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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: OPPEN, GEORGE Matches Found: 511 Oppen, George Poet's Biography 511 poems available by this author 11/22/1963 First Line: On 69th street %they were weeping. A girl cried Last Line: Somehow, %we on 69th 1930'S Poem Text First Line: Thus / hides the Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A PREFACE Poem Text First Line: If he goes rowing in the park tho he may row so well that Subject(s): Rowing A THEOLOGICAL DEFINITION Poem Text First Line: A small room, the varnished floor Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight ACAPULCO First Line: Walking the field %before the battle in that play Last Line: The sun shines blinding on the sea that sparkles ALL THIS STRANGENESS First Line: It is a sea but is it music binds Last Line: The poem %spells itself out ALL THIS STRANGENESS, SELS. First Line: It is a sea but is it music ALPINE First Line: We were hiding Last Line: Of the past in barns AMALGAMATED First Line: Incredibly worn, the cafeteria of the fur workers and the Last Line: People, what is it that you want! AMALGAMATED, SELS. First Line: Incredibly worn, the cafeteria of the fur workers and the ANIMULA First Line: Chance and chance and thereby starlit Last Line: Moon lights the winches ANNIVERSARY POEM First Line: The picturesque %common lot' the unwarranted light Last Line: To each other %and cannot say it Variant Title(s): Some San Francisco Poems (4); San Francisco Poems: Anniversary Poe ANTIQUE First Line: Against the glass ANTIQUE First Line: Against the glass %towers, the elaborate Last Line: And of kitchen water holds survival's %thin, thin radiance ANY WAY BUT BACK First Line: I have a superstition of destiny. Those poets who have Last Line: To write the words down ANY WAY BUT BACK, SELS. First Line: I have a superstition of destiny. Those poets who have ARMIES OF THE PLAIN First Line: A zero, a nothing' Last Line: Locked %in combat ARMIES OF THE PLAIN (1) First Line: A zero, a nothing ARMIES OF THE PLAIN (2) First Line: Ruby's day %bloomsday ARTIST First Line: He breaks the silence Last Line: Moves is he trying to escape? To enter? AS I SAW Last Line: One I've not seen ASTRAY OVER EARTH Last Line: Its light also a wandering foreigner BAD TIMES Last Line: A man sells post-cards BAHAMAS Poem Text First Line: Where are we Subject(s): Bahamas; Islands; Sea; Ocean BAHAMAS First Line: Where are we Last Line: Of the atlantic, and the blinding glitter %of the sea Subject(s): Bahamas; Islands; Sea BALLAD First Line: Astrolabes and lexicons BALLAD First Line: Astrolabes and lexicons %once in the great houses Last Line: Is to visit other islands BARBARITY First Line: We lead our real lives Last Line: Of the bird waking BEAUTIFUL AS THE SEA Last Line: Conviction forceful %as light BELVEDERE First Line: As I remember it, the harbor Last Line: Lapped against the pilings BIBLICAL TREE First Line: Of life and knowledge Last Line: In labor, in the long life job BICYCLES AND THE APEX First Line: How we loved them Last Line: The mechanisms. Light %and miraculous BILL BEFORE HIS DEATH Last Line: What has %been happening %to me -' BIRTHPLACE: NEW ROCHELLE Poem Text First Line: Returning to that house Subject(s): Homecoming BIRTHPLACE: NEW ROCHELLE First Line: Returning to that house Last Line: Like stones in sun. For we do not BLOOD FROM THE STONE First Line: In a door, %long legged, tall Last Line: These were our times BLOOD FROM THE STONE (1) First Line: In the door BLOOD FROM THE STONE (2) First Line: The thirties. And BLOOD FROM THE STONE (3) First Line: And war. %more than we felt or saw BLOOD FROM THE STONE (4) First Line: Fifty years %sidereal time BOLT Last Line: Branches and leaves %in the air BOOK OF JOB & A DRAFT OF POEM TO PRAISE PATHS OF THE LIVING First Line: Image the images the great games therefore the locked BOOK OF JOB AND A DRAFT OF A POEM TO PRAISE THE PATHS OF THE First Line: Image the images the great games therefore the locked Last Line: The world carve %thereon BOY'S ROOM First Line: A friend saw the rooms Last Line: For breath over a girl's body BRONX ZOO First Line: The men have worked all week if they have talked of desire Last Line: Like penguins for some explorer to discover us? BRONX ZOO, SELS. First Line: The men have worked all week. If they have talked BUILDING OF THE SKYSCRAPER First Line: The steel worker on the girder Last Line: Three hundred years and see bare land. %and suffer vertigo BUT SO AS BY FIRE First Line: That darkness of trees %guards this life Last Line: Not of shadow but of light %summon one's powers CALIFORNIA Poem Text First Line: The headland towers over ocean Subject(s): Americans; United States; America CALIFORNIA First Line: The headland towers over ocean Last Line: In the bright simpleness and strangeness of the sands Subject(s): Americans; United States CARPENTER'S BOAT First Line: The new wood as old as carpentry Last Line: Carpenter, how wild the planet is CHARTRES First Line: The bulk of it CHARTRES First Line: The bulk of it %in air Last Line: The world cried out above the mountain CHURCH INTERIOR First Line: The stale room of religion Last Line: Embarrassed silence %the still place CITY OF KEANSBURG First Line: These are the small resorts Last Line: Over the sand bottom CIVIL WAR PHOTO Last Line: The cannon of that day %in our parks CLOSED CAR - CLOSED IN GLASS Last Line: Time passes - a false light COASTAL STRIP First Line: The land runs in a flat strip of jungle along the coast Last Line: In salt on the continent COMFORTERS First Line: Injured? Unenviable? Ruined? Last Line: Buzz of the last fly CONFESSION First Line: Neither childhood %nor future CONFESSION First Line: Neither childhood %nor future Last Line: Of sand and eternity CROWDED COUNTRIES OF THE BOMB First Line: What man could do Last Line: Entering the country that is %impenetrably ours CULTURAL TRIUMPH First Line: If 'miss moore's (birds) squeal, shuffle, lose their food Last Line: The bird from safety, %from the common culture CULTURAL TRIUMPH, SELS. First Line: If miss moore's (birds) squeal, shuffle, lose their footing DAEDALUS: THE DIRGE Poem Text First Line: The boy accepted them Subject(s): Daedalus DAEDALUS: THE DIRGE First Line: The boy accepted