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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: PINSKY, ROBERT Matches Found: 206 Pinsky, Robert Poet's Biography 206 poems available by this author 1. FLIGHT First Line: Winged mind of a child running with arms out straight Last Line: And beyond, like a child running to fly, windlike, winged mind 2. THE STARGAZERS First Line: Maybe nothing ever was as pure as the great Last Line: White christmas, god bless america, easter parade A CLASSIC MOMENT Poem Text First Line: I could accept the frayed basement parish Subject(s): Schools; Childhood Memories; Students A LONG BRANCH SONG Poem Text First Line: Some days in may, little stars Subject(s): Long Branch, New Jersey AN EXPLANATION OF AMERICA Poem Text First Line: As though explaining the idea of dancing Subject(s): Politics & Government; Social Problems; United States; America AN OLD MAN; AFTER CAVAFY Poem Text First Line: Back in a corner, alone in the clatter and babble Subject(s): Old Age ANTIQUE First Line: I drowned in the fire of having you, I burned Last Line: From the waters of anonymity, the acids of breath AT PLEASURE BAY First Line: In the willows along the river at pleasure bay Last Line: When you were only a presence, at pleasure bay AUTUMN QUARTET First Line: Others are not the medicine for loneliness Last Line: The centaurs showed him truth in fabulation %in every living city the haunted ruin AVENUE Poem Text First Line: They stack bright pyramids of goods and gather Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life AVENUE First Line: They stack bright pyramids of goods and gather Last Line: Capering, on fire, they cleave to the riven hub Subject(s): Cities BEACH WOMEN First Line: In the fierce peak of the day it's quietly they wade Last Line: Against boredom, discomfort, death and old age BERRY BUSH First Line: The winter they abandoned long point village Last Line: Under all, the dead thorns sharper than the green BIOGRAPHY Poem Text First Line: Stone wheel that sharpens the blade that mows the grain, Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives BODY First Line: The spirit is in bed, it has been sleeping away Last Line: The words live like a bird--die like a dog BOOK First Line: He leaves flutter, they thrive or wither, its outspread Last Line: Pressed between pages like a wildflower, odorless, brittle CATATONIC Poem Text First Line: I was a living place, the huge CEREMONY FOR ANY BEGINNING First Line: Against weather, and the random Last Line: Leafage and solid bark breathing the mist CHANGES First Line: Even at sea the bodies of the unborn and the dead Last Line: To the shapes of beaks or arrowheads at the black dots of the cities CITY DARK First Line: In the early winter dusk the broken city dark Last Line: The dark of the city pavement, the faintly glittering slabs Subject(s): Nature CITY ELEGEIS: 1. THE DAY DREAMERS Poem Text First Line: All day all over the city every person Subject(s): City & Town Life CITY ELEGIES First Line: All day all over the city every person Last Line: All schooling their single root to the raised baton CITY ELEGIES: 2. EVERYWHERE I GO, THERE I AM Poem Text First Line: Hot days of errands and badges, paper, shrill rage Subject(s): City & Town Life CITY ELEGIES: 3. HOUSE HOUR Poem Text First Line: Now the pale honey of a kitchen light Subject(s): City & Town Life; Houses CITY ELEGIES: 4. STREET MUSIC Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Sweet babylon, headphones. Song bones. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Music & Musicians COLD First Line: I can't remember what I was thinking...The cold Last Line: Forgetting for a minute what I was doing CREATION ACCORDING TO OVID First Line: In the beginning was order, a uniform Last Line: Disrupter, smiler, shouter in the night CREOLE Poem Text Subject(s): Roman Empire; Names; Ancestors & Ancestry; Language; Creoles; Heritage; Heredity; Words; Vocabulary CYCLES First Line: Vilna, 'jerusalem of the north,' progressive city Last Line: The grieved body rising through the golden window of your eye DANTE'S INFERNO, SELS. First Line: I was already where we heard the noise Last Line: But vanished like an arrow from the string DAUGHTER First Line: She thinks about skeletons Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Childhood DEATH AND THE POWERS: A ROBOT PAGEANT Poem Text First Line: Units assembled for the ritual Subject(s): Robots & Robotics DECEMBER BLUES First Line: At the bad time, nothing betrays outwardly the harsh findings Last Line: Consciously at bay, oh little town, enveloped in unease DESECRATION OF THE GRAVESTONE OF ROSE P. (1897-1924) First Line: A cautionless flagon threw the heart unphrased