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Author: RUKEYSER, MURIEL Matches Found: 583 Rukeyser, Muriel Poet's Biography 583 poems available by this author 1/26/1939 First Line: When barcelona fell, the darkened glass Last Line: I meet it all the faces that I see Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) 1/26/39 Poem Text First Line: When barcelona fell, the darkened glass Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) A BIRTH Poem Text First Line: Lately having escaped three-kinded death Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery A CERTAIN MUJSIC Poem Text First Line: Never to hear, I know I know in myself Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Cantinflas (1911-1993) A CHARM FOR CANTIFLAS Poem Text First Line: After the lights and after the rumba and after the bourbon Subject(s): Cantinflas A LEG IN A PLASTER CAST Poem Text First Line: When at last he was well enough to take the sun Subject(s): Convalescence; Sin ADVENTURE AT MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: Watching, on piers, exuberant travelers Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AFTER MELVILLE First Line: The sea-coast looks at the sea, and the cities pour Last Line: He is part of our look into each other's face AFTER THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER Poem Text First Line: A seacoast late at night, and a wheel of wind Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The AFTER THEIR QUARREL First Line: After the quarrel in the house I walked the grasses of the field Last Line: Even there, the husband of the spring, who knows his time AFTERWARDS First Line: We are the antlers of that white animal Last Line: Speaks under all knowing: our lives burn AIR First Line: Flowers of air Last Line: Air in their mouths made %into live meanings AJANTA: 1. THE JOURNEY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Came in my full youth to the midnight cave Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 1. THE JOURNEY First Line: Came in my full youth to the midnight cave Last Line: This cave where the myth enters the heart again Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves AJANTA: 2. THE CAVE Poem Text First Line: Space to the mind, the painted cave of dream Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 2. THE CAVE First Line: Space to the mind, the painted cave of dream Last Line: Great sensual shoulders in the web of time Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves AJANTA: 3. LES TENDRESS BESTIALES First Line: A procession of caresses alters the ancient sky Last Line: I am plunged deep. Must find the midnight cave AJANTA: 3. LES TENDRESSES BESTIALES Poem Text First Line: A procession of caresses alters the ancient sky Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 3. LES TENDRESSES BESTIALES First Line: A procession of caresses alters the ancient sky Last Line: I am plunged deep. Must find the midnight cave Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves AJANTA: 4. BLACK BLOOD Poem Text First Line: A habit leading to murder, smoky laughter Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 4. BLACK BLOOD First Line: A habit leading to murder, smoky laughter Last Line: Try to live as if there were a god Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves AJANTA: 4. BLACK BLOOD First Line: A habit leading to murder, smoky laughter Last Line: Try to live as if there were a god' AJANTA: 5. THE BROKEN WORLD Poem Text First Line: Came to ajanta cave, the painted space of the breast Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 5. THE BROKEN WORLD First Line: Came to ajanta cave, the painted space of the breast Last Line: The journey, and the struggles of the moon Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves AKIBA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The night is covered with signs. The body and face of man Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Judaism AKIBA First Line: The night is covered with signs. The body and face of man Last Line: The signs, the journeys of the night, survive Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews AKIBA: AKIBA MARTYR First Line: When his death confronted him, it had the face of his friend Last Line: The death of akiba AKIBA: FOR THE SONG OF SONGS First Line: However the voices rise Last Line: Body of dreaming AKIBA: THE BONDS First Line: In the wine country, poverty, they drink no wine Last Line: More than the calf wants to suck, the cow wants to give suck AKIBA: THE WAY OUT First Line: The night is covered with signs. The body and face of man Last Line: Ways to discover. The song of the way in AKIBA: THE WAY OUT First Line: The night is covered with signs. The body and face of man Last Line: We hear the hoofs over the seethe of the sea AKIBA: THE WITNESSR First Line: Who is the witness? What voice moves across time Last Line: The signs, the journeys of the night, survive ALL SOULS First Line: The day of life and death offers its flowers Last Line: The strong drink running down the shoulder of the grave ALL THE LITTLE ANIMALS Poem Text Subject(s): Pregnancy; Sons; Truth ALL THE LITTLE ANIMALS First Line: You are not pregnant, said the man Last Line: And whatever streams from him ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE FOREST First Line: All the way through the forest, a sound of birdsong Last Line: Making, singing, bring the potential to day ALONG HISTORY Poem Text First Line: Along history, forever Subject(s): Lust ALONG HISTORY First Line: Along history, forever Last Line: His penis erect with %fantasy Subject(s): Lust AMONG GRASS First Line: Lying here among grass, am I dead am I sleeping Last Line: Did we not lie among roses ANEMONE First Line: My eyes are closing, my eyes are opening Last Line: My life is closing, my life is opening. %you are here ANOTHER DAY. A GAME OF TOYS. PAUL, TELLING THE GAME: First Line: One shall be the mother and one shall be the father Last Line: Here the game ends ANOTHER DAY. FOR A MOMENT SLIPPPING BACK, AGAIN UNREAL KING First Line: Let's throw it. Let's throw ice at her face Last Line: Whole, whole, whole, miss lorence - the world, the world ANOTHER DAY. IN A FIELD OF PEACE THE CHILD, PLAYING First Line: Miss lorence, until I get to be somebody else -- big me Last Line: They do. And morning. And all doorkeepers ANOTHER DAY. PAUL IN THE MOUNTAINS OF FANTASY. First Line: I pulled him back Last Line: He turned back to his own group with his whole life in his act of choice ANOTHER DAY. THE CHILDREN ARE ALL EATING First Line: This dinner is too rich for you, paul Last Line: Among our new-found powers ARE YOU BORN? 1 First Line: A man riding on the meaning of rivers Last Line: I stood alive in the young cloud ARE YOU BORN? 2 First Line: A child riding the stormy mane of noon Last Line: The starry form of love ARTIFACT First Line: When this hand is gone to earth Last Line: Can these dry pieces join? Again go bright? Speak to you then? ASLEEP AND AWAKE Poem Text First Line: Asleep and awake, I awake Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ASLEEP AND AWAKE First Line: Asleep and awake, I wake Last Line: Music of forms and desires ASYLUM SONG First Line: As I went down the road to the water, the river to the sea Last Line: As the long tides came in BACK TOOTH First Line: My large back tooth, without a mate for years Last Line: She is a little diminished but functioning, all night all day BACKSIDE OF THE ACADEMY First Line: Five brick panels, three small windows, six lions' heads with Last Line: I can see past the church the words of an ending line: %ive by bread alone BALLAD OF ORANGE AND GRAPE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: After you finish your work Subject(s): Cities; Harlem (new York City); Urban Life BALLAD OF ORANGE AND GRAPE First Line: After you finish your work Last Line: Pouring orange into grape and grape into orange forever Subject(s): Cities; Harlem (new York City) BALLAD THEME First Line: She tells Last Line: Sing I chant I BEAST IN VIEW First Line: Configurations of time and singing Last Line: Know only that we run one path BEER AND BACON First Line: When you see a woman riding the air Last Line: That I need my beer and bacon too BIRTH First Line: Lately having escaped three-kinded death Last Line: My tearflesh beckoner who brought me to this place BIRTH OF VENUS First Line: Risen in a %welter of waters Last Line: The crisp delightful botticellian