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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: DUBIE, NORMAN Matches Found: 218 Dubie, Norman Poet's Biography 218 poems available by this author A DREAM OF THREE SISTERS Poem Text First Line: From night rocks, above an ocean alive with yellow kelp Last Line: Being wholly ordinary. Subject(s): Animals; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Dogs; Murder; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets A FIFTEENTH CENTURY ZEN MASTER Poem Text First Line: A blind girl steps over the red staves Last Line: Master, where is the difference? Subject(s): Buddhism; Creation; Desire; Buddha; Buddhists A GENESIS TEXT FOR LARRY LEVIS, WHO DIED ALONE Poem Text First Line: It will always happen -- the death of a friend Last Line: But where was that woman and her snake when we needed them? Subject(s): Aging; Death; Friendship; Levis, Larry (1946-1996); Memory; Men; Dead, The A GRANDFATHER'S LAST LETTER Poem Text First Line: Elise, I have your valentine with the red shoes. I have Last Line: Where I am going. Subject(s): Children; Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Letters; Parents; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Dead, The; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Parenthood A PHYSICAL MOON BEYOND PATERSON Poem Text First Line: William carlos williams had finished Last Line: The holiest dish to whiteness passing over... Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; New Jersey; Rebirth; Snow; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight A RENUNCIATION OF THE DESERT PRIMROSE; FOR J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Poem Text First Line: I am tired of the black and white photograph Last Line: I have fallen behind... Subject(s): Nuclear War; Oppenheimer, Julius Robert (1904-1967); Regret; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER Poem Text First Line: In the fine cataracts of falling mountain water Last Line: While dressed in ice skates and the long green gown. Subject(s): Heaven; Loss; Moose; Skeletons; Paradise A TRUE STORY OF GOD First Line: Henry thoreau is lost in the maine woods Last Line: Snapping from the flames like gunfire. Subject(s): Cruelty; Forests; Maine (state); Moose; Nature; Order; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Woods A WIDOW SPEAKS TO THE AURORA'S OF A DECEMBER NIGHT First Line: My yard with its pines is almost spherical in winter Last Line: Falling off the dangerous, true edge of daylight. Subject(s): Night; Quiet Life; Widows & Widowers; Winter; Bedtime ABOUT INFINITY; AFTER H.H., THE 17TH KARMAPA First Line: There are stonebreakers in straw hats Last Line: Running in a running stream. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; Dead, The; Nightmares ACCIDENT Poem Text First Line: He stood in a green stand of corn Last Line: Of the dying animals strewn out behind them. Subject(s): Accidents; Cattle; Corn; Fathers & Daughters; Railroads; Railways; Trains AFTER THREE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BRASSAI Poem Text First Line: A whore moves a basin of green antiseptic water Last Line: It falls stiff like a drunk, like a drunk falling onto a whore. Subject(s): Brassai [gyula Halsz] (1899-1984); Life Change Events; Photography & Photographers; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels ALZHEIMER'S First Line: I had located the reflecting pines in the dark glass Last Line: Is this just what you had in mind, mister? AMEN Poem Text First Line: Someone calls duchess, our fawn great dane, back Last Line: Rising from ethel rosenberg's hair. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Deer; Dogs; Hunting; Primitive Man; Rosenberg Case; Dead, The; Hunters; Cavemen; Rosenberg, Ethel; Rosenberg, Julius AN AMERICAN SCENE First Line: I reach beyond the laboratory brain. The brass Last Line: The brain glowed in the dark above us. Subject(s): Escapes; Lust; Science; Fugitives; Scientists AN ANNUAL OF THE DARK PHYSICS Poem Text First Line: The baltic sea froze in 1307. Birds flew south Last Line: Nothing happened that was worthy of poetry. Subject(s): Baltic Sea; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); Lent; Mary Magdalen; Suicide; Women In The Bible; Eckhart, Meister; Mary Magdalene AN OLD WOMAN'S VISION Poem Text First Line: No better day to come Last Line: Like a sucking stone going down... Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Reunions; Dead, The ANAGRAM BORN OF MADNESS AT CZERNOWITZ, 12 NOVEMBER 1920 Poem Text First Line: They were the strong nudes of a forgotten Last Line: "hold on to me and we'll sing." Subject(s): Celan, Paul (1920-1970); Czernowitz (chernvits), Romania; Korean War, 1950-1953; Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb ANCESTRAL Poem Text First Line: The wet polish of horizon Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry ANGELA First Line: A bottle of nimeral water from montreal ANIMA POETA: A CHRISTMAS ENTRY FOR THE SUICIDE, MAYAKOVSKY First Line: It has nothing to do with the warmth of moonset Last Line: Much later in your life you joined them. Subject(s): Mayakovsky, Vladimir (1893-1930); Suicide; World War I; First World War ARKHANGEL'SK Poem Text First Line: The yellow goat in winter sunlight Last Line: Bullets rippling like moles under the plaster. Subject(s): Death; Goats; Lent; Prisoners Of War; Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953); Dead, The ARS POETICA Poem Text First Line: It is almost polio season. The girls Last Line: Considering how beautiful she was. Subject(s): Dreams; Girls; Massachusetts; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Smoking; Nightmares; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes ARS POETICA: A STONE SOUP Poem Text First Line: There's the obese three-quarters moon of aquinas Last Line: What else? Subject(s): Bell, Marvin; Poetry & Poets ARS POETICA: A STONE SOUP First Line: There's the obese three-quarters moon of aquinas Last Line: What else? Subject(s): Bell, Marvin; Poetry And Poets AT CORFU First Line: In seventeen hundred, a much hated sultan %visited us twice, finally Last Line: By their dead grandmothers' grandmothers AT MIDSUMMER First Line: We had been in the tall grass for hours Last Line: You smile and cross over me like a welcome storm. Subject(s): Facades; Man-woman Relationships; Sleep; Appearances; Male-female Relations AT THE DEATH OF A MONGOLIAN PEASANT First Line: The trees turned around as if to quarrel with him Last Line: And some simple wretchedness unto bliss. