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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: ROTHENBERG, JEROME Matches Found: 308 Rothenberg, Jerome Poet's Biography 308 poems available by this author 45, I GIVE UP MY IDENTITY Poem Text First Line: My name is smaller Subject(s): Aging 48 WORDS FOR A WOMAN'S DANCE SONG First Line: Playing the 7th Last Line: What kind of indian are you?' %'a fuzzy indian' A MISSAL LIKE A BONE Poem Text First Line: Link by link / I can disown Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A POEM FOR THE CRUEL MAJORITY Poem Text First Line: The cruel majority emerges! Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Social Classes; Democracy; Caste A SLOWER MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Time runs thru my fingers Subject(s): Love A WALKAROUND, FOR NEKO; KAMAKURA 11/10/96 Poem Text First Line: An old pone Last Line: & a garden all around Subject(s): Japan; Japanese ALPHABET CAME TO ME; IN MEMORY OF WALLACE BERMAN Last Line: The distances to every side of us %as in a poem ALTAR PIECES - 1986 First Line: Jesus at a wedding AMERICA A PROPHECY First Line: You'll be the first to be sacrificed' ANOTHER IKON: MEXICO 1984 First Line: The doll is god here AT MYKINES: 1 First Line: In the royal house Last Line: With goat bells somewhere %in the distance AT MYKINES: 2 First Line: With goat bells somewhere Last Line: At this time of year AT MYKINES: 3 First Line: Making echoes from its walls Last Line: Are clanging in the air AT MYKINES: 4 First Line: Snowcapped arcadia %beyond small puffs of smoke Last Line: Where we were too AT THE GRAVE OF NAKAHARA CHUYA (1907-1937): 1 First Line: The boy with the round hat Last Line: & sang in a broken sleep AT THE GRAVE OF NAKAHARA CHUYA (1907-1937): 2. AFTER NAKAHARA CHUYA First Line: He is their dada god Last Line: My chewing gum stuck to my ear %forever AT THE GRAVE OF NAKAHARA CHUYA (1907-1937): 3. AT THE GRAVESIDE First Line: It is because of you we come here Last Line: Who make a free fall into empty space %vanishing into the dark sky AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 1 Poem Text First Line: Fish & styrofoam Last Line: Red flowers & round open eyes Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan; Japanese AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 1 First Line: Fish & styrofoam Last Line: Red flowers & round open eyes Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 2. THE TALE Poem Text First Line: He walks among the others: animals & neighbors. In the land of Last Line: Prince of tides has written this for you. The land of islands Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan; Japanese AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 2. THE TALE First Line: He walks among the others: animals & neighbors. In the land of Last Line: Out of dreams. The prince of tides has written this for you. The land of islands Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 3. FOR MAKOTO ODA Poem Text First Line: A great quake / 'shook the earth Last Line: The words rewoven to the present day Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan; Japanese AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 3. FOR MAKOTO ODA First Line: A great quake %'shook the earth Last Line: The words rewoven to the present day Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: [HOJOKI - CHOMEI AT TOYAMA] Poem Text First Line: Months passed & people spoke about the quake no longer Variant Title(s): [hojoki-chomei In Kyoto-1177.-kobe 1995/96] Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan; Japanese AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: [HOJOKI - CHOMEI AT TOYAMA] First Line: Months passed & people spoke about the quake no longer Last Line: Uncertain passage through a foreign world Variant Title(s): [hojoki-chomei In Kyoto-1177.-kobe 1995/96 Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1997: THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED Poem Text First Line: 1 archipelago of the wandering dream Subject(s): Self AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1997: THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED First Line: 1. Archipelago of the wandering dream Last Line: 100. It is eight a.M. In paris AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1998: THE SECOND ONE HUNDRED First Line: 1. The penis of the king in steady motion %red butterfly over his lady's sex Last Line: 100. The visions of an old ape keep the world in wonder %the paradise of poets crashes down AUTOBIOGRAPHY 3: PICASSO'S HUNDRED First Line: 1. A flight of oranges fans open pissing in the wind Last Line: 100. Images & words pass through the ether with the speed of %light B*R*M*TZ*V*H First Line: Naming the day it comes Last Line: A man child son %grown old & beautiful %at last %'joy joy %'praise praise BELGRADE APOCALYPSE First Line: The animals over our heads BLAKE'S BABES: A PROPHECY Poem Text