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Author: GALVIN, JAMES Matches Found: 121 Galvin, Brendan James Poet's Biography 3 poems available by this author A COLD BELL RINGING IN THE EAST Poem Text First Line: It woke me to this full moon Subject(s): Wind A PHOTO OF MINERS USA, 1908 Poem Text First Line: With trees backing them / instead of the pit's mouth Subject(s): Child Labor; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers FOR A DAUGHTER GONE AWAY Poem Text First Line: Today there've been moments Subject(s): Absence; Daughters; Railroads; Separation; Isolation; Railways; Trains Galvin, James Poet's Biography 118 poems available by this author A DISCRETE LOVE POEM Poem Text First Line: This is for you, with your umbrella Last Line: This is for that night your body was neither here nor there Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited; Sex A MAN'S VOCATION IS NOBODY'S BUSINESS Poem Text First Line: Overcome with humility in the american west Last Line: Bound for the edge of the world Subject(s): History; Past; West (U.s.); Youth; Historians; Southwest; Pacific States A POEM FROM BOULDER RIDGE Poem Text First Line: The skeleton of a teepee stood on boulder ridge Subject(s): Houses; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A POEM FROM THE EDGE OF AMERICA Poem Text First Line: There are ways of finding things, like stumbling on them Last Line: Although it might by why Subject(s): Nature; Wyoming A PORTRAIT OF MY ROOF Poem Text First Line: My steel roof mirrors clouds Last Line: Unlike anything one finds in reflection Subject(s): Animals; Clouds; Grass; Snakes; Steel; Serpents; Vipers A SECOND TIME Poem Text First Line: It was the year I cut logs for the new house and roads, roads like veins Last Line: When they starved out and moved on, they burned their houses down to get the nails back Subject(s): Mountains; Snow; Hills; Downs (Great Britain) ABOUT Poem Text First Line: Facts about the iris Last Line: It’s tomorrow. Call out for someone Subject(s): Eyes ABOVE HALF MOON Poem Text First Line: Not even a brid can sleep in thin air, a thousand feet higher Last Line: Shuttered windows, a flower made of timber, whose trail down is a crooked stem Subject(s): Moon; Mountains; Hills; Downs (Great Britain) AFTER THE PAPAGO Poem Text First Line: I've done it now Last Line: On the homeward road Subject(s): Desire; Fish & Fishing; Houses; Trout; Anglers AGAINST THE REST OF THE YEAR Poem Text First Line: The meadow's a dream I'm working to wake to Last Line: Forever comes to mind, and peaks where the snow stays Subject(s): Dreams; Rivers; Winter; Nightmares AGRICULTURE Poem Text First Line: Tonight the rain can't stand up straight, but once Last Line: But a window sailing through the night Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Farm Life; Horses; Rain; Agriculture; Farmers AIRBRUSH Poem Text First Line: The sky was an occasion Last Line: And they have shadows, double Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ALMOST NOON Poem Text First Line: The water, you remember / was so cold it took our breath Subject(s): Sun; Water ANOTHER STORY Poem Text First Line: I always thought you favored the bride Last Line: For as long as we stay here Subject(s): Mirrors; Marriage; Pregnancy ANTHROPOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Remember the night you got drunk / and shot the roses? Last Line: For the archer’s bow to become a violin Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Fathers; Guns; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse ART CLASS Poem Text First Line: Let us begin with a simple line Last Line: The horizon will not stop abstracting us Subject(s): Art & Artists; Drawing; Poetry & Poets AS IF Poem Text First Line: I thought it took Last Line: Having risen all night to see you Subject(s): Passion; Sex AT THE SAND CREEK BRIDGE Poem Text First Line: The path of most insistence Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Guns; Mountains; Nature; Rivers; Trout; Anglers; Hills; Downs (Great Britain) AVATAR Poem Text First Line: The imperceptible Last Line: And there you are Subject(s): California; Magic; Names BLUE OR GREEN Poem Text First Line: We don't belong to each other. