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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: BROCK, GEOFFREY Matches Found: 31 Brock, Geoffrey Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff 31 poems available by this author ALTERCATION FINDS Poem Text AN OPENING Poem Text First Line: The conversation's three minutes old AND DAY BROUGHT BACK MY NIGHT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It was so simple: you came back to me Subject(s): Divorce; Memory; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ANHINGA AT REST First Line: Neck a slack snare, each naked feather soaked Last Line: As the sun retouches each of the lake's glittering scales Subject(s): Birds; Rest BEAUTIFUL ANIMAL First Line: By the time I recalled Last Line: To see who wakes first, %and from which dream BRYANT PARK AT DUSK Poem Text First Line: Floodlights have flared on behind and above Subject(s): Solitude CHARLES GRANER IS NOT AMERICA Poem Text Subject(s): Graner, Charles A., Jr.; Torture; United States; America COLD HARBOR: JUNE 3, 1864 First Line: Grandfather's grandfather died eight hours Last Line: Stared at each other across their dying and their dead DADDY: 1933 Poem Text First Line: If one takes Subject(s): Fathers DIGRESSIONS First Line: Digressions are the sunshine Last Line: What you had once, and lost: %wholeness. But I digress FLESH OF JOHN BROWN'S FLESH: 2 DECEMBER 1859 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We knew the rules and punishments Subject(s): Brown, John (1800-1859) FOREVER STREET Poem Text First Line: I met my withered mother Subject(s): Mothers HASKELL AT GETTYSBURG: 1863 First Line: The summer heat pressed down, despite the gray sky's Last Line: Toward a dark blue lake HER VOICE WHEN SHE IS FEELING WEAK First Line: Her voice when she is feeling weak creates Last Line: And hear her say she's fine and won't be late Subject(s): Voices; Women INHERITED HOUSE First Line: These rooms breathe us. The shades of brief Last Line: Still, it's what I must keep MAN OUTSIDE First Line: Her house, illuminating the moonlessness Last Line: Lying on dampening grass, I find them POETRY & THE AMERICAN VOICE First Line: My day was spent struggling to write Last Line: Reign there - and here - in lieu of law Subject(s): Politics; War PROF OF PROFS Poem Text Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors ROYAL PALMS OF SOUTH FLORIDA First Line: They line the streets like stoic palace guards Last Line: About exiled rulers in a dull new world Subject(s): Florida; Palm Trees SNAKE MAN Poem Text First Line: I in your company become the hognose snake Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers STARBUCKER STARBUCKER STARBUCKER STAR Poem Text First Line: It's true; she's kneeling STATE OF VIRGINIA: 1831 First Line: And now our nights are spent listening to noises Last Line: Still agrees with her, and whether they've had snow Subject(s): Virginia (state) TALLAHASSEE THESE DAYS First Line: It is still a metropolis of trees, a mere Last Line: Of an absent ocean. Everything here is history TELEPHONE First Line: Loaf of bread or sheep's %head, rubber nubbed Last Line: Two points; and europeans %use it in the shower THE BEAUTIFUL ANIMAL Poem Text First Line: By the time I recalled that it is also Subject(s): Animals TRIP HOP Poem Text First Line: I'll pack my toothbrush Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TWO MOON TO A JOURNALIST AFTER REHEARSAL: 1898 Poem Text First Line: I thought then that the great spirits Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TWO MOON TO A JOURNALIST AFTER REHEARSAL: 1898 First Line: I thought then that the great spirits Last Line: And we will play the fight again VILLANELLE FOR A SUICIDE First Line: When I learned of the confusion Last Line: It emptied me of all illusion WEIGHING LIGHT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Often the slightest gesture is most telling Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Conversation; Male-female Relations WHERE OLD PROFESSORS GO First Line: The sonnet - in the view of robert bly Last Line: With no forms but the poems of mr. Bly |
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