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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: PRATT, MINNIE BRUCE Matches Found: 193 Pratt, Minnie Bruce Poet's Biography 193 poems available by this author & P First Line: She rolled a tomato in her hand, pink rubber Last Line: Again as the blisters came, and then the calluses on her hands 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 ACT INEXPLICABLE BY THEORY First Line: Why do we love each other, curiosity, stubborness Subject(s): Homosexuality 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 AFTER THE ANTI-WAR MARCH First Line: We had a different driver on the way home. I sat Last Line: Is eating some peppermint candies to stay awake Subject(s): Politics; 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 ALL THE WOMEN CAUGHT IN FLARING LIGHT: 1 First Line: A grey day, drenched, humid, the sunflowers Last Line: A groove in stone, seeking a channel, a way out, %pain running like water through the glittering roo ALL THE WOMEN CAUGHT IN FLARING LIGHT: 2 First Line: I often think of a poem as a door that opens Last Line: Tattoo, the sign that admits us to this room, iridescent %incertain kinds of light, then vanishing, ALL THE WOMEN CAUGHT IN FLARING LIGHT: 3 First Line: If suffering were no more than a song's refrain Last Line: Heavy with the past, and there are tears running bitter %andsteady as rain in the night. Mostly we j ANOTHER QUESTION: 1 First Line: Yes, they've seen these poems. The oldest says Last Line: As monsters in a tiny odyssey. We lean over %and, like gods,admire the fabulous worms ANOTHER QUESTION: 2 First Line: The youngest son is debonair, modern Last Line: When I tell it all, that's what he likes best AT DEEP MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: It's at dinnertime the stories come, abruptly Subject(s): Food & Eating; Night; Women - Old Age; Bedtime AT DEEP MIDNIGHT First Line: It's at dinnertime the stories come, abruptly Last Line: Hair drifting like fire out from their unforgiving faces AT FIFTEEN, THE OLDEST SON COMES TO VISIT: 1 First Line: There it is: the indelible mark, sketched Last Line: There with his body's heat, a physical thought, %a remark on my strict ideas about men and women AT FIFTEEN, THE OLDEST SON COMES TO VISIT: 2 First Line: A judgment on the father who took the boy away Last Line: Soon I'll be too big. I say I know that wrestle, %that invisible bending, the mind's mark on the bod AT FIFTEEN, THE OLDEST SON COMES TO VISIT: 3 First Line: I don't let him drive yet in the city, squalling Last Line: When finally some image opens like a mouth, anger %speaking in the long muscles of body like a tongu AT FIFTEEN, THE OLDEST SON COMES TO VISIT: 4 First Line: This man by me who wears my body, younger, to Last Line: As he watches the fine crossings, the silver- &linked chains of oared water, form, dissolve behind h AT FIFTEEN, THE OLDEST SON COMES TO VISIT: 5 First Line: He has my hands, wide palm, long fingers Last Line: Scraps of lumber splintered on the bridge: us %at this flux of violent water bound downstream AT THE VIETNAM MEMORIAL First Line: A black wall, grass rooting on top, sod over a grave, a mirror BEFORE ME First Line: Elana's album opens to your photograph Subject(s): Homosexuality BLUE CUP First Line: Through binoculars the spiral nebula was Last Line: Small and cautious between her chapped cupped hands BLUEBERRIES Poem Text First Line: Love, I know you well: how you look, desiring Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians BLUEBERRIES First Line: Love, I know you well: how you look, desiring Subject(s): Homosexuality BONE DAY First Line: On the way to the zoo, beatrice passes discarded brick Last Line: The language of birds fledges your bone with the feather of words 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 BURY AND DIG First Line: We bury and dig each other up Subject(s): Homosexuality BUST OF MARTHA MITCHELL TO BE UNVEILED First Line: Beatrice folded the paper back to read more. The pages Last Line: When a mule is the god that tramples out the chaff BUTTON First Line: Saying hello, bottom step of the front steps Last Line: A tongue tasting rain in the livening dirt BY THE CORNER AT F STREET Subject(s): Homosexuality CABBAGE MOON First Line: I missed you tonight, I had gone out Subject(s): Homosexuality 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 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 