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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: GREGG, LINDA Matches Found: 470 Gregg, Linda Poet's Biography 470 poems available by this author 17399 EDGEWOOD ROAD, FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS First Line: A few days before I am to move Last Line: And the light shining through Subject(s): Greece A BRACELET OF BRIGHT HAIR ABOUT THE BONE Poem Text First Line: The romans put skulls into their love poems Last Line: I wanted absoluteness to be made of my heart Subject(s): Death A DARK THING INSIDE THE DAY Poem Text First Line: So many want to be lifted by song and dancing Subject(s): Greece; Greeks A FLOWER NO MORE THAN ITSELF Poem Text First Line: She was there on the mountain Subject(s): Greece; Greeks A MOUNTAIN FACING A MOUNTAIN (2) Poem Text First Line: What poetry demands is worse Subject(s): Mountains A THIRST AGAINST Poem Text First Line: There is a hunger for order / but a thirst against. What if Last Line: In these chicago avenues Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ADULT Poem Text First Line: I've come back to the country where I was happy Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ADULT First Line: I've come back to the country where I was happy Last Line: And wondering if slowly I will take on flesh again Subject(s): Greece AFTER ACTIUM: LOSS FILLING THE EMPTINESS Poem Text First Line: The flowers do not move in the windless pause Last Line: As you in me now, all the time, day after day Subject(s): Actium, Battle Of (31 B.c.); Emptiness; Loss AFTER ACTIUM: LOSS FILLING THE EMPTINESS First Line: The flowers do not move in the windless pause Last Line: As nothingness is filled as soon as it is emptied. %as you in me now, all the time, day after day Subject(s): Greece AFTER THAT First Line: When the sun goes down and the world starts Last Line: Until the night really comes and covers them, %they are still white. Only perhaps waxier Subject(s): Greece AFTER THE BEGINNING First Line: The woman is preparing her body for sleep Last Line: There is no music. She pays attention %to his body. It is night and quiet %all around his embraces Subject(s): Greece AHDAAM KAI AVA First Line: I came the whole way around from going out Last Line: Of myself with their unimportance %their elegant, unimportant happiness Subject(s): Greece ALL THE SPRING LENDS ITSELF TO HER First Line: If her skirt does not bend the grassw, nor sea air Last Line: Pressed close to the earth, calling her name %wondering if it is her voice we are whispering Subject(s): Greece ALMA IN ALL SEASONS First Line: She has arms instead of breasts Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ALMA IN ALL SEASONS First Line: She has arms instead of breasts Last Line: It is summer but the same was true %when there was snow Subject(s): Greece ALMA IN THE DARK Poem Text First Line: She reaches over and puts a hand on his hipbone Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ALMA IN THE DARK First Line: She reaches over and puts a hand on his hipbone Last Line: Or the almond tree is blown around in the wind Subject(s): Greece ALMA IN THE WOODS First Line: I show them how the snow melts from the stone Last Line: Making songs from the bones of belief Subject(s): Greece ALMA IS WILLING First Line: She is willing to grow larger. Put forth leaves Last Line: Fragility even in something so good and round Subject(s): Greece ALMA THINKING ABOUT MEN First Line: I stood watching the great hulk of desire Last Line: I, who looked at the drying leaves with my heart, %have learned to come back Variant Title(s): Coming Bac Subject(s): Greece ALMA TO HER SISTER Poem Text First Line: Alone no loneliness in the dream in the quiet Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ALMA TO HER SISTER First Line: Alone no loneliness in the dream in the quiet Last Line: In the sunrise in the sunset. Louise %in the dream. In the sunrise in the sunset Subject(s): Greece ALMA WATCHING HER HUSBAND First Line: Halfway through the scene I could not decide Last Line: Player into a soundproof room facing out on the marsh. %theni knew she would just go on standing the Subject(s): Greece ALONE WITH THE GODDESS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The young men ride their horses fast Last Line: On the wet beach at pangaritis Subject(s): Greece; Love; Seashore; Greeks ALONE WITH THE GODDESS First Line: The young men ride their horses fast Last Line: Their beautiful horses %on the wet beach at pangaritis Subject(s): Greece ALWAYS ALONE First Line: There was a place. It was not important Last Line: Of the whole thing. Still a secret ALWAYS MISTAKEN Poem Text First Line: We see the ocean and hear Last Line: Of rice and cups of tea Subject(s): Sea ALWAYS MISTAKEN First Line: We see the ocean and hear Last Line: In heaven, a table set with bowls %of rice and cups of tea Subject(s): Greece; Life; Sea; Self ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE First Line: It is seven o'clock this morning Last Line: It is nine o'clock. They walk out into the dark night Subject(s): Greece APHRODITE AND THE NATURE OF ART Poem Text First Line: I want a net made of iron to hold Subject(s): Greece; Greeks APHRODITE AND THE NATURE OF ART First Line: I want a net made of iron to hold Last Line: Higher in the half-light of the vast room Subject(s): Greece APPARENT First Line: When I say transparency, I don't mean seeing through Last Line: Back into the nearly night of the woods, %it was because the rain came down suddenly harder Subject(s): Greece ARIADNE WRITES TO THESEUS AT RANDOM Poem Text First Line: You have been away so long Last Line: Around the silence in my heart Subject(s): Absence; Ariadne ARIADNE WRITES TO THESEUS AT RANDOM First Line: You have been away so long Last Line: Around the silence in my heart Subject(s): Greece ARKANSAS AFTERNOONS First Line: Today I took the postmaster's advice and found Last Line: Four years ago. Waving to no one now Subject(s): Greece AS BEING IS ETERNAL Poem Text First Line: She is sitting alone in the bright room Last Line: So vast an event, so much becoming Subject(s): Greece; Time; Greeks AS BEING IS ETERNAL First Line: She is sitting alone in the bright room Last Line: The air is heavy as water as she %bends her head over the page Subject(s): Greece AS IS Poem Text First Line: Pay attention, talk to no one unless Last Line: Flying. All of it meaning the same thing Subject(s): Conduct Of Life AS IS First Line: Pay attention, talk to no one unless Last Line: Flying. All of it meaning the same thing Subject(s): Greece AS WHEN THE BLOWFISH PERISHING Last Line: We kept the courtesy an internal form %to have the beauty after Variant Title(s): As When The Blowfish Perishin Subject(s): Greece ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS Poem Text First Line: We could have been mistaken for a married couple Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS First Line: We could have been mistaken for a married couple Last Line: A woman alone carrying her bag, asking a worker %which direction to walk to find a taxi Subject(s): Greece AT HOME Poem Text Recitation First Line: Far is where I am near Subject(s): Greece; Loss; Greeks AT HOME First Line: Far is where I am near Last Line: If I go out there they are Subject(s): Greece; Loss AT RISK Poem Text First Line: This body does not smell human Last Line: Exactly that AT RISK First Line: This body does not smell human Last Line: Exactly that Subject(s): Greece AT THE GATE IN THE MIDDLE OF MY LIFE Poem Text First Line: I had come prepared to answer questions Subject(s): Midlife AT THE GATE IN THE MIDDLE OF MY LIFE First Line: I had come prepared to answer questions Last Line: Sadly three times around. Then three times more Subject(s): Greece AT THE SHORE Poem Text First Line: Naked women are being dragged Subject(s): Seashore AT THE SHORE First Line: Naked women are being dragged Last Line: To the men on a soft wind %caressingly, like sirens singing Subject(s): Greece BACKSTAGE First Line: Oma is the oldest woman in the house Last Line: Squawking like offended clergy Subject(s): Greece BALANCING EVERYTHING Poem Text First Line: When I lie in bed thinking of those years, I often Subject(s): Greece; Greeks BALANCING EVERYTHING First Line: When I lie in bed thinking of those years, I often Last Line: Up in the dark among the stars Subject(s): Greece BAMBOO AND A BIRD First Line: In the subway late at night Last Line: Who leave empty seats %between each other BECKETT KIT First Line: I finally found a way of using the tree Last Line: Aguy to mishkin, 'if you've seen all that, %how can you go on saying you're happy?' Subject(s): Greece BEING Poem Text Recitation First Line: The woman walks up the mountain BEING WITH MEN First Line: There are things a man does Last Line: But one does not comfort her. %it might look like he is guilty of something Subject(s): Greece BLAKE First Line: The sun is on the roof Last Line: They both shine in that room, %water and spilling light Subject(s): Greece BLOOMINGDALE'S I First Line: If I weren't working, I'd sleep