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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: HOLLO, ANSELM Matches Found: 531 Hollo, Anselm Poet's Biography 531 poems available by this author & TIME TROTS BY Poem Text First Line: Sad glad hairy drives Last Line: Elitist for sure Subject(s): Art & Artists; Time 0600 HRS First Line: In the middle of the party Last Line: And a dignified fellow in two-tone suede hat passes %on his way to the chinese collection, like cloc 1939 Poem Text First Line: Just sit here telling myself all these stories Last Line: To the rising voice of my mind Subject(s): Silence 1962, OCTOBER DREAMS First Line: The rain %heavier on our bodies the year Last Line: The dreamer sees a tin-plate fire engine %in the child's mouth-going %in 1991 First Line: Morning sun %strikes me pow! In the face Last Line: And when it happens we know it 5 & 7 & 5 Poem Text First Line: Follow that airplane Last Line: O the grass grows loud 6,000 YEARS First Line: 6,000 years of bad fightin' news Last Line: But so's matriarchy, most probably %way off A HUNDRED MULE DEER IN THE BACK YARD; I.M. ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: Sleepwalkers' chess condensare ad absurdum Last Line: I want to remember him a little longer Subject(s): Deer; Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997) A POEM Poem Text First Line: It is a poem Last Line: Lit up those days Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A TOKE FOR LI PO [OR, DEDICATION] Poem Text First Line: Born in pa-hsi province of szechwan Last Line: "he took the charge well" Subject(s): Li Po (701-762); Li Bai (71-762) A TOWN DEDICATED TO THE PURSUIT OF FITNESS & INNER PEACE Poem Text First Line: Says the headline - so that's where we are Last Line: His inner peace Subject(s): Towns A VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: Good to sleep when you're tired Last Line: I just never saw you this way before Subject(s): Love ACADEMIC Last Line: I'd rather work for a cauliflower AD QUODLIBET Poem Text First Line: Wheel around on best days riding the hum Last Line: Raise cup of quest to speeding fugitive Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers AFTER IRISH BY PAUL CELAN Poem Text First Line: Grant me / wayleave AFTER NOVALIS First Line: The scribe is writing %indefatigably Last Line: Thinking not of form 0412-dash-70144 %but of a city %equal to my desire AFTER RILKE, OR IS THAT WHAT HE SAID First Line: But if they, the endlessly dead AFTER THE NEWSCAST First Line: Past tribal heart's rusty twists Last Line: It's time Subject(s): Cities; Democracy; News; Urban Life AFTER TU FU First Line: Drinkng some cheap but good wine Last Line: Have a good cry AFTER UNGARETTI; I.M. DARRELL GRAY First Line: The coin / fell through / the beggar's / palm Last Line: Right in the video Subject(s): Begging & Beggars AFTER VERLAINE Poem Text First Line: Right now Last Line: It wears a big floppy heart Subject(s): Iowa AGE FOUR First Line: Switch on the light Last Line: The word %now flesh AH YES First Line: The time I thought I heard a master tell me Last Line: & felt a little flustered & flattered or maybe not or both %then realized he'd said 'a lot of fun' AIR, TO DREAM IN Poem Text First Line: Leave it leave it Last Line: A poem for you Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Nightmares ALLA PETRARCA Poem Text First Line: Downtown / madison, wisconsin at night Last Line: (receding footsteps) Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Scholarship & Scholars; Women; Male-female Relations ALLIGATOR First Line: To live there %in baton rouge Last Line: Of massived %man-made %pollution %takes guts! %big guts! %big repilian guts! AMAZING GRACE Poem Text First Line: People going straight up to heaven Subject(s): Iowa AMAZING GRACE First Line: Ted berrigan's favorite hymn, more true Last Line: Its spasms of joy, its fears, its sighs %and grand designs:amazing grace AMAZING GRACE First Line: People going straight up to heaven Last Line: Forty of them, in three hours Subject(s): Iowa AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY Poem Text First Line: Go there!' 'stay here!' Last Line: "to go." Subject(s): Moving & Movers; Travel; Journeys; Trips AN OLIVE FOR SATIE Poem Text First Line: Easily whelmed by the past Last Line: To presence of world in her face Subject(s): Olive Trees & Olives AN OR Poem Text First Line: Wild empty leaps? Last Line: (or one comma there) Subject(s): Farewell; Parting AND Poem Text First Line: Black walnut foliage … a burst of gold Last Line: In her studio's air Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Transience AND First Line: Black walnut foliage - a burst of gold Last Line: She's swimming %in her studio's air AND TODAY'S CREDO IS... First Line: Don't feel like hiding in the archetypes Last Line: So I guess this avuncular %vernacular %will have to do AND WHAT'S YOUR DERIVATIONAL PROFILE? Poem Text First Line: Whammo ammo, the ammo of choice Last Line: Some time next year Subject(s): Identity ANGEL WINGS Poem Text First Line: High / on the great Last Line: Utah Subject(s): Creeley, Robert (b. 1926); Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary ANIMA ABSTRACT First Line: A twin pair of heroes Last Line: By a new generation %in a new time ANIMATION SUBSIDES INTO TERMINAL SLAPSTICK Poem Text Last Line: They thought they had Subject(s): Language ANSELM'S DREAM First Line: Saint anselm of aosta, le bec, & canterbury, a.D. 1033-1109 Last Line: Angels do keep off our foes in the beyond, as the bearwards keep off the bears ANSWERING Poem Text First Line: The buddha / is in / in the vacuum cleaner Last Line: Enjoy your termites and bourbon Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ANTHROPOLOGY First Line: The culture of a people %is an ensemble of texts Last Line: The natural genre in which to present %cultural interpretations and the theories sustaining your job ANTI-LULLABY Poem Text First Line: Wake up from a dream Last Line: At the café spartacus Subject(s): Morning; Waking ANY NEWS FROM ALPHA CENTAURI Poem Text First Line: The dog suddenly punched the back of his knee with its snout Last Line: All its doors Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bars & Bartenders; Native Americans; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America APOCRYPHA HIPPONACTEA Poem Text First Line: Fly likes smell of shit Last Line: Has nothing to do with you Subject(s): Poetry & Poets APOLLONIUS OF TYANA First Line: His mother %walks in a meadow Last Line: So suddenly %he is born ARCANA GARDENS Poem Text First Line: The cat's apprehensive inside her head Last Line: "time for your van morrison sir" Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary AROUND THE WORLD First Line: My first introduction %to the 'valentine' concept Last Line: Their flawed realizations %over time %the celebrations seem a little overdone ART THROUGH THE AGES First Line: Used to be only too easy to know AS LEAVES SWEEP PAST Poem Text First Line: Sister & joe & mistah rilke Last Line: Way up in the flying dust Subject(s): Memory; Past; Poetry & Poets AT EVENFALL Poem Text First Line: Recall enormous heave of moment Last Line: Always treat language like a dangerous toy Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Proverbs; Maxims; Adages AT THIS POINT, THE MOON STARTS TO TAKE ON A LITTLE BROWN AND GRAY... Poem Text First Line: Up in the andes / an old peruvian Last Line: The old peruvian Subject(s): Mountains; Peru; South America; Hills; Downs (great Britain) AUBADE First Line: Night's ride's over AUGUST First Line: Hot sunny baltimore day %walking through the park Last Line: Sun sets. Oh, ted,we miss you %whistling in the dark AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL BROADCASTING CORPORATION Poem Text First Line: Eight years behind a microphone -- blip Last Line: Then bid farewell to normal speak Subject(s): Microphones; Radio; Speech; Oratory; Orators AVEC POE DOG & T.V. First Line: Deliberate wreck of enormous tanker Last Line: We'd all be shot AWKWARD SPRING Poem Text Last Line: Equal to my desire Subject(s): Dogs BABY ANSELM First Line: At the grand Last Line: Frames %to tend it BANG BANG WITH A SILENCER First Line: Watching the screens Last Line: Into the time that will be BEAUTIFUL DAYS OF FRANZ INNERHOFER First Line: By the baking oven he Last Line: Around the table & ate BIG DOG Poem Text First Line: I bring you / this head Last Line: Be a man again. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets BIG FURRY BUDDHA IN BACK YARD Poem Text First Line: It's a made-up name Last Line: Bat is flutterer fluttermouse Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Symphonies; Concerts BITS OF COTTONWOOD First Line: Astrologers meet in secret Last Line: The power the information the difficulty %the most active verb BITS OF SOFT ANXIETY; FOR PHILIP WHALEN Poem Text First Line: Dreamt: crossroads Last Line: As it was in the other place where he spent most of his happy waking time BLACK ELK SPEAKS' Last Line: Black elk goes on speaking BORN TODAY Poem Text First Line: Is to be one to the one Last Line: Hold that frame Subject(s): Birth; Music & Musicians; Child Birth; Midwifery BOTANICA First Line: Coleus %&corn plant %on the window ledge Last Line: & that's a thought, %a mandragoric thought %sweet monster babe BOUZOUKI MUSIC First Line: Odysseus was Last Line: All that %bouzouki music BRIGHT MOMENTS First Line: When it all makes sense Last Line: It is god %forever unemployed %but really muy contento BRO JOE First Line: Match, struck, flares %in the dark Last Line: Love making no demand for love in return BRO-HIPPONAX First Line: When I was eighteen %I wrote better poems Last Line: Now, in our fifties, %I am dead %& you %must go on writing %as best you can BROTHER (D.H.) LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: And all the eerie / 'previous' states of mind Last Line: Reading his number on the turtle Subject(s): Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930) BUFFALO - ISLE OF WIGHT POWER CABLE Poem Text First Line: Writing a letter he said Last Line: Slowly he drove up to the starting line Subject(s): Isle Of Wight; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips CANTO ARASTRA Poem Text First Line: Opera creatures technicolor elves Last Line: All gone & going things Subject(s): Spain CAROLINA DEL NORTE, 1970 First Line: Old platinum wool top black face dusty coat ladies Last Line: To where my hands & eyes are upon her CASTLE First Line: These be the spears that our imperium braved' points at Last Line: In the air of (his) head supported by feet (his) on %american lawn modeled on those of an england th CAT-GODS' CHANNEL Poem Text First Line: We elegant erasers of mice Last Line: And so, with ancient yelps, we torch your maps Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers CATERPILLAR First Line: W/ round black eyes %big & furry it goes Last Line: & it is looking at me %on its way down %down down %2 years old I am %& surely %surely it is so Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects CAUGHT WITH A PRONOUN First Line: The nanosecond before choice itself (?) occurs Last Line: Not allowed on this reservation Subject(s): Grammar; Poetry & Poets CHAMP First Line: So it all goes back to some big goofy guy Last Line: In a lit-from-within %transparent %cube of the past %yeah %that's right CHANSON; AFTER PIERRE REVERDY First Line: When she wouldn't be there Last Line: Getting very bored now all alone by itself Subject(s): Farewell; Parting CHANSONS D'ANTAN First Line: Greenery waves in wind Last Line: & if the dinosaurs %'became birds' %what will we 'become' CHICAGO First Line: Up and down he went Last Line: Where they sat chatting %with some elders %in clown masks & wild paper wigs CHICKEN COOP First Line: It's winter he's feeling mean she's tired Last Line: He brings his fork down hard %on her plate of rasta-style beans %both %burst into tears CHIPPLE CREEK AFORISMOS First Line: Cloud thinks cloud Last Line: ...More people now %than ever before...%so, more excessive pigs CLAIM First Line: Here %the first cold night in november Last Line: It does not end %until we do CLASSROOM Poem Text First Line: Seas of tranquility they sort of nod Last Line: Not even on postcards Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CLEARLY & DEARLY First Line: Gone wrong' %so many ways Last Line: & because %having found you %is clearly & dearly one thing %I done right COLUMBUS IN OHIO First Line: Lights, blinking Last Line: But it is good to see you COMPARATIVE AVEC First Line: Brief local media fame 'on the air' Last Line: More epheremal %than a plateful of tasty shark %avec a side of nimble nepalese noodles COMPLEX ENVIRONMENT Last Line: Here we shall find no corporeal delight CONCUSSED CONSCIOUSNESS First Line: The human animal young can sometimes be seen running Last Line: Able to register the most rudimentary perceptions CRICKET POETICS First Line: Here here' %the crickets again Last Line: An invisible legion %almost as audible %sometimes CURVE First Line: Missed %due to alcohol it was Last Line: Still there %on the other side of the ditch CUT-RATE SHOE STORE First Line: The cut-rate shoe store: part of a landscape Last Line: Forever on third-rate third-person movies DARK MATTER First Line: Big be Last Line: On down the road, %with some precision & finesse, too DAY'S EVENTS First Line: Two young girls Last Line: Between the sentences DE AMOR Y OTRAS COSAS Poem Text First Line: Sunday: mission bells at six in the morning Last Line: And valiantly marshal their strength and cunning. DE AMOR Y OTRAS COSAS First Line: Being chased out into the night Last Line: Write: 'I miss you. Come soon.'' %and that was the beginning of poetry %in egypt DE AMORE First Line: Love-I -- thou -- me-off-pissest Last Line: Everything's changed for the best Subject(s): Love; Romance; Writing & Writers DIARY Poem Text First Line: One day's / big event was when Last Line: State of combustion Subject(s): Diaries DIG YIELDS WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE ON UTAH'S ANCIENTS First Line: Aahh, the ancients, the lovely ancients Last Line: And that was mr cheapo nostalgia speaking %though sentiment %swings either way: %good luck to the li DIMENSIONS OF THE WORLD First Line: Father %& son Last Line: In earth, water, fire, air DINING [OR, EATING] OUT ALONE Poem Text First Line: Through two layers of glass Last Line: Of which I am one, dining out alone Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners DIRECT ADDRESS First Line: Bright sun double yellow Last Line: Hello how are ya ca va, ca va %everybody's a genius at least once a year DIRECTION First Line: Some think %terring reft flom light Last Line: Boy are they evel %long! DISCOVERY OF LSD A TRUE STORY First Line: The dose of a mere Last Line: Phew! Wow! Pow! Zat voss somsink! DISCOVERY OF LSD A TRUE STORY First Line: The dose of a mere %fifty micrograms totally altered Last Line: & exhaled %'phew! Wow! Pow! Zat voss somsink!' Subject(s): Lsd (lysergic Acid) DISTANT MUSE First Line: Jumped up & down Last Line: Sometimes he had his doubts DOC HOLLIDAY First Line: The silences grow taller Last Line: Of the once happy beast Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness DON'T DROP THE YULE LOG ON YOUR FOOT First Line: The clock strikes three Last Line: Where is it, where is it %do send it along if you see it DOUBLE MARTINI Poem Text First Line: Do you remember Last Line: Smiling, moving along, serving the lords of this world Subject(s): Hearts; Love DOWN & UP First Line: Buzz %louis armstrong (68) says it's a wonderful world Last Line: She forgot her grief %& smiled DRAGON MANTRA First Line: Ooh dragons Last Line: Here they come in their lurching wagons DREAM OF INSTANT TOTAL REPRESENTATION First Line: Primaries, conventions, elections Last Line: To complain in, to praise with, no matter what %than nature's prototype for the microchip DREAM RAIN DANCE First Line: Listen, to rain swishing down %good empty sound Last Line: And to be your 'beatnik walter de la mare' %in the pantheon we share %with al alvarez, a totally gre EGON SCHIELE First Line: Dreamed Last Line: & now they grow closer & show us %here %their yellow atoms he said ELEGY Poem Text First Line: The laundry-basket lid is still there Last Line: Entirely Subject(s): Death; Sympathy; Dead, The; Empathy ELEPHANT First Line: Ted berrigan says this to you: Last Line: On the vast salt deserts of america %where snow white sleeps among the silent dwarfs' ELEPHANT ROCK Poem Text First Line: The huge weight / and granite shape of it Last Line: Ever known as the features of god Subject(s): Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks ENCOURAGEMENT, FROM TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO First Line: At god's %feet, if god %has feet Last Line: Sitting %at his %feet, there's %not %the magistrate of leipzig END OF THE RANGE Poem Text First Line: Weep ye protein herders weep Last Line: And the foreigners are fighting back Subject(s): Aliens; Immigrants; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Extraterrestrials; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Native Americans - Removal ENDOWMENT First Line: Of the w.C. Fields Last Line: Thus saving these states %from generations %of smart atheists EPHEMERAL AS IT IS, A CLOUD IS NOT AN ILLUSION Last Line: That are more fun, fundamentally EVENSONG 1965 First Line: After a good day's work, %the military scientist Last Line: Of millions of stars and the desert, %a good day's work EVER TONGUE-TIED HEART Last Line: Struggling through baltimore in my tattered