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| Searching... Author: PRATT, MINNIE BRUCE Matches Found: 57 Pratt, Minnie Bruce Poet's Biography 57 poems available by this author A COLD NOT THE OPPOSITE OF LIFE First Line: Nothing but pine boards between her and wind that would not Last Line: Nothing but pine boards between her and wind that would not Subject(s): Nothing But Pine Boards Between Her And Wind That Would No AFTER THE ANTI-WAR MARCH Poem Text First Line: We had a different driver on the way home. I sat Subject(s): Politics & Government; War ALL THE WOMEN CAUGHT IN FLARING LIGHT Poem Text First Line: Imagine a big room of women doing anything Subject(s): Women; Mothers; Gays & Lesbians; Children; Grief; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness AT DEEP MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: It's at dinnertime the stories come, abruptly Subject(s): Food & Eating; Night; Women - Old Age; Bedtime BLUEBERRIES Poem Text First Line: Love, I know you well: how you look, desiring Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians BREAKFAST Poem Text First Line: Rush hour, and the short order cook lobs breakfast Subject(s): Food & Eating BURNING WATER Poem Text First Line: In the youtube video a man flips a lighter, flare Subject(s): Water CAHABA Poem Text First Line: On the banks of the cahaba Last Line: On the banks of the cahaba Subject(s): Rivers CAHABA Poem Text First Line: On the banks of the cahaba Subject(s): Cahaba River, Alabama CENTRAL PRISON First Line: A sign passed on her way to work Last Line: So she could eat a berry and fly away, gone home Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Women; Prisons & Prisoners CUTTING HAIR Poem Text First Line: She pays attention to the hair, not her fingers, and cuts herself Subject(s): Hair; Hands; Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People EATING CLAY Poem Text First Line: Face damp on a lover's thigh and scratchy Last Line: Surrender, the tongue's flame in the furnace of the mouth Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love – Erotic EATING CLAY Poem Text First Line: Face damp on a lover's thigh and scratchy Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FIGHTING FIRE First Line: First the fire engines shake the night, the red blare Last Line: Blazes up, light flickers over mouths shut on the word / nothing Subject(s): Fire; Homeless GIVING A MANICURE Poem Text First Line: The woman across from me looks so familiar, Subject(s): Nailshops; Women; Korea IN A SOLITARY PLACE Poem Text First Line: I was going to write to you about romance Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians JUSTICE, COME DOWN Poem Text First Line: A huge sound waits, bound in the ice, Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Stories; Disappointment LEARNING TO TALK Poem Text First Line: On magnolia avenue there are no magnolias. Someone bought Subject(s): Neighbors; Birds; Mothers; Babies; Infants MY MOTHER LOVES WOMEN Poem Text First Line: She sends me gold & silver earrings for valentine's Last Line: That I might love women too Subject(s): Mothers; Women; Familylife MY MOTHER LOVES WOMEN Poem Text Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men NEW YEAR'S, 1984 Poem Text First Line: I avoid the stalled elevator, walk up five flights Last Line: Your hand has written your name inside me forever Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians NOT A GUN, NOT A KNIFE Poem Text First Line: I don't want this to be happening again, and to you Last Line: Twist the blue chalk with tensile fingers against the cue Subject(s): Rape NOT THE END OF THE STORY Poem Text First Line: Lying on you naked, naked skin to skin Last Line: As wet dirt under me, to go to sleep before the candle goes out Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Erotic OPENING THE MAIL Poem Text First Line: She used to work down in the copy center, and Subject(s): Women - Employment; Ambition; Automobile Racing; Postal Service; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Race Car Driving; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen PARTITIONS: THE LOT OF BEING COMMON TO ALL Poem Text First Line: At the windowless west wall Subject(s): Air Travel; Women PEACH Poem Text First Line: My tongue, your ass Last Line: Eat you? I ask Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Erotic PICKING UP A JOB APPLICATION Poem Text First Line: A spring wind hustles hundreds of pages into the street Subject(s): Women - Employment; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers PLUMS Poem Text First Line: I love the way you Last Line: Way you give me tongues Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians POEM FOR MY SONS Poem Text First Line: When you were born, all the poets I knew Last Line: Like a woman on