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Author: FINCH, ANNIE Matches Found: 127 Finch, Annie Poet's Biography 127 poems available by this author A CAROL FOR CAROLYN Poem Text First Line: I dreamed of a poet who gave me a whale Subject(s): Kizer, Carolyn (b. 1925) A CROWN OF AUTUMN LEAVES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Our voices press Subject(s): Leaves A LETTER FOR EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: Like me, you used to write while baking bread Last Line: I take from you as you take me apart Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) A REPLY FROM HIS COY MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: Sir, I am not a bird of prey Last Line: You've all our lives to praise the rest Variant Title(s): Coy Mistress Subject(s): Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism A WEDDING ON EARTH Poem Text First Line: Like the feet that root deep to walk the ground Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AMERICAN WITCH Recitation by Author AN IMAGINARY COMPANION Recitation by Author ANCESTER Poem Text First Line: Bound in a chain of women, I Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry ANCESTOR First Line: Bound in a chain of women Last Line: The branches that burst from her broom ANOTHER RELUCTANCE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Chestnuts fell in the charred season, Subject(s): Home; Chestnuts; Autumn; Fall ANOTHER RELUCTANCE First Line: Chestnuts fell in the charred season Last Line: Grain gone, now the children are home APHRODITE First Line: Aphrodite, come to me Last Line: Cover me with your sweet certainty BANSHEE BABY First Line: As the ghosts followed me throughout my head Last Line: I was alone, and not a word was said BEING A CONSTELLATION First Line: Heavy with my milk, you move Last Line: The patterns in your sleepy net BELLY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Humming sparrow touching my breast BELLY First Line: My belly thickens like a stem Last Line: My breasts go heavy to meet you here BLUE WILLOW Recitation by Author BLUE WILLOWS First Line: Once days blew in a pattern, when blue willows Last Line: Till more sun leans over the backs of the chairs BRIGID Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Ring, ring, ring, ring! Hammers fall Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint BRIGID First Line: Ring, ring, ring, ring! Hammers fall Last Line: Linger on tongues, burn away BUTTERFLY LULLABY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My wild indigo dusky wing Subject(s): Butterflies CAFFEINE DESTINY Poem Text First Line: A wedge of posture driven in to death CALENDARS Poem Text First Line: In the winding Subject(s): Time CHAIN OF WOMEN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: These are the seasons persephone promised Subject(s): Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina CHAIN OF WOMEN First Line: Body of our thread unbroken Last Line: Chain that links my mother CHANGING WOMAN Poem Text First Line: If we change as she is changing, Subject(s): Women; Change CHANGNG WOMAN First Line: If we change as she is changing Last Line: (is she changing, or the same?) CIRCLED SAND First Line: Oaks have thickened. Blackberries Last Line: And mist appeared on the water COATLIQUE First Line: She listens for breathing Last Line: As darkness will keep them COURTSHIP First Line: Courtship is pulling with your full-moon heart Last Line: Of earth and leave it salty, full, and dark COY MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: Sir, I am not a bird of prey: DANCE FOR THE INLAND SEA First Line: Water that moves, in a bodylike stream Last Line: Through the sod my own prairie lays down DAUGHTER First Line: Yes, cradle the fallen head Last Line: Your eyes are bloody -- like this room DESIRE FOR QUIET First Line: Silence may lead deep and make me mad Last Line: The dark is dry grass tipped by brutal flowers DICKINSON First Line: Of all the lives I cannot live Last Line: Not over, but upon Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form DOOR First Line: It seemed as if a door came calling Last Line: (though far outside, the trees were bare) DRIVING PAST VIOLETS First Line: These words and I don't see you, though we charge Last Line: With winding, deep inside such patient caves DUSK Recitation by Author Subject(s): Owls EARTH GODDESS TO SKY GOD First Line: You have not formed me. I am a monster still Last Line: And in my night is anything but sleep ELEGY FOR MY FATHER Poem Text First Line: Under the ocean that stretches out wordlessly Subject(s): Fathers - Death ENCOUNTER First Line: Then, in the bus where strange eyes are believed to burn Last Line: With solitude, more alone, than we could have known EVE Poem Text First Line: When mother eve took the first apple down EVE First Line: When mother eve took the first apple down Last Line: That I look, as if for something near to praise FINAL AUTUMN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Maple leaves turn black in the courtyard. Subject(s): Autumn; Fall