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Author: KINZIE, MARY Matches Found: 163 Kinzie, Mary Poet's Biography 163 poems available by this author ACCIDIE Poem Text First Line: The light, robust buildings Last Line: Against the obstinate mark Subject(s): Funerals; Burials ACCIDIE First Line: The light, robust buildings ADVANCE OF SUMMER First Line: The unwelcome and self-conscious sheen of morning Last Line: That made us shudder and fall back into the self ALCAICS First Line: Like any infant, hard to conceive except Last Line: Flare forward, through our old life, new creature ALLEGORY First Line: Wearing her iron face AT WENTWORTH-BY-THE-SEA First Line: Fringed with the firs' young topmost growth AUTUMN EROS First Line: When she came down, the child's composure held BALTIMORE First Line: Four facing photographs by roland freeman Last Line: A palomino, the eye still open on the world he leaves Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Photography And Photographers BAMBERGER REITER First Line: When he came to her in the night - the great BEAUTIFUL DAYS First Line: Blossoms lift the branches Last Line: They do not know %what life does BETROTHED First Line: Clerks and spaniards at the door BICAMERON First Line: As in the beginning there are several Last Line: Those lines do not meet BLUE WOOD First Line: The place stands on its first foundation BOLT First Line: That girl so long ago walked, as they all did, shop girls Last Line: Frozen, finished in suspension BOY First Line: By day his world extends, far, knotted, hot Last Line: Is being too good, waiting, as in play, %then climbing up when she says that he may Subject(s): Literary Form BRASS BOX WITH CRICKET First Line: I am a soldered brazen thing Last Line: The cry from which no night is safe BRIEF AGAINST PLURALISM First Line: Other people tell me what they know BYE BYE BLACKBIRD First Line: I am making a dentist appointment by phone - what more Last Line: Sent out all night its chink of illusory fire CALIFORNIA SORROW: CLAREMONT RAGA Poem Text First Line: Languorous landscape Last Line: Comes closer / and more near Subject(s): Jazz; California CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW Poem Text First Line: Mountains did look in Last Line: Like a drone instrument / the highway Subject(s): Mountains; Man-woman Relationships; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Male-female Relations CANICULA Poem Text First Line: Fireflies float noiseless Subject(s): Literary Form CANICULA First Line: Fireflies float noiseless Last Line: She is not part of the wheel... %her pretty breathing Subject(s): Literary Form CATACOMB First Line: I think of friendly floral lemon CHAGALL IN HIS SICKNESS Poem Text First Line: When we came to the darkened town. You sang a song Last Line: Where we're but spirit, star, and emblem of your cosmic jest Subject(s): Chagall, Marc (1889-1885) CHAGALL IN HIS SICKNESS First Line: When we came to the darkened town you sang a song CHANTICLEER First Line: I still have the unredeemed CHARM First Line: As if you were still there within your grid CILANTRO First Line: Like the door opening in a wall to reveal a nonexistent room Last Line: Our bodies articulate, for one day more, something like wakefulness CIRCADIAN First Line: How dark the day is Last Line: When I lift her up %she looks down at her night world %deli berately CLOVER CROSS First Line: Below my hand what do I see Last Line: Bent and our bodies lain CURRENT First Line: Midnight and thereafter, I keep stirring her awake DARK CAROL First Line: Like a puppet in her bed DAWN SWIM Poem Text First Line: This was to have been the summer Last Line: At the foot of the bed Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers DAY OF BLOOD First Line: Rain hurries out of the cloud DAYS OF DARKNESS First Line: Grief, grief, I had forgotten Last Line: Need this have been so? %it is worse than losing him DINER First Line: Obvious' was what I seemed to myself DOWN TO QUANTICO First Line: I felt like a pilot bringing down the wounded Last Line: Those who swim the twilight of their captors %break into pieces far too small to see DRAWING THROUGH FEVER First Line: Already warm, the cravings draw up through her DREAD First Line: Because imprisoned by the mysteries DWELLER IN THE FOREST First Line: This is no natural realm. Only one creature has been taken in Last Line: At some time and at some other, outworn with waiting, could