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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: FLYNN, NICK Matches Found: 78 Flynn, Nick Poet's Biography 78 poems available by this author 1967 First Line: I distrust the men who come at night, sitting in their cars Last Line: The greeks teach me to show into the waves so people will listen AGO First Line: I don't even know Last Line: Asking over her shoulder, %how does this look? ALMOST SONG First Line: Still the voice starts when I open %my mouth, first it's breath Last Line: & riverstones rising like helmets AND THEN, AND THEN First Line: As a kid I ruled, god almighty, but it got Last Line: Money, I can leave anytime, I got a hundred places to go ANGELIZATION First Line: When a plane goes down we search the wreckage Last Line: I'm not here right now BAG OF MICE First Line: I dreamt your suicide note Last Line: Like a song, & the mice %grew wilder BLIND HUBER First Line: An opaque glow where my eyes should be Last Line: Their city, their city now softening, twisting %all out of shape BLIND HUBER First Line: I sit in a body & think of a body, I picture Last Line: I no longer know what is outside my mind %& what is in BLIND HUBER (12) Poem Text First Line: Thus transfixed, stare blank at one Last Line: But not as much as I had hoped Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs BURNENS: 2 First Line: Never a question of staying, the end Last Line: Move my hands, but I name %what is seen CAPTAIN ASKS FOR A SHOW OF HANDS First Line: Everyday, something - this time Last Line: If anyone asked I'd say, it was happy CARTOON PHYSICS, PART 1 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Children under, say, ten, shouldn't know Variant Title(s): Cartoon Physics: Part I Subject(s): Children; Physics; Childhood CARTOON PHYSICS, PART 1 First Line: Children under, say, ten, shouldn't know Last Line: Until he notices his mistake Variant Title(s): Cartoon Physics: Part CARTOON PHYSICS, PART 2 First Line: Years ago, alone in her room, my mother cut Last Line: So that when my mother pulled it down I'd %appear, like a movie Variant Title(s): Cartoon Physics: Part CELLAR A MACHINE WHIRRING THROUGH THE NIGHT First Line: Hovering near the ceiling, turning off Last Line: Your ears taste like poison. %I push the knife away CURSE First Line: Let the willows drop their branches, heavy with ice, Last Line: Let the paint leech into the well ELSEWHERE, MON AMOUR Poem Text First Line: Leaning from the platform, waiting for a glimmer ELSEWHERE, MON AMOUR First Line: Leaning from the platform, waiting for a glimmer Last Line: You must be somewhere, right? EMPTYING TOWN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Each fall this town empties, leaving me EMPTYING TOWN First Line: Each fall this town empties, leaving me Last Line: Shirt & saying, &look what I did for you FATHER OUTSIDE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A black river flows down the center Subject(s): Fathers FATHER OUTSIDE First Line: A black river flows down the center Last Line: The river north I could still %reach him FIRE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: More the idea of the flame than the flame, Subject(s): Fire FIVE HUNDRED YEARS First Line: In %sleep our hands find each other. Outside Last Line: Toe-to-heel, as though you struggled FLASHBACK Poem Text First Line: I imagine I just barely escaped, repeat Last Line: We hunker down, yelling, leave Subject(s): Memory FLASHBACK First Line: I imagine I just barely escaped, repeat Last Line: We hunker down, yelling leave Subject(s): Memory FLOOD First Line: The earth smells like whatever drifts past Last Line: Hang lifelessly & breathe only air FORGETTING SOMETHING Poem Text Subject(s): Memory FRAGMENT (FOUND INSIDE MY MOTHER) First Line: I kept it hidden, it was easy Last Line: Begging guess which hand, but both %were empty. Who taught him that? FUGUE First Line: If I think hard I can remember Last Line: But if I thought hard I could remember, beginning %with my eyes GLASS SLIPPER First Line: December 4th - %my father calls so I can wish him Last Line: The spotlight, to step out of %her sequined panties GOD FORGOTTEN First Line: God mercifully forgets us for a few hours Last Line: Your skull, your face so radiant %I can barely look into it GOSPEL First Line: By morning the wood I stroked the stove with Last Line: Tight, his tiny fingers kneading the empty air HER SMOKE (HER TRICK) First Line: A good waitress, I wait up for her Last Line: & might turn to paste in our throats HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU'RE MISSING ANYTHING? First Line: When I see a car the same model as the last car Last Line: Until the space inside was not big enough %for even a fist INSIDE NOTHING First Line: A sun-fed engine, the inside Last Line: A field built inside. It rises. %each blade, each sun JESUS KNEW Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Jesus