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Author: PONSOT, MARIE Matches Found: 214 Ponsot, Marie Poet's Biography 214 poems available by this author A TALE TOLD BY ATHENEUS (VENUS CALLIPYGUS) Poem Text First Line: Two sisters of ancient greece both laid claim Subject(s): Buttocks; Likes & Dislikes A VISIT Poem Text Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Women; Wine ABOUT MY BIRTHDAY Poem Text Subject(s): Birthdays ABOUT MY BIRTHDAY First Line: I'd like to assume Last Line: You'd know why ADVICE: AD HAEREDITATES (I) First Line: The water: I pour it Last Line: That nothing %can spoil AFTER THE PASTORAL First Line: Just after dusk the tulips still show yellow Last Line: Where soft mouths taste the night, it sets its hook AFTER-IMAGE, CORTES ISLAND First Line: Decorated, and visible Last Line: Remembering %unwillingly AGAINST THE DARK, NEW POETS RISE First Line: Look up, there's burning going on Last Line: Growing hot young stars ALL WET First Line: Underwater, keeled in seas Last Line: Water gives way as I spring into it AMONG WOMEN Poem Text First Line: What women wander? Subject(s): Women AMONG WOMEN First Line: What women wander? Last Line: Women wander %as best they can ANALEMMATIC First Line: Shadows matter %here in the country of the sun Last Line: Personal and visible on account of time ANALOGUE Poem Text First Line: I watch me until I disappear and we Subject(s): Love ANALOGUE First Line: I watch me until I disappear and we Last Line: But our made love stands clear Subject(s): Love ANALYSIS First Line: Analysis prefers a mountain lake Last Line: Which concludes in the swim of the analyst ANNIVERSARY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The big doll being broken and the sawdust fall Subject(s): Dolls ANNIVERSARY First Line: The big doll being broken and the sawdust fall Last Line: Free of gravity falls upward for us, slow, and lies there, quietly ANTEPENULTIMATE First Line: His work describes for us Last Line: Its always antepenultimate pear ANTI-ROMANTIC Poem Text First Line: I exlpain ontology, mathematics, theophily Subject(s): Knowledge; Trees AROUND A BEAUTIFUL THEORY (AT GETTY MUSEUM, SANTA MONICA) First Line: Answering warriors Last Line: I give myself airs AS IS First Line: Objects new to this place, I receive you Last Line: And you, old hopes of the house of my mother, %farewell AT THE BOTANICAL GARDENS, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA First Line: Among the sepals crisping Last Line: Proclaim their joyful unity %even as it dissipates AUTUMN CLEAN-UP Poem Text First Line: There she is in her garden Last Line: Eager to begin Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening AUTUMN CLEAN-UP First Line: There she is in her garden Last Line: Grinding its little teeth %eager to begin Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening BASIC SKILLS First Line: Crazy chopped shrieks of school Last Line: The head of the boy goes down BECAUSE WE CERTAINLY HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO First Line: Applaud the man of extremest scholarship Last Line: Praise our power to %value their victories BERCEUSE Poem Text First Line: Your afternoon sleep after our protean anger into Subject(s): Love BETTER First Line: After a long wet season the rain's let up Last Line: Their barriers. I come, eyes wide, outside BETWEEN First Line: Composed in a shine of laughing, monique brings in sacks Last Line: Having emptied her hands BILINGUAL First Line: Languages before they are words Last Line: I love the smell of lavender' BIRTHDAY First Line: In for the winter, your christmas cactus Last Line: The final primal cause you celebrate BORDER First Line: She kneels to the yellow short flowers Last Line: Getting married is not like that BRIDEGROOM OF THE BLOOD First Line: In the stories that make us %they wait mysterious Last Line: And so sarah also %promise of our laughter %laughs CALL First Line: Child like a candelabra at the head Last Line: Child, watched by your deeper sleep, I may yet say yes CLIMBING IN BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK First Line: This up-slope opens like adam, and in Last Line: We catch jokes & luck from thin tall blue air COMMUNION OF SAINTS: THE POOR BASTARD UNDER THE BRIDGE First Line: The arrows of the narrow moon flock down direct Last Line: And welcome welcome welcome him CROW DRESSED IN PEACOCK FEATHERS First Line: A peacock cast its feathers. A passing crow saw Last Line: Theirs in no business of mine CRUDE CABIN, AT THE BRINK OF QUIET First Line: An hour after the reminder Last Line: Turns into silence again Variant Title(s): Crude Cabin, Exquisite Stillicid DE-FUSING THE USUAL CRIMINAL METAPHORS First Line: Pity the idle who (though daily our lives Last Line: As if what we have to make in making love is love DECORUM, REFLECTION First Line: Horace, decorous, %glimmers reflected Last Line: Welcomes him home DETERMINED PRESENT First Line: Chance as it maps Last Line: Named gethsemane, originally DIALOGUE OF NEMO AND PERSONNE First Line: Are you still nice to sleep with? Last Line: If you call that free' DIFFERANCE: CHATOU-CROISSY First Line: It was hard, but she was doing it Last Line: Late at night, he never knows, you laugh' DISCOVERY First Line: Though I sit here alone I Last Line: And cannot but mother me: %unconsidered liberty DRUNK & DISORDERLY, BIG HAIR Poem Text First Line: Handmaid to cybele, Subject(s): Women; Aging DRUNK & DISORDERLY, BIG HAIR First Line: Handmaid to cybele, %she is a dactyl, a Last Line: She listens. It happens %between her own two ears ELEGY FOR ELIZABETH BLEECKER AVERELL First Line: Abrupt as that blessing gesture you always made Last Line: Your now love without limit, please, elizabeth END OF OCTOBER First Line: Leaves wait as the reversal of wind Last Line: Since it closes around me %as I go through ENDOXA, OR, REPUTABLE OPINIONS First Line: The tailor's sophist power grows Last Line: There is no cosmos %just a cosmogenesis ENTRANCED First Line: For openers %any wall has doors in it Last Line: Word and worm %both turn EVEN First Line: Were there cliffs cupping eden Last Line: Hustled uncoupling ashore to uncouple, suddenly free EXPLICATION DE TEXTE First Line: Before spring began Last Line: Life comes first EXPLORERS CRY OUT UNHEARD First Line: What I have in mind is the last wilderness Last Line: Their gestures, I guess they mean no. Or yes FESTIVAL OF BREAD First Line: Suicide, in a village of forty heads Last Line: Kneads silence down into dough, and lets it rise FIRST, AT THE LAST First Line: I walk home from the hospital useless Last Line: Summer's hunger satisfied FIT AUDIENCE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: (andante cantabile): / g sharp is not g natural Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Composers FOR A DIVORCE First Line: Death is the price of life Last Line: That stunning lover %was you FOR A SEASON First Line: We saw we had few words to exchange when two by two Last Line: It was summer due to us FOR A STILL-BORN CHILD Poem Text First Line: Lost among immediate creaks chirrups wrong sounds Subject(s): Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth FOR DJUNA BARNES AS JULIE RYDER First Line: Jacobean savage, hurt while she slept Last Line: Crumb of burnt-cork mustache. She swallows the grain+ FOR ELIZABETH BLEECKER AVERELL, D. 20 JUNE 1957 Poem Text First Line: Abrupt as that blessing gesture you always made Subject(s): Friendship; Death; Dead, The FOR MY BROTHER: 'OTHER SYSTEMS MUST EXIST' Poem Text First Line: Worlds away what other praise Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers FOR MY OLD SELF, AT NOTRE-DAME First Line: The dark madonna cut from a knot of wood Last Line: The joy she raised me for, this softfall. Sweet time FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (FOR MARGARET FULLER) First Line: Margaret, always at fire island Last Line: Glittering in windwash %transcendent with afterstorm FRIDAY MARKET First Line: Under the arch, its ruined walls re-used Last Line: That what she says is true FROM THE FOUNTAIN AT VAUCLUSE First Line: This light is water, in emerald ascent Last Line: Daughter, your paradisa is not; may be FULL MOON, UNSTRESSED MEASURES First Line: O moon, we are not sung chinese Last Line: As natural as our light breathing %and as complex GHOST WRITER First Line: Irene on my tiny list of answers to despair Last Line: Unspeakable %sanctity GHOSTS OF NARRATIVE Poem Text First Line: In the stories that make us Last Line: A promise, and they laugh Subject(s): Bible – Old Testament; Jews - Exodus From Egypt GHOSTS OF NARRATIVE First Line: In the stories that make us Last Line: A promise,' and they laugh GIGUE FOR CHRISTMAS EVE First Line: O woman, go gently; the beast is too old Last Line: Just in time for the star that roared out of the east GLIDING First Line: Sometimes, riding the thermals, the swallows Last Line: Become like independent