wave Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) BLOOD IS JUSTIFIED (1) First Line: Beat out continuance in the choking veins Last Line: We turn from treasons, we shall accomplish these BLOOD IS JUSTIFIED (2) First Line: Open with care the journal of those years Last Line: Beneath what seas toll all those fallen dreams BLUE FLOWER First Line: Stroke by stroke, in the country of the fragile Last Line: Your blue flower BLUE SPRUCE First Line: Of all green trees, I love a nevergreen Last Line: A tree of light and a tree of darkness %blue spruce BOOK OF THE DEAD: ABSALOM First Line: I first discovered what was killing these men Last Line: I shall give a mouth to my son BOOK OF THE DEAD: ALLOY First Line: This is the most audacious landscape. The gangster's Last Line: Disintegrated angel on these hills BOOK OF THE DEAD: ARTHUR PEYTON First Line: Consumed. Eaten away. And love across the street Last Line: O love the stream of glass a stream of living fire BOOK OF THE DEAD: GAULEY BRIDGE First Line: Camera at the crossing sees the city Last Line: A foreland, sloped to sea and overgrown with roses? %these people live here BOOK OF THE DEAD: GEORGE ROBINSON: BLUES First Line: Gauley bridge is a good town for negroes, they let us stand Last Line: The dust had covered us both, and the dust was white BOOK OF THE DEAD: JUANITA TINSLEY First Line: Even after the letters, there is work Last Line: A tall boy who was never in a tunnel BOOK OF THE DEAD: MEARL BLANKENSHIP First Line: He stood against the stove %facing the fire Last Line: If you can do anything for me %let me know soon BOOK OF THE DEAD: POWER First Line: The quick sun brings, exciting mountains warm Last Line: The root of the tower and the tunnel's core, %this is the end BOOK OF THE DEAD: PRAISE OF THE COMMITTEE First Line: These are the lines on which a committee is formed Last Line: Their hands touched mastery: now they %demand an answer BOOK OF THE DEAD: STATEMENT: PHILIPPA ALLEN First Line: You like the state of west virginia very much, do your not? Last Line: Later, but I shall try to give you a general history of %this condition first BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BILL First Line: The subcommittee submits Last Line: To break the armored and concluded mind BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BOOK OF THE DEAD First Line: These roads will take you into your own country Last Line: As epilogue, seeds of unending love BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE CORNFIELD First Line: Error, disease, snow, sudden weather Last Line: They want to live as long as they can BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DAM First Line: All power is saved, having no end. Rises Last Line: It changes. It does not die BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DISEASE First Line: This is a lung disease. Silicate dust makes it Last Line: Does silicosis cause death? %yes sir BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DISEASE: AFTER-EFFECTS First Line: This is the life of a congressman Last Line: Five hundred thousand stand BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DOCTORS First Line: Tell the jury your name Last Line: We object. %objection overruled. %they were BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE FACE OF THE DAM: VIVIAN JONES First Line: On the hour he shuts the door and walks out of town Last Line: And on the hour walks again through town BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE ROAD First Line: These are roads to take when you think of your country Last Line: Cutting fast and direct into the town BOOK OF THE DEAD: WEST VIRGINIA First Line: They saw rivers flow west and hoped again Last Line: Like valleys, opening mines, %coming to life BORN IN DECEMBER First Line: You are like me born at the end of the year Last Line: A little younger than they think we are BOY WITH HIS HAIR CUT SHORT Poem Text First Line: Sunday shuts down on this twentieth-century evening Subject(s): Hair BOY WITH HIS HAIR CUT SHORT First Line: Sunday shuts down on this twentieth-century evening Last Line: The blue vein, bright on her temple, pitifully beating Subject(s): Hair BOYS IN THE BRANCHES First Line: Blue in the green trees, what are they climbing Last Line: Forgive me, mother. I am alive BOYS OF THESE MEN FULL SPEED First Line: Boys of these men Last Line: Woman of that girl BREAKING OPEN Poem Text First Line: I come into the room. The room stands waiting Last Line: "to discover the country of our waking Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prisons & Prisoners; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Shoah; Judaism BREAKING OPEN First Line: I come into the room. The room stands waiting Last Line: To discover the country our waking %breaking open Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prisons And Prisoners; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BREAKING THE NETS OF THE WORLD First Line: Breaking the nets of the world, in glimpses going Last Line: Linked, given, and in glimpses going BREATHING LANDSCAPE Poem Text First Line: Lying in the sun Subject(s): Landscape BREATHING LANDSCAPE First Line: Lying in the sun Last Line: Of certain rivers continuing underground BRINGING First Line: Bringing their life these young Last Line: Bringing ltheir life entire they come to this place BUBBLE OF AIR First Line: The bubbles in the blood sprang free Last Line: Answer the silence of the weak %speak BUBBLE OF AIR First Line: The bubbles in the blood sprang free Last Line: Answer the silence of the weak: speak! BUNK JOHNSON BLOWING Poem Text First Line: They found him in the fields and called him back to music Last Line: We three slid down that san francisco hill Subject(s): Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Ledbetter, Huddie [leadbelly] (1888-1949; Music & Musicians; Leadbelly BUNK JOHNSON BLOWING First Line: They found him in the fields and called him back to music Last Line: We three slid down that san francisco hill Subject(s): Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Ledbetter, Huddie [leadbelly] (1888-1949; Music And Musicians BURLESQUE First Line: Up in the second balcony Last Line: The clutching loins and intolerable kiss BURNING BUSH First Line: Faced with furnace demands during its education Last Line: Training a flame upward along its vine BURNISHING, OAKLAND First Line: Near the waterfront Last Line: One masked man %working alone %burnishing CAMPAIGN: SUN ON THE FACES Poem Text First Line: Sun on the faces. On the knotted rocks Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains CAMPAIGN: SUN ON THE FACES First Line: Sun on the faces. On the knotted rocks Last Line: Will go to washington Subject(s): Railroads CAMPAIGN: THE YOUNG MEN First Line: The surface shine, the inner steel of track Last Line: In my net of growth, my words are unreal to me Subject(s): Railroads CANAL First Line: Sea-shouldering ithaca Last Line: Captained through light CANNIBAL BRATUSCHA First Line: Have you heard about mr. Bratuscha Last Line: To live out our own lives to make our own freedom to make the world CATS AND A COCK First Line: What hill can ever hold us? Last Line: Mayday moment, forever provoking new %belief and blooming CERTAIN MUSIC First Line: Never to hear, I know in myself complete Last Line: And have been saved and hardly know the cold CHAPULTEPEC PARK: 1 First Line: The calling and the melody all night long Last Line: A young horse runs into the sunlight CHAPULTEPEC PARK: 2 First Line: The city of the heart Last Line: But most, a deepened hope, sunlight and memory CHARLES IVES, SELS. First Line: This is charles ives Last Line: Naming the instruments we all must hold Subject(s): Ives, Charles (1874-1954); Music And Musicians CHARM FOR CANTINFLAS First Line: After the lights and after the rumba and after the bourbon Last Line: Marshmallow, myrtle, peppermint, pumpkin, sesame, sesame %squills CHILD AND MOTHER First Line: Revolution shall be a toy of peace to you Last Line: Prows of revolt launched among barbarous seas CHILD IN THE GREAT WOOD First Line: It is all much worse than I dreamed Last Line: But the night seems very long CHILDREN'S ORCHARD First Line: In the full sun. In the fruitfall season Last Line: Blue, full summer, strong sun. I tell you harvest CHILDREN, THE SANDBAR, THAT SUMMER Poem Text First Line: Sunlight the tall women may never have seen Subject(s): Seashore; Children; Beach; Coast; Shore; Childhood