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Author: RUEFLE, MARY Matches Found: 63 Ruefle, Mary Poet's Biography 63 poems available by this author 10-APR First Line: The young cherry tree is naked and alone Last Line: And is deeply ashamed, but purified %like a well A CERTAIN SWIRL Poem Text First Line: The classroom was dark, all the desks were empty, Subject(s): Schools; Language; Students; Words; Vocabulary APPOINTMENT First Line: I wanted to walk in the snow Last Line: Among the mullberry leaves ASPIRANT First Line: Always when I glanced inwards she was there Last Line: But nothing pointed %except the boat, away BALLAD Poem Text First Line: When the heel came off my shoe Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BAVARIA Poem Text First Line: The mountain skies were clear Subject(s): Nature BENCH First Line: My husband and I were arguing about a bench we wanted to buy Last Line: Bench we eventually placed in the meadow which continued to %grow as if there were no bench at all Subject(s): Chairs; Marriage; Quarrels BLOOD SOUP Poem Text First Line: The last time I saw father alive he was using Subject(s): Fathers; Death; Soup; Dead, The CARDAMOM BUDS First Line: High in the sky someone ate a peanut and accepted Last Line: In my tea, certain the summons couldn't possibly apply to me CONTINUA First Line: The frozen hills, the silver clouds Last Line: & then I just lie there, unearthed, but more like a tree %supine, chopped down, its fresh yellow stu COUNCIL OF AGDE First Line: Armed with a cotton-puff and a little sword DEPICTED ON A SCREEN First Line: I hear over in china Last Line: All of the heroes %you see falling down %were filmed trying to stand up DO NOT DISTURB First Line: In a milk-white mist in the middle of the wood Last Line: Speaking softly to one another for hours ECCE HOMO First Line: Wasn't he always muttering to himself Last Line: With his baby talk and a two-day-old beard, %entering the wilderness, inundating it %with out bright EVANGELICAL First Line: Anything above a primer would split my head today Last Line: With disbelief. That's why I love their feet FIGMENT First Line: Outside the coffee shop the first snow Last Line: The bronze hands of an old clock %and mailed them there FOUR ANECDOTES FROM THE LIFE OF DANG YO-UNE Poem Text First Line: He stood outside the gates of lhasa for four days Subject(s): Life FULL MOON First Line: The white spot to the upper left %which looks like the pith plug Last Line: Is not an object of observation, %when it is FUNNY STORY First Line: I don't remember where I was going Last Line: I let it take my breath away. %that's ok I said %take my breath away. %and it was gone FURTHERNESS First Line: An oak coffin covered with vines Last Line: Furthermore, there are pies on the table waiting HELIUM Poem Text First Line: You are helium. You make everything rise Subject(s): Gas; Death; Colors; Dead, The INTERMITTENCE First Line: The anxiety of spring will come Last Line: And the air be seriously entangled KEEPING IT SIMPLE Poem Text First Line: I take the bird on the woodpile, Subject(s): Birds LAST ON EARTH Poem Text First Line: It is said that many have been cured of madness by drinking Subject(s): Christianity; God; Drinks & Drinking; Insanity; Wine; Madness; Mental Illness LAST SUPPER First Line: It made a dazzling display LITTLE I SAW OF CUBA First Line: She regained her sight for five days and she said Last Line: To alter my description of anything MAGNIFICAT Poem Text First Line: O lord, I did walk upon the earth Subject(s): God MARCH First Line: The sweet peas turn blue as they die. I guess Last Line: In arguing. Could we hear that again? It perks a body up MATHEW BRADY ARRANGING THE BODIES Poem Text First Line: On a mountain flat with snow Subject(s): War; Corpses; Cadavers MERCY First Line: God have mercy on me. This is the diary of a lost soul Last Line: If I only knew how and where and why MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL First Line: How imaginary! Dull things often are Last Line: I daresay the candle-snuff, too, leaves %a faint trace of gladness in the air MIMOSA Poem Text First Line: Pink dandruff of some tree Subject(s): Time MONUMENT First Line: A small war had ended. Like all wars, it was terrible. Things which Last Line: Built, but remained for me an end to the war that had ended MY BEAUTIFUL SPIDER BITE First Line: You kissed me in front of the whole regime Last Line: One grows stupid with sorrow %that's insupportable MY HAPPINESS Poem Text First Line: I laid my happiness in a field Subject(s): Happiness; Porcupines; Joy; Delight NAKED LADIES Poem Text First Line: Jean-jacques wanted: a cottage on the swiss shore Last Line: Who wanted to stand up? Who felt like walking? Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia NAKED LADIES First Line: Jean-jacques wanted: a cottage on the swiss shore Last Line: Who wanted to stand up? Who felt like walking? Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia NUTSHELL First Line: I lay back like a canoe Last Line: For it is all that is made PERPETUALLY ATTEMPTING TO SOAR Poem Text First Line: A boy from brooklyn used to cruise on summer nights. Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Wind; Breasts; Aging PHILOSOPHY OF THE ASTONISHED First Line: I don't know how the astonished can have Last Line: And seemed to say %potatoes would go great with that PROSCENIUM ARCH First Line: I lived like a god Last Line: So I can shut up early %and later act dead QUICK NOTE ABOUT THE THINK SOURCE First Line: My dreams are not worth a half-penny Last Line: The next day an infant is born without feet RAIN EFFECT Poem Text First Line: A bride and a groom sitting in an open buggy Subject(s): Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849); Rain; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION Poem Text First Line: Ann galbraith / loves barry soyers Subject(s): Schools; Students SEVEN POSTCARDS FROM DOVER Poem Text First Line: The teacher said inner truth Subject(s): Chalk SHALIMAR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: God put his finger on my sacrum STORM WINDOW Poem Text First Line: She sat writing little poems of mist SWAMP MAPLES First Line: Some hundred mallards flying prone THE ART OF HAPPINESS Poem Text First Line: I am too weak to speak, Last Line: What’s a phone call or two? Subject(s): Happiness; Water; Joy; Delight THE BENCH Poem Text First Line: My husband and I were arguing about a bench we wanted to buy Last Line: Bench we eventually placed in the meadow which continued to grow as if there were no bench at all Subject(s): Chairs; Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements THE BUNNY GIVES US A LESSON IN ETERNITY Poem Text First Line: We are a sad people, without hats. Subject(s): Rabbits; Hares THE DAZE Poem Text First Line: It was one of those mornings the earth seemed Subject(s): Morning THE HAND Poem Text First Line: The teacher asks a question. Subject(s): Hands; Schools; Students THE LETTER Poem Text First Line: Beloved, men in thick green coats came crunching Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE WIFE OF MISSION ROCK Poem Text First Line: Nothing curves at sea, Subject(s): Sea; Ocean TIMBERLAND First Line: Paul's fish fry in bennington, vermont, is no longer Last Line: The logs, with my head thrown back and then pitched %forward%in tears. And the litchi! It's like swa TOPOPHILIA First Line: I was going to ardently pursue this day Last Line: That word has kept me company all my life UNACCOMPANIED BRAIN First Line: A bedbug born in 1852 WHITE BUTTONS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Having been blown away Subject(s): Books; Parents; Reading; Parenthood WHY I AM NOT A GOOD KISSER First Line: Because I open my mouth too wide Last Line: Over moccasin stitch #3, %which is required for my release WOMEN IN LABOR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Women who lie alone at midnight Subject(s): Women XINGANG ZHONG LU First Line: The pig's lungs Last Line: I give him more money for his lungs %than his lungs are worth ZORRO & THE BATS First Line: Leaf-chinned, fringed-lipped, hammer-headed, tubenosed Last Line: Over our heads where the attic vaults, an inverted ark %you've built for yourselves in the dark |
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