Last Line: With earth in dusty heraldry and lines DESTRUCTION OF LONG BRANCH First Line: When they came out with artificial turf Last Line: Avid in a tearing rain DISCRETIONS OF ALCIBIADES Poem Text First Line: First frost is weeks off, but yj prudent man Subject(s): Mythology; Adultery; Politics & Government DISCRETIONS OF ALCIBIADES First Line: First frost is weeks off, but the prudent man Last Line: Market for salt; and dance to tinkly music DOCTOR FROLIC Poem Text Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Physicians; Doctors DOCTOR FROLIC First Line: Felicity the healer isn't young Last Line: So merry in the punchinello face DOOR First Line: The cat cries for me from the other side Last Line: Sister will, fellow-mortal, here we are DREAMER First Line: While I lay sleeping my heart awoke Last Line: Dreaming him from the dark outside DYING Poem Text First Line: Nothing to be said about it, and everything Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DYING First Line: Nothing to be said about it, and everything Last Line: Bored and impatient in the monster's mouth Subject(s): Death EMBASSY ARCHITECTURE Poem Text First Line: No frieze of abandon, goat-thigh willow. And no Subject(s): Bacchus; Roman Empire ESSAY ON PSYCHIATRISTS Poem Text First Line: It's crazy to think one could describe them Subject(s): Psychiatry; Psychiatrists ESSAY ON PSYCHIATRISTS First Line: It's crazy to think one could describe them Last Line: Between stars, saying what we can Subject(s): Psychiatry ESSAY ON PSYCHIATRISTS: 11. THEIR PHILISTINISM CONSIDERED First Line: Greek tragedy' of course is the sort of thing Last Line: The lamps, magazines, tables and tubular chairs ESSAY ON PSYCHIATRISTS: 12. THEIR PHILISTINISM DISMISSED First Line: But after all-what 'cultural life' and what Last Line: Complain both that they are inhuman and too human ESSAY ON PSYCHIATRISTS: 14. THEIR SPEECH, COMPARED WITH WISDOM..... First Line: Terms of all kinds mellow with time, growing Last Line: Blind women, tireless, and the blind little boy ESSAY ON PSYCHIATRISTS: 16. GENERALIZING, JUST AND UNJUST First Line: As far as one can generalize, only a few Last Line: The lonely ranges and secret mesas of his genre ESSAY ON PSYCHIATRISTS: 5. PHYSICAL COMPARISON WITH PROFESSORS AND.... First Line: Pink and a bit soft-bodied, with a somewhat jazzy Last Line: Absurd to speculate; but then-the woman saw something ESSAY ON PSYCHIATRISTS: 6. THEIR SERIOUSNESS, WITH FURTHER First Line: In a certain sense, they are not serious Last Line: With a psychiatrist, to prevent such things from happening EXILE First Line: Every few years you move Last Line: Everything reassures you %the long exile is over EXPLANATION OF AMERICA First Line: As though explaining the idea of dancing Last Line: So large, and strangely broken, and unforseen Subject(s): Politics; Social Problems; United States FAERYLAND FAERYLAND First Line: Thin snow, and the first small pools of dusk Last Line: Hard in a cold pale storm that falls all over FALLING ASLEEP First Line: Black thatch, black root Last Line: His heart his genitals his brain FIGURED WHEEL First Line: The figured wheel rolls through shopping malls and prisons Last Line: There, figured and pre-figured in the nothing-transfiguring wheel Subject(s): Wheels FIRST EARLY MORNINGS TOGETHER Poem Text First Line: Waking up over the candy store together Subject(s): Waking; Morning; Togethernes; Pigeons FIRST EARLY MORNINGS TOGETHER First Line: Waking up over the candy store together Last Line: Pecking by ones or twos the rainbowed gutter FIRST THINGS TO HAND Poem Text First Line: In the skull kept on the desk. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FLOWERS First Line: The little bright yellow ones Last Line: Beautiful and finished like us FROM THE CHILDHOOD OF JESUS First Line: One saturday morning he went to the river to play Last Line: Not blinking or resting, as if never to alight GAME First Line: No ball, no rules. Any one boy Last Line: Entropy of the game GARDEN First Line: Far back, in the most remote times with their fresh colors Last Line: Even memory's noises and rages, here in the quiet garden GENERATION BEFORE First Line: The wind blew. Some days, rain Last Line: The impossible field of the present GHOST HAMMER First Line: Foundry of the dead, the dead invisible hammer Last Line: You have committed images, the tool %is warm from your hand GINZA SAMBA Poem Text First Line: A monosyllabic european called sax Subject(s): Saxophones GINZA SAMBA First Line: A monosyllabic european called sax Last Line: Instrument of my skull Subject(s): Saxophones GLASS Poem Text First Line: Waterlike, with a little water Subject(s): Glass GLASS First Line: Waterlike, with