CHILDREN, THE SANDBAR, THAT SUMMER First Line: Sunlight the tall women may never have seen Last Line: Where men and women give each other children CHRISTMAS EVE First Line: The secret child walks down the street Last Line: Did the child weep? No the child did not weep CITATION FOR HORACE GREGORY Poem Text First Line: These are our brave, these with their hands in on the work Subject(s): Gregory, Horace (1898-1982) CITATION FOR HORACE GREGORY First Line: These are our brave, these with their hands in on the work Last Line: On rich particular beauty for their heirs Subject(s): Gregory, Horace (1898-1982) CITY OF MONUMENTS (WASHINGTON 1934) First Line: Be proud you people of these graves Last Line: Stone cedes to blossom everywhere CLOUDS, AIRS, CARRIED ME AWAY First Line: Clouds, airs, carried me away Last Line: Here are their songs CLUES First Line: How will you catch these clues at the moment of waking Last Line: We took our dreams into our bodies COLLEGE RADICALS First Line: College radicals, a term meaning, in the united states, the young Last Line: A faint drumming, in the walls of the room. For the rest of their lives COLLEGE SPECIAL Poem Text First Line: Plush lines the metal train, making the steel Subject(s): Railroad Stations; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple CONEY ISLAND First Line: Coney island, coney island Last Line: Let me know what is real, %let me bel- %ieve CONJUGATION OF THE PARAMECIUM First Line: This has nothing Last Line: This is called %the conjugation of the paramecium CORRESPONDENCES: CORRESPONDENCES First Line: Wars between wars, laughter behind the lines Last Line: And the sky turning over, and the wind turning the stars CORRESPONDENCES: DEMOCRITUS LAUGHED First Line: Democritus laughed when he Last Line: The war on peace CORRESPONDENCES: TREE OF DAYS First Line: I was born in winter when Last Line: And the war goes on COURSE First Line: Years before action when the wish alone Last Line: The fever voice of death working against the wish CRAYON HOUSE First Line: Two or three lines across; the black ones, down Last Line: And the beginning was real. The drawing of a child Subject(s): Crayons; Houses CRIES FROM CHIAPAS First Line: Hunger Last Line: To you %across the air DARKNESS MUSIC First Line: The days grow and the stars cross over DEEP IN THE CENTURY OF OPPOSITES Last Line: Worse than all rommel's guns, that my young darling should prove false %and a liar DELTA POEMS Poem Text First Line: Among leaf-green DELTA POEMS First Line: Among leaf-green Last Line: A girl and a young man walk near the water DESDICHADA Poem Text First Line: For that you never acknowledged me, I acknowledge Subject(s): Life; Death; Dead, The DESDICHADA First Line: For that you never acknowledged me, I acknowledge Last Line: In my own body %at last in the dance DESPISALS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In the human cities, never again to Subject(s): Americans; United States; America DESPISALS First Line: In the human cities, never again to Last Line: With the it : to know that I am it Subject(s): Americans; United States DESTRUCTION OF GRIEF First Line: Today I asked aileen Last Line: Can you tell me their names, aileen DIVINING WATER First Line: We stood around the raw new-planted garden Last Line: Now waters divine men we all know what he was DOCTORS, SELECTIONS First Line: Dear sir: due to illness of my wife and urgent professional duties Last Line: Made out of it nothing less than a racket DON BATY, THE DRAFT RESISTER First Line: I muriel stood at the altar-table Last Line: The newborn are with us singing DOUBLE DIALOGUE: HOMAGE TO ROBERT FROST First Line: In agony saying : the last night of his life Last Line: Arguing life for life even at your life's cost DOUBLE ODE First Line: Wine and oil gleaming within their heads Last Line: Do I move toward form, do I use all my fears DOWN FROM CHICAGO BRYAN CAME Last Line: All torn apart by the mask of men DREAM-DRUMMING First Line: I braced the drum to my arm, a flat drum, and began to play Last Line: Drumming my dream DREAMING WE WERE AWAKE, WE HEARD THE RIVERS Last Line: Of revelation; your story and your song DRIVEWAY First Line: Speeding from city, feeling day Last Line: The caretaker's flashlight sending his shadow up ahead DROWNING YOUNG MAN First Line: The drowning young man lifted his face from the river Last Line: His face in the boiling river, and is surrendered down DRUNKEN GIRL First Line: Do you know the name of the average animal Last Line: We'll come to averages by and by DRUNKEN GIRL: SONG First Line: The world is full of loss; bring, wind, my love Last Line: Freedom to find to find to find %that nakedness Variant Title(s): Son DURING THE JOURNEY THERE COME MOMENTS OF WAKING Last Line: The song is song, it sings, and it is real EASTER EVE, 1945. First Line: Wary of time o it seizes the soul tonight Last Line: What fire survive forever %myself is for my time ECCENTRIC MOTION First Line: Dashing in glass we race Last Line: New york to mexico EEL First Line: We started to walk but it was wading-slow Last Line: To change it. To mature. To find. To be these EFFORT AT SPEECH BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE Poem Text First Line: Speak to me. Take my hand. What are you now? Subject(s): Relationships EFFORT AT SPEECH BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE First Line: Speak to me. Take my hand. What are you now? Last Line: Everyone silent, moving - take my hand. Speak to me Subject(s): Jews - Women EIGHTH ELEGY: CHILDREN'S ELEGY First Line: Yes, I have seen their eyes. In peaceful gardens Last Line: Saying farewell, goodbye; goodbye, farewell ELEGIES: FIFTH ELEGY: A TURNING WIND First Line: Knowing the shape of the country. Knowing the midway to Last Line: Lie down again together face to face ELEGIES: FOURTH ELEGY. THE REFUGEES Poem Text First Line: And the child sitting alone planning her hope Subject(s): Refugees ELEGIES: FOURTH ELEGY. THE REFUGEES First Line: And the child sitting alone planning her hope Last Line: To say and to remember and avenge. A lullaby for a believing child Subject(s): Refugees ELEGIES: SECOND ELEGY: AGE OF MAGICIANS First Line: A baroque night advances in its clouds Last Line: Seer son of sight, hearer, of ear, at last ELEGIES: THIRD ELEGY: THE FEAR OF FORM First Line: Tyranny of method! The outrageous smile Last Line: To fuse it straight EMPIRE STATE TOWER Poem Text First Line: The far lands melt to orange and to grey Subject(s): Empire State Building, New York City ENDLESS Poem Text First Line: Under the tall black sky you look out of your body Subject(s): War ENDLESS First Line: Under the tall black sky you look out of your body Last Line: The broken and their children born and unborn %of the endless war Subject(s): War EVENING PLAZA, SAN MIGUEL First Line: No one will ever understand that evening Last Line: And said, I must go home EXILE OF MUSIC First Line: In the last bus last night that dead musician Last Line: From the water-maze reaching out his hand and one green leaf EYES OF NIGHT-TIME First Line: On the roads at night I saw the glitter of eyes Last Line: Giving us gifts at hand, the glitter of all their eyes F. O. M. (THE DEATH OF MATTHIESSEN) First Line: It was much stronger than they said. Noisier Last Line: Defend us from doing what he had to do %who threw himself away FABLE First Line: Yet it was the prince's kiss Last Line: Something never perceived till now, the taproot FACING SENTENCING First Line: Children remembering sadness grieve, they grieve Last Line: And say among silence we will help stop this war FIGHTING FOR ROSES Poem Text First Line: After the last freeze, in easy air Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening FIGHTING FOR ROSES First Line: After the last freeze, in easy air Last Line: A moment of light achieved, deep in the air of roses Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening FLYING RED HORSE First Line: On all the street corners the children are standing Last Line: The flying red horse FLYING TO HANOI First Line: I thought I was going to the poets, but I am going to the Last Line: My life is flying to your life FOGHORN IN HORROR Poem Text First Line: I know that behind these walls is the city, over these rooftops in the sun Subject(s): City & Town Life; Fog; Haze FOGHORN IN HORROR First Line: I know that behind these walls is the city, over these rooftops is the sun Last Line: The white clothes of