next to you' Last Line: The aisles, letting our hands touch every chance %they got, among the bras and underpants Subject(s): Greece BORDER BETWEEN THINGS First Line: Our meetings are like hawks mating, you said Last Line: And forth between the visible and the invisible %not the moment between the natural and unnatural Subject(s): Greece BOUNTY AFTER THE BOUNTY First Line: It is all in not having Last Line: Of jesus. He struggles, %it struggles to hold out against our will Subject(s): Greece BRACELET OF BRIGHT HAIR ABOUT THE BONE First Line: The romans put skulls into their love poems Last Line: I wanted absoluteness to be made of my heart Subject(s): Greece CAFETERIA IN BOSTON First Line: I could digest the white slick watery mash Last Line: That was the course that kept the others down Subject(s): Greece CALAMITIES: ANOTHER EDEN Poem Text First Line: Out beyond what we imagine Last Line: And leave into the questing Subject(s): Homeless; Travel CALAMITIES: ANOTHER EDEN First Line: Out beyond what we imagine Last Line: Heaven is deep and deeper. We leave %and leave into the questing Subject(s): Greece CALVES NOT CHOSEN First Line: The mind goes caw, caw, caw, caw Last Line: Awake or asleep, in white, in black Subject(s): Greece CENTER OF INTENT First Line: Is there a lesson in the way this new silence lasts? Last Line: Through the special silence at evening Subject(s): Greece CHILDREN AMONG THE HILLS Poem Text First Line: The lamb was so skinny I thought it was a baby goat Subject(s): Greece; Greeks CHILDREN AMONG THE HILLS First Line: The lamb was so skinny I thought it was a baby goat Last Line: Like a thing made of silver. But inside everything %was movig, shivering with wind. We knew that muc Subject(s): Greece CHOOSING AGAINST RUINS First Line: I thought the old statue was a kore Last Line: She remains. A shadow of stone Subject(s): Greece CHOOSING THE DEVIL First Line: Mephistopheles enters %between one step and another Last Line: He is on the mountain. %it is so massive, so incomplete Subject(s): Greece CHORUS SPEAKS HER WORDS AS SHE DANCES First Line: You are perishing like the old men. Already your arms gone Last Line: I am a joke and a secret here, and I will leave. %it is morning now. The light whitens her face more Subject(s): Greece CHOSEN BY THE LION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I am the one chosen by the lion at sundown Last Line: And hearing me answer immediately, “yes!” Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Greeks CHOSEN BY THE LION First Line: I am the one chosen by the lion at sundown Last Line: Saying out loud in the darkness, linda %and hearing me answer immediately, yes! Subject(s): Greece CHRISTMAS DAY First Line: Today the temperature rose to freezing. The sun Last Line: In the silence until I came back to you, to the empty %apartment. You whisper when you call me on th Subject(s): Greece CITY OF GOD First Line: What thou lovest well is felt violently Last Line: Rain will be falling heavily outside Subject(s): Greece CLAPPING First Line: Did I go there enough? Was it enough when I tried Last Line: Saying now, and now, and later forever. You and I %innocent in purity and magnificent disorder Subject(s): Greece CLASSICISM Poem Text First Line: The nights are very clear in greece Last Line: And have no feeling Subject(s): Greece; Greeks CLASSICISM First Line: The nights are very clear in greece Last Line: When the moon is round we see it completely %and have no feeling Subject(s): Greece CLOSENESS AT THE GOODWILL First Line: I had found a shawl made of four foxes Subject(s): Greece CLOSEST IT CAN GET TO THE HUMAN First Line: Out on the desert Last Line: Our hearts a darker shade of red COLERIDGE SAW THE HARP AS INVENTED BEYOND NATURE'S REASON First Line: Is it true women are the most supple form Last Line: Self-for-love, beaten as all exiles are %these that the earth quickly cares nothing for Variant Title(s): Women In Winte Subject(s): Greece COLOR OF MANY DEER RUNNING First Line: The air fresh, as it has been for days Last Line: Not one deer, but when many of them run away Subject(s): Greece COMING HOME First Line: I see no way to survive the soul's journey Last Line: To find in the dark only if we have %practiced delicately meanwhile Subject(s): Greece CONDITIONS First Line: You will have to stand in the clearing and see Last Line: You will recognize them as geography. You will know %an unkempt singing you will never hear without Subject(s): Greece CONSIDERING THE MOON First Line: I love the places on your body where Last Line: Everything that feels hunger and listens %and lives in the open is allowed to look at you Subject(s): Greece COPPERHEAD First Line: Almost blind he takes the soft dying Last Line: With his eyes a moving. A small moving that he knows Subject(s): Greece DANCER HOLDING STILL Poem Text First Line: Her husband has left and no man moves her Subject(s): Marriage DANCER HOLDING STILL First Line: Her husband has left and no man moves her Subject(s): Greece DANCING First Line: A woman considers the red tulip stuck in a vase Subject(s): Greece DANGEROUS TRADE First Line: Would it have been different if we had not dreamed Subject(s): Greece DARK THING INSIDE THE DAY First Line: So many want to be lifted by song and dancing Subject(s): Greece DAYS First Line: Moon is hobbled and placed in a field Last Line: She thinks, it's the beginning of something Subject(s): Greece DEATH LOOKS DOWN Poem Text First Line: Death looks down on the salmon Last Line: Lying still, always facing the constant motion Subject(s): Salmon; Death DEATH LOOKS DOWN First Line: Death looks down on the salmon Last Line: Motionless days and nights in the cold water. %lying still, always facing in the constant motion Subject(s): Greece DEEPER IN THE JUNGLE, THE RIVER DIVIDES First Line: Death rewrites the script, and love does not Last Line: Each time. A game lasting year after year Subject(s): Greece DEFEATED First Line: I sat at the desk for a while fooling with my hair Last Line: I know air. But then everything else stops %because I don't what happens after that Subject(s): Greece DELICATE THING First Line: There are no longer elegant catastrophes of the heart Last Line: They will not wake up for hours and hours Subject(s): Greece DEMON-CATCHERS ON OUR DOORS First Line: We walk up the valley ankle-deep in tenderness Last Line: And each time something happens %to make them balance in the satin light Subject(s): Greece DESIGN INSIDE THEM First Line: At six every night the women sit on chairs Last Line: Their idea of justice and good and gentle kindness %gathers up again as the old swallows and flowers Subject(s): Greece DESIGNS MADE OF THIS AND THAT First Line: It is made of secrecy and the quiet of things Last Line: To us, careless of something already possessed Subject(s): Greece DIFFERENT NOT LESS Poem Text First Line: All of it changes at evening Last Line: We see another world alive and our wholeness finishing Subject(s): Change DIFFERENT NOT LESS First Line: All of it changes at evening Last Line: What is not given. We see another world alive %and our wholeness finishing Subject(s): Greece DOWNSIZED First Line: She lives where no one comes to visit Last Line: I live closer to it than ever Subject(s): Greece DRIVING TO HOUSTON First Line: Somebody named this primitive river vermilion Last Line: The injustice of your desire recommends %its reality, now that I have moved Subject(s): Greece DRIVING WITH THE MOON First Line: Moon, my company, who does not save the trees from Last Line: You mut let me go.' make a music like the bells at easter Subject(s): Greece DRY GRASS & OLD COLOR OF THE FENCE & SMOOTH HILLS Poem Text First Line: The women are at home in this california town Subject(s): Women; California; Family Life DRY GRASS & OLD COLOR OF THE FENCE & SMOOTH HILLS First Line: The women are at home in this california town Last Line: Wants to know if I want waffles with raspberry jam Subject(s): Greece EACH THING MEASURED BY THE SAME SUN Poem Text First Line: Nothing to tell. Nothing to desire Subject(s): Greece; Greeks EACH THING MEASURED BY THE SAME SUN First Line: Nothing to tell. Nothing to desire Last Line: Making a world in the mind %the spirit still connected to the body %eyes open, uncovered to the bone Subject(s): Greece EDGE OF SOMETHING First Line: I have decided I will not be like john hu anymore Last Line: Foreignness married by air. This is as close %as we will come. This is the edge of not running Subject(s): Greece ELEGANCE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: All that is uncared for. Subject(s): Time; Beauty EMPTY BOWL First Line: You know when to wake me in the dark Last Line: No salt, no bread. Only the chanting %lamb, lamb, lamb Subject(s): Greece ENORMOUS ENGINE First Line: Oriental women with their children at the laundromat Last Line: Our destination. Body with body, soul with soul Subject(s): Greece ESTA Poem Text First Line: I think of him overturning the tables of the money Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ESTA First Line: I think of him overturning the tables of the money