a little water Last Line: Delicate, durable measure GLORY Poem Text First Line: Pindar, poet of the victories, fitted names Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Pindar (522-440 B.c.); Poetry & Poets GREEN PIANO First Line: Aeolian. Gratis. Great thunderer, half-ton infant of miracles Last Line: Pink one, forever green one, white-and-gold one, comforter, living soul Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Neighbors; Pianos GULF MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Mallah, walla tells bella. Trah mah trah-la, la, la, la Subject(s): Hurricans; Jazz; New Orleans HEARTMOSS First Line: The creature was limber once. It came to grief Last Line: At the great stumbler: ginger, ponderous, germinant HEARTS First Line: The legendary muscle that wants and grieves Last Line: Through all the music, and on into silence again HISTORY OF MY HEART Poem Text First Line: One christmastime fats waller in a fur coat Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Mothers; Accidents; Sex; Coming Of Age; Relatives HISTORY OF MY HEART: 1 First Line: One christmastime fats waller in a fur coat Last Line: As it fell over my mother's imagery and remembered %macy's in new york years before I was even born Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Waller, Fats (thomas Wright) (1904-1943) HISTORY OF MY HEART: 2 First Line: And the little white piano, tinkling away like crazy Last Line: Or having followed pain inside she owned her children %from the inside out, or made us when she name HISTORY OF MY HEART: 3 First Line: Made me robert. She took me with her to a print-shop Last Line: Into the morning chronicle, humming to itself, %like a fat person eating m & ms in the bathtub) HISTORY OF MY HEART: 4 First Line: Toward war, new forms of worship or migration Last Line: The sound of breakers clearly to me through the pass %between the blocks of houses. The horn of rola HISTORY OF MY HEART: 5 First Line: But what was it I was too young for? On moonless Last Line: Strained into song emptying the golden bell it comes from, %the pure source poured altogether out an HOMECOMING First Line: Snowfall, thicker and thicker Last Line: Colored cloth bannerwise HUT First Line: Nothing only Last Line: Historial heart ICE-STORM First Line: Dear rpbert, thank you for trying to rig Last Line: Mysterious light melted to a sheen by morning ICICLES First Line: A brilliant beard of ice Last Line: Leaving the broken stems IF YOU COULD WRITE ONE GREAT POEM. WHAT WOULD IT BE ABOUT First Line: Fire: because it is quick, and can destroy Last Line: Out of a body to conquer from the mind IMMATURE SONG First Line: I have heard that adolescence is a recent invention Last Line: Stammer, poor citizen, you get sullen, you sigh and look away IMMORTAL LONGINGS First Line: Inside the silver body Last Line: Zodiac of intentions IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn, Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Wit & Humor; Race Awareness; Grief; Jews; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL First Line: Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn Last Line: Allegiance to a state impossible to tell IMPROVISATIONS ON YIDDISH Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Yiddish IN BERKELEY Poem Text First Line: Afternoon light like pollen Subject(s): Nature IN BERKELEY First Line: Afternoon light like pollen Last Line: In my language, not the one I learned Subject(s): Nature INMAN SQUARE INCANTATION First Line: Forgive us, we don't exactly believe or disbelieve Last Line: Wishful conspiring with the artist in you, son of bitch, bastard ISAAC LEYBUSH PERETZ Poem Text First Line: And so you're dead. And you're not underground yet Subject(s): Peretz, Isaac Leybudh (1851-1915) ISAAC LEYBUSH PERETZ First Line: And so you're dead. And you're not underground yet Last Line: Golden and something like blood Subject(s): Peretz, Isaac Leybudh (1851-1915) JERSEY RAIN Poem Text First Line: Now near the end of the middle stretch of road Subject(s): New Jersey; Rain JESUS AND ISOLT First Line: In the palace of heaven god's holy angels were touching and fondling Last Line: Mary, who looked back with heavenly pity at the son of man, the %most unfortunate of all his father' KEYBOARD First Line: A disembodied piano. The headphones allow Last Line: The cool-eyed rainbow lizard, plies the keys LAIR First Line: Inexhaustible, delicate, as if Last Line: Witnessing the blue gulf of the air LAMENT FOR THE MAKERS First Line: What if I told you the truth? What if I could? Last Line: But in others only voices or even quiet, %and the player's arm pauses and pumps again LIBRARY SCENE First Line: Under the ceiling of metal stamped like plaster