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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: LAUTERBACH, ANN Matches Found: 113 Lauterbach, Ann Poet's Biography 113 poems available by this author AFTER THE STORM First Line: What the afternoon assumes is Last Line: And does not see the fog roll over her toward us ALONG THE WAY First Line: What caused a musical persuasion and what Last Line: And to arrive, perilous but glad, at the disclosed ANNOTATION First Line: Even accidents falter. The room behind the room Last Line: And wakes to first light spelling its shield APERTURE First Line: It does not come as hairline fractures Last Line: This transparent stain left on the air where was is. ASHES, ASHES First Line: Humped gravity/tree-backed vatic shard/white Last Line: And what stroke stokes the flame? ASHES, ASHES (ROBERT RYMAN, SUSAN CRILE) Poem Text First Line: Humped gravity/tree-backed vatic shard/white AUCTION Poem Text First Line: What is a day? Subject(s): Days; Time AWAY, WITH JANE BOWLES Poem Text First Line: Gong away is often a formal statement of intent Subject(s): Farewell; Bowles, Jane (1917-1973); Parting BLESSING IN DISGUISE First Line: Yes, they are alive and can have those colors Last Line: And then I start getting this feeling of exaltation BLUE IRIS; TIANANMEN SQUARE First Line: To notice only the harried span Last Line: She had said 'trucks' with difficulty. %'the trucks, the trucks did not run over ...' BOY SLEEPING First Line: These difficulties -- flamboyant tide, modest red berries Last Line: Waking, wishing he were some place else BROKEN SKYLIGHT First Line: Adjusting the radar to desertion less heat needed Last Line: The film of course is fiction. %what comes up comes up. %don't forget to water the anemones CLAMOR First Line: It was a trance: thieves, clowns, and the blind girl Last Line: I used to count the days. I do not want to count the days CLOSING HOURS Poem Text First Line: This trace, if it exists, is alms for delusion. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary CONSTELLATION First Line: These ready-mixed colors are available only in Last Line: To a paginated bequest, turn upon turn, the waiting game CONSTELLATION PORTRAIT #3: STILL LIFE WITH CROWS First Line: Exclusive parrot in the dream cage Last Line: And sadly angelic %wrapped in borrowed towels many on grass DAY Recitation by Author DAY First Line: A broken candor's unruly sham Last Line: But for the cast and carriage %each revision is DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME First Line: Unimpeachable wilderness indicted; sagacious sea Last Line: Instantly erased. Hello, hello. Goodbye, goodbye DETAIL (858-6) First Line: Aspiring glance bound force array Last Line: A secular gift %a labor of hours DIORAMA OF THE UNINHABITED YES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: And here, an exaggerated arc DOCUMENTARY First Line: Time being what it is Last Line: When he told of his days at sea DOMINION IN FEBRUARY First Line: As hazards ferment, the motif of place is DREAM STENCILS First Line: In my hand, cassandra's ring ECLIPSE WITH OBJECT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There is a spectacle and something is added to history ECLIPSE WITH OBJECT First Line: There is a spectacle and something is added to history Last Line: The thing turns and flicks and opens ELABORATE ABSENCE First Line: To lthink - invisible - is therefore Last Line: Keep it in mind with or without its target, its tune ELEGY FOR SOL LEWITT Poem Text First Line: The weather map today is pale. The lines on the map Subject(s): Lewitt, Sol (1928-2007); Paintings & Painters ENLIGHTENED TRUST First Line: A track or path that goes around and comes back to the same Last Line: Reader. And then I start getting this feeling of exaltation EXCESSIVE INNUENDO First Line: How far could she go and not be debased FABRIC (REMNANT LIGHT) First Line: The day's - and of this beware: heat Last Line: A vocabulary - through - stains - stain FOR EXAMPLE (1): STEPPING OUT First Line: If everything tends to become real Last Line: Won't miss you. It goes one way FOR EXAMPLE (2): TANGLED RELIQUARY First Line: Tangled reliquary under all surfaces Last Line: And could not be shy -- %such mornings FOR EXAMPLE (3): LOST SECTION First Line: This three has been lost, twice. In the mundane shell Last Line: The curtains move %some wind FOR EXAMPLE (4): ADRIFT ON A SUMMER'S DAY First Line: What other? Fortune's rib? Dress? Last Line: What in the world have you found out? FOR EXAMPLE (5): SONG OF THE ALREADY SUNG First Line: The situation is not going to change Last Line: And there's the sacredness of common objects FOR EXAMPLE (6): OF THE FIRE First Line: These many mouths leave us