First Line: Infant encoil'd / inside a worm Subject(s): Prophets & Prophecy BOOK OF WITNESS (1-3): 1. THE CASE FOR MEMORY First Line: I was amok & fearless %twice deceived Last Line: I only touch the ground %on sundays BOOK OF WITNESS (1-3): 2. THE BURNING HOUSE First Line: It was always dark. %the red hole's %wetness threatened Last Line: Strangers emerge %like wolves %to run you down BOOK OF WITNESS (1-3): 3. WHERE GOD IS LIGHT First Line: The lost in hell %among the rat-faced %killers Last Line: There are now angels everywhere %never look back BURIAL OF THE COUNT OF ORGAZ AFTER PABLO PICASSO: 12.I.57 First Line: The most complete gap on the stage Last Line: Prescriptive signs picky picky & a sweet jelly roll BURIAL OF THE COUNT OF ORGAZ AFTER PABLO PICASSO: 14.VIII.57 First Line: The burial of the count of orgaz continues Last Line: In their beds las meninas act out the burial of the count of %orgaz BURIAL OF THE COUNT OF ORGAZ AFTER PABLO PICASSO: 16.I.58 First Line: The girls from downstairs slipped themselves into an envelope Last Line: Naked like worms in a pear & shaking with cold BURIAL OF THE COUNT OF ORGAZ AFTER PABLO PICASSO: 17.I.58 First Line: The butterflies were going from flower to flower laying fried Last Line: Their feathers in the puddles of syrup BURIAL OF THE COUNT OF ORGAZ AFTER PABLO PICASSO: 19.VI.58 First Line: Sun squatting down makes its own don rodrigo diaz de vivar Last Line: Night of tin leaves & of lettuce BURIAL OF THE COUNT OF ORGAZ AFTER PABLO PICASSO: 2.XII.57 First Line: The whole room busted up & thrown around chopped into Last Line: Is coming he will snatch away the babes who aren't sleeping BURIAL OF THE COUNT OF ORGAZ AFTER PABLO PICASSO: 20.VIII.59 First Line: There leave two trucks to hose the bull ring down & slap bang Last Line: Sugar & mint with their flesh like a quince's their ears spring- %ing locks in their gropings BURIAL OF THE COUNT OF ORGAZ AFTER PABLO PICASSO: 21.VII.58 First Line: Verdigris toro & lamp tripes & son of a bitch bitch & tailor for Last Line: Kicked apart by the hoofs of the ages BURIAL OF THE COUNT OF ORGAZ AFTER PABLO PICASSO: 27.I.57 First Line: Apparition of old cunt & research into garbage cans for a Last Line: Ecclesiastical illuminations BURIAL OF THE COUNT OF ORGAZ AFTER PABLO PICASSO: 5.VIII.58 First Line: Thoroughbred from head to toe & compass point for shaving Last Line: Very heavens like a child BURIAL OF THE COUNT OF ORGAZ AFTER PABLO PICASSO: 6.I.57. CANNES First Line: 1. Here there's nothing but some oil & shredded beef Last Line: 1. Don't you be talking nonsense dance & sing you big %capuchin monk & don't you tell me any stories BURIAL OF THE COUNT OF ORGAZ AFTER PABLO PICASSO: 8.VI.58 Last Line: Canon law made of rainbow wheel hair BURIAL OF THE COUNT OF ORGAZ AFTER PABLO PICASSO: 8.VIII.58 First Line: But by then at that time from the girls down below to their Last Line: Johns night & wrapped in scraps of paper made of silk BURIAL OF THE COUNT OF ORGAZ AFTER PABLO PICASSO: 9.VIII.58 First Line: Here ends the letter & the signature follows & sets forth the Last Line: Are being drawn-the shreds of dirty kitchen rags in all the %windows BURIAL OF THE COUNT OF ORGAZ AFTER PABLO PICASSO: THIRD SEGMENT First Line: There did finally arrive the card announcing the festivities on Last Line: The moon-the silver lace the pigeons raise up making light of %their sad plight CHILD OF AN IDUMEAN NIGHT First Line: I, the fat god Last Line: Though he was no father CODA: THE FINAL LORCA VARIATION First Line: The end for lorca comes Last Line: Offered to lorca's spain COKBOY: PART ONE First Line: Saddlesore I came Last Line: The story of the coming-forth begins COKBOY: PART TWO First Line: Comes a brown %wind curling from Last Line: Guess I got nothing left to say CONNOISSEUR OF JEWS First Line: If there were locomotives to ride home on Last Line: Will tell you had some special deal CORTEGE Poem Text First Line: The drums have entered my heart Last Line: You have returned with me Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) CORTEGE First Line: The drums have entered my heart Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) CRAZY DOG EVENTS (CROW INDIAN) Poem Text First Line: Act like a crazy dog. Wear sashes & other fine clothes Last Line: It jump dpwn a steep and rock bank, until both of you are crushed Subject(s): Men CRAZY DOG EVENTS (CROW INDIAN) First Line: Act like a crazy dog. Wear sashes & other fine clothes Last Line: Make it jump down a steep & rocky bank, until both of you are crushed Subject(s): Men DEAD BODIES First Line: They pretend light DER GILGUD (THE POSSESSED) Poem Text First Line: He picks a coin up Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Shoah DER GILGUL (THE POSSESSED) First Line: He picks a coin up DER VIDERSHTAND (THE RESISTANCE) Poem Text First Line: Began this in olson's words it was Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Shoah DER VIDERSHTAND (THE RESISTANCE) First Line: The resistance began with this in olson's words it was DI MAGILAS FUN AUSHVITS (THE SCROLLS OF AUSCHSWITZ) Poem Text First Line: He vanished & reappeared in a room no bigger than a Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Concentration Camps; Jews; Judaism DI TOYTE KLOLES (THE MALEDICTIONS) First Line: Let the dead man call out in you because he is a dead man DIABOLO: A POEM OF THE NIGHT AFTER VITEZSLAV NEZVAL First Line: Night mourner's dress slung over Last Line: When lady goes to sleep DISPERSAL First Line: Figures in flight DJOMAIN OF THE TOTAL CLOSES AROUND THEM DREAM & LIE OF GEORGE W. BUSH (AFTER PICASSO'S DREAM & LIE OF... First Line: Owl fandango escabeche swords of octopus of evil omen Last Line: Embedded in the rock Subject(s): Politics; War DREAM ANTHEMS First Line: The patriots' dreams, the many DREAMWORK FIVE First Line: In a corner of the old DREAMWORK FOUR First Line: I have come back' he said DREAMWORK ONE First Line: To dream that he is walking past a window DREAMWORK SEVEN: THE BELLY First Line: The belly in the dream is central DREAMWORK SIX First Line: Ready yourself for death DREAMWORK THREE Poem Text First Line: A trembling old man dreams of a chinese garden Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMWORK THREE First Line: A trembling old man dreams of a chinese garden DREAMWORK TWO First Line: The rabbi whispers to the rabbi FECKLESS WITH DISGUST Poem Text First Line: All erasure of pain Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FIRST NIGHT POEM, FOR JACKSON MAC LOW: 1. First Line: Where mac low walks someone stops a clock Last Line: And her begins another night poem uniting light & night FIRST NIGHT POEM, FOR JACKSON MAC LOW: 2. NIGHT WALK VARIATIONS First Line: So cold a woman might stop talking Last Line: Until the hills wear down from silence %standing apart FIRST NIGHT POEM, FOR JACKSON MAC LOW: 3. First Line: The first time I heard your light poems, jackson, I was over- %come with awe Last Line: And the hope to be together in that darkness FIVE KUWITTER POEMS AFTER KURT SCHWITTERS: AUTUMN First Line: It's autumn. Swans are eating their masters' bread in which Last Line: It's autumn. And the swans are autumning too FIVE KUWITTER POEMS AFTER KURT SCHWITTERS: THE MEADOW First Line: The meadow does grow. O woe to the man hiding meadows Last Line: Meadow? I dream meadows pra FIVE KUWITTER POEMS AFTER KURT SCHWITTERS:ROSES ABLOOM LIKE DAISY .. First Line: Roses abloom like daisy blossoms in the meadow, pressed Last Line: Azure skyblue aether FLOWER CANTATA First Line: He weaves his flowers into flower words FLOWER CANTATA: CODA & VARIATIONS First Line: Shekinah incarnate in a flower fish FOUR MEDIEVAL SCENES, FOR ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Text First Line: Jesus at a wedding Subject(s): Past FUNERAL: 1 First Line: The bull stretched Last Line: Pouring blood %into a bowl FUNERAL: 2 First Line: A lady with a crown Last Line: Ax blades %birds are perching on FUNERAL: 3 First Line: Behind them %a musician comes Last Line: From his tomb %behind the altar FUNERAL: 4 First Line: A chariot %drawn by horses Last Line: & behind each walk %2 women GOLEM & GODDESS First Line: Into the dark of prague HANDS First Line: Looking at her hand Last Line: Alive & dead HIDDEN IN WOODS BAGGED LIKE AN INDIAN HUNGER First Line: The prisoners, committed to death Last Line: Till the end of time' I AM MAD BY TURNS Poem Text First Line: When I close my eyes Subject(s): Death; Dead, The I AM NOT A NATIVE OF THIS PLACE Poem Text Subject(s): Conduct Of Life I AM THE PRESIDENT OF REGULATION Poem Text First Line: I am the giant goliath, Subject(s): Social Commentaries I EXCEED MY LIMITS Poem Text First Line: I have tried an altenstil Subject(s): Conduct Of Life I FAIL AS A CELIBATE Poem Text First Line: Despair leaves / a dry spot Subject(s): Desire I VENT MY WRATH ON ANIMALS Poem Text First Line: I came alive Subject(s): Animals I WILL NOT EAT MY POEM Poem Text First Line: I kill for pleasure Subject(s): Aging; Poetry & Poets I WILL NOT SAVE THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: I like to cross Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Dead, The IKON: 1 First Line: A female jesus IKON: 2 First Line: This morning in a dream the saint IN THE DARK WORD, KHURBN First Line: All their lights went out IN THE DARK WORLD, KHURBAN, FR. POLAND/1987 IN THE SHADOW OF THE 1000 BUDDHAS: TERROR First Line: One holds a perch Last Line: A bundle %with the wind inside KHURBN, SELS. LEONARD PROJECT: 10 + 2 First Line: The beard comes apart %the mouth Last Line: My beard like yours %leonardo LETTER TO PAUL CELAN IN MEMORY First Line: Of how your poems %arise in me Last Line: The words of which still press into my tongue %drunk %bl est %gebentsht LORCA VARIATIONS (1) LORCA'S SPAIN: A HOMAGE First Line: Beginning with olive trees Last Line: This is a homage to water. %beginning & end LORCA VARIATIONS (10) SUBLUNAR VISIONS : 1 First Line: Blue stars %like infinity's moons Last Line: Dim paths to the moon LORCA VARIATIONS (10) SUBLUNAR VISIONS : 2 First Line: Is moon the moon of deserts Last Line: A true moon of color LORCA VARIATIONS (10) SUBLUNAR VISIONS : 3 First Line: Moon & star %& the chrysalis moon -- sublime Last Line: Is moon's endless story LORCA VARIATIONS (11) NEWTON : 1 First Line: The men had green feet that vaulted them into the open where they could Last Line: At length it looked like every other star or lake LORCA VARIATIONS (11) NEWTON : 2 First Line: Every wise man considers himself another newton: a philosopher musing Last Line: Cedar will show a face that brings it home LORCA VARIATIONS (11) NEWTON : 3 First Line: There isn't a clue that the fruit into which adam bit was an apple & not his Last Line: Paris in the other tale held up an orange LORCA VARIATIONS (12) FEDERICO, NEWTON, ADAM : 1 First Line: Federico in paris writing about newton's soul without a clue to what it is Last Line: Apple & they all await federico's reply LORCA VARIATIONS (12) FEDERICO, NEWTON, ADAM : 2 First Line: Federico makes the pyramids his home as long as there are apples left to eat Last Line: Taking the apple newton hands him, federico shoves it %under newton's nose LORCA VARIATIONS (12) FEDERICO, NEWTON, ADAM : 3 First Line: Federico is sailing on the lake just as a wind comes up Last Line: Taking the apple newton hands him, federico shoves it under newton's %nose LORCA VARIATIONS (13) FIREWORKS SUITE : 1 First Line: Grenade in god's night Last Line: We're born & die LORCA VARIATIONS (13) FIREWORKS SUITE : 2 First Line: The mystery of how a sunflower is all a sunflower can be Last Line: Much as a cyclops winks LORCA VARIATIONS (13) FIREWORKS SUITE : 3 First Line: A gardenette implanted with small teeth rain dripping Last Line: Spurt up fumes like rockets LORCA VARIATIONS (13) FIREWORKS SUITE : 4 First Line: Ziiip zaaap ziiip LORCA VARIATIONS (13) FIREWORKS SUITE : 5 First Line: The moon is afloat in a ring Last Line: A game of black crystals LORCA VARIATIONS (14) WHEEL OF FORTUNE : 1 First Line: Fan-tan is a game of chance Last Line: Before she glides past -- wet -- & -- smiling -- on her wheel of fortune LORCA VARIATIONS (14) WHEEL OF FORTUNE : 2 First Line: Blind peacock, %eyes like pinballs, cold Last Line: Numbers, staking out a game %of blurred roulette LORCA VARIATIONS (15) WATER JETS : 1 First Line: If death once had a face Last Line: & that a water jet wipes out LORCA VARIATIONS (15) WATER JETS : 2 First Line: It's night. %in the garden our hearts have turned blue Last Line: A cloud breaks apart & starts quaking. %it's night LORCA VARIATIONS (16) SEASIDE, SIRENS, STARS : 1 First Line: Drop a lid down on the cavern's mouth Last Line: Of coral sirens preening at the seaside LORCA VARIATIONS (16) SEASIDE, SIRENS, STARS : 2 First Line: Mary is sitting in a tower, seated in a kingdom Last Line: Where she will still come to be LORCA VARIATIONS (17) GOD, DARK, WITH PALM TREES: 1 First Line: Mediterranean sky %with flowers sprung from his arms Last Line: Shading the palm trees LORCA VARIATIONS (17) GOD, DARK, WITH PALM TREES: 2 First Line: A palm tree rears up from the sea Last Line: Disentangling your hairdo LORCA VARIATIONS (17) GOD, DARK, WITH PALM TREES: 3 First Line: Fat patron, %chewing olives Last Line: O towers overblown with sound LORCA VARIATIONS (17) GOD, DARK, WITH PALM TREES: 4 First Line: Blue wheat %eve shifts with her hands Last Line: Over these palm trees LORCA VARIATIONS (18) THOSE WHO WAIT First Line: When dawn rises from the prairie in chicago Last Line: Lanterns wash away the shadows of a nose in spain LORCA VARIATIONS (18) THOSE WHO WAIT : 2 First Line: Spanish eyes, the secret of Last Line: Displacing those who wait LORCA VARIATIONS (19) IN A TIME OF WAR : 1 First Line: Snuffed out in mind Last Line: The poppies from another war, %another homeland LORCA VARIATIONS (19) IN A TIME OF WAR : 2 First Line: War makes a prisonhouse a thousand cells crisscross in Last Line: A universe we enter down a single road LORCA VARIATIONS (19) IN A TIME OF WAR : 3 First Line: A widow in the darkness gathers roots the slender stem of Last Line: Butterflies over the road to war LORCA VARIATIONS (19) IN A TIME OF WAR : 4 First Line: Inside the glass a crystal moon lives war will shatter into Last Line: Flowers in the endless night LORCA VARIATIONS (19) IN A TIME OF WAR : 5 First Line: Once the night grew tamer once the stars destroyed by war Last Line: Inside their hive fled to the open air LORCA VARIATIONS (19) IN A TIME OF WAR : 6 First Line: Moon acacia water lily star: even a year of war won't hide or tame them LORCA VARIATIONS (19) IN A TIME OF WAR : 7 First Line: War waiting in the gateway to the hive LORCA VARIATIONS (2) BLUE POEMS/BLUE RIVER : 1 First Line: Ivory lips %&blue kisses Last Line: A poem in blue LORCA VARIATIONS (2) BLUE POEMS/BLUE RIVER : 2 First