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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: MCHUGH, HEATHER Matches Found: 181 Mchugh, Heather Poet's Biography 181 poems available by this author 20-200 ON 737 First Line: Here and now is clear so we 20-200 ON 747 First Line: There is rain on the glass but it all disappears ACTS OF GOD Poem Text First Line: My baby brother's suddenly Subject(s): Life AFFINITY WELLED First Line: From color to color, shape to shape. A purple burning overspilled Last Line: Just one %swell %shy of me ALL ABOUT US First Line: The animal is ravenously AMENITIES First Line: I owe you an explanation AMNIOTIC First Line: I drove a day and a night Last Line: When I woke it was a neighborhood %of new-cropped rock, containing one %whole nowhere of sea-smoke . AND WHAT DO YOU GET First Line: Excise the er from exercise. Or from Last Line: Therapist, split accent with an id ANIMAL SONG First Line: We're flattered they come so close ARM AND PEC (THE 2 ADILLOS) First Line: Mine was just Last Line: Idea that turns itself %into a skull, meaning to last Subject(s): Sin ARTIFACTUAL First Line: All things seem thin AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING First Line: As soon as you say moon and stars AT SPECHT ACADEMY First Line: We saw the water rising, but could not get through AUTOBIOGRAPHY WITH SUSPENDED PERIOD First Line: In company obedient but free alone B.C. OR BUST First Line: Streaming, striped with Last Line: To dust your destining, and %silverize your drift BAR AND GRILL First Line: The world the window held BEAR IN ENGLISH First Line: The animal is the act, the keeper says BETTER OR WORSE Poem Text First Line: Daily, the kindergarteners Subject(s): Children; Relationships; Childhood BIG IDEAS AMONG EARTHLINGS First Line: Who'd want to be the biggest one Last Line: Perhaps the god is small, not big, %who keeps us from harm BREATH First Line: What I want from god, feared to be Last Line: His great blue breath, %his ghost and only song BY FAITH NOT SIGHT Poem Text First Line: We cannot get / out of ourselves Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness BY FAITH NOT SIGHT First Line: We cannot get %out of ourselves Last Line: Now that he's dead %where can I live? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness CAPITAL First Line: For a second the word express appears CONNUBIAL First Line: Dream is matterless, it dips Last Line: So be it. Loving's limited. %I'm saved from terrible eternities by you CONSTRUCTIVE Poem Text First Line: You take a rock, your hand is hard. Subject(s): Relationships CONSTRUCTIVE First Line: You take a rock, your hand is hard CUP OF SKY, A FOOT OF FIRE First Line: I'm not the one I was DARK VIEW Poem Text First Line: The sun that puts its spokes in every Subject(s): Nature DEBTOR'S PRISON ROW Poem Text First Line: They let me go Subject(s): Debt DOWN, DOWN AND DOWN First Line: After seven months in space, the astronauts DRY TIME Poem Text First Line: Killed, the sand Subject(s): Love DRY TIME First Line: Killed, the sand Last Line: Good lick of quick- %sand took Subject(s): Love DUST JACKET First Line: Not quite a name -- sort of a named Last Line: To burn all names to verb-blast %famed to famish EARMARKS First Line: In time-lapse film the flowers yearn and sway EARTHMOVING MALEDICTION First Line: Bulldoze the bed where we made love Last Line: If paradise comes down %there is no hell EIN ANDER First Line: Beyond the tree's red bullet-sprays %the bay braves slater shades until Last Line: What's done by heart to day can still %be done to night by mind ELEVATED Poem Text First Line: Fifty years the butcher shop Subject(s): City & Town Life; Time END TO MY LOGICAL SONG First Line: Bizarre compound, in any case: a hundred thousand Last Line: Of the most endangered %hardwood and feathers ETYMOLOGICAL DIRGE Poem Text First Line: Calm comes from burning Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary FELT WOULD FEEL First Line: A stretch of school, a stretch of temple Last Line: With a seventh sense, and still mistaking %revelation for distraction FOR A MAN First Line: Any little mirror holds Last Line: Every knifewound now is every %one I had coming FORECAST First Line: Later the ferryboats will come FROM 20,000 FEET First Line: The cloud formation looks FROM THE TOWERS Poem Text First Line: Insanity is not a want of reason. Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 GARISH First Line: We raise the shades Last Line: Our golden teeth, our purple hearts GHAZAL OF THE BETTER-UNBEGIN First Line: Too volatile, am I? Too voluble? Too much a word-person? Last Line: Addressing you this way, I make us our own third person GHAZAL OF THE BETTER-UNBEGUN Poem Text First Line: Too volatile, am I? Too voluble? Too much a word-person? Subject(s): Self GHOST First Line: I held my breath for years, for fear GIG AT BIG AL'S Poem Text First Line: There's a special privacy on stage Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons GIG AT BIG AL'S First Line: There's a special privacy on stage Last Line: My lover comes to watch Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders GLASS HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Everything obeyed our laws and Subject(s): Buildings & Builders GLIMPSE OF MAIN EVENT First Line: In the slump between rounds Last Line: Her, the trainer's %visibile, looking %down and in, %urgent with %his adam; %scales %flicker %in the GOSPEL ACCORDING TO VIRGINIA First Line: The devil lived, or else GRAY DAY First Line: The wheel went round and left me HALF BORDER AND HALF LAB Poem Text First Line: Customs and chemistry Subject(s): Dogs HARD First Line: Supose you have HAVE OR LOVE First Line: As if we had time, and could save it HOLE FILLER First Line: The cat is killed HOW COME: A BOOK OF NUMBERS First Line: What brought us here? A boat I KNEW I'D SING First Line: A few sashay, a few finagle ID Poem Text First Line: Did I? Is it? Subject(s): Self ID First Line: Did I? Is it? Hit IMPRESSIONIST First Line: I wasn't getting anywhere IN A WORLD OF TAKING, THE MISTAKE First Line: Down and down into your own regard IN LIGHT OF TIME First Line: The names change Last Line: Metals in their eyes, affixing %pinwheels to their hats and heels. %in a flash they are gone IN PRAISE OF PAIN Poem Text Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery IN PRIMARY COLORS First Line: I like it like it INFLATION First Line: Language wasn't any Last Line: So narrow a necssity? INSIDE Poem Text First Line: In the field is a house Subject(s): Houses INTENSIVE CARE First Line: I swear affective life is water Last Line: Are only quiet points, afloat. I tell you, even %anaesthesia's a feeling, it's %the feeling we forgo IT IS UNHEALTHY NOT TO DIE First Line: So why am I amazed JOKE HEART First Line: The lungs laugh Last Line: Drumming lessens %the length of the joke LABOR First Line: Each sword of the plant is burning LANGUAGE LESSON 1976 Poem Text First Line: When americans say a man Subject(s): Americans; Language; Play; United States; Words; Vocabulary; America LANGUAGE LESSON 1976 First Line: When americans say a man Last Line: And let me be %the one you never hold Subject(s): Americans; Language; Play; United States LEAF LITTER ON ROCK FACE Poem Text First Line: Things are not / unmoving (or else what Subject(s): Wind LETTERS, NUMBERS, SIGNS, WORDS REFERRED TO AS WORDS First Line: They set themselves aside Last Line: Our plurals take apostrophes LIKE First Line: Always I have to resist Last Line: But always like never before LINES Poem Text First Line: Some are waiting, some can't wait Subject(s): Despair; Contentment; Life LINES First Line: Some are waiting, some can't wait LYRICIST'S LAMENT First Line: I never learned the trick of snaps, got sick MAGICIAN First Line: His eye-holes are empty. He utters MAN IN THE STREET OR HAND OVER MOUTH Poem Text First Line: He claps a hand Subject(s): Despair MATTER OVER First Line: From the piling's kelp I drew MEANING TO AND FRO First Line: Your faith in the misplaced Last Line: The liquor of how we love: the clear kind %of misery--I mean mystery MELTED MONEY First Line: Time and time again MIND Poem Text First Line: A man looks at his watch to see Subject(s): Food & Eating; Youth; Schools; Family Life; Students; Relatives MISSING PERSON First Line: On gusts of chain link in the dark Last Line: Seeing the mannequin that moves MOON AND TELEVISION First Line: Shaped like the dead Last Line: Heart-rent, spawn of a spondee MOST First Line: The dining room is empty at the country inn Last Line: A slow bright bomb. The mob in me sits still Subject(s): Restaurants MOTHER First