vagrant, unsuited Last Line: As a cold child came into the world with a purpose FOR EXAMPLE (7): AND THE FIRE SPREAD First Line: In case the world Last Line: Of information / on the soundtrack FORGETTING THE LAKE First Line: Look, this leaving may last indefinitely Last Line: Blueberry muffins, listenng to jazz, lights on FRAME OF REFERENCE First Line: There was nobody around to fix the weather FRAYED EDGES First Line: Domain at hitherto causation listening booth page Last Line: The whens are important. %na na FREE FALL First Line: More comes along to sustain flap flap a departure Last Line: Speak not to strangers they covet your tongue FRENCH GIRL First Line: Someone plays %& the breaking mounts Last Line: All summer, I circled the garden for her sake FURTHER THEMATICS First Line: An ear's tall cavern Last Line: Call them word, visible, present GESTURE AND FLIGHT First Line: She could be seen undressing Last Line: She could be seen undressing %as she stretches her arms overhead %as she touches her shoe HARM'S WAY, ARM'S REACH First Line: Things are not cured by resilience Last Line: An apricot thud where the limb was HERE AND THERE First Line: Today I wake having swung, naked in london Last Line: Chills us back into dreams under late and later dawns HOW THINGS BEAR THEIR TELLING First Line: They settle out from their curfew Last Line: An incitement to hurt, to be inconclusive HUM Poem Text First Line: The days are beautiful Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN THE MUSEUM OF THE WORD First Line: There was the shield of another language Last Line: Is is possible to memorize this blue? IN THE MUSEUM OF THE WORD (HENRI MATISSE) Poem Text First Line: There was the shield of another language Subject(s): Travel; Language; Journeys; Trips; Words; Vocabulary INTERLEAVINGS First Line: Snowfall, denser and denser, %a knight's breath Last Line: What body falls through the bridal mass? %is the colored cloth a flag? LAKEVIEW DINER First Line: A chair, half-hidden behind leaves Last Line: We are kept by the indefinite, aroused LAKEVIEW DINER First Line: A chair, screened by leaves LEGACY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I am thinking again of drab LINES WRITTEN TO BOB PERELMAN IN THE MARGINS OF THE MARGINALIZATION OF POETRY Poem Text First Line: It would have been nice Subject(s): Perelman, Bob (b. 1947); Poetry & Poets LOCAL BRANCH First Line: The chill impediments - caution, doubt Last Line: Backwards, telling it in an irretrievable code MEANWHILE THE TURTLE First Line: (not even the lame grass can answer this what is this Last Line: Up through the heel, a child's wrist broken) is lost MIMETIC First Line: Recumbent against any mirror, any stardom Last Line: The failure of the world to reflect itself MISSING AGES First Line: At times dry weight shifts vicariously on mental limbs like music Last Line: Hire me. I live on the stairs. I go up and down MOUNTAIN ROADS First Line: There is this chronic scouting, as from Last Line: Everything tasted fresh and nothing much was sacrificed NEW BROOMS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Of representation (frame) NIGHT REHEARSAL First Line: This is the ordeal of symmetry, persistent, staged Last Line: Comes an audience of seekers who are not yet dismal NOT THAT IT COULD BE FINISHED First Line: She holds a conversation with her ornaments Last Line: Like a huge sock, its cornucopia %of sour wind and dust emptied into the firmament NOTES FROM A CONVERSATION First Line: A shuffle loaded and unloaded its merits brightly Last Line: By mid-morning, the sun had ironed %every wrinkle and erased both puddle and footprint OCEAN Poem Text First Line: The stone absorbs heat. Thrown Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OF THE MEADOW Poem Text First Line: Did you like switzerland? You ask for the first time OF THE MEADOW First Line: Did you like switzerland?' you ask for the first time Last Line: As I arrange the flowers, as I notice the incomplete OPENING DAY First Line: Locally a firm disavowal within the drift Last Line: Tag line: spirit, winterkill, mortgage, prize OR TO BEGIN AGAIN Poem Text Recitation by Author PHYCHE'S DREAM Poem Text First Line: If dreams could dream, beyond the canon of landscapes Subject(s): Dreams; Psyche (mythology); Nightmares PHYCHE'S DREAM First Line: If dreams could dream, beyond the canon of landscapes Last Line: And mocking and a version of his mouth on her mouth Subject(s): Dreams; Psyche (mythology) PLATONIC SUBJECT First Line: Momentum and wash of the undefined Last Line: And I have a twig POEM (WITH POSTCARD FROM VERMONT) First Line: To resist %cluster, to become Last Line: Now it is raining faster POISE ON ROW First Line: Look laminated dichotomy/field