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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: HOWE, FANNY Matches Found: 313 Howe, Fanny Poet's Biography 313 poems available by this author 9/11/2001 First Line: The first person is an existentialist Last Line: The third person is a materialist A HYMN Poem Text First Line: I traveled to the page where scripture meets fiction. Last Line: Flipping through sewers for a flash of christ Subject(s): Social Commentary ABOUT LONELY ANGELS, FR. PALMS ADVANCE OF THE FATHER First Line: From raindrenched homeland into a well the upturned animal Last Line: With the inhratiating stoop of those who came second in the world AFTER ALL WAS ARRANGED FOR DEPARTURE Last Line: Off the runway or step into their story AFTERWORD First Line: Thrice I croaked %before the sun was up Last Line: No facts, no laws to stop my fall APOPHATIC PATH First Line: What isn't what is Last Line: Even the base of me being, unknown AS A GUARD IN A BAGGY SUIT, FR. FRANKLIN PARK AT ROBESON STREET, FR. MISSION HILL AT THE LEVEL OF LAW ..., FR. JOY HAD I KNOWN BEFORE BASIC SCIENCE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: One cadaver said to the other Subject(s): Life BASIC SCIENCE First Line: One cadaver said to the other Last Line: Or sunburned back -- a weight %with properties that animate BATHROOM First Line: On certain days a sweat folds in over her, covering her, covering her as weathe Last Line: The naked eye. There is no escaping the universe BOURGEOISIE DESPISES POVERTY AND DENIES IT CULTURAL VALIDITY First Line: A trough inside the pacific ocean led to an onshore flow. Then high Last Line: Joke intended for someone else to laugh about BROWN RECLUSE WEARS A VIOLIN DESIGN Last Line: Lay in which to plan well and lose the gist BY HALVES Poem Text First Line: We are always half way there Last Line: On our way to such a communion Subject(s): Conduct Of Life CAUGHT IN A WAR OF YES AGAINST NO ..., FR. PALMS CENSOR RACE, FR. MISSION HILL CHILIAST First Line: It looks as if I have survived. I now stand poolside. The steam is never Last Line: Than under the ground ever? Are we all together now? Is this the end? CLOSE UP First Line: The orange flower on the other side of that pane Last Line: Written in light, in either case CONCLUSIVELY First Line: The night was almost too long to bear Last Line: Not far from a predawn holocaust %of travelling children DARK LINE AROUND THE SETTLEMENT Last Line: Sleeping in the light, a settling rather DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 1. First Line: After the storm the word water kept rising Last Line: By the hurricane. A ruined deck and dock, trees %uprooted from the heaving ground DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 10. First Line: After the storm, the long-limbed oak trees twist. Corkish Last Line: Together one night they hosed down his anger, and learned %that a wound is only the edge of self-awa DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 11. First Line: At the capitalist party, the eros of a dress suggesting tips Last Line: Gossip evolves like a sourball %growing smaller in a mouth DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 12. First Line: Apparatus, don't be embarassed by my life Last Line: What if winning is a sign of god's love? %what if women made men so mean? DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 13. First Line: When you eat alone you don't exist Last Line: Like the spaniel (the dog of invincible obsession) %you might stare fixedly into a water glass for h DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 14. First Line: Sometimes eros appears in sleeping ears as the prayers Last Line: Like foreskin. And you find yourself %entering the long loneliness DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 15. First Line: He held his bike between his thighs to contemplate Last Line: A people's army to rise against the problematics. %but anonymity is the true goal of my democracy DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 16. First Line: She could have backed up into the target of his anger's belly Last Line: What if the saints live in outer space? %what if a jesus does too? DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 17. First Line: After the storm, the sun is drying seaweed Last Line: And into the ears of babies, prayers %take a circular turn DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 18. First Line: Scissors cut up the tree's meat Last Line: The plutocrats is a goal for the underling %to play bone with DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 19. First Line: Now an asteroid the size of an island is heading towards Last Line: Who loves me better than the dog? %do women's thoughts really scatter? DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 2. First Line: Gloved and cycling, the