chemise FAIR POETRY EATS TREMBLING MATTER Poem Text First Line: Remote omar / lyrical bug Last Line: Punctuated by the other Subject(s): Poetry & Poets - French; Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894) FAMILY OF CAVE BEARS First Line: She used to wind that watch once a day Last Line: And so are all her habits FEELING SOMEWHAT LOST, LIKE ANY OLD WISDOM First Line: Lost with the wisdom like grizzled Last Line: He'll be back & pass you at eight-five miles an hour %old wisdom intact FINNISH FOLK First Line: Go to the lakeshore go Last Line: It is the day your son comes home %(pentti saarikoski) FIRST JAZZ AGE (OR OH NO NOT ANOTHER E.M. FORSTER MOVIE) First Line: Dancing's %pacific %non-utilitarian Last Line: Lazy pig lazy pig lazy pig' FISH First Line: In the tank %on the plate Last Line: At 2 a.M. %in japantown, san francisco %was %dazzling %quitetasty %kept them awake & talking some mo FLOWERING WEEDS First Line: Tall as trees %in windy sunlight Last Line: In tune with the wild %heads of camomile %archangels FOR & FROM OSIP MANDELSTAM (1891-1938) First Line: My age, my beast, who is there Last Line: We shall meet again in that city FOR TED Poem Text First Line: It is 0200 hrs july 8, 1983 Last Line: To make me laugh so hard I almost shit my pants Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Death; Drinks & Drinking; Funerals; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Dead, The; Wine; Burials FOR THOMAS MERTON First Line: First the car wouldn't start Last Line: Somene had fixed the wiring that way FOUND FELLOW First Line: Knick-knack-minded Last Line: Japanese %soul brother FOUR First Line: I don't %want to eat it Last Line: You sit so much %at night FOUR STILLS FROM THE POET First Line: The poet, drunk, is seen Last Line: There is %possibly %someone %there FRIEND FRIENDS First Line: One by one, caught in their secret gardens Last Line: Of good ghanaian fell out of his umbrella, ay-ay-ay FROM A BOOK OF RITES & EVENTS First Line: Shambling along the veins on its way Last Line: His teeth crash through the walls of apple city FROM THE HELLIAD First Line: Bulldog faces of ex-generals' Last Line: G. Bush & s. Hussein FROM THE LOG, 1970 First Line: The sluggishness of two-way radio Last Line: Purposeful matter hovers in the dark GIG First Line: Thick clouds of smoke we roll up to the terminal Last Line: Tomorrow we'll perform in the muses' temple %next to the burnt-out pic 'n pay GLANCE First Line: The managers of this establishment Last Line: To our private lives %back at the inn %they do intertwine %as we do %it, there GLENWOOD SPRINGS Poem Text First Line: Under doc holliday's / weary eyes Last Line: As mountains Subject(s): Hotels; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips GODLIKE First Line: When you suddenly %feel like talking Last Line: At the head of the table %beaming GOING UPSTAIRS First Line: The colors must be incredible Last Line: Were all different too GOING-ON POEM First Line: Eight p.M. In the backyards of fulham Last Line: While our slow ones roar by overhead GONE TO EGYPT First Line: No clothes on there's the moon Last Line: I watched her %much GOOD MORNING! Last Line: Is an awesome thing GOOD STUFF COOKIES First Line: 2 gods %1/2 cup khidden psychic reality Last Line: 2 dozen cookies good stuff GREAT FRENCH POET First Line: Francois villon was beautiful people Last Line: Like a mouthful %of snow GUESTS OF SPACE First Line: Guten tag herr schopenhauer bonjour monsieur cioran Last Line: And there were years when nobody died HALO BLADE Poem Text First Line: Simple, it said be mouth Last Line: Into long tinge remembered Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails HANGING WITH HARPOCRATES Poem Text First Line: Walk into dark verbarium hit the switch Last Line: A body runs past Subject(s): Children; Childhood HE First Line: One day, when he got loose, he was detected carrying off Last Line: Entering into his feelings & wants, passed over as unintelligible HE THE OLD GUY First Line: He sure enjoys this cutlery he used to eat with as a kid Last Line: Aahh, yess %but he does like %these imitation bone handles %& the zeppelin era spikiness of the fork HEAD SKY CONVOY PATTERN; I.M. FRANCO BELTRAMETTI First Line: Spirit murmur echoes Last Line: Leaf tip holds dawn's door Subject(s): Astronauts; Beltrametti, Franco (1937-1995); Crockett, Davy (1786-1836); Earth; Planets; Sky; World HEADLINE HAIKU First Line: Scrumptious scandinavian Last Line: Before breakfast HEARING First Line: Great voices %of the great dead, next Last Line: Clear vision, smile in the morning %'no war, please' HEAVY JARS First Line: It is hot Last Line: Glad to be dwelling here with you %in the language of our amazing species HELSINKI, 1940 Poem Text First Line: Exploding, shattering, burning / big lights in the sky Last Line: All of whom really felt like living Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Guests; Neighbors; Visiting HEY, DR: WHO, LET'S DIAL 1965 Poem Text First Line: In petaled decade glassy sunlight Last Line: Dancers receding? Subject(s): Screen Writing; Motion Pictures - Play Writing HI, HAUNTING Poem Text First Line: Back then it seemed he had more to say Last Line: The dreadful great Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The HILLS First Line: Don't just sit there she said Last Line: You're just indulging in the midway crankies %past-midlife lumpies & grumpies %come on let's go clim HOKA HEY First Line: Into the valley of death Last Line: Shouting %'dig it!' HOW IT WORKS First Line: In the suburbs it's quite expensive Last Line: It's absolutely a bargain %and that's pretty much how it works HOW SAD IS THE MECHANICAL MOOSE! First Line: Anguish %your lot when the heart %beats like a metronome Last Line: Factory siren in a ghost town, or train %become invisible immaterial pure sound, an error-desolate h HUGINN & MUNINN Last Line: Sounds muted %autumnal I.M. HANNES HOLLO, 1959-1999 Poem Text First Line: Fought the hungry ghosts here on earth Last Line: The end rolls up too soon always too soon Subject(s): Death; Dead, The I.R.S. HAIKO First Line: Parsimonious Last Line: & tht bugs him: me IDYLL, NINETEEN SIXTY-FIVE First Line: Sunday morning Last Line: Whatever these two do %is interesting IF First Line: If your child tastes salty IL Y A Poem Text First Line: There is self-beast in season / bright dew on grass Last Line: (diligent messengers) Subject(s): Messages & Messengers IMPRESSIONS DU MATIN First Line: Hi, folks! I sing Last Line: Past all those kindly, weathered, mossy stone lions %& hear what the high folks on this planet have IN A BAR CALLED THE ANGEL Last Line: In the era of explosion IN AUTOMOBILE First Line: The mind's %mild speed Last Line: Sporadic spores IN LAWRENCE, KANSAS Last Line: Page by puddle-soaked page IN MEMORIAM CHARLES OLSON First Line: Reading a book Last Line: & spread wide his arms IN THE LAND OF ART Poem Text First Line: The artists / work on the art farm Last Line: In the land of art. Subject(s): Art & Artists IN THE LIBRARY OF POETS' RECORDINGS Poem Text First Line: The dead speakers / we can hear Last Line: Can not be retrieved Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The IN THE LONG VIEW OF HUMAN HISTORY... First Line: The moving houses are very moving Last Line: The moving houses are very moving %as they move slowly into the sea IN THE MARSHALL MINNESOTA QUICKSTOP Poem Text Last Line: They'll never leave you Subject(s): Memory IN THE MISSION First Line: God, %his %followers %started the place but Last Line: Anyone's under the covers %with their lovers %present or not%present or not IN THE MUSIC COMPOSED BY NUTRITIOUS ALGAE Poem Text First Line: Thought lined up pale winter Last Line: Question, indeed Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians IN THE OCTAGONAL ROOM First Line: To see / blake's earth Last Line: Rests Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Blood; Cruelty; Pain; Tate Museum, London; Suffering; Misery IN THE OLD BIOGRAPH First Line: What if one recorded every Last Line: Are here %in the auras %of the furniture IN THE RAGING BALANCE; I.M. JACK CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Energy, the man said, equals Last Line: Think of it it couldn't possibly be Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Reading IN THE VOICE OF JANE TO HER MOTHER Poem Text First Line: Caught myself / putting away four dresses Last Line: But I tell them all gettahellouttahere! / the western way Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Clothing & Dress IN THE VOICE OF JANE TO HER MOTHER First Line: Caught myself %putting away four dresses Last Line: That a piece of cloth %be revived to new use, %that my mother %be my friend IN THIS COURT OF ENTRANCE STOOD THE GIGANTIC REMAINS OF A .. First Line: Where the sun sets on the purple