Christ MAN DANCING WITH A PAPER CUP First Line: You still send letters but I know Last Line: The way waves space themselves %until they stop MELITOPOLES First Line: When a warrior falls in battle, %beloved & Last Line: Now filled with sweetness MEMENTO MORI First Line: A virus threads its way through us, rides our blood Last Line: They were all that kept the walls %from collapse MY MOTHER CONTEMPLATING HER GUN Poem Text First Line: One boyfriend said to keep the bullets Subject(s): Mothers; Guns MY MOTHER CONTEMPLATING HER GUN First Line: One boyfriend said to keep the bullets Last Line: Tomorrow it will still be there NO MAP First Line: Ghost stars convincingly stutter Last Line: Sing me a napkin, plant the wagons %up the hill OTHER MEANING First Line: Coming home from the drive-in, asleep under Last Line: I said she wouldn't dare PEACH First Line: The peach in your pocket still damp from the faucet Last Line: Spit it into the grass before taking his stairs PRAYER First Line: Who are you talking to? She asks, the room empty QUEEN First Line: Net suits & %smoking cups, you reek fear %if we fight back, or if there isn't Last Line: Because we are the fields QUEEN (FAILED) First Line: Those whose mouths %adored me, soon they will come, find me Last Line: I want those who began in me %to suck the air out of me RADIO THIN AIR First Line: Keep the radio on softly Last Line: There can you hear it? RESIDUE First Line: Wedged between tiny desks I must be careful. If I ask Last Line: Or something moving fast through the air? ROBOT MOVES! First Line: I pretend I'm afraid, carrying you Last Line: & say only, so? %like I was the stranger SALT First Line: A woman stands before us a man drowning in her poem Last Line: To weigh him under away SELF-EXAM (MY BODY IS A CAGE) Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Do this: take two fingers, place them on Subject(s): Human Body SEVEN FRAGMENTS (FOUND INSIDE MY FATHER) First Line: Birds sing above my bench while the city Last Line: Yes, I hear things SOFT RADIO First Line: I don't know if ivan is dead & I don't know Last Line: As a man rolls quarters between his fingers, %chanting anyone, anyone SOME ETHER First Line: I don't know if you can read this now, you Last Line: Resting on my shoulders %trying to steer SPLENECTOMY First Line: Hard after the spill to again Last Line: How this is supposed to save you? STYLITE (FRAGMENT #10) First Line: Go into the desert sometime Last Line: Then see if god doesn't find the time SUDDEN Poem Text First Line: If it had been a heart attack, the newspaper Last Line: & the ringing all we'd eat Subject(s): Loss SUDDEN First Line: If it had been a heart attack, the newspaper Last Line: & the ringing all we'd eat Subject(s): Loss SUNDAY First Line: Scrape %the ashes from the windows, burn something Last Line: With rattlesnakes, as the leaves let go, making room %for more leaves SWARM Poem Text Recitation by Author SWARM First Line: When you see us swarm, rustle of Last Line: The answer is not one, but also %not two TRICKOLOGY First Line: She'd screw a store-bought toy head, Last Line: House, the family outside, %barefoot TWENTY-POUND STONE First Line: It nests in the hollow of my pelvis, I carry it with both hands, as if Last Line: In the spring it would be gone TWINNED First Line: To exist wholly in another, seamless, %mirrored. Think of the hive Last Line: But she can never say, I am you TWO MORE FRAGMENTS First Line: I was a mason, %kneeling before an unfinished Last Line: All around the sea rages UNFAMILIAR Poem Text First Line: What village, abandoned, what VISIBLE WOMAN First Line: In the dark museum we see the pump of her heart, brightening with each Last Line: Cheek, she's not even real WAX FATHER Poem Text First Line: Each day / the son came for more, scraping comb Last Line: His entire body hung there Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Sickness; Waxworks; Illness WILD WITH DANDELIONS & ROSES First Line: Like sands through the hourglass, the tv Last Line: A bodiless army ready to march WORKER Poem Text First Line: Clover whispers, each Subject(s): Love WORKERS (ATTENDANTS) First Line: Nights we lie beside her, our mouths Last Line: Gripped the others like a shawl WORKERS (FORAGERS) First Line: After this seven- %month slumber, honey-stupored %& warm, we unfold our Last Line: Honey the fuel %that kept us WORTHLESS First Line: My fingers %cling to your shoulder blades now Last Line: I start to remember-we are locked together %&pushing,pushing XENOPHON'S SOLDIERS First Line: In enemy country sometimes %you come upon a vessel Last Line: & one day simply pulls him under YOU ASK HOW First Line: & I say, suicide, & you ask Last Line: Between his shoulder blades, %in case it's him YOU MOVED ME THROUGH EACH ROOM First Line: All the rooms are empty, as if no one Last Line: Back into today, but I never try |
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