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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: JARMAN, MARK Matches Found: 238 Jarman, Mark Poet's Biography 238 poems available by this author A.M. FOG Poem Text First Line: Night’s afterbirth, last dream before waking Last Line: And knew. And switched the light on. Wide awake Subject(s): Fog; Religion; Haze; Theology A.M. FOG First Line: Night's afterbirth, last dream before waking Last Line: And knew. And switched the light on. Wide awake ADAGIO FOR STRINGS First Line: The miracle of living in the present Last Line: A true joy. I remember how it tasted AFTER DISAPPOINTMENT Poem Text First Line: To lie in your child’s bed when she is gone Last Line: Who finds you here and lies down by your side Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters AFTER DISAPPOINTMENT First Line: To lie in your child's bed when she is gone Last Line: Who finds you here and lies down by your side ALL DAY First Line: All fight on the cusp of summer Last Line: We were fighting. We had fought all day Subject(s): Quarrels ALL SHE REMEMBERS FROM HER LATIN CLASS First Line: All she remembers from her latin class Last Line: In the road is a well. It fills with tears. AS CLOSE AS BREATHING Poem Text First Line: He flicker doesn't know his call's not needed Last Line: "everything says back, ""I am present, too." Subject(s): God ASCENSION OF THE RED MADONNA First Line: She's been gone whenever I looked Last Line: The photographer's blinded plate, %appearing as nothing is everything Subject(s): Religion AT THE BROADWAY EXIT First Line: I rarely put the money out the window Last Line: I wish I hadn't said a thing about it AT THE ZANE GREY PUEBLO HOTEL First Line: What advice will she give him on the way AWAKENED BY SEA LIONS First Line: The 3 a.M. Firefight of neighborhood dogs BAD GIRL SINGING Poem Text First Line: She took her roommate's cash Last Line: But we yielded to her song Subject(s): Cheating; Singing & Singers; Songs BLACK RIVIERA First Line: There they are again. It's after dark Last Line: So insular, so quiet, it enters the earth BULGARIAN ICON OF THE LAST SUPPER Poem Text First Line: If they saw around his head and theirs the halo Last Line: As if to say: “just as you can eat at your house. Any night” Subject(s): Last Supper, The BUTTERFLIES UNDER PERSIMMON Poem Text First Line: I heard a woman Last Line: And wished I could be like that Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Desire; Envy BUTTERFLIES UNDER PERSIMMON First Line: I heard a woman %state once that because Last Line: In sun and shadow, %and wished I could be like that CALIFORNIA PASTORAL First Line: T-shirted and wing-tipped, in banana slacks Last Line: Along the warm white sidewalk, past our church, %and entered theirs where candles welcomed them CAVAFY IN REDONDO First Line: Our ruins run back to memory Last Line: No ghosts here, and that is our good fortune, %to give it all to the ocean, the troubled sleeper CHIMNEY SWIFTS Poem Text First Line: Throughout the winter, we once believed, they hid Subject(s): Nature CHIMNEY SWIFTS First Line: Throughout the winter, we once believed, they hid Last Line: Is part of the enchantment, %is to believe they feel it, too, and act Subject(s): Nature CLOUD SKETCH First Line: These clouds are the color of the gauze I saw Last Line: The sky, shicked, effervescent, in motion. June, %evening, weather fine CLUES TO DISPLACED PERSONS First Line: Old, heavy, engraved tabletops caught crumbs CREATOR First Line: Entering the silence, the quiet street Last Line: That made the things that made the things that made %the beginning, and the middle, and the end CUCKOO First Line: They cannot move, although the late light chills them CURE, AND ANECDOTE First Line: Once in southern indiana where the ohio DAYS OF '74 Poem Text First Line: What was the future then but affirmation Last Line: To that first word repeated all night long Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Erotic; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DAYS OF '74 First Line: What was the future then but affirmation DESCRIPTIONS OF HEAVEN AND HELL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The wave breaks Last Line: Don’t know what to say Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DIALECT Poem Text First Line: I can't remember the air, the light, the voices Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration DIALECT First Line: I can't remember the air, the light, the voices Last Line: Surveying burning blocks by helicopter Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DISPATCHES FROM DEVEREUX SLOUGH Poem Text First Line: Highwayman of the air, coal-headed, darting Last Line: And our paired silhouettes are waiting for us Subject(s): Birds DRESSING MY DAUGHTERS Poem Text First Line: One girl a full head taller Last Line: They cry, “it’s not my fault.” Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Clothing & Dress DRESSING MY DAUGHTERS First Line: One girl a full head taller Last Line: They cry 'it's not my fault' DROUGHT RAIN First Line: Rapturous, all day at the window Last Line: In sidewalk cracks and vacant lots, %like manger straw, pale as match flame EASY SERMON Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Sermons are easy Last Line: When the highest powers fall Subject(s): Sermons; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 ELEGY FOR REDONDO BEACH First Line: Before they lined the esplanade with lamps Last Line: After they drained our darkness %like a marsh EPISTLE (1) First Line: Easier to think about the body of the comet than the human body Last Line: Salvation, if it comes, will come to save that solitude EPISTLE (10) First Line: When the thief does come in the night, it is mid-afternoon on a sunny Last Line: This letter goes out with a list of things encoded that we still possess EPISTLE (2) First Line: Listening to you on the call in show yesterday, I knew that you were Last Line: From me EPISTLE (3) First Line: I have always thought the real world was wherever you could die and Last Line: Company here. There isn't any there EPISTLE (4) First Line: As soon as I left, your cities exploded. You began to slash and burn Last Line: About what it says. It contains my blessing EPISTLE (5) First Line: If god were not promiscuous, we would have no one to blame for our Last Line: Moment. God is with a lover, throwing his head back, wailing like a %woman giving birth EPISTLE (6) First Line: How urgently we try to put birth behind us, the union of microbes, that Last Line: Keep thinking this way and you may console yourself endlessly EPISTLE (7) First Line: I have lost my explanation for the divine plan Last Line: Know. And because of that-our knowing-something we do not know EPISTLE (8) First Line: One wants, the other wants Last Line: One thinks so. One hopes not EPISTLE (9) First Line: There is no formula for bliss, yet why not pretend there is? Begin with Last Line: Is turned into poetry.' say, 'god has committed you to memory' FIVE PSALMS Poem Text Recitation First Line: Let us think of god as a lover Last Line: Let us be faithful in another Subject(s): God; Relationships FOR THE BIRDS Poem Text First Line: When you wake up, raising the film over your eyes, in a hollow of boughs or bark, Last Line: Letters like this one are written, it is because we are Subject(s): Birds FORGOTTEN INFANCY, KENTUCKY First Line: Bats clumped in the yellow hall to the toilet Last Line: The abandon of their laughter when I woke FOX NIGHT First Line: What have I done to merit that regard Last Line: And wonder at the nature of the world FROM ANOTHER PLANET Poem Text First Line: Life here supports happiness as we know it Last Line: Your sun, a pa;e heartbeat, is our pole star Subject(s): Life GLIDERS First Line: They are after my time. I cannot understand Last Line: And certainly more permanent than one observer, claiming %tohave come home, then leaving GOOD FRIDAY First Line: Heat is what I imagine, dust and tension Last Line: Out in a rush, our love she takes as her own GOOD VOICES First Line: Sentence-sounds of our parents, babytalking Last Line: The voice of the involuntary heartbeat GOODBYE TO A POLTERGEIST Poem Text First Line: Like an empty socket alone Last Line: And sink like ribbons, absorbed by the air Subject(s): Solitude GOSSAMER First Line: Their architecture waits in the morning GRID First Line: I walk those streets tonight, streets named for gems Last Line: And the ones that wear them, named for spanish women, %themselves end on the edge of town with nothi GROUND SWELL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Is nothing real but when I was fifteen, Last Line: Where things began to happen and I knew it Subject(s): Teenagers; Sports; Surfing GROUND SWELL Poem Text