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Author: JONES, HETTIE Matches Found: 172 Jones, Hettie Poet's Biography 172 poems available by this author 11-OCT First Line: The dead have dispersed Last Line: Breathe them once again %and begin 2-OCT First Line: We lived among blossoming words Last Line: Try to feel the word %on your lips 25-SEP First Line: Two weeks breathing the dead Last Line: But oh, of what is god made? 3/1/1987 First Line: Julio, our rabbit Last Line: And scaled, even the rough broad leafed %and thorned 5:00 PM, EASTERN STANDARD TIME, NOVEMBER First Line: Nothing opposes Last Line: Such a meager beacon Subject(s): Cities 8/1/1986 First Line: The first is on the lawn Last Line: Tender as those animals ACCIDENTAL PLEASURES First Line: Whenever I hear that song about Last Line: The sweet black bread ACTION First Line: Over the belly gone to seed go the scarred hands Last Line: The husk the loss %the self ADULTERY -- KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN 1996 First Line: This is the way they died for love Last Line: Is the edge %in the curve Subject(s): Cities AFTERTUNE Poem Text First Line: I've been alive since thirty-four Last Line: And singing Subject(s): Self AFTERTUNE First Line: I've been alive since thirty-four Last Line: And singing %and singing Subject(s): Cities AIR JAMAICA First Line: The bull bay road runs paved Last Line: Blocks for those whose home was always %plum, or tamarind ALBERT AYLER'S FLOWERS First Line: Albert, the flowers Last Line: The music took us %all on Subject(s): Cities ALL THE BEAUTIFUL DAYS First Line: When I left you today I came to a Last Line: Once again %back to us Subject(s): Cities ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD First Line: Death, you bastard %give me back dennis charles! Last Line: All the time in the world ALL TOLD First Line: It's warm in new york, my favorite place, and everyone Last Line: Out there in that destiny we share ANATOMY First Line: In the mirror, a Last Line: What strengthens as %the dying body declines? ANIMAL VEGETABLE First Line: I'm the kind of woman who'll carry Last Line: Are those for me, he says, are those for %me APR-99 First Line: Friday, mother, you'll be ninety-seven-eighty-one alive Last Line: I've held on to your warning APRIL First Line: One robin, one yellow willow %love braving the rain on the wrong highway Last Line: April, I'm almost over you %again AS IF First Line: You were here, as if I cared Last Line: Her head %on my shoulder Subject(s): Cities AT THE MIAMI VICE REST STOP First Line: I'm headed for the bathroom Last Line: Meet mine, mi %ami vice ATLANTA DEATH 1981 First Line: This green ribbon I wear Last Line: While she dies Subject(s): Cities ATTITUDE First Line: So it's come to this: I'm Last Line: Full view, elder ain't over, %you know? BACK ON THE BROOKLYN QUEENS EXPRESSWAY First Line: The girl %who watched the trains Last Line: She's the one %who enters and leaves BATES DIRECT First Line: A long day with nothing to do Last Line: But you hope. So find the dark first, alice %and bon voyage BIKE STOPS HERE First Line: Sixty years and still I feel september evening Last Line: The will commands %the body understands BIRTHDAY PRESENTS 1989 (FOR JOYCE JOHNSON) First Line: A lost 1970 woolworth earring Last Line: Rush through the rain Subject(s): Cities BON VOYAGE FOR ERIC FOR LOVE OF LIFE AND THE LOAN OF LAROUSSE First Line: Without tomorrow a deux-adieu! Last Line: Je veux entendre %un autre monde BROOKLYN SUGAR First Line: Might have been the way Last Line: A little brooklyn sugar in her bowl BY THE BEAUTIFUL SEA First Line: A highway. Night. Passing Last Line: Under the weight of them Subject(s): Cities CAUGHT, APRIL 2002 - A PRAYER FOR PEACE First Line: The islamic army %for the liberation Last Line: And we will pray CHEESE First Line: The big cheese has become a buddhist Last Line: And has he fled his life in cheese? CIVIL WAR Poem Text First Line: Into my sister's kitchen Last Line: I am forever / committed Subject(s): Birds; Sisters CIVIL WAR First Line: Into my sister's kitchen Last Line: I am forever %committed Subject(s): Cities COLD SNAPS First Line: Working toward the winter moon Last Line: Like a woman, he says, you never know %when she will snap COPIES First Line: Over the counter, in english and bengali Last Line: And comes to rest %on her soft breast CUPS First Line: Miss pearl, before she died, said Last Line: You weren't worth %a cup of greens DANCE DANCE DANCE First Line: In first position: ass tight, legs turned out Last Line: One two three four five DAY AT A TIME First Line: On the line in front of me Last Line: Wheeling, and eating Subject(s): Cities DINNER IN THE DINER First Line: In the diner they always play music Last Line: As a swamp, and oh his arms %might be warm DOORMAN HAS BEEN PAROLED First Line: I caught her out of uniform Last Line: Where more than many doormen %take her place DRESSES: FOUR OF MINE FOR NAIMA BALAHI Poem Text First Line: So narrow they seem sewn Last Line: Unable to wear them, unable to part with them Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Women's Rights DRESSES: FOUR OF MINE FOR NAIMA BALAHI First Line: So narrow they seem sewn Last Line: Unable to wear them, unable to part with them Subject(s): Cities ELEGY FOR ALLEN First Line: Blue light at eight Last Line: Enter with grace Subject(s): Cities EMINE AND HAMIDE First Line: I have this feeling you were beaufiful Last Line: Of every size and shape and shade Subject(s): Cities EMPTY NEST SYNDROME First Line: Alone again Last Line: And I too do %float away Subject(s): Cities ESCAPE, KABUL First Line: I said darling, I said Last Line: And so I will not stay for death FINALLY NARCISSA First Line: The girl has found herself Last Line: Her thoughts like wild vines Subject(s): Cities FIVE ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE First Line: Bob dylan and queen victoria Last Line: Early % we learn new twists FOR MY DAUGHTERS First Line: They call each other Last Line: See we tender %women %live %on Subject(s): Cities FOR THE AFRICAN STREET BOY CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL AIDS AWARENESS First Line: And what will this moment of silence do Last Line: Remember! Silence equals death! FOR THE TRAFFIC LIGHT AT 10TH AND B First Line: Holding hands with his little sister Last Line: Small hands so willingly %swinging FORGIVING THE TRAVELER First Line: Every five years his love Last Line: Sometime I'll be real Subject(s): Cities FREDDIE, IN MEMORIAM First Line: I used to know a man Last Line: The way I never did %before Subject(s): Cities FROM FOUR HETTIES First Line: This is for hettie barnes Last Line: Forty years later I send the same Subject(s): Cities GENUFLECTION TO PETTY OFFICER FIRST CLASS LEONETTE MASTERS First Line: Shown in a photo Last Line: Into the frame, obliterating %this picture GENUFLECTION TO THE GOD OF LOST GLOVES First Line: In the immeasurable cold we grow %cruel but honest Last Line: Oh god of lost gloves, I'm on my knees, and here %is my bare hand GLOBAL WARNING First Line: You want to look hard Last Line: Giving way giving life giving water GOOD OLD PAINT First Line: The car shows my hand Last Line: And me %I burn rubber Subject(s): Cities GROCERIES First Line: Her vegetables fresh, her lipstick too Last Line: Two-for-a-dollar %asian pears GUNNERY SERGEANT OSCAR R.R. FLAT TOP LEE, U.S. MARINES, RETIRED First Line: Uncle flat's cotton knit kufi Last Line: Over the black road, the white moon HARD DRIVE Poem Text First Line: Saturday the stuffed bears were up again Variant Title(s): Untitled (teddy Bears On The Highway) Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life HARD DRIVE First Line: Saturday the stuffed bears were up again Last Line: To drive my car in any direction Variant Title(s): Untitled (teddy Bears On The Highway Subject(s): Cities HARE KRISHNA HAUTE COUTURE First Line: The hare krishna hang their robes Last Line: Of those of us who offer up our %bloomers to the city Subject(s): Cities HAVING BEEN HER Recitation by Author First Line: On the bus Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life HAVING BEEN HER First Line: On the bus Last Line: Having been her %befriend her Subject(s): Cities HEIRLOOM BROOKLYN First Line: Sarah lewis boards sailors, one by one Last Line: Steaming through the narrows HETTIE'S HEX FOR FEE First Line: This is fee's sixtieth birthday Last Line: And him a sixty-year-old man! HIDE First Line: Mother, your