the fog beyond me, beautiful, and the shadows. %blu-aa! Blu-aa! Ao FOR A MEXICAN PAINTER First Line: Carlos, your art is embryos Last Line: Carlos, your art is embryos FOR FUN First Line: It was long before the national performance Last Line: Let's dance a little before we go home to hell FOR KAY BOYLE First Line: What is the skill of this waking? Heard the singing Last Line: Light, streamings of the courage of the sources, %the sun and the moon that stand at your ears FOR MY SON Poem Text First Line: You come from poets, kings, bankrupts, preachers, Subject(s): Sons; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity FOR MY SON First Line: You come from poets, kings, bankrupts, preachers Last Line: And in your self made whole, whole with yourself and whole with others, %the stars your ancestors Subject(s): Children; Mothers FOR MY SON First Line: You come from poets, kings, bankrupts, preachers Last Line: The stars your ancestors FORERUNNERS First Line: Forerunners of images Last Line: In our own time FORMOSA First Line: The sand's still blue with receding water, sky topples Last Line: Resting, blue-flooded, rests, delicately, the sea FOUR IN A FAMILY First Line: The father and mother sat, and the sister beside her Last Line: How shall I prosper home FROM A PLAY : PUBLISHER'S SONG First Line: I lie in the bath and I contemplate the toilet-paper Last Line: All the poems of shelley and keats FROM LETTER TO THE FRONT First Line: Coming to spain on the first day of the fighting Last Line: Whose mouth is bread and wine, whose flesh is home Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) FROM THE DUCK-POND TO THE CAROUSEL First Line: Playing a phonograph record of a windy morning Last Line: Mademoiselle in cinnamon zoo, %hello, hello FULL MOON Poem Text First Line: During these nights Subject(s): Night; Moon; Bedtime GAME OF BALL First Line: On a ground beaten gold by running and GAME OF DARTS AT THE CHESTERFIELD ARMS First Line: But they are accurate. That is a target Last Line: And your message, tonight? Scattered on germany GATES First Line: Waiting to leave all day I hear the words Last Line: How shall we speak to the infant beginning to run? %all those beginning to run? GIBBS Poem Text First Line: It was much later in his life he rose Subject(s): Gibbs, J. Willard (1839-1903) GIFT First Line: The child, the poems, the child, the poems, the journeys Last Line: Impossible complete time %gift be forgiven GIFT-POEM (1) First Line: December steel done, flowers open color Last Line: Past wandering arrived at open spring GIFT-POEM (2) First Line: The year in its cold beginning Last Line: In conflict with its love GIRL AT THE PLAY First Line: Long after you beat down the powerful hand Last Line: Fever, now that it's past and the swify play's ahead GOLD LEAF First Line: A shadowy arch calling the clouds of the sun Last Line: Bells raise their circles of truth and find the cloud GRADUS AD PARNASSUM First Line: Oh I know %if I'd practised the piano Last Line: Ad parnassum -- she %feels fine. I know GRAND CENTRAL STATION First Line: All the way to the city a crying in the air Last Line: Hell, mother, says willkie. We'll take this town GREEN LIMITS First Line: My limits crowd around me Last Line: Over and under me HANDCLAP First Line: The body cannot lie, but its betrayals Last Line: Blood groans forever love HAYING BEFORE STORM First Line: This sky is unmistakable. Not lurid, not low, not black Last Line: Or time to tell again what power shines past storm HE HAD A QUALITY OF GROWTH First Line: No one ever walking this our only earth, various, very clouded Last Line: As air is given to the mouth of all HERO SPEECH Poem Text First Line: When the hero of the threshold enters our lives and our houses Subject(s): Heroism; Heroes; Heroines HERO SPEECH First Line: When the hero of the threshold enters our lives and our houses Last Line: But here the nearest: this moment, this hero HIS HEAD IS FULL OF FACES First Line: Now he has become one who upon that coast Last Line: And now he knows how many wars there are HOLY FAMILY First Line: A long road and a village Last Line: Born, born, we know how it goes HOMAGE TO LITERATURE Poem Text First Line: When you imagine trumpet-faced musicians Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets HOMAGE TO LITERATURE First Line: When you imagine trumpet-faced musicians Last Line: Think: poems fixed this landscape: blake, donne, keats Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets HOW WE DID IT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We all traveled into that big room, Last Line: Waiting for morning Subject(s): Antiwar Movement; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HOW WE DID IT First Line: We all traveled into that big room Last Line: Waiting for morning I MAKE MY MAGIC First Line: I make my magic %of forgotten things Last Line: I come to a sunlight magic, %yours IN A DARK HOUSE First Line: Two on the stairs in a house where they had loved Last Line: Steps mount. The brown treads rise. Stairs. Rise %up. Stairs IN HADES, ORPHEUS First Line: Look! He said, all green! But she Last Line: Mechanical white walls IN HER BURNING First Line: The randy old Last Line: The sun %is shining IN OUR TIME First Line: In our period, they say there is free speech Last Line: They say this. This is the penalty IN THE NIGHT THE SOUND WOKE US Poem Text Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Death; Dead, The IN THE NIGHT THE SOUND WOKE US Last Line: I see it in the air IN THE UNDERWORLD First Line: I go a road Last Line: Think you are immortal! IRIS First Line: Middle of may, when the iris blows Last Line: (among mortal petals-and-leaves) %light IRIS-EATERS First Line: It was like everything else, like everything Last Line: With music, with a %complex %smile ISLANDS Poem Text Subject(s): Islands ISLANDS First Line: O for god's sake Last Line: Islands are separate like them IT IS THERE First Line: Yes, it is there, the city full of music Last Line: Under the %skies of war JETTY. DOVER First Line: Whipping the face. Europe, with all her winds Last Line: And at his back there is nothing but the future JOHN GRUMLIE First Line: John grumlie swore by the light o' the moon Subject(s): Labor And Laborers JUDITH First Line: This is a dark woman at a telephone Last Line: In persecution of the whitened moon JUNK-HEAP AT MURANO First Line: You told me: they all went in and saw the glass Last Line: Behind your eyes the seasons, the times %assemble; dazzle; are here KATHE KOLLWITZ Poem Text First Line: Held between wars Subject(s): Women; Germany; Wars; Death; Children; Art & Artists; Germans; Dead, The; Childhood KATHE KOLLWITZ First Line: Held between wars Last Line: Hand over the mouth forever %hand over one eye now %the other great eye %closed Subject(s): Kollwitz, Kathe (1867-1945); War; Women KEY First Line: I hold a key in my hand Subject(s): Keys KING'S MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: In all the cities of this year Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) KING'S MOUNTAIN First Line: In all the cities of this year Last Line: Long-crested dissolve to the future, a new form KNOWLEDGE MY NAKEDNESS Last Line: Locking me now to voyage and to air LANDSCAPE WITH WAVE APPROACHING First Line: All of the people of the play were there Last Line: Carmel, california LAT. 10 NORTH, LONG. 45 WEST First Line: Roundabout hours of air, slanting past massachusetts above the Last Line: Beyond our fury and our silences LEG IN A PLASTER CAST First Line: When at last he was well enough to take the sun Last Line: For there, the air, everywhere full of planes LETTER TO THE FRONT First Line: Women and poets see the truth arrive Last Line: As I now send you, for a beginning, praise Subject(s): War LETTER TO THE FRONT: 1 Poem Text First Line: Women and poets see the truth arrive LETTER TO THE FRONT: 10 Poem Text First Line: Surely it is time for the true grace of women Subject(s): Women & War LETTER TO THE FRONT: 2 Poem Text First Line: Even during war, moments of delicate peace Subject(s): War; Death; Dead, The LETTER TO THE FRONT: 3 Poem Text First Line: They called us to a change of heart Subject(s): War LETTER TO THE FRONT: 4. SESTINA Poem Text First Line: Coming to spain on the first day of the fighting LETTER TO THE FRONT: 5 Poem Text First Line: Much later, I lie in a white seaport night Subject(s): Dreams; Peace; Nightmares LETTER TO THE FRONT: 6 Poem Text First