Last Line: They come to you and you tell them how you read LIVING First Line: The living, the unfallen lords of life Last Line: Of this impenetrable haze, this prolonged %but not infinite surfeit of glory LONG BRANCH SONG First Line: Some days in may, little stars Last Line: The daily record for thirty-five years Subject(s): Long Branch, New Jersey LONG BRANCH, NEW JERSEY First Line: Everything is regional Last Line: To the trite, salt, welcoming ocean LOVE CROWN First Line: Now autumn nibbles its leaf from my hand: we are friends Last Line: It is time LOVE OF DEATH First Line: Imagine a child from virginia or new hampshire MATERIAL First Line: The moon-stirred volume of ocean sighed Last Line: From incomprehensible brightness to brightness. MAY LEVINE First Line: Grandmother, the same hot night you died Last Line: You go first MEMOIR First Line: The iron cape of the law, the gray Last Line: That, and not this MEMORIAL Poem Text First Line: Here lies a man. And here, a girl. They live Subject(s): Cancer (disease) MEMORIAL First Line: Here lies a man. And here, a girl. They live Last Line: No hospital beds, but a lifting of metal wings Subject(s): Cancer (disease) NEW SADDHUS First Line: Barefoot, in unaccustomed clouts or skirts of raw muslin Last Line: Pack straps and belts, fading from their embarassed bodies NEWSPAPER Poem Text First Line: They manufacture newsprint with a grain Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 NEWSPAPER First Line: They manufacture newsprint with a grain Last Line: To place by the master's breakfast-the skin of days Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NIGHT GAME First Line: Some of us believe Last Line: He refused to pitch on yom kippur Subject(s): Baseball; Fasts And Feasts; Ford, Edward ("whitey"); Jews; Koufax, Sandy; Sports; Worship; Yom Kippur ODE TO MEANING First Line: Dire one and desired one Last Line: Ashes on my head. You are the wound. You %be the medicine OLD MAN; AFTER CAVAFY First Line: Back in a corner, alone in the clatter and babble Last Line: Resting on the table in the noisy cafe Subject(s): Old Age OLD WOMAN First Line: Not even in darkest august Last Line: Repose in the electric night ON 'EVE TEMPTED BY THE SERPENT' BY DEFENDENTE FERRARI Poem Text First Line: Rare spirit remembered now with a pang Last Line: Or easy but possible and we fall. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Jordan, Barbara (1936-1995); Temptation PASCHAL Poem Text First Line: Easter was the old north Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology PERSONAL DEVIL First Line: Ink, fire, quintuple mirrors-- Last Line: Of the huge, dissolving eye PICTURE First Line: Three men on scaffolding scatter cornflakes down Last Line: Of charges, particles too fine to see PILGRIMAGE First Line: Near the peak. A clear morning Last Line: Fell from the brim, fashioned and torn %from the cold water that tumbles %endlessly down the face of Subject(s): Rites And Ceremonies PLEASURE PIER First Line: With noises meaningful and vague as ever Last Line: That pulled and worried at his prison's roots POEM ABOUT PEOPLE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The jaunty crop-haired graying Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Relationships; Jews; Judaism POEM ABOUT PEOPLE First Line: The jaunty crop-haired graying Last Line: The wide spaces between us POEM OF DISCONNECTED PARTS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: At robben island the political prisoners studied. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Racism; Social Commentaries; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry POEM WITH REFRAINS First Line: The opening scene. The yellow, coal-fed fog Last Line: The earth stands still, yet change of changes breedeth POEM WITH REFRAINS First Line: When her mother died Last Line: The earth stands still, yet change of changes breedeth PORCH STEPS First Line: What are the young lovers? Two souls Last Line: And weathered, care for the caretakers. Motes in sun QUESTIONS First Line: What about the people who came to my father's office Last Line: In the office is mrs. Apostolacos; the bus driver is ray RALEGH'S PRIZES Poem Text First Line: And summer turns her head with its dark tangle Subject(s): Summer; Seashore; Amusement Parks; Beach; Coast; Shore RALEGH'S PRIZES First Line: And summer turns her head with its dark tangle Last Line: Carries his monarch from another world REFINERY First Line: Thirsty and languorous after their long black sleep Last Line: That monstered up sweetness for them while they dozed RHYME OF REB NACHMAN First Line: Reb nachman sat in his hovel one day in spring Last Line: With holy prayers for the dead, in the pripet marshes