CHILD TAKEN FROM THE MOTHER First Line: I could do nothing. Nothing. Do you Last Line: Glance, do not say even to themselves: children %and women, lovers, mothers, lesbians. Yes Subject(s): Homosexuality COLD NOT THE OPPOSITE OF LIFE First Line: Nothing but pine boards between her and wind that would not Last Line: To remind her: there is something different from you dwelling here COST AND USE First Line: Velvet slippers, one on the sidewalk, the other, debris Last Line: That gnaws on habit and the past. They pay for the act that breaks free CRIME AGAINST NATURE: 1 First Line: The upraised arm, fist clenched, ready to hit Last Line: For a split second we are all clenched, suspended: %upraisedfist, approving hoots, my inverted endin CRIME AGAINST NATURE: 2 First Line: The ones who fear me think they know who I am Last Line: My inhuman shimmer, the crime of moving back and forth %between more than one self, more than one en CRIME AGAINST NATURE: 3 First Line: The hatred baffles me: individual, doctrinal, codified Last Line: Didn't mention teeth. I'm sure it will some day if %one of us gets caught with the other, nipping CRIME AGAINST NATURE: 4 First Line: No one says crime against nature when a man Last Line: The locked room. She left a clue. We don't know %her secret.She's not here to tell the story CRIME AGAINST NATURE: 5 First Line: Last time we were together we went down to the river Last Line: In the sun, clinging to keep our balance, glinting %like silver fishes caught in the mouth of the mo CRIME AGAINST NATURE: 6 First Line: I could have been mentally ill or committed Last Line: Our assault on enemies, walking forward, skirts lifted, %to show the silent mouth, the terrible powe 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 CUTTING HAIR First Line: She pays attention to the hair, not her fingers, and cuts herself Last Line: How it shines like a field of scythed hay beneath her feet DARNING NEEDLE First Line: After you were sad, after our hands veered Subject(s): Homosexuality DECLARED NOT FIT First Line: In this month of grief I am crying for my lover Last Line: The eye waits, sad, unsatisfied, %to embrace the particular loved shape. %eyes, empty hands, empty w DONE First Line: When you're gone out of town, the way I get you back is Subject(s): Homosexuality DOWN THE LITTLE CAHABA First Line: Soundless sun, the river. Home in august Last Line: I meant: the sound of your blood crossed into mine DREAMING A FEW MINUTES IN A DIFFERENT ELEMENT: 1 First Line: The boys are running through a blaze of sand Last Line: Hands hovered in figure eights of infinity, %in water steady as our blood, but cold, and older DREAMING A FEW MINUTES IN A DIFFERENT ELEMENT: 2 First Line: I have passed through a mean, barren place Last Line: I'm being childish, yes. The child doesn't care %why, knows only the mother is not there DREAMING A FEW MINUTES IN A DIFFERENT ELEMENT: 3 First Line: I call my children. The phone rings, rings Last Line: What did this mean to them on unforgiving nights %when they cried out and I was not there to answer? DREAMING A FEW MINUTES IN A DIFFERENT ELEMENT: 4 First Line: The boys are swimming the green creek Last Line: Plain fish, grey in the air, the men unaware %that they werebrilliant, different, in another element 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 EATING CLAY First Line: Face damp on a lover's thigh and scratchy Last Line: Surrender, the tongue's flame in the furnace of the mouth EYE OF ONE WHO LOVES YOU First Line: Late afternoon: sunlight deflected pink Subject(s): Homosexuality FACT OF THE GARDEN First Line: With this rain I am satisfied we will be together Subject(s): Homosexuality FERRY First Line: Today, she tells the woman close beside her, I saw a man Last Line: They say, we are crossing here, this bridge our only land 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 FIGHTING FIRE First Line: First the fire engines shake the night, the red blare Last Line: Tinder %blazes up,light flickers over mouths shut on the word %nothing FIRST NIGHT First Line: You tell me you notice light always Subject(s): Homosexuality FIRST QUESTION First Line: The first question is: what do your children Last Line: Black sky barely edging around a moon. %enormous memory child mother moon orange FIRST YEAR First Line: Or if we count by nights: a hundred and one Subject(s): Homosexuality FOR A STUDENT First Line: You say you're a woman but