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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: LAUX, DORIANNE Matches Found: 144 Laux, Dorianne Poet's Biography 144 poems available by this author A SHORT HISTORY OF THE APPLE Poem Text First Line: Teeth at the skin. Anticipation Subject(s): Apples ABSCHIED SYMPHONY Poem Text First Line: Someone I love is dying, which is why Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Women; Dead, The ABSCHIED SYMPHONY First Line: Someone I love is dying, which is why Last Line: A peace we could rise to Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Women ADAM'S DAD TEACHES THE KIDS TO PLAY BALL First Line: Dad stands on the mound preaching Last Line: He's safe. Safe. %he's home AFTER TWELVE DAYS OF RAIN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I couldn't name it, the sweet Last Line: And smiled back. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Self-reliance; Solitude; Loneliness AFTERWARDS Poem Text First Line: When we sat side by side Last Line: Admiring each other's reflections. Subject(s): Sex ANTILAMENTATION Poem Text First Line: Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Regret APHASIA; FOR HONEYA Poem Text First Line: After the stroke all she could say Subject(s): Illness AS IT IS Poem Text First Line: The man I love hates technology, hates Last Line: From some small, uncharted star. Subject(s): Love; Progress; Simplicity AUGUSTA First Line: She is born in a white room Last Line: My new father. He holds me to his chest. %she smiles. Her hand covers her mouth AWAKE First Line: Except for the rise and fall of a thin sheet Last Line: The garden. The hard blue sky. The sweet %apple of light BIRD First Line: For days not a red-breasted bird Last Line: What do I have that she could want enough %to risk such failure, again and again? BOOKS Poem Text First Line: You're standing on the high school steps Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Schools; Women; Reading; Library; Librarians; Students BOOKS First Line: You're standing on the high school steps Last Line: The blur of the world. Into whoever you're going to be Subject(s): Books; Librarians And Libraries; Schools; Women BREAK Poem Text First Line: We put the puzzle together piece Subject(s): Jigsaw Puzzles BREAK First Line: We put the puzzle together piece Last Line: To a world that is crubmling, a sky %that is falling, the pieces %we are required to return to CATCH First Line: The film footage wavers Last Line: She's wet from the blue pool, shining, %car keys dangling from her teeth like minnows CELLO Poem Text First Line: When a dead tree falls in a forest Subject(s): Politics & Government; War CELLO First Line: When a dead tree falls in a forest Last Line: Shouldering the dead Subject(s): Politics; War CHILDREN'S TRAIN First Line: As the train approaches the tunnel, the kids Last Line: Religious as they are pulled %into the frightening brilliance of the world Subject(s): Children; Railroads CHINA First Line: From behind he looks like a man Last Line: China, or a ripe papaya, %so that now %when I think of love %I think of this CROSS COUNTRY First Line: When the train stops to fuel up Last Line: You saw growing too close %to the tracks, bent and trembling%on the outskirts of detroit CROSSING First Line: The elk of orick wait patiently to cross the road Last Line: This is how I know the marriage will last DEATH COMES TO ME AGAIN, A GIRL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Silence; Women; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones DEATH COMES TO ME AGAIN, A GIRL First Line: Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip Last Line: Especially when they fight, and when they sing Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Silence; Women DEMOCRACY Poem Text Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Politics & Government; Winter DUST Poem Text Recitation First Line: Someone spoke to me last night Last Line: And you're just too tired to open it. Subject(s): Loss; Memory; Truth EACH SOUND Poem Text Recitation First Line: Beginnings are brutal, like this accident Last Line: Unspeakable light. Subject(s): Language; Primitive Man; Progress; Words; Vocabulary; Cavemen EVEN MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Drive toward the juan de fuca strait Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Saxophones; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs EVEN MUSIC First Line: Drive toward the juan de fuca strait Last Line: Even the saxophone, its blind, %unearthly moan Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Saxophones; Singing And Singers; Women FAMILY STORIES Poem Text First Line: I had a boyfriend who told me stories about his family Subject(s): Family Life; Story-telling; Women; Relatives FAMILY STORIES First