Last Line: This flotation quiver %this annotated dart PRIOR First Line: Edge of a lot vacant, wishing for that. Last Line: Boat without sail. Many tourists PROCEDURE First Line: Borrow me borrow my life Last Line: Came down in no wind and the brute earth gave way. %kafka, on the ohter hand, wrote keeping her alwa PROM IN TOLEDO NIGHT First Line: A new heat comes up on a grand scale Last Line: Rupture is the antidote, as may be RANCOR OF THE EMPIRICAL First Line: A lavish pilgrim, her robes unbound Last Line: You have made a petty story. Now enter duration REMORSE OF THE DEPICTED First Line: Harsh brag of the inexhaustible: replete, replete Last Line: And, as facts, we desire them. I wonder how my garden is REPORT First Line: Too much drudgery binds the tongue Last Line: Because all the women and girls came in REVELRY IN BLACK-AND-WHITE First Line: A shanty shade figured among the makers Last Line: This, she thought, was her merit, her redemption. %that winter, on assignment in russia, it was unus REVENANT First Line: The world had sallied forth, unmeasured Last Line: Her long hand reaching out of danger to find refuge RST First Line: Young man, your mouth Last Line: But when do we exist? Meet me then or there SANTA FE SKY First Line: A spare radiance blooms, blooms again, expires Last Line: But to be that, to be weather %in the distance: fallen: dreamed of; also imagined SCENE SHIFTS First Line: Things inhabited recalled as stark Last Line: The kingdom is very small and has no king SELECTIVE LISTENING First Line: Do we need villains? Last Line: A famous football team, fresh red meat, %meat for the tiger or for the literary review SEPTEMBER SONG Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: But we cantilevered SEVEN SONGS FOR JOE First Line: Already the air %has no sleeve Last Line: What shall we do with the day? SONG OF THE ANCHOR (PENELOPE) First Line: From among many %availed, coastal Last Line: Below each incursion in variegated slant SPLENDOR First Line: The dream ascends its microcosm, making not sense Last Line: And tears arrive from afar in new boxes STILL First Line: The sleeping urgencies are perhaps ruined now Last Line: Aroused. It is our custom to bring things about STILL LIFE WITH APRICOTS First Line: Tones implausibly migrate. This is no phantom slide Last Line: Shapes remind us of solitary inclusion: how each must wait STIPEND First Line: The sadness of everything you say SUBJECT TO CHANGE First Line: Those of us who are there will never leave Last Line: Those of us who leave were never there TACIT First Line: Look how torpid, how in unanny knack we Last Line: An uneasiness. Webern's opus five TANGLED RELIQUARY Poem Text First Line: Tangled reliquary under all surfaces Subject(s): Conduct Of Life TEMPLATE Poem Text First Line: An exhausted prostitute sits on a white puritanical bed TENT Recitation by Author THE FRENCH GIRL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Someone play THEN SUDDENLY First Line: The bloom, stranded somehow in glass and a view Last Line: Lights strung ahead in litanies of sudden knowledge TOCK First Line: A night without edition, virtual Last Line: The roofline is an arm extending the night TRIBE (STAMINA OF THE UNSEEN) First Line: What estranged methods, what original repose Last Line: I am the issue. I am what you promised to do TUSCAN VISIT (SIMONE MARTINI) First Line: Day leaned from its agency: a false, hollow gold Last Line: Her small mouth turned down, %her thumb holding a book open,%her body recoiled from the offered lili TYPOGRAPHY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Stalled at a lectern, a habit or price. UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS First Line: In the park it was lovely that day, you recall? Last Line: Not even food gets in. Everything else is in transit UNTELLING First Line: The task subsides, gloating in perpetuity Last Line: Thank you good-bye UNTOWARD First Line: Reading I spilled the wine Last Line: When asked if I had written about her %I said no, not exactly. She became the wild VALENTINE FOR TOMORROW First Line: Capable as this, where only moments ago Last Line: And a child with a pail and some sand and some glue VICTORY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Reverence for that dust WERNER HERZOG 68 / IOWA CITY 88 First Line: Then this light flipped in the row boats Last Line: Touching the sleeve of a stranger WHEN COLOR DISAPPOINTS First Line: Something must have lifted our spirits Last Line: They may have been bells YELLOW LINEN DRESS: A SEQUENCE First Line: A solemn discourse is not necessary Last Line: The sequel to her would be discourse %made from an inhibited, necessary image |
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