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Author: FERLINGHETTI, LAWRENCE Matches Found: 472 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Poet's Biography 472 poems available by this author A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: 1 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In goya's greatest scenes we seem to see Subject(s): Art & Artists; Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Paintings & Painters A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: 11 Poem Text First Line: The wounded wilderness of morris graves Last Line: Among the hebrides Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: 15 Poem Text First Line: Constantly risking absurdity Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: 20 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The pennycandystore beyond the el Subject(s): Love - Beginnings A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: 46 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: And every poem and every picture A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: 9 Poem Text Recitation First Line: See/it was like this when A DOG IN THE WHITE HOUSE Recitation by Author ADIEU A CHARLOT (SECOND POPULIST MANIFESTO) First Line: Sons of whitman sons of poe Last Line: And walk away from us %in the great american night AFTERNOON IDYLL First Line: The flowers ALIENATION: TWO BEES First Line: I came upon them in the cabin ALLEN GINSBERG DYING Poem Text First Line: Allen ginsberg is dying / it's in all the papers Last Line: They whisper / allen Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997) ALLEN GINSBERG DYING First Line: Allen ginsberg is dying %it's in all the papers Last Line: Allen %they whisper %allen Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997) ALLEN STILL First Line: Allen died 49 nights ago, and in bixby canyon now the white Last Line: Arise from it, from him, dusty passageur? ALLEN THIS INSTANT First Line: Allen this instant %was sitting by me %on this bed Last Line: See you again %dear allen AMANT DES GARES AN ELEGY TO DISPEL GLOOM (ASSASSINATIONS OF MOSCONE & MILK) First Line: Let us not sit upon the ground Subject(s): Assassination; San Francisco AND ARE WE NOT THEN IN THE REAL PARADISO NOT IN DANTE'S Last Line: Forever in this shining moment in our own immortal time AND EVERY POEM AND EVERY PICTURE Last Line: Smiling darkly in the blinding light AND LO First Line: And lo a star arose in the east Last Line: Which is love on earth forever and ever %amen! AND LOVE BE WRITTEN ON RUNNING WATER Last Line: Sings through the sluices %of everyday life AND PABLO NERUDA / THAT CHILEAN OMNIVORE OF POETRY Poem Text Last Line: Into the heart of america Subject(s): Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973) AND PABLO NERUDA / THAT CHILEAN OMNIVORE OF POETRY Last Line: Into the heart of america Subject(s): Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973) AND SAMUEL BECKETT'S HOUSE OF CARDS Last Line: Fain would not leave us ANGRY GOD First Line: Paris rue de la bucherie APOLLINAIRE IN AMERICA First Line: Over the high sierras %flies the plane Last Line: Over the far sierra %flies the plane APPEARANCES OF THE ANGEL IN OHIO First Line: A loopy angel with one wing %comes out of the p.O. %and gets in a chariot Last Line: That you're back safe in heaven %broken angels! ARE THERE NOT STILL FIRELIES Last Line: Signalling to us %our manifest destinies? ARTIST First Line: The party hoppers %wolfing down the wine and cheese Last Line: And roll upon the floor? Variant Title(s): The Party Hoppers / Wolfing Down The Wine And Chees ASCENDING OVER OHIO First Line: The angels coming down the aisles Last Line: Of her airborne breasts ASSASSINATION RAGA First Line: Tune in to a raga Last Line: People with roses %behind the barricades ASTONISHED HEART First Line: She of the shining eyes Last Line: Into the astonished heart of america AT ELLIS ISLAND I SAW HER Last Line: In the wide womb of america AT NIGHT / A DYING STAR Last Line: Perched above it %sings an obit AT THE BODEGA First Line: The hot young stud flamenco dancer AT THE GARE BRUXELLES-MIDI First Line: Two people saying goodbye Last Line: Around %on the %table AT THE GOLDEN GATE Last Line: And begin becoming pure light AUTOBIOGRAPHY Poem Text First Line: I am leading a quiet life Subject(s): Self; Life AUTOBIOGRAPHY First Line: I am leading a quiet life Last Line: Instructing the horsemen %to pass AWAY ABOVE A HARBORFUL Poem Text Subject(s): Beauty; Desire BACH & MOZART IN SAINT-JULIEN-LE-PAUVRE First Line: In this eternal grotto BACK ROADS TO FAR PLACES First Line: Basho would have liked Last Line: Meat wheel %turns BACK ROADS TO FAR TOWNS AFTER BASHO First Line: Make it new Last Line: Reflected in it BAJA BEATITUDES First Line: The great gray gaviota Last Line: Upon which mute ships race %toward a common humanity BAJA REVISITED First Line: Baja wild baja Last Line: Hull down in winnebagos BASEBALL CANTO Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Watching baseball Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL CANTO First Line: Watching baseball Last Line: In the territorio libre of baseball Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BELATED PALINODE FOR DYLAN THOMAS First Line: In wales at laugharne at last I stand beside Last Line: Dylan of all our days BETWEEN TWO CITIES First Line: Brown stubble cornfields %by a railroad crossing Last Line: The lone and level fields %stretch away BIG SUR 6/23/97 First Line: The birds slept-in this morning Last Line: In single syllables %before breakfast Subject(s): Birds; Mountains BIG SUR LIGHT First Line: What is that sound that fills the air Last Line: And a divine spasm %shakes the universe BIG SUR LIGHT: 4 Poem Text First Line: The birds slept-in this morning Last Line: Before breakfast Subject(s): Birds; Mountains; Hills BILLBOARD PAINTERS First Line: The two white-overalled white-capped signpainters BLIND POET First Line: I am your blind poet and painter Last Line: Hang my painting! %publish my poem! BLOOD OF THE BAG LADY First Line: Happy he %who held those breasts %apples of bliss Last Line: Teeming tide pool born of oceans %mother of us all BLUE-BOTTLE FLY / ALIGHTED ON MY PALETTE Last Line: And crashed with a terrible cry %inaudible to me BOCCIONI'S MORNING AND TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: Ah the so-bright future Last Line: To the trembling future of the world Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters BOCCIONI'S MORNING AND TWILIGHT First Line: Ah the so-bright future Last Line: Upon a single stark figure waving farewell %to the trembling future of the world Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters BOUNCER'S BAR First Line: Passed the bouncer's bar tonight Last Line: And