Line: Dream is desire: is Last Line: Through the mud LORCA VARIATIONS (2) BLUE POEMS/BLUE RIVER : 3 CODA First Line: Lips down words bench lianas Last Line: In new blue lianas unreal eye LORCA VARIATIONS (20) SONGS AT NIGHTFALL : 1 First Line: Lorca's granada %turns white Last Line: Cypress trees %under the moon LORCA VARIATIONS (20) SONGS AT NIGHTFALL : 2 First Line: Whites in the field Last Line: (pianissimo) gold (pianissimo) %solitaire LORCA VARIATIONS (20) SONGS AT NIGHTFALL : 3 First Line: The dead climb a stalk to the sky Last Line: Deeper deeper & more distant than a star %do-re-fa LORCA VARIATIONS (21) THE RETURN : 1 First Line: To write through lorca, to come back on lorca's wings, to Last Line: Morning star drops colors onto a faded dress, like paint LORCA VARIATIONS (21) THE RETURN : 2 First Line: To come back on lorca's wings, who sees his origin in water Last Line: In motion through his heart LORCA VARIATIONS (21) THE RETURN : 3 First Line: To see his origin in water, in the dawn, a feeble sight, the Last Line: Songs, a girl & muchacho turning & returning through the spray LORCA VARIATIONS (21) THE RETURN : 4 First Line: To return with lorca only yesterday, to walk along the sea Last Line: Wings, words that we write through lorca LORCA VARIATIONS (22) SHADOWS : 1 First Line: Midsummer. %night sky hides Last Line: The sky drifts by in series LORCA VARIATIONS (22) SHADOWS : 2 First Line: The echo of the dead clears up the mystery of ghosts Last Line: We have lately seen a bat become a star, we answered LORCA VARIATIONS (22) SHADOWS : 3 First Line: He who watches from the roof, sees Last Line: Under ursa major LORCA VARIATIONS (22) SHADOWS : 4 First Line: A mountain top. %a flock Last Line: Rusted in the rain LORCA VARIATIONS (22) SHADOWS : 5 First Line: Vespers lingering. %exquisite eyes across Last Line: A willow stops %existing LORCA VARIATIONS (23) WHITE : 1 First Line: Birds fly down Last Line: A cherrytree's %shadow LORCA VARIATIONS (23) WHITE : 2. SECOND WHITE First Line: Frost on her feathers Last Line: Throws open his wings l LORCA VARIATIONS (23) WHITE : 3 First Line: White's a conjure for clouds Last Line: For all white conjurations LORCA VARIATIONS (23) WHITE : 4 First Line: Snow across the fields reveals the cock's crest Last Line: His gold crest soon turns white LORCA VARIATIONS (23) WHITE : 5 FINAL WHITE First Line: There were 'romantic' words to end with -- 'tree' or Last Line: Mockorange: is the little 'secret' we perpetually write out LORCA VARIATIONS (24) LORCA'S MIRROR: 1 First Line: Look thru this lens Last Line: A renaissance of silver boys LORCA VARIATIONS (24) LORCA'S MIRROR: 2 First Line: Never content until you Last Line: Tracing her shape LORCA VARIATIONS (25) TWO ALLEGORIES : 1 First Line: A jew went dancing with the wind. It pulled him in concentric Last Line: Small memories of jews & violins LORCA VARIATIONS (25) TWO ALLEGORIES : 2 First Line: Summer in the desert Last Line: The music all night through. Night arising from the desert LORCA VARIATIONS (26) PALIMPSESTS: 1 First Line: It stands there, written, for them all to see Last Line: A white sky hides %inside a sky of gold LORCA VARIATIONS (26) PALIMPSESTS: 2 First Line: All sounds constrict Last Line: A whirligig set spinning %turning black LORCA VARIATIONS (26) PALIMPSESTS: 3 First Line: Somewhere like wax smeared on Last Line: Etched into wax LORCA VARIATIONS (26) PALIMPSESTS: 4 First Line: This fountain %fountain Last Line: On this last page LORCA VARIATIONS (27) LORCA'S JOURNALS : A VOYAGE First Line: Last night my heart had snakes in it. I was dead & taken to Last Line: The chalk you gave me scribbles a memento l LORCA VARIATIONS (27) LORCA'S JOURNALS : SIX SONGS First Line: 6/22. Arrived back in grenada, feeling a little wild & lonely Last Line: Forsaken, solitry in the dark, I write six songs at nightfall LORCA VARIATIONS (27) LORCA'S JOURNALS : THE DOUBLE First Line: After the second siren blew he left the capital & drove Last Line: His shoulders, shaking him through & through, then sticking in his gullet LORCA VARIATIONS (27) LORCA'S JOURNALS : WATER JETS (1) First Line: The water jets are broken & the maids haven't been in to Last Line: Night starts in again behind a single cloud LORCA VARIATIONS (27) LORCA'S JOURNALS : WATER JETS (2) First Line: Waking from a dream I touched death with my finger as he Last Line: A water jet's deflected by your eye LORCA VARIATIONS (27) LORCA'S JOURNALS : ZOROASTER First Line: -- admit it, zoroaster, you're no star Last Line: #name? LORCA VARIATIONS (28) FOR TURTLES : 1 First Line: Up there -- or down here Last Line: Up there' & 'down here' LORCA VARIATIONS (28) FOR TURTLES : 2 First Line: My heart is flying from me Last Line: Unto our final rest LORCA VARIATIONS (29) LUNAR GRAPEFRUITS : 1 First Line: [question]: do the wings Last Line: Clang-clang was how it spoke LORCA VARIATIONS (29) LUNAR GRAPEFRUITS : 2 First Line: Huge mouth with %yellow