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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: RORIPAUGH, LEE ANN Matches Found: 79 Roripaugh, Lee Ann Poet's Biography 79 poems available by this author A DANCE OF WOODEN SHOES Poem Text First Line: My mother's in geta shoes Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming ANTELOPE JERKY First Line: That smell, something like wet dog, stayed Last Line: Hand, my very own BIOLUMINESCENCE: 1. CANDELA Poem Text First Line: The eggs burn softly / in the earth, and when glow-worms Subject(s): Fireflies; Hunger; Light; Glowworms BIOLUMINESCENCE: 2. LAMBERT Poem Text First Line: Sometimes at night, fire- / flies are startled by lightning Subject(s): Fireflies; Rain; Sleep; Glowworms BIOLUMINESCENCE: 3. LUMEN Poem Text First Line: How vulnerable / we would all be if longing Subject(s): Desire; Fireflies; Longing; Glowworms BIOLUMINESCENCE: 4. LUCIFERIN Poem Text First Line: You are a dusky / angel drawn to the gleaming Subject(s): Fireflies; Light; Smoking; Glowworms; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes CARPE DIEM First Line: There is something about the way roger Last Line: A bullseye, our sun explodes, and therre is %only darkness, the damp scent of our skin CHAMBERED NAUTILUS Poem Text First Line: Today, the movers come Subject(s): Moving & Movers CHRYSANTHEMUMS Poem Text First Line: Miss yamada knew if a girl was tall and thin, or short and Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming CHRYSANTHEMUMS First Line: Miss yamada knew if a girl was tall and thin, or short and Last Line: Sting. These chrysanthemums stolen, crossing an ocean to %return them Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming COYOTE First Line: We spotted him scouting antelope along bison basin road Last Line: Until the curve of his ribs began to cool beneath my fingers Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming CROWS WHO TRY TO BE CORMORANTS DROWN Poem Text First Line: Snails; peaches; bishop, elizabeth (1911-1979); Last Line: Seeds inside a tangled nest of membrane, skin Subject(s): Snails; Peaches; Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979) DANCE OF WOODEN SHOES First Line: My mother's in geta shoes Last Line: Shaped welts on yellow ivory Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming DDT First Line: My parents learned to hear %the hollow crumple of gravel in the alley Last Line: Fish with a third, wide eye DREAM CARP Poem Text First Line: People traveled from miles away to see Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Fish & Fishing; Anglers DREAM CARP First Line: People traveled from miles away to see %my paintings of fish Last Line: Swirl of color, motion, swimming away FISH WIFE Poem Text First Line: The sting of the hook in my lip Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming FISH WIFE First Line: The sting of the hook in my lip Last Line: And gleaming coils of fine, silk twine Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming GIRL WITH A BOWL ON HER HEAD First Line: When I was a girl, my mother %always made me Last Line: Down to the green, sweet creamy heart HAPPY HOUR Poem Text First Line: I always forget the name, Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Flowers; Forgetfulness HAPPY HOUR First Line: I always forget the name, %delphinium, %even though it was the flower Last Line: At any time, I always wished %that I was some- %where, anywhere else, but here HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 1. KIMIKO OZAWA Poem Text First Line: Oka-san keeps stuffing rags under Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 1. KIMIKO OZAWA First Line: Oka-san keeps stuffing rags under Last Line: To keep from blowing away Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 10. MINORU SAITO First Line: When I shaved my head and became Last Line: That made me say no Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 2. JIMMY YAMAMOTO Poem Text First Line: Papa says we must tell the hospital Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 2. JIMMY YAMAMOTO First Line: Papa says we must tell the hospital Last Line: I see the man-in-the-moon Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 3. MASA NAKAHARA First Line: I am thinking about the temple Last Line: Serial number in its ear Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 4. CHESTER KOREMATSU Poem Text First Line: Fish are heavier than coal Last Line: Between flames and water Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 4. CHESTER KOREMATSU First Line: Fish are heavier than coal Last Line: Between flames and water Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 5. LILY IWASAKI First Line: Minoru, it's been over a month Last Line: Full of rage and cunning Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 6. SAM TOYAMA First Line: Mother held up a wrinkled fashion Last Line: Kicking me in the face inside her Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 7. NINA INOUE First Line: Since the shoe ration, I can't play Last Line: I learned what it means to be kind Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 8. YOSHIO MIYAKE First Line: It sours my incense, disturbs the sleep Last Line: Will suddenly wake, eyes spitting blood Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 9. CHIKAKO OKANO First Line: I know tweezing away dead skin Last Line: The scars I leave behind Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HIROSHIMA MAIDEN Poem Text First Line: My mother recognized / my feet and claimed me Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HIROSHIMA MAIDEN First Line: My mother recognized %my feet and claimed me Last Line: Richly embroidered %by unfamiliar hands Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR Poem Text First Line: Spasmed pork and gutter ofhiroshma newsreels unwinding inside Last Line: Into the black and white interior of the narrative's narrative Subject(s): Into The Black And White Interior Of The Narrative's Narrativ HOPE Poem Text First Line: There are nights I