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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: JORDAN, JUDY Matches Found: 19 Jordan, Judy Poet's Biography 19 poems available by this author A SHORT DROP TO NOTHING Poem Text First Line: I can't say what of this day or its lack Last Line: Tugs the evening over this darkening land Subject(s): Waiting A TASTE FOR FALLING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Maybe it was the cold pulling through darkness stippled on darkness Last Line: A taste for falling, from which I never wake Subject(s): Disappointment; Dreams; Nightmares AT WINTER'S EDGE Poem Text First Line: Hard to imagine the creek without this luxury of destruction Last Line: The privet is doomed Subject(s): Winter; Dams CAROLINA GHOST WOODS Poem Text First Line: A crow calls and the sunset is smeared into questions Subject(s): Birds CAROLINA GHOST WOODS First Line: A crow calls and the sunset is smeared into questions Last Line: Because somewhere a bird clutches the scrap of my name Subject(s): Birds ELEGY First Line: With the night comes the smell of owls, the blood and feces Last Line: And the snails shudder back inside themselves HELP ME TO SALT, HELP ME TO SORROW Poem Text First Line: In the moon-fade and the sun’s puppy breath Last Line: Give them to me Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Relatives IN THE 25TH YEAR OF MY MOTHER'S DEATH Poem Text First Line: When the land shifts at day's end Last Line: Exactly like a woman beyond any words Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The IN THE 25TH YEAR OF MY MOTHER'S DEATH First Line: When the land shifts at day's end Last Line: Exactly like a woman beyond any words KILLING AT THE NEIGHBORS Poem Text First Line: Never mind what you might think Last Line: And I wait, shadow-breathed, to be freed Subject(s): Murder MOON OF HUNGER, MOON OF COYOTE HOWL Poem Text First Line: Heat waves rose with gas fumes from the pump Last Line: Earth this dark, dark star Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; African Americans; Family Life; Poverty; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives PROLOGUE Poem Text First Line: In winter’s spider-eyed light strung through steam grates, the Last Line: Lover boy & philly boy. Wanna-be’s and gonna-be’s Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Human Behavior; City & Town Life; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature SCATTERED PRAYERS First Line: Deep in the horned cave of the lacertilian winter Last Line: Rises through the skiff's surge and strain %to hold my face between her floury hands SIXTY CENTS COFFEE AND A QUARTER TO DANCE, SELS First Line: It's one of those days lost in the coin-slotted way of loss Last Line: Oh so, so full of plates TWO HOURS BEFORE SUNRISE First Line: Only he and I in the all-night deli Last Line: And be gathered by those I can't touch, but who touch me, %-- who touch me WALKING THE GEESE HOME Poem Text First Line: I don't know what patterns itself in their minds Subject(s): Geese WALKING THE GEESE HOME First Line: I don't know what patterns itself in their minds Last Line: Arm in arm with nothing but the freckled wind Subject(s): Geese WINTER Poem Text First Line: First light shook with ax blows to the frozen pond Subject(s): Ice; Winter WINTER First Line: First light shook with ax blows to the frozen pond Last Line: And like sorrow, waits and will not fade Subject(s): Ice; Winter |
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