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets CACHE LA POUDRE Poem Text First Line: The whole world / (which you said I was Subject(s): Colorado (State); Mountains; Snow; Hills; Downs (Great Britain) CARTOGRAPHY Poem Text First Line: Out on the border a howl goes up, skinning the cold air Last Line: It's real, it doesn't exist, it's on all the black maps Subject(s): Boundaries; Maps; Wings; Borders CHERRY BLOSSOMS BLOWING IN WEST BLOWING SNOW Poem Text First Line: In all the farewells in all the airports in all the profane dawns Last Line: Among cherry blossoms blowing in west, blowing in snow, weren’t we something? Subject(s): Life CINQUE TERRE Poem Text First Line: Time was the five towns Subject(s): Diving & Divers DEAR MISS EMILY Poem Text First Line: I knew the end would be gone before I got there. Subject(s): Divorce DEATH AT WORK Poem Text First Line: A chevy engine hangs by a chain Last Line: With everyone afraid and trying not to be Subject(s): Death; Labor & Laborers; Dead, The; Work; Workers DEPENDING ON THE WIND Poem Text First Line: A score of years ago I felled a hundred pines to build a house. Subject(s): Loss; Transience; Divorce; Impermanence DOUBLE RAINBOW Poem Text First Line: Well aren't you the harsh necessity, DRIVING INTO LARAMIE Poem Text First Line: Out here sheer force of sky bearing down Last Line: That god is impressed above all by defiance Subject(s): Death; Driving & Drivers; Oregon; Religion; Dead, The; Theology DRUTHERS Poem Text First Line: Between permission Subject(s): Life EVERYONE KNOWS WHOM THE SAVED ENVY Poem Text First Line: It isn't such a bad thing Last Line: Everyone knows whom the saved envy Subject(s): Angels; Life; Mountains; Hills; Downs (Great Britain) EXPLICATION OF AN IMAGINARY TEXT Poem Text First Line: Salt is pity, brooms are fury Last Line: The other half are mirrors Subject(s): Churches; Mirrors; Salt; Cathedrals FIRE SEASON Poem Text First Line: All the angels of tie siding were on fire Subject(s): Fire FIVE PAINTINGS BY CLARA VAN WANING Poem Text First Line: I only paint landscapes. People are just Subject(s): Paintings & Painters FOOL'S ERRAND Poem Text First Line: Alone, like a feather in the air Subject(s): Beauty; Cactus; Clowns; Girls FOR OUR BETTER GRACES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: God loves / the rain, not us Last Line: "her fragrance Subject(s): God; Love; Pine Trees; Rain; Trees FOR REMEMBERING HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT YOU Poem Text First Line: Your loneliness and mine Subject(s): Absence; Change; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness FRAGMENTS WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING...A MIDWESTERN HEAT WAVE Poem Text First Line: However lonely we were before / becomes unclear Last Line: By setting-free the soil Subject(s): Farm Life; Heat; Middle West; Oklahoma; Summer; Weather; Agriculture; Farmers; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States FUGUE FOR A DROWNED GIRL Poem Text Recitation First Line: It is the time of evening that promises miracles to anyone Last Line: Might be willow sticks. Fish swim into her hair. One by one the lights in her nails go out Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Rivers; Suicide; Dead, The GEOMETRY IS THE MIND OF GOD Poem Text First Line: A point is that which has no part Last Line: I'd say it's a green thorn in the heart Subject(s): Geometry; God; Mathematics GETTING A WORD IN Poem Text First Line: Very sad Last Line: Come out of nowhere) / very sad Subject(s): Grief; Language; Rain; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness; Words; Vocabulary HEMATITE LAKE Poem Text First Line: There is another kind of sleep Last Line: Not even nightfall, whose gold we are, can find us Subject(s): Birds; Lakes; Nature; Swans; Pools; Ponds HERMITS Poem Text First Line: The more I see of people, the more I like my dog Last Line: Hermits never know they’re dead till the roof falls in Subject(s): Absence; Hermits; Misanthropy; Separation; Isolation HIGH PLAINS RAG Poem Text First Line: But like remorse Last Line: It can never stop . Subject(s): Grass; Prairies; Plains HOW THEY GO ON Poem Text First Line: The otherwise beautiful girl Last Line: The same as if they