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Mongols And Mongolia; Peasantry; Salvation; Dead, The AUBADE OF THE SINGER AND SABOTEUR, MARIE TRISTE Poem Text First Line: In the twenties, I would visit dachau often with my brother Last Line: Two of the old miracles. They were not my choices. Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Concentration Camps; Dachau, Germany; Flowers; Music & Musicians; World War Ii - Atrocities AZTEC LORD OF THE NEAR AND CLOSE First Line: The prince was buried in a squatting position Last Line: Slowly sinking in a cool lake, fat orange carp %rising around him so the sun will never be late BAPTISMAL First Line: The lightning inside the black cloud put slabs Last Line: To walk over the fire like a lake. Subject(s): Baptism; Fire; Christenings BELLEVUE EXCHANGE Poem Text First Line: A large man rowing in a white tub Last Line: To the floor. The water climbing for him. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Fantasy; Fog; Imagination; Water; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Haze; Fancy BELLS IN THE ENDTIME OF GYURMEY TSULTRIM Poem Text First Line: The bowl made from a tobacco-yellow skull Last Line: Something has begun... Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Chaplin, Charlie (1889-1977); Future Life; Lightning; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Lightning Rods BOATMEN ON THE RIVER MONS First Line: It was the flood that caused him Last Line: Wet chrysanthemums, and a burning sow BOOK OF THE JASPERS Poem Text First Line: Dear ahyum lo nasa vueh: marie, this is the name of the dead Subject(s): Buddhism; Buddha; Buddhists BOOK OF THE JEWEL WORM Poem Text First Line: I dreamt of wild horses bathing in white water again. Subject(s): Buddhism; Buddha; Buddhists BUFFALO CLOUDS OVER THE MAESTRO HOON Poem Text First Line: It was a useless thing to do with the morning Last Line: Still strange to one another while on their honeymoons. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Courage; Ignorance; Lions; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls; Valor; Bravery; Dullness; Stupdity CHAGALL First Line: In the swollen rooms of the ghetto, the clicking CHEMIN DE FER First Line: A chapel has fallen into ruins Last Line: Its severed goose-wing of snow. Subject(s): Churches; Dreams; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Ruins; Saints; Cathedrals; Nightmares CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTER First Line: The moose of the peninsula ate from our truck garden COLERIDGE CROSSING THE PLAIN OF JARS First Line: The gypsies carry sacks of walnuts out of groves Last Line: Was in her eyes like a widow's soul. Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Gypsies; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Severn, Joseph (1793-1879); Snow; Gipsies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COMES WINTER, THE SEA HUNTING First Line: This was your very first wall, your crib against Last Line: Through... Subject(s): Birth; Fathers & Daughters; Ice; Poverty; Sea; Walls; Child Birth; Midwifery; Ocean CONFESSION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The general's men sit at the door. Her eyes Last Line: It has kept you from loneliness like a mob. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Corpses; Mobs; Crowds; Cadavers COYOTE CREEK First Line: It was a small canyon, very small Last Line: While the sun sank all at once behind him. Subject(s): Family Life; Gifts & Giving; Nature; Prayer; Relatives DANSE MACABRE Poem Text First Line: The broken oarshaft was stuck in the hill Last Line: Its cruel nail to its true pencil. Subject(s): Animals; Boats; Horses DEATH BY COMPASS First Line: We are scrolling between rims of glass Last Line: Over most of the open pasturage, in france DESCENT INTO THE HOURS OF THE PEREGRINE First Line: A wet umbrella is open in the tub. It's midnight Last Line: Streaming from the corners of its mouth. Subject(s): Animals; Aviation & Aviators; Cats; Children; Night; Paper; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Childhood; Bedtime DOUBLE SPHERE, CLOVEN SPHERE First Line: The black clouds swell up around the setting sun Last Line: Taking us over the horizon into atmosphere. Subject(s): Farewell; Love Affairs; Winter; Parting DREAM First Line: It was the sung dynasty Last Line: The waterfall stopped. Subject(s): China; Dreams; Love Affairs; Tatars; Nightmares; Tartars ELDER GOGOL'S POND AT PLOKHINO SKETE First Line: Like a small yellowish waterfall Last Line: It will not be long now ELEGIES FOR THE OCHER DEER ON THE WALLS AT LASCAUX First Line: You are hearing a distant, almost familiar, french cradlesong Last Line: A white baton flew up! Subject(s): Caves; China; Clergy; Deer; France; Lament; Caverns; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971 Poem Text First Line: There's a bird the color of mustard. The bird Last Line: This is a world set apart from ours. It is not! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Horses; Lament; Scotland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ELEGY FOR MY BROTHER Poem Text First Line: I'll walk awhile, maybe as high as the tree line Last Line: And watch the door now being closed behind you... Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Farewell; Memory; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Half-brothers; Dead, The; Parting ELEGY FOR WRIGHT & HUGO Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Saint jerome lived with a community Last Line: He was a saint. It was like that... Subject(s): Animals; Donkeys; Hugo, Richard (1923-1982); Jerome, Saint (347-419); Lament; Lions; Wright, James (1927-1980); Burros ELEGY TO THE PULLEY OF SUPERIOR OBLIQUE First Line: The three girls in a donkey cart Last Line: Of death is instant, contrived. Subject(s): Death; Disease; Girls; Lament; Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii - Atrocities; Dead, The ELEGY TO THE SIOUX Poem Text First Line: The vase was made of clay Last Line: Out of the sky into montana... Subject(s): Birth; Genocide; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Native Americans; Small Pox; Child Birth; Midwifery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ELIZABETH'S WAR WITH THE CHRISTMAS BEAR: 1601 Poem Text First Line: The bears are kept by hundreds within fences, are fed cracked / eggs Last Line: Every inch of you, a terrible vision, not bear, but virgin! Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Bones; Christmas; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Nativity, The ELSINORE IN THE LATE ANCIENT AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: I hear a dead march. A thin wrist is mincing roses Last Line: They buried me. Subject(s): Death; Loyalty; Secrets; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Dead, The ENCANTO'S FERRY First Line: He left the tent of the soup kitchen, passing FEBRUARY: THE BOY BREUGHEL Poem Text First Line: The birches stand in their beggar's row Last Line: A sunrise. The snow. Subject(s): Animals; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Foxes; Rabbits; Red (color); Violence; White (color); Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Hares FEVER Recitation by Author First Line: In your sleep you talked Last Line: I love you too. Subject(s): Fever; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sleep; Talk; Male-female Relations FIRST WEDNESDAY AT HEATER LAWNS First Line: He had his hand up my skirt. The lights dimmed. I pushed FOR MILAREPA, IN RUSE, ON PAPER Poem Text First Line: These farmers dressed in gold and blue Last Line: In their pear tree will be forgiven. Variant Title(s): For Confucius, In Ruse, On Rice Paper Subject(s): Disdain; Farm Life; Poetry & Poets; Scorn; Agriculture; Farmers FOR RANDALL JARRELL, 1914-1965 Poem Text First Line: All the dead are eating little yellow peas Last Line: Into this world or some other. And between. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Death; Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965); Wisdom; Inspiration; Creativity; Dead, The GARDEN ASYLUM OF SAINT-PAUL-DE-MAUSOLE First Line: In the orchard the old crones sit on cane chairs GENTLY BENT TO EASE US'; FOR BILL KNOTT Poem Text First Line: The rainmakers are these second growths Last Line: Like the emerald gear of a long-dead martyred king. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Creative Ability; Mexico; Heritage; Heredity; Inspiration; Creativity GHOST Poem Text First Line: If a man stands by a pin oak emptying Last Line: "it's like a tub overflowing onto a floor." Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Ghosts; Marriage; Suicide; Supernatural; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GHOSTS ON THE NORTHERN LAND OF UR; CIRCA 2100 C.E. Poem Text First Line: With bits of pale colored chalk Last Line: That is still being slaughtered in our childhood... Subject(s): Buddhism; Echoes; Sickness; Time; War; Buddha; Buddhists; Illness GHOSTS, SARATOGA SPRINGS First Line: It's the blasts of milkweed and the sooty snow GOYA Recitation by Author First Line: Rounds of bone and blood-rag scatter GRAND ILLUSION Poem Text First Line: It is not 1937 for long. A clump of ash trees and a walk Last Line: Their uncle still casting images of animals for them... Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Renoir, Jean (1894-19979); Violence; World War I; Movies; Cinema; First World War GRANDMOTHER First Line: A spider floats from the apple tree Last Line: Had proved to be there at all. Subject(s): Comfort; Ghosts; Grandparents; Insects; Spiders; Supernatural; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Bugs GREAT POLAR EXPEDITION - CIRCA 1912 First Line: The old horse stands in the blinding snow GROOM FALCONER; CIRCA 1903 Poem Text First Line: Out walking along the river Last Line: One reserves for a ghost. Subject(s): Children; Insomnia; Self-mutilation; Childhood; Sleeplessness HER MONOLOGUE OF DARK CREPE WITH EDGES OF LIGHT Poem Text First Line: Mistress adrienne, I have been given a bed with a pink dresser Last Line: Don't hear from you I will try to understand. Chloe. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; American Revolution; Girls; Librarians & Libraries; Murder; Teaching & Teachers; Library; Librarians; Educators; Professors HOMAGE TO PHILIP K. DICK; FOR PAUL COOK Poem Text First Line: The illegal ditch riders of the previous night Last Line: "his prophet."" stop it. Please stop it." Subject(s): Cody, William (buffalo Bill) (1846-1917); Consumerism; Dick, Philip Kindred (1928-1982); God HUMMINGBIRDS Poem Text First Line: They will be without arms like god Last Line: Who are wretched. Subject(s): Death - Animals; God; Hummingbirds HUNTER IN AN ARCTIC MIDNIGHT First Line: He wears a sea froth of lime Last Line: Beyond hope, and, of course, %beyond all human surmise IBIS; FOR LORI GOLDENSOHN Poem Text First Line: There is the long dream in the afternoon Last Line: All of his new body away from me. Subject(s): Birds; Household Employees; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Rain; Sleep; Servants; Domestics; Maids IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS THE END OF SOLITUDE, BEGINNING AGAIN: Poem Text First Line: A painter, thin with auburn hair, works before an easel Subject(s): Paintings & Painters IN THE TIME OF FALSE MESSIAHS; CIRCA 1648 Poem Text First Line: He sat in the shade of trees at moonrise Last Line: Everywhere below him there was hope. Subject(s): Clergy; Famine; Hope; Poland; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Optimism IN THESE STREETS WITH THE BINARY TREES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Yesterday, in a refusal Subject(s): Trees INSIDE THE CITY WALLS First Line: A small boy in shock with a blue popsicle Last Line: Where the foot is first firmly planted... Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness INTOLERANCE First Line: The grass fires were isolated from the rosy morning Last Line: If you can, save us now? JEREMIAD Poem Text First Line: After a night of opium and alcohol, edgar poe Last Line: As they sometimes will in baltimore. Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Food & Eating; Hallucinations & Illusions; Parks; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin LA PAMPA First Line: The dead truck sits in the shimmering wheat Last Line: In white pajamas and turquoise slippers. Subject(s): Brothers; Fathers; Graves; Librarians & Libraries; Half-brothers; Tombs; Tombstones; Library; Librarians LAMENTATIONS Poem Text First Line: The scrub woman for the old bank and jailhouse Last Line: One is of welcome; the other, farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Lament; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; World War Ii; Parting; Male-female Relations; Second World War LE MONDE Poem Text First Line: The early morning stench LOOKING UP FROM TWO RENAISSANCE PAINTINGS TO MASSACRE TIANANMEN SQUARE First Line: Fruit flies lift off the bowl of brown pears Last Line: Will drag over the ground. Subject(s): Irony; Paintings & Painters; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 LORD MYTH First Line: A shadow through the room, a rising Last Line: A black feather plunges through the spiraling smoke. Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Ravens; Male-female Relations MARGARET'S SPEECH Poem Text First Line: I'm a frogman. Naked by the water Last Line: Who knows that I bleach my hair. Variant Title(s): Margaret Subject(s): Drowning; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets; Male-female Relations MEISTER ECKHART Poem Text First Line: All day the snow festered Last Line: And he meant it. Subject(s): Cold; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); God; Inquisition; Mysticism; Eckhart, Meister MONOLOGUE OF TWO MOONS, NUDES WITH CRESTS: 1938 First Line: Once, lily and I fell from a ladder Last Line: Twigs, leaves, and an infinite black string. Subject(s): Accidents; Adolescence; Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Teen Agers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men NEAR THE BRIDGE OF SAINT-CLOUD; AFTER ROUSSEAU First Line: A swollen infant under a tree, rose petals Last Line: Equal to childhood, throughout the kingdoms of the east. Subject(s): Babies; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Paintings & Painters; Rousseau, Theodore (1812-1867); Infants; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin NEW AGE AT AIRPORT MESA First Line: My husband was hanging wet sheets, almost in disbelief Last Line: I told her I was done feeling sorry for myself. Subject(s): Canyons; Hearts; Gays & Lesbians; Laundry & Laundering; Self-pity; Widows & Widowers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men NEW ENGLAND, AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: Our daughter dreamt of magnolias Last Line: I woke with a start as if we had set an alarm. Subject(s): Blood; Dreams; Family Life; New England; Nightmares; Relatives NEW ENGLAND, SPRINGTIME First Line: Emerson thought the bride had one eye Last Line: Cattle cars rattling by at sunset. Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Missionaries & Missions; New England; Spring NINE BLACK POPPIES FOR CHAC Poem Text First Line: The junta was jubilant around the mortised fountain Last Line: Irrigating pink in the eternal spring rains. Subject(s): Bodies; Faith; Murder; Poppies; War; Belief; Creed NINETEEN FORTY Poem Text First Line: The sun just drops down through the poplars Last Line: Individual wild ducks scraped and screamed in along a marsh. Subject(s): England; Evening; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941); World War Ii; Writing & Writers; English; Sunset; Twilight; Second World War NORTHWIND ESCARPMENT First Line: The mirrors in the hall were a strange backwater Last Line: We always knew it was possible. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Tides; Male-female Relations NOT THE CUCKOLD'S DREAM; FOR SAM PEREIRA First Line: He lifts the white skiff up onto the beach. It is easter Last Line: I will marry, he thought of the fish... Subject(s): Drowning; Easter; Fish & Fishing; Holidays; Man-woman Relationships; The Resurrection; Anglers; Male-female Relations NOVEMBER 23, 1989; AFTER BLAKE First Line: Two rising flukes of green water Last Line: Must bear away the most meat. Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Nature - Religious Aspects; Order; Sea; Ocean ODE TO THE SPECTRAL THIEF, ALPHA Poem Text First Line: The way grapes will cast a green rail Last Line: And there was a greater acceptance of mirrors, and rhyme. Subject(s): Nature; Story-telling; Time OF POLITICS, & ART Poem Text First Line: Here, on the farthest point of the peninsula Last Line: God-rendering voice of a storm. Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Nostalgia; Politics & Government; Storms; Teaching & Teachers; Tuberculosis; Women; Educators; Professors; Consumption (pathology) OLD NIGHT AND SLEEP First Line: A cold rain falls through empty nests, a cold rain Last Line: Some new sense of days being counted. Subject(s): Rain; Sleep ON THE CHINESE ABDUCTION OF TIBET'S CHILD PANCHEN LAMA Poem Text First Line: The commandant, black chen, has walked Last Line: From somewhere they believe they've never been. Subject(s): China; Lamas; Persecution; Tibet ORATION: HALF-MOON IN VERMONT Poem Text First Line: A horse is shivering flies off its ribs, grazing Last Line: Doesn't poverty just fucking break your heart? Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Girls; Politics & Government; Horses; Owls; Poverty; Vermont ORDINARY MORNINGS OF A COLISEUM First Line: The dull straight-edge and a dab of chicken fat Last Line: And the full sanskrit edge of a clamshell PARISH Poem Text First Line: God only knows what he'd been doing. Painting or sewing? Last Line: Of them vanishing into the hills. Subject(s): Death; Escapes; Morticians; Dead, The; Fugitives PASTORAL Poem Text First Line: It happened so fast. Fenya was in the straight Last Line: The vigil of astonishment. Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Nursing (infants); Dead, The PEACE OF LODI First Line: One night, after a storm, the sort of storm PENELOPE First Line: I have looked for you at the familiar center Last Line: Who in the dead thesis of voyage, avoids me. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Patience; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION; FOR PAMELA STEWART Poem Text First Line: It's best, when watching the surprising levitations Last Line: Set aside like land, will be blessed by rain. Subject(s): Children; Dwarfs; Music & Musicians; Relationships; Childhood POEM Poem Text First Line: A mule kicked out in the trees. An early Last Line: And drove some more — unable to sleep in missouri. Subject(s): Dolls; Funerals; Girls; Grief; Missouri; Toys; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness POEM FOR MY FRIEND, CLARE. OR, WITH WHITE STUPAS WE REMEMBER BUDDHA First Line: So when the gods wearing their colored cloaks of nearness Last Line: "here's a beautiful postcard of five white stupas in nepal." Subject(s): Buddhism; Honor; Memory; Self-criticism; Self-righteousness; Buddha; Buddhists POLIO SEASON IN THE SAN JOAQUIN First Line: It was something about the mustard colored chevrolet Last Line: Calamitously behind our conversation POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 1 First Line: Neither all nor any angels arrive in the mind where Last Line: Out in the first mud and forsythia. Far outside. Subject(s): Angels; Children; Memory; Reason; Time; Childhood; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 2 First Line: And so a man I love says fifteen years is all he has Last Line: Each other's hair. They don't believe in me or you. Subject(s): Children; Death; Love; Men; Reason; Stairs; Childhood; Dead, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 3. OPPOSITION First Line: Four farmers seen through an open window falling asleep Last Line: "that letter fly between her knees."" they are drunk." Subject(s): Birds; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Omens; Reproduction; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Mating POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 4. LES PAPILLONS NOIRS First Line: A black sedan draws along the woods stopping Last Line: "what to throw away." Subject(s): Bodies; Daffodils; Habits; War; Women POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 5; FOR R.P. BLACKMUR First Line: There are the countless, returning new england widows Last Line: With alabaster. And suffer affliction like an insect. Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Habits; New England; Widows & Widowers POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 6. THE JOYOUS, THE LAKE First Line: How two women can be the same, for instance, in poland Last Line: Drops down from a tree in the sun in marseille. Subject(s): Boats; Warsaw, Poland; Women; World War Ii; Second World War POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 7. SONG First Line: A bird drops down from a tree in the sun in marseille Last Line: No longer a bitter poem; no longer a poem that could continue! Subject(s): Birds; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marseilles, France; Nazis; Poetry & Poets; Male-female Relations; National Socialism PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA: EINSTEIN'S EXILE IN AN OLD DUTCH WINTER Poem Text First Line: My theory withstood the light of the hyades Last Line: The rose of all roses! Subject(s): Descartes, Rene (1596-1650); Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Imagination; Mathematics; Order; Fancy PROLOGUE SPEAKING IN TONGUES Recitation by Author RADIO SKY Poem Text First Line: The blue house at mills cross Last Line: Drifting under the familiar worn sheet. Subject(s): Comfort; Cruelty; Family Life; Infertility; Relatives REVELATION 20:11-15 First Line: He was a farmboy who had drowned that wednesday Last Line: We were amazed. Subject(s): Boys; Death; Drowning; Farm Life; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers REVELATIONS; CIRCA 1948 Poem Text First Line: I made no sound, at all, like the wintering Last Line: I watched. And made no sound... Subject(s): Aliens; Jerusalem; Silence; World War Ii; Extraterrestrials; Second World War RIDDLE Poem Text First Line: The snow lifts into the beards of sycamores. RIDDLE First Line: The moon is a cut-out Last Line: The great blank sheet %or rag paper passing with the fog bank SAFE CONDUCT First Line: The snowplow was a rattling iron box Last Line: As distant as this world. Subject(s): Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Plowing & Plowmen; Snow; Dead, The; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers SANCTUARY Poem Text First Line: My sister got me the script, I couldn't Last Line: Is sitting accusingly at the foot of my bed. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Dreams; Morgues; Motion Pictures; Unfaithfulness; Actresses; Dead, The; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SASQUATCH Poem Text First Line: I am not a costume Last Line: After cleaning his boots and his knife Subject(s): Bigfoot (folklore) SEVERAL MEASURES FOR THE LITTLE LOST First Line: The lesson begins in a heated room Last Line: After all of the lamb has left the bone it warned. Subject(s): History; Hunger; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Teaching & Teachers; Historians; Educators; Professors SHIPWRECK First Line: Three chinese in yellow coats stood on dunes, waist-high Last Line: Feeding everywhere. Subject(s): Disasters; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850); Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); James, Henry (1843-1916); Refugees; Shipwrecks; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) SHRINE First Line: The sedan is a black grub with its strange mouth SIMPLE PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA First Line: For what are we to think? But that philo Last Line: From simple philo as from the whole. Subject(s): Ignorance; Moon; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Rockets; Dullness; Stupdity SKY HARBOR Poem Text First Line: The flock of pigeons rises over the roof SOMEBODY WILL HAV' TO SHOOT YA DOWN Recitation by Author SOMEBODY'LL HAV' TO SHOOT YA DOWN' Poem Text First Line: Charlie parker running a tow-line / from a red barge Last Line: That is beyond the grave like a great granite keep. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Family Life; Life Change Events; Loss; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Peace; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Relatives SUN AND MOON FLOWERS: PAUL KLEE, 1879-1940 Poem Text First Line: First, there is the memory of the dead priest in norway Last Line: With its ice water, blue spikes of lupine, and morphine. Subject(s): Europe; Klee, Paul (1879-1940); Paintings & Painters; Sickness; World War Ii; Illness; Second World War TAOS First Line: You threw the red and white saddle blanket Last Line: Like some unwanted scream in the late winter night THE AMULET Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Blackbirds are scribbling in the winter heat of the trees Last Line: If I did. Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime THE APOCRYPHA OF JACQUES DERRIDA First Line: The ruptured underbelly of a black horse flew overhead Last Line: Moving over snow. Subject(s): Animals; Derrida, Jacques (1930-2001); Horses; Loss; Napoleon I (1769-1821) THE BLUE HOG Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I didn't have to buy the acid Last Line: Who's said to still be in the district. Variant Title(s): A Blue Hog Subject(s): Death - Children; Devil; Pigs; Revenge; Death - Babies; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Boars; Hogs THE BOOK OF THE CRYING KANGLINGS Poem Text Subject(s): Buddhism; Buddha; Buddhists THE BOXCARS OF MARS Poem Text First Line: Two green arms in eggshell white THE BUS STOPPED IN FIELDS OF MISDEMEANOR First Line: I don't know why they turn the irrigation Last Line: And I am of the enemy. And we are legion. Subject(s): Death; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Drugs & Drug Abuse; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin THE CASTE WIFE SPEAKS TO THE ENIGMATIC PARABOLAS Poem Text First Line: The two stone breakers in loincloths Last Line: For the rising cream that forms a golden brick of butter. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Social Classes; Water; Male-female Relations; Caste THE CEREMONY Poem Text First Line: The wedding veils are oppressing them Subject(s): Weddings THE CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: It was the first wednesday of a scarcity of candles Last Line: That evening in a coffin. Variant Title(s): Psalm 23 Subject(s): Animals; Bombs; Family Life; Horses; Sweden; World War Ii; Relatives; Second World War THE CIRCUS RINGMASTER'S APOLOGY TO GOD First Line: It is what we both knew in the sunlight of a restaurant's garden Last Line: Remember? You were glad that I did it once before! Subject(s): Circus; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Story-telling; Male-female Relations THE CITY OF THE OLESHA FRUIT First Line: Outside the window past the two hills there is the city Last Line: Somewhere inside the mind. Subject(s): Cities; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Physical Disabilities; Weather; Writing & Writers; Urban Life; Male-female Relations; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN) First Line: I once dreamt that cezanne lectured on the circumnavigation of a pear Last Line: And peace. Subject(s): Creative Ability; God; Knowledge; Metaphor; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Truth; Inspiration; Creativity; Similes THE COMPOSER'S WINTER DREAM Poem Text First Line: Vivid and heavy, he strolls through dark brick kitchens Last Line: In a struggle with the loud, combatant horns. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Cooking & Cooks; Deafness; Death; Music & Musicians; Winter; Cookery; Dead, The THE CZAR'S LAST CHRISTMAS LETTER: A BARN IN THE URALS Poem Text First Line: You were never told, mother, how old illya was drunk Last Line: And I am nicholas. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Letters; Mothers & Sons; Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Parents; World War I; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood; First World War THE DEATH OF THE RACE CAR DRIVER First Line: I have not slept for a week. / it is matchless-this feeling Last Line: Sack for eternity. Subject(s): Automobile Racing; Dreams; Insomnia; Memory; Sports; War; Race Car Driving; Nightmares; Sleeplessness THE DESERT DEPORTATION OF 1915 First Line: Our dead fathers came down to us in the river Last Line: From the dead. Subject(s): Armenian Genocide, 1909-1918; Death; Funerals; Girls; Graves; Salvation; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE DIAMOND PERSONA First Line: I dreamt tolstoi was mad and running away Last Line: Above some fanciful future spring planting. Subject(s): Dreams; Mysticism; Russia; Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); Nightmares; Soviet Union; Russians THE DIATRIBE OF THE KITE; FOR KHENPO KARTHAR RINPOCHE Poem Text First Line: They come from the white barrier of noon Last Line: Those ancestors for whom we are ashamed. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Asia; Kites; Heritage; Heredity; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE DUCHESSE'S RED SHOES; AFTER PROUST First Line: Swann has visited the duc and duchesse de guermantes Last Line: The chaos of a small pond. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Selflessness; Dead, The THE DUN COW AND THE HAG First Line: Beside the river volga near the village of anskijovka Last Line: Ran off her dress like a lowered hem. Subject(s): Cows; Drowning; Old Age; Poisons & Poisoning; Volga River, Russia; Women THE ELEGY FOR INTEGRAL DOMAINS Poem Text First Line: You watched the slender narcissus wilt Last Line: A christmas tree out of the woods found a body. Subject(s): Lament; Schumann, Robert Alexander (1810-1856); Suicide THE EVENING OF THE PYRAMIDS First Line: A summer night in the desert is as welcome Last Line: There was a dark room and an empty coffer for a king. Subject(s): Egypt; Mortality; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Pyramids THE EVERLASTINGS; FOR L.P. SNYDER AND KARMA WANGMO First Line: In the village it must be a clear night with the light of a red Last Line: It is the thunder at dawn! Subject(s): Death; Rumors; Sea; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE FISH First Line: A pale woman is cradling a large red fish Last Line: Swims toward the bottom to sleep in the mud. Subject(s): Despair; Fish & Fishing; Hope; Salvation; Anglers; Optimism THE FOX WHO WATCHED FOR THE MIDNIGHT SUN First Line: Across the snowy pastures of the estate Last Line: As if the dead hare were soon to awaken. Subject(s): Animals; Dramatists; Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906); Medicine; Plays & Playwrights ; Trapping & Trappers; Writing & Writers; Drugs, Prescription; Dramatists; Traps; Snares; Trappers THE FRIARY AT BLOSSOM, PROLOGUE & INSTRUCTIONS First Line: The pond lilies are like little executions Last Line: — 1967 Subject(s): Animals; Politics & Government; Horses; Lakes; Prisons & Prisoners; Survival; Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542); Pools; Ponds; Convicts THE FUNERAL Poem Text First Line: It felt like the zero in brook ice Last Line: The cancer ate her like horse piss eats deep snow. Subject(s): Aunts; Cancer (disease); Farm Life; Funerals; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers; Burials THE GANGES First Line: I'm sorry but we can't go to the immersions tonight Last Line: Children watering their charges, the black lulled elephants. Subject(s): Funerals; Ganges River, India; Memory; Spiritual Life; Burials THE HOUR Poem Text First Line: A dark, thick branch in the last light is like Last Line: Go fireflies striking their soft, yellow lights. Subject(s): Activity; Dusk; Escapes; Evening; Hope; Exercise; Fugitives; Sunset; Twilight; Optimism THE HOURS; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971 First Line: The meadows are empty. There are two villages Last Line: We were always counting our losses. Subject(s): Bells; Echoes; Loss; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Villages THE HUTS ARE ESQUIMAUX; FOR DAVE SMITH Poem Text First Line: Our clothes are still wet from wading Last Line: To the very quick of his being. Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The THE IDEA OF SOUP Recitation by Author First Line: The women would come in chevrolets Subject(s): Children; Charity; Childhood; Philanthropy THE IMMORALIST Poem Text First Line: Samaden, the julier, tiefenkasten -- the raw egg Last Line: Like the trench of a young couple crossing a lake. Subject(s): Honeymoons; Man-woman Relationships; Murder; Tuberculosis; Male-female Relations; Consumption (pathology) THE JERUSALEM MONIKER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: This gangster of an olive tree THE LION GROTTO First Line: Nothing odd Last Line: He'll ask again why things die. Subject(s): Children; Death; Loss; Childhood; Dead, The THE MERCY SEAT First Line: He sat in an enamel tub with a black Last Line: While he was content to settle on the facts... Subject(s): Angels; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mercy; Salvation; Vision; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1582 First Line: The peninsula seen from the hills near bath Last Line: Where, once, there was a peaceful, tropical ocean. Subject(s): Ghosts; Moths; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Supernatural; Illness THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1952 First Line: Indians stood on a hill in bath and watched Last Line: Into tomorrow. Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge; Moths; Native Americans; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Women; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING Poem Text First Line: A grove of deep sycamores drifts into the hudson Last Line: Stepping out of a mountain into winter daylight. Subject(s): Fathers; Holidays; Moths; Solitude; Thanksgiving; Loneliness THE NOVEL AS MANUSCRIPT Poem Text First Line: I remember the death, in russia, Subject(s): Pasternak, Boris (1890-1960) THE OBSCURE First Line: It's the poor first light of morning Last Line: That her breasts filled the window like a mouth. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Pigs; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Boars; Hogs THE OPEN HAPPENS IN THE MIDST OF BEINGS; MARTIN HEIDEGGER Poem Text First Line: The coroner said a white picket fence Last Line: On the riverbed in a cold white spout... Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Life Change Events; Pleasure; Palmistry THE PARALLAX MONOGRAPH FOR RODIN First Line: I dreamt, last night, of your stone cabinet, porte de l'enfer Last Line: "it's hell, of course." Subject(s): Dreams; Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917); Sculpture & Sculptors; Secrets; Sex; Nightmares THE PENNACESSE LEPER COLONY FOR WOMEN, CAPE COD: 1922 Poem Text First Line: The island, you mustn't say, had only rocks and scrub pine Last Line: Most everything for you. And I'll be gone. Subject(s): Absence; Cape Cod; Fathers & Daughters; History; Leprosy; Separation; Isolation; Historians; Lepers THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S ANNUAL First Line: We are returning to new england for two weeks! My sister Last Line: Throughout the afternoon. Subject(s): Aging; Love - Erotic; Jews; Marriage; Mayas; Mexico; Morality; Photography & Photographers; Poetry & Poets; Vermont; World War Ii; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ethics; Second World War THE READER OF THE SENTENCES First Line: The dead soldiers rise and walk into the trees Last Line: There is the day's work to be done. Subject(s): Books; Children; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); Jesus Christ; Martyrs; Memory; Resurrection, The; World War Ii; Reading; Childhood; Eckhart, Meister; Second World War THE SAINTS OF NEGATIVITY; FOR ERMA POUNDS First Line: It was the first snow in memory, and Last Line: The earth like a crust of bread absorbed them. Subject(s): Evil; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Sabotage; Sculpture & Sculptors THE SCRIVENER'S ROSES; FOR MARVIN FISHER First Line: The gulls fly in close formation becoming a patch of sail Last Line: Inside the convent's south garden wall. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Gulls; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Dead, The; Seagulls; Male-female Relations THE SEAGULL; CHEKHOV AT YALTA Poem Text First Line: A winter evening at the cottage by the bay Last Line: "I will write that we have departed for france, for italy." Subject(s): Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904); Family Life; Funerals; Gardens & Gardening; Graves; Tuberculosis; Relatives; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Consumption (pathology) THE SENTIMENTALISTS Recitation by Author First Line: The poet apollinaire said something Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918) THE SHADOWS AT BOXFORD Poem Text First Line: It's not the white powder cauliflower of still distant moons Last Line: Filling with rain. Subject(s): Aliens; Loyalty; Man-woman Relationships; Extraterrestrials; Male-female Relations THE SPIRIT TABLETS AT GOA LAKE: EPILOGUE Poem Text First Line: An artesian water-gig volunteers in the evening's mustard: Subject(s): Buddhism; Buddha; Buddhists THE TRAIN First Line: Accident could be a god to little boys Last Line: We said, with intonation, what a shame. Subject(s): Accidents; Maine (state); Railroads; Rain; Strangers; Railways; Trains THE TREES OF MADAME BLAVATSKY First Line: There is always the cough. In the afternoon Last Line: Showing her breasts to a boy in a cemetery. Subject(s): Convalescence; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Trees; Walking; Songs THE TROLLEY FROM XOCHIMILCO First Line: The late-afternoon rain stopped. The electric trolley Last Line: The plaster rosettes of the ceiling. Subject(s): Accidents; Buses; Death; Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954); Mexico City; Rivera, Diego (1886-1957); Dead, The THE WEDDING PARTY First Line: When the large frame of the window collapses in the fire Last Line: For the hat that he wore to a wedding. Subject(s): Fire; Marriage; Parties; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIDOW OF THE BEAST OF INGOLSTADT First Line: A fork in the garden, the widow digging Last Line: Her husband's watch had just stopped in his grave. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Marriage; Widows & Widowers; World War Ii; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Second World War THE WORLD ISN'T A WEDDING OF THE ARTISTS OF YESTERDAY Poem Text First Line: A stub of red pencil in your hand Last Line: Is a mystery rising behind you on the wind. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Legacies; Inspiration; Creativity THEY ARE THE QUEENS OF THE BIRD'S BODY First Line: The eagles have left the chalk of fish THOMAS HARDY Poem Text First Line: The first morning after anyone's death, it is important Last Line: You can hear the milk as it drills into wooden pails. Subject(s): Death; Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Life; Poetry & Poets; Sex; Dead, The THOMAS MERTON AND THE WINTER MARSH Poem Text First Line: I went out of the house to smoke. A thousand Last Line: And mother of christ. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Cold; Insects; Merton, Thomas (1915-1968); Spiders; Bugs THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY; AFTER INGMAR BERGMAN First Line: They are out bathing in the sea at night Last Line: Who escort us to and from shock therapy... Subject(s): Bergman, Ingmar (b. 1918); Family Life; Happiness; Night; Sea; Relatives; Joy; Delight; Bedtime; Ocean TO A YOUNG WOMAN DYING First Line: She hears a hermit laughing Last Line: That she loves something she has not found. Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Fear; Hermits; Love; Women; Dead, The TOMB POND; FOR DAVE SMITH First Line: Farmer drags two lashed poles through a storm Last Line: As an old pond once built to solemnize a tomb. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Introspection; Knowledge; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TRAKL Poem Text First Line: In reality the barn wasn't clean, ninety men Last Line: The large sunken eyes of horticulture. Subject(s): Memory; Trakl, Georg (1887-1914); War; Writing & Writers TWO WOMEN ON THE POTOMAC HIGHWAY First Line: On tuesday's bus I heard the man from state Last Line: It made me sick, if you must know. Subject(s): Buses; Conversation; Disdain; Human Abnormalities; Violence; Scorn; Deformities UNION USHERS AT THE NORCROSS FARM - 1863 First Line: Our plane trees were made into ammunition crates UNTITLED LITTLE VERSES ... First Line: The water is green. The two boats out at a distance Last Line: Of a field beside the green, winter sea. Subject(s): Animals; Fights; Horses; Life; Peasantry VICTORY First Line: The bed of the garden is black with nitrogen WHITE RIVER ROAD First Line: It was that confusion of flu Last Line: That were made of a happy calamitous aluminum %that could wake the dead WINE BOWL First Line: There were dragons contending in the wilderness WOMEN WITH CHILDREN First Line: The crows walked over the ice. They picked WRONG DOUBLE SONNET OF THE COUP D'ETAT First Line: The black and white teat mouse %is grooming his mustache Last Line: And bibs. Later, they will measure our fear %while testing the balcony's railing WRONG SONNET OF THE POLITICAL RIGHT AND LEFT Recitation by Author Subject(s): Politics And Politicians; Nixon, Richard (1913-1996) YOU First Line: The sunlight passes through the window into the room Last Line: Still heavy with its desire to be the cloud. Subject(s): Desire; Light; Love; Sewing; Water YOUNG PROFESSOR FROM WYOMING WEARS A RED BANDED SKIN OF SNAKE First Line: We will not speak of these snowy hopi orchards again Last Line: It will take the sun away for three days |
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