Last Line: Eso linda. I hold on to that grace as I ride %my bicycle back through the cor, the sun on me Subject(s): Greece ETIOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Cruelty made me. Cruelty and the sweet smelling earth Last Line: Was still warm. Heaven forbid that I should be saved Subject(s): Cruelty; Greeks ETIOLOGY First Line: Cruelty made me. Cruelty and the sweet smelling earth Last Line: Dead animals. I have lifted the dead owl while it %was still warm. Heaven forbid that I should be sa Subject(s): Greece EURIDICE SAVED Poem Text First Line: I am filled with all things seen / for the last time. He lays with me gently Last Line: We called nothing when we lived on the earth Subject(s): Love; Greeks EURIDICE SAVED First Line: I am filled with all things seen %for the last time. He lays with me gently Last Line: Art, I was thinking, is the imitation of what %we called nothing when we lived on the earth Subject(s): Greece EURIDICE SAVED First Line: I am filled with the sorrow of all things seen Last Line: Art, I was thinking, is the imitation %of what we called nothing when we lived on the earth Subject(s): Greece EURYDICE Poem Text First Line: I linger, knowing you are eager (having seen Last Line: And was the way out for me, my love Subject(s): Greece; Eurydice (mythology); Orpheus; Love; Death; Grief; Greeks EURYDICE First Line: I linger, knowing you are eager (having seen Last Line: Near the opening which is the way in for you %and was the way out for me, my love Subject(s): Greece EVEN IF THE GODS LOOK DOWN First Line: Hawks are flying slowly high above Last Line: Is hung outside to bleed EVENING SONG First Line: I asked whatever I met and each thing taht happened Last Line: By the mythic, destroyed by the grand. An importance %that abandons the human and real. The loss bou Subject(s): Greece EVERYDAY RICE First Line: Some kinds of love Last Line: Five or six times before making it into dinner Subject(s): Greece FATHERS First Line: It was evening when my love and I Last Line: Our fathers, dead in america %the spirits singing Subject(s): Greece FIEFDOM First Line: In the tea garden of the muslim graveyard Last Line: Dirt, bushes, and her small sounds Subject(s): Greece FIGURES NEAR A BRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Everything formal / the man turns around Subject(s): Greece; Greeks FIGURES NEAR A BRIDGE First Line: Everything formal %the man turns around Last Line: The look on her face %is the sound he made Subject(s): Greece FINDING THE WAY First Line: Today I went to the village church Last Line: The flavor of sesame and cumin Subject(s): Greece FINE PALE WILD CLOTH OF LOVE First Line: Not precision or passion. Not one or the other Subject(s): Greece FISH TEA RICE Poem Text First Line: It is on the earth that all things transpire Last Line: In mud. Eating what is here. Fish, bread, tea, rice Subject(s): Nature; Greeks FISH TEA RICE First Line: It is on the earth that all things transpire Last Line: In mud. Eating what is here. Fish, bread, tea, rice Subject(s): Greece FISHING IN THE KEEP OF SILENCE Poem Text First Line: There is a hush now while the hills rise up Subject(s): Greece; Greeks FISHING IN THE KEEP OF SILENCE First Line: There is a hush now while the hills rise up Last Line: Repeats to himself: there are fish in the net, %lots of fish this time in the net of the heart Subject(s): Greece FLOWER NO MORE THAN ITSELF First Line: She was there on the mountain Last Line: And dirt and rain. Pride her life. %all nature her wealth.Sound of owls her pillow Subject(s): Greece FOR AND AGAINST MEMORY First Line: I can think of nothing the heart finds easy Last Line: I feel the ticking. The faint counting %that begins at the beginning of being Subject(s): Greece FOREIGN LANGUAGE OF THE HEART First Line: Rivas said the virgin sisters went singing across Last Line: Just outside the big doors accepting alms, %watching with no particular expression as you pass Subject(s): Greece FORGET ALL THAT First Line: I don't want to confuse the world Last Line: As I walk to the next one, %and the one after Subject(s): Greece FOUR-HAND IMPROVISATION # 3 First Line: Love is in two places and I will tell you Last Line: And go toward, dragging the here %all the evidence gone Subject(s): Greece FOUR-HAND IMPROVISATION #2 First Line: I don't know what this is, she says Last Line: (in this wilderness of light %I am nothing %your being lies on my forehead %like a stone) Subject(s): Greece GAME CALLED FEAR First Line: The young cows run in the sound of the river Last Line: The sky is silent and the river is loud %this time of year Subject(s): Greece GEORGE OPPEN First Line: It had been a fine day Last Line: Overwhelmed him, driving him down Subject(s): Greece GETTING VALUE First Line: My elderly friend of many years arrived Last Line: Now making his problematical children? GHOSTS POEM First Line: Heavy black birds flying away hard from trees Last Line: It is the final condition.' Subject(s): Greece GIRL I CALL ALMA First Line: The girl I call alma who is so white Last Line: And that it's the others who scar me, %not you Subject(s): Greece GLISTENING Poem Text First Line: As I pull the bucket from the crude well Last Line: "as I walk to the next one, Subject(s): Love GLISTENING First Line: As I pull the bucket from the crude well Last Line: The earth moving slowly as I dry in the light Subject(s): Greece GNOSTICS ON TRIAL Poem Text Recitation First Line: Let us make the test. Say god wants you Subject(s): Greece; Greeks GNOSTICS ON TRIAL First Line: Let us make the test. Say god wants you Last Line: Try to keep from rejoicing. Try %to keep from happiness. Just try Subject(s): Greece GOD'S PLACES Poem Text First Line: Does the soul care about the mightiness Last Line: The soul speaks about Subject(s): God; Love – Nature Of; Soul GOD'S PLACES First Line: Does the soul care about the mightiness Last Line: Of tht ripeness the soul speaks about Subject(s): Greece GOD-SINGING Poem Text First Line: A voice rises from the mosque farther down the mountain Last Line: Neither young nor old, neither bird nor human Subject(s): Singing & Singers GOD-SINGING First Line: A voice rises from the mosque farther down the mountain Last Line: Neither young nor old, neither bird nor human Subject(s): Greece GODS IN THE TWILIGHT First Line: The poppies by the sea are Subject(s): Greece GODS MUST NOT KNOW US First Line: All the different kinds of light Last Line: The gods must not know us well or they would %not dance so openly, so happily before us Subject(s): Greece GOETHE'S DEATH MASK Poem Text First Line: The face is quite smooth Last Line: And eaten into. What a mess his eyes are Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Death; Masks GOETHE'S DEATH MASK First Line: The face is quite smooth Last Line: And eaten into. What a mess his eyes are Subject(s): Greece GREECE WHEN NOBODY'D LOOKING First Line: The earth bleached pale by two thounsand years Last Line: And the moon almost full. A poetry %of stars and stone and the ordinary Subject(s): Greece GRINDING THE LENS First Line: I am pulling myself together Last Line: It is summer and I am in the middle %of my life. Alone and happy Subject(s): Greece GROWING UP Poem Text First Line: I am reading li po. The t.V. Is on Last Line: Then turn it off and go on reading Subject(s): Television; Maturity; Books GROWING UP First Line: I am reading li po. The t.V. Is on Last Line: When the man says,'I love you.' %then turn it off and go on reading Subject(s): Greece GRUB First Line: The almost transparent white grub moves Last Line: But he is falling by definition. He moves forward %touching the frying grease with his whole face Subject(s): Greece GYPSY KINGS Poem Text First Line: Another late afternoon and I am sitting in Last Line: One mentioned her own son Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Conduct Of Life GYPSY KINGS First Line: Another late afternoon and I am sitting in Last Line: Their addresses for me %one mentioned her own son Subject(s): Greece HALF IN THE SHADE ... First Line: Whispering. After going beyond the end of myself Subject(s): Greece HAPPINESS AND WHITE SKY First Line: Love hurries me this morning as I see Subject(s): Greece HARD SEASON Poem Text First Line: Already this spring the lilacs are failing / in pieces and chunks, the way rust Last Line: With the presence, in the sunlight Subject(s): Spring HARD SEASON First Line: Already this spring the lilacs are failing %in pieces and chunks, the way rust Last Line: And counterweight. In the center %with the presence, in the sunlight Subject(s): Greece HARMONICA First Line: Gone like the fish in water Last Line: House on the other side %of the hill Subject(s): Greece HEART FLOWING OUT First Line: All things we see are the shapes death makes Last Line: Making that meaning, whatever it means Subject(s): Greece HEART'S WHITE HORSE First Line: Kung-sung said a white horse is not a horse Last Line: Down, half-asleep, even more white Subject(s): Greece HEAVY WITH THINGS AND FLESH First Line: Crowing. And a neighbor man already up Last Line: But when they