heard and understood Subject(s): Beauty I LOOKED FOR LIFE AND DID A SHADOW SEE Poem Text First Line: Some little splinter Last Line: In the hollows of her eyes Subject(s): Beauty; Girls; Night; Shadows; Bedtime INDEPENDENCE DAY, 1956, A FAIRY TALE Poem Text First Line: I think this house's mouth is full of dirt Last Line: I know because someone, or his assistant, suffered here Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day IT JUST SO HAPPENS Poem Text First Line: You fingered the white top Last Line: That knocks the wind out of the ground Subject(s): Anxiety; Conversation; Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness JUSTICE Poem Text First Line: All around the house huge elms and oaks Subject(s): Cicadas; Elm Trees; Justice; Oak Trees LEFT-HANDED POEM Poem Text First Line: I am the self of my former shadow Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Prairies; Rivers; Woods; Hills; Downs (Great Britain); Plains LISTEN HARD Poem Text First Line: Enough and you can hear Last Line: Listen to the sound of the book when it closes Subject(s): Books; Sound; Reading MATERIALISM Poem Text First Line: If things aren't things Last Line: Hold me still Subject(s): Materialism; Nature; Property; Possessions METEOROLOGY Poem Text First Line: The heart is such a big awkward girl Last Line: Even the best days Subject(s): Evil; Gasoline; Good; Weather; Windows; Wyoming MISERICORD Poem Text First Line: Out at the end of a high promontory Subject(s): Girls; Mountains; Pain; Silk; Hills; Downs (Great Britain); Suffering; Misery MY DEATH AS A GIRL I KNEW Poem Text First Line: I was in a story Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Girls; Trees; Dead, The MY SISTER Poem Text First Line: My sister is a place where NATURA MORTA Poem Text First Line: I don't mind one or two Subject(s): Buzzards NAVIGATION Poem Text First Line: Evergreens have reasons Subject(s): Language; Mountains; Mouths; Nature; Navigation; Sky; Trees; Words; Vocabulary; Hills; Downs (Great Britain) NEWS Poem Text First Line: These afternoons seem to occur more Last Line: Like a sudden flow of blood from the mouth Subject(s): News NOT SO MUCH ON THE LAND AS IN THE WIND Poem Text Last Line: I walk toward the tree to make it green Subject(s): Nature NOT SO MUCH ON THE LAND AS IN THE WIND NOTES FOR THE FIRST LINE OF A SPANISH POEM Poem Text First Line: We remember so little Last Line: Outside the mind, the snow undresses and lies down Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers ODE TO SIGNIFICANCE Poem Text First Line: Implications arrive in unfamiliar places ODE TO THE BROWN PAPER BAG Poem Text First Line: Let's be more specific Subject(s): Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers OLD MEN ON THE COURTHOUSE LAWN, MURRAY, KENTUCKY Poem Text First Line: You might call this / the far side of the river Subject(s): Illinois; Indiana; Kentucky; Ohio; Rivers; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes ON EXPLORATION Poem Text First Line: A hawk drops to the treetop Subject(s): Explorers; Poetry & Poets; Universe; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers POST-MODERNISM Poem Text First Line: A pinup of rita hayworth was taped Last Line: Do I know him? Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Bombs; Death; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Actresses; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Students; Educators; Professors POSTCARD Poem Text First Line: Days are cubes of light Last Line: Some days I go looking for the sky Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Nebraska; Sky; Agriculture; Farmers PRACTICE Poem Text First Line: The world arrived / so carefully packed Last Line: With speech Subject(s): Bible; Speech; Oratory; Orators PROMISES ARE FOR LIARS Poem Text First Line: Because, you know REAL WONDER Poem Text First Line: In the stunned little interval Last Line: Preceding real wonder . Subject(s): Fences; Houses; Spring; Winter REGARD Poem Text First Line: In regard to their own movement Last Line: Turning through the fire . Subject(s): Fire; Winter RESURRECTION UPDATE Poem Text First Line: And then it happened Last Line: An aspirin in a glass of water Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; World