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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: BOSSELAAR, LAURE-ANNE Matches Found: 41 Bosselaar, Laure-anne Poet's Biography 41 poems available by this author Poem Text First Line: The drop caught / in the curl behind your left ear lobe Last Line: Tip of my tongue. Subject(s): Bodies; Details; Love - Erotic; Man-woman Relationships; Shaving; Water; Zen Buddhism; Things; Male-female Relations 7 A.M., A MAN AND A WOMAN First Line: Drive through utah. They're silent Last Line: The sun pulls back toward noon. Subject(s): Absence; Bodies; Colors; Deserts; Food & Eating; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Silence; Travel; Utah; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips A PARIS BLACKBIRD Poem Text First Line: Along the seine's left bank, near the pont-neuf, on the mansard roof Last Line: The scruffy blackbird -- and listen for the cry caught in her bronze throat. Subject(s): Bird-watching; Blackbirds; Creative Ability; Knowledge; Louvre, Paris; Museums; Paris, France; Seine (river), France; Inspiration; Creativity; Art Gallerys A SUNDAY DRIVE THROUGH EAGLE COUNTRY First Line: Near no name, colorado Last Line: I knew I'd lost it. Subject(s): Colorado (state); Creative Ability; Death; Deer; Loss; Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911); Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Pregnancy; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Dead, The; Similes AFTER A NOISY NIGHT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The man I love enters the kitchen Last Line: And kiss him, kiss him. Subject(s): Coffee; Gratitude; Habits; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Morning; Prayer; Sleep; Male-female Relations AMEN First Line: You're not allowed to do it, so you hide under sheets Last Line: At grace, the farmer's hand is a crown on your hair. %you look at him, he nods, he says, 'amen.' AT SAVAGE RIVER LODGE Poem Text First Line: Only the trees AT THE MUSEE RODIN IN PARIS Poem Text First Line: In front of a window Last Line: A shadow to the ground. Subject(s): Air; Museums; Paris, France; Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917); Sculpture & Sculptors; Secrets; Art Gallerys CHANEL NO. 5 First Line: One by one, my mother dips her gauloises bleues Last Line: The longing for her from my throat -- and spit. Subject(s): Desire; Experience; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Perfume; Secrets; Sin; Smoking; Solitude; Temptation; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Loneliness COMMUNITY GARDEN Poem Text First Line: I watch the man bend over his patch, Subject(s): Gardening And Gardens DINNER AT WHO'S WHO Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Amidst swirling wine ENGLISH FLAVORS Poem Text First Line: I love to lick english the way I licked the hard Last Line: Flavored and sharp -- to the ambiguities of meaning. Subject(s): English Language; English Language; Language; Mouths; Nuns; Pleasure; Taste (sense); Words; Vocabulary FALLEN First Line: A friend had a minnesota catalogue company Last Line: In a glass jar, and place it under the word fallen. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dahlias; Poetry & Poets; Privacy; Redemption; Inspiration; Creativity FILTHY SAVIOR Poem Text First Line: Look at this storm, the idiot FOUNTAIN IN AVIGNON First Line: Here, lovely retching moss-capped cherub: this penny's for you Last Line: Throw them back, throw them out. Subject(s): Angels; Avignon, France; Disdain; Faith; Fountains; Gratitude; Prayer; Wishes; Scorn; Belief; Creed FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: This is the viscous heart I hide from you: Subject(s): Friendship GARAGE SALE Poem Text First Line: I sold her bed for a song. IN POCATELLO First Line: They kiss. His hand touches her hair, she turns Last Line: And I want him to stop standing on that mouse-grey %piece of sidewalk that is slowly eating up his s INVENTORY First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet Last Line: Here: in america. In america. Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration LEEK STREET Poem Text First Line: In bruges, was a cul-de-sac so narrow Last Line: Float out over the canals. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Children; Future Life; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Love; Muskrats; Pain; Redemption; Salvation; Tongues; Torture; Violence; Youth; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Judaism; Suffering; Misery LETTER FROM JAKE'S PLACE, DURANGO (1) First Line: Dear k %I know the fat lady won't come Last Line: But with a view of the scheldt Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders LOVING YOU IN FLEMISH Poem Text First Line: Let me love you in my tongue tonight Last Line: Verget awe noam en al de rest . . . Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Food & Eating; Language; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Metaphor; Ostend, Belgium; Prostitution; Tongues; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; MARCH CHIMES Poem Text First Line: Day dithers, no wind or breeze, and light PETITION TO BE INCONSOLABLE Poem Text First Line: Listen to this: rationalism-- PLASTIC BEATITUDE Poem Text First Line: Our neighbors, the pazzotis, live in a long Last Line: To their last temptation. Subject(s): Blessings; Electricity; Extermination & Exterminators; Family Life; Insects; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Neighbors; Toys; Women In The Bible; Relatives; Bugs; Virgin Mary RADIATOR (1) First Line: Winters in the ardennes were a monochrome Last Line: That was it! Lukewarm, hard, forbidden and banging RAT TRINITY First Line: That rat's too smart to come Last Line: Not I, but unscorned, chosen: one %divine being-a son SILENCE OUT OF ITSELF First Line: A dank dawn. Sodden light %on damp bricks. Lilacs rot to dust Last Line: Silence out of itself, out of the walls of a house %in which no one is there to listen SO IT'S TODAY Poem Text First Line: And in the chokecherry this year Last Line: For a few more days of summer. Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Gifts & Giving; Leaves; Longevity; Seasons; Summer; Time; Fall STILLBIRTH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: On a platform, I heard someone call out your name: Subject(s): Grief; Stillbirth; Sorrow; Sadness; Death - Childbirth THE CELLAR Poem Text First Line: I want my father to stop sending me down there Last Line: Yet another cry for mercy. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Antwerp, Belgium; Betrayal; Cellars; Duty; Fathers & Daughters; Food Habits; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Penance; Potatoes; Shame; Survival; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Basements; Shoah; Judaism THE FEATHER AT BREENDONCK Poem Text First Line: I am praying again, god -- pale god Last Line: That's all we needed: a good war . . . Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Concentration Camps; Fathers & Daughters; Feathers; Guilt; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Memory; Prayer; Relationships; Salvation; Separation; Isolation; Judaism THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 1. THE GOOD OGRE'S BEARD Poem Text First Line: Home from the nuns once a month Last Line: Give me to him, may he live for ever and ever, amen. Subject(s): Children; Relationships; Wishes; Childhood THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 2. HERMAN THE BASTARD First Line: He died alone, herman the bastard Last Line: Ach ja, child, he says, humanity! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Escapes; Relationships; Story-telling; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood; Fugitives THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 3. FEEDING THE RABBITS Poem Text First Line: He wraps his scarf around my neck Last Line: That howling will chew up your soul! Subject(s): Advice; Animals; Bells; Children; Churches; Paranoia; Rabbits; Relationships; Childhood; Cathedrals; Hares THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 4. THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG Poem Text First Line: The roofs of wool row are charcoal Last Line: I don't listen, I don't listen. Subject(s): Bells; Children; Dusk; Farewell; Relationships; Childhood; Parting THE MACHINATIONS OF THE MIND Poem Text First Line: The car crash we passed when I was five Last Line: What spins and claws in our rearview mirrors. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Habits; Housekeeping; Memory; Order; Reason; Selectivity; Violence; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PALLOR OF SURVIVAL Poem Text First Line: I'm lucky: autumn is flawless today Last Line: Turns, an open gate. Subject(s): Christianity; Converts, Catholic; Evans, Bill (1929-1980); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Loss; Moving & Movers; Nuns; Refugees; Survival; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Violence; Judaism THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD Poem Text First Line: Doors were left open in heaven again Last Line: That's the curse, that's the miracle -- Subject(s): Change; Experience; Faith; Fate; Heaven; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Life; Mortality; Permanence; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Time; Transience; Belief; Creed; Destiny; Paradise; Shoah; Judaism; Impermanence THIS MORNING, GOD Poem Text First Line: Four a.M. Snow on the roof like a stone slab Last Line: The incessant beating in my chest for two now. Subject(s): Coffee; Dawn; Habits; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Memory; Morning; Past; Prayer; Silence; Solitude; Sunrise; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness UNABLE TO FIND Poem Text First Line: The right way to get out of bed Last Line: Make plans for summer -- winter even. Subject(s): Activity; Fate; Future Life; Longing; Morning; Exercise; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life |
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