Line: Home thoughts from home; we read you every day, Subject(s): War - Home Front LETTER TO THE FRONT: 7 Poem Text First Line: To be a jew in the twentieth century Subject(s): Jews; Freedom; Judaism; Liberty LETTER TO THE FRONT: 8 Poem Text First Line: Evening bringing me out of the government building, Subject(s): War; Freedom; United States; Liberty; America LETTER TO THE FRONT: 9 Poem Text First Line: Among all the waste there are the intense stories Subject(s): United States - Politics & Government; Women & War LETTER, UNPOSTED First Line: If I could write: summer waits your coming Last Line: (and sometimes secretly watch for wrinkles, in my glass) LITTLE STONE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, IN FLORIDA First Line: My son as a child saying Last Line: No, what? %anything LIVES: ANN BURLAK First Line: Let her be seen, a voice on a platform, heard Last Line: Saying, who owns the world? And waiting for the cry LIVES: CHAPMAN First Line: Returns to punishment as we all return, in agonized initiation Last Line: The long remorseless logic of their love LIVES: GIBBS First Line: It was much later in his life he rose Last Line: Time makes more random, into its unity LIVES: IVES First Line: Knowing the voices of the country, gathering Last Line: Naming the instruments we all must hold LIVES: RYDER First Line: Call himself unbegun, for the sea made him; assemblages of Last Line: His boulders that were eyes washed by the drift of ocean LIVES: THE RISEN IMAGE SHINES First Line: The risen image shines, its force escapes, we are all named Last Line: Promises of the mind LOAN First Line: You told me resurrection in images of roots Last Line: His live ideas of innocence LONG ENOUGH First Line: Long enough. Long enough Last Line: And to say my own name LONG PAST MONCADA Poem Text First Line: Nothing was less than it seemed, my darling Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LONG PAST MONCADA First Line: Nothing was less than it seemed, my darling Last Line: Survive as a lifetime sound Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LOOKING First Line: Battles whose names I do not know Last Line: As I stare over the hudson river LOOKING AT EACH OTHER Poem Text First Line: Yes, we were looking at each other Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians LOOKING AT EACH OTHER First Line: Yes, we were looking at each other Last Line: Yes, there it was for both entire %yes, we were looking at each other Subject(s): Homosexuality LOST ROMANS First Line: Where are they, not those young men, not those Last Line: For we need you, sisters, far brothers, poems %of our lost rome LOUIS SONNET First Line: The jokes, the feuds, the puns, the punishments Last Line: The jokes of job and heine's anecdotes LOVE AND ITS DOORS AND WINDOWS First Line: History melts my houses Last Line: The faint clear-colored walls %are not forever down LOVER AS FOX First Line: Driven, at midnight, to growth, the city's wistful turnings M-DAY'S CHILD IS FAIR OF FACE Poem Text M-DAY'S CHILD IS FAIR OF FACE Last Line: Is blithe and bonny and rotted away M-DAY'S CHILD IS FAIR OF FACE Last Line: Is blithe and and bonny and rotted away Subject(s): War MADBOY'S SONG First Line: Fly down, death: call me: Last Line: Fly down death MAKE AND BE EATEN First Line: Make and be eaten, the poet says Last Line: Wherever burn my fantasies MARTIN LUTHER KING, MALCOLM X First Line: Bleeding of the mountains Last Line: My black voice bleeding MARY SLEETH First Line: So going slowly now Last Line: Related to finding, whether or not we are found MEDITERRANEAN: 1 Poem Text First Line: At the end of july, exile. We watched the gangplank go Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 1 First Line: At the end of july, exile. We watched the gangplank go Last Line: Through a garden of gunboats, margin of the port, %entered: mediterranean Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 2 Poem Text First Line: Frontier of europe, the tideless sea, a field of power Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 2 First Line: Frontier of europe, the tideless sea, a field of power Last Line: The face on the dock that turned to find the war Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 3 Poem Text First Line: Seething, and falling back, a sea of stars Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 3 First Line: Seething, and falling back, a sea of stars Last Line: The faces in those hills Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 4 Poem Text First Line: Near the end now, morning. Sleepers cover the decks Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 4 First Line: Near the end now, morning. Sleepers cover the decks Last Line: Welcome the islands with a sense of loss Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 5 Poem Text First Line: The wheel in the water, green, behind my head Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 5 First Line: The wheel in the water, green, behind my head Last Line: Before this war the age must win Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 6 Poem Text First Line: The sea produced that town: sete, which the boat turns to Subject(s): Sea MEDITERRANEAN: 7 First Line: The sea produced that town: sete, which the boat turns to Last Line: Atlantis buried outside %to be won Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEETING First Line: One o'clock in the letter-box Last Line: And all the birds fly out of my scene MENDINGS Poem Text First Line: You made healing as you wanted us to make bread and poems Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers MENDINGS First Line: You made healing as you wanted us to make bread and poems Subject(s): Labor And Laborers METAPHOR TO ACTION Poem Text First Line: Whether it is a speaker, taut on a platform, Subject(s): Activity; Exercise METAPHOR TO ACTION First Line: Whether it is a speaker, taut on a platform Last Line: To weld and prepare for action our minds' intensity MIDDLE OF THE AIR: SPEECH OF THE MOTHER (ACT I, SC. 4) First Line: A year passes behind me. Shadows grow larger. Last Line: Among the accusations, all things glow MINOTAUR First Line: Trapped, blinded, led; and in the end betrayed Last Line: Deserted at the middle of the maze MORE CLUES First Line: Mother, because you never spoke to me Last Line: Can they reach me now, or inside out in a universe, %of touch, of speech is it? Somewhere in me, clu Subject(s): Self MORE OF A CORPSE THAN A WOMAN First Line: Give them my regards when you go to the school renuion Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism MORE OF A CORPSE THAN A WOMAN First Line: Give them my regards when you go to the school renuion Last Line: When your women are ready and rich in their wish for the world, %destroy the leaden heart, %we've a Subject(s): Women's Rights MORTAL GIRL First Line: The girl being chosen stood in her naked room Last Line: To sing again the entrance of the god MOTHER GARDEN'S ROUND First Line: The year was river-throated, with the stare of legend Last Line: Death death may my green grow MOTHER GARDENS' ROUND Poem Text First Line: The year was river-throated, with the stare of legend Subject(s): Gardebs & Gardening; Death; Dead, The MOTIVE Poem Text First Line: The motive of all of it was loneliness Subject(s): Loneliness; Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924) MOTIVE OF ALL OF IT First Line: The motive of all of it was loneliness Last Line: Or lenin with his cry of dare we win MOUNTAIN: ONE FROM BRYANT First Line: Wildflowers withering with the same death Last Line: Face nature in harmony, lovely, and face it! Wild MOVIE First Line: Spotlight her face her face has no light in it Last Line: Destroying the sets, the flat faces, the mock skies MRS. WALPURGA Poem Text First Line: In wet green midspring, midnight and the wind MRS. WALPURGA First Line: In wet green midspring, midnight and the wind Last Line: And mrs. Walpurga and we may wake MS. LOT First Line: Well, if he treats me like a young girl still Last Line: Some normal man will come along and need you MURMURS FROM THE EARTH OF THIS LAND Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Aging; Nature MYTH Poem Text First Line: Long afterward, oedipus, old and blinded, walked the Subject(s): Oedipus MYTH First Line: Long afterward, oedipus, old and blinded, walked the Last Line: Too. Everyone knows that.' - she said, 'that's what you think Subject(s): Mothers; Mythology - Classical; Oedipus