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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: LEVINE, PHILIP Matches Found: 484 Levine, Philip Poet's Biography 484 poems available by this author 1, 1, 2000 Poem Text First Line: In joe priskulnick's darkened kitchen the face 1, 1, 2000 First Line: In joe priskulnick's darkened kitchen the face Last Line: To die at last in the ocean of its birth 1933 First Line: My father entered the kingdom of roots Last Line: I would be a boy in worn shoes splashing through rain 7 YEARS FROM SOMEWHERE First Line: The highway ended %and we got out and walked A BOY'S ANSWER Poem Text First Line: The train passes every afternoon Subject(s): Children; Railroads; Childhood; Railways; Trains A NEW DAY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The headlights fading out at dawn Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers A SLEEPLESS NIGHT Poem Text First Line: April, and the last of the plum blossoms Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A STORY Poem Text First Line: Everyone loves a story. Let's begin with a house Subject(s): Houses; Story-telling A WAR STORY Poem Text Subject(s): World War Ii; Guests; Family Life; Second World War; Visiting; Relatives A WOMAN WAKING Poem Text First Line: She wakens early remembering Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Family Life; Relatives A YELLOW YULIP Poem Text First Line: The yellow tulip in the room's warmth opens Last Line: In the room's warmth opens Subject(s): Tulips ABOVE IT ALL First Line: Starpped to my seat, I turn Last Line: The dead centers of our eyes ABOVE JAZZ First Line: There is that music that the hammer Last Line: Creation dances around the single center %that would be listening if it could ABOVE THE ANGELS First Line: A row of corrugated gray huts Last Line: The houses grip down, separate and scared ABOVE THE WORLD First Line: Up through miles of twisting pines, past ADVISING MYSELF Poem Text First Line: When the world comes to you muffled as through a glass Last Line: Burning with joy or despair, you've known she was right Subject(s): Advice; Youth; Love – Nature Of AFTER First Line: After the fall of the tree Last Line: Home %to a name written in water AFTER LEVITICUS First Line: The seventeen metal huts across the way Last Line: Of the holy air: the numbers say it all AFTER THE WAR First Line: Six little clusters of houses Last Line: Down the dark road toward their silence ALBA First Line: The old north station in barcelona. Late sunday night Last Line: Echoing in the huge cavern until the old world ended ALONE Poem Text First Line: Sunset, and the olive grove flames Subject(s): Sollitude ALONE First Line: Sunset, and the olive grove flames Last Line: Toward the deep and starless river AMONG CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: I walk among the rows of bowed heads Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students AMONG CHILDREN First Line: I walk among the rows of bowed heads Last Line: So I bow to them here and whisper %all I know, all I will never know Subject(s): Education; Schools AN ABANDONED FACTORY, DETROIT Poem Text First Line: The gates are chained, the barbed-wire fencing stands, Subject(s): Factories; Detroit, Michigan AN ORDINARY MORNING Poem Text First Line: A man is singing on the bus Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Urban Life AND THAT NIGHT CLIFFORD DIED First Line: We broke for lunch at 8 p.M. Last Line: I was free and owned myself AND THE TRAINS GO ON Poem Text First Line: We stood at the back door Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains AND THE TRAINS GO ON First Line: We stood at the back door Last Line: And our tears mean nothing Subject(s): Railroads ANGEL 14 First Line: He passes into the streets in a business suit Last Line: And passes into the streets in a business suit ANGEL BUTCHER First Line: At sun up I am up ANGELS OF DETROIT First Line: I could hear them in fever Last Line: Bare arms open ANIMALS ARE PASSING FROM OUR LIVES Poem Text First Line: It's wonderful how I jog Subject(s): Animals; Hate; Men ANIMALS ARE PASSING FROM OUR LIVES First Line: It's wonderful how I jog Last Line: Cleverly to hook his teeth %with my teeth. No. Not this pig Subject(s): Animals; Hate; Men ANOTHER LIFE First Line: I'd rather be blind than see this place' ANY NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Look, the eucalyptus, the atlas pine, Subject(s): Childhood Memories ANY NIGHT First Line: Look, the eucalyptus, the atlas pine ASHES First Line: Far off, from the burned fields Last Line: At evening like smoke at great height %above the earth and sees it all ASK FOR NOTHING First Line: Instead walk alone in the evening Last Line: Whitened in moonlight leads everywhere ASK THE ROSES First Line: Snow fell forward forever Last Line: Or only one who could sigh and be still AT BESSEMER Poem Text First Line: 19 years old and going nowhere Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.) AT BESSEMER First Line: 19 years old and going nowhere Subject(s): Southern States AT THE FILLMORE Poem Text First Line: The music was going on Subject(s): Fillmore (music Hall), New York City AT THE FILLMORE First Line: The music was going on Subject(s): Fillmore (music Hall), New York City AUTUMN First Line: Out of gas south %of ecorse. In the dark Last Line: We have snow on your eyelids, %on your hair AUTUMN AGAIN First Line: The flowers drying Last Line: Because they are his BABY VILLON Poem Text Recitation First Line: He tells me in bangkok he's robbed Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry BABY VILLON First Line: He tells me in bangkok he's robbed Last Line: Myself made otherwise by all his pain Subject(s): Racism BAD PENNY Poem Text First Line: After the peace of ghent BEFORE THE WAR First Line: Seeing his mother coming home Last Line: Goes on typing mechanically %into the falling winter night BELIEF First Line: No one believes in the calm Last Line: Radiant and full? Close your eyes, close %them and follow us toward the first light BELLE ISLE, 1949 Poem Text First Line: We stripped in the first warm spring night Subject(s): Americans; United States; America BELLE ISLE, 1949 First Line: We stripped in the first warm spring night Last Line: To go back where we came from Subject(s): Americans; United States BERENDA SLOUGH Poem Text First Line: Earth and water without form Subject(s): Berenda Slough, California BLACK STONE ON TOP OF NOTHING First Line: Still sober, cesar vallejo comes home and finds a black ribbon Last Line: I've come in spring, in autumn, in rain, and he was never there BLASTING FROM HEAVEN Poem Text Subject(s): Food & Eating; Mothers; Life BLASTING FROM HEAVEN First Line: The little girl won't eat her sandwich Last Line: And with no morning the day is sold BLOODSTONE Poem Text First Line: This is you, dark green, bloodflecked Subject(s): Gems BOY'S ANSWER First Line: The train passes every afternoon Last Line: He does it