Recitation First Line: Is nothing real but when I was fifteen Subject(s): Sports; Surfing GROUND SWELL First Line: Is nothing real but when I was fifteen Last Line: Where things begin to happen and I knew it Subject(s): Sports; Surfing HAWK First Line: Back from my long journey I am eager HOMING INSTINCT First Line: There we see him, driving Last Line: And mix it with his nerves, %and make it honey Subject(s): Cities IF I WERE PAUL Poem Text First Line: Consider how you were made. Last Line: Having read it, you will know that it contains my blessing Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN First Line: The children will be terrified, we know it Last Line: Though everything has been done IN HELL First Line: The anteroom was just a modern lobby Subject(s): Memory IN THE CLOUDS First Line: Simply by thinking I stood among the clouds. They surrounded Last Line: In the clouds, we have to take the earth with us INSIDE First Line: The night will be as plesant as the day Last Line: Than the day past, with its intimate sweet flesh, %and the night falling, with its closeness like a INSTANT First Line: That the name flies out of her memory Last Line: Of the slippery murk where she will have to pick %it out again INTERESTING TIMES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Everything’s happening on the cusp of tragedy, the tip of comedy, the pivot of event Last Line: Everyone in a minute will be somewhere else entirely. As the crow flies Subject(s): Life; Iraq War (2003-2011) INTERESTING TIMES First Line: Everything's happening on the cusp of tragedy, the tip of Last Line: Everyone in a minute will be somewhere else entirely. As %the crow flies IRIS: 1 First Line: The woman sat on the bus, her daughter's head in her lap Last Line: And the brittle comedian on %the tv chattered in agreement IRIS: 2 First Line: Iris found her mother and child another life, driving %sixty hours Last Line: And hears, before his voice can speak the words, iris %saying, I think it's time to go IRIS: 3 First Line: Now, she was free, as free as her ghosts - the ghost Last Line: The house where pain and pleasure had turned to poetry %and stone, and a family had been happy JEFFERS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: To raise a stump of rock into a tower, rolling a stone / in place as the years pass. Last Line: Loved ones reappear, and you will sleep Subject(s): Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962) LAST SUPPERS First Line: Loneliest when hung in a church annex Last Line: Would call down on their heads. When their eyes open, %they eat and drink and talk, at ease, in peac Subject(s): Last Supper, The; Religion LE TOUQUET First Line: If we could miss a ship every day LINE OF EUCALYPTUS First Line: They were no more to him than trees Last Line: In windbreak order, as if listening %to a child's story patiently LOS ANGELES Poem Text First Line: In that city we were perfect Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles; Urban Life LOS ANGELES First Line: In that city we were perfect Last Line: At times, we hover over, knowing, %helpless, looking on Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles LOST IN A DREAM First Line: When I drove the l. A. Canyon with a dead cat Last Line: He heard the baby snuffling and sputtering %and heard us saying, 'what a year this has been.' MAN WHO KNEW First Line: When the old man died he became as a little child MARY SMART First Line: When my mistakes flash back and half blind me Last Line: Less like a ghost, she said, than a figure of speech Subject(s): Death; Memory; Old Age; Peace MIRROR First Line: Outside is the untreed, tearless light Last Line: Years from now, my mother fixing my tie %in the front hall, turning me toward the mirror MISS URQUHART'S TIARA First Line: I know this can't mean anything at all Last Line: It took them pressing close to close the book MY PARENTS HAVE COME HOME LAUGHING Poem Text Recitation by Author Last Line: That seems not to be pain, and it comforts me Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood NASHVILLE MOON First Line: The moon is such a good thing to come back to Last Line: That might wake people who have long been buried NEXT WAR First Line: Time is all conditional nowadays NORTHERN INSOMNIA First Line: Passing out of rain into dull cloudlight Last Line: Showed a place already full of night, %a negative inscribed with wakefulness