MYTH First Line: Long afterward, oedipus, old and blinded, walked the Last Line: Too. Everyone knows that.' she said, 'that's what %you think' NERUDA, THE WINE Poem Text First Line: We are the seas through whom the great fish passed Subject(s): Sea NERUDA, THE WINE First Line: We are the seas through whom the great fish passed Last Line: Lightning struck at me from behind my eyes NERUDA, THE WINE First Line: We are the seas through whom the great fish passed Last Line: The poems of the wine Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) NEVERTHELESS THE MOON Last Line: Light my love's dream tonight NIGHT FEEDING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Deeper than sleep but not so deep as death Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Nursing (infants) NIGHT FEEDING First Line: Deeper than sleep but not so deep as death Last Line: Found in the leaves, in clouds and dark, in dream, %deep as this hour, ready again to sleep Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Sleep; Women NIGHT-MUSIC Poem Text First Line: When those who can never again forgive themselves Subject(s): Night; Music & Musicians; Human Behavior; Bedtime; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NIGHT-MUSIC First Line: When the exposed spirit, busy in daytime Last Line: Make music out of night will change the night NIGHT-MUSIC First Line: Spinning on his heel, the traveller Last Line: And love. You are all rivers NINE POEMS (FOR THE UNBORN CHILD) NINTH ELEGY: THE ANTAGONISTS First Line: Pieces of animals, pieces of all my friends Last Line: Resolves the doom %and the deliverance NIOBE NOW First Line: Niobe %wild Last Line: To start %the world again NOGUCHI First Line: Since very soon it is required of you Last Line: Until the world is done NOT TO BE PRINTED, NOT TO BE SAID, NOT TO BE THOUGHT First Line: I'd rather be muriel NOT YET First Line: A time of destruction. Of the most rigid powers in ascendance Last Line: The face of a child NOTES FOR A POEM Poem Text First Line: Here are the long fields inviolate of thought, Subject(s): Landscape; Thought; Thinking NOTES FOR A POEM First Line: Here are the long fields inviolate of thought Last Line: A plough of thought to break this stubborn ground NUNS IN THE WIND First Line: As I came out of the new york public library Last Line: Calendars tear, and their clothes blow. O yes O CITY Poem Text First Line: City / o my delilght! Nourishment to the fat Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple OF MONEY AND THE PAST First Line: These coins and calendars stood for the moon, strong boys Last Line: When the black voices turn brilliant and call: here! ON THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER First Line: A seacoast late at night and a wheel of wind Last Line: Dead, and here is your gift: my life which is my home ONE MONTH First Line: All this time Last Line: It is true ONE SOLDIER Poem Text First Line: When I think of him, midnight Subject(s): Soldiers ORGY First Line: There were three of them that night Last Line: The second one took off her belt ... ORPHEUS First Line: The mountaintop stands in silence a minute after the murder Last Line: Days and voices, sing creation not yet come OTHERWORLD. LANDING AT LIVERPOOL First Line: This is the dream-journal, knowing the earth slips under Last Line: After fierce water come to blessed end OTHERWORLD: OTHERWORLD First Line: Coming among the living Last Line: Everybody knows who lost the war OTHERWORLD: THE ISLAND First Line: Land; and only to stand on the ground, stand on the brick of Last Line: See the island see the island see the faces of the sky OUTER BANKS First Line: Horizon of islands shifting Last Line: On the edge of the moment that is now the center. %from the open sea Subject(s): Americans; United States OUTPOST First Line: After the last cold mountain Last Line: Slave and slavedriver OVERTHROW OF ONE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT First Line: Is my concern. That's this moment Last Line: The deep rhythms of your experience PAINTERS Poem Text First Line: N the cave with a long-ago flare Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Women PAINTERS First Line: In the cave with a long-ago flare Last Line: A woman among them, painting Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Women PALOS VERDES CLIFFS First Line: And if the cliffs themselves produced the major illusion Last Line: Obsessions of sight cliff-hung, as movie, as peace PANACEA First Line: Make me well, I said. -- and the delighted touch Last Line: The sun, I say, sincere, the sun, the sun PAPER ANNIVERSARY Poem Text First Line: The concert-hall was crowded the night of the crash Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Symphonies; Concerts PAPER ANNIVERSARY First Line: The concert-hall was crowded the night of the crash Last Line: And see that startled face Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Symphonies PARALLEL INVENTION First Line: We in our season like progress and inventions Last Line: Of me, of you, of love the inventor PHANERON Poem Text First Line: Whatever roams the air is traveling Subject(s): Conduct Of Life PHANERON First Line: Whatever roams the air is traveling Last Line: Beyond our fury and our silences PIECES OF ORPHEUS Poem Text First Line: The mountaintop stands in silence a minute after the murder Subject(s): Orpheus PLACE AT ALERT BAY First Line: Standing high on the shoulders of all things, all things Last Line: Identified. Resumed in god PLACE-RITUALS Poem Text First Line: This is the word our lips caress, our teeth bite Subject(s): Prayer; Infinity; Christianity PLACE-RITUALS First Line: This is the word our lips caress, our teeth bite Last Line: World without end %amen POEM Poem Text First Line: I lived in the first century of world wars. Subject(s): World War I; World War Ii; Conduct Of Life; War - Home Front; First World War; Second World War POEM First Line: Green going through the jungle of those years Last Line: See through these hours, faces of what we are POEM First Line: I lived in the first century of world wars Last Line: I lived in the century of these wars POEM OUT OF CHILDHOOD Poem Text First Line: Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry : Subject(s): Children; Youth; Comng Of Age; Human Behavior; Childhood; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature POEM OUT OF CHILDHOOD First Line: Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry Last Line: Ricochetting from thought to thought among %the childhood, the gestures, the rigid travellers Subject(s): Adolescence; Children; World War I POEM WHITE PAGE WHITE PAGE POEM Last Line: Something like light stands up and is alive PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH A BACKGROUND OF HOLDINGS First Line: Standing against the gorge, he sees the slides of light Last Line: I am wheat dormant in the seedman's hand POURING MILK AWAY First Line: Here, again. A smell of dying in the milk-pale carton Last Line: You will know why when you have lived alone POWER OF SUICIDE First Line: The potflower on the windowsill says to me Last Line: Today for the sake of all the dead burst into flower Subject(s): Suicide PRIVATE LIFE OF THE SPHINX First Line: Simply because of a question, my life is implicated Last Line: Stronger almost than question, almost than song QUESTION First Line: Mother and listener she is, but she does not listen Last Line: I come with my word alive Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters READING TIME: 1 MINUTE 26 SECONDS Poem Text First Line: The fear of poetry is the Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Love READING TIME: 1 MINUTE 26 SECONDS First Line: The fear of poetry is the %fear: mystery and fury of a midnight street Last Line: The yellow joy after the song of the sun, %aftermath proof, extended radiance Subject(s): Fear; Poetry And Poets RECOVERING Poem Text First Line: Dream of the world Subject(s): Night; Bedtime RECOVERING First Line: Dream of the world Last Line: A dance is %dancing in me %I wake in the dark Subject(s): Night RESURRECTION OF THE RIGHT SIDE First Line: When the half-body dies its frightful death Last Line: The power of eyesight is very slowly arriving %in this late impossible daybreak %all the blue flower RETURN First Line: An idea ran about the world Last Line: The child goes alive, asking his questions RINGLING First Line: Lattice of his back grows, the dolphin-arching Last Line: The calm