again and still again %to become something without a name Subject(s): Children; Railroads BREATH First Line: Who hears the humming BURIAL RITES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Everyone comes back here to die Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The BURNED Poem Text First Line: I have to go back into the forge room Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Factories; Jews; World War Ii; Farewell; Fathers; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Work; Workers; Judaism; Second World War; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness BURNED First Line: I have to go back into the forge room Last Line: Singing together tonight %in the rising voices of the unforgiven BUSINESSMAN OF ALICANTE First Line: He's on my front porch rapping BUYING AND SELLING Poem Text First Line: All the way across the bay bridge I sang Subject(s): Cities; Salespersons; Urban Life; Selling BUYING AND SELLING First Line: All the way across the bay bridge I sang Last Line: Themselves, who having been abandoned believe %their parents will return before dark Subject(s): Cities; Salespersons BUYING EARTH Poem Text First Line: Time was, when I was a boy Subject(s): Youth; Aging BY BUS TO FRESNO First Line: I wakened at a filling station Last Line: Rushing toward us sooner than we know Subject(s): Bus Terminals; California CAFE First Line: Everything goes on in the cafe behind the rail yard Last Line: The young men along the bar are too tired even to die CALL IT MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Some days I catch a rhythm, almost a song Subject(s): Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955) CARTRIDGES First Line: You sleep weightless on my palm, the revolver Last Line: Calling me home, home, home, at any price Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) CEMETERY AT ACADEMY, CALIFORNIA First Line: I came here with a young girl Last Line: Headlights, that in time one comes %to be a stranger to nothing Subject(s): Cemeteries CEMETERY AY ACADEMY, CALIFORNIA First Line: On a hot summer morning CEMETRY AT ACADEMY, CALIFORNIA First Line: On a hot summer sunday CESARE Poem Text First Line: One sorry town after another passed Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips CESARE First Line: One sorry town after another passed Last Line: What was to come? It was all there in the rain Subject(s): Railroads; Travel CHILDREN'S CRUSADE First Line: Crossbow wanted a child CLOUDS Poem Text First Line: Dawn. First light tearing Subject(s): Clouds; Social Commentaries CLOUDS First Line: Dawn. At first light tearing Last Line: They should be bitten and boiled like spoons CLOUDS ABOVE THE SEA First Line: My father and mother, two tiny figures Last Line: Under the whole weight of the rain to come COMING CLOSE Poem Text First Line: Take this quiet woman, she has been Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Factories; Women; Work; Workers COMING CLOSE First Line: Take this quiet woman, she has been COMING HOME FROM THE POST OFFICE First Line: On sunday night we would COMING HOME, DETROIT, 1968 Poem Text First Line: A winter tuesday, the city pouring fire, Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Homecoming; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Work; Workers COMING HOME, DETROIT, 1968 First Line: A winter tuesday, the city pouring fire, Last Line: The twisted river stopped at the cover of iron. %we burn this city every day. Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Homecoming; Industry; Labor And Laborers COMING OF AGE IN MICHIGAN First Line: New year's eve, 1947, the old one's ending Last Line: Tuned to prime-time tv and kids still rose early %to catch the bus for school and everyone was innoc COMMANDING ELEPHANTS First Line: Lonnie said before this, 'I'm %the chief of the elephants.' COMMUNIST PARTY First Line: Seven single, formal men slowly circling Last Line: It's never too late, is it, to lose yur life CONCORDANCE Poem Text First Line: Brown bird, irresolute as a dry Last Line: Till then attended to Subject(s): Birds; Thought CONDUCTOR OF NOTHING First Line: If you were to stop and ask me CRY FOR NOTHING First Line: Make the stream Last Line: Going to make him cry %for nothing CUTTING EDGE First Line: Even the spring water Last Line: A conversation of stone DARK RINGS First Line: Young teddy holds his face Last Line: Waiting for the world DEAD First Line: A good man is seized by the police Last Line: The least little daily miracle DEATH BEARING Poem Text First Line: The sun wakens staining her pillow Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH OF SAUL First Line: The sleeping armies of the living god Last Line: And further still from him he could not name Subject(s): Bible; Religion DEATH STAR First Line: In the night a branch of the walnut Last Line: To plunder the wisteria, all here DETROIT GREASE SHOP POEM Poem Text First Line: Four bright steel crosses Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers DETROIT GREASE SHOP POEM First Line: Four bright steel crosses Last Line: His skin like a tear Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers DETROIT, TOMORROW Poem Text First Line: Newspaper says the boy killed by someone Subject(s): Death - Children; Detroit, Michigan; Death - Babies DETROIT, TOMORROW First Line: Newspaper says the boy killed by someone Last Line: To kneel down and pray for life eternal Subject(s): Death - Children; Detroit, Michigan DOG POEM Poem Text First Line: Fierce and stupid all dogs are Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG POEM First Line: Fierce and stupid all dogs are Last Line: Five days a week. Give them my life Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DRUM Poem Text First Line: In the early morning before the shop Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Factories; Work; Workers DRUM; LEO'S TOOL & DIE, 1950 First Line: In the early morning before the shop Last Line: At the exact center of the modern world DRUNKARD First Line: He fears the tiger standing in his way Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism DURING RAIN AND WIND First Line: Outside the rain batters DURING THE WAR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When my brother came home from war Subject(s): War; Grief; Social Commentaries; Sorrow; Sadness DUST AND MEMORY First Line: A small unshaven man, perhaps fifty Last Line: Warm still in the fire of your care DUTCH TREAT First Line: A railroad station in a suburb of amsterdam Last Line: Around me like spanish champagne and lap it up ELEGY FOR TEDDY HOLMES, DEAD IN A FAR LAND First Line: Here the air takes the host Last Line: Water to the young ENDING First Line: Early march EVENING TURNED ITS BACK UPON HER VOICE First Line: Is she waiting for a knock on the door Last Line: Of how it calls and calls to us without words Subject(s): Memory; Women EVERLASTING SUNDAY First Line: Waiting for it Last Line: When was I young? Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers EVERY BLESSED DAY First Line: First with a glass of water EVERYTHING Poem Text First Line: Lately the wind burns Subject(s): Time EVERYTHING First Line: Lately the wind burns Last Line: Over and over, %and that's evrything FACE First Line: A strange wind off the night FACTS Poem Text First Line: The bus station in princeton, new jersey Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Princeton, New Jersey FACTS First Line: The bus station in princeton, new jersey Last Line: I haven't the heart for it. Not even in you rolls Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Princeton, New Jersey FALLING SKY First Line: Last night while I slept Last Line: Darker, under the falling sky FAST First Line: At thirteen all I did was not Last Line: Of metal and dirt, little %burned segments of fall bodies %or risen fruits, gifts of %the vanished t FATHER Poem Text First Line: The long lines of diesels Subject(s): Fathers; Disappointment FEAR AND FAME Poem Text First Line: Half an hour to dress, wide rubber hip boots, Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers FEAR AND FAME First Line: Half an hour to dress, wide rubber hip boots Last Line: What it takes to be known among women and men FEBRUARY 14TH First Line: Awakening at dawn thirty Last Line: And the wide world is green Subject(s): Love FIRE First Line: A fire burns along the eastern rim FIRST LETTER FROM A VANISHED UNCLE First Line: Philip, it is so still here Last Line: Put down your book, go back %there now, and look with my eyes FIRST POEMS First Line: The first overwhelming text was stephen crane FIST Poem Text First Line: Iron growing in the dark Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers FIST First Line: Iron growing in the dark Last Line: Light, blood - but fill Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FLOWERING MIDNIGHT First Line: After the rage of the anvil, the terror Last Line: For the music, three black trees filling with winter FOR A DURO First Line: For a duro you got a night out of the wind Last Line: Galactic peace the moment it arrives FOR FRAN Poem Text First Line: She packs the flower beds with leaves Subject(s): Marriage; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The FOR FRAN First Line: She packs the flower beds with leaves Last Line: Out of whatever we have been %we will make something for the dark FOR THE FALLEN Poem Text First Line: In the old graveyard behind Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) FOR THE FALLEN First Line: In the old graveyard behind Last Line: And darkening hands Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) FOR THE POETS OF CHILE First Line: Today I called for you Last Line: Drink each morning FOUNDING OF ENGLISH METRE First Line: My first rain poems walked slowly Last Line: With nine streets to cross, two %with stop lights, and 107 houses %to pass before he is iambicly at FOURTH STAR First Line: The stream is rising, the small FOX First Line: I think I must have lived FRANCISCO, I'LL BRING YOU RED CARNATIONS First Line: Here in the great cemetery Last Line: Once was frail and flesh Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) GANGRENE Poem Text First Line: One was kicked in the stomach Subject(s): Racism; Torture; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry GENIUS Poem Text First Line: Two old dancing shoes my grandfather Subject(s): Humanity GENIUS First Line: Two old dancing shoes my grandfather Last Line: Or dew that won't wait long enough %to stand my little gray wren a drink Subject(s): Humanity GIFT First Line: Wrapping the myrrh and frankincense Last Line: And I give the same gift of breathy music %for a real life with a real beginning GIFT FOR A BELIEVER; FOR FLAVIO CONSTANTINI Poem Text First Line: It is friday, a usual day / in italy, and you wait Subject(s): Italy; Italians GIFT FOR A BELIEVER; FOR FLAVIO CONSTANTINI First Line: It is friday, a usual day %in italy, and you wait Last Line: What the roots crave, rain Subject(s): Italy GIN Poem Text First Line: The first time I drank gin Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969); Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse GIN First Line: The first time I drank gin Last Line: Of dwight eisenhower, who brought us %richard nixon with wife and dog. %any wonder we were trying gi Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969); Nixon, Richard (1913-1996) GIVERS AND TAKERS First Line: Fifty years ago, before the invention Last Line: That even my body belonged to someone else Subject(s): Labor And Laborers GO TO THE COUNTRY First Line: The pond, grim and gray in the winter rains Last Line: I don't go to the country. I let it come to me GOING BACK First Line: I opened war and peace to reread the scene Last Line: With david ber I sat, with yenkl, tsipie, %abraham, with all my lost, while the rain fell GOODBYE First Line: Waking to silence GOSPEL Poem Text First Line: The new grass rising in the hills, Subject(s): Landscape; Language; Words; Vocabulary GRANDMOTHER IN HEAVEN First Line: Darkness gathering in the branches GREEN THUMB Poem Text First Line: Shake out my pockets! Harken to the call Subject(s): Relationships; Farewell; Solitude; Parting; Loneliness GROWTH First Line: In the soap factory where I worked HAVING BEEN ASKED WHAT IS A MAN? I ANSWER Poem Text First Line: My oldest son comes to visit me Subject(s): Hospitals; Sickness; Illness HAVING BEEN ASKED, 'WHAT IS A MAN?' I ANSWER First Line: My oldest son comes to visit me %in the hospital HE WOULD NEVER USE ONE WORD WHERE NONE WOULD DO' First Line: If you said, 'nice day,' he would look up Last Line: Dirtied by our endless stream of words HEAR ME First Line: I watch the filthy light seep through HEAVEN First Line: If you were twenty-seven %and had done time for beating your ex-wife Last Line: And no one to believe %that heaven was really here HELMET First Line: All the way %on the road to gary HERE Poem Text First Line: Now we're here again, the fat suicide HERE AND NOW Poem Text First Line: The waters of earth come and go Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HERE AND NOW First Line: The waters of earth come and go Last Line: Nothing needs to be said HOLA MIGUELIN! First Line: The night is rising in the young grass Last Line: For the night that is always rising HOLD ME First Line: The table cleared of my place HOLDING ON Poem Text First Line: Green fingers / holding the hillside, Subject(s): Solitude; Conduct Of Life; Loneliness HOLDING ON First Line: Green fingers %holding the hillside HOLY SON AND MOTHER OF THE PROJECTS First Line: In this new place without elm trees, without rocks Last Line: Of the only one who serves you more than you deserve HOMECOMING First Line: An actual place in the actual city Last Line: Welcoming us, if the place had a spirit HOUSE First Line: This poem has a door, a locked door HOUSE OF SILENCE Poem Text First Line: The winter sun, golden and