glass beads don't shine %in their leatherette boxes Last Line: And sometimes, in the light, I %run them through my fingers HIGHWAY PRAISE SONG First Line: Praise the quiet horse %my journey past him Last Line: Her rotting teeth, her smile %of recognition HISTORY OF WAR IN FIVE ACTS: 1 First Line: They are fighting this morning Last Line: In the small deserted pool Subject(s): Cities HISTORY OF WAR IN FIVE ACTS: 2 First Line: Picture this Last Line: In that green %country Subject(s): Cities HISTORY OF WAR IN FIVE ACTS: 3. JUSTICE IS JUST ICE First Line: High in a silent house Last Line: Freedom from fear Subject(s): Cities HISTORY OF WAR IN FIVE ACTS: 4. ALPHA AGAINST APARTHEID First Line: A for the thing itself and its antithesis anc Last Line: Z azania, who still a again and again allow it Subject(s): Cities HISTORY OF WAR IN FIVE ACTS: 5. SARAJEVO 1995 First Line: It's warm here in the sun Last Line: Their fading, year-old traces Subject(s): Cities HOMAGE TO FRANK O'HARA'S PERSONAL POEM Poem Text First Line: Over and over the mind returns Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966); Homage & Respect HOMAGE TO FRANK O'HARA'S PERSONAL POEM First Line: Over and over the mind returns Last Line: Over and over Subject(s): Cities HOME: DEEP, TO THE Last Line: All the way home. Home at last. Home free Subject(s): Cities HOMEWORK First Line: When jason my neighbor suggested I water the street tree Last Line: Come, I will help if you let me HOTTER THAN JULY, 1982 First Line: Only the messengers and me Last Line: Lookin good and movin fast Subject(s): Cities IN ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION First Line: I write a hall Last Line: And I write with time in my one %good hand Subject(s): Cities IN MEMORIAM First Line: Mother, my heart burned Last Line: Eyeing its own horizons Subject(s): Cities IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER Poem Text First Line: Tonight she brings Last Line: Her shining / black eyes Subject(s): Pictures IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER First Line: Tonight she brings Last Line: Her shining %black eyes Subject(s): Cities LAMENT FOR A TURKISH SUICIDE AGE 22 Poem Text First Line: What she wanted was more Last Line: And left the facric / of her brief life Subject(s): Turkey; Women's Rights; Suicide LAMENT FOR A TURKISH SUICIDE AGE 22 First Line: What she wanted was more Last Line: And left %the fabric of her %brief life LIKE (AS IF) First Line: On the lip %of the world's cup Last Line: A bite today %obit tomorrow LIQUID MEASURE, SUMMER 1952 First Line: Nineteen years hadn't readied me Last Line: I found stroke after furious stroke LITTLE LIGHT VERSE FOR HELENE First Line: This was the first verse about us Last Line: We take hold %take the light %heart Subject(s): Cities LOOK AT HOW WE LIVE, LOOK AT HOW WE DIE First Line: It doesn't happen that death's door Last Line: And he was only one, only one Subject(s): Cities LOTTIE AND OSCAR First Line: I like to think of them dancing Last Line: Can I forgive them their battle Subject(s): Cities LOVE AGAINST LOSS First Line: In the diner they always play music's %equivalent, a little easy listenin Last Line: Hand I am pulling you back, with you in my arms %I am climbing the ladder of life LUNCH POEMS: 1 First Line: The departed ad exec has left Last Line: The past retreating %flies %living %dying Subject(s): Cities LUNCH POEMS: 2. GRAY DIRECT First Line: Striated clouds Last Line: A slow, continous %pace Subject(s): Cities MANHATTAN SPECIAL First Line: Tracking this afternoon's last Last Line: Windfall %new year %blowing Subject(s): Cities MINOR DOMO First Line: Fixing the siding I learned Last Line: Left a perfect skin %on a house that couldn't stand MONTH OF JULY 1991 FOR ANDREW SIMPSON First Line: Andrew you missed %the total eclipse of the sun Last Line: We should have told you %his life was enough MOTHER AMERICA (FOR CHUCK WACHTEL) First Line: If two strong women in lycra tights Last Line: O mother america, find %the grace %to instruct us Subject(s): Cities MOTHER MOON Poem Text First Line: Mother moon surfs the sky Last Line: We too / we change Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Women; Teaching & Teachers MOTHER MOON First Line: Mother