Line: I had a boyfriend who told me stories about his family Last Line: Deep in the icing, a few still burning Subject(s): Family Life; Story-telling; Women FAST GAS; FOR RICHARD Poem Text First Line: Before the days of self service Last Line: Is come close and touch me. Subject(s): Accidents; Automobiles - Service Stations; Baby Boom Generation; Love; Women; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops FEAR Poem Text First Line: We were afraid of everything: earthquakes Subject(s): Fear; Women FEAR First Line: We were afraid of everything: earthquakes Last Line: Waiting to be saved, the endless, wind-driven waves Subject(s): Fear; Women FIGURES Poem Text First Line: When he walks by an old drunk or a stumbling vet Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Poverty; Women; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse FIGURES First Line: When he walks by an old drunk or a stumbling vet Last Line: Can't be more than what he owes Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Poverty; Women FINDING WHAT'S LOST Poem Text First Line: In the middle of the poem my daughter reminds me Last Line: Like an orange flower over the gravel street. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Loss; Mothers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets FIRESTARTER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Since this morning he's gone through Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Oregon; Smoke; Women FIRESTARTER First Line: Since this morning he's gone through Last Line: And I can't take my eyes from the light Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Oregon; Smoke; Women FOR MY DAUGHTER WHO LOVES ANIMALS Poem Text First Line: Once a week, whether the money is there Last Line: Even the slightest of their calls. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Love; Mothers & Daughters FOR THE SAKE OF STRANGERS Poem Text First Line: No matter what the grief, its weight Last Line: And fall weightless, away from the world. Subject(s): Grief; Kindness; Sorrow; Sadness GARDENER First Line: Who comes to tend the garden Last Line: Into the shadow he casts on the soil? Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Women GHOSTS First Line: It's midnight and a light rain falls GIRL IN THE DOORWAY First Line: She is twelve now, the door to her room Last Line: Then she turns to go, folds up %all that light in her arms %like a blanket %and takes it with her GRAFFITI Poem Text First Line: Near the dayton avenue signal tower Last Line: Three smooth strokes and he's gone. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Graffiti GRAVEYARD AT HURD'S GULCH Poem Text First Line: His grave is strewn with litter again Last Line: Just before the terrible hunger returns. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Loss; Love; Graveyards; Dead, The HEART Poem Text First Line: The heart shifts shape of its own accord-from bird to ax Subject(s): Hearts; Homeless; Kindness; Poverty; Women HEART First Line: The heart shifts shape of its own accord-from bird to ax Last Line: Cop-on-the-beat heart with its black billy club, %banging on the lid Subject(s): Hearts; Homeless; Kindness; Poverty; Women HOMECOMING Poem Text First Line: At the high school football game, the boys Last Line: Smelling the flowers pressed against her neck. Subject(s): Education; Fathers & Daughters; Homecoming; Schools; Students HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There you are, exhausted from another night of crying Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN First Line: There you are, exhausted from another night of crying Last Line: He's not coming back, and it will be the first time you believe it Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Women ICELAND First Line: The girl's bathroom is titled in pink Subject(s): Berkeley, California; Girls; Women ICELAND First Line: The girl's bathroom is titled in pink Last Line: The withered scraps, like petals, into the sink Subject(s): Berkeley, California; Girls; Women IF THIS IS PARADISE Poem Text First Line: If this is paradise: trees, beehives Last Line: A bowl full of fire and pretend that it's magic? Subject(s): Activity; Heaven; Progress; Exercise; Paradise JENNIFER First Line: She sits on the hood of her boyfriend's car Last Line: Tonight, at the drive-in, how they'll sit %so close in this car, how it will shine KALEIDOSCOPE Poem Text First Line: I remember sex before my husband Last Line: Crowded against our window, shivering. Subject(s): Marriage; Memory; Sex; Weddings; Husbands; Wives KISSING Poem Text First Line: They are kissing, on a park bench Last Line: Onto each other. They are kissing. Subject(s): Desire; Kisses KISSING AGAIN Poem Text First Line: Kissing again, after a long drought of