tired Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons HOUSES IN ORDER First Line: In cardboard boxes under the williamsburg bridge Last Line: Until their small jaws ache from so much prayer HOW MUCH CAN IT HURT? First Line: The woman at the checkstand HOW MUCH EARTH Poem Text First Line: Torn into light, you woke wriggling Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race HOW MUCH EARTH First Line: Torn into light, you woke wriggling HOW TO GET THERE Poem Text First Line: Turn left off henry onto middagh street Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Firehouses HUNTED Poem Text First Line: I am the victim Subject(s): Hunting; Hunters I AM ALWAYS Poem Text First Line: I sit on the toilet, the lid down Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives I CAUGHT A GLIMPSE First Line: It happens when I've been driving Last Line: While the afternoon closes down around me I CLIMBED NINE FENCES THIS MORNING First Line: Haven't seen a cow or goat or horse or man Last Line: How do I get out? I COULD BELIEVE First Line: I could come to believe %almost anything I WAS BORN IN LUCERNE First Line: Everyone says otherwise. They take me I WON, YOU LOST Poem Text First Line: The last of day gathers Subject(s): Old Age; Absence; Separation; Isolation I'VE BEEN ASLEEP Poem Text First Line: My hand lies open Subject(s): Morning IF YOU ARE HERE Poem Text First Line: Two women walk side by side at dawn Subject(s): Memory IF YOU ARE HERE First Line: Two women walk side by side at dawn Last Line: You would be you, writing these final words Subject(s): Memory IN A LIGHT TIME First Line: The alder shudders IN A VACANT HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Someone was calling someone Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness IN SAXONY Poem Text First Line: A little girl with blond braids Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism IN SAXONY First Line: A little girl with blond braids Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN THE DARK Poem Text First Line: In the last lght of a summer day facing the canadian shore Subject(s): Love IN THE DARK First Line: In the last lght of a summer day facing the canadian shore Last Line: Are watching from above, I go down on my nees in prayer Subject(s): Love IN THE NEW SUN Poem Text First Line: Filaments of light / slant like windswept rain. Subject(s): Industry; Conduct Of Life IT WAS AUTUMN First Line: When my uncle came home from burma Last Line: The room stilled, and we entered the past IT'S HERE First Line: Get off the woodward streetcar at grand circus park Last Line: Rhubarb, little sweetie, ripe red wonder, rose campion IT'S MOTHER Poem Text First Line: My dear mother gets around Subject(s): Mothers JAZZ First Line: We'd meet at eleven near city hall to walk Last Line: There's no escaping what he gave to us JEHOVAH'S WITNESS First Line: In havana I lived in a fourth-floor walk up Last Line: Who called the future and let me pay for his drink JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY Poem Text First Line: Within a low wall, falling away Subject(s): Jews; Cemeteries; Italy; Judaism; Graveyards; Italians JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY First Line: Within a low wall falling away JOE GOULD'S PEN First Line: I am told this is the pen Last Line: These lines are vanishing now KEATS IN CALIFORNIA Poem Text First Line: The wisterai has come and gone, the plum trees Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); California KEATS IN CALIFORNIA First Line: The wisteria has come and gone, the plum trees KEEP TALKING Poem Text First Line: If it ain't simply this, what is it? Subject(s): Relationships KINGDOM First Line: Together we entered the kingdom L'HOMME ET LA BETE First Line: It is summertime LAME DUCKS, 1945 First Line: Late friday afternoon in the final year Last Line: So as predicted at my initial birth %I'd be good for nothing but to tell you this LAST SONG OF THE ANGEL OF BAD LUCK First Line: What chance did I have? No one LAST STEP First Line: Once I was a small grain LAST WORDS First Line: If the shoe fell from the other foot LATE ANSWER First Line: Beyond that stand of firs LATE LIGHT First Line: Rain filled the streets LATE MOON First Line: 2 a.M. %december, and still no moon LATER STILL First Line: Two sons are gone LET IT BEGIN First Line: Snow before dawn, the trees asleep Last Line: The branches creak, and I let it begin LET ME BE First Line: When I was first born LET ME BEGIN AGAIN LET ME BEGIN AGAIN AS A SPECK LETTER TO THE CAPITOL First Line: Our crops were lost, perhaps you never knew Last Line: Of loss that's in our lives. In time you'll share %with us the drought of love, the crop of hate LETTERS First Line: My friend arnold wrote me how his life Last Line: In just this one night and with words only LETTERS FOR THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: The air darkened toward morning Subject(s): Family Life; Travel; Death; Conduct Of Life; Relatives; Journeys; Trips; Dead, The LETTERS FOR THE DEAD First Line: The air darkened toward morning LIFE AHEAD First Line: I wakened, still a child LIGHTS I HAVE SEEN BEFORE First Line: The children are off somewhere LISTEN CAREFULLY First Line: My sister rises from our bed hours before dawn Last Line: The one who's wrong. You haven't heard a word LITTLE APPLE OF MY EYE First Line: In the park leading to the post office Last Line: Pouring its soft light down on all the secret houses LLANTO First Line: Plum, almond, cherry have come and gone, Last Line: That will not sing, that will not even talk. LONG GONE MARCH Poem Text First Line: Long columns of rain Subject(s): Childhood Memories LONG GONE MARCH First Line: Long columns of rain LOOK Poem Text First Line: The low-built houses of the poor Subject(s): Adulthood LOOK First Line: The low-built houses of the poor LOOKING FOR LEVINE Poem Text First Line: At the airport they Subject(s): Self LOSING YOU Poem Text First Line: Another summer gone LOST First Line: A man wakens in a car LOST First Line: On my way home, cutting through alleys LOST AND FOUND First Line: A light wind beyond the window LOST ANGEL First Line: Four little children %in winged costumes Last Line: And gives me back my life M. DEGAS TEACHES ART & SCIENCE AT DURFEE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL First Line: He made a line on the blackboard Last Line: The trees bucked and quaked, and I %knew this could go on forever Subject(s): Education; Schools M. DEGAS TEACHES ART & SCIENCE AT DURFEE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, DETROIT 1942 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: He made a line on the blackboard Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers MAD DAY IN MARCH Poem Text First Line: Beaten like an old hound MAD DAY IN MARCH First Line: Beaten like an old hound Last Line: Alone, arrived, with wings %frozen, holds on and sings MAKING IT NEW First Line: All morning %rain slowly filled MAKING LIGHT OF IT