moon surfs the sky Last Line: Mother moon rides high %we too %we change Subject(s): Cities MY FRIEND / IN LOVE Last Line: Her head %in my shoulder NAME THAT TUNE First Line: If I sing on a rainy sunday, chances are Last Line: I've sung a long line a long time %(repeat) NEBULA OF NOTEWORTHY NELLIES First Line: For strength I give you Last Line: So burn on burn on burn on nellie NEW SOUTHERN EXPOSURE First Line: Garbage at the shore below the levee Last Line: And all that changes is the product NOTE First Line: Dear marvin gaye Last Line: Own hot hungry arms marvin OCTOBER JOURNEY 10/7/99 First Line: Why not include getting lost in the bronx? Last Line: You're a goner %in living color ODE TO MY CAR First Line: It's not as if you were the first Last Line: Because of you we can, and we do Subject(s): Cities ODE TO MY KITCHEN SINK First Line: Main man, you're my %support, your two Last Line: And given others, sink, ours has been %a gift ODE TO MY NOSE First Line: Proboscis, you prominence! Last Line: Toward my mouth %for a kiss ODE TO UNION SQUARE First Line: My dear, you're the Last Line: In which we once more %raise our hands together ON THE FIFTH OF DECEMBER A ROSE Last Line: The bitter cold %wind streaming Subject(s): Cities ONE HUNDRED LOVE POEMS FOR LISA First Line: There goes adam purple Last Line: Fills with its own %mysterious light Subject(s): Cities PAGE FROM A HISTORY OF WAR First Line: Alarum %for a girl being carried Last Line: I beg you: smell the blood PALEFACE First Line: I am driving down the connecticut turnpike Last Line: On the connecticut turnpike in the land of the pequot, 1966 Subject(s): Cities PAUSE THAT REFRESHES / OR CLIMBING BACK ON THE ROOF First Line: I was forty-five Last Line: Honey it's never that easy Subject(s): Cities PETER PINCHBECK'S MISSING METAPHOR First Line: Peter was the star of the party Last Line: Grieving this likeness %what is like life? PHONE SEX FOR RACE AND GENDER First Line: Hello, she says Last Line: Just throw me the key PHOTO OP WITH CAPTION First Line: Middle-aged and full of beans behind their wire-rims Last Line: And lay them out on the beat cha-cha-cha POEM FOR RASHID First Line: This is a man's house who is cleaning his drums Last Line: His drums are in detroit he plays for me Subject(s): Cities PRAISE Poem Text First Line: All praise the midweek market Last Line: Them. Praise all. All praise Subject(s): Praise PROPER GANDER First Line: One of those girls in the benetton ad Last Line: I leave I come back %to loving RABBITS RABBITS RABBITS 2/1/80 Poem Text First Line: When I leave you this morning Last Line: Before, I was with you, / now I'm here Subject(s): Love – Loss Of RABBITS RABBITS RABBITS 2/1/80 First Line: When I leave you this morning Last Line: Now I'm here Subject(s): Cities RACING WITH THE MOON First Line: In slow traffic Last Line: To take one %breath %at %a time Subject(s): Cities REAL BROOKLYN DODGERS ARE FROM QUEENS First Line: Losing is hardest after Last Line: All of you breathing %the next sweet season REPETITIONS, ROUTE 212 First Line: First light %first bird's %one slow call Last Line: Already weary of it all, and resting RING THROUGH THE NOSE First Line: The winter I was nine the war was on Last Line: Forever to the scent of myself, quickening RUBY MY DEAR First Line: The woman in the red car has a hand Last Line: Her hand's on the wheel, her hand's %in the air Subject(s): Cities SALADIN CROSSING THE DESERT First Line: You go, like in the movies one arm Last Line: Everyone out %on avenue b is amazed Subject(s): Cities SAY GOODBYE TO THE LITTLE YELLOW BUILDING Last Line: Say goodbye to the little yellow building Subject(s): Cities SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF THE WATER TOWERS First Line: High over the city %facing each other -- in every direction Last Line: The woman hanging her wash %clouds running away SECOND COUSIN TWICE REMOVED, 1950S First Line: She was never more than %a raised eyebrow Last Line: But I never found her SECOND HAND SHOD First Line: A woman with good taste and small feet Last Line: I want her to know I'm behind her SELF-PORTRAIT First Line: There it is Last Line: In various mirrors Subject(s): Cities SELF-PORTRAIT AS ROAD REPORT AUGUST 1997 First Line: Today I