flight, habitual GRADUAL (ON SEPTEMBER 14, FEAST OF THE EXALTATION) First Line: This serene and mortal afternoon Last Line: Just visibly eastering GREAT DEAD, WHY NOT, MAY KNOW First Line: No grief goes unrelieved Last Line: As good and those outlands as relief HALF FULL First Line: Outside in %grief rage grey pain Last Line: Fireflowered %peony tree HALF-LIFE: COPIES TO ALL CONCERNED First Line: Gentlemen: how are you? Here things go well Last Line: Now ask your thought for this lost good. Farewell HANGZHOU, LAKE OF THE POETS Poem Text First Line: Reading the bones, wetting a fingertip Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets HANGZHOU, LAKE OF THE POETS: EVENING First Line: Magpies scream. Though the tongues of birds Last Line: Riding the tidal constant of its source HANGZHOU, LAKE OF THE POETS: MORNING First Line: Reading the bones, wetting a fingertip Last Line: As the speech that bears it and is telling HARD-SHELL CLAMS First Line: When it was too late for him to provide Last Line: We swallowed what I would not let us say I ASK MYSELF A FEW REAL HISTORICAL QUESTIONS First Line: Down from camps enclosed on the cliffs of vision Last Line: Of men & women, in a state of grace %accorded to my creed: %the face of the holy %is the human face I'VE BEEN AROUND: IT GETS ME NOWHERE' First Line: I am the woman always too young to be Last Line: Bound at the end by their loose embrace IDES OF MAY First Line: Every seventh second the wood thrush Last Line: Enter, wound, astound IMAGINE THAT First Line: May morning, and the child Last Line: Among other long-lived perennials IMAGINING STARRY Poem Text First Line: The place of language is the place between me Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy IN ABEYANCE First Line: The day of the transit of raptors Last Line: The now of air, transfiguring IN FAVOR OF GOOD DREAMS First Line: Memory Last Line: Uncut roses, memory INCOMPARABLE ASSUMPTIONS First Line: The lilium (rubrum, tall Last Line: Were vegetal and innocent JAMAICA WILDLIFE CENTER, QUEENS, NEW YORK First Line: On a south wind the sea air off Last Line: Of the life %of appetite LA UNE First Line: Let no word with its thinking threat Last Line: You free. We may yet %be LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Poem Text First Line: Burn, or speak your mind. For the oak to untruss Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LAST RESORT First Line: Admit me to the circle of light Last Line: Jackals have their uses LATE First Line: Bark on a bright day, fear of you is two-poled Last Line: Sharp. Wait, wait for me. Flash past, dusty bride, %make your statement clear: light multiplies LEVELS First Line: A stone fence holds the heat Last Line: The mind's eye spins LIVE MODEL First Line: Who wouldn't rather paint than pose Last Line: And this one's my own LIVING ROOM First Line: The window's old & paint-struck in its frame Last Line: Framed, it's a wind-break. It averts the worst cold LOVE IS NOT LOVE' First Line: It is cold. I am %drawing my life around me to get warm Last Line: For when to cry, what to cry for, %cry to whom LULLABY First Line: Sleep now, hush my Last Line: Sleep now. There there %good night LUXURIA,' DREAMBOAT First Line: A small ship, but I can't board her Last Line: Or what wrecked both of us MATINS AND LAUDS Poem Text First Line: Excited as a sophisticated boy at his first Variant Title(s): Matins & Lauds Subject(s): Love MATINS AND LAUDS First Line: Excited as a sophisticated boy at his first Last Line: Dark of your embrace, asleep between earth and space Variant Title(s): Matins & Laud Subject(s): Love METAPHYSICA Poem Text First Line: Off the rack, said wittgenstein to descartes Last Line: I decline / to decline Subject(s): Metaphysics METAPHYSICA First Line: Off the rack,' said wittgenstein to descartes Last Line: What he really said %I decline %to decline MOVERS AND SHAKERS First Line: The round barn vaults a floor blessed Last Line: The brook starts a spring conversation MULTIPARA GRAVIDA 5 Poem Text First Line: Come to term the started child shocks Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery MULTIPARA GRAVIDA 5 First Line: Come to term the started child shocks Last Line: Exultant and wise. The born child cries Subject(s): Birth MUSEUM OUT OF MIND First Line: Whatever it was I used to call you out loud Last Line: Still in tissue paper, boxed, as I throw it away MY WORD IS MY BOND First Line: The neighborhood's older now Last