lets out a bloody cry Variant Title(s): Passed The Bouncer's Bar Tonigh BUDDHA IN THE WOODPILE First Line: If there had been only Last Line: The free american air %of the first amendment BUT WHAT IS THAT LAUGHTER UNDER THE HILL Last Line: Here at the end of the world BY BROOKLYN BRIDGE AN ELEPHANT STANDS UNDER THE ELEVATED Last Line: As the sun turns tropic %over green mansions BY THE STATUE OF RODIN Last Line: In metal effigy? %ah rodin -- rodin CAFE NOTRE DAME Poem Text First Line: A sort of sexual trauma Last Line: Of their passion Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners CAFE NOTRE DAME First Line: A sort of sexual trauma Last Line: In the mons veneris %of their passion Subject(s): Restaurants CANTI ROMANI First Line: At kennedy airport Last Line: In new strange uniform %no one has ever seen CANTI TOSCANI First Line: Tuscan woman1with olive eyes CANTICLE OF JACK KEROUAC First Line: Far from the sea far from the sea Last Line: He steals away %with the bell CARRARA, LOOKING SEAWARD First Line: Saw carrara's marble mountains Last Line: Della carne umana CAT First Line: The cat Last Line: And the hum of the heater CAT DOING KUNDALINI Last Line: With leda looking on CHALLENGES TO YOUNG POETS First Line: Invent a new language anyone can understand Last Line: Wake up and pee, the world's on fire. %have a nice day CHANGING LIGHT First Line: The changing light at san francisco Last Line: The city drifts %anchorless upon the ocean Subject(s): Americans; United States CLAMSHELL ALLIANCE First Line: Here by the sea CLONING AT THE HAWK & DOVE First Line: I wander into the 'hawk and dove' COME LIE WITH ME AND BE MY LOVE Last Line: All night under the cyprus tree %without making love CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: 1 First Line: In goya's greatest scenes we seem to see Last Line: And engines %that devour america Subject(s): Art And Artists; Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Paintings And Painters CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: 11 First Line: The wounded wilderness of morris graves Last Line: And unfed %among the hebrides Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: 15 First Line: Constantly risking absurdity Last Line: Spreadeagled in the empty air of existence Subject(s): Poetry And Poets CRICKET SOMEWHERE / WINDS HIS WATCH Last Line: In which I %dip my paintbrush CRO-MAGNONS Poem Text First Line: Cro-magnons carried stones for books Last Line: In one cooled instant of carbonized time / deciphered eternity Subject(s): Primitive Man; Cavemen CRO-MAGNONS First Line: Cro-magnons carried stones for books Last Line: Deciphered eternity Subject(s): Primitive Man DANCE OF THE MIND Last Line: Lyric breakthrough %into inner space DARK PORTRAIT First Line: She always said 'tu' in such a way Last Line: And when she grew old %slept among horses DARKNESS, CHEZ GEORGE WHITMAN First Line: Sometime toward four a.M. DAY AFTER DAY RETURNING Last Line: Pour or paint or print or stamp upon it %a final face DEATH COMES ON / LIKE A BEETHOVEN CONCERTO Last Line: In the final unheard chord DEEP CHESS First Line: Life itself like championship chess Last Line: And there's still time %your move DEFEATED ROMANTICISM / OF T.S. ELIOT Last Line: A copy of the waste land %on a very high shelf Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965) DEFLOWERING Poem Text First Line: Life deflowers itself Last Line: Upon her breasts Subject(s): Education DEFLOWERING First Line: Life deflowers itself Last Line: Puts his hands %upon her breast Subject(s): Education DICTIONARIES OF LIGHT First Line: The sun the sun %comes round the corner Last Line: Untamed rampant radicals %in dictionaries of light DIRECTOR OF ALIENATION First Line: Looking in the mirrors at macy's Last Line: Waving plastic jewels and genitals DIRTY TONGUE First Line: The little black dog with the small head and funny tail Last Line: On the far far outskirts %of the roman empire DISSIDENTS, BIG SUR First Line: January bright sun DO DREAMS RESCUE YOUR EGO Last Line: And await the lightning's %next illumination DOG Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The dog trots freely in the street Subject(s): Dogs; Animals; Dogs DOG Poem Text Recitation First Line: The dog trots freely in the street Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG First Line: The dog trots freely in the street Last Line: Some victorious answer %to everything Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG HANGS HIS SNOUT Last Line: Through the eyes of his master DON JUAN DISCOVERED BY HAIDEE Poem Text First Line: Hot dog I got me a naked lover Last Line: On sunset earth Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Don Juan DON JUAN DISCOVERED BY HAIDEE First Line: Hot dog I got me a naked lover Last Line: Him the last man in sight %on sunset earth Subject(s): Art And Artists; Don Juan; Paintings And Painters DON'T CRY FOR ME INDIANA First Line: I feel like I %just got beamed down by scotty in 'star trek' Last Line: Holds the door open for me %whereaway? DON'T LET THAT HORSE Poem Text Last Line: And there were no strings / attached Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Chagall, Marc (1889-1885) DON'T LET THAT HORSE Last Line: And there were no strings %attached Subject(s): Art And Artists; Chagall, Marc (1889-1885); Paintings And Painters DON€™T LET THAT HORSE Poem Text Recitation Subject(s): Chagall, Marc (1889-1885) DOVE STA AMORE / WHERE LIES LOVE Last Line: Dove sta amore %here lies love DRINKING FRENCH WINE IN MIDDLE AMERICA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Bought a bottle of vouvray Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DRINKING FRENCH WINE IN MIDDLE AMERICA First Line: Bought a bottle of vouvray %and poured out its bouquet Last Line: And to what homing-%beardless ghost come back again! DRIVING A CARDBOARD AUTOMOBILE WITHOUT A LICENSE Last Line: Reaching out to embrace them DUST WORLD: 1 First Line: Whirlwinds of hot autumn dust Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations DUST WORLD: 1 First Line: Whirlwinds of hot autumn dust Last Line: For my people dying Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DUST WORLD: 2 First Line: With pupil-dilated putti in arms Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations DUST WORLD: 2 First Line: With pupil-dilated putti in arms Last Line: This is the whiskey talking now Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations EIGHT PEOPLE ON A GOLF COURSE AND ONE BIRD OF FREEDOM First Line: The phoenix flies higher & higher ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF KENNETH PATCHEN First Line: A poet is born %a poet dies Last Line: Where a white horse without a rider %turns its head %to the sea ELEGY TO DISPEL GLOOM (ASSASSINATIONS OF MOSCONE & MILK) First Line: Let us not sit upon the ground Last Line: Such men as these do rise above %our worst imaginings Subject(s): Assassination; San Francisco END OF VARIOUS AFFAIRS First Line: What is that great crow doing ENDLESS LIFE First Line: Endless the splendid life of the world Last Line: There is a sound of revelry by night EUPHORIA First Line: As I approach the state of pure euphoria Last Line: I wear egyptian clothing EVERYTHING CHANGES AND NOTHING CHANGES Last Line: And laughter arises %on the distant sea EXPRESSIONIST HISTORY OF GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM Poem Text First Line: The blue rider rode over the bridge into the bauhaus Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters EXPRESSIONIST HISTORY OF GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM First Line: The blue rider rode over the bridge into the bauhaus Last Line: And his ovens were heating %as a tin drum began beating Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters FABLE OF THE SO-CALLED BIRDS First Line: In rome FINISTERE FIRENZE, A LIFETIME LATER First Line: A cavatina of broken parlando utterances Last Line: Our lives not shaken %by our coming FIRST, THE NEWS First Line: Sun gets up %shedding light on us Last Line: Oh rose of tralee in the super mart %I love you FLIGHT THROUGH TIME First Line: Wearing apollinaire's derby I am in a zepplin with a Last Line: Bent space flame-outs illuminate the landscape FLOWER SELLER AT COVENT GARDEN 1989 First Line: A great great great granddaughter Last Line: Like a songbird swooping %over the madding crowd Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters FORTUNE / HAS ITS COOKIES TO GIVE OUT FREIGHTS First Line: The long freights %let out their lonely shrieks Last Line: Unsure of what bright future %he was fighting for GENERAL SONG OF HUMANITY First Line: On the coast of chile where neruda lived GENERALS - A NAIVE DREAM First Line: The modern military bus GOYA AND THE SLEEP OF REASON First Line: The dark stone statue of goya Last Line: And atrocious clarity %of his distant GREAT AMERICAN WATERFRONT POEM First Line: San francisco land's end and ocean's beginning the land the Last Line: The balclutha's whistle blows the tide is at the ebb %the phone rings GREAT CHINESE DRAGON First Line: The great chinese dragon which is the greatest dragon in all Last Line: The final coming and the final sowing of his oats and teeth GREAT RIVER / IMAGE OF TIME Last Line: In which I would decipher %your inscrutable name GREEN STREET MORTUARY MARCHING BAND Last Line: Brokendown irish bartenders dying for a drink or a last hurrah GROTTAMARE First Line: Turquoise sea off grottamare Last Line: The sea sends back %its turquoise answer HE (TO ALLEN GINSBERG OF THE 1950'S, BEFORE 'THE CHANGE') First Line: He is one of the prophets come back Last Line: Deatd death %death HE MADE THE USUAL FOOL OF HIMSELF Last Line: And she did she did HE WITH THE BEATING WINGS First Line: The lark has no tree Last Line: He %with the beating wings HEAP OF BROKEN IMAGES First Line: Empty house on a horizon Last Line: There is no such thing as death HEAVY First Line: There was this man who was not myself, this short, squat HIDDEN DOOR (HYMN TO MACHU PICCHU, AFTER NERUDA) First Line: Hidden door dead secret %which is mother Last Line: Playing their flutes %and beating drums HIGHWAY PATROL First Line: When we zoomed off freeway 80 other side of sacramento HILARIOUS GOD First Line: 10 august 77...Raft trip tody/upearly to ride in a truck upriver Last Line: Deep pool/we fish no longer/turn/ and go on/into the deeper pools %of our own lives HISTORY IS MADE / OF THE LIES OF THE VICTORS' Last Line: Can you spare a dime HISTORY OF THE AIRPLANE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: And the wright brothers said they thought they had invented Last Line: "fill the air Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 HISTORY OF THE AIRPLANE First Line: And the wright brothers said they thought they had invented Last Line: Fill the air %everywhere Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HISTORY OF THE WORLD: A TV DOCU-DRAMA First Line: Dark mind dark soul dark age Last Line: A child turns up the brightness HOLIDAY INN BLUES First Line: In a dark cave called fuzzy's Last Line: With tongues alack %for love Subject(s): Hotels HOME HOME HOME First Line: Where are they going Last Line: Over the shaken bodies %in the bed HORSE IN AMSTERDAM, AFTER REMBRANDT Poem Text First Line: If I could read the blazed face Last Line: In the wilderness of its eyes Subject(s): Horses; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669) HORSE IN AMSTERDAM, AFTER REMBRANDT First Line: If I could read the blazed face Last Line: And nothing stops the stoned night %in the wilderness of its eyes Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters HORSES AT DAWN Poem Text First Line: The horses the horses the wild horses at dawn Last Line: Out of the night Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters HORSES AT DAWN First Line: The horses the horses the wild horses at dawn Last Line: The sun roars & %throws their shadows %out of the night Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters HOW CLEAR YOUR VOICE FROM BELGRADE First Line: Young friend when you rang up HOW FRAGILE THE FLESH Last Line: Pale idols in the night streets %dance and bound to death HOW THE LIGHT / LAY ON THE LEAVES Last Line: In the autumn of that year I AM WAITING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I am waiting for my case to come up Subject(s): Waiting I AM WAITING First Line: I am waiting for my case to come up Last Line: A renaissance of wonder I AM YOU First Line: Man half woman I GENITORI PERDUTI Poem Text First Line: The dove-white gulls Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives I GENITORI PERDUTI First Line: The dove-white gulls Last Line: Across the silent grass I HAVE NOT LAIN WITH BEAUTY ALL MY LIFE Last Line: Upon the bosch-like world I HEARD A WOMAN MAKING LOVE TODAY Last Line: Dreaming of a lioness lover I SAW GREAT NEPTUNE Last Line: Those ravaged images of %its late fate I SAW ONE OF THEM First Line: I saw one of them sleeping Last Line: The view from there was great Variant Title(s): I Saw One Of Them Sleepin I SAW TWO LOVERS Last Line: As we surfed through it %morphing into eternity I WOULD NOT MAKE A PACT WITH YOU Last Line: Still in your eyes %having beaten out your exile I WRING THE NECK OF THE SWAN Last Line: The mask of her face %fallen out of darkness IMAGINARY HAPPENING, LONDON First Line: In the lower left-hand corner %of an album landscape Last Line: One more tree %falls in the forest IN A SURREALIST YEAR Poem Text Last Line: "full of our ashes Subject(s): Surrealism IN A SURREALIST YEAR Last Line: Full of our ashes %floated by Subject(s): Social Protest IN A TIME OF REVOLUTION FOR INSTANCE First Line: I had just ordered a fishplate at the counter when IN FAR-OUT POETRY / THE HEART BLEEDS UPON THE PAGE Last Line: Those fine tatoos of living %known as poems IN GOLDEN GATE PARK THAT DAY Poem Text IN GOLDEN GATE PARK THAT DAY Last Line: Except a certain awful look %of terrible depression Subject(s): San Francisco IN LOCK OF LOVE Last Line: In lock of love %begotten IN THAT HINTERNATION / THAT STRETCHES WESTWARD FROM MANHATTAN Last Line: Having sown the iron seeds %of autogeddon IN THE BEGINNING / WASN'T THE WORD Last Line: With its wondrous %pips of words IN THE CATALOG RAISONNE / OF HIERONYMUS BOSCH Last Line: The liberated orgies of his time IN THE DINER First Line: Peter lorre in the shiney diner Last Line: The sky reddens %over the swamps IN THE GARDENS OF THE ALHAMBRA Last Line: Deep as the duende %in a gypsy's keening IN THE HILLS ABOVE FIRENZE / THE FIREFLIES Last Line: Not about to end %in a dearth of light IN THE SALA DI PRANZO Last Line: As if beneath the table %eros still stirred IN WOODS WHERE MANY RIVERS RUN First Line: In woods where many rivers run Last Line: And question every other %spring and thing INAUGURAL ADDRESS First Line: I certainly was surprised to be named poet laureate of this Last Line: La vida es sueno? Is life literally a dream? And, if so, when %will we truly awake? INSCRUTABLE First Line: Flying blind from paris INSTRUCTIONS TO PAINTERS & POETS First Line: I asked a hundred painters and a hundred poets Last Line: That you've created %a new brave world INSURGENT MEXICO First Line: In scorched dry desert INTO DARKNESS, IN GRANADA Poem Text First Line: O if I were not so unhappy Last Line: In a dove boat Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) INTO DARKNESS, IN GRANADA First Line: O if I were not so unhappy Last Line: In a dove boat Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) INTO THE DEEPER POOLS First Line: I put on the diving mask and went down INTO THE INTERIOR First Line: I am your whispered voice %your inside voice Last Line: Heed my whisperings... %heed my whisperings ISLES OF GREECE Last Line: About to dance and sing IT'S A WOMAN'S WORLD Last Line: And totally in control of the situation ITALIAN-AMERICAN BIMBO FROM BROOKLYN Last Line: Looking just like proles %in orwell's woeful 1984 JACK OF HEARTS First Line: Who are now, who are we ever Last Line: Who stands in a doorway %clothed in sun JOHN LENNON IN THE PORTO SANTO STEFANO First Line: A trattoria in the porto Last Line: The mad eternal answer JOURNAL NOTES TURNING INTO A POEM First Line: The birth certificate says 106 saratoga avenue yonkers Last Line: Shouts and laughter %tears and whispers %fill the air KIDS BLOWING BUBBLES / IN FRONT OF THE PIZZERIA Last Line: New kid on the block %did just arise L'OCCUPATION OBSEDEE First Line: Assis sur la terrasse cafe saint-severin Last Line: Bouche bouclee %fraternite LA DAME AUX CAMELIAS First Line: After ringing the bell for some time and no answer LADAKH BUDDHESS BIKER Poem Text First Line: The ladakh buddhess is watching me Last Line: Of our kali yuga age Subject(s): Buddhism; Motorcycles & Motorcycling; Buddha; Buddhists LADAKH BUDDHESS BIKER First Line: The ladakh buddhess is watching me Last Line: Of our kali yuga age Subject(s): Buddhism; Motorcycles And Motorcycling LAST PRAYER Recitation by Author Subject(s): Prayer LATE IMPRESSIONIST DREAM Poem Text First Line: In a late impressionist dream I am riding in an open touring Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters LATE IMPRESSIONIST DREAM First Line: In a late impressionist dream I am riding in an open touring Last Line: Kerouac and hearing the sound of the sea in which the fish %still speak breton Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters LAUGHING & CRYING First Line: I laugh to hear me say what I am saying LEAVES DANCED TO MOZART / ABOVE THE WORLD'S STATIC Last Line: And dancing with them %ecstatic LIBRARY SCENE, MANHATTAN First Line: In the new york public library %in the men's john Last Line: Sailing on together %through the postmodern weather LIGHT First Line: Couples on the boat to the isola di giglio Last Line: The light that attracts the fish at night LIGHT KNOWS RAIN / AND HOW TO USE IT Last Line: And man gets up %and puts his lenses on LIGHT OF BIRDS First Line: I early learned to love birds Last Line: The distant muffled caws %of our own night LION CAME TO MY WINDOW Last Line: And a taste for mgm movies LIVING THEATRE First Line: In a little side street Last Line: In the living theatre LONDON CROSSFIGURED Poem Text Subject(s): London, England; Models LONG BOATS Last Line: Farewell LOOK HOMEWARD, JACK: TWO CORRESPONDENCES First Line: Cruising down long winding highway near asheville and LOST PARENTS Poem Text First Line: It takes a fast car / to lead a double life Subject(s): Modern Man; Popular Culture - United States LOST PARENTS First Line: It takes a fast car %to lead a double life Last Line: For lost parents %their own age Subject(s): Modern Man; Popular Culture - United States LOVE NUT First Line: I go into the men's room springfield bus station Last Line: He wants what he wants! He's gotta be crazy call the cops %take him away LOVER LEAVES THE HOUSE OF HER LOVER Last Line: Through which all life has poured LOVERS UNDER THE PORTICO Last Line: Would not fall apart MAJESTY First Line: The majesty the sad majesty MAKING LOVE IN POETRY First Line: In a war where every second counts Last Line: There is no glimpsing of %the misery of the world MAN WHO RODE AWAY First Line: Above taos now Last Line: Rattles the pine needles %of your bones MAN WHO ROSE AWAY (D.H. LAWRENCE) First Line: Above taso now %I peer through the crack MANHATTAN MAMA First Line: Those stone canyons again %alone as usual Last Line: What really needs curating %mama mia MASS IN PROGRESS IN THE LISTING CHURCH Last Line: Adrift in the mediterranean MATINAL First Line: The critic crow MATISSE AT THE MODERN, MAGRITTE AT THE MET First Line: It is november nineteen ninety-two Last Line: To subvert the dominant paradigm MEETING OF EYES IN MEXICO First Line: Suddenly %you are speaking to me MILANO-BRUXELLES First Line: Lost rain shunted MIND DANCES / WHEN THE BODY LETS IT Last Line: And then it is indeed %an enchanting thing MOCK CONFESSIONAL First Line: Fish-sky at morning Last Line: Though now I am old MODERN POETRY IS PROSE (BUT IT IS SAYING PLENTY) First Line: I am thumbing through a great anthology of contemporazry poetry MONET'S LILIES SHUDDERING First Line: Monet never knew Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters MONET'S LILIES SHUDDERING First Line: Monet never knew Last Line: And making those lilies shudder and shed %black light Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters MONSIEUR NICHOLAS MOORED First Line: A boat moored %in the deep shade Last Line: They too %gone on MORLAIX: INTO THE FUTURE WITH NEIL YOUNG First Line: At the cafe de la terrasse Last Line: Full of shining strangers MOSCOW IN THE WILDERNESS, SEGOVIA IN THE SNOW First Line: Midnight moscow airport %sucks me in from siberia Last Line: And utters %ecstatic static MOUTH First Line: I'm tired of my mouth %it's too small Last Line: No human ever heard before %nor ever sung MOUTH OF TRUTH First Line: Is this the mouth of truth Last Line: To whom will she tell it %in what dream MOVING WATERS' OF GUSTAV KLIMT First Line: Who are they then Last Line: In which we lose ourselves %and know each other Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters NARCISSUS ALWAYS CARRIED / A SMALL HAND MIRROR Last Line: In which might still be reflected %a totally ideal being NATION OF SHEEP First Line: Flying over the snowfields NATIVE-BORN NEW YORKER Last Line: Some far rockaway of the heart NATURAL HISTORY First Line: Winter's back is broken %the squirrels are out %in central park Last Line: Into the oncoming traffic %of the 21st century NEVER A MADMAN / YET NEVER FAR Last Line: White night %the final %antic vision NEW YORK - ALBANY First Line: God I had forgoten how %the hudson burns Last Line: Small nuts fall %mine too NIGHT LIGHT First Line: Night, night %death's true self, death's second self NORTH BEACH SCENE First Line: Away above a harborful Last Line: Stand out the bright steamers %to kingdom come Variant Title(s): Pictures Of The Gone World: NOT LIKE DANTE NOTE AFTER READING THE DIARIES OF PAUL KLEE First Line: Paul klee, that painter who never could draw very well NUMBER 8 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It was a face which darkness could kill O / HEART / INVOLUNTARY MUSCLE Last Line: (seeing a certain someone) %feel love O FRAGILE POEMS / FLOWERS OF NIGHT-LOVE Last Line: All, all poems in the human dream %still to be liberated OBSCURE COMPOSER / SHE WAS Last Line: As swan met swan %and ass ass OH YOU GATHERER First Line: Oh you gatherer %of the fine of poetry Last Line: With our little tapers %held to the flame OISEAU DELABRE OLBERS' PARADOX First Line: And I heard the learned astronomer %whose name was heinrich olber Last Line: And our own illumination %on a sunset earth OLD ITALIANS DYING First Line: For years the old italians have been dying %all over america Last Line: In a black boat without sails %making his final haul Subject(s): Old Age OLD SAILORS First Line: On the green riverbank %age late fifties Last Line: They too lost without it %leap up and die ON THE STAGE SET / OF THE PIAZZA DELLA ROTUNDA Last Line: The very distant roaring %of their own futures ON THE TRANSSIBERIAN First Line: Knock knock on wooden russia! ONE GREAT BIRD / FLEW AROUND SILENTLY Last Line: But traveled over the sea %like gulls ONE OF THESE DAYS First Line: When I am old Last Line: Where imbeciles wearing tinsel wings %drop from the trees t palms ONE OF THOSE PAINTINGS THAT WOULD NOT DIE' Poem Text Last Line: For lovers and sleepers Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ONE OF THOSE PAINTINGS THAT WOULD NOT DIE' Last Line: Hollered horribly %for lovers and sleepers Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters ONLY CONNECT!' / CRIED COLUMBUS Last Line: And fell into the canyons %of wall street mainstreet usa OOPE, PAMPLONA! CRIED THE POPE Last Line: And flew away %over the rooftops OVERHEARD CONVERSATIONS First Line: A talent for ecclectic theft OVERHEARD CONVERSATIONS First Line: Overheard conversations on hot summer nights Last Line: Still to be re-sung OVERPOPULATION First Line: I must have misunderstood something Last Line: To limit population %is to limit love PAINTER'S DILEMMA First Line: There they all were still, the unfinished canvasses, all chimeras, chiaroscuro Last Line: Became, and the brush could not reach the boundaries of being inside plato's cave Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters PAINTER'S DREAM First Line: I'm with picasso and 'fernande in a black mantilla' looking tragic Last Line: Berets stagger through the halls weeping PARIS TRANSFORMATIONS First Line: Clay somnambule returned Last Line: Playing piano on a riverboat PENNYCANDYSTORE BEYOND THE EL PENNYCANDYSTORE BEYOND THE EL Last Line: And they cried %too soon! Too soon PEOPLE GETTING DIVORCED Poem Text PEOPLE GETTING DIVORCED Last Line: Once the heel %has been replaced Subject(s): Divorce PHOENIX AT FIFTY First Line: At new age fifty %turn inward on old self PHOTO OF EMILY First Line: She wore a cloche hat Last Line: In the rue de seine Subject(s): Aunts PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 10 First Line: For all I know maybe she was happier Last Line: Blew in and out PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 11 First Line: Fortune Last Line: Because I guess really we were the only ones there PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 12 First Line: And she 'like a young year Last Line: The struck seed was in her PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 13 First Line: It was a face which darkness could kill Last Line: Let fall a stocking PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 14 First Line: So Last Line: After th' show PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 15 First Line: Funny fantasies are never so real as oldstyle romances Last Line: Let's lie down somewheres baby PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 16 First Line: Three maidens went over the land Last Line: It was red PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 17 First Line: Terrible Last Line: A sweet high hungry %single syllable PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 18 First Line: London Last Line: Slept in her clothes Variant Title(s): London Crossfigure PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 19 First Line: With bells for hooves in sounding streets Last Line: But it was too late and they buried her PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 2 First Line: Just as I used to say Last Line: Where the rails end is PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 20 First Line: That fellow on the boattrain who insisted Last Line: That flittered on my mind PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 21 First Line: Heaven %was only half as far that night Last Line: And glad Variant Title(s): Heave PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 22 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Crazy/to be alive in such a strange Subject(s): Life PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 22 First Line: Crazy Last Line: Are you by any chance a registered democrat? PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 23 First Line: Dada would have liked a day like this Last Line: With its not so accidental anologies PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 24 First Line: Picasso's acrobats epitomize the world Last Line: C'est pas symbolique! Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 25 First Line: The world is a beautiful place Last Line: But then right in the middle of it %comes the smiling %mortician PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 26 First Line: Reading yeats I do not think Last Line: Where a pencilhand had written %horseman, pass by PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 27 First Line: Sweet and various the woodlark Last Line: I too have drunk and seen %the spider PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 28 First Line: And each poem a picture Last Line: Back into it PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 29 First Line: Bicyclists among the trees by the lake Last Line: Could never break PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 3 Poem Text First Line: In hintertime praxiteles Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 3 First Line: In hintertime praxiteles Last Line: At a later hour said Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 30 First Line: A hole in a redwood tree Last Line: The light sings PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 31 First Line: Ah there's the moon Last Line: When day is done PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 32 First Line: Pale horse pale rider' Last Line: Still anything can happen %and does PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 33 First Line: Three wapiti elk in heartland america Last Line: Fatally outnumbered PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 34 First Line: Surfers are poets too Last Line: On the rimeless rocks of outrageous fortune PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 35 First Line: Her voice was full of yes Last Line: But sank straight down with her to god PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 36 First Line: People kept coming in and looking Last Line: In the half-life %of a fish PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 37 First Line: At the hopper house Last Line: An isolated house %on a hill PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 38 First Line: Loneliness Last Line: Waving the flowers PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 39 First Line: A blockage in the bowel Last Line: God help america! PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 4 First Line: In paris in a loud dark winter Last Line: Which I am still deciphering PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 40 First Line: On upper fifth ave Last Line: Opens the door PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 41 First Line: In an old black & white photo Last Line: Her eyes on remote PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 42 First Line: She looked so good in the morning Last Line: Very gravely looked out PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 43 First Line: Why don't you sometime try Last Line: Echo like bells PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 44 First Line: As in play by jean-paul sartre Last Line: His far-out time and place PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 45 First Line: The classical masks of Last Line: True-life tragicomedies follow after PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 5 First Line: Not too long Last Line: On the very tip of his nose PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 6 First Line: And the arabs asked terrible questions Last Line: And a statue turned its head PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 7 First Line: Yes Last Line: When they should have been dancing PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 8 Poem Text First Line: Sarolla's women in their picture hats Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 8 First Line: Sarolla's women in their picture hats Last Line: And night's trees stood up Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 9 First Line: Truth is not the secret of a few' Last Line: In those high altitudes PIED PIPER OF IRON MOUNTAIN First Line: The plane drones toward iron mountain michigan PLAN DU CENTRE DE PARIS A VOL D'OISEAU First Line: Flying away to milan Last Line: With a slight derisive laugh PLANE LIFE First Line: Twa to boston and PLANE WINGS AWAY TOWARD HEAVEN Last Line: As we come floating in PLOUGH OF TIME First Line: Night closed my windows and Last Line: Furrowing our lives POEM FOR OLD WALT First Line: Spring dusk dark shore Last Line: On the very shores of light POET AS FISHERMAN First Line: As I grow older I perceive Last Line: And singing out his sightings %of the land of the living POET'S EYE OBSCENELY SEEING Last Line: And mislaid %among the sunbathers POETIC CITY THAT WAS First Line: The painter, who thought he was stephan dedalus in Last Line: Theme-park, without artists. And he was on the street POETRY AS INSURGENT ART Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I am signaling you through the flames. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War Ii; Second World War POLITICAL POEM First Line: Night night night night night night night POPULATION EXPLODES / AND THE SUN WEARS SHADES Last Line: Where virtual armies clash by night POPULIST MANIFESTO Poem Text First Line: Poets, come out of your closets Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) POPULIST MANIFESTO First Line: Poets, come out of your closets Last Line: Awake and sing in the open air Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) POUND AT SPOLETO Poem Text First Line: I walked into a loge in the teatro melisson, the lovely renaissance salle Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) POUND AT SPOLETO First Line: I walked into a loge in the teatro melisson, the lovely renaissance salle Last Line: And on %through the leaves Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) PRESENT IS A CHANCE EVENT Last Line: And disappears forever %into the greater mystery PURE WHITE IN FIRST LIGHT Last Line: And long he lay with that virgin %lusting for a purity his own QUEENS CEMETERY, SETTING SUN Poem Text First Line: Airport bus from jfk Subject(s): Cemeteries; New York City; Graveyards; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple QUEENS CEMETERY, SETTING SUN First Line: Airport bus from jfk Last Line: Down the great american drain REACHING INTO THE GREAT ABYSS Last Line: The blind fish of man's fate READING APOLLINAIRE ... First Line: Reading apollinaire here READING APOLLINAIRE BY THE ROGUE RIVER Last Line: And none returning %none returning REAR-GUARD GALLERIES / IN THE VIA MARGUTTA