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Author: HULL, LYNDA Matches Found: 103 Hull, Lynda Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. 103 poems available by this author 1933 First Line: Whole countries hover, oblivious on the edge Last Line: That her father will live forever ABACUS First Line: No grand drama, only chinatown's incendiary glow Last Line: The sum of unguents, of healing roots, %a measure of time, a calculation beyond all worth ACCRETION First Line: Consider autumn ADAGIO Poem Text First Line: Across majestic boulevard, steam bath Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse ADAGIO First Line: Across majestic boulevard, steam bath Last Line: Slanted on the mantel showing a dove-gray sky %beginning to lighten, strangely, from within Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism AMULETS First Line: Riddled by seaworms, the figurehead's blind Last Line: Charms meant to cheat fate, to stay the journeyer %a little while longer, who'll never pass this way ARIAS, 1971 First Line: It was her hair I always noticed, rippling Last Line: I tell you, it was snowing AT THE WESTLAND First Line: The camera angle's high and dizzy Last Line: She wants to give him that. Let him have that AT THIRTY First Line: Whole years I knew only nights: automats AUBADE First Line: Below the viaduct, the 5:05's stiff wind snares AUTUMN, MIST First Line: This morning I took the wine from the sill BAR XANADU Poem Text First Line: A perfect veronica, invisible, scallops air Last Line: Riffling your skirt in the scent of blood oranges and sweat Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Prostitution; Disappointment; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Harlots; Whores; Brothels BAR XANADU First Line: A perfect veronica, invisible, scallops air Last Line: Gritty wind from andalusia %riffling your skirt in the scent of blood oranges and sweat BLACK MARE Poem Text First Line: It snakes behind me, this invisible chain gang Last Line: Terminal hotel, the world shuddering with trains Subject(s): Hotels; Love - Complaints; Disappointmenr; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses BLACK MARE First Line: It snakes behind me, this invisible chain gang Last Line: Terminal hotel, the world shuddering with trains BOOKKEEPER First Line: I know the way evening shawls the mirror CARNIVAL First Line: Sure the advertisements are full of advice. They beseech Last Line: Pots carefully arranged to catch the rain? Artifacts, %I swear to you, disappeared before my eyes CHARMED HOUR First Line: On the radio, gypsy jazz. Django reinhardt CHIFFON First Line: Fever, down-right dirty sweat Last Line: Essence, the heart surprised, dark and bitter CHINESE NEW YEAR Poem Text First Line: The dragon is in the street dancing beneath windows Last Line: He brings me ghost money Subject(s): New Year; Conduct Of Life CHINESE NEW YEAR First Line: The dragon is in the street dancing beneath windows Last Line: He brings me ghost money CONTAGION First Line: The air swamps, static, overheated COUNTING IN CHINESE First Line: Past midnight, september, and the moon dangles Last Line: I am cold and draw my sweater close. I discover %that I'm counting, out loud, in chinese CROSSING, 1927 First Line: A floating city of substance, of ether CUBISM, BARCELONA First Line: So easily you fall asleep, the room a cage of rain Last Line: In the subway, a few exotic feathers twisting in the wind. %but it won't be me, jack. It won't be me DENOUEMENT First Line: In the house, the emptied rooms, sand hushing Last Line: With shadow cupped in palms before applause DIAMONDS First Line: Only once had I seen the diamonds worn EDGEMONT: THE SWANS First Line: Next, the dull silk thwack of an umbrella opening. No, that Last Line: & bus tickets stain %their hands with minute, indigo numbers that show the fare FAIRY TALES: STEEL ENGRAVINGS First Line: Dusk after dusk, through the smoke of industry Last Line: By sheer volume, each girl might stay her departure FIAT LUX Poem Text First Line: Static from the radio stippled gray as anesthesia dream Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life FIAT LUX First Line: Static from the radio stippled gray as anesthesia dream Last Line: The city floated %distant and celestial, brutal in its own rung music Subject(s): Cities FITTING First Line: The room smelled of steam FLOATING WEDDING First Line: Awake she's wedded to the stranger FOR ANN First Line: The years have verdigrised the fallen leaves Last Line: Clicks open, and who is it now that enters FORTUNATE TRAVELLER First Line: Dazed and voluptuous, monroe sways through Last Line: I can't recall what we spoke of -- it meant so much FRUGAL REPASTS First Line: After the ribboning fever of interstate, after freight yards Last Line: Fired empty & clean. Better this immersion than to