sage Last Line: You're still grateful %even amazed that these people of the country %don't gang up on you & kill you INDEPENDENT SOUND SYSTEM First Line: One day he was singing %his way through the fields when he saw Last Line: Listening to the music my peeing %&looking &listening made %on my independent sound system INDIAN SUMMERS Poem Text First Line: On the wall / vine leaves / in his eye Last Line: No end to the things made out of human talk Subject(s): Indian Summer INFANTILE DREAM: TO WAKE UP Last Line: Jiving in vast space INFO; FOR JOE CARDARELLI Poem Text First Line: A bunch of gods Last Line: Hey wow that's some good info Subject(s): Messages & Messengers; News INSTANCES Poem Text First Line: Nice place ya got here Last Line: In malinche's country Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Travel; Journeys; Trips INTIMATINS OF IMMORTALITY First Line: When off a precipitous cliff Last Line: Of no anxiety, no grief INTRODUCTION Poem Text First Line: The poet vallejo invented new ways of walking Last Line: He describes those inventions Subject(s): Inventions & Inventors; Poetry & Poets; Vallejo, Cesar (1892-1917) IOWA LATE SIXTIES First Line: Across the incredible static of time place language Last Line: I flick you off %that was one of the most exciting days of your life IRRITABLE ALIENS Poem Text First Line: Texas, texas jack omohundro Last Line: Take us there, pronto Subject(s): Aliens; Texas; Extraterrestrials ISLE OF WIGHT VISION, 1967 First Line: On my way to the high street Last Line: Mcbuth: c'est un nom ecossais IT IS HOT First Line: The picture, it flies %off the wall like a bat Last Line: Another, from %another universe %crying %for its mate in the yard (& what did you just say?) IT IS THE THINKING Poem Text Last Line: You were such a good head Subject(s): Thought IT WAS ALL ABOUT... Poem Text First Line: Poor communications / mistaken identity Last Line: Or, what I remember of tristan and isolde Subject(s): Memory ITALICS First Line: When young I was awed by authority Last Line: What you think you're reading JEREMIAH DIGEST First Line: Hair falls off head %head falls off body Last Line: But evolution %must have slowed %to a crawl JESUS, I DON'T KNOW HOW Last Line: Walk dog %don't crack JET LAG, OR; POEM BEGINNING I, TGHOR First Line: I, thor Last Line: In 1920s %french pacific Subject(s): Jet Lag JOURNEY Poem Text First Line: ... Watched you / and you were turning, turning Last Line: You – light in the dark that shines beyond walls or time … Subject(s): Farewell; Parting JOURNEY, 1966 First Line: Watched you %& you were turning, turning Last Line: That shines beyond walls or time JUMP First Line: Drive to the beef & bourbon Last Line: Grinning & shaking your head %pleased that we're all still alive %(as of the date of this writing) KATIE First Line: Visible & invisible persons Last Line: At each other's existence KEY THREE, ARCANA MAJOR First Line: Here we go Last Line: To let us pass & be in %the born world KICKING MANHATTAN TO PIECES EVERY NIGHT Poem Text Last Line: A bottle of the red medicine to her blue lips Subject(s): Conduct Of Life KINDLY WATER OTHER LEVEL Poem Text First Line: Two found together - construct regard Last Line: A vivid weightless bean Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers KNIFE IN THE WATER First Line: The vampire as symptom of industrial-capitalist civilization Last Line: The fearless vampire killers LA MORT First Line: Probably %another %of those appointments Last Line: If I %refuse to go %to the dentist %maybe I won't %have to die' LA NOCHE Poem Text First Line: The wind let loose in the dark Last Line: For the long journey across a room Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life LANDING IN THE TREES First Line: Outside the car %window bright clumps Last Line: Moon slips through blue spruce %a million miles away,bright & loud, like frog LANDSCAPE First Line: Move %convulsively Last Line: I know it well LATE NIGHT DREAM MOVIES; TO CHRISTOPHER TOLL Poem Text First Line: The war beneath the seas / is quiet Last Line: That's an honest word. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares LE JAZZ HOT Poem Text First Line: Talked to my father again in a dream he seemed happy Last Line: And found it of some interest Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians LECTURE First Line: The meta-social LET ME SLEEP MORE IN MY GIRL'S ARMS First Line: Thousands of miles Last Line: Yes, time %to unfold again--' LETTER Poem Text First Line: Dear sister, where was it, where is it now Last Line: That anyone was going to understand that. Subject(s): Sisters LETTER TO UNCLE O; FOR ANDREI CORDESCU Poem Text First Line: Dear publius ovidius / 'the nose' Last Line: Between the lines Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.) LIES, THE EYES First Line: He repented %on his deathbed %seeing the great evil Last Line: Cloth cap on his head %still on scrawny neck %burn two holes%in this page: his eyes LIFE 1 First Line: A semi in bagshott Last Line: Punch %in the nose LIFE IN THE TWISTS Poem Text First Line: Bare freckled skin under black cloak Last Line: "or vice versa..." Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Skin; Male-female Relations LIGHTHOUSE Poem Text First Line: The house / in north platte, nebraska Last Line: They're not expecting him back / anytime soon Subject(s): "cody, William ""buffalo Bill"" (1846-1917); Houses; Absence; LIGHTHOUSE First Line: The house %in north platte, nebraska Last Line: This house %is dark. The curtains are drawn. %colonel cody's%not at home %they're not expecting him LIT. GROUP HISTORY First Line: It was their intention Last Line: Perceptive %lit. Crit. Hand LLANTO & SHORT DISCOURSE ON A METHOD First Line: Seasonal changes in shape of head Last Line: Created by waving limbs LOCAL COLOR First Line: Another plane staggers in Last Line: It'll all be gone %in a blink of your eye. %it will be followed by %jefferson and/or donald duck LONG WAYS First Line: Come a long way, %speak of it now and again Last Line: Go a long way %travel the seas in darkness and light %speak of it now and then LOOKING AT A BOOK OF CHINESE SEALS First Line: Wanting to wake you up at 3:00 a.M. Knowing Last Line: Yet-praying for your dear face next to mine %to be there %tobe there, at dawn LORD LYTTON GOES TO LANGUAGE SCHOOL First Line: I write for exertion in proud minds. I am, it is true Last Line: But intellectual want, overcharged like most writings of the %thick and confused. I turn into a dalm LOS SEDENTARIOS Poem Text First Line: Most of the time we sit down Last Line: Now is the time to get up Subject(s): Writing & Writers LOST ORIGINAL Poem Text First Line: Mr. K said in times of great crudity Last Line: Still asking on down the road Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips LOST ORIGINAL Poem Text First Line: Mr. K. Said in times of great crudity Last Line: Still asking on down the road Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips LOVING YOU IS A CONTINUOUS COLLISION Last Line: As in 'the little disturbances of man' MANIFEST DESTINY Poem Text First Line: To arrive in front of large video screen Last Line: In its most obvious form, the poor Subject(s): Poverty MARCHEN (BEGINNER'S LUCK) Poem Text First Line: One day / ted berrigan Last Line: It was the first time they tried it Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Berrigan, Edmund Joseph MEMORY RAIN PRIDE WIND Poem Text Last Line: Bring the form to the crazy weaving Subject(s): Absence; Coltrane, John (1926-1967) MESCALITO First Line: Walked past Last Line: Though patient & smiling MINOTAUR POEM First Line: To say good morning blues how do you do Last Line: All of you are wonderful people %and to say it is a great pleasure indeed %with a lilt MISSION AUBADE First Line: Ambulance howls into receiving bay Last Line: Folks on the block are getting up %some are still awake still alive too MODEL First Line: Downstairs %they are improving themselves Last Line: But it certainly keeps the upstairs fellows %in some decent scotch MONSTER First Line: Even though she despised him Last Line: He would not forget MOSAIC STANDARD FROM US First Line: Looks like a wall Last Line: Only opened %three years ago MOVING HOUSES ARE VERY MOVING... First Line: In the long view of human history Last Line: There remains the joy of being first in one place %& then in one another MR. GANZFELD First Line: The old man made Last Line: We were proceeding %out in the dark %the pipers leading the way MY FIRT MISS AMERIKA Last Line: All over the biosphere MY NAME IS ROD MAGNET First Line: I used to be an elitist Last Line: Flying with captain eros' %I mean flying with captain ears MY SISTER LIKED THE POSTCARD OF SNOW Poem Text First Line: White and the seven dwarfs Last Line: Light as a bird-bone Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia NEAR MISS HAIKU Poem Text First Line: Order out of chaos equals frogs Last Line: Opens the book Subject(s): Books; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Poetry & Poets; Violins; Reading NEW ORC First Line: Lackawanna Last Line: Have to breathe, all their terrestrial lives NICE CURLY HAIR First Line: It come to the pope Last Line: In tashkent or nacogdoches %wherever whoever you are make a fuss %a big fuss %before the big foot co NIGHT WIND PIECES First Line: The wind, let loose in the dark Last Line: She draws the curtains %the light, round the edges: an eclipse Subject(s): Night NO COMPLAINTS; FOR ROBERT GRENIER Poem Text First Line: On the high plains Last Line: At the end Subject(s): Prairies; Tibet; Travel; Plains; Journeys; Trips NO DETACHMENT Poem Text First Line: Step out snow and sunshine Last Line: Flashed out of the void today Subject(s): Books; New York Times (newspaper); Reading NO MONEY Poem Text First Line: The last empress of china Last Line: That's why there is no money Subject(s): Steamboats NOT A FORM AT ALL BUT A STATE OF MIND: 1-12 First Line: After reading the tiresome review Last Line: Murmur 'vagaries of the heart' NOT A FORM AT ALL BUT A STATE OF MIND: LINES FROM TED: First Line: Ho chi minh wrote poetry Last Line: Then putting their words together - & coming up with poems NOT A FORM AT ALL BUT A STATE OF MIND: VILLONELLES First Line: Cloud with delicate %cottonwool monkey face - drifting by Last Line: Or raised to the power of infinity NOW ON TO GHAZAL GULCH Poem Text First Line: When did you last see your criteria?' Last Line: "souls free of the body" Subject(s): Bodies; Soul NUMBERS FROM NOVALIS First Line: Narratives, disjunctive, yet associative like dreams Last Line: Chaos 'squared,' or, raised to the power %of infinity O KEATS WHERE IS THY STING First Line: Thorn stuck in paw Last Line: For our jitterbug lesson OCTOBER 31ST First Line: All saints, all persuasions Last Line: A hospitable time OH, MAMA WINDOW First Line: Today, you look so neat & bright, today Last Line: Maximal polynesian clarity OLD ARISTIPPUS First Line: Night morn of glass / in cage of age Last Line: Say the murmurous measurers Subject(s): Aristippus (435-366 B.c.); Old Age; Philosophy & Philosophers OLD CAT SOMBER MOON Poem Text First Line: Running into feeling befuddles. A kiss, a moment, spiky Last Line: Are. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Work; Workers OLD LOVE OR WAR POEM First Line: I %know %where %you are! Last Line: I %can %see the %bushes %moving! OLD SPACE CADET SPEAKING First Line: Let me tell you, the captain knew Last Line: We leave him to go on hurtling through the great warp %& at our own ineffable goals ON & OFF THE ROAD, BALTIMORE -- ITHACA First Line: Pale wheatfield Last Line: The gait of my son ON CHRISTMAS DAY NINETEEN-SEVENTY Last Line: That day he was the fastest man on earth ON GOPHER HILL First Line: At times it seems merely a question of how to abdicate Last Line: & let them wait yet a while ON THE OCCASION OF & AS AN INTRODUCTION TO ROBERT ... First Line: Time & again when I falter & half believe Last Line: In the candle-lit window %at the end of the booby-trapped garden path ON THE OCCASION OF A POET'S DEATH Poem Text First Line: The dedication and intensity of the dead Last Line: The disembodied glories of hades await us. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON THE OCCASION OF BECOMING AN ECHO First Line: The goddess stands in front of the cave Last Line: All things were clear ONCE IN KHAIROUAN, SOUTH OF TUNIS, A YELLOW KABYL DOG BIT Poem Text Last Line: He or she would immediately recognize it as such Subject(s): Dogs; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926) ONE OF THE PINES HAS A BEND IN IT Poem Text Last Line: There's no way of telling what goes on there Subject(s): Measurement Units; Horses OR TURNED INTO A First Line: Years of indifference followed Last Line: Hand, still struggling with the notion of his own finiteness, knew %that he would never go to tahiti OR, TO HOCUS THE ANIMALS OF THE PURSUERS BY CHANGING THEIR DREAM... First Line: Cold and windy cloud with delicate Last Line: Joseph cornell knew it well Subject(s): Books; Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972); Poetry & Poets; Reading OUT OF THE 'KALEVALA' First Line: Riding %july %mosquitoes Last Line: Sweet invocations %in her ear OUT OF THIS WORLD First Line: Astonishing %complexities Last Line: It's been a long time %between drinks PAGE Poem Text First Line: In measured hand / we write the letter Last Line: Go to it. Subject(s): Violence PANIC PERSON Last Line: No more'n the bagpipes PARTING First Line: After hugo ball %don't go %is what I want you to tell me Last Line: Tell me I know %my way back to you %even at night %in the rain that hides the stars PEACE TO THE PEOPLE OF THIS EARTH PETIT CHANSON First Line: One of those quiet mmoments Last Line: And the moment, while officially %3:00 a.M. Is all the eternity %one will ever know PHONE First Line: Hi! My name is scott cary. I just bought up late Last Line: Hi! My name is %casanova %hamilton. %what's yours?' %'-- no %sale.' %-time to hit the streets for a PINBALL First Line: Woke up & was being Last Line: Yes nukes %have indeed led to a worldwide upsurge %of mad religiosity %don't you think blink think PO(E)MOLOGY First Line: An apple a day Last Line: In your next book POCATELLO, IDAHO Poem Text First Line: Thin man whacking / away at tire with mattock Last Line: Sight Subject(s): Idaho POCKET-SIZED WATER PIPE Last Line: Must %get %bombed POEM Poem Text First Line: A painting with no background at all, or Last Line: The light of their eyes Subject(s): Farewell; Expressionism - Poets; Parting POEM First Line: It is a poem Last Line: Lit up those days POEM WITH DRAGON & ELEPHANT First Line: Sonic boom Last Line: All over this head full of sky POSSIBLE DEFINITIONS OF 'BEAUTY' AND 'HAPPINESS' [OR, POSSIBLES] Poem Text First Line: Babies / cry / all / different Last Line: Soft soft in the dark Subject(s): Beauty PROBLEM SOLVED First Line: Frequently I have noticed that people are frowning for no apparent Last Line: Your beauty adviser PROFESSIONAL ARMAMENTS First Line: December 5, 1988: the phone rings to inform me, in the voice Last Line: Them to stop gesticulating with his carbine - the barrel is %getting in the way of her rowing PROPOSAL First Line: For war memorial to end Last Line: The war goes on %and war is shit PUP CANTO First Line: The body is frail %even odysseus Last Line: And the toes %feel pretty good %amigo, we're buzzing along PUT IN A QUAVER, HERE AND THERE Poem Text First Line: It is smooth, fairly uniformly gray Last Line: Vicinity: mute witnesses, they could yet prove to be guides. Subject(s): Art & Artists; History; Philosophy & Philosophers; Historians PYGMY HUT First Line: Heavy drops %fell from the trees Last Line: Heavy drops %fell from the trees %& made a %plopping %sound %as they hit %the poodles Subject(s): Animals; Dogs Q & A First Line: Wake language Last Line: Out in the dark %and proud of it QUATRAINS FOR A FRED First Line: The hearty drunk QUESTION First Line: Know the various abuses of the locution Last Line: How can you ever say anything anymore anywhere %in this world? QUESTIONS First Line: Josef hellstrom & emiliano zapata Last Line: Where they engage in lively debate RADIO FREE AMERICA First Line: With the powers of old Last Line: To make the visible look the way we like it RAIN Poem Text First Line: One evening as we were lounging in his apartment in a relaxed mood Last Line: The substance of the land into the sea Subject(s): Rain; Water RATTLE LIKE ARROW-SHAFTS IN A QUIVER Last Line: Lull %tomes ports of lore RESPONSE TO COLORADO DAILY'S POLL QUESTION: WHAT IS... First Line: Life is a leaf Last Line: Stuck to her nose %stuck to her nose %very brief- %ly, just a mo REVIEWING THE TAPE; I.M. PIERO HELICZER Poem Text First Line: Calling 1959 calling 1959 what does he know Last Line: Cave equals room equals window Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading RIDING THE THERMALS ALL THE TIME BORING Last Line: Is this where you wanted to go, sir?' RIMA: DREAM First Line: Despite the label Last Line: In a condition of complicated delight RIME RICHE First Line: He had gone to some lengths Last Line: To how it all rhymed & would go on rhyming RISING TO THE DAWN'S COLD BEAMS Last Line: The other side of the sun ROCKET Poem Text First Line: Teacher, teacher / - I don't like this asswignment Last Line: Post-chaise & brigantine Subject(s): Rockets; Schools; Likes & Dislikes ROCKET First Line: Teacher, teacher %- I don't like this assignment Last Line: (to do with buck rogers or nuclear wipeout) %much more like balloon %post-chaise %brigantine ROUND FOR THE TROUT FISHER First Line: Ignorant