them Last Line: In the bare field there old man, old potterer Subject(s): Daedalus DEATHS EVERYWHERE Last Line: Are his life's eyes DEBT First Line: That part %of consciousness DEBT First Line: The 'part %of consciousness Last Line: And skills, so little said of it DEBT, SELS. First Line: Ourselves we sing! DISASTERS First Line: Of wars o western Last Line: Of the hidden %people DISCRETE SERIES Poem Text First Line: A town, a town DISCRETE SERIES First Line: The knowledge not of sorrow, you were Last Line: Happenings %(the telephone) DISCRETE SERIES First Line: Brain %all %nuclei %blinking Last Line: A room's %back- %ground DISCRETE SERIES: 1 First Line: This room, %the circled wind Last Line: The distant adventurous snow DISCRETE SERIES: 2 First Line: When, having entered Last Line: Your skirts would blossom downward %like an anemone DISCRETE SERIES: 3 First Line: As I lift the glass to drink Last Line: My hands on the stone DOG First Line: Dog, don't look to me! Last Line: Is only the sound of music DRAWING First Line: Not by growth Last Line: Paper, turned, contains %this entire volume DRAWING (1) First Line: Not by growth Last Line: This entire volume DRAWING (2) First Line: Deaths everywhere %the world too short for trend is land Last Line: Are his life's eyes DRAWING (3) First Line: Written structure, %shape of art Last Line: (the telephone) DREAM OF POLITICA, SELS. First Line: In art %in art DREAM OF POLITICS First Line: In art %in art %the image Last Line: Don't know %what to say DREAM, SELS. First Line: I dreamed one night that I was in northern france in one EAGLES AND ALONE First Line: Once once only in the deluge Last Line: Of particles, eagles %and alone ECLOGUE First Line: The men talking Last Line: Outside-o small ones, %to be born! EDGE OF THE OCEAN Last Line: Somebody's lawn, %by the water EPIGRAM First Line: I have been insulted in st peters Last Line: Those old walls %give shelter EROS First Line: And you too, old man, so we have heard EROS First Line: And you too, old man, so we have heard Last Line: Were the human tongue %that will speak EVENING, WATER IN A GLASS Last Line: Ease; the hand on the sword-hilt EXODUS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Miracle of the children the brilliant Subject(s): Bible; Fathers & Daughters; Religion; Theology EXODUS First Line: Miracle of the children the brilliant Last Line: Of their brilliance miracle %of Subject(s): Bible; Fathers And Daughters; Religion EXODUS First Line: Miracle of the children the brilliant Last Line: Of their brilliance miracle of EXTREME First Line: ... He talked of hilton hotels and quickie Last Line: So like another man's I knew even then I was not very young FIVE POEMS ABOUT POETRY: 1. THE GESTURE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The question is: how does one hold an apple Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FIVE POEMS ABOUT POETRY: 1. THE GESTURE First Line: The question is: how does one hold an apple Last Line: Poets who mistake that gesture %for a style FIVE POEMS ABOUT POETRY: 2. THE LITTLE HOLE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The little hole in the eye Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FIVE POEMS ABOUT POETRY: 2. THE LITTLE HOLE First Line: The little hole in the eye Last Line: They cannot rest FIVE POEMS ABOUT POETRY: 3. THAT LAND Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Sing like a bird at the open Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FIVE POEMS ABOUT POETRY: 3. THAT LAND First Line: Sing like a bird at the open Last Line: Over gethsemane, %surely it was this sky FIVE POEMS ABOUT POETRY: 4. PAROUSIA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Impossible to doubt the world: it can be seen Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FIVE POEMS ABOUT POETRY: 4. PAROUSIA First Line: Impossible to doubt the world: it can be seen Last Line: Of whose future may stand forever FIVE POEMS ABOUT POETRY: 5. FROM VIRGIL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I, says the buzzard, Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FIVE POEMS ABOUT POETRY: 5. FROM VIRGIL First Line: I, says the buzzard Last Line: No goddess of her bed' FLIGHT First Line: Outside the porthole life, or what is Last Line: Outside with the wings and the rivets FLIGHT 162 First Line: Leaving from idlewild, whose agents Last Line: With their wax and feathers failed FLIGHT 162, SELS. First Line: Leaving from idlewild FORMS OF LOVE First Line: Parked in the fields Last Line: Had it been water FOUNDER First Line: Because he could not face Last Line: In the painful dawn FRAGONARD Last Line: Thick with succession of civilizations; %and the women FROM A PHOTOGRAPH Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Children; Childhood FROM A PHOTOGRAPH First Line: Her arms around me - child Last Line: Was ours to give to her FROM A PHRASE OF SIMONE WEIL'S AND SOME WORDS OF HEGEL'S First Line: In back deep the jewel FROM DISASTER First Line: Ultimately the air Last Line: In small lawns of home FROM THE FRIENDLY LOCAL PRESS First Line: There is a heavy plaster cast Last Line: And waves at a friend FROM THIS DISTANCE THINKING TOWARD YOU Last Line: And your pulse separate doubly FROM UP-STATE First Line: The great church institutions Last Line: And seems a long time FROM VIRGIL First Line: I, says the buzzard GENERATION OF DRIVERS First Line: America, america %brand new america Last Line: An entity %of two, and which they love? GENERATIONS OF DRIVERS, SELS. First Line: America, america %brand new america GESTURE First Line: The question is: how does one hold an apple GIFT: THE GIFTED First Line: Lighthouses the turning the turning lights Last Line: The treasure is %flight my %heritage GIOVANNI'S 'RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN' AT WILDENSTEIN'S Poem Text First Line: Showing the girl Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors; Rape GIOVANNI'S RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN AT WILDENSTEIN'S First Line: Showing the girl Last Line: Or they, have had in songs GOLD ON OAK LEAVES First Line: Gold said her golden Last Line: Me feminine %winds as you pass GUEST ROOM Poem Text First Line: There is in age Subject(s): Social Classes; Wealth; Caste; Riches; Fortunes