Poem Text First Line: I call out a secret name, a name Last Line: Of his breath, making light of it all Subject(s): Home; Summer MAKING LIGHT OF IT First Line: I call out a secret name, the name Last Line: Of his breath, making light of it all MERCY First Line: The ship that took my mother to ellis island Last Line: Of your hands and you can never get enough MIDGET First Line: In this cafe durruti Last Line: I sing lullaby, and sing Subject(s): Restaurants MILKWEED First Line: Remember how unimportant %they seemed Last Line: Going with %the wind as they always did MIRACLE First Line: A man staring into the fire MONTJUICH Poem Text First Line: Hill of jews, says one, Subject(s): Mountains; Barcelona, Spain; Cemeteries; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Graveyards MORNING AFTER First Line: Outside of town the green hills roll Last Line: Hold on to the same dollar bill Subject(s): Apple Trees; September; Trees MORTAL WORDS OF ZWEIK First Line: As an old man, zweik told me Last Line: Of january afternoons %that answers everything Subject(s): Wisdom MOVING First Line: We clanked through the old house making more Last Line: Into the ford and set out for the grave MY BROTHER THE ARTIST, AT SEVEN Poem Text First Line: As a boy he played alone in the fields Subject(s): Brothers; Play; Solitude; Youth; Half-brothers; Loneliness MY FAMILY UNDER CAESAR First Line: At the edge of town we lived beside a stand Last Line: For the firs to hear, for the winds to carry off MY FATHER WITH CIGARETTE TWELVE YEARS BEFORE THE NAZIS COULD BREAK HIS First Line: I remember the room in which he held Last Line: How close the moon, how utterly silent the piano MY FATHERS, THE BALTIC First Line: Along the strand stones, %busted shells, wood scraps Last Line: That the waves go out %and nothing comes back MY GIVEN NAME First Line: My grandmother missed the midnight train back Last Line: I hid from abraham, the delicious piss %against adam's tree in honor of our god MY GRAVE First Line: Just outside malaga, california %lost among the cluster of truckstops MY MOTHER WITH PURSE THE SUMMER THEY MURDERED THE SPANISH POET Poem Text First Line: Has she looked out the window she would have seen a quiet street Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MY MOTHER WITH PURSE THE SUMMER THEY MURDERED THE SPANISH POET First Line: Has she looked out the window she would have seen a quiet street Last Line: Above granada where all time stopped. Her purse snaps shut Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MY NAME Poem Text First Line: A child saw my name passing into Subject(s): Self; Names; Language; Words; Vocabulary MY POETS Poem Text First Line: On was put in the lock-up Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets MY POETS First Line: One was put in the lockup MY SON AND I First Line: In a coffee house at 3 am %and he believes Last Line: Next door the tv babbles %on and on, and I give up %and sway toward the bed %in a last chant before NAMING First Line: Do you remember an impossible city Last Line: Of who I was, who I will always be NEGATIVES First Line: I dig in the soft earth all NEW DAY First Line: The headlights fading out at dawn NEW DAYS FOR OLD, OLD DAYS FOR NEW First Line: The old moon fades, the flies tune their voices Last Line: A new day's here, with or without the moon NEW SEASON First Line: My son and I go walking in the garden NEW WORLD First Line: A man roams the streets with a basket Last Line: And this was michigan in 1928 Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan NEW YEAR'S EVE, IN HOSPITAL Poem Text First Line: You can hate the sea as it floods Subject(s): Hospitals; Sea; Newman, John Henry, Cardinal (1801-1890); Ocean NEW YEAR'S EVE, IN HOSPITAL First Line: You can hate the sea as it floods Last Line: As it came on and on and on NIGHT THOUGHTS OVER A SICK CHILD Poem Text First Line: Numb, stiff, broken by no sleep Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness NIGHT THOUGHTS OVER A SICK CHILD First Line: Numb, stiff, broken by no sleep NIGHT WORDS First Line: A child wakens in a cold apartment Last Line: Of the river that runs through every child's dreams NITRATE First Line: They don't come back, he said NO ONE REMEMBERS First Line: A soft wind %off the stones of the dead Last Line: No one remembers NOON Poem Text First Line: I bend to the ground Subject(s): Nature NOON First Line: I bend to the ground NORTH First Line: An empty state train bouncing Last Line: So long, the ones that work NORTHERN MOTIVE First Line: A modest house in a row of modest houses Last Line: Came softly on. Why can't I ever let it go? NOW IT CAN BE TOLD First Line: What would it mean to lose this life Last Line: I still gleam %like worn cloth, not like a woman's eyes OLD TESTAMENT First Line: My twiin brother swears that at age thirteen Last Line: Tear stained, bloodied, begging for a moment's peace ON 52ND STREET Poem Text First Line: Down sat bud, raised his hands Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Night Clubs; Jazz; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ON A DRAWING BY FLAVIO Poem Text First Line: Above my desk / the rabbi of auschwitz Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism ON A DRAWING BY FLAVIO First Line: Above my desk %the rabbi of auschwitz Last Line: That is all that god %gave us to hold Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ON ME! First Line: In the next room his brothers are asleep Last Line: So long for him to get it and to come of age ON MY OWN First Line: Yes, I only got here on my own ON THE BIRTH OF GOOD & EVIL DURING THE LONG WINTER OF '28 First Line: When the streetcar stalled on joy road ON THE CORNER Poem Text First Line: Standing on the corner Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Tatum, Art (1910-1956) ON THE CORNER First Line: Standing on the corner Last Line: I can't hardly wait, he said Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Tatum, Art (1910-1956) ON THE EDGE First Line: My name is edgar poe and I was born Last Line: Where page is blanker than the raining skies ON THE MEETING OF GARCIA LORCA AND HART CRANE Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Crane, Hart (1899-1932); Imagination; Fancy ON THE MEETING OF GARCIA LORCA AND HART CRANE First Line: Brooklyn, 1929. Of course crane's Last Line: What an imagination arthur had! ON THE MURDER OF LIEUTENANT JOSE DEL CASTILLO BY THE FALANGIST ... Poem Text First Line: When the lieutenant of the guardia de asalto Subject(s): Assassination; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ON THE MURDER OF LIEUTENANT JOSE DEL CASTILLO BY THE FALANGIST ... First Line: When the lieutenant of the guardia de asalto Last Line: He won't walk as a man ever again Subject(s): Assassination; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ON THE RIVER First Line: My brother has an old rowboat ONCE First Line: Hungry and cold I stood in a doorway Last Line: Perfectly without music even with