bliss' %not ignorant of but ignoring Last Line: Just that we haven't really seen it yet %just that we'd like to look at it a little longer RUE WILSON MONDAY: 1 First Line: Carriage purrs man whistles pounds post Last Line: Watch reflections flounce RUE WILSON MONDAY: 10 First Line: Most beautiful order of the world Last Line: Longings & belongings there he goes RUE WILSON MONDAY: 11 First Line: Gates waterfalls shifting horizons Last Line: Look for yourself in this pebble or pencil RUE WILSON MONDAY: 12 First Line: The only good knee is a live knee Last Line: Slow erudite surprises yarns in your arms RUE WILSON MONDAY: 13 First Line: Just where it is is with you Last Line: #name? RUE WILSON MONDAY: 14 First Line: Now does he know how to beam? Contented? Last Line: On trundling troubadours. Semicolon RUE WILSON MONDAY: 15 First Line: Give up your ampersands & lowercase 'I's Last Line: Or the hypothetically honest horse-drawn past RUE WILSON MONDAY: 16 First Line: Bygone masks of the night: dream, sentence, voices, air Last Line: Now isn't all this just too atrocious RUE WILSON MONDAY: 17 First Line: Draped in defiance & bewildered hair Last Line: Between fedora and wingtip shoes RUE WILSON MONDAY: 18 First Line: As we glance out from our machine Last Line: Verbarium empty, once again RUE WILSON MONDAY: 19 First Line: Certainly privileged to have an Last Line: Idealized historical conduct vs. Tendresse RUE WILSON MONDAY: 2 First Line: Beautiful thoughts Last Line: Bits of rough bark fall off trunk RUE WILSON MONDAY: 20 First Line: Came down the old oaken stairs he must also have trod Last Line: Coo-coo-coo so, time to go, soon RUE WILSON MONDAY: 21 First Line: Oft turning others' leaves Last Line: It is some picture on the margin wrought RUE WILSON MONDAY: 22 First Line: That the ants seem to wobble Last Line: Kindly provide a theme for these variations RUE WILSON MONDAY: 23 First Line: I wish that life were an opera Last Line: & let the lybian lion hunt them butterflies RUE WILSON MONDAY: 24 First Line: Only & always as old as who I'm talking to, no, with Last Line: Poppy fields billow in staunch wind RUE WILSON MONDAY: 25 First Line: Faintly flapping horizon of symbolist project Last Line: We have to think french to read him RUE WILSON MONDAY: 26 First Line: Crackle crackle good history ? Last Line: Let me negotiate this corniche RUE WILSON MONDAY: 27 First Line: Walls dwellings built, streets paved Last Line: To daffodil land and galactopoiesis RUE WILSON MONDAY: 28 First Line: Lover walks out on friend what a mosquito! Last Line: Imbibing scotch in my study big bad boys together RUE WILSON MONDAY: 29 First Line: In fragile days on frightful parapet Last Line: Not easily deciphered by proud to be dumb & brawny school RUE WILSON MONDAY: 3 First Line: That thar wind is Last Line: Sounding like kirby malone pronouncing bain RUE WILSON MONDAY: 30 First Line: Stalking the elusive ego? A bit like gravity Last Line: Not present souped-up blur-speed corporate model RUE WILSON MONDAY: 31 First Line: Steer resolutely into the dada channel Last Line: Life is a permanent possibility of sensation RUE WILSON MONDAY: 32 First Line: Now for some questions about as I was saying Last Line: Where did he go? RUE WILSON MONDAY: 33 First Line: Waiting waiting for a loved one to return Last Line: The one with heart in his name RUE WILSON MONDAY: 34 First Line: Be serious yes Last Line: In the zoology department, do they? RUE WILSON MONDAY: 35 First Line: Scurry down bleak corridors in gare du cauchemar Last Line: Is the esthetic of these pretentious boonies RUE WILSON MONDAY: 36 First Line: And there was the 'art opening' in moret Last Line: Whose work speaks for itself! And sings, and dances, too RUE WILSON MONDAY: 37 First Line: Consider considerate Last Line: S now lit up again by expensive explosives RUE WILSON MONDAY: 38 First Line: Returns, twilight-summoned, the master of dolorous speak Last Line: Longing: a kind of loitering, with no intent RUE WILSON MONDAY: 39 First Line: No word count in poetry Last Line: In the silence a face RUE WILSON MONDAY: 4 First Line: The stuff of the psyche is a smoke-like substance Last Line: If you are well that is good I am well too RUE WILSON MONDAY: 40 First Line: How about just a few words Last Line: In their implacable hats RUE WILSON MONDAY: 41 First Line: Rare bright sunny december day in the isle of france Last Line: *) probably right-wing members of united states congress RUE WILSON MONDAY: 42 First Line: Streets of water sadness, self's knotty beast Last Line: Summer tobacco, circling birds RUE WILSON MONDAY: 43 First Line: In the jingle-jangle mornings I went following you Last Line: Best oatmeal, said harry smith, I ever had! RUE WILSON MONDAY: 44 First Line: Time and desire their offspring devour Last Line: In french poetic lexical table of elements RUE WILSON MONDAY: 45 First Line: Some of the french no longer writing poems like that Last Line: Whisper: a valve of wonder RUE WILSON MONDAY: 46 First Line: And these may well be Last Line: Even though first thought was cells) RUE WILSON MONDAY: 47 First Line: And where is fortune duboisgobey Last Line: They worked so hard and so fast RUE WILSON MONDAY: 48 First Line: Now back to states whose president Last Line: To conspiracy charges filed with their fiendish goddy RUE WILSON MONDAY: 49 First Line: The mouth had that turn that says lucky at cards Last Line: In the pursuit of his pleasure RUE WILSON MONDAY: 5 First Line: Once again butterfly pulse entire percept Last Line: Beaucoup conscious disquiet RUE WILSON MONDAY: 50 First Line: Ah guillaume this aviation morning Last Line: To evening's grace and a cup of coffee RUE WILSON MONDAY: 51 First Line: Yes 'twas an arcady, le temps both weather and time Last Line: Mist over arches of invisible speech RUE WILSON MONDAY: 52 First Line: Finnish word dream clacks and alliterates Last Line: Only the creature knows its awful secret joys RUE WILSON MONDAY: 53 First Line: Now no more late night city street drives Last Line: & that faith in them was a fatal illusion RUE WILSON MONDAY: 54 First Line: Joys sorrows but in miniature Last Line: Now slides the silent meteor on RUE WILSON MONDAY: 55 First Line: Rebellious servants vandalized the viburnum Last Line: In his native italia they wanted to know who shot 'im? RUE WILSON MONDAY: 56 First Line: You're born and you grow and as you're growing up Last Line: Because it reminds us of the time when we were fish RUE WILSON MONDAY: 57 First Line: Just heard myself say Last Line: I did. And now you've read this, too RUE WILSON MONDAY: 58 First Line: It was good the labor of building a citadel to the muse Last Line: Sway deep shade opaque smoke between stars RUE WILSON MONDAY: 59 First Line: Now this is getting a bit noir is it not Last Line: Her wail doth echo in these open spaces RUE WILSON MONDAY: 6 First Line: Now does the blissful somnambule recluster Last Line: The elsewhere gunfire problem whose is it RUE WILSON MONDAY: 60 First Line: Oie blanche white goose in french an innocent young thing Last Line: Pull down thy arrogance french mangeur pull down RUE WILSON MONDAY: 61 First Line: Impetuous bellows for attention Last Line: Here's a cookie: go sit in the corner RUE WILSON MONDAY: 62 First Line: Yes kai by historical happenstance Last Line: By mr. World and ms. Life RUE WILSON MONDAY: 63 First Line: Has he returned with outrageous opinions? Last Line: Last one out turns off the lights RUE WILSON MONDAY: 64 First Line: She of the white hands flutters with doves Last Line: Where was that? Was that me? RUE WILSON MONDAY: 65 First Line: Fix some matter, eh? Sit down in delight Last Line: (let national disgrace proceed apace) RUE WILSON MONDAY: 66 First Line: Graceful awkwardness the mode Last Line: Her honk reverberates in evening air RUE WILSON MONDAY: 7 First Line: The ideal story is that of two people Last Line: To reinsert oneself into the mortal coil RUE WILSON MONDAY: 8 First Line: The general infantilization Last Line: When your memory goes forget it (said utah) RUE WILSON MONDAY: 9 First Line: Yes tribe so richly rhymes with diatribe Last Line: How sings her my head such uncanny apples RUNDFUNK; I.M. HELMUT HEISSENBUTEL 1921-1996 Poem Text First Line: Follow blue fern to this eve's hostelry Last Line: Night's rollers turn with tender uneasy weight Subject(s): War SAD LITTLE NUMBER First Line: Wandering %through the rooms Last Line: Back in the wilderness, %he missed her, his guide %'no clothes on, and no use' SAILS OF MURMUR Poem Text First Line: Rose blade runs through beam Last Line: If it please the dawn Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails SALES FIGURES ARE UP First Line: I.E., there're more of these human Last Line: & I meant to say 'bumped' %'bumped the curb' %but I said strafed %didn' I SARDANAPALIAN