Line: It hurts, inside, as if inside there really were MOX NOX First Line: Hasten slowly, the sundial said MYRRHA TO THE SOURCE Poem Text First Line: O fluent one, o muscle full of hydrogen, Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters NO PLACE First Line: Identifying myself NO SEX FOR PRIESTS Poem Text First Line: The horse in harness suffers Subject(s): Animals; Religion; Theology NOT A SIN First Line: It's not a virtue either, really, this NOT OVER IT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: By woman so touched, so pressed Subject(s): Love NOT TO BE DWELLED ON Poem Text First Line: Self-interest cropped up even there, Subject(s): Graves; Death; Tombs; Tombstones; Dead, The NOTHING I FORESAW: 1. First Line: The kindergarteners passed my porch each day Last Line: We couldn't be each other's other, %maybe, at removes, each other's each NOTHING I FORESAW: S. First Line: Each toddler had a hand-hold on Last Line: Enough the bullseye bloomed, a red %eight-sided sign NUMBERLESS First Line: By law of rod Last Line: One is a bracket of lidded silvers, fast asleep; %the other's open, strapped with hide... OF THE WOE THAT SWALLOWS HUE First Line: Among men, my dimensions Last Line: Spills itself, except %inside another, a receptacle Subject(s): Relationships ONE MOON IN BINOCULARS First Line: How could this homely instrument ONLY LOVE First Line: Some days in dazes I was sinai'd Last Line: Modernest model of %mere agape OPEN AIR First Line: Once it streamed Last Line: Unmowed. About his dead body outdoors, enormous sky arranges%little flappings OR ELSE First Line: What could we say to you OUR ELEMENT First Line: Water fills the drain with raison d'etre OVEN LOVES THE TV SET First Line: Stuck on the fridge, our favorite pin-up girl PAST ALL UNDERSTANDING. GASWORKS PARK, 1996 First Line: A woman there was balancing her baby Last Line: Against an over-turning earth PAST PART First Line: Spruced right up to the brink, or cliff Last Line: Sees in a flash (neither meaning nor mind) %the destiny drives. The drift PHILOSOPHER ORDERS CRISPY PORK Poem Text First Line: I love him so, this creature I do pray Subject(s): Pigs; Boars; Hogs PHYSICS First Line: When you get down to it, earth PLACE WHERE THINGS GOT First Line: I always thought if I could just Last Line: A place where things got huge again POEM First Line: It was from adam's side POINT OF NEEDLE First Line: Stitches in hand and birds in time POINT OF ORIGIN First Line: They feed me and feed me and feed me PRIMATE SONG First Line: The book, the purse, the door PROFESSIONAL HAZARD First Line: The best in human beauty's not QUARREL First Line: Nobody will quarrel with the woodcock Last Line: Like the fly that interprets the wine RELATIVE First Line: In and out of the light of trees REMAINS TO BE SEEN Poem Text First Line: We dress the boy in an orange cap RETIRED SCHOOL-TEACHER First Line: Brilliant planets float in that black lake Last Line: The first of the star-fish touch ROUND TIME First Line: Looking back, I look SACRED LAW First Line: How powerfully the pope, in the depths of his fast SCENES FROM A DEATH First Line: The women had been sent away so there would be no scenes Last Line: We owe an animal to someone %were the final words of socrates SHADES First Line: The day shines down in waves SLEEP, AFTER RAY CHARLES SHOW AND HURRICANE REPORT Poem Text First Line: A storm named for a woman Subject(s): Charles, Ray (b. 1930); Jazz; Music & Musicians SLEEP, AFTER RAY CHARLES SHOW AND HURRICANE REPORT First Line: A storm named for a woman Last Line: Every one regardless Subject(s): Charles, Ray (b. 1930); Jazz; Music And Musicians SOME WONDER First Line: Demi-dark, or dance Last Line: Some know but cannot say SPACE BAR Poem Text First Line: Lined up behind the space bartender Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Drinks & Drinking; Wine SPILLED Poem Text First Line: The waiter dropped a tray of glassware and Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners SPILLED First Line: The waiter dropped a tray of glassware and Last Line: Need not be red, if spilled as speech Subject(s): Restaurants SPOT IN SPACE AND TIME First Line: Despite his name, the dog's STAIRWELL Poem Text First Line: The telescope's a microscope Subject(s): Telescopes & Binoculars; Opera Glasses STAIRWELL First Line: The telescope's a microscope Subject(s): Telescopes And Binoculars TAKE CARE First Line: Our neighbor laura foley used to love THE AMENITIES Poem Text First Line: I owe you an explanation. Subject(s): Youth; Memory; Rape THE FATHER OF PREDICAMENTS Poem Text First Line: He came at night to each of us asleep Subject(s): Fathers; Self; Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians THE MOST Poem Text First Line: The dining room is empty at the country inn Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners THE OVEN LOVES THE TV SET Poem Text First Line: Stuck on the fridge, our favorite pin-up girl Subject(s): Social Commentaries THE WOMAN WHO LAUGHED ON CALVARY Poem Text First Line: Smilers, smirkers, chucklers, grinners Subject(s): Body, Human THIRD PERSON NEUTER Poem Text First Line: Is god mad? Was christ Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THIRD PERSON NEUTER First Line: Is god mad? Was christ Last Line: I'm made of it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness THIS First Line: Rigid, brown, stick's time THOUGHT OF NIGHT First Line: Just think of it TO GO Recitation by Author Subject(s): Bees; Plants; Beekeeping; Planting; Planters TO GOD OR MAN First Line: A line's not meant to lie there, longing TO HAVE TO IS AN ODD INFINITIVE, IN WHICH Last Line: And endless, in the end, in their %capacity to be attached TO THE QUICK First Line: We fixed the ages of the irises at flower TORNADO SURVIVOR Poem Text First Line: I said the people come inside Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO SURVIVOR First Line: I said the people come inside Last Line: It was over for maybe minutes %then it was never over Subject(s): Tornadoes TROUBLE WITH IN First Line: In english we're in trouble TWO HUMANS BEING First Line: The street's awash with city life TWO LOVES First Line: The backhoe braces itself against itself TWO POEMS AFTER RILKE, SELS. TWO ST. PETERSBURGS Poem Text First Line: The statue turned Subject(s): Language; Saint Petersburg, Florida; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Words; Vocabulary; Leningrad; Petrograd TWO ST. PETERSBURGS First Line: The statue turned Last Line: Is not yet fallen off Subject(s): Language; Saint Petersburg, Florida; Saint Petersburg, Russia TYPEWRITER'S THE KIND U-DISTRICT INCIDENT REPORT Poem Text First Line: Apparently they want your body parts. They frisk you for Subject(s): Security Checks UNFAMILIAR First Line: The foreign filmmaker cannot UNREPRESENTATIVE First Line: It's not the artist's place UNSPEAKABLE First Line: While he was dying of UNTITLED Poem Text First Line: There is much unsaid, though the edges of the said Subject(s): Love UNTITLED First Line: There is much unsaid, though the edges of the said Last Line: I'll fall forever, out of love Subject(s): Love VACATION First Line: The sand burns WE HAD WORDS First Line: We sent on the ship a picture WHAT COULD HOLD US First Line: There are no accidents, or so WHAT HE THOUGHT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We were supposed to do a job in italy Subject(s): Vacation WHAT HELL IS; MARCH 1985 Poem Text First Line: Your father sits inside Last Line: In hell, which has / an easy chair Subject(s): Aids (disease); Hell; Sickness; Illness WHAT HELL IS; MARCH 1985 First Line: Your father sits inside Last Line: In hell, which has %an easy chair Subject(s): Aids (disease); Hell; Sickness WHAT POEMS ARE FOR First Line: They aren't for everything WHAT THE OLD WOMEN SEE Poem Text First Line: The baby with his heavy head keeps tipping over Subject(s): Old Age; Youth; Mothers WHAT WE CALL LIVING First Line: His watch is wicked, going on WHEN DOES IT HAPPEN First Line: When the dog and hunter float WHERE First Line: I leave the drink and cigarette WHO MADE HER First Line: You put the house about my body WICKED RIFF First Line: Sky cloth hung on a church fence, that's WITH YOU GONE First Line: We see signs everywhere - the stars WOMAN WHO LAUGHED ON CALVARY First Line: Smilers, grinners, %smirkers, spinners Last Line: What I gave at the sight of him here %was up. What I got of humanity there %was the hang... WORLD IN A SKIRT First Line: The french horn has us Last Line: Lovelorn semblables: %the fugal, the petal... YOUR FACE First Line: Who can pose, or repose |
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