have never experienced Subject(s): Homosexuality FRIDAY NIGHT First Line: The sun is going down red-hot, swollen Subject(s): Homosexuality 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 GIVING A MANICURE Poem Text First Line: The woman across from me looks so familiar, Subject(s): Nailshops; Women; Korea I ADMIT THE NEED First Line: Today has come to this: night, me alone Subject(s): Homosexuality I AM READY TO TELL ALL I KNOW First Line: From the north (where cold white is falling Last Line: As if out of me. What if he were one of mine? %but which bloodied one, mine? I DO NOT WAIT First Line: I don't expect I'll ever see you naked Subject(s): Homosexuality IN A SOLITARY PLACE Poem Text First Line: I was going to write to you about romance Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians IN A SOLITARY PLACE First Line: I was going to write to you about romance Subject(s): Homosexuality IN EACH OTHER'S ARMS, LIGHTNING First Line: When we sat on the bed and spoke as if across Subject(s): Homosexuality IN THE MORNING, THE ROOM SHIFTS First Line: In your photographs of other lovers, I can see the desire Subject(s): Homosexuality IN THE WAITING ROOM AT THE DRAFT BOARD First Line: He called me the day after we invaded Last Line: I don't know where he is bruised from when %I paid for my freedom with my children IT WILL ALWAYS BE TOO SOON First Line: Breaking up breaking up we talked Subject(s): Homosexuality JUSTICE, COME DOWN Poem Text First Line: A huge sound waits, bound in the ice, Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Stories; Disappointment JUSTICE, COME DOWN First Line: A huge sound waits, bound in the ice Last Line: Stretch out your hand. Come down, glittering, %from where you have hidden yourself away KINKY SEX First Line: When I'm gone from you my hair Subject(s): Homosexuality LAUGHING PLACE First Line: There was the time I got mad and hired a detective Last Line: I slipped around, playing the detective, making my escape. %then the boy and I at the kitchen table LEARNING TO TALK Poem Text First Line: On magnolia avenue there are no magnolias. Someone bought Subject(s): Neighbors; Birds; Mothers; Babies; Infants LIVING IN A POSTCARD First Line: Out my fifth story window the capitol dome sits up Subject(s): Homosexuality MOTHER BEFORE MEMORY: 1 First Line: Enormous mythic figures shine in a silent dark Last Line: The scuppernong vine shadow. 1946. I am a baby. %it is a breath of time in the years she held me MOTHER BEFORE MEMORY: 2 First Line: Pictures somewhere, in a cardboard candy box Last Line: Once a week only: the harsh repeated metal clang, %outcry insilence. Her voice praying in me MOTHER BEFORE MEMORY: 3 First Line: No story, no picture of the first memory Last Line: Darkness and sound are outside and in us MOTHER BEFORE MEMORY: 4 First Line: A kodacolor snapshot: the boys, her Last Line: The words I salvage are few, fierce, clear: %bind them to you, bind them while you can MOTHER BEFORE MEMORY: 5 First Line: On the bright wall of my room Last Line: Ring the bell, small brass call. Pray to them %in me, and for what they gave, before memory MOTIONLESS ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE LIGHT First Line: When I try to get back to my mother Last Line: Some nights the moon opens its full mouth and %takes her silently kneeling inside fearless MY LIFE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT First Line: The ugliness, the stupid repetition Last Line: I say: I'm working hard on some poems about my %children. %she says: oh, how sweet. How sweet 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 NAPE OF YOUR NECK First Line: When I came back into the restaurant, it was as Subject(s): Homosexuality 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 NEW YEAR'S, 1984 First Line: I avoid the stalled elevator, walk up five flights Subject(s): Homosexuality NIGHT GIVES US THE NEXT DAY First Line: Tonight it is raining ice, no thunder, not lightning Subject(s): Homosexuality NO PLACE First Line: One night before I left I sat halfway down Last Line: How night and the rivers flowed into a huge void %as if that was where we were going, no place at al 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 A GUN, NOT A KNIFE First Line: I don't want this to be happening again, and to you Subject(s): Homosexuality 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 NOT THE END OF THE STORY First Line: Lying on you