SURF First Line: Frozen %h2o %falls from the sky Last Line: By which it %flowers SATURDAY Poem Text First Line: We sea monsters Last Line: Trying to become space monsters Subject(s): Monsters SCHILLER'S ROTTING APPLES First Line: Think thoughts think Last Line: Life is of course utterly SCRIPT MIST First Line: Hang on to moment, naked, fair Last Line: In the great carpentry Subject(s): Epitaphs; Screen Writing; Writing & Writers; Motion Pictures - Play Writing SCRIPTURAL 1 First Line: Boys play Last Line: Scales had vanished SCRIPTURAL 2 First Line: Distracting particulars Last Line: To pleasant dreams SECRET COHESIVE TACTICS Poem Text First Line: Blip off dim sunset. Blip on wild din sunrise! Last Line: Gather voice from house now ash and air. Subject(s): Love SEE YOU TOMORROW (WE HOPE) First Line: Yell! Cry! Shout! Weep! Complain! Last Line: And don't have to devour %more than %their share SEIZED WITH UNREST, WINGING THROUGH THE DARK First Line: There was a light on Last Line: & you, & me %& this is true SEVEN YEARS SHORT OF A HUNDRED First Line: Grandpa was struck at his desk Last Line: Gray eminence glimpsed - slouching towards the elevator SHED THE FEAR First Line: Who has a face sees, the world Last Line: In the face of present carnage, %centuries %later SHU First Line: Orange schubert Last Line: My white powwow lettuce shoes SHUDDER First Line: Bending %over my own Last Line: Into an old %embrace SI, SI, E.E. Poem Text First Line: Warm legend, blue shadow Last Line: (& yes, they wore great big hats, size extra large Subject(s): Books; Cummings, E. E. (1894-1962); Language; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Words; Vocabulary SIX FROM ARNO HOLZ'S ?Ç£PHANTASUS?Ç¥ Poem Text First Line: I want to know all the secrets! Last Line: Into a golden chamber pot Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language; Words; Vocabulary SMALL DOOR AT FAR END First Line: Time for your take, you assholes' Last Line: Left there must wear the star of the marginal SNAIL Poem Text First Line: Ess enn a eye ell Last Line: Snail / evolution Subject(s): Snails; Evolution SNAIL First Line: Ess enn a eye ell. %snail Last Line: Ee vee oh ell you tee eye oh enn. %evolution. %snail %evolution SO First Line: A lifetime ago %we sat in small Last Line: & now %it really is %a lifetime gone %&how would you translate that SO THERE'S THIS LITTLE MAN First Line: Down the street 'little' Last Line: May live to retire %as a part-time landshark %in agent haven SOME WORLDS First Line: Writing, damn hard, lake titicaca, the sun. Tell me, rudolf Last Line: Back into the universe %more than enough to write a thousand great poems SOMETHING I STOLE & WOULD LIKE YOU TO SEE First Line: Eros %totally invomved love at first sight Last Line: Paradiso %all of the above in perfecti perennially contradictory balance SONG 10 First Line: & as they draw near the rock Last Line: Isis, saying hello SONG 2 First Line: In the mirror Last Line: Iaia of kyzikos SONG 3 First Line: Missing one Last Line: Makes one feel %heavily SONG 4 First Line: One night in bellona Last Line: Inside %his head SONG 5 First Line: Dark %moves Last Line: Deep dark ficus peace SONG 6 First Line: Riding %the curl Last Line: Is a bedtime story SONG 6 First Line: Riding Last Line: Move around in the sky %& the sea %is a bedtime story SONG 8 First Line: The sleeper's %cave Last Line: Side of %the breathing SONG 9 First Line: Assateague lantern Last Line: Hooves & snorts in the distance SONG FOR A SLEEPING BROTHER First Line: My brother has taken sleeping pills Last Line: I do not wish my brother to go SONG OF THE TUSK First Line: The elephant Last Line: For thousands of years SONG: CHABLIS ALMADEN (FOUR A.M.) First Line: This sprightly white wine Last Line: Put some of her hair on his face SONNET First Line: There are many places in this world Last Line: The globe, which is now clogging up %the toilet of this star wars universe SONNET First Line: Morning strides through these poems Last Line: Just two guys struggling with a big sheet %on the stony side of the street SORRY OLD GREEK First Line: Because you are Last Line: A little reggae, too SPACE BALTIC Poem Text First Line: Far, far / in the future I see Last Line: "... Yesh ... Yesh ... We used to call that a foot-ball..." Subject(s): Americans SPRING FEVER BEAR POST-HIBERNATION SONGS First Line: It is spring Last Line: Not new to them now STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER First Line: May it always ride in and out again Last Line: Insistent in the night; %two people %playing accurate guitars %on this century's %twiligh tv STILL LIFE 1 First Line: Saw the earth going Last Line: A somber %burger STILL LIFE 2 First Line: Broom: motionless Last Line: Few ways around it STILL LIFE 3 First Line: Bad bad federales Last Line: Bad bad federales STRANGELY MOVED Last Line: Winter, but soon the light SUNSET CABOOSE Poem Text First Line: Freight train, freight train / going so fast' Last Line: To what is brought out of light Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips TEMPUS? FUGGIT! Poem Text First Line: Unbound from yonder level / of oceans of presence Last Line: In loud formations over sound / never dim Subject(s): Language TERRORIST SMILES First Line: Opens small notebook THAT OLD SAUNA HIGH Poem Text First Line: To make the vapor bath Last Line: All clean inside Subject(s): Saunas THE BEETLE WAKES UP THE COHERENCES Poem Text First Line: For whom the Last Line: Speech Subject(s): Cruise Ships; Dancing & Dancers; Music, Rock; Travel; Rock & Roll; Journeys; Trips THE CURVE Poem Text First Line: Missed / due to alcohol it was Last Line: On the other side of the ditch Subject(s): Automobile Accidents THE DAYS: AIR Poem Text First Line: The riddles I talked in Last Line: In words & air Subject(s): Desire THE DISCOVERY OF LSD A TRUE STORY First Line: The dose of a mere / fifty micrograms totally altered Subject(s): Lsd (lysergic Acid THE EMPRESS HOTEL POEMS Poem Text First Line: Just get up / and sit down again. Then Last Line: In the other poem. Subject(s): Hotels; Housekeeping; Language; Rooms; Tourists; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Words; Vocabulary THE FISH Poem Text First Line: In the tank Last Line: Kept them awake & talking some more Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE FORCE OF BEING SHE RELEASED IN HIM BEING Poem Text Last Line: And a cup of mint tea with honey Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships THE LIGHTS GOING ON IN THE ROOMS STRUNG OUT BACK THROUGH THE YEARS Poem Text First Line: The way / the blue room Last Line: Your / beholder Subject(s): Love THE LOW BLACK SQUARE Poem Text First Line: Is a table Last Line: They're just some flowers Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Guests; Restaurants; Tables; Visiting; Cafes; Diners THE MISSING PAGE Poem Text First Line: It was a poem, the jittery sort Last Line: Yearning and delight Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading THE NEW STYLE WESTERN Poem Text First Line: The two horsemen Last Line: Of living together Subject(s): Farm Life; Rio Grande River; West (u.s.); Agriculture; Farmers; Southwest; Pacific States THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS Poem Text First Line: Turn, tremble at honk Last Line: To where road starts again Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Cities; Future Life; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Work; Workers THE OLDER ARTIST Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Kid's written a 200-page lament Last Line: And too many shoes. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Reading THE ONE Poem Text First Line: The one / long hair in my beard Last Line: It's yours Subject(s): Laughter THE RED PIANO Poem Text First Line: A red piano / he says Last Line: Let us think more musical thoughts. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos THE RESEMBLANCE Poem Text First Line: Hey did you see the man that looked like a camel Last Line: Just likie a camel Subject(s): Camels THE WALDEN VARIATIONS; FOR ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text First Line: White hair Last Line: Old sun Subject(s): Creeley, Robert (b. 1926) THE YEARS; I.M. CHARLES BUKOWSKI First Line: I met her at the west end bar. I mounted Last Line: I was a nice guy. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bars & Bartenders; Bukowski, Charles (1920-1994); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons THERE WAS NOTHING AT ALL AROUND US Last Line: From the days reckoned; & then, one morning THEY DROVE CARS FAST - NEON WAS YOUNG- First Line: There was was there not a time Last Line: Well izzat so %well tell me it ain't %(enter smiling young ne0imperialist critic %bearing gigantic l THEY TREAT YOU LIKE A DOG Last Line: Not easy to be a good monster THINGS TO DO AT 453 SOUTH 1300 EAST, WINTER '86 First Line: Read ten thousand lines Last Line: Feel gentleness invade you with the thought of her %who brought you here %& here she is no need to THINGS TO DO IN SALZBURG Poem Text First Line: Walk, alone / the narrow lane from st. Peter's Last Line: As my father. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Drinks & Drinking; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Wine THINGS TO DO WITH LIFE Poem Text First Line: Hang out with quantum generation Last Line: From l'oeil de ma jeanne Subject(s): Writing & Writers THINKING OF IL MIGLIOR FABBRO First Line: Miniature world tree Last Line: & guard the mystery of the world THREE BEAR POEMS First Line: Thinking of how I am always Last Line: His mind was going so fast THREE FOR ED SANDERS First Line: Cat. Item 4711. Holograph letter from edward sanders Last Line: Where every tree's been cut for fuel THUS WE BEGAN First Line: On lake titicaca Last Line: Out large-cared lady of tiahuanaco %who went back to her star TIC-TOC Poem Text First Line: Though he looked a bit jerky Last Line: I was reading then / ave alque vale Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Poetry & Poets; Oppenheimer, Joel (1930-1988); Orbison, Roy (1936-1988) TIC-TOC First Line: Thought he looked a bit jerky Last Line: One also much entertained %by the late great american poet %joel oppenheimer %whose 'dutiful son' %I TIME ROCKING ON Poem Text First Line: Fell far from tribe Last Line: & raise to ear Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TO BE BORN AGAIN Poem Text First Line: Inside my mother / I make a little fist Last Line: "you've been forgiven" Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Fertility; Mothers; Pregnancy; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery TOO MUCH MONEY OR WAS IT HONEY First Line: The decadent aesthete deals brilliantly with the disgusting Last Line: They're both in line for the farting rosebush award %and they are, both of them, you TOURING First Line: Window of room nine Last Line: In northfield minnesota TREMENDOUS WIND AND RAIN Poem Text Last Line: Now a resident of paradise Subject(s): New York City; Storms TROLL CHANTING First Line: Moom moom hear my call Subject(s): Supernatural TUMBLEWEED Poem Text First Line: On 'the day of great routes' Last Line: In the soul Subject(s): Tumble-weeds TURN OFF THE NEWS Poem Text First Line: Anxiety gallops through chatter Last Line: Sneeze Subject(s): Anxiety; News TV: 1 Poem Text First Line: For he is ishi the last of his tribe' Last Line: Is yours and mine and it is late Subject(s): Television; Tv TV: 2 Poem Text First Line: Funny / nazis! Last Line: More funny nazis! Subject(s): Nazis; Television; National Socialism; Tv TWINS First Line: The twins were fighting Last Line: To life %to death %(coeur d'alene) TWO AFTER REVERDY First Line: A painting with no background at all or Last Line: From that corner when he returned TWO EPITAPHS First Line: Your friends stand around amazed Last Line: & they both made it there %for ever now TWO GYPSY POEMS First Line: Hey, god, old buddy, why did you Last Line: For the end of summer TWO PARTS Poem Text First Line: Listen to me Last Line: Puking long streams of it Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary ULTRAISTA ONEIRIC Poem Text First Line: Dream vortices broadcast / humorous din Last Line: Bounces into unsteady calm Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Ocean UNIMAGINABLY SLOW HAUL BACK TO SOME EARLY MOMENTS Last Line: In the majority of cases UNSPECIFIED NIGHTTIME SNACK Last Line: Just %enough %there UNTIL DEATH DO US PART First Line: To think of them Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) UNTIL DEATH DO US PART First Line: To think of them Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) VALENTINE First Line: Good to sleep when you're tired Last Line: I just never saw you this way before VALID Poem Text Recitation First Line: Having a pasaporte, how much more valid Last Line: Tackle the razor wire! Subject(s): Passports; Travel; Journeys; Trips VIBRANT LONS Poem Text First Line: Minutes / selves / socks Last Line: In a cyclone of dizzy cares Subject(s): Desire VIENTO First Line: Big wind %bangs %against shoebox house Last Line: Yet, surely this is a place %quite marked by our little quirks %one of which, 'love': an intangible VISITORS FROM TIBET Poem Text First Line: A cock signifying craving & greed Last Line: But I tell them all gettahellouttahere! / the western way Subject(s): Animals VODKA: SERGEI YESENIN SPEAKING First Line: They drowned my puppies Last Line: Don't take any wooden kopecks WAITING FOR YOU AT TOUSLED STATE COLLEGE First Line: Black bronze, one foot high Last Line: Here you are WALKING CATFISH First Line: Here %I give you Last Line: Bygones be bygones, & it followed us back on its strong fins WALKING THE BEACH WITH MY DAUGHTER'S EYES & NEWS IN MY HEAD First Line: Smallest child fewest words Last Line: Such flowers all over the place WALL POEM First Line: The difficulties are great Last Line: The difficulties are awful WAS THAT REALLY A SONNET? Poem Text First Line: Human being' / has government Last Line: Compared to natural flutter Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) WASP SEX MYTH (ONE) First Line: When he comes home at night Last Line: He has too many at home Subject(s): Modern Man WASP SEX MYTH (TWO) First Line: Ted & marge had been married eight years. The first three, ted was insane Subject(s): Modern Man WASP SEX MYTH (TWO) First Line: Ted & marge had been married eight years. The first three, ted was insane Last Line: He let marge up only long enough to get food & drink occasionally Subject(s): Modern Man WAVE MOTION GREEN AS TEXT Last Line: Rapidamente siempre rapidamente WAY First Line: The way you got to be the way you were Last Line: For the other big old notion %'the now' %as in right now %asyou just were right then WEBERN First Line: Switch off the light Last Line: & the hand %still moving WEST IS LEFT ON THE MAP First Line: Wee terrible human race Last Line: With you, a thousand years would not be long enough WESTERN THOUGHT First Line: Whatever %grabs our attention Last Line: Grazing there in the aisles %with relative ease quite peaceful digging it all %three seconds at a ti WHAT HAPPENED TO A YOUNG MAN IN A PLACE WHERE HE TURNED First Line: No sleep for twelve days Last Line: (white mountain apache) WHERE IF NOT HERE', SELS First Line: After a third go-around with the emperor now it's don pablo Last Line: And the fact that 'questo' does not mean 'quest' WHERE WAS IT I Poem Text Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Identity WHEREVER THERE IS A HOLE Last Line: Uncommitted %avantgardist WHO WALK BY Last Line: To hear %that tune WHO WROTE THIS First Line: When we were little poets Last Line: (& that was first written %by munro leaf %author of ferdinand the bull %a great poem WILD WEST WORKSHOP POEM First Line: When after muchos anos Last Line: Whenever we get a chance WINGS OVER MAXIMUS Poem Text First Line: 51 pegasus a sun Last Line: "& her name was solitaire" Subject(s): Absence; Solitude WORDIES APRIL 1990 First Line: Abundance %dances: %warhol's rex sphinx lenin Last Line: A stage for salomech abundance %&and lenin's red sphinx head WORDS FOR JOE CARDARELLI First Line: Gone? Suddenly %gone? Just a moment ago Last Line: Once we got going WORDSWORTH BRIEFLY REVISITED First Line: Do you behold these sleep & lofty cliffs Last Line: & all its aching joys are now no more %as slips the book from hand to floor WORLD WORLD WORLD First Line: For a fistful of dollars Last Line: Inventor of the lightshow %continues with us %a beam in the system WRECK First Line: It became clear to him Last Line: A middle & an end WRONG CHANNEL Poem Text First Line: Old ez / more prophetic than he knew Last Line: Future planet / needs good tyrants Subject(s): Tyranny & Tyrants WRONG CHANNEL First Line: Old ez %more prophetic than he knew Last Line: Needs good tyrants YOU Poem Text First Line: Three times as many of you Last Line: As when I was born Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery YOUNG VOICE First Line: That's it we've had it Last Line: We write for our compadres %in the last chance saloon of the universe %but no no that's not it eithe YOUR FRIEND Poem Text First Line: He said this Last Line: Until the next try Subject(s): Friendship YOUR TURN Poem Text First Line: Dewdrop ode sweet licks Last Line: Make neurons dance in world muse impulse book Subject(s): Cities; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Urban Life ZOOMING; FOR TOM RAWORTH Poem Text First Line: She looked on him and Last Line: As yet unaware of its horrendous designs Subject(s): Romance |
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