GUEST ROOM First Line: There is in age Last Line: And the moving sea HE DE DARK Last Line: Maiden uh %present, %de darling HER ANKLES ARE WATCHES Last Line: Declares this morning a woman's %'my hair, scalp -' HILLS First Line: That this is I Last Line: And the long hills whoever else's %also ours HISTORIC PUN Poem Text First Line: La petite vie, a young man called it later,it had been Subject(s): Paris, France; Modern Life HISTORIC PUN First Line: La petite vie, a young man called it late, it had been the HISTORIC PUN First Line: La petite vie, a young man called it later, it had been the last thing offered Last Line: Semite: to find a way for myself IF IT ALL WENT UP IN SMOKE Poem Text First Line: That smoke / would remain Subject(s): Poetry & Poets IF IT ALL WENT UP IN SMOKE First Line: That smoke %would remain Last Line: Distances - the poem %begins IMAGE First Line: Is a thinking a choosing Last Line: And touched the heavy tools tools %in our hands IMAGE OF THE ENGINE Poem Text Recitation First Line: Likely as not a ruined head gasket Subject(s): Mankind; Mortality; Human Race IMAGE OF THE ENGINE First Line: Likely as not a ruined head gasket Last Line: Surface, the heart thundering %absolute desire IN MEMORIAM CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text First Line: Who wrote / in the great world Subject(s): Reznikoff, Charles (1894-1976) IN MEMORIAM CHARLES REZNIKOFF First Line: Who wrote %in the great world Last Line: In the great %world small Subject(s): Reznikoff, Charles (1894-1976) INLET First Line: Mary in the noisy seascape Last Line: Over ocean %breakwaters hencoops IT BRIGHTENS UP INTO THE BRANCHES Last Line: His job is as regular KIND OF GARDEN: A POEM FOR MY SISTER First Line: One may say courage Last Line: Of the brilliant garden KNOWLEDGE NOT OF SORROW YOU WERE Last Line: Of the world, weather-swept, with which %one shares the century LACED GAITER Last Line: Detail of the corpse, %hearse, bereavement LANGUAGE OF NEW YORK First Line: A city of the corporations Last Line: And glistens like a big star; it looks quite %curious...' LANGUAGE OF NEW YORK (1) First Line: A city of the corporations LANGUAGE OF NEW YORK (2) First Line: Unable to begin LANGUAGE OF NEW YORK (3) First Line: I cannot even now LANGUAGE OF NEW YORK (4) First Line: Possible %to use LANGUAGE OF NEW YORK (5) First Line: Which act is %violence LANGUAGE OF NEW YORK (6) First Line: There can be a brick LANGUAGE OF NEW YORK (7) First Line: Strange that the youngest people I know LANGUAGE OF NEW YORK (8) WHITMAN: APRIL 19, 1864. First Line: The capital grows upon one in time, especially as they have LATITUDE, LONGITUDE First Line: Climbed from the road and found Last Line: Of-fact defines %poetry LATTITUDE, LONGITUDE First Line: Climbed from the road and found LAW OF POETRY First Line: Rooted in the most unconscionable romance Last Line: Law and the prophets. Or more simply LEVIATHAN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Truth also is the pursuit of it Subject(s): Relationships; Reality; Language; Words; Vocabulary LEVIATHAN First Line: Truth also is the pursuit of it Last Line: Is fear. But we abandon one another LIGHT OF DAY First Line: The sun %slanting down Last Line: Stretched thinner than flame LIGHTHOUSES First Line: If you want to say no say Last Line: Of darkness ray of light LIGHTS, PAVING Last Line: Without stating them. %buildings LITTLE HOLE IN THE EYE LITTLE PIN: FRAGMENT First Line: Of this %all things Last Line: Wind to speak %of this MAN'S LIFE, SELS. First Line: No stranger nor a stranger's son MARY First Line: Her long quiet hands Last Line: And fear I'll wake MAST Last Line: Rocks, sand, and unrimmed holes MAUDIT First Line: I can be stopped Last Line: And I know of no reason he should do so MAYAN GROUND First Line: Poor savages %of ghost and glitter. Merely rolling now Last Line: Against the dawn %seems beautiful MEANING IS TO BE HERE First Line: That man, the space of the mind, is a flaw, a MEMORIAL, SELS. First Line: In the trocadero MEMORY AT THE MODERN , SELS. First Line: We had seen bare land MEMORY AT 'THE MODERN' First Line: We had seen bare land Last Line: No other taste shall change this' MEMORY OF OARS First Line: There are no nouns of verse the earth itself Last Line: To the shore or the ship, whole with the power of the oarsmen MEMORY OF OARS, SELS. First Line: There are no nouns of verse, the earth itself MEN OF SHEEPSHEAD First Line: Eric - we used to call him eric Last Line: Extend into the sea so self-contained MEN, SELS. First Line: They seemed in love with the words MODERN INCIDENT First Line: Culture %of the draft-pool, an oblique poetry Last Line: A popular song, a clean %sweep MONUMENT First Line: Public silence indeed is nothing Last Line: Contrary of monuments %and illiberal MONUMENT First Line: To exist; to be among things Last Line: Rectangular in dawn, the shopper's %thin morning monument MOTHER AND CHILD First Line: Theirs is the bond Last Line: From the thin twig in new space MOUNT DESERT ISLAND First Line: Two in the plastic cockleshell Last Line: Where nostalgia and the new rise shining MYSELF I SING Poem Text First Line: Me! He says, hand on his chest Subject(s): Self-reliance; Identity; Americans MYSELF I SING First Line: Me! He says, hand on his chest Last Line: As night falls, but the rocks MYTH OF THE BLAZE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Night-sky bird's world Subject(s): Fire MYTH OF THE BLAZE First Line: Night-sky bird's world Last Line: Bread each side of the knife Subject(s): Fire NARRATIVE First Line: I am the father of no country Last Line: Of clarity, and of respect NARRATIVE First Line: How could those artists paint Last Line: Than any song, than any pictures NARRATIVE: 1 First Line: I am the father of no country NARRATIVE: 10 First Line: Some of the young men NARRATIVE: 11 First Line: River of our substance NARRATIVE: 2 First Line: And truth? O NARRATIVE: 3 First Line: The constant singing NARRATIVE: 4 First Line: An enclave %filled with their own NARRATIVE: 5 First Line: It is a place NARRATIVE: 6 First Line: I saw from the bus NARRATIVE: 7 First Line: Serpent, ouroboros %whose tail is in his mouth: he is the root NARRATIVE: 8 First Line: But at night the park NARRATIVE: 9 First Line: The lights %shine, the fire NATION First Line: The whole city %blazing light at evening Last Line: As the day breaks on suburban shore NATION, SELS. First Line: The whole city %blazing light at evening NATURAL First Line: World the fog %coming up in the fields we learned those Last Line: Distances the poem begins NEAR THE BEGINNING First Line: Near the beginning was the horse Last Line: And built the world of men and engines NEAR YOUR EYES Last Line: Self moving %moon, mid-air NEIGHBORS First Line: Thru our kitchen window I see the house Last Line: To each %other we %will speak NEW PEOPLE First Line: Crowding everywhere %angrily perhaps Last Line: The mineral, %from which they come NIECE First Line: The streets of san francisco Last Line: Had a ribbon in her hair NIGHT SCENE First Line: The drunken man NIGHT SCENE First Line: The drunken man %on an old pier Last Line: On an old pier NO INTERVAL OF MANNER Last Line: Incognito as summer %among mechanics O CITY LADIES' Last Line: The fields are road-sides, %rooms outlast you O WESTERN WIND First Line: A world around her like a shadow Last Line: In the subway routes, in the small rains %the profiles OCCURRENCES First Line: Limited air drafts OCCURRENCES First Line: The simplest %words say the grass blade Last Line: Now that tremendous %plunge OCCURRENCES First Line: Limited air drafts Last Line: Toys of the children wings %of the wasp OF BEING NUMEROUS, 1 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There are things Subject(s): Reality; Self; Ruins OF BEING NUMEROUS, 10 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Or, in that light, new arts! Dithyrambic, audience-as-artists! But I will listen to a man Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; City & Town Life OF BEING NUMEROUS, 11 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It is that light Subject(s): Modern Life; Empire State Building, New York City OF BEING NUMEROUS, 12 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In these explanations it is presumed that an experiencing - see more at: http://www.Poets.Org/viewme Subject(s): Innocence OF BEING NUMEROUS, 13 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Unable to begin Subject(s): Alienation Social Psychology); City & Town Life OF BEING NUMEROUS, 14 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I cannot even now Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Veterans; City & Town Life; Estrangement; Outcasts OF BEING NUMEROUS, 15 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Chorus (androgynous): 'find me Subject(s): Alienation Social Psychology) OF BEING NUMEROUS, 16 Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Isaac (bible); Orpheus OF BEING NUMEROUS, 17 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The roots of words Subject(s): Langauge; Subways OF BEING NUMEROUS, 18 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It is the air of atrocity OF BEING NUMEROUS, 19 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Now in the helicopters the casual will Subject(s): City & Town Life; Life, Modern OF BEING NUMEROUS, 2 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: So spoke of the existence of things Subject(s): Skyscrapers; City & Town Life OF BEING NUMEROUS, 20 Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency OF BEING NUMEROUS, 21 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There can be a brick Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery OF BEING NUMEROUS, 22 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Clarity / in the sense of transparence Subject(s): Silence; Knowledge OF BEING NUMEROUS, 24 Poem Text First Line: In this nation Subject(s): United States; America OF BEING NUMEROUS, 27 Poem Text First Line: It is difficult now to speak of poetry-- Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OF BEING NUMEROUS, 3 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The emotions are engaged Subject(s): Language; New York City; Words; Vocabulary; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple OF BEING NUMEROUS, 32 Poem Text First Line: Only that it should be beautiful, Subject(s): Beauty OF BEING NUMEROUS, 33 Poem Text First Line: Which is ours, which is ourselves OF BEING NUMEROUS, 40 Poem Text First Line: The capitol grows upon one in time, especially as they have got Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c. OF BEING NUMEROUS, 5 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The great stone Subject(s): Brooklyn Bridge OF BEING NUMEROUS, 6 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We are pressed, pressed on each other Subject(s): City & Town Life OF BEING NUMEROUS, 7 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Obsessed, bewildered Subject(s): Shipwrecks; City & Town Life OF BEING NUMEROUS, 8 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Amor fati / the love of fate Subject(s): Fate; City & Town Life; Destiny OF BEING NUMEROUS, 9 Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Estrangement; Outcasts OF BEING NUMEROUS: 1 First Line: There are things Last Line: Earth speaks and the salamander speaks, the spring comes and only obscures %it OF BEING NUMEROUS: 10 First Line: Or, in that light, new arts! Dithyrambic, audience-as-artist! OF BEING NUMEROUS: 11 First Line: It is that light Last Line: To talk of the house and the neighborhood and the docks %andit is not art OF BEING NUMEROUS: 12 First Line: In these explanations it is presumed that an experiencing OF BEING NUMEROUS: 13 First Line: Unable to begin OF BEING NUMEROUS: 14 First Line: I cannot even now Last Line: Down walled avenues %in which one cannot speak OF BEING NUMEROUS: 15 First Line: Chorus (androgynous): find me OF BEING NUMEROUS: 16 First Line: He who will not work shall not eat OF BEING NUMEROUS: 17 First Line: The roots of words Last Line: A ferocious mumbling, in public %of rootless speech OF BEING NUMEROUS: 18 First Line: It is the air of atrocity Last Line: A plume of smoke, visible at a distance %in which people burn OF BEING NUMEROUS: 19 First Line: Now in the helicopters the casual will Last Line: Which over the city %is the bright light of shipwreck OF BEING NUMEROUS: 2 First Line: So spoke of the existence of things Last Line: As the world, if it is matter, %is impenetrable OF BEING NUMEROUS: 