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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: GREGERSON, LINDA Matches Found: 71 Gregerson, Linda Poet's Biography 71 poems available by this author AN ARBOR Poem Text First Line: The world's a world of trouble, your mother must Subject(s): Suburbs ARBOR First Line: The world's a world of trouble, your mother must Last Line: A stand of oak on which my father's %earthly joy depends. We're slow %to cut our losses AT THE WINDOW Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Suppose, we said, that the tumult of the flesh were to cease BAD BLOOD First Line: The question must have been the one they all Last Line: I've no claim to it. The pain was someone else's. And the boy BAD PHYSICIAN First Line: The body in health, the body in sickness Last Line: Which leaves us most behind BICAMERAL Poem Text First Line: Choose any angle you like, she said, BLEEDTHROUGH First Line: As when, in bright daylight, she closes her eyes Last Line: Of the stain that's last to go BUNTING First Line: They're sleeping,' said emma, 'they're very tired Last Line: Rocked her in the cradle of the state CORD First Line: Dearest, we filled up the woodroom %this week Last Line: Hour with you (one %breath, one more) was theft CRANES ON THE SEASHORE: 1 First Line: Today, tom, I followed the tractor ruts north %along Last Line: To the sea just after the crops were in. Cleared %the mind CRANES ON THE SEASHORE: 2 First Line: Megan %is not happy with her drawing of the Last Line: She's after proof the earth leaps too CRANES ON THE SEASHORE: 3 First Line: At eight %o'clock on a wednesday evening, eighteen Last Line: May be lovely as cranes and safe CRANES ON THE SEASHORE: 4 First Line: Behind %the row of holiday villas, the hay Last Line: For the landlord and one (we're almost %gone) for the road CREATION MYTH First Line: If the lines are not lovely in two dimensions Last Line: To honor %the father who made us EX MACHINA Poem Text First Line: When love was a question, the message arrived Subject(s): Love EYES LIKE LEEKS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It had almost nothing to do with sex. Subject(s): Autism; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life FATHER MERCY, MOTHER TONGUE Poem Text First Line: If the english language was good enough for jesus Subject(s): Language; United States; Words; Vocabulary; America FISH DYING ON THE THIRD FLOOR AT BARNEYS First Line: The clothes are black and unstructured this fall Last Line: To mend my manners FOR MY FATHER, WHO WOULD RATHER STAY HOME First Line: No deadfall in these woods of yours FOR THE TAKING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: And always, the damp blonde curls Subject(s): Child Abuse FOR THE TAKING First Line: And always, the damp blond curls on her temples Last Line: The worst, she does it for love FRAME Poem Text First Line: The tree that had patiently framed our view Subject(s): Separation GETTING AND SPENDING Poem Text Subject(s): Women's Rights; Property; Feminism; Possessions GOOD NEWS Poem Text First Line: The hobbled, the halt the-hasten-to-blame-it-on-childhood Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Dead, The GOOD NEWS First Line: The hobbled, the halt, the hasten-to-blame-it-on-childhood Last Line: Which failures of attention made HALF LIGHT Poem Text First Line: The broad way and the narrow, you see, in upper HALF LIGHT First Line: The broad way and the narrow, you see, in %upper Last Line: Body (there is nothing quite so good at this) %for scale INTERIOR OF THE OUDE KERK, DELFT, WITH OPEN GRAVE Poem Text First Line: And you, friend, in a footnote, thanked Subject(s): Paintings & Painters INTERIOR OF THE OUDE KERK, DELFT, WITH OPEN GRAVE First Line: And you, friend, in a footnote, thanked %for kindly Last Line: Country's built on water, he should know LIKE NEW Poem Text First Line: The ones too broke or wise to get parts Subject(s): City & Town Life; Baltimore, Maryland LINE DRIVE CAUGHT BY THE GRACE OF GOD Poem Text First Line: Half of america doubtless has the whole Subject(s): Sports LINE DRIVE CAUGHT BY THE GRACE OF GOD First Line: Half of america doubtless has the whole Last Line: That makes the weeks go by so personal, %so hand in glove Subject(s): Sports LUKE 17:32 First Line: Remember, he said, lot's wife, which is as much Last Line: Farewells. But he was simply ready MACULATE First Line: I remember going door to door, it must Last Line: And spilling from the binding, gold MAUDLIN; OR, THE MAGDALEN€™S TEARS Poem Text First Line: If faith is a tree that sorrow grows Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Mary Magdalene MOTHER RUIN First Line: One fall after another. The snow Last Line: Till the fastness that made things all of a piece dissolves MY FATHER