go away EARLY DECEMBER First Line: Everything seems sad, even this writing Last Line: Vanishing in a volume of lost writing ELEGIACS FOR THE OLD YEAR First Line: Snow fell during the hours of the day EMBLEMS 1V: SOL First Line: My child urges me to watch her but the sun pours fuzz Last Line: From which the entire future lifts then spills EMBLEMS I: KNOT First Line: People were running soundlessly in a hollow Last Line: Alien, because performed without a single word EMBLEMS II: GATE First Line: On the playground my daughter's interest flickers Last Line: Delighting in reverting to itself EMBLEMS III: ROTA First Line: No. There. About this I was wrong. Diminutive Last Line: To take me back, and nothing but a fewer for a shade EMBLEMS V: LUX First Line: Traced on the hill behind the mother Last Line: Into a word ENGRAVING OF BLAKE First Line: From the ceiling near the roof ET EXCRUCIOR First Line: The very ground dead as the moon FABLES First Line: That his falcon, from the throat FAITH First Line: How should I let her go? Last Line: Being with her, or %her being evidence of things not seen FAN First Line: Coded in darkness Last Line: Upon her hurrying form FIRST PASSION Poem Text First Line: Running there I am at fourteen Last Line: Golden gossip of the afternoon Subject(s): Teenagers; Family Life; Relatives FIRST STORM Poem Text First Line: It was alabama. It was cold Last Line: And that my feet had never touched the ground Subject(s): Storms FRANCES First Line: She does not seem to hear the grind of her whisper Last Line: City that she does not wish to hear a living word GEOMETRICAL First Line: Neither then, nor ever GHIBERTI'S EVE First Line: Rising from a bas relief in eden GHOST SHIP Poem Text First Line: A mother's love - my love for you - hurts at the core Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sorrow; Sadness GHOST SHIP First Line: A mother's love - my love for you - hurts at the core Last Line: Weh, weh, as she wails forth her grief, deeply %suspect, for all her scattered waifs Subject(s): Grief; Mothers GLAD DAY First Line: Such cloudy morning full of mist GLANCING BLOW First Line: To soften which they come, minuscule spririts Last Line: And never to diminish in her mind GRASSHOPPER First Line: At this moment, however, the wine dreggy and the cheese slick GROUND ZERO: 1 First Line: Now the cold has shaken all the dust GROUND ZERO: 2 First Line: From the tenth floor of a building near the ghetto GROUND ZERO: 3 First Line: The eye composes the scene into a picture GROUND ZERO: 4 First Line: Only in time will one begin to link GUIDE TO FALLEN COUNTRY First Line: Like a scaffold thrown HALF RATIONS Poem Text First Line: He did not sweat. Even in hot weather Last Line: The need he confined himself to in this life Subject(s): Survival; Food & Eating HALF RATIONS First Line: He did not sweat. Even in hot weather HAVE YOU SEEN ME First Line: Verso, the children on each bulk-mail card Last Line: Asking even the wind, have you seen me HOUSE OF MYSTERY First Line: She supposed it was a bad painting Last Line: For tyrannical display HUMAN FACE First Line: A film of green, unfocused plush, of fantasy IMPROMPTU First Line: In the frontroom I dance Last Line: My wrists o %lovely lovelier %across the ballet-sweetening %streamers in his eyes IN MINIATURE First Line: Companion familiar Last Line: Lazy hazel IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE FACULTY CLUB First Line: It was a hard spring, for personal reasons Last Line: Who had their homes to sail to and the rest of life ISEULT OF BRITTANY First Line: Reversal in the air KALEIDOSCOPE First Line: Dream within dream within dream. Missorted truths Last Line: Of the puzzle it would take a life to name KNIGHT AND DEATH First Line: Sum of virtue, with a noble heart L'ESTATE First Line: Black and white, the flocks of tiny creatures LEAF POEM First Line: You ask again about the little leaf Last Line: Me, sunflower, weary of time LEARNING THE WORLD First Line: You sad? She asks, settling into her father's chair Last Line: On whose random path these traces ravel, %knotted as kin, narrow as the way LETTER TO PORTSMOUTH NAVAL PRISON First Line: I am going through your papers once again LITTLE BROWN JUG First Line: He jigs the little baby on his knee Last Line: And eyes so shining, I thought she %was the sweet drink he craved: 'don't I love thee?' LOOKING IN AT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Asleep, alive, her