leave, we don't follow Subject(s): Greece HEPHAESTUS ALONE Poem Text First Line: His heart is like a boat that sets forth alone Subject(s): Greece; Greeks HEPHAESTUS ALONE First Line: His heart is like a boat that sets forth alone Last Line: Made her with rage and disillusion Subject(s): Greece HOW IT WORKS First Line: I will tell you a story about Last Line: Hovering over a huge space Subject(s): Greece HOW THE JOY OF IT WAS USED UP LONG AGO First Line: No one standing. %no one for a long time Last Line: Near day, open and asleep. %a filth on the floor of that room Subject(s): Greece HOW YOU CAN KNOW HER Poem Text First Line: Neither with nor without a lover Last Line: She carries a love in her as a rose has its scent Subject(s): Love HOW YOU CAN KNOW HER First Line: Neither with nor without a lover Last Line: If not, she doesn't mind %she carries a love in her as a rose has its scent Subject(s): Greece I THOUGHT ON HIS DESIRE FOR THREE DAYS Poem Text First Line: I chose this man, consciously, deliberately Subject(s): Greece; Greeks I THOUGHT ON HIS DESIRE FOR THREE DAYS First Line: I chose this man, consciously, deliberately Last Line: Me awake. I am so happy to have lived Subject(s): Greece I WAGE MY LIFE AGAINST THIS YOUR BODY First Line: I cannot keep you with me. You must live apart Last Line: It ends, just before the sun goes down and evening %as always tries to make everything seem all righ Subject(s): Greece I WILL REMEMBER First Line: I will remember making love last night Last Line: All of a sudden part of the same weight Subject(s): Greece IF DEATH WANTS ME First Line: If death wants me, let it come Last Line: Like a growing thing, gone and complete Subject(s): Greece IMPERFECT First Line: The gradual wearing away leaves us alive Last Line: That I am happy to be painting the river %and dipping my brush in it at the same time Subject(s): Greece IN DIRT UNDER OLIVE TREES ON THE HILL AT EVENING First Line: Her naked body is too small for the woman's head Last Line: Why this pity, this glad humming when we see her %sitting with tinted breast on a little clay throne Subject(s): Greece IN THE HALF-LIGHT First Line: Naked women playing happily behind Last Line: Gone from me for three years now Subject(s): Greece INNOCENTS First Line: The dahlias are tied up straight Last Line: For those who have suffered the most %and have nothing Subject(s): Greece INSIDE THE SAME AS OUT First Line: There is violent sound of too many chickens Last Line: A tree in an empty world. As an orange is seen, %then eaten.Making a ringing anyone can hear Subject(s): Greece INSIDE THE WAR First Line: The muzak loud, full of sighs and bongos Last Line: The dying city, using my flashlight because it is %the turn of my district to have the electricity t Subject(s): Greece INVENTION OF WRITING First Line: It is true, all things flake and flow Subject(s): Greece IO: SHAPE-SHIFTED First Line: You heard it from a distance %saw turning into a cow Last Line: Below me. Beginning inside %so vast an event, so much becoming Subject(s): Greece IS IT PAIN IF THERE IS NO ONE THERE TO SEE IT First Line: There is a roaring as if from a cave Last Line: Is answering to the sea itself Subject(s): Greece ISLAND OF KOS First Line: Nothing but wilderness around Last Line: Go to sleep little goat. Your first week is over. %go to sleep now Subject(s): Greece IT IS THE RISING I LOVE Poem Text First Line: As long as I struggle to float above the ground Subject(s): Greece; Greeks IT IS THE RISING I LOVE First Line: As long as I struggle to float above the ground Last Line: Rise and falls. The terrible blind grinding %of gears against our bodies and lives Subject(s): Greece IT WAS IMPORTANT First Line: To outstrip death with theater Last Line: And the gods don't care Subject(s): Greece KEPT BURNING AND DISTANT Poem Text First Line: You return when you feel like it / like rain. And like rain you are tender Subject(s): Greece; Greeks KEPT BURNING AND DISTANT First Line: You return when you feel like it %like rain. And like rain you are tender Last Line: You lay me down on the leaves %and the strong thing is not the sex %but waking up alone under trees Subject(s): Greece KIND OF VICTORY First Line: God moves as the moon in its arc moves Last Line: We walk out sadly, and surrender Subject(s): Greece LACOSTE IV First Line: It's almost as if we're already there Last Line: It's your turn to workd outdoors in the sun %on the roof - your footsteps, and the last line's done Subject(s): Greece LAMB First Line: It was a picture I had after the war Last Line: Its head, curious, unafraid, hungry Subject(s): Greece LESSENING Poem Text First Line: Without even looking in the album Subject(s): Greece; Greeks LESSENING First Line: Without even looking in the album Last Line: I lived well, was loved and beautiful Subject(s): Greece LET BIRDS Poem Text First Line: Eight deer on the slope Subject(s): Greece; Greeks LET BIRDS First Line: Eight deer on the slope Last Line: To the fence and whinny. Let birds Subject(s): Greece LETTER First Line: I am not feeling strong yet, but I am taking Last Line: And have pastry with custard. Sometimes I sit %at a table by the harbor and drink half a beer Subject(s): Greece LIES AND LONGING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Half the women are asleep on the floor Subject(s): Cities; Greece; Women; Urban Life; Greeks LIES AND LONGING First Line: Half the women are asleep on the floor Last Line: It's thirtieth street and hot and no sun Subject(s): Cities; Greece; Women LIFE OF LITERATURE First Line: Very early in the morning at the edge of the capital Last Line: Of poems in the book she lent him. The one %by basho called the long road into the deep north Subject(s): Greece LIFE ON THE RIO ESCONDIDO First Line: A tire is standing in the mud Last Line: Standing by herself who neighs and turns away %from here it is hard to see the suffering Subject(s): Greece LIGHT CONTINUES First Line: Every evening, an hour before Last Line: In this very plain way LIKE LOT'S WIFE First Line: The italian town is empty Last Line: The stillness inside her Subject(s): Greece LILITH First Line: The light is on my body also Last Line: First for food and then also for flowers LILITH: 1 First Line: The light is on my body also Last Line: Dark trees, bright lights. %speech only was lost Subject(s): Greece LILITH: 2 First Line: I line up five stones on the ground Last Line: To keep warm when it is necessary. %how can they think I am crazy? Subject(s): Greece LILITH: 3 First Line: A woman comes to my door and asks for bread Last Line: She is standing there with tears on her face, %just like before. Unsure whether to start again Subject(s): Greece LILITH: 4 First Line: Statuary used to fill the gardens of rich Last Line: Gradually there will be gardens again. %first for food and then also for flowers Subject(s): Greece LIMITS OF DESIRE First Line: Love came along and said, I know Last Line: In the warm wind Subject(s): Greece LOOKING FOR EACH OF US Poem Text First Line: I open the box of my favorite postcards Subject(s): Greece; Greeks LOOKING FOR EACH OF US First Line: I open the box of my favorite postcards Last Line: The postcard of a summer lightning storm over iowa Subject(s): Greece LOST BELLS OF HEAVEN First Line: Helpless, the one and then the other Last Line: You are, lover of thunder, lord of the cripples, %lord of the helpless, naked, starved and lost Subject(s): Greece LOST IN THE HEART First Line: The crazy woman at the beginning of the mountain Last Line: As ever. But my heart does not look up Subject(s): Greece LOVE LATE AT NIGHT First Line: I leave my house at three in the morning Last Line: His and mine, with the prints of a cat between %where she walked sweetly while I was away Subject(s): Greece LOVERS First Line: He keeps her away, thinking they know each other Last Line: Desire and means those who never know each other Subject(s): Greece LOVERS IN THE SIZE OF GOD'S HAND First Line: Mostly what you can see now is the hills Last Line: The other repeating, yes, here Subject(s): Greece MADE TO RING First Line: She wants to go into the darkness Subject(s): Greece MARRIAGE AND MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT Poem Text First Line: It has been a long time now Subject(s): Greece; Greeks MARRIAGE AND MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT First Line: It has been a long time now Last Line: Black with the light behind. They were caught %by their instincts, unable to end their flight Subject(s): Greece MAYBE LEAVE-TAKING Poem Text First Line: The birds eat the pansies as soon as they open Subject(s): Greece; Greeks MAYBE LEAVE-TAKING First Line: The birds eat the pansies as soon as they open Last Line: After all, and not what eats and is eaten away Subject(s): Greece ME AND ALMA Poem Text First Line: Time holds us together with a strong hand Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ME AND ALMA First Line: Time holds us together with a strong hand Last Line: As she and I. Stone and water, dirt and fern Subject(s): Greece ME AND APHRODITE AND THE OTHER Poem Text First Line: She doesn't move and she is stronger that I am Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ME AND APHRODITE AND THE OTHER First Line: She doesn't move and she is stronger that I am Last Line: If she can't, I'll try again to be married Subject(s): Greece MEANWHILE First Line: Strange short trees, views of the mountain Last Line: Grateful for their desire, but indifferent Subject(s): Greece MEN LIKE SALMON First Line: The heart does not want to go up Last Line: Lo with vicious flies close to her heart Subject(s): Greece MORE THAN NEW Poem Text First Line: One of the men begins to sing. The woman Last Line: A mouth singing, your heart the way it was Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Goddesses & Gods MORE THAN NEW First Line: One of the men begins to sing. The woman Last Line: But justice is unmoved. Says, 'show me something %don't mess with me. Show me something I can believ Subject(s): Greece MOUNTAIN FACING A MOUNTAIN (1) First Line: She is holding onto a ledge Last Line: Its own virtue, its own separateness Subject(s): Greece; Mountains MOUNTAIN FACING A MOUNTAIN (2) First Line: What poetry demands is worse Last Line: Its virtue, its own separateness Subject(s): Greece MUCHNESS First Line: She went back %knowing the way in her marrow Last Line: All around her a world that used to be Subject(s): Greece MUSIC AT A DISTANCE First Line: Only twice has anyone Last Line: And the sound of me singing Subject(s): Greece MY FATHER AND GOD First Line: The rain comes down on the desert and the next day Last Line: Making a huge %animal sound. It was just like a bear roaring, she said Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Greece NEW YORK ADDRESS First Line: The sun had just gone out Last Line: I wait for the silence to resume Subject(s): Greece NIGHT BEFORE LEAVING First Line: We sit at the kitchen table Last Line: We get out, %and it floats again Subject(s): Greece NIGHT MUSIC Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: She sits on the mountain that is her home Subject(s): Greece; Greeks NIGHT MUSIC First Line: She sits on the mountain that is her home Last Line: To sit with their children and the old %will listen to the music with unreadable eyes Subject(s): Greece NIGHT STANDING BACK FROM THE WORLD First Line: There is this aloneness I have learned Subject(s): Greece NIGHTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD First Line: I carry joy as a choir sings, %but quietly as the dark Last Line: I notice the ones in pain %shine more than the others %it's so they can be found %I think. Found and Subject(s): Greece NINTH DAWN First Line: It is not for nothing we notice a wider theme Last Line: All along, will swarm out again under the pliant boughs Subject(s): Greece NO MORE MARRIAGES Poem Text First Line: Well, there ain't going to be no more marriages Last Line: They're never going to do that to me Subject(s): Marriage; Greeks NO MORE MARRIAGES First Line: Well, there ain't going to be no more marriages Last Line: Not even if I have to eat alone all those years. %they're never going to do that to me Subject(s): Greece NOR THE MOON NO PRETEND First Line: If this woman is simple Last Line: Until the world is done? Variant Title(s): Nor The Moon Nor Preten Subject(s): Greece NOT A PRETTY BIRD Poem Text First Line: She was not a nightingale Subject(s): Greece; Greeks NOT A PRETTY BIRD First Line: She was not a nightingale Last Line: Not the transformation Subject(s): Greece NOT KNOWING THE RULES First Line: The two white-bellied antelope stood still Last Line: On the grass in front of me from the back Subject(s): Greece NOT MEMORIES BUT A QUALITY REMEMBERED First Line: I hear the inconsequential laughter of two children Last Line: In silence, in a shade that was a kind of sunlight Subject(s): Greece NOT SAYING MUCH First Line: My father is dead and there is nothing left Subject(s): Greece; Greeks NOT SAYING MUCH First Line: My father is dead and there is nothing left Last Line: Did not talk to them much, and neither time %nor that fine place gave them a sweetness Subject(s): Greece NOT SCATTERED VARIOUSLY FAR First Line: I keep saying, is she here? Is that her? Last Line: She will tell of truble with her mother %while birds sing. It will be enough Subject(s): Greece NOT SINGING First Line: When you stop looking at the garden Last Line: No love. Not singing. But somber thing. %a going to the opening and entering Subject(s): Greece NOT WANTING HERSELF First Line: Not wanting herself, she tries to go Last Line: Separates her mind like milk Subject(s): Greece NOT WANTING MYSELF First Line: Not wanting myself, I try to go Last Line: Separates my mind, like milk Subject(s): Greece NOTHING HAPPENING First Line: Nothing happened in the city today unless Last Line: With fruit on top for sale. Or me %not keeping house for any man I love %or throwing water on the ho Subject(s): Greece NOW DESTROYED First Line: The girl you speak of is lost Last Line: Even though I came back to america NOW DESTROYED: 1 First Line: The girl you speak of is lost Last Line: She could be found dead in her urine %and they might throw everything out Subject(s): Greece; Troy NOW DESTROYED: 2 First Line: There is nothing like that here Last Line: He will continue doing that %even though I came back to america Subject(s): Greece; Troy OAR IN THE SAND First Line: He sailed to wherever the sirens were Last Line: What if there is no place to go? OEDIPUS EXCEEDING First Line: Finally oedipus came back. Returned Last Line: To be happy in the elements Subject(s): Greece OF ABSENCE First Line: I climb the mountain %up steps the moon has already taken Last Line: Of absence. Of things broken %to see if the moon is a mouth to see if I am what it wants Subject(s): Greece OFFICIAL LOVE STORY Poem Text First Line: There is a painting by lucas cranach Subject(s): Greece; Greeks OFFICIAL LOVE STORY First Line: There is a painting by lucas cranach Last Line: Of christ in his loss and fear, %sing of the birth after, %sing of the mystery to come Subject(s): Greece OLD PICTURES IN A NEW LAND First Line: Dirt bird hedge light scent. A commonwealth Last Line: And a color. Pewter. Blue. Any color but green Subject(s): Greece OLD SONGS First Line: The birds far away in the air Last Line: Moving the dark around Subject(s): Greece ON LESBOS REMEMBERING HER MOUNTAIN ON PAROS First Line: I am back in greece after three years Last Line: And not anyone even walking away, or desappearing %refusing to be see. Not even someone being lost Subject(s): Greece ORDINARY SONGS Poem Text First Line: Dull with pneumonia, wrapped on the porch Last Line: On the shard a reclining naked woman kissed by a god Subject(s): Sea; Absence; Greece; Greeks ORDINARY SONGS First Line: Dull with pneumonia, wrapped on the porch Subject(s): Greece OTHER COUNTRY First Line: There is always singing and rejoicing Last Line: Each carried in the smooth arms of a snake %to the unknown which is finally theirs Subject(s): Greece OTHERNESS First Line: Of course there is the otherness Last Line: And the invisible until you came PART LEFT OVER First Line: It's as though I were an event Last Line: The special beauty of what's absent Subject(s): Greece PART OF ME WANTING EVERYTHING TO LIVE Poem Text First Line: This new england kind of love reminds me Subject(s): Greece; Greeks PART OF ME WANTING EVERYTHING TO LIVE First Line: This new england kind of love reminds me Last Line: And near, and endings more final. If it must %be winter, let it be absolutely winter Subject(s): Greece PASSION First Line: What is death to the man who is already dead? Last Line: Into glory by the crucifixion of their hearts Subject(s): Greece PAST PERFECT Poem Text First Line: Memory is what has died Subject(s): Greece; Greeks PAST PERFECT First Line: Memory is what has died Last Line: I remembered seeing %snow through a window %with someone beside me Subject(s): Greece PAUL ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS First Line: The soul is an emblem so bright Last Line: Against a metal wheelbarrow Subject(s): Greece PAYING THE PRICE First Line: The man who lived in sweet illusions Last Line: On the fine roses in his weedy backyard Subject(s): Greece PEOPLE WHO LIVE FAR OFF First Line: The man in the new england village was not really Last Line: Or maybe northern california among the great trees Subject(s): Greece PICTURES OF MARRIAGE First Line: It is the way arnolfini holds his wife's hand Last Line: Into what they dig up to eat. Into that music Subject(s): Greece PLUMS FAILING WELL Poem Text First Line: So what if plums fall Last Line: Small piece by small piece Subject(s): Plums; Life PLUMS FAILING WELL First Line: So what if plums fall Last Line: Small piece by small piece Subject(s): Greece POET GOES ABOUT HER BUSINESS First Line: Michele has become another dead little girl. And easy poem Last Line: It seemed to know exactly where it wanted to go. %toward any dark trees Subject(s): Greece PRAISING SPRING Poem Text First Line: The day is taken by each thing and grows complete Subject(s): Spring PRAISING SPRING First Line: The day is taken by each