worker leaves the house Last Line: Has been hellish. Compressed by the cosmos, not embraced, %he knows the dread that can't say yes DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 20. First Line: From the porch, across the grass stacked with firewood Last Line: Keep out the view of water. %it would drive them mad to see the power of water DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 21. First Line: After the storm, for her on the cliff, smoking Last Line: What if there is no escape from our ignorance? %what if there is no escape from existence? DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 22. First Line: A body's interior is a serpent studded with corruption Last Line: You are having the experience- %close to the surface - by which you usually live DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 23. First Line: There is no isthmus to chappaquiddick Last Line: Of night. Blue and silver lights %dip into the surface DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 24. First Line: I bet it's been computed Last Line: Of capitalism? Sink or swim. %what's the definition of apocalypse? Time DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 25. First Line: Let's start an anarchist party. The assassin folds up Last Line: In the stuffed feeling of being a person %except when he's empty, then greed is good DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 26. First Line: Meanwhile the servant woman, her hands in suds Last Line: What if I have to live this way for the rest of my life? %what if I never change? DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 27. First Line: If it was something corresponding to the ark Last Line: And if it was east to; %an island of socialists was DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 28. First Line: He said of his life so far: it was me and it was about me Last Line: My time was a mystery, but it was mine. %I wish I remembered more DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 29. First Line: The assassin crossed the unfinished palace Last Line: He was a kind of innocent wearing the vestments of sin. %my fathers were women, he was often saying DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 3. First Line: It's as if money's eyes are located inside a pyramid Last Line: Passing a blind couple walking, sighted child between. %hardluck stories are never boring DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 30. First Line: He knew to sit with his dish on one knee Last Line: To wash up after him. %let's not call it a party, but an army, he told her DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 31. First Line: It's the end of a year of slaughter Last Line: R the minds of humans are going to grow higher.... %as the water rises, so does the boat DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 32. First Line: Levels will be unaccountable in the windowless ark Last Line: Around such bondage? Slaves and babies, %zero eyes, the surprise of the good DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 33. First Line: After the storm, a fragile boat, welded to a wall Last Line: Becoming a garden ornament after a storm. %and if this is a ballad, its refrain is secret DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 34. First Line: Misery maintenance, cold pipe of the radiated Last Line: Of the heart to others. It's a via negativa: no way ever %tohave both an honorable and youthlike pow DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 4. First Line: After a storm there's a powerless period, when the word Last Line: Of the feet show. To begin again where? %near the pink dollop at the back of the tongue DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 5. First Line: The playing field is disheveled Last Line: Nothing tech can stay: rust of entropy edges even %a bloated bike tire laid out on a stump DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 6. First Line: The worker's mother was always seeking the problem Last Line: Is finding itself, there, in her eye. Enlightenment %is a level without measurement DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 7. First Line: The worker played king on a bike through seven gates Last Line: Melancholy wouldn't quit her till she hit the kitchen %and the dishes waiting to pay her DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 8. First Line: Summer of the linoleum tulips Last Line: Saws attacked the remnants of trees. Her psyche cracked %where a mirror made the candle brighter DEMOCRACY: CHAPTERS IN VERSE: 9. First Line: She is making a cake in the post-storm kitchen Last Line: For the conversion of workers to angels. %but only pure prayer makes the air into an ear DOUBT First Line: Virginia woolf committed suicide in 1941 when the german bombing Last Line: When history's things are working in your favor DOWN