shape makes me afraid Last Line: Drawing the night along her shoulder blade Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood LOOKING INTO LIFE First Line: At a curve in a new hampshire highway LUNAR FROST First Line: The night of the day Last Line: In the sparking rearview mirror above my head MANNIKIN First Line: Behind that window casting its melony light Last Line: Finding the midpoint of the hypnotized stare %where all their distant happiness crowds in MARY CHAPEL First Line: Her arms pour down within her sleeves Last Line: Without much nuance, except in the event MEETING THE FAMILY First Line: I have scenes with a mother, not mine MELISANDE First Line: Awakening in the sixteenth century MIDWINTER First Line: We seem to be dining MODERN LOVE First Line: He thrust aside her clothing MONOLOGUE BEFORE AN INNOCENT BEING PRISONED IN A TREE Poem Text First Line: To play with you fancifully is not Last Line: I found an ancient body, bark and plinth Subject(s): Innocence MUSE OF SATIRE First Line: They put her together out of this and that NATURE MORTE Poem Text First Line: In the cezanne room a window has been broken Last Line: Fall grained and harvested from their sheer place Subject(s): Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906) NEREID'S SONG Poem Text First Line: I held you in my arms Last Line: The ocean's at the door Subject(s): Sea; Ocean NEREID'S SONG First Line: I held you in my arms NOTE CORRECTING THE HOUR FOR DINNER First Line: Afternoon. The sluggish hours ring NOVUM ORGANUM Poem Text First Line: Mother of disturbance Last Line: You of what you do Subject(s): Nature OLD AFFAIR First Line: The thing seemed cold: his hair OLD FLAME First Line: It was mid-august before dawn as Last Line: That licked at her exhaustion OLD PORTSMOUTH First Line: Swift, illegible signs OLD POSTCARD Poem Text First Line: Give me the words to write to you Last Line: Accept your sister, daughter, lover, heloise Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement OLYMPIAD Poem Text First Line: Sleep is a precious act, the point Last Line: Be all my balance and medallion now? Subject(s): Sleep ON THE ACTOR EDWARD PETHERBRIDGE First Line: In that dark place of bodies and bodily gloom ONLY CHILD First Line: Sometimes, I think I see her watching them Last Line: And, in a flash, can watch the dead to life OTHER CHILDREN First Line: We are in the car and going south Last Line: From each shape on the seat %a squib of formless interest PAINTING First Line: As imagined land this river town PALACE OF DEFECTIVES First Line: Sentenced for life. Men PALAZZO First Line: How quick we are, we take up Last Line: The while dragging %against nectar-bearing thickets %of bloom smoky abdominal sacs PARTING INSCRIPTION First Line: At the final hour, half beside himself PINE First Line: Aisles of southern evergreens exhale Last Line: I am convinced they will never come back. %my aunt, who died last year, tries to console me PLAGUE SUMMER First Line: The leaden heat beats down on the deadening drum PREGNANT SON First Line: In the time of year when budding PROVISO First Line: Even in melancholy overlooked READING AN OLD POEM OF MINE First Line: How much of what I did then was unhealthy RECOIL First Line: The cloud applies its pall, cold folds us Last Line: The body goes back, at last, to the clean husk REQUIEM: ALL SOULS' First Line: Feathery in movement, all of betty's handmaids, contrary REQUIEM: CHRISTMAS First Line: The betty patterson specialty kitchen, baltimore REQUIEM: EASTER First Line: As the ladies baked only six or seven kinds of good at times REQUIEM: ST. JOHN'S DAY First Line: Baltimore was sunk in its swamp of punishments RINGING WORDS First Line: They have closed the prison where they had you teach Last Line: Feeding its stripes into the sea Subject(s): Literary Form SALE Poem Text First Line: Older now, he is among us in diminished form Last Line: At everything spread down there for sale Subject(s): Fathers; Aging SAME LOVE First Line: There is the love that makes you feel SECOND BOLT First Line: The drawing shows a child transfixed upon the floor Last Line: Of the weird child whose eyes cross, too SHED First Line: We would not need them for another year SHUTTLE AND THORN First Line: That fierce july she bent over her work like another artless SMALL BIRTHDAY POEM First Line: Foggy and dark, this birthday you're SOULS First Line: The mist is