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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: CARSON, ANNE Matches Found: 329 Carson, Anne Poet's Biography 329 poems available by this author A STATION Poem Text First Line: I was reading a life of george eliot Last Line: To hampstead and a station Subject(s): Love - Unrequited AND KNEELING AT THE EDGE OF THE TRANSPARENT SEA I SHALL SHAPE FOR ... Poem Text First Line: A wife is in the grip of being Last Line: Not a bird not a breath in sight Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Marriage; Sea; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean AND KNEELING AT THE EDGE OF THE TRANSPARENT SEA I SHALL SHAPE FOR ... First Line: A wife is in the grip of being Last Line: And slides off toward the falt gray horizon, %not a bird not a breath in sight Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Sea; Women AND REASON REMAINS UNDAUNTED First Line: Searching for things sublime I walked up into the muddy windy big hills Last Line: (architectural), scorned, clean, with blazing nostrils, not a servant, not %rapid, rapid APRIL IN GERMANY First Line: Is it easier to believe in god if your hopes come to be Last Line: That is %what bites Subject(s): Love - Unrequited AUDUBON Poem Text First Line: Audubon perfected a new way of drawing birds that he called his Last Line: In the second (more affordable) octavo edition (birds of america, 1844) Subject(s): Audubon, John James (1785-1851) AUDUBON First Line: Audubon perfected a new way of drawing birds that he called his Last Line: In the second (more affordable) octavo edition (birds of america, 1844 Subject(s): Love - Unrequited AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED First Line: Geryon learned about justice from his brother quite early Last Line: Where they stand side by side with arms touching, immortality on their faces %night at their back Subject(s): Love - Unrequited AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED: 1. JUSTICE Poem Text First Line: Geryon learned about justice from his brother quite early Last Line: All trace of the world Subject(s): Schools; Brothers AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED: APPENDIX A First Line: Suidas s.V. Palinodia: 'counter song' or 'saying the opposite of what Last Line: Once sat down to compose (his 'palinode' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED: APPENDIX B First Line: No it is not the true story Last Line: No you never came to the towers of troy Subject(s): Love - Unrequited AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED: APPENDIX C First Line: 1. Either stesichoros was a blind man or he was not Last Line: 21. If stesichoros was a blind man either we will lie or if not not Subject(s): Love - Unrequited AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED: RED MEAT - FRAGMENTS OF STESICHOROS First Line: Geryon was a monster everything about him was red Last Line: The red world and corresponding red breezes %went on geryon did not Subject(s): Love - Unrequited AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED: RED MEAT - WHAT DIFFERENCE DID STESICHOROS MAKE? First Line: He came after homer and before gertrude stein, a diffi Last Line: The box. 'believe me for meat and for myself,' as gertrude stein says. %here. Shake Subject(s): Love - Unrequited BOOK OF ISAIAH First Line: Isaiah awoke angry Last Line: He slept, the asters in the garden unloaded their red thunder into the dark Subject(s): Love - Unrequited BOOK OF ISAIAH, PART 1 Poem Text First Line: Isaiah awoke angry Last Line: He grinned in the dark, she went back inside Subject(s): Bible; Religion BOOK OF ISAIAH: 3 First Line: Isaiah walked for three years in the valley of vision Last Line: Thus their contract continued Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 1 - WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE? First Line: What we have here Last Line: Does that look like enough for a story? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 10 First Line: The fact that anna is somewhere Last Line: Down there %starving Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 11 First Line: A phenomenologist from louvain-la-neuve Last Line: Or we would eat %many more paintings Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 12 First Line: One step back from the language Last Line: Rendered in daubs %of blue and black Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 13 First Line: Group portrait: a special commission Last Line: Thence to be gathered %by painters Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 14 First Line: The phenomenologist from paris hates mosquitoes Last Line: That will open in the anglo-french dialectic here Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 15 First Line: The phenomenologists are in each other's way today Last Line: Heidegger, ja, liked farmers very much Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 16 First Line: On the day anna was married Last Line: To bring it closer %to true green Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 17 First Line: It was the tender pietro vannucci Last Line: Buonarroti, buonarroti all day long Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 18 First Line: I was practicing my italian in the bar Last Line: And left for a walk. %ich bin ich Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 19 First Line: One phenomenologist has a coughing fit Last Line: The speaker, infinitely %polite to us Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 2 First Line: I think that I would like to call her anna Last Line: Floor down there. %attenti ai cani Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 21 First Line: In renaissance painting Last Line: Unaccountable for the murder Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 22 First Line: When you look at the painting you do not see the sound Last Line: Of perugino's %creatures Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 23 First Line: The pure lines of umbria Last Line: Just lower than the %barking Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 24 First Line: Working on her lecture in the library Last Line: The ugly stain on the windowsill Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 25 First Line: Anna's dogs were gunning in the blood down there before Last Line: To paint %inside la rocca Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 26 First Line: I will tell you two things about anna Last Line: She killed her father Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 27 First Line: In the sixteenth century there were lines and there were Last Line: Eyes slide to the left Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 28 First Line: Along the sight line Last Line: Are an illusion produced by the painter Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 29 First Line: The method of producing ultramarine Last Line: By its cool cast and