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Author: LARKIN, JOAN Matches Found: 40 Larkin, Joan Poet's Biography 40 poems available by this author AFTERLIFE Poem Text First Line: I'm older than my father when he turned Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Abortion ALTHEA First Line: The baby lasted one whole year Last Line: Whatever is on its breath Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BLACKOUT SONNETS Recitation by Author Subject(s): Teenagers; Sex; Abortion BLACKOUT SONNETS First Line: Something happened I couldn't have told you then BREATHING YOU IN First Line: The scent you say is no scent Last Line: Opened dark folds around you. %closed, opened, around you BROKEN GIRL Poem Text First Line: Seconal and wine I lived on the street Subject(s): Alcoholics & Alcoholism; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Substance Abuse Recovery; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin CLIFTON Poem Text First Line: I loved booze Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Gays & Lesbians; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CLIFTON First Line: I loved booze Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Homosexuality CO-ALCOHOLIC Poem Text First Line: I saw you in the street, head lowered, stumbling Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse CO-ALCOHOLIC First Line: I saw you in the street, head lowered, stumbling Last Line: Last night the fear in my eyes stared at the fear in your eyes Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism COW'S SKULL WITH CALICO ROSES First Line: Nothing soft in this skull %hung up, somewhere-- Last Line: Of things to outlast a life: %its artifacts and bones FAWN BEFORE DOW SEASON Poem Text First Line: The day I went to work, Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Child Care; Baby Sitters; Governesses FLESH Poem Text First Line: Hooves were forbidden, but she fed us Subject(s): Food & Eating; Family Life; Relatives GENEALOGY Poem Text First Line: I come from alcohol Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Estrangement; Outcasts GENEALOGY First Line: I come from alcohol Last Line: And all that I could ever hope to bear Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles GOOD-BYE Poem Text First Line: You are saying good-bye to your last Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse GOOD-BYE First Line: You are saying good-bye to your last Last Line: Blooms and stiffens with desire Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism HOUSEWORK Poem Text First Line: Through this window, thin rivers Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives HOW THE HEALING TAKES PLACE Poem Text First Line: How the face changes, the cloud Last Line: Stones from entrances Subject(s): Substance Abuse; Healing HOW THE HEALING TAKES PLACE First Line: How the face changes, the cloud Last Line: Stones from entrances Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism IN THE DUCHNESS First Line: Women swayed together %on a packed square of scuffed Last Line: Loafers - would come touch me %and at last I'd dance IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS, SIXTEEN MONTHS SOBER First Line: To find words for this Last Line: I'm picking up %this pen Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles INVENTORY Poem Text First Line: One who lifted his rams with joy, first time across the finish Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness INVENTORY First Line: One who lifted his rams with joy, first time across the finish Last Line: One who wanted to live till his birthday, and did Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NIGHT, ST. MARK'S PLACE First Line: Deep in my dirty quilt Last Line: Deep in a filthy quilt, %sister %there are my fingers RAPE First Line: After twenty years I want to call it that, but was it? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men RAPE First Line: After twenty years I want to call it that, but was it? Subject(s): Homosexuality REVIEW First Line: It wasn't the worst movie %I've seen about aids Last Line: It was your face, & I wept Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness RHYME OF MY INHERITANCE Recitation by Author First Line: My mother gave me a bitter tongue Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men RHYME OF MY INHERITANCE First Line: My mother gave me a bitter tongue Subject(s): Homosexuality RISKS First Line: When your hair beats over me like gold Last Line: & you rock me like a hammock %under the near stars SECRET SONG Poem Text Subject(s): Self SLEEPING ON THE LEFT SIDE First Line: I primaled it,' she said %the smooth word like 'marbled' Last Line: Her mother's kiss--unfinished-- %her father's bent head TESTIMONY Poem Text Subject(s): Alcoholics & Alcoholism THE COMBO Poem Text First Line: In barlight alchemized: gold pate, the bellmouth Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE OFFERING Poem Text First Line: When they cleaned you and gave you to me Subject(s): Birth; Mothers; Children; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood WANT Poem Text First Line: She wants a house full of cups and the ghosts Subject(s): Relationships; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WANT First Line: She wants an old house full of cups and the ghosts Last Line: Meanwhile, we've kissed all weekend; we want %to drive the eighty miles and do it again WASTE NOT Poem Text First Line: We're using every bit of your death Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness WASTE NOT First Line: We're using every bit of your death Last Line: I'm wading in the swift river, balancing on stones Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness |
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