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Author: LEVI, JAN HELLER
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Levi, Jan Heller    Poet's Biography
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ABOUT LIPS I AM NOT SO SURE       
First Line: (or maybe just wood stacked in the fireplace)
Last Line: You wrote about the bed


ANATOMY LESSON       
First Line: If you could have things just the way you wanted
Last Line: Heart is writing, writing, writing


CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE:FALL RIVER HISTORICAL MUSEUM    Poem Text    
First Line: You know how it is: august, the pears
Subject(s): Family Life; Murder; Relatives


EVE SPEAKS    Poem Text    
First Line: Once I was in eden and walked, blithely,
Subject(s): Eden


EVE SPEAKS       
First Line: Once I was in eden and I walked, blithely
Last Line: I didn't even see the gate. %then the gate closed


HANGING OUT THE LAUNDRY TO DRY    Poem Text    
First Line: The sun is high in the sky,


NOT BAD, DAD, NOT BAD'    Poem Text    
First Line: I think you are most yourself when you are swimming
Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Swimming And Swimmers


SEX IS NOT IMPORTANT    Poem Text    
Subject(s): Sex


SEX IS NOT IMPORTANT       
Last Line: Everything unspoken %an endearment %a woman's nipple -- mine-- %finds a finger


SKYWATCH       
First Line: Who is this messier and how do I get
Last Line: I wanted two boxes %I kept getting a triangle


THE MARVIN GAYE VERSION    Poem Text    
First Line: Marie wants to wake up where she can walk outside in her nightgown
Last Line: I want to dance 'heard it through the grapevine' 56 times. / marie and donna do too
Subject(s): Women; Desire


THE WORLD    Poem Text    
Subject(s): Environment; Children; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Childhood


THIS ONE'S FOR YOU    Poem Text    
Subject(s): Love; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


TONIGHT THE HEART-SHAPED LEAVES    Poem Text    
First Line: I've smoked thirteen cigarettes today: I'm breathless
Subject(s): Italy; Family Life; Italians; Relatives


TUSCARORA 3       
First Line: Nine years after my mother died
Last Line: Ten years from divorce, %that old ghost town


WAITING FOR THIS STORY TO END BEFORE I BEGIN ANOTHER    Poem Text    
First Line: All my stories are about being left,
Subject(s): Divorce; Relationships; Love


WHY WE DON?ÇÖT HAVE SOLAR ENERGY    Poem Text    
First Line: It was partly
Subject(s): Energy (technology)


WILL       
First Line: (drum) %it comes, like all the most important messages, %blurred
Last Line: That june could come, with all her complicated flowers, %into july
Subject(s): Jordan, June (1936-2002)