20 First Line: They wait %war, and the news OF BEING NUMEROUS: 21 First Line: There can be a brick OF BEING NUMEROUS: 22 First Line: Clarity %in the sense of transparence Last Line: Clarity %in the sense of silence OF BEING NUMEROUS: 23 First Line: Half free %and half mad OF BEING NUMEROUS: 24 First Line: In this nation OF BEING NUMEROUS: 25 First Line: Strange that the youngest people I know OF BEING NUMEROUS: 26 First Line: They carry nativeness OF BEING NUMEROUS: 27 First Line: It is difficult now to speak of poetry Last Line: There are other levels %but there is no other level of art OF BEING NUMEROUS: 28 First Line: The light %of the closed pages, tightly closed, packed against each other OF BEING NUMEROUS: 29 First Line: My daughter, my daughter, what can I say Last Line: From time, from open %time OF BEING NUMEROUS: 3 First Line: The emotions are engaged Last Line: This is a language, therefore, of new york only obscures %it OF BEING NUMEROUS: 30 First Line: Behind their house, behind the back porch OF BEING NUMEROUS: 31 First Line: Because the known and the unknown OF BEING NUMEROUS: 32 First Line: Only that it should be beautiful OF BEING NUMEROUS: 33 First Line: Which is ours, which is ourselves OF BEING NUMEROUS: 34 First Line: Like the wind in the trees and the bells OF BEING NUMEROUS: 35 First Line: ... Or define %man beyond rescue OF BEING NUMEROUS: 36 First Line: Tho the world Last Line: It is not the wild glare %of the world even that one dies in OF BEING NUMEROUS: 37 First Line: ... Approached the window as if to see OF BEING NUMEROUS: 38 First Line: You are the last OF BEING NUMEROUS: 39 First Line: Occurring neither for self OF BEING NUMEROUS: 4 First Line: For the people of that flow Last Line: Are petty alibi and satirical wit %will not serve only obscures %it OF BEING NUMEROUS: 40 First Line: The capitol grows upon one in time, especially as they have Last Line: On the headpiece and it dazzles and glistens like a big star: it looks quite curious OF BEING NUMEROUS: 5 First Line: The great stone Last Line: Which has nothing to gain, which awaits nothing %which loves itself OF BEING NUMEROUS: 6 First Line: We are pressed, pressed on each other Last Line: We say was %rescued so we have chosen OF BEING NUMEROUS: 7 First Line: Obsessed, bewildered %by the shipwreck Last Line: We have chosen the meaning %of being numerous OF BEING NUMEROUS: 8 First Line: Amor fati %the love of fate OF BEING NUMEROUS: 9 First Line: Whether, as the intensity of seeing increases, one's distance Last Line: Of the singular %which is the bright light of shipwreck OF BEING NYMEROUS, 4 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: For the people of that flow Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple OF HOURS First Line: ... As if a nail whose wide head OF HOURS First Line: ...As if a nail whose wide head Last Line: Walks homeward %unteachable OF THIS ALL THINGS First Line: There are the feminine aspects Last Line: To the earth, whatever terrors OF THIS ALL THINGS ... First Line: There are the feminine aspects OLD MAN Last Line: In the photograph %is stranger %still ON BEING NUMEROUS First Line: There are things Last Line: And glistens like a big star: it looks quite %curious...' ON THE WATER, SOLID Last Line: Coiling a rope on the steel deck ORPHEUS First Line: The ship rounding %scotland, islands Last Line: Of dignity %and of respect OZYMANDIAS First Line: The five %senses gone Last Line: Rectangular in dawn, the shopper's %thin morning monument OZYMANDIAS CHILD First Line: The five %senses gone PARKWAY First Line: If one had stumbled on these Last Line: Of bedroom fixed in a great work of brick PAROUSIA First Line: Impossible to doubt the world: it can be seen PART OF THE FOREST Poem Text First Line: There are lovers who recall that PART OF THE FOREST First Line: There are lovers who recall that Last Line: Then the road again. %the car's %companion PARTY ON SHIPBOARD First Line: Wave in the round of the port-hole Last Line: In its bed. They pass, however, the sea %freely tumultuous PARTY ON SHIPBOARD: 1 First Line: Wave in the round of the port-hole Last Line: In its bed. They pass, however, the sea %freely tumultuous PARTY ON SHIPBOARD: 10 First Line: From this distance thinking toward you Last Line: And your pulse separately doubly PARTY ON SHIPBOARD: 11 First Line: Town, a town %but location Last Line: Awaited - locally - a date PARTY ON SHIPBOARD: 12 First Line: Near your eyes Last Line: Moon, mid-air PARTY ON SHIPBOARD: 13 First Line: Fragonard, %your spiral women Last Line: And the women PARTY ON SHIPBOARD: 14 First Line: No interval of manner Last Line: Among mechanics PARTY ON SHIPBOARD: 15 First Line: O city ladies' Last Line: Rooms outlast you PARTY ON SHIPBOARD: 16 First Line: Bad times: %the cars pass Last Line: A man sells post-cards PARTY ON SHIPBOARD: 17 First Line: It brightens up inot the branches Last Line: His job is as a regular PARTY ON SHIPBOARD: 18 First Line: On the water, solid Last Line: Coiling a rope on the steel deck PARTY ON SHIPBOARD: 2 First Line: This land: %the hills, round under straw Last Line: And the glass of windows PARTY ON SHIPBOARD: 3 First Line: Semaphoring chorus, %the width of the stage. The usher from it Last Line: Or overcoat. Still faces already lunar PARTY ON SHIPBOARD: 4 First Line: The edge of the ocean Last Line: By the water PARTY ON SHIPBOARD: 5 First Line: Tug against the river Last Line: Simple legs in silk PARTY ON SHIPBOARD: 6 First Line: She lies, hip high PARTY ON SHIPBOARD: 7 First Line: Civil war photo Last Line: One I've not seen PARTY ON SHIPBOARD: 8 First Line: As I saw %there PARTY ON SHIPBOARD: 9 First Line: Bolt %in the frame Last Line: In the air PEDESTRIAN First Line: What generations could have dreamed Last Line: In the new winter among enormous buildings PENOBSCOT First Line: Children of the early PENOBSCOTT First Line: Children of the early %countryside Last Line: Early. That was earlier PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE First Line: For love we all go Last Line: In childbed leaving %monstrous issue PHILAI TE KOU PHILAI Poem Text First Line: There is a portrait by eakins PHILAI TE KOU PHILAI First Line: There is a portrait by eakins Last Line: Lifting their tremendous cornices PHONEMES