FOR A POETESS First Line: The corners of the frontispiece yellow from their darker edges Last Line: A finch fills them till they glow from their darker edges FOR GRIZZEL MCNAUGHT First Line: Bound in the women who chain by Last Line: You knew in your low-ceilinged room Subject(s): Literary Form FROZEN IN Poem Text First Line: Ours are the only mouths Subject(s): Winter FROZEN IN First Line: Ours are the only mouths Last Line: Again, though our tracks fill and slow GARDEN First Line: Out of old earth where the worms have eaten Last Line: Through the wind. They'll walk waves GREAT GRAY OWL Recitation by Author GREAT READING ROOM MURALS First Line: Knowledge is lost and generous. Here she sits Last Line: Ennobled pain; we read on by their side GULF WAR AND CHILD: A CURSE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: He is sleeping, his fingers curled Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Operation Desert Storm (1991) GULF WAR AND CHILD: A CURSE First Line: You are sleeping, your fingers all curled Last Line: Drops its cup, this bleeding gift we poured HOME-BIRTH First Line: Home has a body since you urged it free Last Line: Home is the birth place that you gave to me HOSTAGE WILDFLOWERS Recitation by Author IN CITIES, BE ALERT Poem Text First Line: You may hear that your heartbeat is uneven Subject(s): City & Town Life IN CITIES, BE ALERT First Line: You may hear that your heartbeat is uneven Last Line: Will finally, of course, be what disarms you IN THE GRASSES First Line: Among the seed-loads, hand taking its hold Last Line: Far after the slow rocking at my side INANNA First Line: A young goddess, full of love, fresh with the touch of a husband Last Line: A goddess goes down, and I can hear her INSECT Poem Text First Line: That hour-glass-backed INSECT First Line: That hour-glass-backed Last Line: Sober-reaching %tracing, killing will INSIDE THE VIOLET Poem Text First Line: Beside the long hedge on my parents' drive Subject(s): Violets INSIDE THE VIOLET First Line: Beside the long hedge on my parents' drive Last Line: And refused to look in violets anymore IOWA BARN Poem Text First Line: Light and shadow Last Line: Could reflect us Subject(s): Barns; Iowa LAMIA TO LYCIUS First Line: Do you here me, lycius? Do you hear these dreams Last Line: Till every human word you say is clear Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights LAND First Line: Prairies step slower than palaces down Last Line: Thick centuries sleep, laid on bones %quiet as animals LANDING UNDER WATER, I SEE ROOTS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: All the things we hide in water LAST MERMOTHER First Line: I used to fish in san francisco bay Last Line: A crust of sand still thickening on the edge %of its quiet bones Subject(s): Mothers; San Francisco Bay, California LETTER FOR EMILY DICKINSON First Line: Like me, you used to write while baking bread Last Line: I take from you, as you take me apart Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) LUCID WAKING First Line: Once I wanted the whole dawn not to let me Last Line: Once so bird-ridden -- and the sun, the curtains MARDI GRAS SONG First Line: I danced in gold and fell in love Last Line: They kicked my insides in Subject(s): Mardi Gras (new Orleans) MEETING THE CAVE Poem Text First Line: Here no ledge can slice footholds MOON FROM THE PORCH Poem Text First Line: Moon has dusks for walls, Subject(s): Moon MOWING Poem Text First Line: Easing the land into one long-plotted scene, Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; Lawn Mowers MY BABY FELL APART Poem Text First Line: My baby fell apart, and I could see Subject(s): Miscarriage MY RAPTOR Poem Text First Line: My mind hovered over my baby, like Variant Title(s): The Raptor Subject(s): Pregnancy MY RAPTOR First Line: My mind hovered over my baby, like Last Line: Were mine alone -- or whether he could hear Variant Title(s): The Rapto NATIVE AMERICAN BIRDS First Line: The birds are everywhere, and hardly sing NIGHT RAIN Poem Text First Line: With will the flicker of a candle flame Subject(s): Rain NIGHT WATCH ON THE INLAND SEA First Line: The fog means I can barely see a thing Last Line: I stand not waiting, crying while they wait NO SNAKE Poem Text First Line: Inside my eden I can find no snake. Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers NO SNAKE First Line: Inside my eden I can find no snake Last Line: Settle with dark heights, as I near the tree NUT Poem Text First Line: I cry for my lost days, I cry for my childhood, NUT First Line: I cry for my lost days, I cry for my childhood Last Line: Fall from your breasts, your arms OVER DARK ARCHES Poem Text First Line: Naked and thin and wet as if with rain Last Line: Till we turn and are full Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery PARAVALEDELLENTINE: A PARADELLE Poem Text First Line: Come to me with your warning sounds of the tender seas. PEARL First Line: Reaching with eyes, they covered her as a girl Last Line: What the woman covers: everything, like pearl PEARLS First Line: The voyeur's vision