Theology; Ocean THE ISRAELI NAVY Poem Text THE LAST THING I SAY First Line: To a thirteen-year-old sleeping Last Line: A small part of himself and sweet dreams. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Sleep; Childhood; Parenthood THE MEDICINE Poem Text First Line: He's in love with sex, but he'd give it up THE MOON IS VISIBLE TONIGHT Poem Text Subject(s): Moon THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES Poem Text First Line: Hard knowledge to come by. Finally THE MYSTERY OF EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: Sometimes the weather goes on for days Last Line: Unless there was time, and eternity's plenty. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry & Poets; Women THE NEST First Line: The day the birds were lifted from my shoulders Last Line: It killed me — and almost cost me a life... Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Life; Loss; Sorrow; Sadness THE PAPERS Poem Text First Line: Peer over the edge of the paper if you dare THE PARENTS OF PSYCHOTIC CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: They renounce the very idea Last Line: Like the crazy birds, to their offspring. Subject(s): Children; Insanity; Parents; Childhood; Madness; Mental Illness; Parenthood THE PILL First Line: The pill, in the pill bottle, humming like a wheel at rest, confident ... Last Line: Could have sworn that it could see them, and that it blinked. Subject(s): Humanity; Medicine; Reason; Self-consciousness; Drugs, Prescription; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PRESENT Poem Text First Line: We wrapped up a trip to mexico THE RING Poem Text First Line: A puzzle for keeping, four bands THE SELF AND THE MULBERRY Poem Text First Line: I wanted to see the self, so I looked at the mulberry Last Line: Let nature take a turn at saying what love is! Subject(s): Mulberry Trees; Nature; Self; Trees THE SELF-MADE MAN Poem Text First Line: It is almost christmas, and I have decided THE STONES First Line: One night in my room Last Line: Among the excellent vegetables. Subject(s): Environment; Happiness; Nature; Self; Stones; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Joy; Delight; Granite; Rocks THE STUDENTS Poem Text First Line: They are using the stairs as a ladder Subject(s): Students THE UNIFORM Poem Text First Line: Of the sleeves, I remember their weight, like wet wool Last Line: A wounded eardrum wasn't much in the scheme. Subject(s): Army - United States; Clothing & Dress; Military THE WAR PIECE Poem Text First Line: The dove has entered the hawk farm THE WISDOM Poem Text First Line: Suddenly my wife's cheeky THESE GREEN-GOING-TO-YELLOW Poem Text First Line: This year / I'm raising the emotional ante Subject(s): Comfort; Gingko Trees; Leaves THESE GREEN-GOING-TO-YELLOW First Line: This year, %I'm raising the emotional ante, Last Line: Which would not be our way %if we truly thought we were gods. THEY Poem Text First Line: My destiny has been to prune one tree Subject(s): Simplicity; Trees THEY First Line: My destiny has been to prune one tree Subject(s): Simplicity THINGS I TOOK First Line: The back shell of a crab THINGS WE DREAMT WE DIED FOR Poem Text First Line: Flags of all sorts Last Line: By the many who have not one. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Literature; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Nightmares THREE IMPLEMENTS, SELS. THREE LETTERS Poem Text First Line: I am green, and I may well misunderstand your words, as THREE LETTERS First Line: Dear-------, THREE LETTERS First Line: Dear %I am green, and I may well misunderstand your words TIDELINE First Line: There I buried the wishfulness TIE-DOWN OF A BONSAI Poem Text First Line: A ladder propped against a rainbow Subject(s): Bonsai; Language; Music & Musicians; Rainbows; Words; Vocabulary TIME WE TOOK TO TRAVEL Poem Text First Line: The sign said no trespassing TO AN ADOLESCENT WEEPING WILLOW Poem Text First Line: I don't know what you think you're doing Last Line: It means you are a boy. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Grief; Willow Trees; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness TO DOROTHY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You are not beautiful, exactly / you are beautiful, inexactly Last Line: I'd have to ask the grass to let me sleep. Subject(s): Beauty; Loss; Love; Poetry & Poets TO NO ONE IN PARTICULAR Poem Text First Line: Whether you sing or scream Last Line: To no one in particular. Subject(s): Language; Murder; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs TO THE SKY Poem Text First Line: We are green with our haggard deities TO THE SKY First Line: We are green with our haggard deities TOWARD CERTAIN DIVORCE Poem Text First Line: High-beams stabbing the eyes of animals TRAVEL Poem Text First Line: The park's trees have been growing all week TRAVELS WE TOOK IN OUR TIME Poem Text First Line: Place become enough and too much Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TREES STANDING BARE First Line: Those that do are not ashamed TREETOPS Poem Text First Line: My father moves through the south hunting duck Last Line: Probable volume of dreams, think so. Subject(s): Death; Ducks; Fathers & Sons; Hunting; Dead, The; Mallards; Drakes; Hunters TRIAL NOVELS Poem Text First Line: Everyone was guilty (they always are) TRINKET Poem Text First Line: I love watching the water Last Line: Small enough to contain it. Subject(s): Plants; Self; Time; Water; Planting; Planters TROUBLING First Line: I still think of the suicide standing on a ladder Last Line: Just up the street from the bus station TRUE STORY First Line: One afternoon in my room Last Line: Will do what the romans do Subject(s): Hotels TWO DIFFICULT IMAGES First Line: Braids in the sky as day hugged the edge TWO MEN IN WOOL CAPS CATCHING BEAVER First Line: Home is a white sheet of a tent TWO PICTURES OF A LEAF Poem Text First Line: If I make up this leaf Last Line: Come to resemble so much that does not. Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Leaves; Survival; Trees; Dead, The; Anglers TYPESETTING THE ODYSSEY First Line: Norton is smoking a pipe as he slots the letters Last Line: Knocked you off your pins and troy fell ULYSSES, TOO, WAS SOMETIMES DOWN AT HEART First Line: The way it happens, we go way up Last Line: In a religious time. A time of voyages UNHEARD SONG First Line: He has taken ether and peyote, but he cannot hear the song Last Line: I knew the spheres were singing on both sides of me UNLESS IT WAS COURAGE Poem Text First Line: Again today, balloons aloft in the hazy here Last Line: But I was happy, and my happiness made others happy. Subject(s): Courage; Happiness; Hot-air Balloons; Valor; Bravery; Joy; Delight USING SOME WORDS THAT SHOWED UP RECENTLY: 1. HOMAGE TO STRAV First Line: Stravinsky charges into the crowd, cape flying Last Line: Until black notes drop %like clothespins from a straight shot of old line USING SOME WORDS THAT SHOWED UP RECENTLY: 2. TO BE PLACED IN First Line: Under low clouds, an eagle's fists Last Line: And one was shot from the sky, one day when %the background was right for seeing what it was USING SOME WORDS THAT SHOWED UP RECENTLY: 3. OUR CLAWFOOTED First Line: Over the lip went archimedes, displacing Last Line: Then, just by bathing, %you shape a law, so greek it's a fact USING SOME WORDS THAT SHOWED UP RECENTLY: 4. HOMAGE TO EDWAR First Line: His heart shot through by the sun, underneath Last Line: You feel...You have the beginning. %will you go on?-I do not know' USING SOME WORDS THAT SHOWED UP RECENTLY: 5. THE STEINHEIM: First Line: A castle that wasn't a castle but looked like it Last Line: After, our castles lay in ruins, %the castles that had been castles but didn't look it VACCINATION DAY First Line: A cracking splintering the air above Last Line: The effort it takes to break through VERSES VERSUS VERSES Poem Text First Line: First, there's courtship Subject(s): Poetry & Poets VERSES VERSUS VERSES First Line: First, there's the courtship VETERANS OF THE SEVENTIES Poem Text First Line: His army jacket bore the white rectangle Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict VICTIM OF HIMSELF First Line: He thought he saw a long way off the ocean Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Perception; Pride; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Self-esteem; Self-respect VIEW First Line: When you look through the window in sag harbor and see Last Line: We know it is morning by the dew and the frost on the %windowpanes WALKING THOUGHTS Poem Text First Line: The sidewalk is growing soft. I am growing soft Subject(s): Conformity; Homecoming; Solitude; Loneliness WANTING TO HELP Poem Text First Line: Like the man who discovered women WAR PIECE First Line: The dove has entered the hawk-farm WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA First Line: The water is moving again in the lakes of central america Subject(s): Allergies; Disease; Earth; Nature; Pollution; Sickness; Water; World; Illness WATCH First Line: Sand pebbles the windowpanes of beachfront Last Line: And metal detectors to search for the past WATCHING THE BOMBER PASS OVER Poem Text First Line: How can we speak of eyes and seasons Last Line: Not one of us escapes some little happiness! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Bombs; War; Airplanes; Air Pilots WATER, WINTER, FIRE Poem Text First Line: In the little light of dawn Last Line: Now it is useless to be home. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Home; Loss; Water; Winter; Dead, The WATERCOLOR ON A BOOK JACKET: ART ABOUT ART First Line: Buoyant to look upon this illustration Last Line: There is no back to the picture and no passage of time WE HAD SEEN A PIG Poem Text First Line: One man held the huge pig down Last Line: When we looked. Subject(s): Business; Butchers; Murder; Pigs; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Boars; Hogs WE HAVE KNOWN Poem Text First Line: We have known such joy as a child knows Last Line: And will not survive, though you have them. Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Love; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Childhood; Joy; Delight; Parenthood WE HAVE LIVED WITH IT WEDNESDAY Poem Text First Line: Gray rainwater lay on the grass in the late afternoon Last Line: Might drop his arms, that he had held up all day since the dew. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness WHAT LASTS Poem Text First Line: So help me, love, you and I Last Line: The flower itself is to something or other. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers WHAT SONGS THE SOLDIERS SANG Poem Text First Line: Those with few images, lyrics Last Line: And that there were no words for others. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Soldiers; War; Songs WHAT THEY DO TO YOU IN DISTANT PLACES First Line: I never told you %there was a woman - in the greening season Last Line: In the gross odors of my labors %if I had known what she was doing %perhaps she's with you now Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sports WHEN I RUN Poem Text WHERE HE STOOD: A PHOTOGRAPHER'S PORTFOLIO First Line: The iowa land rolls and turns like the human body. Surprise ... WHERE IS ODYSSEUS FROM AND WHAT WAS HE BEFORE HE LEFT First Line: By a city building in malaga WHEREVER YOU ARE First Line: A thin silver whistle Last Line: To be death's best friend Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WHITE CLOVER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Once when the moon was out about three-quarters Last Line: Over all their property. Subject(s): Clover; Light; Night; Bedtime WHITE PONY First Line: Where is the book in which I wished to look again WHITMAN'S GRASS First Line: Walt whitman, brother to brothers and brother to sisters Last Line: Preferring the organic to the inorganic, yet awed by the stellar, %throw you my casual salute and co WHO & WHERE Poem Text First Line: Where I live, it's a long uphill to WHO & WHERE First Line: Where I live, it's a long uphill to WINTER IN SITGES First Line: The old man building a boat on the beach Last Line: Built to make shapes in the waves Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Spain; Travel WORLD WAR III First Line: You post a sign WRITTEN DURING DEPRESSION: HOW TO BE HAPPY First Line: To be happy / a man must love death Last Line: And why, my dear, I love you. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Future; Happiness; Love; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Joy; Delight YOU WOULD KNOW Poem Text First Line: That you, father, are 'in my mind' Last Line: What I was, happy, maybe am, you would know. Subject(s): Escapes; Fathers & Sons; Happiness; Past; Fugitives; Joy; Delight YOUNG WOMAN SUNNING IN THE NUDE First Line: I didn't think she had put herself out YOUR SHAKESPEARE Poem Text First Line: If I am sentenced not to talk to you Last Line: Bits of glass in the head's reticent weather. Subject(s): Dramatists; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists YOUTH First Line: Begins again in a kiss, in a passionate word |
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