sparkle Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 3 First Line: They do not know her here. That is Last Line: I am free to invent her! Sweet %dogs Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 30 First Line: Some of perugino's early works Last Line: To shame his stinginess Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 31 First Line: In the galleries above la rocca Last Line: Making no sound Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 32 First Line: Last night the dogs Last Line: Demented infant wandering in from he edge of the world. %one cry. %grido Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 33 First Line: Ordinarily %the conversations of phenomenologists Last Line: Libertas ad peccandum et ad non peccandum %eyes left Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 34 First Line: The first issue raised by the nuns Last Line: Third was her name Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 35 First Line: Do not hinge on me, anna says Last Line: White lead %because of %dampness Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 36 First Line: Inside la rocca they joked Last Line: An ancient category comes to light Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 37 First Line: The joy of living is to alter it Last Line: Forbidden by an official %alter what? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 38 First Line: In the convent Last Line: And meant %the love of innocence Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 39 First Line: Perugino, it is interesting to note Last Line: The novel rule %of two centers of vision Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 4 First Line: I slept, woke, slept in a fever of dogs Last Line: It may not be serious Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 40 First Line: To categorize %means to name in public Last Line: Is another troublesome %ancient %category Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 41 First Line: Clouds of smoke in early morning Last Line: Delirious %through the smoke Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 42 First Line: Silver leaf %must be cut with a knife on a leather cushion Last Line: For burnishing %afterward Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 43 First Line: A curious system of exchanges Last Line: And the ritual %totters forward Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 44 First Line: No. %yes %inside la rocca Last Line: Deep in the background %dead center Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 45 First Line: Cristo morto Last Line: For the flesh tones. %alter what? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 46 First Line: The beloved's innocence Last Line: Enrages history. %senza uscita Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 47 First Line: Anna's father enlisted Last Line: You have killed your father Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 48 First Line: On the last afternoon of the conference Last Line: She assents vigorously. 'e difficile.' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 49 First Line: For very deep red Last Line: But for scientists as well Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 5 First Line: There are other women here Last Line: At which she got angry Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 50 First Line: Anna climbs stairs built on blood Last Line: Il mio shaglio %il mio grido Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 51 First Line: No,' said perugino Last Line: Anna did not hear %the dogs turn Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 52 First Line: It was the last occurrence of such a ritual Last Line: Bloodless %glancing %out Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 6 First Line: Famous phenomenologists of tutta l'italia Last Line: Lunch is the central meal of the day here Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 7 First Line: E il treno giusto per perugia Last Line: No trains were going where you were, she answered Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 8 First Line: Anna is hesitating somewhere Last Line: I never heard of it %from anyone else Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 9 First Line: It is perhaps not widely known Last Line: His successor's more colossal genius Subject(s): Love - Unrequited DESPITE HER PAIN, ANOTHER DAY First Line: River fogs (7 a.M.) stray and begin, shiver and begin Last Line: Me, as ever, gone Subject(s): Love - Unrequited DIRT AND DESIRE: BEASTS First Line: The notion of female wildness, current in greek thinking from prehis Last Line: Carry with them like a contagion. Which brings us to the question %'what is dirt?' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited DIRT AND DESIRE: DIRTS First Line: Dirt' may be defined as 'matter out of place.' the poached egg on Last Line: Is condemning melian civilization to chaos Subject(s): Love - Unrequited DIRT AND DESIRE: LEAKS First Line: We find this same metaphor, deployed from the feminine point of view Last Line: Are vessels whose contents are sealed against dirt and loss. To put the lid %on certifies purity Subject(s): Love - Unrequited DIRT AND DESIRE: LIDS First Line: Putting the lid on female purity was the chief concern and ritual point Last Line: If you can read this, you've come too close Subject(s): Love - Unrequited DIRT AND DESIRE: LOGICS First Line: Physiologically and psychologically women are wet. Hippokrates differ Last Line: No longer trembles with growth' but rather attains and keeps its %proper dry form Subject(s): Love - Unrequited DIRT AND DESIRE: TOUCHES Poem Text First Line: As members of human society, perhaps the most difficult task we face Last Line: Closed category where one does not belong Subject(s): Women; Relationships; Touch (sense) DIRT AND DESIRE: TOUCHES First Line: As members of human society, perhaps the most difficult task we face Last Line: We will address these in turn. First let us consider the logic of female pollution Subject(s): Love - Unrequited DIRT AND DESIRE: WANTONS First Line: This condition of dry stability is never attained by the female physique Last Line: Categories of female and animal Subject(s): Love - Unrequited DROP'T SONNET Poem Text Recitation First Line: When a language drops a distinction (as e.G. English Last Line: As / thine Subject(s): Language EPITAPH: ANNUNCIATION Poem Text First Line: Motion swept the world aside, aghast to white nerve nets Last Line: Slow, from inside Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH: ANNUNCIATION First Line: Motion swept the world aside, aghast to white nerve nets Last Line: Slow, from inside Subject(s): Love - Unrequited EPITAPH: DONNE CLOWN First Line: Tho' perfect joint of moon I doe commend me to you Last Line: No, coldlights. Eye at all Subject(s): Love - Unrequited EPITAPH: EUROPE Poem Text First Line: Once live x-rays stalked the hills as if they were Last Line: Tattering on the