ROUND First Line: What was the need like driving rain Last Line: What was the need SADNESS AND HAPPINESS First Line: That they have no earthly measure Last Line: Earthly measure will survive SAMBA First Line: The hudson's not a river but an estuary. Palisades park Last Line: Rooted music of the great brazilian, caetano veloso SAMURAI SONG Poem Text First Line: When I had no roof I made Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SAMURAI SONG First Line: When I had no roof I made Last Line: Is my strategy. When I had %no lover I courted my sleep Subject(s): Absence SAVING First Line: Though the sky still was partly light Last Line: His luck or his secret name SENTENCES First Line: Reading the sentences, november sun Last Line: As the sentences too flat for any poem SERPENT KNOWLEDGE First Line: In something you have written in school, you say Last Line: Forgotten maybe, taken for granted, a trait, %a new syllable buried in their name SHIRT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The back, the yoke, the yardage, lapped seams Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers SHIRT First Line: The back, the yoke, the yardage, lapped seams Last Line: Printed in black on neckband and tail. The shape, %the label, the labor, the color, the shade. The s Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Labor And Laborers SHIVA AND PARVATI HIDING IN THE RAIN First Line: Language of invasion, cloth of grief Last Line: Limbs and numberless %faces all spokes from one trunk SONG First Line: Air an instrument of the tongue Last Line: Art, mortal in its cornered sphere SONG OF REASONS First Line: Because of the change of key midway in 'come back to sorrento' Last Line: The flow of cars that come guided by with a throaty music %like the animal shapes that sing at the g SONG ON PORCELAIN First Line: Rose colored cup and saucer Last Line: The porcelain troubles me most SONNET Poem Text First Line: Afternoon sun on her back Subject(s): Summer SONNET First Line: Afternoon sun on her back Last Line: No need, no one to praise her, %only the lake's voice - over%and over, to keep it before her Subject(s): Summer SPELUNKER First Line: With flecks of web like foam Last Line: Of rescue, or the dream's dark likeness SPIRIT First Line: While waiting for my body to stuff itself Last Line: Lay only a mess of bones in a puddle of gravy STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE Poem Text First Line: Hear mrs. Bush, / thank you for your invitation to the white house event Subject(s): Politics & Government; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE First Line: Hear mr. Bush, %thank you for your invitation to the white house event Last Line: Wholeheartedly, together, at the white house. %sincerely, %robert pinsky Subject(s): Politics; War STEEL DRUM VARIATIONS First Line: Achille's spear supposedly had the power Last Line: Pierced for a lyre and stung with a rabbit's guts STREET First Line: Streaked and fretted with effort, the thick Last Line: Dangerous %gray bark of the street Subject(s): Cities; Streets STREET OF FURTHEST MEMORY First Line: The street flails Last Line: Panic flailing the street STUPID MEDITATION ON PEACE Poem Text First Line: Insomniac monkey-mind ponders the dove, Subject(s): Sex Role; Monkeys; Peace; Breast Feeding; Relationships; Nursing (infants) SUMMERS IN SARATOGA SPRINGS First Line: Gallery spindle %and port-cochere. Essex green Last Line: Of the eighteen-eighties SUMMONING THE PERSONAL DEVIL Poem Text First Line: Ink, fire, quintuple mirrors Subject(s): Self TENNIS Poem Text First Line: The nerve to make a high toss and the sense Subject(s): Tennis TENNIS First Line: The nerve to make a high toss and the sense Last Line: By understanding the world, and all its parts Subject(s): Tennis TENNIS: 2. FOREHAND First Line: Straightforwardness can be a cruel test Last Line: This is the metal that is never spent TENNIS: 3. BACKHAND First Line: Here, panic may be a problem; and in the clench Last Line: Hips, ankles, and knees, you sweep the inverted swing TENNIS: 4. STRATEGY First Line: Hit to the weakness. All things being equal Last Line: You arrange yourself to lob it back, and win THE CITY DARK Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In the early winter dusk the broken city dark Subject(s): Nature THE DESTRUCTION OF LONG BRANCH, N.J. Poem Text First Line: When they came out with artifical turf Subject(s): Homecoming; Childhood Memories; Long Branch, New Jersey THE FIGURED WHEEL Poem Text First Line: The figured wheel rolls through shopping malls and prisons Subject(s): Wheels THE GREEN PIANO Poem Text First Line: Aeolian. Gratis. Great thunderer, half-ton infant of