thing and grows complete Last Line: Bend in the sunlight as the rain continues to fall Subject(s): Greece PRECISION First Line: There is modesty in nature. In the small Last Line: With skill from one to the next, singing Subject(s): Greece PRESENCE IN ABSENCE First Line: Poetry is not made of words Last Line: And barking after the train is gone Subject(s): Greece PRESSURE AGAINST EMPTINESS First Line: Apollo's left fist covers his heart Last Line: Away in the fields and within their bodies Subject(s): Greece REMAINS First Line: The goddess of memories carries them on her arm Last Line: All I have is this enormous hour of the sun RESISTING THE MUSIC First Line: I am the one who took the broken doll Subject(s): Greece RESURRECTION First Line: Let the tower in your city burn. Let the steps Last Line: My life gives to them now. To make them flare %as they do inme, bright and hot, bright and burning Subject(s): Greece REVENOUS First Line: Dear god, who are my mountain, my kissing birds Last Line: As bloody lilies. But please, not this nothing Subject(s): Greece RIGHT PEOPLE First Line: I liked everything about the gods Last Line: Without rising above or letting go Subject(s): Greece RIVER AGAIN AND AGAIN First Line: If we stayed with each other long enough Last Line: And we would know each other sometimes %with a love that touches indifference Subject(s): Greece SAFE AND BEAUTIFUL First Line: Moon, you are getting worse and worse Last Line: Old moon, play safe, safe, beautiful and safe Subject(s): Greece SASKIA AND ALMA GO DIFFERENT WAYS First Line: My life was already desperate when she got sick Last Line: My eyes vacant, blurring her in the light Subject(s): Greece SAYING GOOD-BYE TO THE DEAD First Line: I walk on the dirt roads being my father Last Line: Sweet rolls to eat in my room at the hotel Variant Title(s): Saying Goodbye To The Dea Subject(s): Greece SCENT OF WHITE First Line: The old ox and the ancient woman labor mightily Last Line: By nothing but goats Subject(s): Greece SECRET LIFE OF NEW YORK First Line: She decided to walk there Last Line: At the back of the store SECRETS OF POETRY First Line: Very long ago when the exquisite celadon bowl Last Line: More perfect. Which turned out to be true Subject(s): Greece SEEING A HOBBLED HORSE CROSS THE FIELD First Line: Others died for belief, I have been reduced Subject(s): Greece SEPARATION First Line: If you came and saw me now you might remember Last Line: High on the mountain bending down to the earth %to look at a flowering weed or something Subject(s): Greece SHE HAD EXPECTED SOMETHING ELSE Poem Text First Line: Love aroused her like a heifer Subject(s): Greece; Greeks SHE HAD EXPECTED SOMETHING ELSE First Line: Love aroused her like a heifer Last Line: From batu to prambanan Subject(s): Greece SHE WRITES TO THE MAN WHO WRITES OF HER IN HIS POEMS Poem Text First Line: You tried to hide me in darkness Last Line: Itself over and over. And over Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Absence; Longing SHE WRITES TO THE MAN WHO WRITES OF HER IN HIS POEMS First Line: You tried to hide me in darkness Last Line: A bird is singing, repeating %itself over and over. And over Subject(s): Greece SHOPPING BAG LADY First Line: You told people I would know easily what the murdered Last Line: And fading in the most important place we have yet devised Variant Title(s): The Shopping-bag Lad Subject(s): Cities; Greece SIGISMUNDO First Line: The fete confused me. Guests played the part of gods Last Line: Lie for the chance to drown in that blue water of his. %sigismundo Subject(s): Greece SILENCE AND GLARE First Line: I get out of the car. Stand still Last Line: A place to be now that love is over SILENCE SINGING First Line: It happened when we were over by the trees Last Line: Even so it is tru that stones %make the water and a joy we can hear %we can still wade into the rive Subject(s): Greece SINGING ENOUGH TO FEEL THE RAIN First Line: I am alone writing as quickly as I can Last Line: Lived a long time on the sacrament alone %but I also sing to inhabit this abundance Subject(s): Greece SINGLE MUSIC FLOODING FORWARD First Line: The house is almost empty now ... Subject(s): Greece SIZE First Line: A bird for instance. Any strong bird Last Line: As a hungry man before a feast SKYLORD Poem Text First Line: The small hawk flutters fiercely upright Subject(s): Greece; Greeks SKYLORD First Line: The small hawk flutters fiercely upright Last Line: From you joy in the ground as you raise each %prey in your claws from the dear lost earth Subject(s): Greece SLOW DANCE BY THE OCEAN First Line: The days are hot and moist now. The doves say Last Line: In the coming and going of time. I dance as slowly %as possible in the fields of barley and weeds Variant Title(s): Overcas Subject(s): Greece SMALL LIZARD First Line: My lizard just beyond the lamp's shine Last Line: Breathing in this stone room, without evidence Subject(s): Greece SMALL THING LOVE IS First Line: My body is filled by a summer of lust Last Line: Against the strength and purring %of the wet couple undone %by a power only the earth could love Subject(s): Greece SO DIFFERENT FROM HEAVEN First Line: On a day with heavy rain I went with two men Last Line: I am sure it is the only life that god can taste Subject(s): Greece SOMETHING GONE First Line: I seem to have reached the end of all response Subject(s): Greece SOMETHING SCARY First Line: Over the phone joel tells me Last Line: Like the terrible brightness of heaven Subject(s): Greece SOMETIMES First Line: The soul makes out of ashes Last Line: To the woodwork, even after all that, %there is a singing about paradise Subject(s): Greece SONG First Line: The bird is not smart. The heart Last Line: One calling from all the other %songs at the end of each day%in the very last light Subject(s): Greece SOUL RIPENING First Line: The sun is so bright and the air so clear Last Line: Back up the path this evening Subject(s): Greece SPIRIT AND WHAT IS LEFT BEHIND (AFTER GIOTTO) First Line: One holding the feet, one the hands, another with her Last Line: His face, at last for the first and only time, briefly %briefly Subject(s): Greece SPIRIT NEITHER SORTS NOR SEPARATES First Line: There is a flower. We call it god %it closes and opens and dies Last Line: And departing are flowers %a mouth singing, your heart the way it was Subject(s): Greece STAYING ON First Line: These geese go over Last Line: Arriving their way %into winter Subject(s): Greece STILL, ATTENTIVE, CLENCHED First Line: The fir, poplar and eucalyptus around the house Last Line: I know he knows I am there. Knows how much I am afraid Subject(s): Greece STRANGER IN THE WONDERFUL LIGHT First Line: This woman has no lover. She bathes and stands Last Line: A color more glamorous than ever, she should %speak now. If she can't, she should make a sign Subject(s): Greece STRONG POMEGRANATE FLOWERS AND SEEDS OF THE MIND First Line: You ask about the men in my past and it makes me think Last Line: As greek letters cut into the marble. I tell you this %because you love me and have such a serius mo Subject(s): Greece STUBBORN First Line: I take the alley instead of the street Last Line: Giving it to no one Subject(s): Greece STUFF Poem Text First Line: High up there she saw what Last Line: Dazed by facts and cared-for. / circle facts Subject(s): Reality STUFF First Line: High up there she saw what Last Line: Dazed by facts and cared-for %circle facts Subject(s): Greece SUMMER IN A SMALL TOWN Poem Text Recitation First Line: When the men leave me Last Line: I walk back across the mown lawn loving the smell and the houses so completely it leaves my heart em Subject(s): Absence; Happiness; Country Life SUMMER IN A SMALL TOWN First Line: When the men leave me Last Line: Loving the smell and the houses %so completely it leaves my heart empty Subject(s): Greece SUN MOON KELP FLOWER OR GOAT First Line: Later I would say, I have cut myself free from order Last Line: But there is kindness which feeds us another way, %with windlessness, empty heat, or the taste of gr Subject(s): Greece SURROUNDED BY SHEEP AND LOW GROUND Poem Text First Line: When death comes, we take off our clothes Subject(s): Greece; Greeks SURROUNDED BY SHEEP AND LOW GROUND First Line: When death comes, we take off our clothes Last Line: The weeds, snake, or crippled mare %never leave behind what the light shone on Subject(s): Greece SURVIVING LOVE First Line: I work hard at managing, grateful Last Line: Between this country and the next one TERRIFYING POWER OF DARKNESS IS INSEPARABLE First Line: Listen (kirillov said) to a great idea: there was Last Line: If you go away, you will make my heart blind in me Subject(s): Greece TEST IS WHETHER ANYTHING BREAKS OFF WHEN YOU ROLL IT DOWN STAIRS First Line: A dress hangs on the far wall Last Line: Disappear into the hush THE APPARENT Poem Text First Line: When I say transparency, I don't mean seeing through Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE BECKETT KIT Poem Text First Line: I finally found a way of using the tree Last Line: How can you go on saying you’re