live untouched GATEWAY TO MANHATTAN First Line: Someone's saying it's almost time for the ambulance Last Line: And keep on paying. %wasn't this exctly what you wanted? HOLLYWOOD JAZZ Poem Text First Line: Who says it's cool says wrong Last Line: Here. Take my arm, walk with me Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians HOLLYWOOD JAZZ First Line: Who says it's cool says wrong Last Line: Here, take my arm. Walk with me Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians HOSPICE Poem Text First Line: Frayed cables bear perilously the antiquated lift Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness HOSPICE First Line: Frayed cables bear perilously the antiquated lift Last Line: Are shaken with rumor of this strange good fortune Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HOUSEKEEPING COTTAGES First Line: A tin flamingo rhumbas with a mermaid INSECT LIFE OF FLORIDA Poem Text First Line: In those days I thought their endless thrum Last Line: And dangerous as the human heart Subject(s): Florida; Family Life; Insects; Animals; Relatives; Bugs INSECT LIFE OF FLORIDA First Line: In those days I thought their endless thrum INVISIBLE GESTURES First Line: The way geodes can be cracked to reveal ears JACKSON HOTEL Poem Text First Line: Sometimes after hours of wine I can almost see Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses JACKSON HOTEL First Line: Sometimes after hours of wine I can almost see Last Line: So small I could cup her in my hands Subject(s): Hotels LITTLE ELEGIES First Line: I don't know if bonnard LOST FUGUE FOR CHET Poem Text First Line: A single spot slides the trumpet's flare then stops Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse LOST FUGUE FOR CHET First Line: A single spot slides the trumpet's flare then stops Last Line: Plunge beneath the still green waters of the grand canal Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music And Musicians LOVE SONG DURING RIOT WITH MANY VOICES; NEWARK, 1967 First Line: The bridge's iron mesh chases pockets of shadow Last Line: Like women bending through smoke %to burdens, singing terror, singing pity MAGICAL THINKING First Line: A woman, after an absence of many years, returns MAQUILLAGE First Line: After nestling champagne splits in ice Last Line: But that was long ago. I was only seventeen MIDNIGHT REPORTS Poem Text First Line: That's how billboards give up their promises Subject(s): Music, Rock; Rock & Roll MIDNIGHT REPORTS First Line: That's how billboards give up their promises Last Line: Blue the color of bruises, of minor regrets Subject(s): Music, Rock NIGHT WAITRESS Poem Text First Line: Reflected in the plate glass, the pies Subject(s): Music, Rock; Restaurants; Waiters & Waitresses; Rock & Roll; Cafes; Diners NIGHT WAITRESS First Line: Reflected in the plate glass, the pies Last Line: In wrinkles, in every fault %of this frail machinery Subject(s): Music, Rock; Restaurants; Waiters And Waitresses ONE NOTE TOLLING First Line: In the plaza, ornamental trees Last Line: The tears of the virgin were raining ONLY WORLD, SELS. ORNITHOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Gone to seed, ailanthus, the poverty Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians ORNITHOLOGY First Line: Gone to seed, ailanthus, the poverty Last Line: If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians PREPARING THE ESTATE SALE First Line: This woman, this marie brousseau REAL MOVIE, WITH STARS First Line: The tide foams in with its cargo of debris, and this man Last Line: These heavenly infernos, burning here above the sea RED VELVET JACKET First Line: It's almost biblical driving this midnight burning highway Last Line: Against this world burning ruthless, crucial & exacting REMINGTON First Line: It's hot - the evening could so easily erupt RIVER BRIDGE First Line: Winter, stepping into the night trolley Last Line: Someone said get out of town RIVERS INTO SEAS Poem Text First Line: Palaces of drift and crystal, the clouds Last Line: Adrift in the sea’s restless shouldering Subject(s): Travel; Seas; Rivers; Journeys; Trips RIVERS INTO SEAS First Line: Palaces of drift and crystal, the clouds Last Line: Adrift in the sea's restless shouldering SHORE LEAVE Poem Text First Line: She wears the sailor suit - a blouse with anchors Last Line: All night long over the sleek, impossible cars Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters SHORE LEAVE First Line: She wears the sailor's suit - a blouse with anchors Last Line: All night long over the sleek, impossible cars SLICK PACKAGES Poem Text First Line: When the supermarket flourescents threaten Last Line: Your net bag of sleek passages like a weapon Subject(s): Supermarkets SLICK PACKAGES First Line: When the supermarket fluorescents threaten SO MANY SWIMMERS First Line: Confettied to shreds, the last