miracles Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Neighbors; Pianos THE HEARTS Poem Text First Line: The legendary muscle that wants and grieves, Subject(s): Hearts; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Muic & Musicians; Religion; Love - Unrequited; Theology THE NIGHT GAME Poem Text First Line: Some of us believe Subject(s): Baseball; Fasts & Feasts; Ford, Edward ('whitey'); Jews; Koufax, Sandy; Sports; Worship; Yom Kippur; Judaism THE REFINERY Poem Text First Line: Thirsty and languorous after their long black sleep Subject(s): Oil Fields; Social Commentaries THE STREET Poem Text First Line: Streaked and fretted with effort, the thick Subject(s): Cities; Streets; Urban Life; Avenues THE TIME OF YEAR, THE TIME OF DAY Poem Text First Line: One way I need you, the way I come to need Subject(s): Love THE UNSEEN Poem Text First Line: In krakow it rained, the stone arcades and cobbles Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath THE VIEW FROM THE ROAD Poem Text First Line: Pine, desert, red rock and then aspen THE WANT BONE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The tongue of the waves tolled in the earth's bell Subject(s): Desire; Love THREE ON LUCK: LATE CHILD First Line: I never minded having such old parents Last Line: But if god was god, %his finger would be quicker on the trigger THREE ON LUCK: PROSTATE OPERATION First Line: In all those years at work I must have seen Last Line: One of these old bous talking and talking and talking %what he can't do-it's one life at a time Subject(s): Surgery THREE ON LUCK: SENIOR POET Poem Text First Line: Does anybody listen to advice? Last Line: Given a meal together, and time to talk Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Advice THREE ON LUCK: SENIOR POET First Line: Does anybody listen to advice? Last Line: I'm sure that image would yield to something solid %given a meal together, and time to talk THREE ON LUCK; LATE CHILD Poem Text First Line: I never minded having such old parents Last Line: His finger would be quicker on the trigger Subject(s): Parents; Middle Age TIME OF YEAR, THE TIME OF DAY First Line: One way I need you, the way I come to need Last Line: To fill the brown width of their tillable plains Subject(s): Love TO MY FATHER First Line: The glazed surface of the world, dusk Last Line: Stirring of words, work or affection TO TELEVISION First Line: Not a 'window on the world' Last Line: Remember in: they too are winged %at the helmet and ankles TO THE PHOENIX First Line: Dark herald, self-conceived in the desert waste Last Line: The quick boy brandishing his lightning-burst UNCREATION First Line: The crowd at the ballpark sing, the cantor sings Last Line: Humming oblation to what our mouths once made UNSEEN First Line: In krakow it rained, the stone arcades and cobbles Last Line: Because it also is yours, of your night Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath VENI, CREATOR SPIRITUS First Line: Blessed is he who came to earth as a bull Last Line: And burnt offerings, commerce and the arts VESSEL Poem Text First Line: What is this body as I fall asleep again? Subject(s): Hearts VISIONS OF DANIEL Poem Text First Line: Magician, appointed officer Subject(s): Babylon; Daniel (bible) VISIONS OF DANIEL First Line: Magician, appointed officer Last Line: And the reign of cyrus the persian Subject(s): Babylon; Daniel (bible) VOLUME First Line: Or a crippled sloop falters, about to go under Last Line: All held and preserved in the green volume of water VOYAGE TO THE MOON Poem Text First Line: Raquel the queen of diamonds and la hire VOYAGE TO THE MOON First Line: Raquel the queen of diamonds and la hire Last Line: The pair have landed with their little dog WAITING Poem Text First Line: When the trains go by Subject(s): Railroads; Waiting; Railways; Trains WAITING First Line: When the trains go by Last Line: For no reason for the trains WAKING UP First Line: But what woke just now at fifty-two years in narrow Last Line: Alert visionless trembler, blundering in the light Variant Title(s): Newcome WANT BONE First Line: The tongue of the waves tolled in the earth's bell Last Line: My flower my fin my life my lightness my o Subject(s): Desire; Love WHAT WHY WHEN HOW WHO First Line: The lovers love the boardwalk, the games of chance Last Line: With eyes held shut, and launched it at the sun WINDOW First Line: Our building floated heavily through the cold Last Line: Out for, where you were, it was you, that bright confusion WOMAN First Line: Thirty years ago: gulls keen in the blue Last Line: Never to forgive her, not as long as he lived YAHRZEIT First Line: Grandfather, we come to you now Last Line: And did not die |
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