foot, in a long stepping out Subject(s): Mothers & Sons POEM FOR MY SONS Poem Text First Line: When you were born, all the poets I knew Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Women; Conduct Of Life RED STRING Poem Text First Line: At first she thought the lump in the road Subject(s): Ku Klux Klan; Women SECOND DIGHT First Line: In savoy heights, two dark men stand, faced Last Line: The only eyes that see her stare back in the rearview glass Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Night SHAME Poem Text First Line: I ask for justice but do not release Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mothers & Sons; Divorce; Grief; Loss; Shame; Guilt; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Sorrow; Sadness SHARP GLASS Poem Text First Line: Shattered glass in the street at maryland and 10th Last Line: Sliver to blink in the light, sharp as a question Subject(s): Glass SNAKE EYES First Line: At the corner wall, boys huddle and squat, playing Subject(s): Boys; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements STUBBORN AS A YEAR AGO Poem Text First Line: I have thistles in my house in a blue bottle Last Line: Thistledown in the air was your hair, my breath Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Thistles; Aging SWINGBLADE Poem Text First Line: She swung the red-rust triangle blade Subject(s): Home TEMPORARY JOB Poem Text Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Women - Employment; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers THE A & P First Line: She rolled a tomato in her hand, pink rubber Subject(s): Farm Life; Migrant Workers; Food & Eating; Supermarkets THE BLUE CUP Poem Text First Line: Through binoculars the spiral nebula was Subject(s): Coffee THE CHILD TAKEN FROM THE MOTHER Poem Text First Line: I could do nothing. Nothing. Do you Last Line: And women, lovers, mothers, lesbians. Yes Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Child Custody; Sacrifices; Women's Rights THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INSIDE AND OUTSIDE Poem Text First Line: At dawn the sky is chrome yellow. We turn over Subject(s): Storms; Love THE FACT OF THE GARDEN Poem Text First Line: With this rain I am satisfied we will be together Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians THE FERRY First Line: Today, she tells the woman close beside her, I saw a man Last Line: Today, she tells the woman close beside her, I saw a man Subject(s): Homeless THE GATE First Line: The gate is ajar in the iron-barred fence so she goes in Last Line: Caught under circling fingers. Like something about to break Subject(s): Cemeteries THE GREAT MIGRATION Poem Text First Line: The third question in spanish class is: de donde eres tu? Subject(s): Learning; Migration THE PETRIFIED WOMAN First Line: As she turns the corner, daylight begins to fail Last Line: Inside out, potosi become huakajchi, the mountain that cried Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Women; Strikes THE ROAD TO SELMA First Line: In her birthplace, she's a tourist in the shrine to martyrs Last Line: Prisoners of starvation, their hungry mouths chew the bloody word, / arise Subject(s): Selma, Alabama; Civil Rights Movement THE SHRINE First Line: At noon the veiled woman sat and wailed on the curb Last Line: Intentions and goals Subject(s): Women; Cities; Grief; Childhood Memories THE SOUND OF ONE FORK Poem Text First Line: Through the window screen I can see an angle of grey roof Subject(s): Aging; Loneliness; Women; Neigbors; Longing THE SUBWAY ENTRANCE Poem Text First Line: He was her guide. He lived in hell. Every day he thought Subject(s): Nursing Homes; Fathers & Daughters; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living THE WOOD THRUSH SINGS Poem Text First Line: At the end of day, at the beginning of night Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness WALKING BACK UP DEPOT STREET Poem Text First Line: In hollywood, california (she'd been told), women travel Last Line: Without, send money, call home long distance about the heat Subject(s): Women WAULKING SONG: TWO First Line: At first she would not answer Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians WE SAY WE LOVE EACH OTHER Poem Text First Line: You say: the trouble is: we don't understand Last Line: After a while, we say again we love each other Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians WHAT THE CAT KNOWS First Line: The cat sleeps with her, back to back Last Line: Beats, invisible, the heart of a bird Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Sleep WHEN I CALL YOUR NAME Poem Text First Line: July is over, four hot weeks Last Line: How to slow it then, when I call your name Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Erotic |
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