dream of goldfish Last Line: With their strange and mournful cries Subject(s): Fish & Fishing HOPE First Line: There are nights I dream of goldfish Last Line: With their strange and mournful cries KAKITSUBATA Poem Text First Line: Come to the place of eight bridges Last Line: The song of sparrows will always tell you otherwise Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming; Dreams KAKITSUBATA First Line: Come to the place of eight bridges Last Line: The song of sparrows will always tell %you otherwise Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming KWANNON Poem Text First Line: Her hypervigilance such that Last Line: In her terrible estuary of lamentations? Subject(s): Women; Activity LONELINESS Poem Text First Line: My father made me keep Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives MARVELOUS THINGS Poem Text First Line: A hairy caterpillar, silvery- Subject(s): Nature MITTEN SPRINGS: 1. BENNY'S PLACE First Line: We made camp %by the springs Last Line: Flung from the snow Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming MITTEN SPRINGS: 2. ANTELOPE HUNTING First Line: Stirring up grouse Last Line: Of dust and hoofbeats Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming MITTEN SPRINGS: 3. GUTTING First Line: Sawing the ribcage %was hard work Last Line: The spicy sage taste %run through me Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming NANKING CHERRY JAM First Line: The robins squabbled over the berries Last Line: I still could taste the fragrant blood-red fruit NINGYO Poem Text First Line: She took me everywhere Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming NINGYO First Line: She took me everywhere Last Line: Opening the sky Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming OCTOPUS IN THE FREEZER First Line: What could you possibly have been dreaming of Last Line: And resurrect me back into the living again ODE TO SHUSHI First Line: The gleaming arc / of knife Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming ODE TO SHUSHI First Line: The gleaming arc %of knife Last Line: A white moon Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming OYURUSHI Poem Text First Line: We danced hopscotch squares Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming OYURUSHI First Line: We danced hopscotch squares Last Line: I am your sister Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEACH GIRL First Line: Apprehended by snow Last Line: And you will spit it out Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEARLS Poem Text First Line: Mother eats seaweed and plum pickles Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEARLS First Line: Mother eats seaweed and plum pickles Last Line: It hurts. And the more it hurts, %the bigger the pearl Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEONY LANTERN First Line: Do not forget me Last Line: Her own limbs, one by one Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEONY LOVER Poem Text First Line: A thinnest sliver of moon, and caterpillars Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEONY LOVER First Line: A thinnest sliver of moon, and caterpillars Last Line: Of peony petals crumpling in my fists Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming SLEEPLESS GRAFFITI Poem Text Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Insomnia; Sleeplessness SNAKE WIFE First Line: From the very start, you were charmed %by the uncoiling Last Line: Bright in snow and steam, grooming each %other with soft paws SONGS FOR AN APPROACHING RAINY SEASON Poem Text First Line: Today the tomatoes will blush Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming SONGS FOR AN APPROACHING RAINY SEASON First Line: Today the tomatoes will blush Last Line: And pry each of my petals loose Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming SQUID First Line: Purplish pink, their bodies were mottled with black dots, like Last Line: Water, and when I held them up to my nose they smelled like %another country Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming STAR FESTIVAL: 1. SUMIDA RIVER First Line: Rice-paper lanterns bob Last Line: The sides of the boats %in judgment Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming STAR FESTIVAL: 2. ORIHIME'S SONG First Line: I came from mulberry trees Last Line: To have you inside me again Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming STAR FESTIVAL: 3. A THOUSAND CRANES First Line: I go to the bamboo grove Last Line: I am selfish Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming THE DESIRE FOR SPACE TRAVEL IS A METAPHOR FOR ESCAPE Poem Text First Line: Christmas eve, and how deliciously soft-shell crab Subject(s): Homecoming; Food & Eating; Love - Erotic; Christmas; Nativity, The THE WOMAN WHO LOVES INSECTS Poem Text First Line: If you stand outside my gate Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming THINGS I WOULD DO FOR YOU Poem Text First Line: Let me gather together a radiant cache Last Line: And hold you, my mouth in the nape of your neck Subject(s): Love TOOTHPICK WARRIORS First Line: Night sweats %to the rattle %and clink Last Line: I'll use to cleave %delusion's head %clean off TRANSPLANTING Poem Text First Line: My mother carried the chest x-ray Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Sneezing; Food & Eating; X-rays; Pigs; Boars; Hogs TROMPE D'OEIL: THE ANNOTATED VERSION Poem Text TSUNAMI IN LOVE: KINTSUKUROI / GOLDEN JOINERY Poem Text First Line: Safe is just another empty signifier Last Line: Gilding together what’s broken no more Subject(s): Love – Erotic UTOYASUKATA First Line: My heart's a black bird Last Line: And you'll say yasukata Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming WOMAN WHO LOVES INSECTS First Line: If you stand outside my gate Last Line: My honeybee. %my centipede Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming YEAR OF THE SNAKE First Line: I was born in the year of the snake Last Line: Up like tiny dragon kites spiraling %higher, higher...Higher |
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