Last Line: Ringing out the end %of the christian era REBELS First Line: Star-stricken still Last Line: Strikes its match upon %our night RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS IN KHABAROVSKY OR ANYPLACE First Line: One grand boulevard with trees RECURRENT DREAM First Line: One of those dreamed landscapes REPORT ON A HAPPENING IN WASHINGTON SQUARE SAN FRANCISCO First Line: When the lovely bride and groom came out onto the grand front steps Last Line: Normal course of life lose their breath and shrivel away and fall to earth %out of air Variant Title(s): A Report On A Happening In Washington Square, San Francisc RETIRED BALLERINAS, CENTRAL PARK WEST Poem Text First Line: Retired ballerinas on winter afternoons Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers RETIRED BALLERINAS, CENTRAL PARK WEST First Line: Retired ballerinas on winter afternoons %walking their dogs Last Line: Like last year's autumn leaves RETURNING TO PARIS WITH PISSARRO Poem Text First Line: I am in a painting by camille pissarro Last Line: From the new world Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters RETURNING TO PARIS WITH PISSARRO First Line: I am in a painting by camille pissarro Last Line: Returning to paris with pissarro %from the new world Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters REVOLUTIONARY First Line: Like a blind one at the frontiers RISTORANE VITTORIA, MILAN Poem Text First Line: Three baldheaded men at the next table Last Line: Of the whole charade Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners RISTORANE VITTORIA, MILAN First Line: Three baldheaded men at the next table Last Line: Of the whole charade Subject(s): Restaurants RIVER STILL TO BE FOUND First Line: Stoned & Last Line: In the interior %of america ROMA / MADE OF FLESH AND STONE Last Line: Over the piazza del populo ROMAN MORN First Line: Ah these sweet roman mornings Last Line: Somewhere a woman shouts angelo, angelo %the day begins and begins ROME / RAIN / ON THE TIBER Last Line: Voyages %through %the darkness ROUGH SONG OF ANIMALS DYING First Line: In a dream within a dream I dreamt a dream Last Line: A yin-yang yolk of good and evil %about to consume itself SAILING THRU THE STRAITS OF DEMOS First Line: Sailing thru the straits of demos Last Line: Silent upon a peak %in darien SALUTE First Line: To every animal who eats or shoots his own kind SAN JOSE SYMPHONY RECEPTION First Line: The bald man in plaid playing the harpsichord Last Line: Who had perfect embouchure %couldn't straighten out SANDINISTA AVIONCITOS First Line: The little airplanes of the heart Last Line: Into the new-blown light %live as leaves SCENE FROM A STREET OPERA First Line: The two young dogs making it SCREAM HEARD AROUND THE WORLD First Line: One fine day %a proud owner of a brand-new car Last Line: And the drivers kept on driving %and driving and driving and SEA AND OURSELVES AT CAPE ANN First Line: Caw caw caw %on a far shingle long ago Last Line: Odyssey turned to iliad %in parked cars SEA IS CALM TONIGHT First Line: The sea is calm tonight Last Line: Over the horizon %keeping the secret SEASCAPE WITH SUN & EAGLE First Line: Freer %than most birds SEE IT WAS LIKE THIS WHEN Last Line: And really hates %poetry SEEING A WOMAN AS IN A PAINTING BY BERTHE MORISOT Poem Text First Line: Ah tes cuisses Last Line: As if we did not know the melody Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters SEEING A WOMAN AS IN A PAINTING BY BERTHE MORISOT First Line: Ah tes cuisses Last Line: As if we did not know the melody Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters SEWING TWO BIRDS TOGETHER Last Line: Who then came cruising in SHADOWS OF SEABIRDS / SKIM THE WAVES Last Line: None shall hear it %the broken singing SHE CAME IN OUT OF THE NIGHT Last Line: Adrift in the maze %of her own wild life SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE / IN ECSTASY Last Line: Where she never cared to %dare to SHERMAN'S MARCH REGLITTERIZED First Line: Recently regilded Last Line: In the very gelty pumping heart %of the beast SHORT STORY ON A PAINTING OF GUSTAV KLIMT Poem Text First Line: They are kneeling upright on a flowered bed Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters SHORT STORY ON A PAINTING OF GUSTAV KLIMT First Line: They are kneeling upright on a flowered bed Last Line: He %is not the one Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters SNAPSHOT EPIPHANY First Line: One night when it was very dark SO MUCH DEPENDS UPON / THE VERY YELLOW TAXICAB Last Line: The very sum %of human hope SO RENT A MUSEUM / AND SEE YOURSELF IN MIRRORS Last Line: You find them all again %and yourself SO SHOW YOUR SON A SUNSET Last Line: Like a patient etherised upon a table SO THAT / THE GOD WHOM HUMANS HAD DECIDED Last Line: For the very heart %of our ungodly %unconscious SOMETIME DURING ETERNITY Poem Text Recitation Subject(s): Christianity SOMETIME DURING ETERNITY Last Line: From the usual unreliable sources %real dead Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians SOMEWHERE ON THE COAST OF GREECE Last Line: A stork suspends its step SPANISH ANTS / IN THEIR TRANCE-DANCE Last Line: And think of your own %zero-sum life SPEAK OUT Poem Text First Line: And a vast paranoia sweeps across the land Last Line: Before they come for you! Subject(s): Politics & Government; War SPEAK OUT First Line: And a vast paranoia sweeps across the land Last Line: Before they come for you! Subject(s): Politics; War SPIRIT OF THE CRUSADES First Line: Stoney wales Last Line: Straight through the twentieth century SPRING ABOUT TO HAPPEN First Line: Hansom cab through central park %clop-clop Last Line: Kiss-kiss cry the birds %in a song without words STARTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO Poem Text First Line: Here I go again Last Line: Myself I saw in the window reflected Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; United States; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips; America STARTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO First Line: Here I go again Last Line: Myself I saw in the window reflected Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; United States STONE REALITY MEDITATION First Line: Humankind can indeed bear %very much reality SUDDENLY Last Line: Fireflies SUENO REAL First Line: In the eternal dream-time Last Line: By a stream impossible %to decipher SUMMER PASSED ME BY Last Line: And an ancient voice in the air %singing primavera! Primavera SUNRISE, BOLINAS First Line: This little heart that remembers every little thing SURREAL MIGRATIONS First Line: My mind is racing %in the middle of the night Last Line: And the air is filled with our cities SURREAL MIGRATIONS, PART I Poem Text Recitation by Author SWEET FLYING DREAM First Line: We were two