ROBESON STREET, AWAY, FR. FRANKLIN PARK EVERYTHING Poem Text First Line: Infinite nesting Last Line: Red moon at 3 am Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EVERYTHING'S A FAKE Poem Text First Line: Coyote scruff in canyons off mulholland drive. Fragrance of sage and rosemary, now Last Line: But a symptom nonetheless Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentary; California EVERYTHING'S A FAKE Poem Text First Line: Coyote scruff in canyons off mulholland drive. Fragrance of sage Subject(s): California EVERYTHING'S A FAKE First Line: Coyote scruff in canyons off mulholland drive. Fragrance of sage Last Line: There, a mild one, but a symptom nonetheless Subject(s): California FAST LANE OF A LIFE, FR. MISSION HILL FEEL THE MANIFEST AS A MAGNET Last Line: But the patter of real-music %and that will be you FINISH First Line: A fin siecle echoing fuck Last Line: To the free world or whatever it's called Variant Title(s): It Was No Drea FIRST A GREEN OPENING, FR. PALMS FOOTSTEPS Poem Text First Line: I have never arrived Last Line: Slave up, slave down Subject(s): Failure FOR NOT HAVING DIED YET, FR. JOY HAD I KNOWN BEFORE FRANKLIN PARK First Line: When snow falls on franklin park Last Line: Your emptiness will %come too, follow you from home and everywhere %the courage to suffer is missing FREE CHILD'S SWINGING, FR. FRANKLIN PARK GARCIA'S POPCORN, FR. MISSION HILL GOOD FRIDAY NIGHT First Line: Has my father abandoned me? Or what do I mean Last Line: I am falling to the end of the opening question. %outside its law Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOODBYE, POST OFFICE SQUARE First Line: Where wrought iron spears Last Line: One cathedral is equal to a sigh GRAY VICTORY, FR. MISSION HILL GRIEF YOU NAMED THAT TIME, FR. ROBESON STREET GULLS Recitation by Author HISPANIC NEON, FR. MISSION HILL HURON RED, THE MIST IN INNER CONNECTICUT Last Line: A mouthful of expletives I DIDN'T READ ENOUGH TO RECOGNIZE..., FR. ROBESON STREET I HAVE TO SAY IT ..., FR. PALMS I WAS BLIND UNTIL MY EYES WERE OPENED Last Line: It whets your appetite ICE Poem Text First Line: They say ice Last Line: Your liquor, your dog, but not your death Subject(s): Ice IN THE SPIRIT THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS: 1 First Line: God is already ahead and waiting: the future is full Last Line: Like a hand on a hand on an arm asking do you know me? IN THE SPIRIT THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS: 2 First Line: I feel the city grow wild with desire fertile Last Line: Now I know how to comfort a human like you %then I'd have held one IN THE SPIRIT THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS: 3 First Line: The first disappointment Last Line: That was the last one %a gate of a gift IN THE SPIRIT THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS: 4 First Line: The constant x Last Line: To everything else than x %is just as much more Variant Title(s): Onlie IN THE SPIRIT THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS: 5 First Line: The indivisble heavens Last Line: White trees, say. Cherry, if %not snow IN THE SPIRIT THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS: 6 First Line: Sister poverty, welcome to my cloister Last Line: Ups the odds that there's a why but, why IN THE SPIRIT THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS: 7 First Line: Some patios won't allow the shadow of a maid Last Line: Face to the wall and to hell with the soup IN THE SPIRIT THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS: 8 First Line: It was a night to be left alone Last Line: Sex, too, squeezes out a lot of pleasure %till nothing is left but the neck IN THE SPIRIT THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS: 9 First Line: Son the one who was also called sun Last Line: When the world takes up no space but I INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD: 1 First Line: I'd speak if I wasn't afraid of inhaling Last Line: And see far to: another earth, a place I might know INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD: 10 First Line: If you have to die Last Line: For the sun now in its feather in its blue building INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD: 11 First Line: When mirth sways like a mast Last Line: And concentrate on the consciousness %the sea comes out of INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD: 12 First Line: I'll pay and bow out Last Line: Creations, mine, which like women %look new in the court of god INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD: 2 First Line: Hide the name away in the secret Last Line: To those who raise what they value %out of reach until its magic INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD: 3 First Line: Sea mist surprises my heavy eyes Last Line: Like mathematics around a head %on rising a siesta INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD: 4 First Line: Small birds puff their chests and feathers Last Line: Now visualize heaven as everything around it INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD: 5 First Line: Concentrate on the top of the mast, father Last Line: Consciousness has nothing to do with me either %I'm just moving inside it, catch as catch can't INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD: 7 First Line: Come, tinkers, among droves of acorn trees Last Line: You who loved the people and the world %tell us our failings and if we're home INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD: 8 First Line: I am the people never so alone Last Line: The little into the day but run %like a heart blind to advice INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD: 9 First Line: The sea at last lies over this place Last Line: And the world in my eyes %is hardly a certainty IT WASN'T DAWN UNTIL THE COCK ..., FR. ROBESON STREET IT'S CLOUDY DOWN SOUTH THICKENING, FR. ROBESON STREET JOY HAD I KNOWN: 1 First Line: There's a lot of the west Last Line: Those nearest the palace laugh hardest JOY HAD I KNOWN: 2 First Line: Nothing in life is so exciting Last Line: Matching and watching the eros of the universe JOY HAD I KNOWN: 3 First Line: Outside snow decays the country Last Line: When I hear your voice say joy %had I known before LET IT SNOW Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Let it snow unless it is in heaven Last Line: Winter dinner bell Subject(s): Snow LINES OUT TO SILENCE: 1 First Line: How long I've waited, I can't count Last Line: Take the walk home with me LINES OUT TO SILENCE: 10 First Line: I may never see the vatican or troy Last Line: Just once-o universe-one more time LINES OUT TO SILENCE: 2 First Line: No more cinders, the cellar water is iced over Last Line: Like a ribbon of a childhood's hair in soap? LINES OUT TO SILENCE: 3 First Line: Amber is a folssilized resin, yellow Last Line: Where two can't lock together LINES OUT TO SILENCE: 4 First Line: Trailing the bill of a mallard Last Line: The path turned forever %it was that uncertain LINES OUT TO SILENCE: 6 First Line: Dry is the word for a life of solitude Last Line: One who has attended history intact %is only an ornament LINES OUT TO SILENCE: 6 First Line: Blue river, icy sunk Last Line: Then an afterlife won't be enough LINES OUT TO SILENCE: 7 First Line: Snow be in this time with us as music Last Line: It brings no surprise LINES OUT TO SILENCE: 8 First Line: But if %never happened Last Line: Unknown, unowned LINES OUT TO SILENCE: 9 First Line: Like the ghost of a woman from ruin Last Line: Ten years ago six months from now LOOKING UP First Line: Tonight belongs to expertise Last Line: Of god - safer among the stars %than the roses here in arabia are LOVE ESSAYS, IN THE FORM OF EROS, FR. ROBESON STREET LOW ROAD First Line: Soon she headed into the wind. Sepulveda boulevard would lead Last Line: Past the end of their lives to the reccling center with her daily bag %of cans MENACE First Line: Lonely gondolas blacken canals Last Line: The fruit has fallen, the leaf is stiff. %alleluiah, alleluiah MY BROKEN HEART Poem Text First Line: On the 85th night of 19-- there were 280 days left in the year Last Line: Am I really better at being crushed than I was before? Subject(s): Disappointment MY BROKEN HEART First Line: On the 85th night of 19 -- there were 280 days left in the year Last Line: Am I really better at being crushed than I was before? MY SONG, MY ONLY SONG GOES: First Line: One is my lucky number! Her sneakers were wearing down to two Last Line: These were written in the earthball under her body's weight, where %she was pleased to keep them MY WORK WAS MY DELIGHT ALONGSIDE, FR. ROBESON STREET NEVER STOP AT A MOTEL WHERE SOME ..., FR. ROBESON STREET NO TIME SPENT ON FICTION, FR. ROBESON STREET NOT AS MUCH Poem Text First Line: Bracken and primrose Last Line: With her breasts Subject(s): Women; Clothing & Dress NOTHING IN LIFE IS SO ..., FR. JOY HAD I KNOWN BEFORE NURSERY First Line: The baby was made in a cell Last Line: O animation! O liberty! O'CLOCK Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You float inside your water Subject(s): Time; Leaves; Water O'CLOCK: 1 First Line: After this girl was grown Last Line: Where my body went O'CLOCK: 10 First Line: The dirt feels sweet Last Line: Cool grass is your nurse, and sandalwood O'CLOCK: 11 First Line: The slits should be blue Last Line: But what isn't a lie O'CLOCK: 12 First Line: Soft fist of feathers Last Line: Inexactly, from trees O'CLOCK: 12:04 First Line: Hive-sized creams are on the chestnut tree Last Line: To gaze at the feast at her waist Variant Title(s): O'clock: O'CLOCK: 12:35 First Line: They stop to read the sky, the boys Last Line: When a heart is cold (inside and deep ) %it means