daywall Subject(s): Europe EPITAPH: EUROPE First Line: Once live x-rays stalked the hills as if they were Last Line: Tattering on the daywall Subject(s): Love - Unrequited EPITAPH: EVIL Poem Text First Line: To get the sound take everything that is not the sound drop it Last Line: Then drop the sound. Listen to the difference / shatter Subject(s): Evil EPITAPH: EVIL First Line: To get the sound take everything that is not the sound drop it Last Line: Then drop the sound. Listen to the difference %shatter Subject(s): Love - Unrequited EPITAPH: OEDIPUS' NAP First Line: Scorched to wake lawless, loose Last Line: Pulling the clouds home, balancing massacre %on the rips Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Oedipus EPITAPH: THAW Poem Text First Line: Little clicks all night in the back lane there blackness Last Line: Anvil of deep decree Subject(s): Epitaphs; Fathers EPITAPH: THAW First Line: Little clicks all night in the back lane there blackness Last Line: Anvil of deep decree Subject(s): Love - Unrequited EPITAPH: ZION Poem Text First Line: Murderous little world once our objects had gazes. Our lives Last Line: Who drank a bowl of elsewhere Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH: ZION First Line: Murderous little world once our objects had gazes. Our lives Last Line: Who drank a bowl of elsewhere Subject(s): Love - Unrequited ESSAY ON ERROR (2ND DRAFT) Poem Text First Line: It is also true I dream about soiled suede gloves Last Line: I still remember the phrase every time I pass that spot Subject(s): Dreams; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) ESSAY ON ERROR: 2 First Line: It is also true I dream about soiled suede gloves Last Line: I still remember the phrase every time I pass that spot Subject(s): Love - Unrequited ESSAY ON WHAT I THINK ABOUT MOST Poem Text First Line: Error. / and its emotions Last Line: But that such mistakenness is valuable Subject(s): Love - Unrequited ESSAY ON WHAT I THINK ABOUT MOST First Line: Error. %and its emotions Last Line: Using a single brushstroke Subject(s): Love - Unrequited FALL OF ROME: A TRAVELLER'S GUIDE First Line: By this time tomorrow I will be a man of rome Last Line: Until %we meet again %so long Subject(s): Love - Unrequited FATHER'S OLD BLUE CARDIGAN Poem Text First Line: Now it hangs on the back of the kitchen chair Last Line: Because he is riding backwards Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Fathers; Love - Unrequited FATHER'S OLD BLUE CARDIGAN First Line: Now it hangs on the back of the kitchen chair Last Line: Because he is riding backwards Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Fathers; Love - Unrequited FIRST CHALDAIC ORACLE Poem Text First Line: There is something you should know Last Line: Because it is out there (orchid) outside your and, it is Subject(s): Reality FIRST CHALDAIC ORACLE First Line: There is something you should know Last Line: Because it is out there (orchid) outside your and, it is Subject(s): Love - Unrequited FLATMAN (1ST DRAFT) Poem Text First Line: I was born in the circus. I play the flat man Last Line: Not beethoven – beethoven I cannot flatten Variant Title(s): My Show Subject(s): Life FLATMAN (2ND DRAFT) Poem Text First Line: If you see this card half out of my pocket you know Last Line: And I can pay Subject(s): Life FLATMAN: 1 First Line: I was born in the circus. I play the flat man Last Line: Not beethoven - beethoven I cannot flatten Variant Title(s): My Sho Subject(s): Love - Unrequited FLATMAN: 2 First Line: If you see this card half out of my pocket you know Last Line: And I can pay Subject(s): Love - Unrequited FREUD (1ST DRAFT) Poem Text First Line: Freud spent the summer of 1876 in trieste Last Line: "in fact nothing to do with them,"" he confided in a letter" Subject(s): Freud; Sigmund (1856-1939) FREUD (2ND DRAFT) Poem Text First Line: If you go to iowa visit the raptor center Last Line: And find him right back on top Subject(s): Freud; Sigmund (1856-1939) FREUD: 1 First Line: Freud spent the summer of 1876 in trieste Last Line: In fact nothing to do with them,' he confided in a letter Subject(s): Love - Unrequited FREUD: 2 First Line: If you go to iowa visit the raptor center Last Line: And find himself right back on top Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GENDER OF SOUND First Line: It is in large part according to the sounds people make that we judge Last Line: Outside. Or indeed, another human essence than self Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GLASS ESSAY: HERO First Line: I can tell by the way my mother chews her toast Last Line: His black grin flares once and goes out like a match Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GLASS ESSAY: HOT First Line: Hot blue moonlight down the steep sky Last Line: Our guests are darkly lodged, I whispered, gazing through %t Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GLASS ESSAY: I First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream Last Line: Tomorrow I am going to visit my mother Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GLASS ESSAY: KITCHEN First Line: Kitchen is quiet as a bone when I come in Last Line: Okay ma. What's for supper Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GLASS ESSAY: LIBERTY First Line: Liberty means different things to different people Last Line: Prison for strongest [in emily's hand] altered to lordly by Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GLASS ESSAY: SHE First Line: She lives on a moor in the north Last Line: What meat is it, emily, we need Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GLASS ESSAY: THOU First Line: The question I am left with is the question of her lonliness Last Line: It walked out of the light Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GLASS ESSAY: THREE First Line: Three silent women at the kitchen table Last Line: She grins. Yes you do Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GLASS ESSAY: WHACHER First Line: Whacher, %emily's habitual spelling of this word Last Line: Just some movements inside the light and then a sinking away Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GNOSTICISM First Line: Heaven's lips! I dreamed Last Line: Is somewhere inside the machine. %veins pounding GOD OF WASHINGTON First Line: I saw god one midnight near some bushes in washington Last Line: Who needs always to be in love with someone it doesn't matter who Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GOD'S ARDOR First Line: God had been given a tape of lucifer's from hell Last Line: God sat like a wife watching the slow fields %enter and release their illegible white sighs Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GOD'S BAD NIGHT First Line: Do you believe in the devil? Neither did kafka Last Line: Kafka spoke german %only to extant beings Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GOD'S HANDIWORK First Line: The best way to insult god Last Line: The best way to insult