wanted to stay-to stall Last Line: On a fast road %steady %into fall SEMIPERMANENT GATE LIST Last Line: Blowing up a long empty hill Subject(s): Cities SEVEN SONGS AT SIXTY First Line: Begin %where the end begins Last Line: If you want to know me %you better hurry Subject(s): Cities SHARING THE IMAGE First Line: Because jan imagined the tinker Last Line: Behind me ribbons of light %unwinding SHE First Line: Is getting over divorce Last Line: Wet with rank summer. Sweet jesus, she %pulls him down Subject(s): Cities SHOE REPAIR First Line: With us it's serious-politics Last Line: To this perfect, hard shine: %our compromise SIN SONGS: 1. COMPLACENCY First Line: The sun slanting Last Line: Cups like suddenly burning planets Subject(s): Cities SIN SONGS: 2. ENVY First Line: Easy to say you'd never Last Line: Harder still to calm the wicked rise Subject(s): Cities SIN SONGS: 3. AVARICE First Line: Cunning mother money Last Line: Humps her money cunnie Subject(s): Cities SIN SONGS: 4. MENDACITY First Line: To find in the mirror Last Line: Tell me a lie of your own and see if I'll bite Subject(s): Cities SONNET Poem Text First Line: Love never held my hand Last Line: But I’ve always wondered Subject(s): Love – Complaints SONNET First Line: Love never held my hand Last Line: But I've always wondered Subject(s): Cities STANCE First Line: What I'm after is the Last Line: After that fight %I never fought SUBWAY POEM Poem Text First Line: Yo, spring Last Line: And your sweet ass Subject(s): Spring SUBWAY POEM First Line: Yo, spring Last Line: And your sweet ass Subject(s): Cities THAT OLD MAN WOULDN'T TELL First Line: I asked him to get old Last Line: She has the whole neighborhood %wondering THE PAUSE THAT REFRESHES / OR CLIMBING BACK ON THE ROOF Poem Text First Line: I was forty-five Subject(s): Middle Age; Menstruation THEY'RE NOT HEAVY, THEY'RE MY SISTERS First Line: She sits on her porch Last Line: As I climb the stairs Subject(s): Cities THIRD POEM First Line: Stone words Last Line: Tomorrow, the dark %music Subject(s): Cities THIS KIND OF KADDISH First Line: Tonight aunt fan I mended Last Line: Aunt fannie frankle kaplan %amen Subject(s): Cities THIS MAN I MET, HE SAID Last Line: That are usually warm Subject(s): Cities THREE LITTLE LOVE SONGS First Line: The unexpected's not un Last Line: Than I ever %would have %expected Subject(s): Cities TWO FOR THE FOUR A.M. FIRST SNOW SHOW First Line: It's lucky to see first snow he says Last Line: Lucky to see it he says %melting TWO PORTRAITS First Line: The flower felix put in my hair on sunday Last Line: Isn't she beautiful, the children used to say Subject(s): Cities UNIWORLD First Line: What if uniworld demanded uniworld? Last Line: Mist or rain, but speak its %rightful name WAR, SAR CHESMA First Line: Where is the ring Last Line: Her finger a barely covered bone Variant Title(s): Laments For The Afghan Wome WASTE NOT WANT NOT First Line: Begin with the waste Last Line: And how you want them WEATHER Poem Text First Line: My folder of poems Last Line: Are you breathing, are you lucky enough Subject(s): Weather WEATHER First Line: My folder of poems %labeled 'weather' holds Last Line: Are you breathing, are you lucky enough %to be breathing WELCOME TO OUR CROWD First Line: I've slept %in every room except Last Line: Into all our arms, live again %gone soon Subject(s): Cities WHAT MY UNCLES TAUGHT ME First Line: I was ten Last Line: Until then, never again Subject(s): Cities WHEN WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT WHAT YOU GET First Line: Easy to mistake a light source, take Last Line: Whether you're looking at %life or death WOMAN IN THE GREEN CAR First Line: The woman in the green car does Last Line: Leave it %in mamaroneck Subject(s): Cities WORD HOLY First Line: In those moments, returning Last Line: Of miraculous arms, the one %holding me WORDS Poem Text First Line: Are keys Last Line: Though it dreams of leaving Subject(s): Language; Love – Loss Of WORDS First Line: Are keys Last Line: Though it dreams of leaving Subject(s): Cities YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT First Line: If a plant could be Last Line: Manna in my mouth Subject(s): Cities |
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