you? ONE Poem Text First Line: When I was an only child I carried Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Despair; Work; Workers ONE BY ONE Poem Text Subject(s): Sea; Soldiers; Cooking & Cooks; Ocean; Cookery ONE DAY Poem Text First Line: Everyone knows that the trees will go one day Variant Title(s): This Day Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives ONE DAY First Line: Everyone knows that the trees will go one day Last Line: Into a day that never ended Variant Title(s): This Da ONE FOR THE ROSE First Line: Three weeks ago I went back ORDINARY MORNING First Line: A man is singing on the bus Last Line: In detroit, city of dreams, %each on his own black throne Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan ORPHANS First Line: The field mouse in his little gray cape Last Line: Wise, an orphaned spirit like my own OUR VALLEY Poem Text First Line: We don't see the ocean, not ever, but in july and august Subject(s): Home; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) OVERTIME First Line: The rolling stock comes to rest PASSING OUT Poem Text First Line: The doctor fingers my bruise. Subject(s): Examinations PERENNIALS First Line: I don't remember the day I was born PETER'S GIFT First Line: My friend peter found a strang newcomer Last Line: Gift of song. 'an owl,' he said, and %was speechless for therest of the night PHILOSOPHY LESSON First Line: After driving all night long Last Line: Things are too good to be true.' PHOTOGRAPHY Poem Text First Line: My aunt yetta sleeps, her mouth hanging open, her eyes Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Aunts; Photography & Photographers PHOTOGRAPHY First Line: My aunt yetta sleeps, her mouth hanging open, her Last Line: While a name hangs in the brilliant morning air PHOTOGRAPHY 2 Poem Text First Line: Across the road from ford's a mrs. Strempek Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan PHOTOGRAPHY 2 First Line: Across the road from ford's a mrs. Strempek Last Line: Blackening the sky, and nothing in between Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan PILI'S WALL First Line: Why me? %from this small hill PLANTING First Line: A soldier runs home POEM CIRCLING HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN ALL NIGHT First Line: He hasn't gone to work POEM OF CHALK First Line: On the way to lower broadway Last Line: Below the sea shell's stiffening cry POEM OF FLIGHT First Line: I shall begin with a rose for courage POEM WITH NO ENDING First Line: So many poems begin where they PREMONITION AT TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: The magpie in the joshua tree Subject(s): Birds PRESENT First Line: The day comes slowly in the railyard RAIN DOWNRIVER First Line: It has been raining now since Last Line: Also glisten, and the world is mine REBELLION OF BREAD First Line: At two hours past midnight Last Line: For two dozen slices holier than air RED DUST Poem Text First Line: This harpie with dry red curls Subject(s): Self-pity; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness RED DUST First Line: This harpie with dry red curls REINVENTING AMERICA First Line: The city was huge. A boy of twelve could walk Last Line: Brought to america with pure fidelity RENAMING THE KINGS First Line: River of green stone RETURN First Line: All afternoon my father drove the country roads Last Line: Nothing at all ecxcept the stubbornness of things RIGHT CROSS First Line: The sun rising over the mountains Last Line: Back to our beds for the day's last work Subject(s): Sports ROOFS First Line: As a child I climbed the roof ROUSAK, HEAD AND TORSO, 1951 First Line: Walter spoke definitively to me to say Last Line: Of toilet paper to daub his dirty flesh SALAMI First Line: Stomach of goat, crushed Last Line: The true and earthy prayer %of salami SALT Poem Text First Line: This one woman has been sobbing Subject(s): Air Travel; Family Life; Love - Loss Of; Relatives SALT AND OIL Poem Text First Line: Three young men in dirty wok clothers Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan SALT AND OIL First Line: Three young men in dirty wok clothers Last Line: The day that passed, the night to come Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan SALTS AND OILS First Line: In havana in 1948 I ate fried dog SATURDAY SWEEPING Last Line: While the sun's %still up SATURDAYS IN HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: When the woman next door SCOUTING First Line: I'm the man who gets off the bus Last Line: In the dark you can love this place SEA WE READ ABOUT First Line: Now and then a lost sea gull flutters into Last Line: Everything, and that I would get there some day SEARCH FOR LORCA'S SHADOW First Line: I've seen the hillside. A soft wind moved Last Line: Darkness we can say is his, federico's Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SEARCHING FOR US First Line: Two ten-inch phonograph records, bluebirds SECOND ANGEL First Line: We could be going home SECRET First Line: Somewhere the sea deepens Last Line: You are as blindness descends Subject(s): Sea SECRET LIFE OF LUTHER COXE First Line: If you'd met him as a boy you'd think %how unlikely that creation would choose Last Line: By doing absolutely nothing %step by silent step with head held high SECRET OF THEIR VOICES First Line: When they wakened Last Line: I might have helped SEVEN DOORS First Line: The waiter carries a white towel over Last Line: Now we can smile. Everyone eats tonight Subject(s): Restaurants SEVENTH SUMMER First Line: How could I not know god had a son? Last Line: In the grace I did not say, thankful for corn, %beans, and poisonous pork, and understood it all SIERRA KID Poem Text First Line: I passed slimgullion, morgan mine, Subject(s): Explorers; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SILENT IN AMERICA First Line: Since I no longer speak I SIMPLE TRUTH First Line: I bought a dollar and a half's worth of small red potatoes Last Line: In a form we have no words for, and you live on it Subject(s): Farm Life; Truth SLEEPLESS NIGHT First Line: April, and the last of the plum blossoms SMALL GAME Poem Text First Line: In borrowed boots which don't fit Subject(s): Hunting; Hunters SMOKE Poem Text First Line: Can you imagine the air filled with smoke? Last Line: From poetry Subject(s): Family Life; Smoke; Relatives SNAILS First Line: The leaves rustled in the late wind SNOW First Line: Today the snow is drifting Last Line: Great pale cheek against the burning %cheek of earth and say, there, there, child. SOLOING Poem Text First Line: My mother tells me she dreamed Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts SOLOING First Line: My mother tells me she dreamed Last Line: Turned back and lost the music Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SOMETHING HAS FALLEN Poem Text First Line: Something has fallen wordlessly Subject(s): Childhood Memories SONGS Poem Text First Line: Dawn coming in over the fields Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SOUL