eye at the core of the hurricane RITE First Line: My father groaned; my mother wept Last Line: Now you will never be alone ROCK FLOW, RIVER MIX First Line: Flickering Last Line: Sound track %image track RONDEL Poem Text First Line: Now that I am fifty-six Subject(s): Middle Age RONDEL First Line: Now that I am fifty-six Last Line: Come and celebrate with me Subject(s): Middle Age ROTTEN LAKE ELEGY First Line: As I went down to rotten lake I remembered Last Line: The ride to survival of that consuminf bird %beating, up from dead lakes, ascents of fire RUNE First Line: The word in the bread feeds me Last Line: The word in the word wakes me RUNNING OF THE GRUNION First Line: Launching themselves Last Line: People with pails SACRED LAKE First Line: Some flushed-earth-color pueblo Last Line: And holding blue lake lup SALAMANDER First Line: Red leaf. And beside it, a red leaf alive Last Line: While a bird falls safely through his mile of air SAND-QUARRY Poem Text First Line: Father and I drove to the sand-quarry across the wined marshlands Subject(s): Quarries; Fathers & Daughters; Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SAND-QUARRY WITH MOVING FIGURES First Line: Father and I drove to the sand-quarry across the ruined Last Line: He caught my hand as I cried, %and smiling, entered the pit,ran laughing down its side Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters SEA MERCY Poem Text First Line: The sea dances in the morning Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA MERCY First Line: The sea dances its morning Last Line: Who cries there is no death SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 1 First Line: What kind of woman goes searching and searching Last Line: I see all the colors in your look SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 10. THE PRESIDENT AND LASER BOMB First Line: He speaks in a big voice through all the air Last Line: Finding inevitably a narros footbridge in asia SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 11. NOT SEARCHING First Line: What did I miss as I went searching Last Line: I come to you searching and searching SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 12. THE QUESTION First Line: After this crisis Last Line: And not from the moment %of sleep before it SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 13 First Line: Searching/not searching. To make closeness Last Line: Searching/not searching SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 14 First Line: What did I see? What did I not see? Last Line: On our mouths, inner greet %in our eyes SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 2: MIRIAM. THE RED SEA First Line: High above shores and times Last Line: Sing to each other SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 3. FOR DOLCI First Line: Angel of declaring, you opened before us walls Last Line: We are each other's sources SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 4. CONCRETE First Line: They are pouring the city Last Line: I am pouring my poems SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 5. BRECHT'S GALILEO First Line: Brecht saying: galileo talking astronomy Last Line: Particularly on the shore of a new era SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 6. READING THE KIEU First Line: There was always a murder within another murder Last Line: And we find everything in another way SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 7. THE FLOOR OF OCEAN. SISTINE CH First Line: Climbing the air, prophet beyond prophet Last Line: Continual creation and the daily touch SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 8. H.F.D. First Line: From you I learned the dark potential Last Line: Meet at last, hallie, in infinity SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 9. THE ARTIST AS SOCIAL CRITIC First Line: They have asked me to speak in public Last Line: In that strong voice SEARCHING/NOT SEARCHING Poem Text First Line: What kind of woman goes searching and searching? Subject(s): Women; Guests; Visiting SECRETS OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION First Line: Jefferson spoke of freedom but he held slaves Last Line: Refusing to be either slave or slaveholder SEEMING First Line: Between the illuminations of great mornings Last Line: The opening of a door SEGRE SONG First Line: Your song where you lie long dead on the shore of a spanish Last Line: Sing to the moon over my face SEVENTH AVENUE First Line: This is the cripples' hour on seventh avenue SEVENTH ELEGY: DREAM-SINGING ELEGY First Line: Darkness, giving us dream's black unity Last Line: Dreaming together SHOOTING GALLERY First Line: These images will parade until the morning Last Line: Of the sacred hunter assume his own identity SHORTEST WAY HOME First Line: There was no place on that plain for a city Last Line: A natural sleep, a place for people and peace SILENCE OF VOLCANOES First Line: The mountains and the shadows move away Last Line: The cheap tin trumpet that is the voice of god %mexico SIMPLE EXPERIMENT First Line: When a magnet is Last Line: Always in the same direction %of course SIX CANONS First Line: Seize structure Last Line: Moving the constellations of all things SIXTH ELEGY: RIVER ELEGY First Line: In burning summer I saw a season of betrayal Last Line: The sure magnificent music of the defeated heart SIXTH NIGHT: WAKING First Line: That first green night of their dreaming Last Line: God said, let meanings move, and there was poetry SLOW DEATH OF THE DRAGON First Line: The sickness poured through the roads Last Line: O love. Make the song start SLOW DIALOGUE BETWEEN PAIN AND ROOSEVELT First Line: Warm in the pool the wasted man Last Line: Are men who have come to help hurt that my river done SONG Poem Text Recitation First Line: The world is full of loss; bring, wind, my love, Subject(s): Love SONG First Line: A voice flew out of the river as morning flew Last Line: Smoke of the poems voices SONG FOR DEAD CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: We set wreaths of brightness on the graves of the passionate Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SONG FOR DEAD CHILDREN First Line: We set great wreaths of brightness on the graves of the Last Line: Loud in defiance of death, the helpless lie SONG FROM 'MR. AMAZEEN ON THE RIVER' First Line: Over the water, where I lie alive Last Line: They say to me at last 'I am your home' SONG FROM PUCK FAIR First Line: Torrent that rushes down Last Line: My woman's name SONG OF ANOTHER TRIBE First Line: Cuilt said the bony man Last Line: I will put an end to the black delay SONG, THE BRAIN-CORAL First Line: Lie still, be still, love, be thou not shaken Last Line: A world's white seeming SONG: LOVE IN WHOSE RICH HONOR First Line: Love %in whose rich honor Last Line: Death and madness SONG: LYING IN DAYLIGHT First Line: Lying in daylight, in the strong Last Line: Sound under sound SONG: REMEMBERING MOVIES First Line: Remembering movies - love Last Line: I sing the songs SONG: THE STAR IN THE NETS OF HEAVEN First Line: The star in the nets of heaven blazed past your breastbone Last Line: The bonds of your dreams SONNET Poem Text First Line: My thoughts through yours refracted into speech Subject(s): Relationships SONNET First Line: My thoughts through yours refracted into speech Last Line: Nor petrify live miracle by our indifference SOUL AND BODY OF JOHN BROWN First Line: His life is in the body of the living Last Line: Part of our nation of our fanatic sun SPEAKING TREE First Line: Great alexander sailing was from his true course turned Last Line: It calls your name. It tells what we mean Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Identity; Trees SPEECH FOR THE ASSISTANT, FROM HOUDINI First Line: And for the man with one nightmare, the student of clouds Last Line: The solo lark goes mad for song SPEED OF DARKNESS First Line: Whoever despises the clitoris despises the penis Last Line: Who will speak these days, if not I %if not you? Subject(s): Homosexuality SPEED OF DARKNESS: 1 First Line: Whoever despises the clitoris despises the penis Last Line: Resurrection music, silence, and surf SPEED OF DARKNESS: 10 First Line: Lying %blazing beside me Last Line: Colors lights the world thinking and reaching SPEED OF DARKNESS: 11 First Line: The river flows past the city Last Line: I am working out the vocabulary of my silence SPEED OF DARKNESS: 12 First Line: Big-boned man young and of my dream Last