covered her as a girl Last Line: Until she covers everything, like pearl PITCHER First Line: A sunny afternoon; think of vermeer Last Line: Then she will stop to hold this moment near, %not drop the pitcher, nor betray vermeer Variant Title(s): Still Lif Subject(s): Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) RAIN BIRTH First Line: This is the rainy season, like a birth Last Line: And, perishing from salt, I dry my eyes REPLY FROM HIS COY MISTRESS First Line: Sir, I am not a bird of prey Last Line: You've all our lives to praise the rest Variant Title(s): Coy Mistres Subject(s): Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights RESOLUTION Poem Text First Line: I'll call those scattered parts back to my side RHIANNON First Line: A child is ranging, like a young horse Last Line: And the furious sun in her mane RUNNING IN CHURCH Poem Text First Line: Then, you were a hot-thinking, thin-lidded tinderbox Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals RUNNING IN CHURCH First Line: Then, you were a hot-thinking, thin-lidded tinderbox Last Line: Pliant young bones were dissolving in laughter SAMHAIN Poem Text First Line: In the season leaves should love, Subject(s): Halloween SAMHAIN First Line: In the season leaves should love Last Line: A gift for her perpetual gaze SAPPHICS FOR PATIENCE Poem Text First Line: But there - something rests on your hand and even Last Line: Only for patience Subject(s): Literary Form SAPPHICS FOR PATIENCE First Line: But there - something rests on your hand and even Last Line: Something like patience Subject(s): Literary Form SEED FOR SPRING EQUINOX Poem Text First Line: Thrusting through the season where I'd waited for spring Last Line: "now I watch the watching dark my light’s long-growing dark Subject(s): Spring SHE THAT Poem Text First Line: The source of night is madness. I am she SPIDER WOMAN First Line: Your thoughs in a web have covered the sky Last Line: Stretching with rain over the sky STRANGERS Poem Text First Line: She turned to gold and fell in love Subject(s): Love STRANGERS First Line: She turned to gold and fell in love Last Line: They knocked her insides in SUMMER SOLSTICE CHANT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The sun, rich and open, Subject(s): Summer THANKSGIVING First Line: Earth is getting ready to harden and dim Last Line: As your opened eyes spoke the first day you were born THE DOOR Poem Text First Line: It seemed as if a door came calling THE GRIM GARDEN Poem Text First Line: Out of the old earth that the worms ate Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE LAST MERMOTHER First Line: I used to fish in san francisco bay Subject(s): Mothers; San Francisco Bay, California THE MENSTRUAL HUT Poem Text First Line: How can I listen to the moon? Last Line: Your blood will listen, every time Subject(s): Blood THE PITCHER Poem Text First Line: A sunny afternoon; think of vermeer Last Line: And drop the pitcher, and betray vermeer Variant Title(s): Still Life Subject(s): Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) THE WISH FOR EYES Poem Text First Line: On solid hills through liquid dusk, Subject(s): Eyes THREE GENERATIONS OF SECRETS First Line: Is the sound of my loud carrying life a knell Last Line: Until you ring aloud with newer sounds TO VIVIENNE ELIOT First Line: Your gray dress stings in the canopied dawn Last Line: (that has coated the sand will dissolve in my hand) TRIBUTE Poem Text First Line: When there are no words left to live Last Line: Not over, but upon Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) TRIBUTE First Line: When there are no words left to live Last Line: Not over, but upon Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) TWO BODIES Poem Text First Line: Two bodies, balanced in mass and power, Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Conception; Male-female Relations TWO INTO TWO First Line: Are we one or are we two Last Line: Since your harming is my harm? WALK WITH ME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Walk with me just a while, body of sunlight WALK WITH ME First Line: Walk with me just a while, body of sunlight Last Line: Sinking body, walk in me now WATCHING THE WHALE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A hard gray wave, her fin, walks out on the water Subject(s): Whales WESTMINSTER First Line: Among these aisles and these attentive pews Last Line: Where she and he walked up an aisle to he WILD YEASTS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Rumbling a way up my dough's heavy throat to its head, WINTER SOLSTICE CHANT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Vines, leaves, roots of darkness, growing, Subject(s): Winter WISH FOR EYES First Line: On solid hills through liquid dusk Last Line: Touch me back with my eyes ZARAF'S STAR Poem Text First Line: Walking changes as dusk starts to gather Subject(s): Horses; Stars ZARAF'S STAR First Line: Walking changes as dusk starts to gather Last Line: Hunger like stars reaching down for dark leaves |
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