Line: I picked up my ripped shirt %and lied' MYOPIA MAKES ALL LIGHT SOURCES RADIANT First Line: On the treed slope opposite, vertical Last Line: Making its light escape NON-VEGETARIAN First Line: It haunts us, the misappropriated flesh Last Line: Once for hunger, once for what meat distracts me from NORTHAMPTON STYLE Poem Text Subject(s): Desire; Love; Nature; Music & Musicians NORTHAMPTON STYLE First Line: Evening falls. Someone's playing a dulcimer Last Line: Its voice touches and parts the air of summer NOW THEN Poem Text First Line: For a moment I know Last Line: The other side known Subject(s): Knowledge; Homecoming NOW THEN First Line: For a moment I know Last Line: The other side known NURSING MOTHER, SELS. First Line: Tranquilized, she speaks or does not speak Last Line: Against this fitful night Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women OCEANS First Line: Death is breath-taking. We all die young Last Line: Unsaid, the deaf objects of good-by OF CERTAIN STUDENTS First Line: Once, teachers were giants of the numinous Last Line: Are so quick they spring them OLD JOKES APPRECIATE Poem Text First Line: Up the long stairs I run Subject(s): Jokes; Conduct Of Life OLD JOKES APPRECIATE First Line: Up the long stairs I run Last Line: How did you like the play?' OLD MAMA SATURDAY Poem Text Subject(s): Guilt OLD MAMA SATURDAY First Line: I'm moving from grief street Last Line: Under the you tree ON A LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PHOTO OF EUNICE B. WINKLESS, 1904 First Line: Eunice, flexible flyer of summer, rides Last Line: And, when do I act on better evidence? ON THE COUNTRY SLEEP OF SUSANNE K. LANGER First Line: Though she lives there as the wood's Last Line: In so focal a biography shuch sleep %recalls the cast of sacrifice ONE IS ONE Poem Text First Line: Heart, you bully, you punk, I'm wrecked, I'm shocked Subject(s): Hearts ONE IS ONE First Line: Heart, you bully, you punk, I'm wrecked, I'm shocked Last Line: And joy may come, and make its test of us ORIGIN Poem Text First Line: The skull or shell ORIGIN First Line: The skull or shell Last Line: They are just along for the ride OUT OF EDEN First Line: Under the may rain over the dug grave Last Line: I do not know where to go to do it, but I grieve OUT OF THE NORTH: TWO VIEWS First Line: Though I come %in this eagle's disguise Last Line: And to be what he seems to be?' OUT OF WATER Poem Text First Line: A new embroidery of flowers, canary color, Subject(s): Flowers OUT OF WATER First Line: A new embroidery of flowers, canary color Last Line: And what was yesterday %they pick today OUTSIDE THE FERTILE CRESCENT First Line: Too long out of her seashell, too far away Last Line: At dawn her salt crystals gleam, flushed with rose PAEONIA 'SOUVENIR DE MAXIME CORNU', INCIDENTALLY Poem Text First Line: The ground wants rain. Crouched here Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Gardens & Gardening; Hands; Rain; Freedom; Liberty PATHETIC FALLACIES ARE BAD SCIENCE BUT Poem Text First Line: If leaf-trash chokes the stream-bed Subject(s): Langer, Susanne K. (1895-1985); Philosophy & Philosophers PATHETIC FALLACIES ARE BAD SCIENCE BUT First Line: If leaf-trash chokes the stream-bed Last Line: And I cannot claim we are not desolate PATIENT First Line: The woman sleeps, old hand under old cheek Last Line: Trust. Someone to talk to. Something to say PERSEPHONE, PACKING First Line: I have two lives that change like dreams Last Line: Or tulips, daughtering PLEASANT AVENUE Poem Text First Line: Is in manhattan / as only those who live there know Last Line: I have nothing to fear Subject(s): New York City; Italian Americans; Neighbors PLEASANT AVENUE First Line: Is in manhattan %as only those who live there know Last Line: And of hurting children. And so here %I have nothing to fear Subject(s): Americans; United States POSSESSION First Line: You are right, in dreams I might well dance before the ark Last Line: Now we are going where god knows POURRITURE NOBLE Poem Text First Line: Never prophesy. Subject(s): Wine; Aging; Time POURRITURE NOBLE First Line: Never prophesy Last Line: Sweet is your real estate PRE-TEXT Poem Text First Line: Archaic, his gestures / hieratic, just like caesar or sappho Subject(s): Babies; Ancestors & Ancestry; Time; Infants; Heritage; Heredity PRE-TEXT First Line: Archaic,. His gestures Last Line: Grandma's unborn daughter's %folded ovaries PRIVATE AND PROFANE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: From loss of the old and lack of the new Subject(s): Religion; Philosophy & Philosophers; Art & Artists; Writing & Writers; Conduct Of Life; Theology PRIVATE AND PROFANE First Line: From loss of the old and lack of the new Last Line: Let our loves, freed in us, gaudy and graceful, grow PROBLEM OF LOVING-KINDNESS First Line: She has gone soft Last Line: My darling. My dear' PROBLEM OF FICTION First Line: She always writes poems. This summer Last Line: And there's no story if there's no hope of change PROBLEM OF FREEDOM & COMMITMENT First Line: In her first dot-to-dot book of puzzles Last Line: And nothing she starts on will ever get done PROBLEM OF GRATIFIED DESIRE First Line: If she puts honey in her tea Last Line: More neat or definite PROBLEM OF THE FUTURE First Line: She no longer expects gardens Last Line: She prophesies such gardens Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening QU'AI-JE A FAIRE EN PARADIS?' First Line: Alexander did not in god's costume recall more Last Line: To see me upright here, having cast off sword and hood? QUICK IT CAN First Line: Quick quick nothing Last Line: To haunt you, though I think it can RAIN ALL NIGHT, PARIS First Line: On the road home the tide is rising Last Line: Even a raft or canoe READING A LARGE SERVING DISH First Line: Persephone white-faced Last Line: You can rise beyond suffering REAL ESTATE: KRIPPLEBUSH, NEW YORK First Line: Having measured all the edges and seen Last Line: I wake to walk here, walk to learn my bounds RESIDUAL PARALYSIS First Line: I'm an unable woman who loves to dance Last Line: To laugh its way past accidental wrong, %those outside then step inside the dance RESTORING MY HOUSE First Line: Her husband dead, my grandmother destroyed Last Line: Of images, and change RITOURNELLE, FOR PARIS 1948 First Line: Down for the subtle grey sorbonne and Last Line: Brilliant from your hand RITOURNELLE, PARIS 1948 Poem Text First Line: Down from the subtle grey sorbonne and Subject(s): Paris, France ROCKEFELLER THE CENTER Poem Text First Line: Roland is dead and the ivory broken Subject(s): Rockefeller Center, New York City ROCKEFELLER THE CENTER First Line: Roland is dead and the ivory broken Last Line: No longer solicited RODS, CONES, & THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS First Line: It's the averted eye Last Line: And I've been sound asleep for hours' ROUNDSTONE COVE First Line: The wind rises. The sea snarls in the fog Last Line: Fog hoods me. But the hood of fog is sun ROYAL GATE First Line: Little jacqueline pascal played with blaise Last Line: On or under every desert there are pools SAM REFUTED, RESPECTFULLY First Line: Experience can't teach Last Line: Usable, true %and there SENSIBILITY First Line: Cloth of true gold or midas cloth chemically interchanged Last Line: But something of what he said was true SEPARATE, IN THE SWIM Poem Text First Line: Oiled and drowsy, idling in a sling Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers SEPARATE, IN THE SWIM First Line: Oiled and drowsy, idling in a sling Last Line: I towel myself dry SKIMMING RAW FOLK MATERIAL First Line: The tale has bends in it. What can it mean Last Line: Analysis prefers a mountain lake SNAP SHOTS First Line: From the hill road the golf-turf's a postcard Last Line: Mine says the golfer teeing up. Mine? I say, make mine spring SOIS SAGE O MA DOULEUR First Line: Here they are, what you hid, %what shamed you, the Last Line: I must have been a failure. %there is no one to blame %but myself SPLIT IMAGE OF ATTENTION First Line: Saints in the book of dimma Last Line: Of fear hearing the meaning %of shooting stars SPRINGING First Line: In a skiff on a sunrisen lake we are watchers Last Line: Rising to fall, falling to rise ST.-GERMAINE-DE-PRES: SUMMER 1948 First Line: Crooked like all our ideas of ancient ascension Last Line: Sky blue altar up there too, don't let that gold %air blow on you' STORY AFTER THE STORY First Line: In bubbles to the elbow, on my knees Last Line: Of loss cancels what we might have become STRONG, OFF ROUTE 209 First Line: Armstrong %is blowing the roof off Last Line: Young's young university SUMMER SESTINA First Line: Her daylilies are afloat on evening Last Line: Make ready for evening, reconciled to earth, %gardened to richness by her spendthrift light SURVIVAL First Line: Watching you strike worldly poses flirting Last Line: Pregnant for the seventh time %disappear SYMPOSIUM HOLIDAY First Line: Out of the sky I fell onto a little island Last Line: Nor their skill as vivisectionists SYNTHESIS First Line: Elemental as weather this love Last Line: My health in its element TAKE ANY CARD First Line: Take any card; if we agree Last Line: May well be a chosen one TAKE MY DISPROPORTIONATE DESIRE First Line: Enough of expressionist flowers lions and wheat Last Line: Incautious faith. To only you I offer it TAKE TIME, TAKE PLACE First Line: There lay lyonesse, a land now drowned Last Line: And deep under the seas' collapsing caress %are the porches and bridals of lyonesse TAKING THOUGHT First Line: Tom broods, grandpa said. His genial brother tom Last Line: Till he smiled. He smiled like a statue set free TALE TOLD BY ATHENEUS (VENUS CALLIPYGUS) First Line: Two sisters of ancient greece both laid claim Last Line: Move me with deep devotion to its site TESTING GARDENING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In the garden I watch myself take care Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THANK GERARD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Cascade: rain torrential rain Subject(s): Rain; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE STORY AFTER THE STORY Poem Text First Line: N bubbles to the elbow, on my knees Subject(s): Story-telling; Family Life; Children; Absence; Disappointment; Relatives; Childhood; Separation; Isolation THIRD THANK-YOU LETTER First Line: The seine and the sky refract each other's rain Last Line: What I have %to be THIS BRIDGE, LIKE POETRY, IS VERTIGO Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Describing the wind that drives it, cloud Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TITLE'S LAST First Line: Here's the best joke, though its flavor is salt Last Line: Le requin qui me mord s'empoisonne TO FORBID GRIEF First Line: Let her be. She ran a long way Last Line: Whose light runs free TO THE MUSE OF DOORWAYS EDGES VERGES First Line: Tall in the doorway stands Last Line: To my place, she says %and vanishes TROIS PETITS TOURS ET PUIS First Line: She gives him paper and a fine-nibbed pen Last Line: A fresh music fills her house, a fresh air TWO QUESTIONS (FOR ALL MEN OF GOOD WILL AND SOMETIME ARMED) First Line: Dropped %brilliant Last Line: Of what is war the history UNABASHED First Line: Unabashed %as some landscapes are Last Line: To invent human love UNDER A ROUTINE PROCEDURE First Line: Intelligent and kind often, hands, I can't count them Last Line: Has a altarstone and our altarstone sweats blood UNDERBUTTER First Line: This house has three entrance-ways Last Line: The root-threads pop out a strong bud, lower down UNPLUGGED First Line: Once, you were translucent; you stood between Last Line: In natural light the world is immense VILLE INDIGENE': AFRIQUE DU NORD First Line: Amazed in a garden shut high Last Line: Known nor even %wept by me VISIT First Line: Come for duty's sake (as girls do) we watch Last Line: Presuming us, who are young, to be beautiful, kind, and sure WE ARE IMAGINED First Line: Time has expanded between us, like the spread Last Line: Something compensatory %happening for us WE STAND OUR GROUND First Line: As the earth comes to light Last Line: So is mind to memory WEARING THE GAZE OF AN ARCHAIC STATUE First Line: The juggler in her suit of nerve Last Line: She proposes to obey WEDDING SONG Poem Text First Line: Be between us in our making love Subject(s): Marital Love WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE, STEPHEN?' First Line: Lean walkers on light feet connive Last Line: Impatient waiters, forfeit in their many-colored paid-for coats WHAT CHANGES First Line: Pliny's encyclopedia says: look Last Line: Within her sweet alyssum borders WHAT THE WORN RHYMES FOUND First Line: Wherever she looked today, she looked too late Last Line: Shows the jeweller a stain %cyanide and gold WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? Poem Text First Line: Here I am in the garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? First Line: Here I am in the garden Last Line: In the overhead compartment WILD First Line: Even the eagle Last Line: & tuns in hastily %to the weather reports Subject(s): Animals; Nature; News WINTER Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Neighbors; Sons; Friendship; Suicide; Divorce WINTER First Line: I don't know what to say to you, neighbor Last Line: You have a path to clear, and so you do |
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