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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: MARVIN, CATE Matches Found: 68 Marvin, Cate Poet's Biography 68 poems available by this author A BRIEF ATTACHMENT Poem Text First Line: I regard your affection, find your teeth have Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A WINDMILL MAKES A STATEMENT Poem Text First Line: You think I like to stand all day, all night Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Suburbs; Male-female Relations AFTER THE LAST FRIGHT First Line: I carved upon my desk unsayables Last Line: I shook in its mouth till the house drank me up ALBA: ABERDEEN First Line: A sky that blue is not a sad thing Last Line: Our hearts cannot be redder AMERICAN First Line: I didn't cross the ocean to read anna karenina Last Line: To kiss and loll by edge of the recking sea? ANATHEMA First Line: I never recline in splendor Last Line: Blooming red in his eye's white ANNIVERSARY First Line: Disappointment with the lack of stars Last Line: Just hang yourself loud enough to wake him ARTICULATE First Line: Mean-fisted, sterilized with alcohol Last Line: And to kiss or question, mouth is mute BOILING ROCKS First Line: The object is not to make a broth from rocks Last Line: The sea again, never be moved as it moved you BREAKFAST IN BED First Line: It's not a sullen woman carrying Last Line: Clean hands and white sheets-but then %(something happened) my certain failure CAMP RIM ROCK First Line: To furnish the memory's wood with trees Last Line: Terrifies, the night and her many children CIGARILLO Poem Text First Line: The visit of a body. Ants gathered sugar Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs CIGARILLO First Line: The visit of a body. Ants gathered sugar Last Line: Sweet. The ants took to their path on the counter Subject(s): Ants; Insects CONDITION First Line: What we share most is boredom, friend Last Line: Stalking bright aisles in search of distraction Subject(s): Friendship CRY HEARD, FAR OFF First Line: A prehistoric noise saws the air Last Line: Now the noise has stopped. Someone replaces %a cage to its creature DEAR PETRARCH First Line: The sweet singing of virtuous and beautiful ladies Last Line: Now. But the hole of our mouths hold a howl DISCIPLINE, ABANDON First Line: Everything here is made of wood, the floors Last Line: Hazardous as kerosene in a barn, haywire with emotion DREAM ON THIS First Line: Near the city of granite buildings, the block of houses he grew Last Line: Their bodies team in my dreams, join, leap fences EKPHRASTIC First Line: I hung the painting of the scary forest Last Line: To find his way out of this poem again FRAGMENT OF THE HEAD OF A QUEEN Poem Text First Line: Have you known the roar of an estranging city Subject(s): Heads; Statues; City & Town Life HAVE YOU BEEN ANYWHERE? First Line: I suppose I ought to consider the question rhetorical Last Line: Somewhere it would take a god to make me remember HIGH SCHOOL AS A DEAD GIRL Poem Text First Line: High school was us and we. We learned our grammar there. Subject(s): High School Students HIGH SCHOOL: INDUSTRIAL ARTS Poem Text First Line: The lesson today is: someone always gets hurt. Subject(s): High Schools HOUSE, GARDEN, MADNESS First Line: Meeting his mouth made it so I had house again Last Line: Descended, prepared to hemorrhage in my arms I LIVE WHERE THE LEAVES ARE POINTED First Line: At my head and my heart, knife-tips green Last Line: When they made soap, they had me in mind I WAS A HANDICAP TO OUR LEISURE First Line: When I became afraid to drive Last Line: Of screams, bloody ribbons cast to the air INSIDE THE TREMBLING RESTAURANT First Line: It was not I who sought the young fool Last Line: At my door, and rats shiver in their gutters KANSAS First Line: A hair in the throat %a lash in the eye Last Line: All the washing down. %all the washing out LANDSCAPE WITHOUT YOU First Line: Roofers scrape the scaly lid Last Line: Landscape cannot survive you LET THE DAY PERISH Poem Text First Line: I was meaner than a flimsy dollar the change machine refuses Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LOCAL BLIND First Line: Avoiding the pair of blind men walking along the street Last Line: Dangerous curbs. At night I take out the letters he never %sent and read them with my fingertips LYING MY HEAD OFF Poem Text First Line: Here's my head, in a dank corner of the yard Subject(s): Lies; Truth; Conduct Of Life; Relationships ME AND MEN First Line: The soiled fists of socks shucked before Last Line: And I would rather think of animals I have had MEDITERRANEAN BLOOD SYNDROME First Line: Vials of my weakness. Five fingers, black-red Last Line: Your mother, I dream for us a bloodless heaven MORTAL Poem Text First Line: How