COMES BACK FROM THE GRAVE Poem Text First Line: I think you must contrive to turn this stone Subject(s): Deat - Fathers NARROW FLAME Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Cold NOAH'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: Is doing her usual for comic relief Subject(s): Marriage; Noah (bible); Weddings; Husbands; Wives NOAH'S WIFE First Line: Is doing her usual for comic relief Last Line: Makes you think (the furrow, the fruit) %I had to be told? Subject(s): Marriage; Noah (bible) PAJAMA QUOTIENT Poem Text First Line: Coinage of the not-yet-wholly- Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives PASS OVER: 1. PLAGUE OF DARKNESS First Line: You point a camera at a kid, the kid %will try Last Line: If anyone here were in charge, my vote is scrap us %and start over PASS OVER: 2. PLAGUE OF FROGS First Line: Indicator species is the phrase, I think Last Line: Eat. This is the body you have made PASS OVER: 3. PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS First Line: Because there's never enough. No, not Last Line: The birds cannot keep up PASS OVER: 4. HYSSOP, LAMB First Line: Explain to me the writing on the door posts Last Line: Was it something in the water, or before? PETRARCHAN Poem Text First Line: The dogs locked in the shed now Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The RESURRECTION OF THE BODY First Line: She must have been thirteen or so, her nascent breasts Last Line: Poor head in its bright red helmet knocking - %listen - %to be let in SAFE Poem Text First Line: The tendons sewn together and the small bones Subject(s): Women - Abused; Death; Wife Beating; Dead, The SAFE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The tendons sewn together and the small bones Subject(s): Hands; Surgery; Children; Childhood SAFE; K.M.S. 1948-1986 First Line: The tendons sewn together and the small bones Last Line: For a while, and slept till she was wakened SAINT PETER RELEASED FROM PRISON Poem Text First Line: So whether you read from left Subject(s): Paintings & Painters SAINTS' LOGIC Poem Text First Line: Love the drill, confound the dentist. Subject(s): Christianity SAINTS' LOGIC First Line: Love the drill, confound the dentist Last Line: The earth won't entirely have given us up SALT First Line: Because she had been told, time and again Last Line: For the body but after the fact SLIGHT TREMOR Poem Text First Line: The fine fourth finger Subject(s): Human Body SOLD First Line: The delicious part,' he said, 'is when I get her Last Line: He carried door to door SPRING SNOW Poem Text First Line: A kind of counter-/blossoming, diversionary, SWEET Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Linda,/said my mother when the buildings fell Subject(s): Survival TARGET Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What is, says the chorus, this human Subject(s): Desire; Children; Childhood TARGET First Line: What is, says the chorus, this human desire Last Line: There is something so fantastic on the mother's face THE BAPTISM OF THE NEOPHYTES Poem Text First Line: He knelt because the others knelt. And Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE HORSES RUN BACK TO THEIR STALLS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It's another sorry tale about class in america, I'm sure Subject(s): Horse Racing; Fear; Panic; Fire THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: She must have been thirteen or so, her nascent breasts Subject(s): Teenagers; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE SELVEGE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: So door to door among the shotgun Subject(s): Social Classes; Geese; Obama, Barack; Racism; Caste; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE THREE-LEGGED DOG AT THE HEART OF OUR HOME Poem Text First Line: She dances to the wheeze of my lungs. Were she taller, Subject(s): Aging WATERBORNE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The river is largely implicit here, but part Subject(s): Rivers WIFE Poem Text First Line: I've had a couple the oblique way Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WITH EMMA AT THE LADIES-ONLY SWIMMING POND ON HAMPSTEAD BEAI First Line: In payment for those mornings at the mirror while Last Line: On the raft %for a while?) not yet WITH EMMA AT THE LADIES-ONLY SWIMMING POND ON HAMPSTEAD HEATH Poem Text First Line: In payment for those mornings at the mirror while, Subject(s): Children; Swimming And Swimmers; Childhood WOMAN WHO DIED IN HER SLEEP First Line: Not whipstitch nor blindstitch Last Line: Where nothing is thrown away WOMAN WHO, DIED IN HER SLEEP: 2 First Line: When megan chose the fifteenth-century sculpture Last Line: The child had once been joined %to something else |
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