OBLIVION Poem Text First Line: While I was under Last Line: The same room you left Subject(s): Time OLD ACQUAINTANCE First Line: White throated sparrow, the century is beginning Last Line: We are counting on many things, including you OUTSIDE First Line: God says to adam and eve, this time nothing's forbidden Last Line: God reminds them, 'nothing is forbidden.' %they eat the fruit of forgetfulness, and forget PAIR OF TANAGERS First Line: The scarlet male, his green mate, their back wings Last Line: Together such a distance, to this end PAMPOCALIA First Line: Lately, I se a future Last Line: I see a future. I have not prepared %my children for the road to adel moor PAST FROM THE AIR: 1. THE FALL First Line: She holds her baby and steps into the air Last Line: Falling itself through space still hold her up PAST FROM THE AIR: 2. THE IRON First Line: The day blew in the window from the sea Last Line: Wind, gulls, my fever -- we were all believers PAST FROM THE AIR: 3. THE MOMENT First Line: Before the night-backed mirror of the window Last Line: And she smiles, but her revery has ended PAST FROM THE AIR: 4. PRAYING First Line: A wedge of morning sunshine bathes her hands Last Line: Her mind. He pities her. He cannot read PAST FROM THE AIR: 5. PATIENCE First Line: One of those days the traveller doesn't call Last Line: No word. No word. No word. No word. No word PAST FROM THE AIR: 6. THE APPARITION First Line: The old trees of the neighborhood are dying Last Line: How white our faces both were with distress PAST FROM THE AIR: 7. First Line: The view the book gives is anonymous Last Line: Would be more than a house. We leave it there PATRIARCH First Line: As he was recalcitrant near the end PRAYER FOR OUR DAUGHTERS First Line: May they never be lonely at parties Last Line: And be themselves again, both blessed and blessing PROVERBS First Line: Three things are too wonderful for me Last Line: My whole body is moving Variant Title(s): The Creature's Res PSALM: THE NEW DAY First Line: The new day cancels dread Last Line: To remember in the right order QUESTIONS FOR ECCLESIASTES Poem Text First Line: What if on a foggy night in a beachtown, a night when the pacific leans close Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration QUESTIONS FOR ECCLESIASTES First Line: What if on a foggy night in a beachtown, a night when the pacific leans close Last Line: People who needed urgently to hear it, god kept a secret Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RECKLESS FATHER First Line: A father can dissolve among the trees Last Line: Surely it was better to keep him driving REMEMBERED WEATHER First Line: Rained-out halloweens; foggy july fourths Last Line: And mother, a bright start swallowed up in mist SEA-FIG First Line: In my new country we will keep this plant SHRINE AND THE BURNING WHEEL First Line: On the way to the evening reading Last Line: A wheel of history turns, %and the boys burn the wheel SHYNESS OF THE MUSE IN AN ALMOND ORCHARD Poem Text First Line: The gray-green husks are opening. The wasps Last Line: But not that I was here, that he was lonely Subject(s): Farm Life; Solitude; Agriculture; Farmers SHYNESS OF THE MUSE IN AN ALMOND ORCHARD First Line: The gray-green husks are opening. The wasps SIGHTINGS First Line: An absence turned to presence is confusing Last Line: I was astonished, I could hardly speak %and wrote it all down afterward, in greek SKIN CANCER Poem Text First Line: Balmy overcast nights of late september Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore SKIN CANCER First Line: Balmy overcast nights of late september Last Line: For home that feels no different from health Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Seashore SOMEONE IS ALWAYS PRAYING AS THE PLANE First Line: Someone is always praying as the plane Last Line: The rockhard, rippled face of facelessness. SONNET: 1. THE WORD 'ANSWER' First Line: Lightning walks across the shallow seas Last Line: As dangerous as it is beautiful Variant Title(s): The Word "answer SONNET: 10 First Line: Have healed the flesh and changed the mind of weather Last Line: Or taken to what was what things always were SONNET: 11 First Line: This boy listening eagerly to his friend Last Line: Look for the sacred face inside that face Variant Title(s): Unholy Sonne SONNET: 12 First Line: God does not know, god is what is known Last Line: Consider