happy? Subject(s): Toys; Happiness; Social Commentaries THE CALVES NOT CHOSEN Poem Text First Line: The mind goes caw, caw, caw, caw Last Line: Awake or asleep, in white, in black Subject(s): Crows; Survival THE CENTER OF INTENT Poem Text First Line: Is there a lesson in the way this new silence lasts? Last Line: Through the special silence at evening Subject(s): Silence THE CHORUS SPEAKS HER WORDS AS SHE DANCES Poem Text First Line: You are perishing like the old men. Already your arms gone Last Line: The light whitens her face more than ever Subject(s): Love THE CITY OF GOD Poem Text First Line: What thou lovest well is felt violently Last Line: Rain will be falling heavily outside Subject(s): Heaven THE CLAPPING Poem Text First Line: Did I go there enough? Was it enough when I tried Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE COLOR OF MANY DEER RUNNING Poem Text Recitation First Line: The air fresh, as it has been for days Last Line: Not one deer, but when many of them run away Subject(s): Abandonment; Deer THE COPPERHEAD Poem Text First Line: Almost blind he takes the soft dying Last Line: With his eyes a moving. A small moving that he knows Subject(s): Snakes THE DEFEATED Poem Text First Line: I sat at the desk for a while fooling with my hair Last Line: But then everything else stops because I don't know what happens after that Subject(s): Farewell THE EDGE OF SOMETHING Poem Text First Line: I have decided I will not be like john hu anymore Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE GHOSTS POEM Poem Text First Line: Heavy black birds flying away hard from trees Last Line: I would not be here learning what to say Subject(s): Ghosts; Death THE GIRL I CALL ALMA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The girl I call alma who is so white Last Line: And that it's the others who scar me, not you Subject(s): Women; Greeks THE GRUB Poem Text First Line: The almost transparent white grub moves Last Line: Touching the frying grease with his whole face Subject(s): Worms THE HEART FLOWING OUT Poem Text First Line: All things we see are the shapes death makes Last Line: Making that meaning, whatever it means Subject(s): Death THE LAMB Poem Text Recitation First Line: It was a picture I had after the war Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE LAST NIGHT IN MITHYMNA First Line: Wind heaving in the trees / my room quiet and warm Last Line: And swells again. Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE LETTER Poem Text First Line: I am not feeling strong yet, but I am taking Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE LIMITS OF DESIRE Poem Text First Line: Love came along and said, I know Last Line: In the warm wind Subject(s): Abandonment THE LOST BELLS OF HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: Helpless, the one and then the other Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE MUCHNESS Poem Text First Line: She went back / knowing the way in her marrow Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE NIGHT BEFORE LEAVING Poem Text First Line: We sit at the kitchen table Subject(s): Farewell; Family Life THE NINTH DAWN Poem Text First Line: It is not for nothing we notice a wider theme Last Line: All along, will swarm out again under the pliant boughs Subject(s): Eurydice (mythology); Orpheus; Passion THE OLD SONGS Poem Text First Line: The birds far away in the air Last Line: Its own song of the cruelty of love Subject(s): Love; Songs THE PART LEFT OVER Poem Text First Line: It's as though I were an event Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE POET GOES ABOUT HER BUSINESS Poem Text First Line: Michele has become another dead little girl. And easy poem Last Line: Toward any dark trees Subject(s): Death – Children; Grandparents THE PRECISION Poem Text First Line: There is modesty in nature. In the small Last Line: With skill from one to the next, singing Subject(s): Bodies; Modesty; Love THE PRESENCE IN ABSENCE Poem Text First Line: Poetry is not made of words Last Line: And barking after the train is gone Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language THE RESURRECTION Poem Text First Line: Let the tower in your city burn. Let the steps Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE SECRETS OF POETRY Poem Text First Line: Very long ago when the exquisite celadon bowl Last Line: More perfect. Which turned out to be true Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE SHOPPING BAG LADY Poem Text First Line: You told people I would know easily what the murdered Variant Title(s): The Shopping-bag Lady Subject(s): Cities; Greece; Urban Life; Greeks THE SMALL THING LOVE IS Poem Text First Line: My body is filled by a summer of lust Last Line: By a power only the earth could love Subject(s): Passion; Love – Nature Of THE SPIRIT NEITHER SORTS NOR SEPARATES Poem Text First Line: There is a flower. We call it god / it closes and opens and dies Last Line: A mouth singing, your heart the way it was Subject(s): God THE TREE FALLING IN A VACANT FOREST Poem Text First Line: The window open. Hearing Last Line: Each one hearing the same one Subject(s): Trees; Science THE UNKNOWING Poem Text First Line: I lie in the palm of its hand. I wake in the quiet Last Line: My body, be hidden with it, be one of its secrets Subject(s): Self THE WAR Poem Text First Line: We were at the border and they were checking Last Line: I was going. We went outside where there was nothing Subject(s): Scorpions (animals); Cruelty THE WEIGHT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Two horses were put together in the same paddock Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE WHITE BULLS OF HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: The white bulls of java, weighing a thousand pounds Last Line: I am sure it is the only life god can taste Subject(s): Bulls; Indonesia; Farm Life; Death THE WIFE Poem Text First Line: My husband sucks her tits Last Line: I grow specific without consequence Subject(s): Adultery THE WIND BLOWING THROUGH A TREE Poem Text First Line: Clamour of amplitudes THE WOMAN ON HER KNEES AT THE RIVER Poem Text First Line: She is washing clothes THE WOMAN WHO LOOKS FOR HER LOST SISTER SHE SAYS Poem Text First Line: She walks all the time in the heart ward Last Line: ‘no,’ she said, ‘it’s too late for flowers dear.’ Subject(s): Flowers; Sisters THERE IS A SWEETNESS IN IT Poem Text First Line: The sap rises in the maple each spring after THERE IS A SWEETNESS IN IT First Line: The sap rises in the maple each spring after Last Line: Makes the sap rise. God squeezes and relents %like winter ending, and the sap rising Subject(s): Greece THERE IS NO LANGUAGE IN THIS COUNTRY First Line: Poetry is not in puerto sandino. The men stop working Last Line: To tell the difference between sand and dirt, rocks %and heart, life and death, love and this other Subject(s): Greece THERE SHE IS Poem Text Recitation First Line: When I go into the garden, there she is Last Line: It will have to include her Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Imagination; Women THERE SHE IS First Line: When I go into the garden, there she is Last Line: If paradise is to be here %it will have to include her Subject(s): Greece THESE PRINTED WORDS ARE A PLACE First Line: These marks on paper tell of places within Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THESE PRINTED WORDS ARE A PLACE First Line: These marks on paper tell of places within Last Line: Where a glass of water stands waiting on a table, %pears on a plate like gifts from centuries before Subject(s): Greece THEY CRIPPLE WITH BEAUTY AND BUTCHER WITH LOVE First Line: Eight years later the woman is given Last Line: Evening air, near the mexican border THEY TELL ME IT'S OVER First Line: I say, I stayed in motel 6, where you told me Last Line: That was this winter's visit. That was a year Subject(s): Greece THING BEING MADE First Line: Everything is black. From a distance Last Line: Their bodies above their dark world Subject(s): Greece THINGS NOT OF THIS UNION First Line: The weight of myself. The weight of my mother Last Line: At once. No longer the salt shell and then the pine %tree. Wanting a longer unity to go back home to Subject(s): Greece THIRST AGAINST First Line: There is a hunger for order %but a thirst against. What if Last Line: In midwinter and freezing winds %in these chicago avenues Subject(s): Greece THIS PLACE First Line: There is a place in the desert which I keep making Variant Title(s): Ode Sung On The Occasion Decorating The Graves Subject(s): Deserts THIS PLACE First Line: There is a place in the desert which I keep making Last Line: And the lions turn in the canyon I have made %with my voice,see me calling, and we move closer Variant Title(s): Ode Sung On The Occasion Decorating The Grave Subject(s): Greece TO BE HERE Poem Text First Line: The february road to the river is mud Last Line: Uncovered to the quiet soft day Subject(s): Nature TO BE HERE First Line: The february road to the river is mud Last Line: There is only this. Dead weeds waiting %uncovered to the quit soft day Subject(s): Greece TO