god %is to damage your uniqueness, %which god has worked on Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GOD'S TEAT First Line: A chance word (plastos) told oedipus Last Line: The clamp that was growing forward from his forehead %snagged something soft Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GOD'S VERIFICATIONIST PHASE First Line: In the rainforest are lizards called jesus christ lizards Last Line: Who are you going to listen to, angela or some lizard Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HELEN Poem Text First Line: Nights of a marriage are like an egypt in a woods Last Line: Needs / one Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Marriage HELEN First Line: Nights of a marriage are like an egypt in a woods Last Line: Every war needs one Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HER BECKETT Poem Text First Line: Going to visit my mother is like starting in on a piece by beckett Last Line: And hides again Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters HER BECKETT First Line: Going to visit my mother is like starting in on a piece by beckett Last Line: Whipping everything %and hides again Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOKUSAI Poem Text First Line: Anger is a bitter lock Last Line: Or crashed / together Subject(s): Anger; Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849) HOKUSAI First Line: Anger is a bitter lock Last Line: As they thudded past Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS First Line: I hope it does not tell an obvious anecdote Last Line: For none is intended Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: AUTOMAT First Line: Night work %neon milk Last Line: Domine %girl de luxe Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: ELEVEN A.M. First Line: White bones %hapless mortal Last Line: As cloth or clay. %for rags Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: EVENING WIND First Line: What dog or horse will wish to be remembered Last Line: That links origin %and tendency? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: NIGHTHAWKS Poem Text First Line: I wanted to run away with you tonight Last Line: I wanted to run away with you tonight Subject(s): Desire HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: NIGHTHAWKS First Line: I wanted to run away with you tonight Last Line: I wanted to run away with you tonight Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: OFFICE AT NIGHT First Line: Man woman windowcord paper fire stones Last Line: Autumn that pierces our bones? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: ROOM IN BROOKLYN First Line: This %slow %day Last Line: Down my afternoon Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: SUMMER INTERIOR Poem Text First Line: Summer smeared the day, you slid Last Line: Spoke to themselves low, near / and tenderly Subject(s): Summer HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: SUMMER INTERIOR First Line: Summer smeared the day, you slid Last Line: Spoke to themselves low, near %and tenderly Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: THE BARBER SHOP First Line: It takes practice to shave the skin off the light Last Line: Quiet she %may %be %his %daughter Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: THE GLOVE OF TIME BY EDWARD HOPPER First Line: True I am but a shadow of a passenger on this planet Last Line: For in what does time differ from eternity except we measure it? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: WESTERN MOTEL First Line: Pink bedspreads you say Last Line: Two suitcases watch you like dogs Subject(s): Love - Unrequited INTERVIEW WITH HARA TAMIKI: 1950 Poem Text First Line: I: death / ht: death made me grow up Last Line: Ht: there is no shorter way home Subject(s): Death; Love; Life INTERVIEW WITH HARA TAMIKI: 1950 First Line: I: death %ht: death made me grow up Last Line: Ht: there was no shorter way home Subject(s): Love - Unrequited IRONY IS NOT ENOUGH: ESSAY ON MY LIFE AS CATHERINE DENEUVE First Line: 1. Beginngs %beginnings are hard Last Line: Hearing the bell ring five o'clock. Comes a knock at the door Subject(s): Deneuve, Catherine; Love - Unrequited IRONY IS NOT ENOUGH: ESSAY ON MY LIFE AS CATHERINE DENEUVE (2D DRAFT) Poem Text First Line: Beginnings are hard. Sappho put it sumply. Speaking of a young girl Last Line: Lengths inch forward, not touching Subject(s): Deneuve, Catherine; Irony IRONY IS NOT ENOUGH: ESSAY ON MY LIFE AS CATHERINE DENEUVE (2D DRAFT) First Line: Beginnings are hard. Sappho put it sumply. Speaking of a young girl Last Line: Five o'clock bell. Comes a knock at the door Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LAZARUS First Line: Other bait pushed their way past me with cloaklike flutters Last Line: When shall I not %hear it Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LAZARUS (1ST DRAFT) Poem Text First Line: Inside the rock on which we live, another rock Last Line: Nothing else goes on. While a blurred and breathless hour Subject(s): Time; Life LAZARUS: 1 First Line: Inside the rock on which we live, another rock Last Line: Nothing else goes on. While a blurred and breathless hour repeats, repeats Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: A TOWN I HAVE HEARD OF First Line: In the middle of nowhere Last Line: On the stove Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: ANNA TOWN First Line: What an anxious existence I led Last Line: For bitter warfare. %is dear to us Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: APOSTLE TOWN First Line: After your death Last Line: Beautiful the nerves pouring around in her like palace fire Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: BRIDE TOWN First Line: Hanging on the daylight black Last Line: Noon the demander was waiting for me Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: DEATH TOWN First Line: This day whenever I pause Last Line: Its noise Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: DESERT TOWN First Line: When the sage came back in Last Line: Waiting nothing else %waiting itself Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: EMILY TOWN First Line: Riches in a little room Last Line: It meant to. %her Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: ENTGEGENWARTIGUNG TOWN First Line: I heard you are coming after me Last Line: You went past Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: FREUD TOWN First Line: Devil say I am an unlocated Last Line: Devil outlived devil in Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: HOLDERLIN TOWN First Line: You are mad to mourn alone Last Line: Props hurtle past you Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: JUDAS TOWN First Line: Not a late hour not unlit rows Last Line: Not morsel not I Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: LEAR TOWN First Line: Clamor the bells falling bells Last Line: Into the kill-hole Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: LOVE TOWN First Line: She ran in Last Line: Down her back Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: LUCK TOWN First Line: Digging a hole Last Line: A man struck gold Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: MEMORY TOWN First Line: In each one of you I paint Last Line: 15 miles? %140 miles? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: ONE-MAN TOWN First Line: It's magritte weather today said max Last Line: Ernst knocking his head on a boulder Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: PUSHKIN TOWN First Line: It has rules Last Line: Or will be by the time our eyes are ember Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: SEPTEMBER TOWN First Line: One fear is that Last Line: Brother from the police Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: SYLVIA TOWN First Line: The burners and the starvers Last Line: Lay on the desk Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: THOMAS TOWN First Line: Hand in hand into his mind never Last Line: A thought came but that other %followed Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: TOLERANCE TOWN First Line: Gold cup 1 woman 2 Last Line: Gold cup 1 woman 1 %gold cup 1 Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN A-ROVING First Line: There is no god but Last Line: Of gold as if they would break Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN GONE TO SLEEP First Line: There was distant thunder that was its Last Line: Was a creature's heart. %plunged Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN JUST BEFORE THE LIGHTNING FLASH First Line: Nuances not effective in point form Last Line: Wrote paul klee (1923) Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF BATHSHEBA'S CROSSING First Line: Inside a room in amsterdam Last Line: On tracks and sideroads Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF FINDING OUT ABOUT THE LOVE OF GOD First Line: I had made a mistake Last Line: The sobbing made me. %audible to you Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF GRETA GARBO First Line: When my idol left it broke Last Line: Hearing still hear Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF MY FAREWELL TO YOU First Line: Look what a thousand blue thousand white Last Line: Blowing down the road Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF SPRING ONCE AGAIN First Line: Spring is always like what it used to be' Last Line: Longing from a great distance. %reached us Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE DEATH OF SIN First Line: What is sin? Last Line: Black as a wind over the forests Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE DRAGON VEIN First Line: If you wake up too early listen for it Last Line: Time Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE EXHUMATION First Line: Old mother fingers coming down through the dark Last Line: At the back Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE LITTLE MOUTHFUL First Line: Without arrows how? Last Line: Through by the bowstring Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE MAN IN THE MIND AT NIGHT First Line: Twenty-five %to four a Last Line: Of night like a %paring Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE NOON STACK First Line: Midi Last Line: Midi Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE SOUND OF A TWIG BREAKING First Line: Their faces I thought were knives Last Line: Out of his hand and impales %itself Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE WRONG QUESTIONS First Line: How. %walls are built why Last Line: Do they eat -- light? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF UNEVEN LOVE First Line: If he had loved me he would have seen me Last Line: At an upstairs window brow beating against the glass Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN ON THE WAY THROUGH GOD'S WOODS First Line: Tell me %have you ever seen Last Line: Old freight car the word for god's %woods Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: WOLF TOWN First Line: Let tigers. %kill them bears Last Line: Hear a cloud pass. %overhead Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LINES Poem Text First Line: While talking to my mother I neaten things. Spines of books by the phone Last Line: "it feel like burning, said the child trying to be Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters LINES First Line: While talking to my mother I neaten things. Spines of books by the phone Last Line: It feel like burning, said the child to be kind Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LONGING, A DOCUMENTARY First Line: 1. Night %river Last Line: Subtitle: as usual she enjoyed the sense of work, of having %worked. Other fears would soon return Subject(s): Love - Unrequited METHINKS THE POOR TOWN HAS BEEN TROUBLED TOO LONG First Line: Light on the brick wall and a north wind whipping the branches Last Line: Mother gallant %and gay Subject(s): Love - Unrequited MISTAKES OF GOD First Line: No one can be with you on the inside Last Line: This you may mistake for god Subject(s): Love - Unrequited NEW RULE Poem Text First Line: A new year's white morning of hard new ice Last Line: So / clear Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Squirrels NEW RULE First Line: A new year's white morning of hard new ice Last Line: The way to hold on is %afterwards %so %clear Subject(s): Love - Unrequited NO EPITAPH First Line: Because he grew up in the west he was used to the sound of the wind Last Line: No need for men to chatter so Subject(s): Love - Unrequited NO EPITAPH: PAGE OF HIS First Line: This is a song on the death and burial of one prince Last Line: Being but a tree, but still! Subject(s): Love - Unrequited NOTHING FOR IT Poem Text First Line: Your glassy wind breaks on a shoutless shore and stirs around the rose Last Line: Nothing for it just row Subject(s): Despair; Stoicism NOTHING FOR IT First Line: Your glassy wind breaks on a shoutless shore and stirs around the rose Last Line: Blows on what was our house. %nothing for it just row Subject(s): Love - Unrequited NOW WHAT? Poem Text First Line: Dead and you will lie dead Last Line: Like something / breathed Subject(s): Death NOW WHAT? First Line: Dead and you will lie dead Last Line: As a participle. %perfect: never. %flown. %yet already %(breathed) gone? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited ON GERTRUDE STEIN ABOUT 9€‹:€‹30 Recitation First Line: How curious. I had no idea! Today has ended. Subject(s): Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946) ON HEDONISM First Line: Beauty makes me hopeless. I don't care why anymore I just want to Last Line: Me all night, I no longer gather what falls ON HOMO SAPIENS Poem Text Recitation First Line: With small cuts cro-magnon man Last Line: Call storytellers blind—a taunt Subject(s): Man; Story-telling ON ORCHIDS First Line: We live by tunneling for we are people buried alive. To me, the tunnels Last Line: Asked where he was going, he replied, vermont or asia ON SHELTER First Line: You can write on a wall with a fish heart, it's because of the phosphorus Last Line: It glows. Tell me ON WATERPROOFING First Line: Franz kafka was jewish. He had a sister, ottla, jewish. Ottla married Last Line: Shoeshine by josef david. He applied a coat of grease. Now they are %waterproof, he said OPPOSED GLIMPSE OF ALICE JAMES, GARTH JAMES, HENRY JAMES, ........ First Line: A sunday terrible in all the little ways that sunday is terrible news Last Line: Without any dinner, as she does not eat Subject(s): Love - Unrequited POWDERED WHITE LEAD FOR THE LONG EYES OF PERUGINO First Line: Powdered white lead for the long eyes of perugino Last Line: Powdered white lead for the long eyes of perugino Subject(s): Love - Unrequited RECIPE Recitation RED MEAT - FRAGMENTS OF STESICHOROS: 1. GERYON Poem Text First Line: Geryon was a monster everything about him was red Last Line: Secret pup at the front end of another red day Subject(s): Red (color) RETICENT SONNET Poem Text Recitation First Line: A pronoun is a kind of withdrawal from sonnet (as literary Last Line: Brushing, brushing, brushing wild grapes onto truth Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Language SHADOWBOXER Poem Text First Line: Of the soldier who put a spear through christ's side on the cross Last Line: Was a face all still as dew in april. Hook. Jab. Jab Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ SHADOWBOXER First Line: Of the soldier who put a spear through christ's side on the cross Last Line: As dew in aprille. %hook. %jab. %jab Subject(s): Love - Unrequited SHOES: AN ESSAY ON HOW PLATO'S SYMPOSIUM BEGINS First Line: The beginning has as its purpose to set us on the road Last Line: Who heard it from diotima %whose feet remain a mystery Subject(s): Love - Unrequited SHORT LIST. LONGING, A DOCUMENTARY Poem Text First Line: 1. Night / river Last Line: Subtitle: night is not a fact Subject(s): Work SONNET ISOLATE Poem Text Recitation First Line: A sonnet is a rectangle upon the page Last Line: While using only two pronouns, “I” and “not-I Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Language SONNET OF ADDRESSING OSCAR WILDE Recitation Subject(s): Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) STATION First Line: I was reading a life of george eliot Last Line: To hampstead and a station Subject(s): Love - Unrequited STRANGE HOUR Poem Text First Line: 3 a.M. Cool palace roar of oakland night Last Line: Clear at this hour Subject(s): Night; Hate STRANGE HOUR First Line: 3 a.M. Cool palace roar of oakland night Last Line: Clear at this hour Subject(s): Love - Unrequited SUMPTUOUS DESTITUTION Last Line: The way out of here Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THAT STRENGTH Poem Text First Line: That strength. Mother, dug out. Hammered, chained Last Line: Mother / broke Subject(s): Mothers THAT STRENGTH First Line: That strength. Mother, dug out. Hammered, chained Last Line: Breakable on grindstones %that strength, %mother %broke Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE BOOK OF ISAIAH, PART 3 Poem Text First Line: Isaiah walked for three years in the valley of vision Last Line: Thus their contract continued Subject(s): Bible THE FALL OF ROME: A TRAVELLER'S GUIDE Poem Text First Line: By this time tomorrow I will be a man of rome Subject(s): Rome THE GLASS ESSAY Poem Text First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream Last Line: It walked out of the light Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Psychiatry; Mothers & Daughters; Fathers; Home Life; Women's Rights; Solitude; Alzheimer's Disease; Dreams; Anger; Love – Nature Of; Love – Loss Of; Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Man-woman Relationships THE LIFE OF TOWNS: A TOWN I HAVE HEARD OF Poem Text First Line: In the middle of nowhere Last Line: On the stove Subject(s): Towns THE LIFE OF TOWNS: ANNA TOWN Poem Text First Line: What an anxious existence I led Last Line: Is dear to us Subject(s): Anxiety THE LIFE OF TOWNS: APOSTLE TOWN Poem Text First Line: After your death Last Line: Beautiful the nerves pouring around in her like palace fire Subject(s): City & Town Life; Death THE LIFE OF TOWNS: BRIDE TOWN Poem Text First Line: Hanging on the daylight black Last Line: Noon the demander was waiting for me Subject(s): Brides THE LIFE OF TOWNS: DEATH TOWN Poem Text First Line: This day whenever I pause Last Line: Its noise THE LIFE OF TOWNS: DESERT TOWN Poem Text First Line: When the sage came back in Last Line: Waiting itself Subject(s): City & Town Life; Homecoming; Waiting THE LIFE OF TOWNS: EMILY TOWN Poem Text First Line: Riches in a little room Last Line: It meant to / her Subject(s): Messages & Messangers THE LIFE OF TOWNS: ENTGEGENWARTIGUNG TOWN Poem Text First Line: I heard you are coming after me Last Line: You went past. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Fear THE LIFE OF TOWNS: FREUD TOWN Poem Text First Line: Devil say I am an unlocated Last Line: Devil outlived devil in Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns THE LIFE OF TOWNS: HOLDERLIN TOWN Poem Text First Line: You are mad to mourn alone Last Line: Props hurtle past you Subject(s): City & Town Life; Mourning THE LIFE OF TOWNS: JUDAS TOWN Poem Text First Line: Not a late hour not unlit rows Last Line: Not morsel not I Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns THE LIFE OF TOWNS: LEAR TOWN Poem Text First Line: Clamor the bells falling bells Last Line: Into the kill-hole Subject(s): City & Town Life; Winter THE LIFE OF TOWNS: LOVE TOWN Poem Text First Line: She ran in Last Line: Down her back Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns THE LIFE OF TOWNS: LUCK TOWN Poem Text First Line: Digging a hole Last Line: A man struck gold Subject(s): Luck THE LIFE OF TOWNS: MEMORY TOWN Poem Text First Line: In each one of you I paint Last Line: 140 miles Subject(s): Nuclear Waste THE LIFE OF TOWNS: ONE-MAN TOWN Poem Text First Line: It's magritte weather today said max Last Line: Ernst knocking his head on a boulder Subject(s): Weather THE LIFE OF TOWNS: PUSHKIN TOWN Poem Text First Line: It has rules Last Line: Or will be by the time our eyes are ember Subject(s): Chance; Love THE LIFE OF TOWNS: SEPTEMBER TOWN Poem Text First Line: One fear is that Last Line: Brother from the police Subject(s): City & Town Life THE LIFE OF TOWNS: SYLVIA TOWN Poem Text First Line: The burners and the starvers Last Line: Lay on the desk Subject(s): April THE LIFE OF TOWNS: THOMAS TOWN Poem Text First Line: Hand in hand into his mind never Last Line: A thought came but that other. / followed Subject(s): Thought THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOLERANCE TOWN Poem Text First Line: Gold cup 1 woman 2 Last Line: Gold cup 1 Subject(s): Women THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN A-ROVING Poem Text First Line: There is no god but Last Line: Of gold as if they would break Subject(s): God THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN GONE TO SLEEP Poem Text First Line: There was distant thunder that was its Last Line: Was a creature's heart. / plunged Subject(s): Death THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF BATHSHEBA'S CROSSING Poem Text First Line: Inside a room in amsterdam Last Line: On tracks and side roads Subject(s): Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Amsterdam, Netherlands THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF FINDING OUT ABOUT THE LOVE OF GOD Poem Text First Line: I had made a mistake Last Line: Audible to you Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF GRETA GARBO Poem Text First Line: When my idol left it broke Last Line: Hearing still hear Subject(s): Loss THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF MY FAREWELL TO YOU Poem Text First Line: Look what a thousand blue thousand white Last Line: Blowing down the road Subject(s): Farewell THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF SPRING ONCE AGAIN Poem Text First Line: Spring is always like what it used to be' Last Line: Reached us Subject(s): City & Town Life; Spring THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE DEATH OF SIN Poem Text First Line: What is sin? Last Line: Black as a wind over the forests Subject(s): City & Town Life; Sin THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE DRAGON VEIN Poem Text First Line: If you wake up too early listen for it Last Line: To. / time Subject(s): Sound THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE EXHUMATION Poem Text First Line: Old mother fingers coming down through the dark Last Line: At the back Subject(s): Soul THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE LITTLE MOUTHFUL Poem Text First Line: Without arrows how? Last Line: Through by the bowstring Subject(s): Arrows; Archers & Archery THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE MAN IN THE MIND AT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Twenty-five / to four a Last Line: Of night like a / pairing Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE NOON STACK Poem Text First Line: Midi Last Line: Midi Subject(s): Noon THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE SOUND OF A TWIG BREAKING Poem Text First Line: Their faces I thought were knives Last Line: Out of his hand and impales / itself Subject(s): Night THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE WRONG QUESTIONS Poem Text First Line: How. / walls are built why Last Line: Do they eat—light? Subject(s): Walls THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF UNEVEN LOVE Poem Text First Line: If he had loved me he would have seen me Last Line: At an upstairs window brow beating against the glass Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN ON THE WAY THROUGH GOD'S WOODS Poem Text First Line: Tell me / have you ever seen Last Line: Old freight car the word for god's / woods Subject(s): Faces THE LIFE OF TOWNS: WOLF TOWN Poem Text First Line: Let tigers. / kill them bears Last Line: Hear a cloud pass / overhead Subject(s): Death – Animals THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: BY GOD Poem Text First Line: Sometimes by night I don't know why Last Line: Little by little the first union Subject(s): Death THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: DEFLECT Poem Text First Line: I have a friend who is red hot with pain Last Line: Subsided behind a heap of blueblack syllables Subject(s): Pain; Language THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S BELOVEDS REMAIN TRUE Poem Text First Line: Chaos overshadows us Last Line: We have been instructed to call this his love Subject(s): God; Conduct Of Life THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S CHRIST THEORY Poem Text First Line: God had no emotions but wished temporarily Last Line: They are saving to move to los angeles Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S HANDIWORK Poem Text First Line: The best way to insult god Last Line: Which god has worked on Subject(s): God THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S JUSTICE Poem Text First Line: In the beginning there were days set aside for various tasks Last Line: Its black wings vibrated in and out Subject(s): God; Justice THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Are you angry at nature? Said god to his woman Last Line: Choose, said god Subject(s): God; Women THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S WORK Poem Text First Line: Moonlight in the kitchen is a sign of god Last Line: Put away your sadness, it is a mantle of work Subject(s): God THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: MY RELIGION Poem Text First Line: My religion makes no sense Last Line: With its rifle butt. Subject(s): Religion THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: TERESA OF GOD Poem Text First Line: Teresa lived in a personal black cube Last Line: It was indeed rent Subject(s): God THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: THE GOD COUP Poem Text First Line: God is a grand heart cut Last Line: When the lens kept melting Subject(s): God THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: THE GOD FIT Poem Text First Line: Sometimes god will drop a fit on you Last Line: To escape god who is burning, untended Subject(s): God THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: THE GRACE THAT COMES BY VIOLENCE Poem Text First Line: Yours is not (I regret to say) the story they tell Last Line: Cleansed now Subject(s): God THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: THE WOLF GOD Poem Text First Line: Like a painting we will be erased, no one can remain Last Line: Things are as hard as you make them Subject(s): Wolves; Death TRIPLE SONNET OF THE PLUSH PONY PART 3 Poem Text Recitation First Line: A body in the dawn Last Line: Thy breath Subject(s): Language; Horses TRUTH ABOUT GOD: BY GOD First Line: Sometimes by night I don't know why Last Line: Little by little the first union Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: DEFLECT First Line: I have a friend who is red hot with pain Last Line: Subsided behind a heap of blueblack syllables Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD STIFF First Line: God gave an onomatopoeic quality to women's language Last Line: Treachery' (she notices) sounds just like his zipper going Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S BELOVEDS REMAIN TRUE First Line: Chaos overshadows us Last Line: We have been instructed to call this his love Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S BOUQUET OF UNDYING LOVE First Line: April snow. %god is waiting in the garden Last Line: The trees are white nerve nets Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S CHRIST THEORY First Line: God had no emotions but wished temporarily Last Line: They say they are saving to move to los angeles Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S JUSTICE First Line: In