naked %light-headed dandelions TENTATIVE DESCRIPTION OF DINNER .. IMPEACHMENT .. EISENHOWER Poem Text Recitation First Line: After it became obvious that the strange rain would never stop Last Line: We resign Subject(s): Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969) TENTATIVE DESCRIPTION OF DINNER .. IMPEACHMENT .. EISENHOWER First Line: After it became obvious that the strange rain would never stop Last Line: Took one look around and said %we resign Subject(s): Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969) THE 'MOVING WATERS' OF GUSTAV KLIMT Poem Text First Line: Who are they then Last Line: And know each other Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters THE CANTICLE OF JACK KEROUAC Poem Text First Line: Far from the sea far from the sea Subject(s): Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) THE CAT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The cat/licks its paws Subject(s): Cats THE CHANGING LIGHT Poem Text Recitation First Line: The changing light at san francisco Last Line: Anchorless upon the ocean Subject(s): Americans; United States; America THE DEFEATED ROMANTICISM / OF T.S. ELIOT Poem Text Last Line: A copy of the waste land / on a very high shelf Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965) THE FLOWER SELLER AT COVENT GARDEN 1989 Poem Text First Line: A great great great granddaughter Last Line: Over the madding crowd Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters THE OLD ITALIANS DYING Poem Text First Line: For years the old italians have been dying / all over america Subject(s): Old Age THE PHOTO OF EMILY Poem Text First Line: She wore a cloche hat Subject(s): Aunts THE STATUE OF ST. FRANCIS Poem Text Recitation First Line: They were putting up the statue Subject(s): San Francisco THEY WERE PUTTING UP THE STATUE Last Line: Her eyes downcast all the while %and singing to herself THEY WERE PUTTING UP THE STATUE Last Line: Some victorious answer %to everything THEY WERE SHOOTING IN THE PLAZAS Last Line: Fell into flamenco THINK BACK THROUGH THE LONG YEARS Last Line: Through the heart be swept bare THIRD WORLD First Line: This loud morning THIRD WORLD CALLING Poem Text First Line: This loud morning / sensed a small cry in the news paper Last Line: Fresh from the blasted fields! Subject(s): Third World THIRD WORLD CALLING First Line: This loud morning %sensed a small cry in the news paper Last Line: Fresh from the blasted fields Subject(s): Third World THOUGHTS TO A CONCERTO OF TELEMANN First Line: The curious upward stumbling motion of the oboe d'amore Last Line: Anymore %yet it does, it does TINY LITTLE RAGGED MUTT Last Line: Light if not hope %in their faces TO THE ORACLE AT DELPHI Poem Text First Line: Great oracle, why are you staring at me, Subject(s): Delphi, Oracle Of TO THE ORACLE AT DELPHI First Line: Great oracle, why are you staring at me Last Line: Give us new myths to live by! TOC TOC: A COUPLE OBSERVED (AFTER APOLLINAIRE) First Line: Without closing its wings %the plane lands TONIGHT AT THE GREAT OLD BEACH HOTEL Last Line: And I keep watch from the far shore TOOK THE SEASHORE ROAD Last Line: As the pollen from her wings %flowered down on me TOURIST OF REVOLUTIONS First Line: And I was a tourist of revolutions Last Line: I'll surely join I'll surely join %the permanent underground TRISTE CORBIERE Last Line: With his countenance of night TRIUMPH OF THE POSTMODERN First Line: The violins tended to shriek Last Line: Some kind of mad mad laughter TRUE CONFESSIONAL First Line: I was conceived in the summer of nineteen eighteen %(or was it thirty eight) Last Line: Wherein I read %the poem that never ends TUNISIAN NOSTALGIA First Line: Bare white marble room Last Line: In that darkened room %rented for a day long ago TWO AMSTERDAMS First Line: A voyage through the low countries Last Line: Nudes struggle home %through alleyways TWO SCAVENGERS IN A TRUCK, TWO BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE IN A MERCEDES First Line: At the stoplight waiting for the light Last Line: In the high seas %of this democracy Variant Title(s): Two Scavengers In A Truck, Two Beautiful People In Mercede UNDER THE BRIDGES First Line: Un 'coup de sirocco' UNDERWEAR Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Underwear UNDERWEAR First Line: I didn't get much sleep last night Last Line: Are we not still young and easy %don't shout UPON REFLECTION First Line: Night's black mirror is broken Last Line: Standing still %rushes forward USES OF POETRY First Line: So what is the use of poetry these days Last Line: In the supreme hashish of our dream VAST CONFUSION First Line: Long long I lay in the sands Last Line: Harmonies %and the first light VAST PORT SWAYS WITH CREAKING CORDAGE Last Line: Stagger away %through the centuries VERY LARGE CAT ATE A SINGING BIRD Last Line: An andante music %a singing in the inner ear VOIX GLAUQUE First Line: Now that bird of life Last Line: And stretching over us %its darkling wings WALKING THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA Last Line: Or a wit that looks like him %waving a rose WE SQUAT UPON THE BEACH OF LOVE First Line: We squat upon the beach of love Last Line: And we drink and drown WHAT COULD SHE SAY TO THE FANTASTIC FOOLYBEAR Last Line: To taste still hot upon the ground %the spilled sperm seed WHAT IS POETRY? First Line: Poetry is news from the frontiers of consciousness Last Line: Let a new lyricism save the world from itself WHEN THE PAINTER PISSARRO LAY DYING Last Line: Which he had all his life %been painting WHEN THE SENSES AWAKE BEFORE THE MIND Last Line: And they are veined and winded %like the heart WHERE IS THAT LITTLE FISH Last Line: And I with it %in flood of time WHEREAS EINSTEIN WAS NOT THE JAMES JOYCE OF SCIENTISTS Last Line: Wake of words for all of us to wail upon along a riverrun homing in the gloaming WHITE DREAMS First Line: A dream of white a dream of light Last Line: Let some angel answer %in a skidrow bar room WHITE ON WHITE First Line: Today I'll write white on white WILD DREAMS OF A NEW BEGINNING First Line: There's a breathless hush on the freeway tonight Last Line: And indians reclaim their canoes WILD LIFE CAMEO, EARLY MORN First Line: By the great river deschutes Last Line: Like certain people %in my life WOMEN IN ROOMS First Line: Seeing women in small rooms WORK-IN-PROGRESS, SELS. First Line: History is made %of the lies of the victors' Last Line: In the history books amen oh brother %can you spare a dime? YACHTS IN SUN First Line: The yachts the white yachts %with their white sails in sunlight Last Line: As the so skillful yachts %freely pass over YACHTS IN THE SUN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The yachts the white yachts Subject(s): Yachts |
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