First Line: In castelldefels we say, there are four thousand souls Last Line: Rages through the pines and--except for us--all four thousand %souls singly or in pairs huddle in th SOURCES Poem Text First Line: Fish scales, wet newspapers, unopened cans Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews - United States SOURCES First Line: Fish scales, wet newspapers, unopened cans Last Line: But not least, beloved of god. Each other Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews - United States SPACE WE LIVE First Line: Light shrugs at the last dreams Last Line: For that one space before the word is flesh SPANISH LESSON Poem Text First Line: We look down into a garden Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SPRING IN THE OLD WORLD First Line: In the central terminal rain pouring Last Line: Through the long grass and wildflowers, %shouting to the air, their skirts %flared out around them, STARLIGHT First Line: My father stands in the warm evening Last Line: Never to waken in that world again STORMS Poem Text First Line: After the storm of his dying Subject(s): Death; Dead, The STORMS First Line: After the storm of his dying Last Line: Of the arched rainbow of his faith STREET WITH NO SHOP ON THE CORNER First Line: Mountains I had not seen, nor the sea Last Line: Or the sun rising most every day, as I do now SUIT First Line: Dark brown pinstripe, the trousers SUMMER Poem Text First Line: At ox bow beach, the august sun a rake Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds SUNDAY AFTERNOON First Line: At first when we saw a girl SUNDAYS WITH LUNGO First Line: Lungo and I would go into the deep woods Last Line: As lungo was - that even words make sense SURVIVOR First Line: Nimes, august, 1966, and I Last Line: Onward toward the heart %where there is no rest Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SWEET WILL Poem Text First Line: The man who stood beside me Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Transience; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Work; Workers; Impermanence SWEET WILL First Line: The man who stood beside me Last Line: And people rose one %by one from cold beds to tend a world %that runs on and on at its own sweet wil Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Transience SWEETNESS OF BOBBY HEFKA First Line: What do you make of little bobby hefka Last Line: His eyes were wide open. Bobby hefka loved me Subject(s): Classmates; Racism TAKE MY NEIGHBOR First Line: The guy sitting alone on the back porch Last Line: Above the shallow earth in a clean shirt %silent in summer %on a rented porch THAT DAY Poem Text First Line: I woke in a cold room Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE CARTRIDGES Poem Text First Line: You sleep weightless on my palm, the revolver Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) THE CEMETERY AT ACADEMY, CALIFORNIA Poem Text First Line: I came here with a young girl Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards THE DEATH OF SAUL Poem Text First Line: The sleeping armies of the living god Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE DISTANT WATER Poem Text First Line: The sour daylight cracks through my sleep-caked lids. Subject(s): War THE DRUNKARD Poem Text First Line: He fears the tiger standing in his way Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse THE END OF YOUR LIFE Poem Text First Line: First light. This misted field Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE EVENING TURNED ITS BACK UPON HER VOICE Poem Text First Line: Is she waiting for a knock on the door Subject(s): Memory; Women THE EVERLASTING SUNDAY Poem Text First Line: Waiting for it Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE FALLING SKY Poem Text First Line: Last night while I slept THE FIRST TRUTH Poem Text First Line: The second truth is that the rose blooms Subject(s): Solitude THE GATEKEEPER'S CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: This is the house of the very rich. Subject(s): Wealth; Social Classes; Children; Riches; Fortunes; Caste; Childhood THE GRAVE OF THE KITCHEN MOUSE Poem Text First Line: The stone says coors Subject(s): Mice; Death - Animals THE HELMET Poem Text First Line: All the way Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE HORSE Poem Text First Line: They spoke of the horse alive Last Line: Their bones in one mad dance. Subject(s): Animals; Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Horses; Nuclear Freeze THE MIDGET Poem Text First Line: In this cafe durruti Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners THE MORTAL WORDS OF ZWEIK First Line: As an old man, zweik told me Subject(s): Wisdom THE MUSIC OF TIME Poem Text First Line: The young woman sewing by the window Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE MYTH Poem Text First Line: She renamed me after a bridge in the hopes Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE NEGATIVES Poem Text First Line: I dig in the soft earth all Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Capital Punishment; Homecoming; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE NEW WORLD Poem Text First Line: A man roams the streets with a basket Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan THE PRESENT Poem Text First Line: The day comes slowly in the railyard Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains THE RADIO Poem Text First Line: Another morning I rose before work Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Radio; Imagination; Fancy THE RAINS Poem Text First Line: The river rises / and the rains keep coming. Subject(s): Rain; Fear; Family Life; Relatives THE RED SHIRT Poem Text First Line: If I gave 5 birds Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Poetry & Poets THE REPLY Poem Text First Line: I stand in the late sun Subject(s): Relationships THE RIGHT CROSS Poem Text First Line: The sun rising over the mountains Subject(s): Sports THE SEARCH FOR LORCA'S SHADOW Poem Text First Line: I've seen the hillside. A soft wind moved Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) THE SECRET Poem Text First Line: Somewhere the sea deepens Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SIMPLE TRUTH Poem Text First Line: I bought a dollar and a half's worth of small red potatoes Subject(s): Farm Life; Truth; Agriculture; Farmers THE STREET WITH NO SHOP ON THE CORNER Poem Text First Line: Mountains I had not seen, nor the sea Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE SWEETNESS OF BOBBY HEFKA Poem Text First Line: What do you make of little bobby hefka Subject(s): Classmates; Racism; Schoolmates; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE THREE CROWS Poem Text First Line: At dawn my great aunt tsipie would rise and go Subject(s): Birds; Crows THE TOYS Poem Text First Line: The crippled lady will forgive the boy Subject(s): Pain; Toys; Suffering; Misery THE TURNING Poem Text First Line: Unknown faces in the street