First Line: The poems have too much point Last Line: On the silent coasts PHONEMES, SELS. First Line: The poems have too much point PHRASE OF SIMONE WEIL'S AND SOME WORDS OF HEGEL'S, SELS. First Line: In back deep the jewel Last Line: To come here the outer %limit of the ego PIGEONS FLY Last Line: There is no face PIGEONS, SELS. First Line: The pigeons fly from the dark bough POEM First Line: How shall I light Last Line: Opens its dazzling whispering hands POEM First Line: A poetry of the meaning of words Last Line: And I think there is light POEM First Line: Never %the chess game Last Line: This is the sky POEM ABOUT THE GARDEN First Line: Carpel %filament the brilliant Last Line: A flower, and become a stranger POLITICAL POEM First Line: For sometimes over the fields astride Last Line: Dazes and nearly blinds us POPULATION Poem Text First Line: Like a flat sea Subject(s): Mankind; Mortality; Human Race POPULATION First Line: Like a flat sea Last Line: Inhabited, and what it always was POPULIST Poem Text First Line: I dreamed myself of their people, I am of their people Subject(s): Social Protest; Alienation (social Psychology); Estrangement; Outcasts POPULIST First Line: I dreamed myself of their people, I am of their people Last Line: Page the magic %infants speak POWER, THE ENCHANTED WORLD First Line: Streets, in a poor district Last Line: To 3 words, which is too little POWER, THE ENCHANTED WORLD (1) First Line: Streets, in a poor district POWER, THE ENCHANTED WORLD (2) First Line: The winds of march POWER, THE ENCHANTED WORLD (3) First Line: Now we do most of the killing POWER, THE ENCHANTED WORLD (4) First Line: Power, which hides what it can POWER, THE ENCHANTED WORLD (5) First Line: Power ruptures at a thousand holes POWERS First Line: I would go home o go home to the rough Last Line: Of darkeness ray of light POWERS, SELS. First Line: I would go home o go home to the rough PRECEDED BY MOUNTED POLICE Last Line: See a new stone in turned ground PREFACE First Line: If he goes rowing in the park tho he may row so well that Last Line: It is his own affair %and he knows it PRESSES WERE BUSY ENOUGH Last Line: Never the effort to go up PRIMITIVE Poem Text First Line: A woman dreamed Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Nightmares PRIMITIVE First Line: A woman dreamed Last Line: And the baby woke also %crying PRO NOBIS First Line: I believe my apprenticeship Last Line: In the hour of our death indeed PROBITY First Line: In the poem %or our hearts Last Line: Will grow old %and break PRODUCT Poem Text First Line: There is no beauty in new england like the boats Subject(s): Americans; United States; America PRODUCT First Line: There is no beauty in new england like the boats Last Line: Is all I've found: myself Subject(s): Americans; United States PSALM Poem Text First Line: In the small beauty of the forest Subject(s): Deer PSALM First Line: In the small beauty of the forest Last Line: In this in which the wild deer %startle, and stare out Subject(s): Deer QUOTATIONS First Line: When I asked the very old man Last Line: With an elaborate head-dress: %'cop's bitch.' QUOTATIONS (1) First Line: When I asked the very old man QUOTATIONS (2) First Line: The infants and the animals QUOTATIONS (3) First Line: ... And her closets! QUOTATIONS (4) First Line: And the child QUOTATIONS (5) First Line: Someone has scrawled RATIONALITY First Line: There is no 'cure' Last Line: To its famous summers - that 'part %of consciousness' RED HOOK: DECEMBER First Line: We had not expected it, the whole street Last Line: With wealth, the shining wealth REMBRANDT'S OLD WOMAN CUTTING HER NAILS First Line: And old woman %as if one saw her now Last Line: In the slant light RESISTANCE First Line: Partisan, she condemns Last Line: Her small feet touching the grass RESOLVE First Line: That there shall not be violence Last Line: And cannot bear to speak of it RESORT First Line: There's a volcano snow-capped in the air some twenty miles RESORT First Line: There's a volcano snow-capped in the air some twenty miles from here Last Line: And called, called: %called several times RETURN Poem Text First Line: This earth the king said RETURN First Line: This earth the king said Last Line: In sun in a great weight of brick ROMANCE POEM (1) First Line: Something wrong with my desk the desk ROMANCE POEM (2) First Line: Words, the words older ROUTE First Line: Tell the beads of the chromosomes like a rosary Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ROUTE First Line: Tell the beads of the chromosomes like a rosary Last Line: That we confront Subject(s): World War Ii SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: BUT SO BY FIRE First Line: The darkness of trees SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: THE IMPOSSIBLE POEM First Line: Climbing the peak of tamalpais the loose SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: THE TASTE First Line: Old ships are preserved SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: TRANSLUCENT MECAHNICS First Line: Combed thru the pipers the wind SARA IN HER FATHER'S ARMS First Line: Cell by cell the baby made herself, the cells Last Line: Do you suppose, max, of which she is made SAY First Line: I am %what %I am Last Line: Archangels %begin to watch SEATED MAN First Line: The man is old and SEATED MAN First Line: The man is old and - %out of scale Last Line: Picturing the concrete walls SEMANTIC First Line: There is that one word Last Line: Define for oneself, the word %us SEMAPHORING CHORUS Last Line: Or overcoat. Still faces already lunar SEMITE Poem Text First Line: What art and anti-art to lead us by the sharpness Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism SHE LIES, HIP HIGH Last Line: Simple legs in silk SHE STEALS BIRDS First Line: It is known Last Line: While his parents shouted from the bushes SHORE First Line: Awaiting the %light to speak Last Line: Ever here to this %shore to this sea SOLUTION First Line: The puzzle assembled Last Line: Now in its red and green and brown SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS (1) First Line: Moving over the hills crossing the irrigation Last Line: Over obscured by their long hair they seem %to be mourning SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS (2) First Line: Lying full length Last Line: Leaving again in rags Variant Title(s): San Francisco Poems: A Morality Play; Prefac SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS (3) First Line: The sea and a crescent strip of beach Last Line: From among the miserable soldiers SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS (6) First Line: Silver as %the needle's eye SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS (7) First Line: O withering seas SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 1 Poem Text First Line: Moving over the hills, crossing the irrigation Subject(s): San Francisco; Music & Mujsicians SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 1 First Line: Moving over the hills, crossing the irrigation Last Line: Over obscured by their long hair they seem %to be mourning SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 10. BUT SO AS BY FIRE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The darkness of trees Subject(s): San Francisco SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 10. BUT SO AS BY FIRE First Line: The darkness of trees Last Line: Not of shadow but of light %summon one's powers SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 2. A MORALITY PLAY: PREFACE Poem Text First Line: Lying full length Subject(s): San Francisco SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 2. A MORALITY PLAY: PREFACE First Line: Lying full length %on the bed in the white room Last Line: Leaving again in rags SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 3 First Line: And their winter and night in disguise Last Line: From among the miserable soldiers SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 3. ‘AND THEIR WINTER AND NIGHT IN DISGUISE’ Poem Text First Line: The sea and a crescent strip of beach Subject(s): San Francisco SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 4. ANNIVERSARY POEM Poem Text Subject(s): San Francisco SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 4. ANNIVERSARY POEM First Line: The picturesque %common lot' the unwarranted light Last Line: To each other %and cannot say it SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 5. THE TRANSLUCENT MECHANICS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Combed thru the piers the wind Subject(s): San Francisco SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 5. THE TRANSLUCENT MECHANICS First Line: Combed thru the piers the wind Last Line: Comes in whose absence %earth crumbles SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 6 First Line: Silver as %the needle's eye Last Line: Which will be struck %nevertheless yes SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 6. Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): San Francisco SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 7 First Line: O withering seas %of the doorstep and local winds unveil Last Line: Mouth forcing the new %tongue but it rang SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 7. Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: O withering seas Subject(s): San Francisco SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 8. THE TASTE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Old ships are preserved Subject(s): San Francisco SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 8. THE TASTE First Line: Old ships are preserved Last Line: In a wind from what were sand dunes SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 9. THE IMPOSSIBLE POEM Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Climbing the peak of tamalpais the loose Subject(s): San Francisco SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 9. THE IMPOSSIBLE POEM First Line: Climbing the peak of tamalpais the loose %gravel underfoot Last Line: The courageous and precarious children SONG First Line: When the words would with not and Last Line: May well be sung SONG, THE WINDS OF DOWNHILL Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Poverty; Poets & Poetry SONG, THE WINDS OF DOWNHILL First Line: Out of poverty SONG, THE WINDS OF DOWNHILL First Line: Out of poverty %to begin Last Line: May well be sung SOURCE First Line: If the city has roots, they are in filth Last Line: The city's %secret warmth SPACE First Line: In every bone %of common ancestry the bird Last Line: Over this little space SPEECH AT SOLI First Line: What do you want Last Line: Water, and tells the public time SQUALL Poem Text First Line: Coming about, / when the squall knocked her Subject(s): Storms; Sea; Ocean SQUALL First Line: Coming about %when the squall knocked her Last Line: No kinship with any sea SQUIRREL'S STANCE First Line: Explodes %from one posture to the next. The basic Last Line: Burst furiously into leaves STEAMER AT THE PIER Last Line: A man walks the still decks STILL LIFE First Line: What are you, apple! There are men Last Line: We too were in the sun and night alive with sap STORY First Line: A line of palm branch structures are along the beach Last Line: In darkening light, and one is she STRANGE ARE THE PRODUCTS First Line: Of draftsmanship zero %that perfect Last Line: Glory of joy in the small %huge dark STRANGER'S CHILD Poem Text First Line: Sparrow in the cobbled street Subject(s): Sparrows STRANGER'S CHILD First Line: Sparrow in the cobbled street Last Line: Feet of the sparrow's child touch %naked rock STREET Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Ah these are the poor Subject(s): Poverty STREET First Line: Ah these are the poor Last Line: So good, they expect to be so good STUDENTS GATHER First Line: The puddles %shine with the sky's light Last Line: Not repeated %said SUNNYSIDE CHILD First Line: As the builders SUNNYSIDE CHILD First Line: As the builders %planned, the city trees Last Line: Hardware ever again can close on SURVIVAL: INFANTRY First Line: And the world changed Last Line: In the same mud in the terrible ground SYMPATHY Last Line: Stare at the open' ...Therefore, said mary, they %are welcome TECHNOLOGIES First Line: Tho in a sort of summer the hard buds blossom Last Line: Therefore to talk about %twig technologies THAT LAND First Line: Sing like a bird at the open THE BIBLICAL TREE Poem Text First Line: Of life and knowledge Subject(s): Trees THE FORMS OF LOVE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Parked