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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: MCMICHAEL, JAMES Matches Found: 66 Mcmichael, James Poet's Biography 66 poems available by this author A POEM IN EACH IN A PLACE APART Poem Text First Line: It's early march. She doesn't know if we've Subject(s): Love ABOVE THE RED DEEP-WATER CLAYS Poem Text First Line: Capacity is both how Subject(s): Nature APPLE FELL IN THE NIGHT AND A WAGON STOPPED First Line: It comes back to me' Subject(s): Memory ARTICHOKE First Line: She bore only the heart Last Line: The thorny hugger ASPARAGUS First Line: She sent packs of great beasts to pass Last Line: And billow through the kitchen like prayer BACK WITH HER FAMILY THE SECOND SUMMER BEFORE First Line: Except when there's a fog Last Line: Measure was kept waiting. 'what ails thee?' didn't %have to be asked BELL PEPPER First Line: The find enough rooms for the gathering Last Line: Fires when there are not enough rooms CAULIFLOWER First Line: Her words clot in his head Last Line: How to move, how to move CELERY First Line: The hope with %water is that it Last Line: Falls from the trees %into the river CLEAR TEETH Poem Text First Line: Rows of them are quarried from dusty Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches COMPLINE First Line: Gudique is the chastening Last Line: Gudique is the river CORN First Line: I am the corn quail Last Line: Air behind your eyes EACH IN A PLACE APART (1994) First Line: At school, I was a Last Line: Below the hem of her flannel housedress, her bare feet EACH TIME WAS A REHEARSAL FOR SEPTEMBER 8TH EVERYTHING WAS IN THE WAY. IF IT WAS JUST Last Line: We'd walk a little and then go to vicki's, %we'd come back later for the other car FIVE POEMS Poem Text First Line: She's at the mirror. I need to get Subject(s): Headaches FOUR GOOD THINGS (1980) First Line: For the mcmichaels', %florence. She passed the silvers', the johnsons' Last Line: Farmers out working in the snow FROM THE MCMICHAEL'S FROM THE PERSON SHE IS First Line: I know I'll lose her Last Line: I'd never married, she'd been born to someone else GREAT GARRET, OR 100 WHEELS First Line: The curricle and hansom Last Line: Sheepwalks. Trails. Uncertain rights of drift HE FINDS THE MANSION Poem Text First Line: The little road went on Subject(s): Roads; Rivers; Paths; Trails HERBS First Line: Before fog leaves the scrub-oak Last Line: Sing this into the mouth of the woman I WANTED FOR HER SAKE TO UNDO IT. WITH ONLY IN MY STUPID ARITHMETIC, WE WERE INLAND LIGHTHOUSE First Line: Into the night Last Line: Somewhere than these streets their careful yards IT WOULDN'T BE FAIR TO US FOR HER TO LIE Last Line: Stay married. We wrote and phoned. I kept seeing her. %therewas no good way out ITINERARY Poem Text First Line: The farmhouses north of driggs Subject(s): Landscape; Travel; Nature; Journeys; Trips ITINERARY First Line: The farmhouses north of driggs Last Line: That brightness wherein all things come to see ITS TIME Poem Text First Line: Conserved in dews Subject(s): Nature ITS TIME First Line: Conserved in dews Last Line: Is light's strangeness LAUDS First Line: For several blocks to any Last Line: Swallowed by their own shells LEFT TO ITSELF, SETTING IS THE CHANCE THAT LUTRA, THE FISHER First Line: The otter is known Last Line: Bones and vermillion gills MATINS First Line: This hour is for the lakes Last Line: And calms them NOR WAS IT EVEN THEN TOO LATE. I WAS THE NOTHING WAS MORE DELICIOUS OR REMOTE: AFTER Last Line: Home to the y. I went home. A few days later %I told her on the phone that I was leaving them PICTURE THAT SCARES ME HAS GONE THROUGH MY MIND Last Line: I wouldn't marry a dolt but I must have found %anything as good as you and me again and that scares POSITED Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: That as all parts of it Subject(s): Water; Language; Words; Vocabulary POTATOES First Line: It had been growing in her like vegetables Last Line: Helping her hold always very still PRETTY BLUE APRON First Line: In the separate histories Last Line: Papa, you blue apron, you my lamb PRIME First Line: Towers look across Last Line: Is the sky coming there QUEEN ANNE COTTAGE First Line: The paths are dutiful Last Line: Amplitude of the far clouds moving on REDEMPTION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Each morning this / july, so far Subject(s): Christianity; Conduct Of Life SEXT First Line: The air binds in sockets Last Line: Fissures, wearing it down SHE First Line: The back of her neck Last Line: Don't let it grow up wanting SHE HATED LOVING TO BE WITH ME, I WITH HER Last Line: Both crazy, how could it matter and could she maybe %hear them with her ear against my ear? SHE WROTE THAT YESTERDAY HAD BEEN VERY GOOD Last Line: Ten minutes of class left and wasn't thinking about her. %what page was I on in the book we were bot SURPRISED AT MY SURPRISE THAT I COULD SAY Last Line: Street by street was comfort, it was linda and comfort, %theafternoon awash with her sure care TERCE First Line: Between the walls, the brim Last Line: The air and the water go their ways THE BELIVED-IN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Christmas comes from stories Subject(s): Faith; Love; Belief; Creed THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE IN PICTURES Poem Text First Line: The frontispiece fixes as / british Subject(s): Great Britain; History; Landscape; World War Ii; Historians; Second World War THE VEGETABLES Poem Text First Line: She bore only the heart Subject(s): Artichokes; Asparagus; Cauliflowers; Herbs; Corn; Celery; Bell Peppers; Potatoes TO GET AWAY FROM THE HOUSE TO SEE HER VERY RICH HOURS First Line: Amant in bed, dreaming Last Line: Powdered glass %the divine endura VESPERS First Line: They were taking back Last Line: They had been their widest there WHAT TO DO WHEN THE RIVERS FREEZE: 1/15 First Line: The rocks on my roof Last Line: Of sleep itself, %of the last owl WHAT TO DO WHEN THE RIVERS FREEZE: 1/19 First Line: I am reminded that I will die Last Line: The world of those dead %who do not want WHAT TO DO WHEN THE RIVERS FREEZE: 10/12 First Line: Higher, in the lodgepole, red Last Line: I'm neither ready, nor not WHAT TO DO WHEN THE RIVERS FREEZE: 10/17. BREUGEL'S '7 SINS' First Line: You do not wait the angelus, but mark Last Line: The substance of a loss that is not death WHAT TO DO WHEN THE RIVERS FREEZE: 12/25. GRAVEYARD, BODIE First Line: Dead one, was it here you hunted? Last Line: And I am cold WHAT TO DO WHEN THE RIVERS FREEZE: 12/8. BOBBY First Line: Awakened, you are slow Last Line: Still rush of distant snow WHAT TO DO WHEN THE RIVERS FREEZE: 5/20. HEART-SEIZURE First Line: From these constrictions of flesh Last Line: Imagine him there with your children WHAT TO DO WHEN THE RIVERS FREEZE: 8/26 First Line: Wishing seasons through this haze Last Line: And of the loneliness therewith WHAT TO DO WHEN THE RIVERS FREEZE: 9/22. A PASSION First Line: Waking, %I remembered summer afternoons Last Line: Some tameless emissary %of grace WORLD AT LARGE First Line: In whiteout, with its Last Line: Legato with the syn-and anticline, the banded flaring %promontory walls |
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