it's ripe O'CLOCK: 13 First Line: Clotted cream and heather, bronte way to heavenshire Last Line: A sun is running the world O'CLOCK: 13:22 First Line: If a cloak with two hands Last Line: Is under your foot, your number's up O'CLOCK: 14 First Line: Under sky that is water Last Line: And four lie still. All gone wild O'CLOCK: 15 First Line: Rain -- red rhododendron tree Last Line: Inside me, the way elsewhere O'CLOCK: 16 Poem Text First Line: Where twigs are breaking stones Subject(s): Experience O'CLOCK: 16 First Line: Where twigs are breaking stones Last Line: Half of every experience is lack of experience Subject(s): Experience O'CLOCK: 17 First Line: Parent above, look down and see Last Line: Into an interstate between work and wine O'CLOCK: 18 First Line: A red shirt for anarchy Last Line: Then why this fear of men O'CLOCK: 19 First Line: Into the forest I went walking -- to get lost Last Line: Human was god's secret name O'CLOCK: 19:40 First Line: Set golden butter out in a dish Last Line: Give me your heart, your soul, your body. %then see O'CLOCK: 19:44 First Line: You must be pulled along Last Line: In and out, in and out...And fairy-blast O'CLOCK: 2 First Line: Go on out but come back in Last Line: Past? Present? Future? No such things O'CLOCK: 20 First Line: Rambling snowmounds and still sheep along Last Line: Land pays the price for becoming human O'CLOCK: 21 First Line: You float inside your water Last Line: Whoever acts, divides O'CLOCK: 22 First Line: I feel like the end Last Line: No, I mean wild! O'CLOCK: 23 First Line: You travel a path on paper Last Line: And how did you find the way -- with your mind %your only measure O'CLOCK: 24 First Line: Welcome television to this rug-ruined room Last Line: To know anything new is to know it as known O'CLOCK: 26 First Line: When was when Last Line: By the end and then found %to be true again O'CLOCK: 27 First Line: The edge of the dome is slipping Last Line: And no answers, please, to any of my questions O'CLOCK: 28 First Line: Sometimes a goodbye Last Line: Your nerves %reverses O'CLOCK: 29 First Line: From the bray of gray donkeys Last Line: And there I am finally safe %in the sensorium of drum O'CLOCK: 3 First Line: A full irish breakfast Last Line: This condition is called 'the future' O'CLOCK: 30 First Line: Prosaic poetry -- an animal Last Line: Grew closer to the glaze %of their associations O'CLOCK: 31 First Line: Production continues into the alienated night Last Line: Emotional time is what is irrevocable O'CLOCK: 32 First Line: Wild garlic flowers Last Line: But more lonely from breathing O'CLOCK: 33 First Line: The limits have wintered me Last Line: And I remember my office, sufficiency O'CLOCK: 34 First Line: The stain of blackberries near marx's grave Last Line: Guerilla war, terror: %the tactics for landless neo-realists O'CLOCK: 35 First Line: Hello eternal life in the light Last Line: Fertile as worms? Headless? O'CLOCK: 36 First Line: Bracken by the tracks Last Line: Return to their newly multiplied beds %in spark and lead O'CLOCK: 37 First Line: I often believe that nothing can be lost Last Line: Will lift their weights -- evidence that -- attachments survive through space O'CLOCK: 38 First Line: When one more means one less, you are a drudge Last Line: Because the divinity of yesterday %divides you from the evidence O'CLOCK: 39 First Line: He was a cold-hearted saxon Last Line: These are the dangerous ones O'CLOCK: 4 First Line: Every glance works its way to infinity Last Line: And air gets into everything. %even nothing O'CLOCK: 40 First Line: So leave the field Last Line: Becomes a thicket %crawling with roses in a halo of losses O'CLOCK: 41 First Line: If you mess up, run to the west Last Line: There you grow strong and fertile as a slum O'CLOCK: 42 First Line: Moon ink is too bright to read Last Line: That you can't disprove %because it doesn't move O'CLOCK: 43 First Line: Inked-in %nerve endings Last Line: Known by no one but who's in O'CLOCK: 45 First Line: In envy's carriage there's a witness Last Line: But one little head goes everywhere whining O'CLOCK: 46 First Line: There is a city of terror where Last Line: Symbols -- symptoms -- no difference %in the leap to belligerence O'CLOCK: 47 First Line: Late afternoon -- the shadows lengthen Last Line: It was a pre-christian transaction: %no value in facts O'CLOCK: 48 First Line: Spring wind blows trumpet Last Line: Complex indications for one she %stuck in a century O'CLOCK: 49 First Line: Pass the small churchyard hamlet Last Line: Huge golden torches on the way to finbar's ashes O'CLOCK: 4:15 First Line: I have backed up Last Line: I have been out - cold - too - long enough Variant Title(s): O'clock: 4 O'CLOCK: 4:27 First Line: Unmanned ship - a bed Last Line: Not here - not there - but always between Variant Title(s): O'clock: 5 O'CLOCK: 51 First Line: Nuns, monks and swamis Last Line: Prefers indifference %or thinks it does O'CLOCK: 53 First Line: Sallying off to the pub Last Line: But those were motives, not a defense O'CLOCK: 54 First Line: Herds of deer wander -- their heads like wand Last Line: Almost every prediction has come to fruition O'CLOCK: 55 First Line: A war occurred in the vicinity Last Line: I' in that hibernia of math, no mothers O'CLOCK: 56 First Line: On azure seats Last Line: Choose mystery. So far, god, this may be my last %book of unreconstructed poetry O'CLOCK: 57 First Line: I won't be able to write from the grave Last Line: And the short northern lights O'CLOCK: 58 First Line: Most of the continent Last Line: Will sog the paths the closer they get %to the sea. The day should end O'CLOCK: 6 First Line: Like a sheep sweating inside Last Line: And I associate O'CLOCK: 7 First Line: I suffer from ire, it's electric Last Line: Seeking cures made of poison, asp O'CLOCK: 8 First Line: Next time I'll travel by dream Last Line: The twelfth century was when? O'CLOCK: 9 First Line: Minister to my friends, saint peregrine Last Line: Then fold back my unbelief %as you did my sheets O'CLOCK: FEBRUARY FOUR First Line: Iced stones in a nice hotel Last Line: The spirit unfolds to the animal of its form Variant Title(s): O'clock: 2 O'CLOCK: FEBRUARY LATE First Line: Converse airwaves %flail the sea where a trough meets high water Last Line: Then I can try regular sound, and then no sound Variant Title(s): O'clock: 5 ON ROBESON STREET, THE RED OAK TREES, FR. ROBESON STREET ON SAVING HISTORY First Line: About saving history, karl rahner wrote Last Line: It would be good to know them %as one and the same ONE CROSSED OUT First Line: The walk up la breaking to the hills Last Line: The pearls will roll, you'll see ONE NIGHT IN BALTHAZAR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The hotel bar downstairs Last Line: As if he was the one Subject(s): City & Town Life OUTREMER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Some people wish to leave this earth Last Line: I know, because he walked at my side for a short time Subject(s): Conduct Of Life OUTSIDE SNOW DECAYS ..., FR. JOY HAD I KNOWN BEFORE OXFORD Poem Text First Line: Homeless and never sadder, Last Line: The book is out of print Subject(s): Oxford, England; Books & Reading PARALLEL First Line: Never out of, or into time so deep, as to justify staying this close Last Line: It's like she doesn't look out the window. %she looks at what's on the window PERFECTION AND DERANGEMENT First Line: Dirt road down a slope in spring the trees are spackled with white Last Line: Was promised to us somewhere along the line PERMANENT - FOR LIFE ..., FR. FRANKLIN PARK PLUTOCRACY First Line: After the storm the word water kept rising Last Line: He tells her she has done it already POEM FOR POTENTIAL First Line: All-sufficing person POEM FROM A SINGLE PALLET: 1 First Line: The wildness of the flower is all in the tone Last Line: An indifferent shoulder (rocks) raised to dim %the passionate voice POEM FROM A SINGLE PALLET: 2 First Line: Three bags of gold, a fairytale Last Line: Till the weight of it breaks POEM FROM A SINGLE PALLET: 3 First Line: But I, too, want to be a poet Last Line: Of the poetic line %and no visible recompense PROXIMITY OF PRAYER, FR. MISSION HILL Q: 1 First Line: We moved to be happy Last Line: It carried us down like storm-driven gulls %to this crash that we call a city Q: 10 First Line: The neo-neolithic urban nomad school of poetry Last Line: To the other side that multiplies %the interior matter Q: 11 First Line: I light up the grids Last Line: The final product %that's why I'm happy Q: 12 First Line: A little clover's on autumn leaves Last Line: Favor the ghost over the father, maternalist Q: 2 First Line: One black wing was blowing down the road Last Line: Our caravan has sought a remedy for memory %by moving over the same path Q: 3 First Line: Snow rises as it falls Last Line: Roads end where only trees greet them %like brides in a terrified feminine dress Q: 4 First Line: I was sick of my wits Last Line: I had to keep moving the books around Q: 5 First Line: After a good beatinf on a cold day Last Line: And I really hoped %the hoping was over Q: 6 First Line: Creation was the end that preceded means Last Line: Incorporated and diminished images %into little packages Q: 7 First Line: Heaven has been my nation-state Last Line: The never-quite-but-hinted-at %attention of a thee Q: 8 First Line: Lambs don't fight being itinerant Last Line: Patented in blue yes as food and clothing %for persons and their furniture Q: 9 First Line: Wherever I am becomes an end Last Line: Turns the wilds into a resolution QUIETEST: 4 First Line: The holy one called Last Line: When I taste 'god' I taste bread QUIETEST: 5 First Line: What does serpent mean? Last Line: Daily says 