RIGHT NOW Poem Text First Line: The mind assumes the position Last Line: You could lose in a heartbeat Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin RINTRAH ROARS Poem Text First Line: My father-in-law writes from umbria (where peasants eat songbirds Subject(s): Comedy; Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973); Umbria, Italy RUBBER ANGEL Poem Text First Line: The world is not Last Line: I dare you Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Forests; Owls; Philosophy & Philosophers; Woods SAPPHIC SUICIDE NOTE Poem Text First Line: Day out Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Letters; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Suicide; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SARA Poem Text First Line: Sara stays at home. / her looks are plain Last Line: A white cloth against the glass Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Insanity; Paintings & Painters; Suicide; Voices; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness SEMPITERNAL Poem Text First Line: Out at sea the sun / was shining Last Line: North each time . Subject(s): Sea; Silver; Sun; Water; Whales; Ocean SHADOW-CASTING Poem Text First Line: This boy's father dies. / fine. / it always happens. / the boy knows Last Line: This boy, it always happens, doesn’t know what to do anymore Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Fish & Fishing; Life; Sports; Dead, The; Anglers SMALL COUNTRIES Poem Text First Line: In defense of whatever happens next, the navy of flat-bottomed Last Line: Dark rush across the prairie towards him and over him Subject(s): Country Life SO LONG Poem Text Subject(s): Fathers SPEAKING TERMS Poem Text First Line: All around me to-ing and fro-ing Last Line: And start walking Subject(s): Contrariness; Lectures; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking SPECIAL EFFECTS Poem Text First Line: My shirts on the line Last Line: In your body Subject(s): Rain SPRING BLIZZARD Poem Text First Line: A limb's sententious crack Last Line: I wish you wouldn't look at me that way Subject(s): Snow; Spring STATION (1) Poem Text First Line: I envy the soldiers' sleep -- ah, the sleep of a soldier Last Line: No, no one Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Sleep; Soldiers STATION (3) Poem Text First Line: I was teaching my little sister how to fly when she broke Last Line: "the snow is disappearing toward Subject(s): Mothers; Sisters STATION (4) Poem Text First Line: Its back was leaves that mimed the leaves in back of us Last Line: "the backdrop won’t drop back Subject(s): Piety; Sisters STATION (5) Poem Text First Line: Somewhere between a bird's nest and a solar system Last Line: Washing less than nothing from your hands Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Birds; Jesus Christ STORIES ARE MADE OF MISTAKES Poem Text First Line: Even the pole bean tendrils sought out and gripped their Last Line: My dad used to ride this black mare... Subject(s): Hearts; Poetry & Poets SYNOPSIS OF A FAILED POEM Poem Text First Line: Every simile is elegy Subject(s): Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (Great Britain) TESTIMONY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You can't step into the same Last Line: Either. Not once Subject(s): Butter; Flowers; Rivers THE GIANTS OF HISTORY Poem Text First Line: The little people behind the scenes are getting ugly Last Line: No good to them now, in their hour of need Subject(s): Friendship; Giants; History; Historians THE HEART Poem Text First Line: A stumblebum in scree Last Line: With his throat cut Subject(s): Butterflies; Hummingbirds; Insects; Bugs THE IMPORTANCE OF GREEN Poem Text First Line: Small towns are for knowing who's poor Last Line: No more than the dress itself / of green Subject(s): Green (Color); Poverty; Tailors; Towns; Dress Makers THE LAST MAN'S CLUB Poem Text First Line: My grandfather was always sad. Sadly, as a boy, he paddled his canoe Last Line: After that he was never sad, not even when the river died Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Hudson River; Life; Old Age; Dead, The THE MEASURE OF THE YEAR Poem Text First Line: A canoe made of horse ribs tipped over in the pasture