things made by our loves and hates SONNET: 13 First Line: Blessedness - not only in a face Last Line: And the mask of meanness turns aside and winces SONNET: 14. IN VIA EST CISTERNA First Line: All she remembers from her latin class Last Line: In the road is a well. It fills with tears SONNET: 15 First Line: She is a cloud in her own sunny day Last Line: Into your hand and calculate its worth SONNET: 18. CYCLE First Line: Everything around the central meaning Last Line: Like everything around a central meaning SONNET: 2 First Line: Which is the one, which of the imps inside Last Line: About the things we speak of in our prayers SONNET: 21 First Line: Think of the harsh attire that god put on Last Line: Breathed in the comfort of a private van SONNET: 22 First Line: What will we give up in the after life Last Line: The thrill in scenting that first cup of coffee SONNET: 23 First Line: How long was their grief - so inconsolable Last Line: They were celebrating by the third day SONNET: 24 First Line: Breath like a house fly batters the shut mouth Last Line: How good it is to come back from the dead! SONNET: 26 First Line: Ray's body lies below a slab that states Last Line: To end the thing that he's begun to say SONNET: 3 First Line: Soften the blow, imagined god, and give Last Line: As he laughed and said he thought that he was stronger SONNET: 30. SIGHTINGS: DAMASCUS First Line: Headlong in your career, breathing out threatenings Last Line: You wouldn't know yourself - a vessel of grace SONNET: 30. SIGHTINGS: EMMAUS First Line: They're eating dinner with someone they loved Last Line: All of which tastes like joy and disbelief SONNET: 30. SIGHTINGS: KENOSIS First Line: An absence turned to presence is confusing Last Line: Filling his place as much or more than ever.' SONNET: 30. SIGHTINGS: PATMOS First Line: On a clear day you can see dark matter Last Line: And wrote it all down afterwards, in greek SONNET: 32 First Line: There is a law outside the daily racket Last Line: The law inside the law inside the law SONNET: 33 First Line: Lord, spare me from the drowsiness that starts Last Line: The goading preoccupation of a lifework SONNET: 34 First Line: Although I know god's immanence can speak Last Line: Till, marking this blank page, I found a way SONNET: 35 First Line: The yellow blister wears a ring of red Last Line: Until the final silence and its cause SONNET: 37 First Line: I can't do more than this. I can't do less Last Line: That blunts immortal and industrial diamonds SONNET: 39 First Line: Which ones should I believe among the voices Last Line: And makes me wonder what it's laughing for SONNET: 4 First Line: I think of gosse, watching his father paint Last Line: Pry open the mute heavens like a bivalve SONNET: 40 First Line: History happening and people living Last Line: Gossip of sweet delight and endless night SONNET: 42 First Line: Instead, you can walk backwards into life Last Line: Or that someone somewhere knows where you are headed SONNET: 45 First Line: He passes through the rolled-up warehouse door Last Line: Of emptiness and fullness, like a sky. %larry lewis, 1946-1996 SONNET: 46. NASHVILLE MOON First Line: The moon is such a good thing to come back to Last Line: That might wake people who have long been buried SONNET: 47 First Line: I laid it out, how a would beat its wings Last Line: He paused for breath, then whispered, 'have a plan.' SONNET: 48. THE WORLD First Line: The world works for us and we call it grace Last Line: And when the world works, we still call it grace SONNET: 6 First Line: Outside my door I keep an angel chained Last Line: As when he comes and pleads with me in dreams SONNET: 8 First Line: He loads his weapons, but the lord god sees him Last Line: Which you and I would squander with a scream Variant Title(s): Unholy Sonne SONNET: 9 First Line: Someone is always praying as the plane Last Line: The rockhard, rippled face of facelessness SPELL FOR ENCANTO CREEK Poem Text First Line: Tall blades of tufted grasses, keep on flowing. Last Line: Keep them returning, keep them coming back Subject(s): Nature STARS First Line: I signed up for astronomy in college Last Line: To give up to your peace, turned by love STORY HOUR First Line: What were they saying, the storytellers STRATFORD-UPON-AVON BUTTERFLY; FARM AND JUNGLE SAFARI First Line: Eight-inch wings, gray, folded, within reach Last Line: And life