smiles Last Line: Forest, nailing skulls %over its doors LORCA VARIATIONS (29) LUNAR GRAPEFRUITS : 3 First Line: A tower of milk Last Line: The light drawing back %from us others LORCA VARIATIONS (29) LUNAR GRAPEFRUITS : 4 First Line: He dreams of flowers Last Line: High atop his tower LORCA VARIATIONS (29) LUNAR GRAPEFRUITS : PRELUDE First Line: Mirror of a country night. Pale blue letters & a Last Line: Waving at you like a tribe of friends LORCA VARIATIONS (3) LORCA'S CLOCKS : 1 First Line: A child in %the brambles Last Line: Pale. %captive. %enormous LORCA VARIATIONS (3) LORCA'S CLOCKS : 2 First Line: Moons spin like clocks Last Line: Giant swallows fly past, %growing white LORCA VARIATIONS (3) LORCA'S CLOCKS : 3 First Line: I & a pool & a ring Last Line: The damned & their lyrical %butterflies LORCA VARIATIONS (3) LORCA'S CLOCKS : 4 First Line: One hour in the forest Last Line: Gold watches. -- o my heart LORCA VARIATIONS (30) JEWISH CEMETERY: 1 First Line: Daylight like hospitals Last Line: With his forsaken jews LORCA VARIATIONS (31) JEWISH CEMETERY 2 First Line: Let them cover her eyes with rags when the dusk begins to gnaw her joints Last Line: Through she will watch her jews through rags & eyes LORCA VARIATIONS (32) SECOND NEW YORK POEM : 1 First Line: They are gone, the pepper trees' Last Line: Their dance of death LORCA VARIATIONS (32) SECOND NEW YORK POEM : 2 First Line: Canyons of lime imprisoned' Last Line: Buried in its canyons LORCA VARIATIONS (32) SECOND NEW YORK POEM : 3 First Line: Below us, men in iron masks Last Line: To welcome our forgotten king & pope LORCA VARIATIONS (32) SECOND NEW YORK POEM : 4 First Line: Don't let the pope dance! Someone cries' Last Line: The mask! The mask LORCA VARIATIONS (32) 'FIRST NEW YORK POEM' First Line: Science & the paradise of labor give hope to those who live Last Line: Crowds with faded light Subject(s): New York City LORCA VARIATIONS (4) MORE CLOCKS First Line: Hieratic & lilywhite Last Line: In this forest) whose north is %your south LORCA VARIATIONS (5) MIRROR VISIONS : 1 First Line: Lantern's rays could be Last Line: Lantern's rays could be everything LORCA VARIATIONS (5) MIRROR VISIONS : 2 First Line: Their eyes that were roses Last Line: Like his replica LORCA VARIATIONS (5) MIRROR VISIONS : 3 CAPRICCIO First Line: Twilight's mirror holds the image of a blank young mummy Last Line: Rainbow brilliant let us fly forever among the desiccated dead LORCA VARIATIONS (5) MIRROR VISIONS : 4 SHINTO EYES First Line: Shinto eyes. %shinto ivy Last Line: Thru two secret eyes LORCA VARIATIONS (5) MIRROR VISIONS : 5 First Line: Adam -- eve -- serpent -- mirror Last Line: Garden -- love -- kiss -- lips LORCA VARIATIONS (5) MIRROR VISIONS : 6 First Line: Air keyed to %heart Last Line: Show me sighs that glide downhill %on wings LORCA VARIATIONS (6) AT NIGHT : 1 First Line: A blue man %walking down a road Last Line: Through the night LORCA VARIATIONS (6) AT NIGHT : 2 First Line: Windstars, the eyelids' %milkyway caresses Last Line: Again, again, %in tranquil space LORCA VARIATIONS (6) AT NIGHT : 3 First Line: Bear belly %like a lady's Last Line: Stars inside %a wheel LORCA VARIATIONS (6) AT NIGHT : 4 First Line: Poor stars' or %'poorhouse' stars Last Line: Of poorhouse stars LORCA VARIATIONS (6) AT NIGHT : 5 First Line: Sadness that comes with %light Last Line: Casts tiny tendrils LORCA VARIATIONS (7) WATER : 1 First Line: Under the spring Last Line: Nightingales & poppies %hurtling home LORCA VARIATIONS (7) WATER : 2 First Line: The moon drops flowers in your hand Last Line: Here make your way into the infinite LORCA VARIATIONS (7) WATER : 3 First Line: Glass behive. %other moon cells Last Line: O beehive %made of air LORCA VARIATIONS (8) BLACKWATERS First Line: See him in ice & in pain Last Line: Dead air %metal branches LORCA VARIATIONS (9) A CUCKOO SUITE : 1 First Line: Cuckoo who echoes cuckoo's whistle Last Line: In words that echo %lorca's words LORCA VARIATIONS (9) A CUCKOO SUITE : 2 First Line: Night's end is on this ground Last Line: Asleep & old %amen LORCA VARIATIONS (9) A CUCKOO SUITE : 3 First Line: Enduring, %the soul is a wind Last Line: Cuckoo loses his bucket LORCA VARIATIONS (9) A CUCKOO SUITE : 4 First Line: (the night. %the waterdrops Last Line: (nocturnes. %time LORCA VARIATIONS (9) A CUCKOO SUITE : 5 First Line: When day shudders Last Line: Moon & olive grove's %last nocturne LORCA'S LVARIATIONS (27) LORCA'S JOURNALS : A MASTER First Line: The city will be located wherever you would like it. (all Last Line: Through all your poems until we find some other word to name it LORCA'S LVARIATIONS (27) LORCA'S JOURNALS : A POEM WITH First Line: #name? Last Line: Until the moon drops down to where you wait & buries you MILLENNIUM First Line: Extremely beautiful, he makes a season out of lamb bones MORE THAN STARS Poem Text First Line: You did it Subject(s): Anger NATURE THEATER OF OKLAHOMA First Line: Someone arrives