Last Line: I thought I’d seen that happen Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing THE SACRAL DREAMS OF RAMON FERNANDEZ Poem Text First Line: Ramon fernandez did not live Last Line: He said, god has brought me here Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners THE SMALL SELF AND THE LIBERAL SELF Poem Text First Line: Perhaps you didn't realize Last Line: "no one is allowed to speak now Subject(s): Sky THE STORY OF THE END OF THE STORY Poem Text First Line: To keep from ending Last Line: Only the stories about them do Subject(s): Suicide THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE Poem Text First Line: The real is not what happens but what is Last Line: Only the stars, which do not know, can tell Subject(s): North Pole; Stars THE WAR THAT ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK Poem Text First Line: The little wind I saw curving and lifting Last Line: Where she grazes the horizon down to nothing Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Horses; Humanity; Nature THEY HAVEN'T HEARD THE WEST IS OVER Poem Text First Line: So that no one should forget, and no one be forgotten -- isn't that Last Line: Arms to the north, and the road from here keeps going, as if it were going somewhere Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Disappeared Persons; Funerals; Mountains; Trees; Wyoming; Dead, The; Missing Persons; Burials; Hills; Downs (Great Britain) THREE SONNETS Poem Text First Line: Where I live distance is the primal fact Last Line: Only philosophies of suffering Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Prophecy & Prophets TIME OPTICS Poem Text First Line: Where the ditch vaults the river Last Line: I'll be alright gone Subject(s): Rivers; Time TO A FRIEND I CAN'T FIND Poem Text First Line: What about this, after all Last Line: The living started digging out Subject(s): Absence; Colorado (State); Friendship; Separation; Isolation TO SEE THE STARS IN DAYLIGHT Poem Text First Line: You have to go down / in a deep mine-shaft or a well Subject(s): Mines & Miners; Stars TO THE REPUBLIC Poem Text First Line: Past / fences the first sheepmen cast across the land, processions Subject(s): Life; Nostalgia TOTEM Poem Text First Line: Riding a '23 farmall round and round on a hot afternoon, I always Last Line: Didn't try to find the snag. This year. Everything that died, died twice Subject(s): Forests; Woods TRESPASSERS Poem Text First Line: Now, on this new page Last Line: As if drawn by a magnet Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TWO HORSES AND A DOG Poem Text First Line: Without external reference Last Line: Wearing dogtags with scripture on them Subject(s): Honesty; Humility; Morality; Ethics UNTITLED, 1968; FOR MARK ROTHKO Poem Text First Line: There's no such thing as an emergency Last Line: I know someone, or his assistant, suffered here Variant Title(s): Veronica Subject(s): Blood; Drinks & Drinking; Evening; Wine; Sunset; Twilight WATER TABLE Poem Text First Line: How shy the attraction / of simple rain to the east wind Last Line: To write his name Subject(s): Autumn; Brooks; Mines & Miners; Mountains; Nature; Seasons; September; Water; Fall; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (Great Britain) WATERSHED Poem Text First Line: Here the land is tilted / like a gambrel roof. The world Last Line: The knife that cuts the rain in two, the lie Subject(s): Colorado (State); Mountains; Water; Hills; Downs (Great Britain) WESTERN CIVILIZATION Poem Text First Line: That woman still lives at her ranch Last Line: That just now shaded your eyes Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Stars; Wyoming WHAT I'VE BELIEVED IN Poem Text First Line: Propped on blocks, the front half of a packard car rides the hillside Last Line: Waited years to be asked Subject(s): Automobiles; Junk & Junkyards; Rust; Cars WHAT WE SAID THE LIGHT SAID Poem Text First Line: Mystery moves in god-like ways Subject(s): God; Mystery; Saxophones; Women YOU KNOW WHAT PEOPLE SAY Poem Text First Line: Sulky what-ifs Last Line: The norm is always incorrect. If what? Subject(s): Dramatists; Hell; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists |
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