itself, remember, tomorrow and tomorrow. %so that we cry though not aloud, to sleep again SUPREMES First Line: In ball's market after surfing till noon Last Line: From that height they still look frail and frozen, %full of simple sweetness and repetition Subject(s): Music, Rock; Supremes, The (singing Group) TESTIMONY AND POSTSCRIPT First Line: Once I was someone coming out of the dark THE BLACK RIVIERA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There they are again. It's after dark. Last Line: So insular, so quiet, it enters the earth Subject(s): Youth; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin THE CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: The children are hiding among the raspberry canes. Last Line: Veiled and humming, soon enough Subject(s): Childreb; Nature THE DESIRE OF WATER Poem Text First Line: Caught and composed, motionless blue, behind Last Line: Rise toward the dam's lip too much for flood gates Subject(s): Dams THE HOMING INSTINCT Poem Text First Line: There we see him, driving Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE SAME CLAY Poem Text First Line: You have it in oregon Last Line: Gigantic , immoveable Subject(s): Time THE SUPREMES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In ball's market after surfing till noon Subject(s): Music, Rock; Supremes, The (singing Group); Rock & Roll THEY SAW THE PROBLEM Poem Text First Line: How do you turn into a flower of the field, Last Line: More than a lifetime to construct that airport Subject(s): Flowers THIS WAY Poem Text First Line: It could have happened this way Last Line: The warm night enters Subject(s): Male-female Relationships THOUGH WE NO LONGER POSSESS IT Poem Text First Line: Would you know me, my body at least Last Line: Though we no longer possess it Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THREE THOUSAND First Line: They will never stand again in the kitchen before bedtime and eat cold Last Line: And no matter how vigilant we try to be, we will die, too, and forget %them TO THE POINT Poem Text First Line: I don't want to get that far, only to where Last Line: Let's let it keep coming Subject(s): Relationships TO THE TREES First Line: How do you feel as you rear up or hunch over to seek sunlight? Last Line: Rain, showing a face of turquoise TO ZOE, BEGINNING WINTER First Line: The ground, hard as a board this morning, thrusts up Last Line: In glory all at once -- but warily TODAY IS FRESH, AND YESTERDAY IS STALE. Last Line: That turns the ash of yesterday to flesh TRANSFIGURATION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: They were talking to him about resurrection, about law, Last Line: He was transfigured by resistance, as he listened, / and they talked TRANSFIGURATION First Line: They were talking to him about resurrection, about law Last Line: He was transfigured by resistance, as he listened %and they talked UNCLE TENOR First Line: He arrived with the lemon tree UNHOLY SONNET Poem Text First Line: After the praying, after the hymn-singing Last Line: Intact. There is still murder in your heart Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Religion; Theology UNHOLY SONNET Poem Text First Line: Breath like a house fly batters the shut mouth Last Line: How good it is to come back from the dead! Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 UNHOLY SONNET Poem Text First Line: Ray's body lies below a slab that states Last Line: To end the thing that he'd begun to say Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Future Life; Coffins; Retribution; Eternity; After Life UNHOLY SONNET Poem Text First Line: There is a law outside the daily racket, Last Line: The law inside the law inside the law Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Conduct Of Life UNHOLY SONNET Poem Text First Line: Think of the harsh attire that god put on Last Line: Breathed in the comfort of a private van Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 Subject(s): God UNHOLY SONNET Poem Text First Line: Please be the driver bearing down behind Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 UNHOLY SONNET First Line: In which of these details does god inhere Last Line: Telling her son, who cried for help, good luck Variant Title(s): Sonnet: UNHOLY SONNET First Line: I'll bet the final reckoning's like this Last Line: And blank as lethe and the river styx Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 