Subject(s): Kisses; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LAKE HAVASU Poem Text First Line: Man-made, bejesus hot, patches of sand turned to glass Subject(s): Havasu, Lake, Arizona LANDRUM'S DINER, RENO Poem Text First Line: We slouch, half-asleep on christmas day Last Line: What more we could want? Subject(s): Comfort; Love; Nevada; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners LAST DAYS OF POMPEI First Line: What if the ashes came down on us Last Line: Like a handful of dark straw LAST WORDS Poem Text First Line: His voice, toward the end, was a soft coal breaking Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Poetry & Poets; Women LAST WORDS First Line: His voice, toward the end, was a soft coal breaking Last Line: Mouths open. Last words flown up into the trees Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Poetry And Poets; Women LATE OCTOBER Poem Text First Line: Midnight. The cats under the open window Last Line: On end, afraid of what I might do next. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dreams; October; Violence; Nightmares LAUNDROMAT First Line: My clothes somersault in the dryer. At thirty Last Line: Smiling, into the wicker basket Subject(s): Laundry And Laundering LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: And remote, and useful, / if only to itself. Take the fly, angel Subject(s): Contentment; Life; Women LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL First Line: And remote, and useful, %if only to itself. Take the fly, angel Last Line: Such abundance. We are gorged, engorging, and gorgeous Subject(s): Contentment; Life; Women LIFE OF TREES First Line: The pines rub their great noise Last Line: And breathe, and breathe again LINE First Line: The line runs the length of the department store aisle-a mother grips a Last Line: The new world. As if the future were theirs Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Women LIVIA First Line: This house is a hotel Last Line: I don't look innocent when I sleep %I look dead MATINEE Poem Text First Line: Twelve years old, two silver quarters singing Last Line: Just reach out and take them into my arms. Subject(s): Children; Motion Pictures; Sexual Harassment; Childhood; Movies; Cinema MORNING SONG First Line: I'm up early listening to the hidden birds Last Line: And into my own listening body NEON HORSES Poem Text First Line: To come upon one, driving toward your lover Subject(s): Animals; Art & Artists; Hearts; Horses; Love; Women NEON HORSES First Line: To come upon one, driving toward your lover Last Line: Of dream, lit chimera distilled from liquid air Subject(s): Animals; Art And Artists; Hearts; Horses; Love; Women NURSE First Line: My mother went to work each day Last Line: Of singed skin, already planning the evening %meal, the raw fish thawing in its wrapper, %a perfect OH, THE WATER Poem Text First Line: You are the hero of this poem Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Women; Valor; Bravery; Optimism OH, THE WATER First Line: You are the hero of this poem Last Line: They know you've come home Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Poetry And Poets; Women OLYMPIA Poem Text First Line: I convinced manet to paint me with a tinge of ocher Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Paintings & Painters; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens OLYMPIA First Line: I convinced manet to paint me with a tinge of ocher Last Line: For centuries. This hand that will never rise %from my lap Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Paintings And Painters; Women ON THE BACK PORCH First Line: The cat calls for her dinner ON THE RIVER First Line: Last night we slept in the old van, our backs ORGASMS OF ORGANISMS First Line: Above the lawn the wild beetles mate Last Line: To hear the black-robed choir of their sighs Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring; Women PEARL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: She was nothing much, this plain-faced girl from texas Subject(s): Biography; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Women; Biographers PEARL First Line: She was nothing much, this plain-faced girl from texas Last Line: In a storm on a blackened stage like a house %on fire Subject(s): Biography; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Women PLANNING THE FUTURE Poem Text First Line: I never dreamed my daughter would be 16 Last Line: The job of waking into each morning, trusting. Subject(s): Future; Love; Mothers & Daughters POOLHALL First Line: She leans over the felt, her pelvis Last Line: And quarters, counting their lucky stars PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Sweet jesus, let her save you, let her take Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts PRAYER First Line: Sweet jesus, let her save you, let her