everywhere, like cloth SOUND WAVES: 1. (AT FOURTEEN WEEKS) First Line: In the first negative, a shape presages Last Line: Tethered to darkness by one spectral knee, %rib and feature faint in quality Subject(s): Literary Form SOUND WAVES: 2. (AT SIXTEEN WEEKS) First Line: A fortnight later, hurtling through its stages Last Line: Creature has spied our mediocrity, %rib and feature white with gravity Subject(s): Literary Form SOUND WAVES: 3. (AT TWENTY-ONE WEEKS) First Line: Seeming to speak, a fresh image assuages Last Line: Yet close to home, just as her self would be, %and ribbed and featured with humanity Subject(s): Literary Form SOUND WAVES: ENVOI First Line: A second view looks from the fontanelle Last Line: And ribbed and featured with humanity Subject(s): Literary Form SPARROWS First Line: Night's fallen. I wait at a light STORM PICTURES First Line: Visitaiton of wind STRADE DI BOLOGNA First Line: Rose and aqua, with flecks of creamy bronze Last Line: Singleminded second sight STUNDENBUCH First Line: The blunt view of the bell tower SUMMER GLOBE First Line: Territorial the stretch of sand SUMMERS OF VIETNAM First Line: Rising toward new england along the throughway Last Line: When deepen long after we have passed them by SUN AND MOON First Line: Complements. Like figures in statuary Last Line: Crank about the sky manifesting signs of %knowledge and justice Subject(s): Literary Form SUNDAY IN THE LOW COUNTRIES First Line: On the maroon horsehair divan Last Line: To the cloudy furniture SUPERBIA First Line: They've loosed the opposites who throng SUPERBIA: A TRIUMPH WITH NO TRAIN Poem Text First Line: They've loosed the opposites who throng Last Line: Wrong number. He marked it in his book Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations TAFFY First Line: We were tired of the easter chicks Last Line: Usn to remember, once forget Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TAR ROOF First Line: Still shining from the rain in jagged slices Last Line: Snow had brought its thicknesses to proof THE ADVANCE OF SUMMER Poem Text First Line: The unwelcome and self-conscious sheen of morning Last Line: That makes us shudder and fall back into the self Subject(s): Summer; Self THE BAMBERGER REITER Poem Text First Line: In the night there came to her the great Last Line: The fiery god spoke, “yes. You.” and she'd come through Subject(s): Statues THE CHILDHOOD OF HOMER Poem Text First Line: The moon nephele from her many Last Line: And stallions for the night's desire Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Iliad; Odyssey THE GLAD DAY Poem Text First Line: Such cloudy mornings full of mist Last Line: Else, the greying heaven strokes the earth Subject(s): Contentment; Nature THE HUMAN FACE Poem Text First Line: A film of green, unfocused plush, of fantasy Last Line: This is a being. The one nobody dares portray Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Hauser, Kaspar (1812-1833); Faces; Movies; Cinema THE MUSE OF SATIRE Poem Text First Line: They put her together out of this and that Last Line: Walks again, she'll burn your building down Subject(s): Satire THEINE Poem Text First Line: If compelled / to give it up Last Line: Sleepier / than air Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection THEIR STORY Poem Text First Line: At this hour of destitution Last Line: Tap against the clock THOSE WHO WILL NOT COME TO GOD WHO GETS AWAY WITH THINGS First Line: Let it be gray, gesu, always TO HER CAT First Line: The cat still has to do a lot of sewing Last Line: While her children tangle in the sewing TO MY DAUGHTER First Line: I can see the movement of the heartbeat Last Line: Designating nothing but her heartbeat VIEW FROM NOWHERE First Line: It does not seem thinkable the earth will live hereafter Last Line: Ever again VOICE First Line: Perhaps it was not until late afternoon, my first visit with you cut VULCAN First Line: The old mechanic at the service station WALTZING MATILDA First Line: One follows the small figures Last Line: That coils to the sky, all %the pretty steps like writing only %the limbs can do, only they forget WHEN WE TURNED OUR BACKS ON IT, THE OCEAN First Line: Losing form in the recoiling weather XENOPHILIA First Line: Out in the northeast banks of thunderous Last Line: Sweep down us and globes of brain and organ lurch %with passing salts and distances and hopes |
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