2 UNHOLY SONNET First Line: Here is the soul. He pointed to a place Last Line: And if there was a wound, my soul would fill it Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 2 UNHOLY SONNET First Line: Fallen persimmons among the dew-bent grasses Last Line: And, change the world around you once a year Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 4 UNHOLY SONNET First Line: A living room. Gray walls and carpet, light Last Line: And someone else sees with them after that Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 1 UNHOLY SONNET First Line: I need an image for the soul and choose Last Line: Choose something else entirely if I could Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 3 Subject(s): Bodies UNHOLY SONNET First Line: The thin end of the wedge thrusts underneath Last Line: You have to want this miracle to occur Variant Title(s): Sonnet: UNHOLY SONNET First Line: The gift for all our waking in this life Last Line: Is, said the man, a dreamless, mindless sleep Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 4 Subject(s): Life; Sleep UNHOLY SONNET First Line: He will not let us blame him easily Last Line: He'd tell us that the aftermath is love Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 3 UNHOLY SONNET First Line: Who am I talking to when I say, 'you Last Line: And then I credit you as my creator UNHOLY SONNET First Line: One model asks another, 'what do you eat?' Last Line: Eating down to the perfume of your wrist Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 2 Subject(s): Food And Eating UNHOLY SONNET First Line: I laid it out, how a would beat its wings Last Line: He paused for breath, then whispered, 'have a plan.' UNHOLY SONNET First Line: Please be the driver bearing down behind Last Line: And see you face to face, and say, 'my lord!' Variant Title(s): Please Be The Driver Bearing Down Behin Subject(s): Automobiles; Racing UNHOLY SONNET First Line: Put on the costume jewelry and chapeau Last Line: If nothing is sacred, we can worship it Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 3 UNHOLY SONNET First Line: Nothing but pleasure in the bottle's voice Last Line: As butter and olive oil, only pleasure watches Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 2 Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking UNHOLY SONNET 1 Poem Text First Line: Dear god, our heavenly father, gracious lord Last Line: Solve nothing but the problems that I set Subject(s): God UNHOLY SONNET 11 Poem Text First Line: Half asleep in prayer I said the right thing Last Line: Once was enough to be dissatisfied Subject(s): Religion; Prayer; Theology UNHOLY SONNET 13 Poem Text First Line: Drunk on the umbrian hills at dusk and drunk Last Line: Our bodies, bread, a sharp umbrian wine Subject(s): God; Nature UNHOLY SONNET 4 Poem Text First Line: Amazing to believe that nothingness Last Line: Itself in absence, which the stars adore Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed UNHOLY SONNET: 20 Poem Text First Line: One model asks another, 'what do you eat?' Last Line: Eating down to the perfume of your wrist Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Food & Eating; Resurrection, The; Jesus Christ UNHOLY SONNET: 25 Poem Text First Line: Nothing but pleasure in the bottle's voice Last Line: As butter and olive oil, only pleasure watches Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Pleasure; Food & Eating; Wine UNHOLY SONNET: 44 Poem Text First Line: The gift for all our waking in this life Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 UNHOLY SONNET: 9 Poem Text First Line: Someone is always praying as the plane Last Line: As butter and olive oil, only pleasure watches Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Prayer UNHOLY SONNETS First Line: Someone is always praying as the plane Last Line: Or love the world away from making war %or taken to what was what things always were Subject(s): Prayer UNHOLY SONNETS: 1 First Line: Dear god, our heavenly father, gracious lord Last Line: Solve nothing but the problems that I set UNHOLY SONNETS: 1 First Line: What a fine new shirt his wife has given him Last Line: That pop him open like a purple fig Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Marriage UNHOLY SONNETS: 10 First Line: Time to admit my altar is a desk Last Line: And speak as soon as I can find a voice UNHOLY SONNETS: 