from tishomingo Subject(s): Breton, Andre (1896-1966); Oklahoma NEW IMPROVISATIONS: 1 First Line: Imperial & iron stanzas of the daytime signal to construct a Last Line: Another world the first star on your radio the disk that spins & %opens sparks &letters for the new NEW IMPROVISATIONS: 2 First Line: Looking hard can't see his face but turns the glass around his Last Line: Speaks of comfort following your footsteps down a flight of %stairs & into what becomes your death NEW IMPROVISATIONS: 3 First Line: A man who doesn't look at you in middle of the train the Last Line: Car ascending now come crashing back to earth in sudden %darkness NEW IMPROVISATIONS: 4 First Line: First liquid blood & now the feet shift as the trick car leaves its Last Line: A mote in someone's eye a star to nail in glory bloodless on %your door NEW IMPROVISATIONS: 5 First Line: The sperm bed slippery as wax & teeth that split crack-crack the Last Line: To flounce to pivot to extend & open to the light to reconnoi-%ter to fall back to break & let the f NEW IMPROVISATIONS: 6 First Line: A man without a face is still a man a dog without a collar is no Last Line: Way the circle changes when a grain is added to the circle NEW IMPROVISATIONS: 7 First Line: Breaking the passage he spits hard & lets it stain the floor to Last Line: Nursed & searched for in the leather bag he sometimes wears %like gold over his heart NEW IMPROVISATIONS: 8 First Line: A paper in the hand goes up in flame & when the hand Last Line: Wait will be bereft of everything they know & will not know it NEW IMPROVISATIONS: 9 First Line: Like ice the streets shine black & gorgeous in the shadow of Last Line: Behind him throws himself against it as the knife aglow with %fat goes diving in OTHER SECRET IN THE TRAIL OF MONEY OTHERS - HUNTERS IN THE NORTH - THE CREE First Line: The photo shows me Last Line: Down allegany %call them our deaths PASSING CHELMNO ON THE MAIN ROAD DRIVING PAST IT ... First Line: In may, %along the road to warsaw PERORATION FOR A LOST TOWN First Line: What will I tell you sweet town? POEM FOR THE CRUEL MAJORITY First Line: The cruel majority emerges! Last Line: Hail & farewell! POEM IN YELLOW AFTER TRISTAN TZARA First Line: Angel slide your hand Last Line: O dizzy human heart %my yellow dingdong POLAND-1931 'THE WEDDING' First Line: My mind is stuffed with tablecloths Last Line: Shall throw their arms around thy lintels poland %&begin to crow POLAND/1987, SELS. Subject(s): Poland PORTRAIT OF A JEW OLD COUNTRY STYLE First Line: Wisitor to warsaw Last Line: Tho he worked in leather PROLOGOMENA TO POLITICS First Line: Poet man walks between dreams Last Line: As though the only witness RACLE FOR DELFI: THE STONES OF DELFI (1) First Line: The stones speak Last Line: He--like all poets-- %has a taste for stones RED BANNER FLAG POEM First Line: Trotsky's blood %is falling SECOND NEW YORK POEM : 1, THEY ARE GONE, THE PEPPER TREES First Line: Half of it was sand Last Line: Inviting us to join %their dance of death SECOND NEW YORK POEM : 2, CANYONS OF LIME IMPRISONED First Line: A fond farewell Last Line: Buried in its canyons SEEDINGS Poem Text First Line: Now in the dream Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Poetry Readings; Nightmares SENECA JOURNAL 1: A POEM OF BEAVERS First Line: In dream %the beavers come to Last Line: Old man beaver's blessing song SEVEN FLAG POEMS, SELS. SEVENTH HELL: OF SMOKE, WHERE FIRE-RAISERS TRY .. ESCAPE First Line: The houses of men are on fire Last Line: The mind of man is on fire %and where will his eye find rest Subject(s): Men; Nuclear War SHAMAN DREAMWORK FOUR First Line: His road went to the south SHAMAN DREAMWORK ONE First Line: They cut his arm off & they laughed & he laughed back SHAMAN DREAMWORK THREE First Line: Quartz fragments %bore a hole in his tongue SHAMAN DREAMWORK TWO First Line: I was moving through the water - somewhere in the middle SIGHTINGS: 6 First Line: The earth shudders under the rain SONG OF AN INITIATE First Line: Climbed the blue staircase up to sky SONGS FOR MIDSUMMER First Line: What is shining, shimmering SPETSES IN WINTER First Line: Was more like maine's Last Line: Does an indian eat eggs the way a greek does STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE Poem Text First Line: In recent days, as part of the attempt to sanitize and justify Subject(s): Politics & Government; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE First Line: In recent days, as part of the attempt to sanitize and justify Last Line: There is still a sense of resistance and hope Subject(s): Politics; War STONES OF DELFI (2) First Line: Here is an edge to stone Last Line: A paradise of stone STRUCTURAL STUDY OF MYTH First Line: The thief becomes the rabbi Last Line: The crow indian had said about coyote %hiting the nail at last TERROR Poem Text First Line: Dream of the jews Subject(s): Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Mysticism - Judaism; Terrorism; Judaism; Arab-israeli Conflict THAT DADA STRAIN Poem Text First Line: The zig zag mothers of the gods THAT DADA STRAIN First Line: The zig zag mothers of the gods Last Line: Ye are hambyrgers THE CASE FOR MEMORY Poem Text First Line: Http://www.Poets.Org/viewmedia.Php/prmmid/16429 Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE CHICAGO POEM; FOR TED BERRIGAN AND ALICE NOTLEY Poem Text First Line: The bridges of chicago / are not the bridges of paris Last Line: Modern times Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Chicago; Cities; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Urban Life THE DREAM & LIE OF GEORGE W. BUSH (AFTER PICASSO'S DREAM & LIE OF FRANCO Poem Text First Line: Owl fandango escabeche swords of octopus of evil omen THE DREAM & LIE OF GEORGE W. BUSH (AFTER PICASSO'S DREAM & LIE OF... First Line: Owl fandango escabeche swords of octopus of evil omen Subject(s): Politics & Government; War THE DREAM AND LIE OF GENERAL FRANCO, 15-18 JUNE 1937 Poem Text First Line: Owl fandango escabeche swords of octopus of evil omen Subject(s): Franco, Francisco (1892-1975); Antiwar Movement THE FIRST STATION: AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU Poem Text First Line: Now the serpent: Subject(s): Concentration Camps THE LAST FRIEND Poem Text First Line: The day the last friend Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE LORCA VARIATIONS (1) 'LORCA'S SPAIN: A HOMAGE' Poem Text First Line: Beginning with olive trees. Subject(s): Spain THE LORCA VARIATIONS (28) 'FOR TURTLES' Poem Text Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises THE LORCA VARIATIONS (3) A BOOK OF HOURS Poem Text First Line: The green man, more a man Subject(s): Time THE LORCA VARIATIONS (32) 'FIRST NEW YORK POEM' Poem Text First Line: Science & the paradise of labor give hope to those who live Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE SEVENTH HELL: OF SMOKE, WHERE FIRE-RAISERS TRY .. ESCAPE Poem Text First Line: The houses of men are on fire Subject(s): Men; Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE SLEEP OF REASON Poem Text First Line: Words imprinted on a sign THE TIMES ARE NEVER RIGHT Poem Text First Line: Warm days hanging Subject(s): Time THOSE WHO ARE BEAUTIFUL & THOSE WHO ARE NOT THREE FOR THE SUN AS GODDESS First Line: Old hannah mother sun THREE PARIS ELEGIES*: 1 First Line: Into my own dark sunday light approaches like the moon Last Line: Waiting with the friends who drop out one by one like cyber-%monkeys flying int mindless space THREE PARIS ELEGIES*: 2 First Line: Above a gorge we hung Last Line: Rush of footsteps down an empty street THREE PARIS ELEGIES*: 3 First Line: Why does a well-dressed man come up to me & ask me for %a handout? Last Line: & what has yet to be alive %is also gone THRENODY First Line: The little jews are gone TOJI TEMPLE KYOTO 1997 (I): 1 First Line: Is he a fearful king Last Line: But the backs of all are out of view TOJI TEMPLE KYOTO 1997 (I): 3 First Line: Fanged man Last Line: The living dead- %is hell here too? TOJI TEMPLE KYOTO 1997 (I): 4 First Line: How sad this fearful king looks Last Line: & in his other hand %a rope TOJI TEMPLE KYOTO 1997 (I): 6 First Line: Tridents & snakes Last Line: His two front arms %across his chest TOJI TEMPLE KYOTO 1997 (II): 1 First Line: Giant gilded flower Last Line: Small lions hold up %from the sides TOJI TEMPLE KYOTO 1997(I): 2 First Line: A man on a small elephant Last Line: The elephant is graceful too %with tufts of skin TOJI TEMPLE KYOTO 1997(I): 5 First Line: A bell Last Line: The fearful king holds %in his six hands TOJI TEMPLE KYOTO 1997(I): 7 First Line: Brahman on a lotus- Last Line: Cushion on the backs of %four white geese TOJI TEMPLE KYOTO 1997(II): 2 First Line: Fierce flowers Last Line: Oh flower darkness %night & day TREASURES OF DUNHUANG: 2000 BUDDHAS First Line: A faceless buddha Last Line: Sitting hand to chin %& smiling TWENTIETH CENTURY UNLIMITED First Line: As the twentieth century winds down Last Line: Like the perfect mask of death VARIATIONS ON THE HELL OF THIEVES Poem Text First Line: When a wind blows VISIONS OF JESUS First Line: Let's say it was jesus. Who is jesus? Why should jesus be the name Last Line: & cadillacs %under a leaky sky WALKAROUND, FOR NEKO; KAMAKURA 11/10/96 First Line: An old pone Last Line: & nothing more Subject(s): Japan WHAT MAKES HIM KNEEL DOWN IN THE MUD First Line: Kneel down in the money field, to lift up WOMEN (1) First Line: Women squeezing nipples Last Line: A nipple like a star WOMEN (2) First Line: A woman like a violin Last Line: With folded arms WOMEN (3) First Line: Two breasts in gold Last Line: Gold eyes WOMEN (4) First Line: Snakes crawling up her arms Last Line: On which a panther sits WOMEN (5) First Line: Women standing with Last Line: Adorned with pods %of poppies WOMEN (6) First Line: A woman on a swing Last Line: With doves |
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