take Last Line: Either life you choose will end in her arms Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Women QUARTER TO SIX First Line: Qaurter to six and the housw swept with the colors of dusk Last Line: Now you're going to get it,' you whispered, %cupping my cheek in your hand RAY AT 14 Poem Text First Line: Bless this boy, born with the strong face Subject(s): Blessings; Boys; Brothers; Death; Heaven; Women; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Paradise RAY AT 14 First Line: Bless this boy, born with the strong face Last Line: He says, feel my muscle, and I do Subject(s): Blessings; Boys; Brothers; Death; Heaven; Women REETIKA ARRANGES MY CLOSET Poem Text First Line: Her apartment is a lesson in schematics Subject(s): Girls; Houses; Rooms; Women REETIKA ARRANGES MY CLOSET First Line: Her apartment is a lesson in schematics Last Line: I'm going to give her everything I own Subject(s): Girls; Houses; Rooms; Women RETURN First Line: My daughter, ten and brown - another summer Last Line: Like a half-remembered dream, into %the perilous future, into the white %heart of the sun ROMANCE First Line: I know we made it up, like god Last Line: Throbs, aches. Nothing there %and still, the pain makes a shape Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women SHIPFITTER'S WIFE First Line: I loved him most %when he came home from work Last Line: The white fire of the torch, the whistle, %and the long drive home Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Marital; Women SINGING BACK THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: I don't remember how it began Last Line: The trouble I've seen. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Forgetfulness; Music & Musicians SKIPPING STONES First Line: I was thirteen the summer the family went to visit Last Line: Again how to lob a stone into the middle of the lake %so that is sounds like stabbing a watermelon SMALL GODS Poem Text First Line: I thought my father was a god Last Line: Day after day, I watched them grow. Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Children; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Parents; Women; Childhood; Parenthood SMOKE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Who would want to give it up, the coal Subject(s): Death; Fire; Smoke; Tragedy; Women; Dead, The SMOKE First Line: Who would want to give it up, the coal Last Line: Like the ghost the night will become Subject(s): Death; Fire; Smoke; Tragedy; Women STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We're deep into the seventh hour, the car Subject(s): Adolescence; Automobile Accidents; Death; Heaven; Travel; Women; Teen Agers; Dead, The; Paradise; Journeys; Trips STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN First Line: We're deep into the seventh hour, the car Last Line: The siskiyou mountains divide up ahead, %waiting to swallow us whole Subject(s): Adolescence; Automobile Accidents; Death; Heaven; Travel; Women STUDENT First Line: She never spoke, which made her obvious Last Line: For the body to blossom into speech Subject(s): Mouths; Silence; Speech Disorders; Voices; Women SUNDAY First Line: We sit on the front lawn, an igloo Last Line: In your chair, take a deep drink %of gold beer, curl your toes under, and hum SUNDAY RADIO Poem Text First Line: From my husband's window I hear a woman Last Line: To how his voice breaks, then goes on with the song. Subject(s): Marriage; Radio; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs THAW First Line: I have come north in winter to watch Last Line: To know for the first time the simple power %of cold, how even the earth's chilled blood %will never THE CHILDREN'S TRAIN Poem Text First Line: As the train approaches the tunnel, the kids Subject(s): Children; Railroads; Childhood; Railways; Trains THE EBONY CHICKERING Poem Text First Line: My mother cooked with lard she kept Last Line: As he bowed, and she slipped him the check. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Mothers & Daughters; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Cookery THE GARDEN Poem Text First Line: We were talking about poetry Last Line: Preparing to open the door. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Poetry & Poets; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE GARDENER Poem Text First Line: Who comes to tend the garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Women THE JOB; FOR TOBEY Poem Text First Line: When my friend lost her little finger Last Line: To what's turning in the world. Subject(s): Accidents; Factories; Fingers; Touch (sense) THE LAUNDROMAT Poem Text First Line: My clothes somersault in the dryer. At thirty Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering THE LIFE OF TREES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The pines rub their great noise Subject(s): Trees THE LINE Poem Text First Line: The line runs the length of the department store aisle-a mother grips a Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Women; Infants THE LOVERS Poem Text First Line: She is about to come. This time Last Line: If she could see it, she would never let him see. Subject(s): Pleasure; Sex THE ORGASMS OF ORGANISMS Poem Text First Line: Above the lawn the wild beetles mate Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring; Women THE SECRET OF BACKS Poem Text First Line: Heels of the shoes worn down, each Subject(s): Backs (human Body) THE SHIPFITTER'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: I loved him most / when he came home from work Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Marital; Women; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE STUDENT Poem Text First Line: She never spoke, which made her obvious Subject(s): Mouths; Silence; Speech Disorders; Voices; Women; Stuttering; Muteness THE THIEF Poem Text First Line: What is it when your man sits on the floor Last Line: Into this other world he cannot build without you. Subject(s): Ambition; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction; Sex; Male-female Relations THE WORD Poem Text First Line: You called it screwing, what we did nights Subject(s): Love; Women THIS CLOSE Poem Text First Line: In the room where we lie, light Last Line: If I loved you, being this close would kill me. Subject(s): Love; Sex TOOTH FAIRY First Line: They brushed a quarter with glue Last Line: I don't know,' she says, rocking, closing %her eyes. 'we were as surprised as you' TRYING TO RAISE THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: Look at me. I'm standing on a deck Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs TRYING TO RAISE THE DEAD First Line: Look at me. I'm standing on a deck Last Line: I'm the only one here on my knees Subject(s): Love; Singing And Singers; Women TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: My daughter set whatever had begun Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest; Pear Trees; Trees; Women; Pears TWILIGHT First Line: My daughter set whatever had begun Last Line: When he takes the first dangerous bite Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest; Pear Trees; Trees; Women TWINS First Line: The only feature june and jerry had in common Last Line: Echoed with their screams, until last %they were clean, and forgiven Subject(s): Social Problems TWO PICTURES OF MY SISTER First Line: The pose is stolen from monroe, struck Last Line: Stays locked in the frame of the back window %no matter how many turns you take, %no matter how far VACATION SEX Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We've been at it all summer, from the canadian border Subject(s): Love - Erotic WATER STREET BRIDGE First Line: On the turnpike to augusta, birches Last Line: A lone truck with mud on its tires %threading its way to hollowell WHAT COULD HAPPEN Poem Text First Line: Noon. A stale saturday. The hills Last Line: Beyond that shadowy nest of red madrones. Subject(s): Decay; Driving & Drivers; Towns; Women; Rot; Decadence WHAT I WOULDN'T DO Poem Text First Line: The only job I didn't like, quit Last Line: And had been waiting all day to hear. Subject(s): Job Hunting; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers WHAT MY FATHER TOLD ME First Line: Always I have done what was asked Last Line: My hand raised to ask the question, %where did the children sleep? WHAT WE CARRY; FOR DONALD Poem Text First Line: He tells me his mother carries his father's ashes Last Line: The relative comfort of silence. Subject(s): Child Molesting; Cremation; Forgiveness; Legacies; Child Abuse; Clemency WHAT'S BROKEN Poem Text First Line: The slate black sky. The middle step Subject(s): Time; Life WHEN I WAS BORN First Line: When I was born the world was filled with fat hands Last Line: Then, spreading my arms, I closed my eyes %and taught myself to dance WINDOW Poem Text First Line: Graveyard trees hug their shadows close Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Women; Dead, The WINDOW First Line: Graveyard trees hug their shadows close Last Line: To let the darkness pour in Subject(s): Death; Mothers; Women WING Poem Text First Line: Madrid, 1934 / until a shepherd boy from orihuela Last Line: Had not heard a nightingale Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Wings; Women WING First Line: Madrid, 1934 %until a shepherd boy from orihuela Last Line: Had not heard a nightingale Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Wings; Women WORD First Line: You called it screwing, what we did nights Last Line: To each other-a thin cry, unwinding Subject(s): Love; Women |
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