11 First Line: Half asleep in prayer I said the right thing Last Line: Once was enough to be dissatisfied UNHOLY SONNETS: 12 First Line: There was a pious man upright as job Last Line: Just something about you pisses me off UNHOLY SONNETS: 13 First Line: Drunk on the umbrian hills at dusk and drunk Last Line: Our bodies, bread, a sharp umbrian wine UNHOLY SONNETS: 14 First Line: After the praying, after the hymn-singing Last Line: Intact. There is still murder in your heart UNHOLY SONNETS: 15 First Line: A useful god will roost in a bird-box Last Line: A god like that can make the nighttime hell UNHOLY SONNETS: 16 First Line: We drove to the world's end and there betrayed Last Line: Did we have something to compare it with UNHOLY SONNETS: 17 First Line: God like a kiss, god like a welcoming Last Line: And god the secret neither one is keeping UNHOLY SONNETS: 18 First Line: In civilization and its discontents Last Line: But not before they're brought to execution UNHOLY SONNETS: 19 First Line: I swat him in the face and hope that nothing Last Line: Discovered at the moment you are lost UNHOLY SONNETS: 2 First Line: Hands folded to construct a church and steeple Last Line: Is being locked inside another hand UNHOLY SONNETS: 2 First Line: And if when he returned he found his mother Last Line: Is that he'd rather see her safe in heaven Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 1 UNHOLY SONNETS: 2 First Line: The devil comes on the air waves, crooning Last Line: Or change the channel, let alone my life Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 1 Subject(s): Devil UNHOLY SONNETS: 20 First Line: If god survives us, will his kingdom come? Last Line: We'll greet him as the children would have done Variant Title(s): If God Survives Us, Will His Kingdom Come UNHOLY SONNETS: 3 First Line: Balaam upon his ass was unaware Last Line: I need a metaphor to sleep tonight UNHOLY SONNETS: 3 First Line: We crowded in the taxi. It was dawn Last Line: And I knew this was hell and I was dead Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 2 Subject(s): Death; Hell UNHOLY SONNETS: 4 First Line: Amazing to believe that nothingness Last Line: Itself in absence, which the stars adore UNHOLY SONNETS: 4 First Line: So many creatures and so many minds Last Line: Were not a way of loving our own kind Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 4 Subject(s): Creation; Nature UNHOLY SONNETS: 5 First Line: This is the moment. This is all we have Last Line: We'll forget that we were going to forget UNHOLY SONNETS: 6 First Line: Look into the darkness and the darkness looks Last Line: And seeing is believing and being seen UNHOLY SONNETS: 7 First Line: Reduce the proof of nature. So we tried Last Line: Of god. And language. Both of them had died UNHOLY SONNETS: 8 First Line: Two forces rule the universe of breath Last Line: And thought god's grace filled emptiness, like breath UNHOLY SONNETS: 9 First Line: Almighty god, to you all hearts are open Last Line: A comet on your fingertip, and squint UPWELLING First Line: Under the wave, the gray, clamping pressure Last Line: (you ... You. Who are you?) - %suspended, like a sentence, in the present VOICE TRIES WHISPERING First Line: A morning overcast like gray amnesia. The thunderheads Last Line: Remember yesterday,' a voice tries whispering. 'yesterday %your head was in the clouds.' WAVE First Line: Always offshore, or already broken, gone Subject(s): Nature; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore WAVE First Line: Always offshore, or already broken, gone Last Line: Swelling again with pleasure; %all riders lifted easily as light Subject(s): Nature; Seashore WHEN I LOOK AT THE DATES OF ARTISTS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When I look at the dates of artists who died before my age Last Line: I was the homebody, tethered to my spiral notebook, alarmed by experience Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time WHICH IS THE ONE, WHICH OF THE IMPS INSIDE First Line: Which is the one, which of the imps inside Last Line: About the things we speak of in our prayers. WIND First Line: Worrying about the children I kept waiting Last Line: Forgive them. And let them live their lives' WORRY BIRD First Line: God was an idea before he was an image Last Line: Anyone who has been a child can know |
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