BE LIKE THAT First Line: Anything to move ahead, to get there Last Line: Back down a long valley through the beauty %where her spirit grew and her heart is real Subject(s): Greece TOGETHER IN GREECE First Line: I was sitting on the steps of the cinema Last Line: I went to him, with that singing in me Subject(s): Greece; Jealousy; Greeks TOGETHER IN GREECE First Line: I was sitting on the steps of the cinema Last Line: It was more frightening than living. %I went to him, with that singing in me Subject(s): Greece TOKENS OF WHAT SHE IS First Line: The golden lady seven feet tall dies in the mind Subject(s): Greece TOO BRIGHT TO SEE Poem Text First Line: Just before dark the light gets dark. Violet Last Line: Come quickly. I weep, face set, no tears, mouth open Subject(s): Vision TOO BRIGHT TO SEE First Line: Just before dark the light gets dark. Violet Last Line: Nor liar. Sweet being, if you are anywhere that hears, %comequickly. I weep, face set, no tears, mou Subject(s): Greece TREE FALLING IN A VACANT FOREST First Line: The window open. Hearing Last Line: Each one hearing the same one Subject(s): Greece TROUBLE IN THE PORTABLE MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: We walk the dirt road toward town through the clear evening Last Line: No one passes us the whole length of the road Subject(s): Togetherness TROUBLE IN THE PORTABLE MARRIAGE First Line: We walk the dirt road toward town through the clear evening Last Line: Me riding and you walking. Feeling the silk and paleness %ofthe air. No one passes us the whole leng Subject(s): Greece TRYING TO BELIEVE First Line: There's nothing gentle where aphrodite was Last Line: And my hands hurt. Sit alone looking down at %evening on theocean, drinking wine or not Subject(s): Greece TRYING TO RIPEN First Line: I think about the woman who turned Last Line: The fence. I saw distance TRYING TO TACK First Line: You are the great love of my life, he said Last Line: How to sail home against the wind Subject(s): Greece TWELVE YEARS AFTER THE MARRIAGE SHE TRIES TO EXPLAIN HOW SHE LOVES HIM Poem Text First Line: Beyond the mountain is a meadow with iris Subject(s): Marriage TWELVE YEARS AFTER THE MARRIAGE SHE TRIES TO EXPLAIN HOW SHE LOVES HIM First Line: Beyond the mountain is a meadow with iris Last Line: And the invisible more clear Variant Title(s): Twelve Years After The Marriage She Tries To Explai Subject(s): Greece UNACCOUNTABLE First Line: Many things are made of pride Last Line: The husband looks down at his feet %as if trying to remember Subject(s): Greece UNDERSTANDING RELUCTANTLY First Line: Usually costa comes after dark, when we are eating Variant Title(s): Cost Subject(s): Greece UNIVERSE ON ITS OWN First Line: Nature without shape, the universe without form Last Line: As far as we can see random in a wind Subject(s): Greece UNKNOWING First Line: I lie in the palm of its hand. I wake in the quiet Last Line: My body, be hidden with it, be one of its secrets Subject(s): Greece UNNECESSARY First Line: My heart grieved so much it felt as if I no longer Last Line: Wild with loss. Wild with loss.' Subject(s): Greece VARIOUSLY US Poem Text First Line: Something breaches the ocean of doctrine Last Line: Of the mind wedged in us, shaping Subject(s): Life VARIOUSLY US First Line: Something breaches the ocean of doctrine Last Line: Of the mind wedged in us, shaping Subject(s): Greece VISITOR First Line: She comes in and sees winter and him Last Line: Before returning to the man in amherst Subject(s): Greece VOICE SINGING First Line: A man goes by the courtyard door Subject(s): Greece WAKING UP HAPPY First Line: Love didn't work, doesn't work Last Line: Light, before the sun is visible Subject(s): Greece WANTING TO STAY First Line: All of it moving, turning every which way Last Line: The moving, to hear the swish and murmur %the murmuring of division and desiring Subject(s): Greece WAR First Line: We were at the border and they were checking Last Line: Somebody else picked up the scorpion and I told john %I was going. We went outside where there was n Subject(s): Greece WATCHING THE LAST BOAT First Line: The crash is inside Last Line: Again and again it was closing time WE DO THIS WITH OUR BODIES First Line: Taken as an animal, she yields %to taht desire which devours Last Line: She tries to think in the sexual %darkness they have become,and the dark %inside that dark smelling Subject(s): Greece WE MANAGE MOST WHEN WE MANAGE SMALL Poem Text First Line: What things are steadfast? Not the birds Last Line: This fishing in the air Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WE MANAGE MOST WHEN WE MANAGE SMALL First Line: What things are steadfast? Not the birds Last Line: Making safety in the moment. This touching %home goes far. This fishing in the air Subject(s): Greece WEIGHT First Line: Two horses were put together in the same paddock Last Line: The freedom an oak tree knows. %that is built at night by stars Subject(s): Greece WHAT IF THE WORLD STAYS ALWAYS FAR OFF First Line: What if the world is taken from me? Subject(s): Farm Life; Greece; Agriculture; Farmers; Greeks WHAT IF THE WORLD STAYS ALWAYS FAR OFF First Line: What if the world is taken from me? Last Line: A woman. Canning when there's time. It will be %very cold soon. Already there are dark rains Subject(s): Farm Life; Greece WHAT IS KEPT First Line: There is a coldness I do not want Last Line: And whole. No eating soup together %in the restaurant they would go to Subject(s): Greece WHAT IS LEFT OVER First Line: There is silence after a city is destroyed Last Line: Could steal the potato plants Subject(s): Greece WHAT THEY ATE WHAT THEY WORE First Line: We see the dog running Last Line: The apples are very cold in the morning Subject(s): Greece WHEREFORE DOST BRUISE ME? HE EXCLAIMED, WEEPING, First Line: In the museum print room today we looked Last Line: Exhausted by keeping what I love safe Subject(s): Greece WHITE BULLS OF HEAVEN First Line: The white bulls of java, weighing a thousand pounds Last Line: I am sure it is the only life that god can taste Subject(s): Greece WHITE LIGHT First Line: Waiting in a place where the cicadas turn the silence Last Line: Loneliness goes out as far as I can see Variant Title(s): White Roo Subject(s): Greece WHO WANTS IT OR NOT First Line: The mind of eurydice in the head Last Line: Years old. Years and years WHOLE AND WITHOUT BLESSING Poem Text First Line: What is beautiful alters, has undertow Last Line: Where there are no clues except pleasure Subject(s): Self WHOLE AND WITHOUT BLESSING Poem Text First Line: What is beautiful alters, has undertow Subject(s): Greece; Greeks WHOLE AND WITHOUT BLESSING First Line: What is beautiful alters, has undertow Last Line: Animals. To suffer exactly at the center, %where there are no clues Subject(s): Greece WIFE First Line: My husband sucks her tits Last Line: This order of reality. My presence stings. %I grow specific without consequence Subject(s): Greece WIND BLOWING THROUGH A TREE First Line: Clamour of amplitudes Last Line: Must be there, but that it sometimes is Subject(s): Greece WINNING Poem Text First Line: There is having by having Last Line: Containing the other carefully Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time WINNING First Line: There is having by having Last Line: Containing the other carefully Subject(s): Greece WINTER BIRDS First Line: Tell me a riddle, I said, that has no answer Last Line: Dancing and singing until our hearts grew fat Subject(s): Greece WINTER LIGHT Poem Text First Line: The way you fell asleep Last Line: (if I had made a garden. If I had stayed happy.) Subject(s): Marriage; Absence; Grief WINTER LIGHT First Line: The way you fell asleep Last Line: (if I had made a garden. If I had stayed happy.) Subject(s): Greece WINTER LOVE Poem Text First Line: I would like to decorate this silence Subject(s): Love WINTER LOVE First Line: I would like to decorate this silence Subject(s): Greece WITH A BLESSING RATHER THAN LOVE SAID NIETZSCHE First Line: The square stone room makes a shape in the air Last Line: Any sounds even. Less then nothing and deeper Subject(s): Greece WOMAN ON HER KNEES AT THE RIVER First Line: She is washing clothes Last Line: Away by itself full of flowers Subject(s): Greece WOMAN STILL WAITING First Line: Like one of those barns Last Line: As she goes past on her way through the fields %to the river Subject(s): Greece WOMAN WHO LOOKS FOR HER LOST SISTER SHE SAYS First Line: She walks all the time in the heart ward Last Line: No,' she said, 'it's too late for flowers dear.' Subject(s): Greece WOMEN First Line: The polar bear hasn't eaten since november Last Line: Slides a little with her thoughts %on the slope of ice. She rolls over %on her back and slides a lit Subject(s): Greece WRAPPING STONES Poem Text First Line: Everything I am is what survived Last Line: To walnut creek for the last three years Subject(s): Love – Loss Of WRAPPING STONES First Line: Everything I am is what survived Last Line: To walker creek for the last three years Subject(s): Greece |
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