naked, naked skin to skin Subject(s): Homosexuality ON SUGAR LOAF KEY First Line: You are snoring mildly in the bed where we devoured Subject(s): Homosexuality ON THE SILVER COAST First Line: In the nightwood shadow she stood small as a big dog Last Line: Night rain, on the silver coast, all sweetness lost 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 OTHER SIDE First Line: Men flirt in the silvered mirror eyelids, shadow Last Line: A woman, following the yellow drift like fire around the corner OUT OF SEASON First Line: In the backyard, earthworms had migrated Last Line: Narcissus into her room in mid-winter PAINTING HER FINGERNAILS RED First Line: For a month pumpkins had gathered at the curb market Last Line: A plastic skeleton out the window, clacks its mouth, and laughs 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 PEACH First Line: My tongue, your ass Subject(s): Homosexuality PETRIFIED WOMAN First Line: As she turns the corner, daylight begins to fail Last Line: Inside out, potosi become huakajchi, the mountain that cried 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 PICKING UP A JOB APPLICATION First Line: A spring wind hustles hundreds of pages into the street Last Line: To the other women behind the counter, who are talking, but not smiling PLACE LOST AND GONE, THE PLACE FOUND First Line: One low yellow light, the back room a cave Last Line: Saying, with no words, they have thought of me here, %and here I am with them in the in-between plac PLUMS Poem Text First Line: I love the way you Last Line: Way you give me tongues Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians PLUMS First Line: I love the way you Subject(s): Homosexuality 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 POEM FOR MY SONS First Line: When you were born, all the poets I knew Last Line: An unknown place where you could be with me, %like a woman on foot, in a long stepping out POSSUM EATS OUT OF THE GRAVEYARD First Line: Night anfter night she has had bad dreams. She clicks the light Last Line: She'll get up to let her lover in through the dream's back door READING MAPS: ONE First Line: Yesterday nettie in my office talked about summer Subject(s): Homosexuality READING MAPS: THREE First Line: By the map, point lookout is almost an island in the bay Subject(s): Homosexuality READING MAPS: TWO First Line: I have no map for the past, for going home to see Subject(s): Homosexuality RED STRING Poem Text First Line: At first she thought the lump in the road Subject(s): Ku Klux Klan; Women RED STRING First Line: At first she thought the lump in the road Last Line: Even if blood must sign your name Subject(s): Ku Klux Klan; Women REMNANT SHOP First Line: In and out the window the red silk curtain fluttered Last Line: She fastened on pearl buttons in a little factory down near nanih waiya 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 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 SECOND SIGHT 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 And Drivers; Night SEVEN TIMES GOING, SEVEN COMING BACK First Line: I said I would not be a tragedy Last Line: In the dark I pray to somebody (is it myself?) %who will not divide self from self, self from life SHADES First Line: Even before the flat yellow sail of the sun Last Line: The petals, the color of each flower in the 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 SHAME: 1 First Line: I ask for justice but do not release Last Line: Explain power, how he thought he'd force %me to choose, me or them, her or them SHAME: 2 First Line: How I wanted her slant humid body Last Line: If I had not been so starved, if I had been %more ashamed and hid. No end to this blame SHAME: 3 First Line: At times I can say it was good, even better Last Line: Lovebirds at our held hands. Late evening we stir. %goodnight: they expect me to go off to bed with SHAME: 4 First Line: All the years between now and then, the nights Last Line: What you want to last is fantasy, imagination, %said the voice creeping in my body, pain SHAME: 5 First Line: In one hand, the memory of pain Last Line: The day we all went down to the lake? Remember %how we heard the sound of the last ice in the water? SHARING THE EYE First Line: We live between the county speedway and the interstate Subject(s): Homosexuality 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 SHARP GLASS First Line: Shattered glass in the street at maryland and 10th