leaves darken Last Line: To the circling of cormorants inviolate, beyond %the coast of anything we know SPELL FOR THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF A MAGIC CARPET First Line: When the last commuter trains etch SPRING First Line: If only we'd arrived without history STAR LEDGER First Line: Almost time to dress for the sun's total eclipse Last Line: So each one stands within their own brief human orbit %whilethe world reverses, then slowly, recover STREET OF CROCODILES First Line: April's chill glistens this prospect Last Line: Everything damned, for everything human & lovely STUDIES FROM LIFE First Line: Soot-blackened, marble angels freeze Last Line: Translate, we might hear how the saint dwells %perpetual, the form of this hunger within SUITE FOR EMILY: 1. THE LETTER Poem Text First Line: Everywhere the windows give up nothing Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 1. THE LETTER First Line: Everywhere the windows give up nothing Last Line: And consume so they become the only world Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 2. HOLY CITY, CITY OF NIGHT Poem Text First Line: What is that general rule which tells Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 2. HOLY CITY, CITY OF NIGHT First Line: What is that general rule which tells Last Line: Spread stunned before me. These hands Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 3. COMBAT ZONE/WAR STORIES Poem Text First Line: The district's been demolished, sown with salt Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 3. COMBAT ZONE/WAR STORIES First Line: The district's been demolished, sown with salt Last Line: So we can make a street, so we can make a neighborhood Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 4. JAIL, FLAMES -- JERSEY 1971 Poem Text First Line: The psychic's globe whirls its winds: demons Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 4. JAIL, FLAMES -- JERSEY 1971 First Line: The psychic's globe whirls its winds: demons Last Line: At me & wanted to be me. And I didn't care Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 5. ADDRESS Poem Text First Line: Hello death angel, old familiar, old nemesis Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 5. ADDRESS First Line: Hello death angel, old familiar, old nemesis Last Line: Death I am tired of you Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 6. DARTMOUTH WOMEN'S PRISON, 1992 Poem Text First Line: Emily, delirium's your province Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 6. DARTMOUTH WOMEN'S PRISON, 1992 First Line: Emily, delirium's your province Last Line: Of voices winged over water, becoming %water, & gone Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 7. A STYLE OF PRAYER Poem Text First Line: There is a prayer that goes lord I am powerless Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 7. A STYLE OF PRAYER First Line: There is a prayer that goes lord I am powerless Last Line: Each fugitive moment the heaven we choose to make Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SYSTEM First Line: All week, floods throughout the south THE WINDOW Poem Text First Line: Streak of world blurred charcoal & scarlet, the el slows, Last Line: That thing which shines & doth so much torment us Subject(s): Identity; Conduct Of Life TIDE OF VOICES Poem Text First Line: At the hour the streetlights come on, buildings Last Line: The tide of voices pearling in our hands Subject(s): Love TIDE OF VOICES First Line: At the hour the streetlights come on, buildings UTOPIA PARKWAY Poem Text First Line: Marble steps cascade like stereopticon Last Line: Cyngus, the pleiades, one of the graces Subject(s): Bacall, Lauren; Carmichael, Hoagy (1899-1981); Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972) UTOPIA PARKWAY First Line: Marble steps cascade like stereopticon Last Line: Takes her place among the constellations, %cygnus, the pleiades, one of the graces UTSUROI First Line: Of course there's the rose %tranced across sun-warmed tile Last Line: Their fugitive spell over the tables, %over the traffic's sleek sussurrus VISITING HOUR Poem Text First Line: From the hospital solarium we watch row houses Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse VISITING HOUR First Line: From the hospital solarium we watch row houses Last Line: Shimmers as gulls unfold like riva's evening hands %across the sky, tremulous, endangered Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism VITA BREVIS First Line: Houseboats roll soft with morning's thin drizzle Last Line: Evening gardens drenched in the radiant %calm hue of chamomile, %this illusion of a universe, %a pro WINDOW First Line: Streak of world blurred charcoal & scarlet, the el slows Last Line: That thing which shines & doth so much torment us |
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