do you find yourself in literature Subject(s): Mortality MORTAL First Line: How do you find yourself in literature Last Line: This won't be the last the world reads of you Subject(s): Mortality MUCKRAKER Poem Text First Line: That greasy letter into which my legs entered, Subject(s): Disappointment; Conduct Of Life; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MY BLACK ADDRESS First Line: Forward me no more the mail sent %to the old address. No roses were Last Line: For it cannot go any wider with terror, %and there is, at least, some comfort in that NEGATIVE ELEMENT First Line: It's time those houses were between us. Let us choose their Last Line: All our nine houses like one fear between us O MY SONGS First Line: Where is your lantern tonight? Last Line: Yes, having unloved yourself, you must unlove another OCEAN CITY First Line: The things unfurls itself. All day I cannot reach it Last Line: Watch the ocean wring its edge as I twist my hands. %it's unfurling itself again, tireless as an arg Subject(s): Nature; Sea OCEAN IS A WORD IN THIS POEM First Line: One centimeter on the map represents one kilometer on the ground Last Line: And paper, I'll swallow what wedding meant. Salt crusts my lips ON PARTING First Line: Before I go let me thank the man who mugs you Last Line: How blessed is the body you move in-how gone ORACLE Poem Text First Line: Dead girls don't go the dying route to get known Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) PASTURE OF MY First Line: Ire field, long running with flame grass Last Line: We lay beneath weather passively, we forget PLEASE First Line: Repeating the word please, please, please Last Line: The kissed mouth, the product of your revision POETRY MACHINES Poem Text First Line: I saw your new book today. Just after I saw your new book. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading PREPARATIONS FOR AUGUST First Line: Like drinking perfume, or chewing anise tablets Last Line: I have always been jealous of anyone who wants you READERS, PLEASE First Line: You didn't light my cigarette Last Line: Me away, right there and then Variant Title(s): Reader, Pleas READERSHIP First Line: I suppose must have been orbiting all the time Last Line: The answer for everything that's gone awry READING THE NEW SKY First Line: In these intimate corridors: long, red rugs lie Last Line: The sky that has such terrible, beautiful weather SCENES FROM THE BATTLE OF US Poem Text First Line: You are like a war novel, entirely lacking Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; War; Male-female Relations SPECTACULAR First Line: And which way went the lovers, shocked Last Line: Asphyxiated by yourselves who are no ones SPELL First Line: There is a couch, a chair, a table Last Line: Had been. The droplets %on your mouth STOPPING FOR GAS NEAR CHEAT LAKE Poem Text First Line: Trees bent unnatural by wind Subject(s): Gasoline; Lakes; Pools; Ponds STOPPING FOR GAS NEAR CHEAT LAKE First Line: Trees bent unnatural by wind Last Line: Tell me where I can find the bastard who named this lake Subject(s): Gasoline; Lakes TAPESTRY First Line: Completed, knotted at the ends. No unraveling there Last Line: Except, perhaps, for him THE CONDITION Poem Text First Line: What we share most is boredom, friend Subject(s): Friendship THE PET Poem Text First Line: I rode him through the village, smiling. Subject(s): Horses THE READERSHIP Poem Text First Line: I suppose must have been orbiting all the time Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips WEATHER TO REEL FOR First Line: You could have wasted someone Last Line: To please its master, I lick your sweet damage WHISTLING SONG FROM SNOW WHITE First Line: When I was little in a large room Last Line: Dragging its needle along my ear's tunnel WHY I AM AFRAID OF TURNING THE PAGE Poem Text First Line: Spokes, spooks: your tinsel hair weaves the wheel Subject(s): Relationships; Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The WHY SLEEP First Line: I might miss something. The man who paces Last Line: Last night. I must have slept through it, I lie WINDMILL MAKES A STATEMENT First Line: You think I like to stand all day, all night Last Line: All lawns shimmer with your bluest energy WINTER IN ITALY First Line: You are dogs with rhinestone collars Last Line: Snapping jaws. And there are many %books to write beneath calmer lights WORLD' TALLEST DISASTER First Line: These are the lines that will turn you inside out Last Line: I watch its heat. Why does it feel like my body? Variant Title(s): World's Tallest Disaste YOUR CALL IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US Poem Text First Line: Which is why when we call you we keen Subject(s): Social Calls & Calling |
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