Subject(s): Homosexuality SHRINE First Line: At noon the veiled woman sat and wailed on the curb Last Line: A warning to those who long for the broken paradise of their bodies SNAKE EYES First Line: At the corner wall, boys huddle and squat, playing Subject(s): Boys; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SNAKE EYES First Line: At the corner wall, boys huddle and squat, playing Last Line: Past the policeman on his beat. Unsmiling, refuse to bend her head Subject(s): Boys; Games SOUNDS FROM MY PREVIOUS LIFE First Line: The jackhammer, a woodpecker Last Line: Not done yet: my body struck %by its life, clapper in a brass bell STAYING TOGETHER First Line: Do you know why I think we stay together Subject(s): Homosexuality STRANGE FLESH First Line: She stepped into the building, a blue trapezoid Last Line: Brighter than anything. They'd sting you like a knife, if they had to, to live 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 STUBBORN AS A YEAR AGO First Line: I have thistles in my house in a blue bottle Subject(s): Homosexuality SUBWAY ENTRANCE First Line: He was her guide. He lived in hell. Every day he thought Last Line: Don't you forget me SWINGBLADE Poem Text First Line: She swung the red-rust triangle blade Subject(s): Home SWINGBLADE First Line: She swung the red-rust triangle blade Last Line: Then make herself safe, slant lines in the sand Subject(s): Home TALKING TO CHARLIE First Line: The cafeteria. Women, and alone, an eighteen-year-old Last Line: What will you say to the other men? And to my sons? 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 TRASH First Line: That day the most beautiful thing she saw was pigeons Last Line: Convenient niche apartments were built for them by men TWO SMALL-SIZED GIRLS: 1 First Line: Two small-sized girls, hunched in the corn crib Last Line: And ignore how the sun blazes across us, the straw husks, %the old door swung open for the new corn TWO SMALL-SIZED GIRLS: 2 First Line: Here's the cherry spool bed from her old room Last Line: Waiting for them to open, making up stories, %anything mighthappen, waiting in the garden TWO SMALL-SIZED GIRLS: 3 First Line: So much for the power of my ideas about oppression Last Line: We know we've done nothing wrong, to twist and search %for the kernels of fire deep in the body's sh USUALLY WE ARE NOT FOOLED BY DESPAIR First Line: So everyone asks what do you think of washington Subject(s): Homosexuality 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 WALKING BACK UP DEPOT STREET 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): Americans; United States WATER AND EARTH First Line: We have called our love transformation Subject(s): Homosexuality WAULKING SONG: ONE First Line: Maighread ni lachainn, I found you buried Subject(s): Homosexuality WAULKING SONG: TWO First Line: At first she would not answer Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians WAULKING SONG: TWO First Line: At first she would not answer Subject(s): Homosexuality WAVING HAND First Line: Last night of the visit, the youngest put his head Last Line: Our chests would be heavy with %medals, heavy waving hands :pendulum: %we come back, we say hello. H 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 WE SAY WE LOVE EACH OTHER First Line: You say: the trouble is: we don't understand Subject(s): Homosexuality WHAT HAPPENED YEARS AGO First Line: Yes, it is nine years later, this month Subject(s): Homosexuality WHAT I REMEMBER First Line: In the middle of the fight you left me Subject(s): Homosexuality 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 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 WHEN I CALL YOUR NAME First Line: July is over, four hot weeks Subject(s): Homosexuality WHILE READING TIMERMAN'S THE LONGEST WAR First Line: The father who says to the son: it is time Last Line: Saying: don't go %to grenada where %to lebanon where %to nicaragua, honduras, guatemala %where WHITE STAR First Line: Inside the white star it was warm, tumbled clothes Last Line: Go in and out the window as we have done before WINGED SEEDS First Line: If you were here, we would sit and hold hands Subject(s): Homosexuality YOUR HAND OPENS ME First Line: Flat on our backs on the floor, boards hard as packed clay Subject(s): Homosexuality YOUR VOICE HAS CARRIED ME First Line: Just a few words, barbara: since I am afraid Subject(s): Homosexuality |
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