in the fields Subject(s): Love THE HILLS Poem Text First Line: That this is I THE PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE Poem Text First Line: For love we all go Subject(s): Women; Mankind; Human Race THE SOURCE Poem Text First Line: If the city has roots, they are in filth Subject(s): City & Town Life THE ZULU GIRL Poem Text First Line: Her breasts / naked, the soft Subject(s): Women; Zulus THEOLOGICAL DEFINITION First Line: A small room, the varnished floor Last Line: Against the rock, the bushes and the sea running THEOLOGICAL QUESTION First Line: Thus desire %becomes knowledge Last Line: The dance of a death THIS DREAM First Line: I dreamed one night that I was in northern france in one Last Line: They could not guide me THIS LAND Last Line: And the glass of windows THREE WIDE Last Line: Not evident at 'the sailor's rest.' THUS Last Line: Of %cracking eggs); %big-business TILL OTHER VOICES WAKE US First Line: The generations %and the solace Last Line: Till other voices wake %us or we drown TIME OF THE MISSILE Poem Text Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb TIME OF THE MISSILE First Line: I remember a square of new york's hudson river glinting between warehouses Last Line: Its own stone chain reaction TIME OF THE MISSLE First Line: I remember a square of new york's hudson river glinting TO C. T. First Line: One imagines himself %addressing his peers Last Line: Of companionship, which seems %more honorable TO C.T. First Line: One imagines himself TO FIND A WAY First Line: The turn the cadence the verse and the music Last Line: Ray of strangeness ray %of exile. %ray of light TO MAKE MUCH First Line: Of the world of that passion Last Line: Image of love found the way %away from home TO MEMORY First Line: Who but the goddess? All that is Last Line: Lives in our permanent dawn TO MEMORY (1) First Line: Who but the goddess? All that is TO MEMORY (2) First Line: Words, ther are words! TO THE MUSE First Line: Nieves %is a girl Last Line: Of what a woman is TO THE POETS: TO MAKE MUCH OF LIFE First Line: Come up now into TO THE POETS: TO MAKE MUCH OF LIFE First Line: Come up now into Last Line: We are shrivelled %come TONGUES First Line: Of appearance %speak in the unchosen Last Line: And not his strange %words surround him TOURIST EYE First Line: The lights that blaze and promise Last Line: By no means safe, the building tops %unwarned and unwarnable TOURIST EYE (1) First Line: The lights that blaze and promise TOURIST EYE (2) First Line: The solitary are obsessed TOURIST EYE (3) First Line: Retangular, rearing TOURIST EYE (4) First Line: The heart pounds TOURIST EYE (5) First Line: Down-town %swarms. Surely the oldest city TOWN, A TOWN Last Line: Awaited - locally - a date TOWN, SELS. First Line: There can be a brick in a brick wall TRAVELOGUE Poem Text First Line: But no screen would show Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TRAVELOGUE First Line: But no screen would show Last Line: And channels of the savage country TRUCK STOP, SELS. First Line: The diner where TUG AGAINST THE RIVER Last Line: In the fast water off the bow-wave: %passes slowly TUGS OF HULL First Line: Carrying their deckhands' bicycles Last Line: Came to fetch us in TWENTY-SIX FRAGMENTS First Line: Music, that marvel %trying to exist Last Line: And we move %in this monstrosity TWO ROMANCE POEMS: 1 First Line: Something wrong with my desk the desk Last Line: Smoke drifts from our hills' TWO ROMANCE POEMS: 2. RES PUBLICA: 'THE POETS LIE' First Line: Words, the words older Last Line: A beat where they touch it UNDERTAKING IN NEW JERSEY First Line: Beyond the hudson's UNDERTAKING IN NEW JERSEY First Line: Beyond the hudson's %unimportant water lapping Last Line: Carry quickly into daylight the excited birds US First Line: The finches at the feeder Last Line: Language %contain %them VALENTINE First Line: There are many of us Last Line: Are they all us? VISIT: 1 First Line: France is no longer Last Line: I want only %to go home VISIT: 2 First Line: Sitting in your family apartment, lewis Last Line: The works - the whole apartment VOLKSWAGEN First Line: Of such deadly ancestry Last Line: Humming past the great cold farms %of normandy VOYAGE First Line: In the cabin. Here we have love Last Line: A jacket swings swings like a pendulum VULCAN Poem Text First Line: Harbors into harbor sand Subject(s): Birth; Subways; Child Birth; Midwifery VULCAN First Line: The householder issuing to the street Last Line: Harbors into harbor sand WAKING WHO KNOWS First Line: The great open %doors of the tall Last Line: Will burn the world down tho the starlight %is part of ourselves WEST First Line: Elephant, say, scraping its dry sides Last Line: In the great bays and the narrow bights WHAT WILL HAPPEN First Line: There is a mobilization Last Line: To myself in my life WHEELERS AND DEALERS: THE THEORY OF GAMES First Line: We might have foreseen it Last Line: We ought to be able to survive it WHIRL WIND MUST First Line: For the huge %events are the symbols Last Line: Tongues of the villages WHITE. FROM THE Last Line: From the quiet %stone floor WHO COMES IS OCCUPIED Last Line: The fall is falling from electric burst WHO SHALL DOUBT Poem Text First Line: Consciousness / in itself Subject(s): Love WHO SHALL DOUBT First Line: Consciousness %in itself Last Line: Is sweet but this WILSHIRE ARMS, SELS. First Line: Rectangular among the crowds, rearing WIND MAKES UP First Line: Grateful for a breeze Last Line: And we live, we speak darkly of storms WITHOUT SELF-MUTILATION Last Line: The price of truth is ruinous. Rather redeem life, we mean %rather to redeem life WOMAN, SAID DIANE Last Line: To beat a father with WORKMAN First Line: Leaving the house each dawn I see the hawk Last Line: Over the beaches and the sea's glitter WORLD, WORLD First Line: Failure, worse failure, nothing seen Last Line: The act of being, the act of being %more than oneself WRITTEN STRUCTURE Last Line: Successive %happenings %(the telephone ZULU GIRL First Line: Her breasts %naked, the soft Last Line: Deeply - she stands %in the wild grasses Subject(s): Women; Zulus ‘AND THEIR WINTER AND NIGHT IN DISGUISE’ Poem Text First Line: The sea and a crescent strip of beach Subject(s): War |
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