'divine' QUIETEST: 6 First Line: Sex is made on a bed which is too loose Last Line: Will die if there is no pain QUIETEST: 7 First Line: Zero built a nest Last Line: And its pleasure is its own QUIETEST: 8 First Line: When she was alone in her cell, she didn't exist Last Line: Off the runway, or step into their story QUIETIST: 1 First Line: Mad god, and thought Last Line: Compulsion to die QUIETIST: 2 First Line: Two waters -- squared Last Line: Pleasure bloodies his underskin %thin skin QUIETIST: 3 First Line: My bedclothes were stuffed with ashes Last Line: For my asylum %was myself REASON FOR THE PALM, FR. PALMS REMEMBER Poem Text First Line: Where the great titanic Last Line: Than the block of ice Subject(s): Titanic (ship) ROBESON STREET: 1 First Line: The moon is moving away Last Line: Solitary, I set up a night fork %and face the materials ROBESON STREET: 2 First Line: A blight was on the oaks Last Line: Through leaves which naturally dizzied and fell ROBESON STREET: 3 First Line: Flamingo pink on the chimney stacks Last Line: I'd still have only one history ROBESON STREET: 4 First Line: When snow falls on franklin park Last Line: Over the edge of dried myrtle and beech %leaves. Cars whir and curse ROBESON STREET: 5 First Line: Away from the park and zoo Last Line: But it's just he said, we got used to being ROBESON STREET: 6 First Line: Pushing children in plaid & silver prams Last Line: What for what for, we cawed outside %as in bare trees, too plain to see ROBESON STREET: 7 First Line: In the sylvan section of the old zoo Last Line: Me and the kids are looking to go home now SAVING HISTORY: 1 First Line: Unable to rest because unable to know Last Line: What's left for you? Better to stand aside SCATTERED LIGHT First Line: White slides over %rows of windowed eyes Last Line: Is the most extreme caprice %a smashing of space SCRAPE AND BELL Recitation by Author SEA-GARDEN: 1 First Line: Bricks are stuck in earth Last Line: Says:'the voice makes a covenant %among the flowers and debts' SEA-GARDEN: 2 First Line: The human is a thing Last Line: Happy as yellow monochrome %the fragilest color among them SEA-GARDEN: 3 First Line: Among brick pots, buckets and rakes Last Line: Thin strips of clouds spill across watered yards, a nation %and spell jeshua...Liberation SEA-GARDEN: 4 First Line: The highway cuts through Last Line: So they could slip through the bars of a cage SEA-GARDEN: 5 First Line: Mother is often lop- %sided, her face like a cubist Last Line: Who asked, can I have a slave or two? SEA-GARDEN: 6 First Line: Rapture in exile -- paradox Last Line: Who can't die without a mother or a man SHE SAW FOUR WAYS AROUND THE REFUGE Last Line: Less words, more sound. %less nature, more words SLIDE Poem Text First Line: There is no bridge Last Line: This hoop-la, / condescended to SNOWFLAKES WHIRLED ..., FR. FRANKLIN PARK SOMETIMES I THINK YOU'LL NEVER ..., FR. ROBESON STREET SOMETIMES THE JOB GETS YOU AND SOMETIMES Last Line: Is knowing that there is no inner life SPLINTER First Line: When I was a child Last Line: And barely visible %(artificial) %two at a windowpane SPLINTER OF LUCK, FR. MISSION HILL SPRUNG OUT OF STICKS ..., FR. FRANKLIN PARK STAMP THE LOGOS ON THE AIR, FR. PALMS STARLET Poem Text First Line: That terrible day my heart took a blow that nearly killed Last Line: Do I know it's there at all? Subject(s): Disappointment; Actors & Actresses; Actresses STARLET First Line: That terrible day my heart took a blow that nearly killed Last Line: And if the time required to get there doesn't yet exist, how %do I know it's there at all? START First Line: When adam the billionth %called the sky's name Last Line: Before anyone answers to that name Variant Title(s): Note TELL ME WHAT IS ORDINARY Last Line: I'm drawing on the stimulant of panic THE ADVANCE OF THE FATHER Poem Text First Line: From rain drenched homeland into a well: the upturned animal Last Line: With the ingratiating stoop of those who came second in the world Subject(s): Relationships THE ANGELS Poem Text First Line: The lassitude of angels Last Line: Their suffering has brought Subject(s): Angels THE CENOTAPH Poem Text First Line: I want to leave this place Last Line: My pillow is my friend Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE DESCENT Recitation by Author THE HUT Poem Text First Line: Up the hill is a hut made of sound Last Line: It dwells in ashen buildings where the present sleeps Subject(s): Buildings & Builders THE LAW Poem Text First Line: There is a law against us Last Line: My respect for nature / and space Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys THERE ARE NO 'OTHERS' First Line: Outside the plant they walked hurriedly, she a few paces behind Last Line: When, as in dreams, the new and the equal know no evil THIRD WORD FROM THE EAST Poem Text First Line: In my sleep mohammed spoke Last Line: One can see the shape but not the face Subject(s): Prophecy & Prophets; Mohammed THREE PERSONS Poem Text First Line: The fields are infertile Last Line: There was never any other Subject(s): Mind, The TORN PARTS: THE STORY First Line: Was the discovery of a brother walking in a storm Last Line: I am the world, he said and left UNDAY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: From no nowhere not near the sea Last Line: Undoing would be undone UNDAY AT GLENSTAL ABBEY: 1 First Line: Ringing bells in winter churches Last Line: The stranger kin to the divine (sometimes) UNDAY AT GLENSTAL ABBEY: 2 First Line: In secret space-time the heart is a conductor Last Line: I will follow with my hands on a book I'm sure UNDAY AT GLENSTAL ABBEY: 3 First Line: From no nowhere not near the sea Last Line: Undoing would be undone UNDAY AT GLENSTAL ABBEY: 4 First Line: No one speaks after compline Last Line: Like wood with bullet-riddled wings UNDAY AT GLENSTAL ABBEY: 5 First Line: Just needed a place Last Line: Instructions on how to be good UNDAY AT GLENSTAL ABBEY: 6 First Line: Light I can't %but let me write Last Line: No holy talk confused us UNDAY AT GLENSTAL ABBEY: 7 First Line: I wrap my bones around my head Last Line: Without the body on it %(cataphatic) VETERAN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I don’t believe in ashes; some of the others do Last Line: The one that moves around each form Subject(s): Wind; Beliefs VETERAN First Line: I don't believe in ashes; some of the others do Last Line: The one that moves around each form VICTORY Poem Text First Line: There is no rescue mission where it isn’t freezing Last Line: Into hip-hop? Dunno—but it’s wonderful Subject(s): Youth; Social Commentary; City & Town Life VICTORY First Line: There is no rescue mission where it isn't freezing Last Line: Into hip hop dunno but it's wonderful VINEYARD: 1 First Line: To imitation england Last Line: She found her bird, they'd hung it there VINEYARD: 10 First Line: When home was a courthouse Last Line: To the door, the justice VINEYARD: 11 First Line: Liberty for the few Last Line: Wine colors contort on goblets VINEYARD: 12 First Line: Fog grays the skyline Last Line: Let no light in but refract it VINEYARD: 13 First Line: One dreams of a land with vines Last Line: And light in the service of loneliness VINEYARD: 14 First Line: The owners over the ocean sailed Last Line: Kill them while they're still alive VINEYARD: 15 First Line: Some selves are generous Last Line: They are given medication VINEYARD: 16 First Line: Since tears become stones Last Line: Pull on their gowns and shoes VINEYARD: 17 First Line: Love's body and mouth lie down together Last Line: And its smile %goes down. So does the sun VINEYARD: 2 First Line: By a bottle of fatigued blue flowers Last Line: Sitting recluse: woodsy: the hidden one VINEYARD: 3 First Line: In a workplace torn by a union Last Line: To the parents born with them VINEYARD: 4 First Line: Red x, correction. Red check, yes Last Line: But copy, copy, copy VINEYARD: 5 First Line: All night in the rain Last Line: Repeat the father's name: not-this-not-that VINEYARD: 6 First Line: When men wore overcoats Last Line: The real voice is inviolate VINEYARD: 7 First Line: The self is a servant only Last Line: Equality is not material %but x amount of soul VINEYARD: 8 First Line: To me the disobedient Last Line: He sat in last night turned towards her VINEYARD: 9 First Line: Now a daring blue heron Last Line: Is the most extreme caprice WALLS MAKE A SPACE THE OPPOSITE, FR. ROBESON STREET WHAT DID YOU SEE? Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I saw the shrouds of prisoners Last Line: And I recognize them! Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts WHEN I GET SCARED, FR. JOY HAD I KNOWN BEFORE WINTER DISTANCES Poem Text Recitation by Author Last Line: When all these books are turf Subject(s): Winter WORM RIDES BETWEEN WALLS Last Line: Pressed between emotions WOUNDS WERE BALMED, FR. PALMS WRECK OF THE 737 First Line: How did you get here Last Line: Executive into infinity YOU CAN'T WARM YOUR HANDS IN FRONT OF A BOOK BUT YOU CAN WARM YOUR HOP First Line: Feathers fluffed the ashtray bin at the bottom of the elevator Last Line: Out. My personal angel is my maid, said one to another, putting %down his rilke with a gentle smile YOU CAN?ÇÖT WARM YOUR HANDS IN FRONT OF A BOOK BUT YOU CAN WARM YOUR HOPES THERE Poem Text First Line: Feathers fluffed the ashtray bin at the bottom of the elevator. Feathers and a smeared Last Line: His rilke with a gentle smile Subject(s): City & Town Life YOU CHECK THE RIVER, I CHECK ..., FR. ROBESON STREET ZENO SAW, IN HIS LAW, FR. PALMS [SIC] First Line: If your shadow cant live at its full length then you suffer Last Line: By that look you are allergic to authority |
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