the beginning there were days set aside for various tasks Last Line: Its black wings vibrated in and out Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S LIST OF LIQUIDS First Line: It was a november night of wind Last Line: Memory %semen %song %tears %time Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S MOTHER First Line: She doesn't get to say much in the official biography Last Line: It is what grammarians call a difference of tense and aspect Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S NAME First Line: God had no name Last Line: Just chew it and rub it on Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S WOMAN First Line: Are you angry at nature? Said god to his woman Last Line: Fire, time, fire. %choose, said god Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S WORK First Line: Moonlight in the kitchen is a sign of god Last Line: Put away your sadness, it is a mantle of work Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: MY RELIGION First Line: My religion makes no sense Last Line: It batters my soul %with its rifle butt Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: TERESA OF GOD First Line: Teresa lived in a personal black cube Last Line: When the lens kept melting Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: THE GOD COUP First Line: God is a grand heart cut Last Line: As the prophet says, %tarry Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: THE GOD FIT First Line: Sometimes god will drop a fit on you Last Line: To escape god who is burning Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: THE GRACE THAT COMES BY VIOLENCE First Line: Yours is not (I regret to say) the story they tell Last Line: Diving in pig blood -- %'cleansed' now Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: THE WOLF GOD First Line: Like a painting we will be erased, no one can remain Last Line: Things are as hard as you make them Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: AKHMATOVA First Line: Do you love him? I don't know. I believe he is my fate Last Line: Up almost as high as the stain on the wall, blotting out all trace of the harvest Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: AKHMATOVA (TREATMENT FOR A SCRIPT) Poem Text First Line: Do you love him? I don't know. I believe he is my fate Subject(s): Akhmatova, Anna (1889-1966) TV MEN: ANTIGONE (SCRIPTS 1 AND 2) First Line: Antigone likes walking behind oedipus Last Line: Here, twist a bit off. %freedom is next Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: ARTAUD First Line: Artaud is mad. %he stayed close to the madness. Watching it breathe or not Last Line: They found him at dawn. Seated at the foot of his bed. Hold shy away Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: LAZARUS Poem Text First Line: Yes I admit a degree of unease about my Last Line: Of the vermin in his ten fingers and I stand back to wait for the miracle Subject(s): Motion Pictures, Documentary; God; Television; Names TV MEN: LAZARUS First Line: Yes I admit a degree of unease about my Last Line: To it too long will climb into your eyes and whiten %real objects Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: SAPPHO First Line: No one knows what the laws are. That there are laws Last Line: Earth will be warmer than we thought, %after all this circli Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: SOKRATES First Line: Before the robin's red surmise we were at the prison gates on sokrates' death Last Line: Never paid for. He suggested we settle the bill. %which we Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: THE SLEEPER First Line: The sleeper, real and dear, is cared on the dark Last Line: To live here one must forget much Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: THUCYDIDES IN CONVERSATION WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF ON THE SET OF First Line: T: bell dies away in seven seconds then a light comes up and we see you walking Last Line: T: can we play with that strip of light Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 1. CHAMBRE Poem Text First Line: A curiously tender man and yet Last Line: On rustling coats or shawls Subject(s): Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910) TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 1. CHAMBRE First Line: A curiously tender man and yet Last Line: You are so young! And this fog Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 10. VOUS AUTRE First Line: With the diaries he forced into her Last Line: I would do it joyfully!' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 11. MORT First Line: There is a dog howling in russia's soul Last Line: Slowly silently the crowd moved away Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 12. FIN First Line: Indeed the pit bears iron.' Last Line: God's meal is a buried meal Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 2. VIE First Line: Lev had no death wish Last Line: You'll live you'll see! Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 3. CORPS First Line: In sex (he told her) the mind evaporates and suddenly Last Line: The little satin parts especially Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 4. GUERRE First Line: Take notes with your eyes, he advises. War is clear and intricate Last Line: Have a raw feel Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 5. FAIM First Line: When famine struck lev moved like a lion Last Line: Hunched over the brown earth, seeing no flesh Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 6. ETUDES First Line: When he got round to rebuilding the middle of his house Last Line: And live like a peasant. %'like you,' he said Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 7. LIBERTE First Line: Lev could lift 180 lbs. With one hand Last Line: Came the exposed skull bone %of anna karenina Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 8. NUIT DIVINE First Line: Live a true life? Last Line: Then he was my lev.' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 9. FAMILLE First Line: When the dark people began appearing Last Line: Into a knapsack and left for america Subject(s): Love - Unrequited VICTORY MUST BE A SUMPREMELY GLORIOUS EXPERIENCE SAID A WOMAN . . . First Line: 2:22 am too hot to sleep Last Line: A defeat he replied Subject(s): Love - Unrequited VICTORY MUST BE A SUMPREMELY GLORIOUS EXPERIENCE SAID A WOMAN TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON Poem Text First Line: 2:22 am too hot to sleep Last Line: A defeat he replied Subject(s): War; Hate; Fear; Defeat; Victory; Wellington, Duke Of VISIT First Line: Rose-ice winter fog over the bridges of the town Last Line: Have to go through me to get to the other place Subject(s): Love - Unrequited WHY DID I AWAKE: FLATMAN: 3 First Line: Lonely among the sleepers.' up from the pavements of foreign cities Last Line: By, how far from shore is hard to say Subject(s): Love - Unrequited |
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