Subject(s): Jews; Self; Judaism THE TWO Poem Text First Line: When he gets off work at packard, they meet Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Restaurants; Language; Past; Grief; Male-female Relations; Cafes; Diners; Words; Vocabulary; Sorrow; Sadness THE WATER'S CHANT Poem Text First Line: Seven years ago I went into Subject(s): Homecoming THE WAY DOWN Poem Text First Line: On the way down Subject(s): Landscape; Farewell; Parting THE WHOLE SOUL Poem Text First Line: Is it long as a noodle Subject(s): Soul THEN First Line: A solitary apartment house, the last one THEORY OF PROSODY First Line: When nellie, my old pussy THESE WORDS First Line: In the rainy cold weather of april Last Line: Ran with the clear ink of its meaning THEY FEED THEY LION Poem Text First Line: Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Food & Eating; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Lions; Nightmares; Work; Workers THEY FEED THEY LION First Line: Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter Last Line: They feed they lion and he comes Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Food And Eating; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Lions THEY GOT OUR LEADER Poem Text First Line: My creamed-skinned negro student Subject(s): Malcolm X (malcom Little) (1925-1965) THIS WAR Poem Text First Line: You go down to the grave Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THIS WORLD First Line: The murderers grew tired and rested under the trees Last Line: Our mouths with water, flour, cinnamon, and black fruit THISTLES First Line: A mountain thistle in march Last Line: The unanswerable letter THOSE WERE THE DAYS First Line: The sun came up before breakfast THREE CROWS First Line: At dawn my great aunt tsipie would rise and go Last Line: Only to plummet surely back to earth Subject(s): Birds; Crows TO A CHILD TRAPPED IN A BARBER SHOP Poem Text First Line: You've gotten in through the transom Last Line: It's just begun Subject(s): Barbers; Children TO A CHILD TRAPPED IN A BARBER SHOP First Line: You've gotten in through the transom Last Line: You think your life is over? %it's just begun TO A FISH HEAD FOUND ON THE BEACH NEAR MALAGA First Line: Flat, eventless afternoon TO CIPRIANO, IN THE WIND Poem Text First Line: Where did your words go Subject(s): Dry Cleaning & Dry Cleaners; Childhood Memories TO CIPRIANO, IN THE WIND First Line: Where did your words go TO MY GOD IN HIS SICKNESS First Line: A boy is as old as the stars TO P.L., 1916-1937; A SOLDIER OF THE REPUBLIC Poem Text First Line: Gray earth peeping through snow Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) TO P.L., 1916-1937; A SOLDIER OF THE REPUBLIC First Line: Gray earth peeping through snow Last Line: And shaking the stunted pines you hid among Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) TOLD Poem Text First Line: The air lay soffly on the green fur TOLD First Line: The air lay softly on the green fur TRADE First Line: Crouching down in the loud morning air Last Line: I would stand among my second-class peers, tall, %angelic, an ordinary man becomes a gift TRIAGE First Line: Take this piece of bread and crumble it Last Line: Beast, bush and bird vanish in wind %and there are nothing but children here TRISTAN Poem Text First Line: In all sorts of weather tristan Subject(s): Sea; Children; Desire; Friendship; Family Life; Ocean; Childhood; Relatives TRISTAN First Line: In all sorts of weather tristan Last Line: At all times, it urges me out to sea TRUST First Line: Asked for a grilled cheese on white Last Line: While a single modest thank you %is all the napkin can afford TWILIGHT First Line: October. From simpson's hill Last Line: The almonds into blossom? TWO VOICES First Line: I heard a voice behind me in the street Last Line: Out into the dark a name not mine UNCLE First Line: I remember the forehead born UNFINISHED Poem Text First Line: He lived with a pack of stray dogs up in the hills UNKNOWABLE First Line: Practicing his horn on the williamsburg bridge Last Line: Of silence and captured the music VIEW OF HOME First Line: From ontario's shore one sees Last Line: Nourishes it turns to pure shit VOICE First Line: Small blue flowers like points Last Line: And perhaps some the sky too %and all the climbing things between VOYAGES First Line: Pond snipe, bleached pine, rue weed, wart WAITING First Line: Nine years ago, early winter WAKING AN ANGEL First Line: Sparrows quarreled outside our window WAKING IN ALICANTE First Line: Driven all day over bad roads Last Line: The father welcoming %him home WAKING IN MARCH First Line: Last night, again, I dreamed WALK WITH TOM JEFFERSON First Line: Between the freeway WAY DOWN First Line: On the way down Last Line: And hold on and hold on WEDNESDAY First Line: I could say the day began WHAT WE DID TO WHAT WE WERE Poem Text First Line: We pass through towering wheat Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains WHAT WORK IS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We stand in the rain in a long line Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers WHAT WORK IS First Line: We stand in the rain in a long line Last Line: Just because you don't know what work is Subject(s): Labor And Laborers WHERE WE LIVE NOW Poem Text First Line: We live here because the houses Subject(s): Home; Family Life; Relatives WHITE IRIS First Line: A single stalk climbed up WHO First Line: Why am I going away from the glass of wine WHOLE SOUL First Line: Is it long as a noodle WINTER RAINS: CATALUNA First Line: The pegasos are steaming WINTER WORDS Poem Text First Line: Day after day in a high room between Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); City & Town Life WINTER WORDS First Line: Day after day in a high room between Last Line: The carved kentucky hills, the smokeless air WISTERIA Poem Text First Line: The first purple wisteria Subject(s): Longing; Wisteria WISTERIA First Line: The first purple wisteria Subject(s): Longing; Wisteria WORDS First Line: Another dawn, leaden %and cold Last Line: I feel to be no %longer only myself YOU First Line: The moon gone dark Last Line: And I haven't touched you since YOU CAN HAVE IT Poem Text First Line: My brother comes home from work Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers YOU CAN HAVE IT First Line: My brother comes home from work Last Line: All creation and say, you can have it Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers YOU COULD BELIEVE First Line: You could believe the city is more than you Last Line: Everything in this place does what it can Subject(s): Cities; Imagination ZAYDEE Poem Text First Line: Why does the sea burn? Why do the hills cry? Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers ZAYDEE First Line: Why does the sea burn? Why do the hills cry? Last Line: The long streets were still and the snow %swirled where I lay down to rest Subject(s): Grandparents |
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