Line: Bird emerges wet being born %begins to sing SPEED OF DARKNESS: 13 First Line: My night awake %staring at the broad rough jewel Last Line: If not I, %if not you? SPEED OF DARKNESS: 2 First Line: No longer speaking Last Line: With the speed of darkness SPEED OF DARKNESS: 3 First Line: Stillness during war, the lake Last Line: I am the tree that trembles and trembles SPEED OF DARKNESS: 4 First Line: After the lifting of the mist Last Line: My words are air SPEED OF DARKNESS: 5 First Line: Between between %the man: act exact Last Line: Shape of the body speaking its evidence SPEED OF DARKNESS: 6 First Line: I look across at the real Last Line: The world of its history leading to this moment SPEED OF DARKNESS: 7 First Line: Life the announcer. %I assure you Last Line: They all come forth %in their own grace SPEED OF DARKNESS: 8 First Line: Ends of the earth join tonight Last Line: Fall burning into asia SPEED OF DARKNESS: 9 First Line: Time comes into it Last Line: The universe is made of stories %not of atoms SPEED, WE SAY First Line: Speed, we say of our time: racing my writing word Last Line: Light running before light SPIRALS AND FUGUES First Line: Spirals and fugues, the power most like music Last Line: Moving the constellations of all things ST. ROACH Poem Text First Line: For that I never knew you, I only learned to dread you Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians ST. ROACH First Line: For that I never knew you, I only learned to dread you Last Line: I reach, I touch, I begin to know you Subject(s): Homosexuality STATEMENT BY WILLKIE AFTER RETURNING FROM ENGLAND First Line: It is not only the present that is at stake Last Line: But they lead to the great prospect -- of peace STORY First Line: Look, look %yes, I'm looking Last Line: The meanings as they move STUDY IN A LATE SUBWAY Poem Text First Line: The moon revovles outside; possibly black air Subject(s): Social Commentaries STUDY IN A LATE SUBWAY First Line: The moon revolves outside; possibly, black air Last Line: Sleep will happen. We must give them morning SUBMIT YOUR OWN ANSWER First Line: Q: why should anyone seek to assume the burden of the presidency? Last Line: Write an essay of not more than 200 words on any of the following: (a) new england and the south ... SUICIDE BLUES Poem Text First Line: I want to speak in my voice! Subject(s): Suicide SUICIDE BLUES First Line: I want to speak in my voice Last Line: Too many flowers, a too-knowing sun, %too much life to kill SUITE FOR LORD TIMOTHY DEXTER First Line: They face us in sea-non sun, just as he saw them waiting Last Line: Sea-music and the sea SUMMER, THE SACRAMENTO First Line: To this bridge the pale river and flickers away in images of blue Last Line: Stream slow like wishes continuing toward those snows SUN-ARTIST First Line: The opening of the doors. Dark. Last Line: What is an artist? I bear the song of the sun SUNDAYS, THEY SLEEP LATE First Line: The days are incestuous, each with its yesterday Last Line: Sleep too long, they dissolve in sleep their remembering bones SURROUNDED First Line: They escape before, but their shadows walk behind Last Line: More plausible than love TENTH ELEGY: ELEGY IN JOY First Line: Now green, now burning, I make a way for peace Last Line: And the unknown world. One life, or the faring stars THE BIRTH OF VENUS Recitation by Author First Line: Risen in a / welter of waters Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: ABSALOM Poem Text First Line: I first discovered what was killing these men. Subject(s): Family Life; Labor & Laborers; Death; Relatives; Work; Workers; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: ALLOY Poem Text Subject(s): Furnaces; Landscape; Labor & Laborers; Kilns; Work; Workers THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: ARTHUR PEYTON Poem Text First Line: Consumed. Eaten away. And love across the street Subject(s): Physicians; Death; Doctors; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: GAULEY BRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Camera at the crossing sees the city Subject(s): City & Town Life THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: GEORGE ROBINSON: BLUES Poem Text First Line: Gauley bridge is a good town for negroes, they let us stand Subject(s): African Americans; Labor & Laborers; Illness; Dust; Negroes; American Blacks; Work; Workers THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: JUANITA TINSLEY Poem Text First Line: Even after the letters, there is work, Subject(s): Hope; Freedom; Optimism; Liberty THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: MEARL BLANKENSHIP Poem Text First Line: He stood against the stove Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Illness; Death; Work; Workers; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: POWER Poem Text First Line: The quick sun brings, exciting mountains warm, Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists; Death; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: PRAISE OF THE COMMITTEE Poem Text First Line: These are the lines on which a committee is formed. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Illness; Law & Lawyers; Work; Workers; Attorneys THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: STATEMENT: PHILLIPA ALLEN Poem Text First Line: You like the state of west virginia very much, do you not? Subject(s): West Virginia THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BILL Poem Text First Line: The subcommittee submits: Subject(s): United States - Congress; Minerals; Disease; Labor & Laborers; Legislation; Work; Workers THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BOOK OF THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: These roads will take you into your own country. Subject(s): Home; Progress; United States; Death; America; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE CORNFIELD Poem Text First Line: Error, disease, snow, sudden weather. Subject(s): Corn; Disease; Death; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DAM Poem Text First Line: All power is saved, having no end. Rises Subject(s): Dams; Rivers; Business; Businessmen; Businesswomen THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DISEASE Poem Text First Line: This is a lung disease. Silicate dust makes it. Subject(s): Lungs; Disease THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DISEASE: THE AFTER-EFFECTS Poem Text First Line: This is the life of a congressman. Subject(s): United States - Congress; Minerals; Disease; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DOCTORS Poem Text First Line: Tell the jury your name. Subject(s): Trials; Physicians; Labor & Laborers; Death; Doctors; Work; Workers; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE FACE OF THE DAM: VIVIAN JONES Poem Text First Line: On the hour he shuts the door and walks out of town; Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Snow; Dams; Work; Workers THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE ROAD Poem Text First Line: These are roads to take when you think of your country Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Travel; Roads; Journeys; Trips; Paths; Trails THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: WEST VIRGINIA Poem Text First Line: They saw rivers flow east and hoped again. Subject(s): West Virginia THE CHILD ASLEEP Poem Text First Line: What's over england? A cloud. What's over france? A flame Subject(s): War; Night; Sleep; Bedtime THE CHILD IN THE GREAT WOOD Poem Text First Line: It is all much worse than I dreamed Subject(s): Forests; Dreams; War; Woods; Nightmares THE CHILDREN'S ELEGY Poem Text First Line: Yes, I have seen their eyes. In peaceful gardens Subject(s): Children; War; Childhood THE CONJUGATION OF THE PARAMECIUM Poem Text First Line: This has nothing Subject(s): Reproduction; Mating THE KEY Poem Text First Line: I hold a key in my hand Last Line: Guiltless turn to that mouth Subject(s): Keys; Houses THE OUTER BANKS Poem Text First Line: Horizon of islands shifting THE OVERTHROW OF ONE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT Poem Text Subject(s): Night; Experience; Bedtime THE PLACE AT ALERT BAY Poem Text First Line: Standing high on the shoulders of all things, all things Subject(s): God THE POEM AS MASK Poem Text First Line: When I wrote of the women in their dances and Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Self THE POWER OF SUICIDE Poem Text First Line: The potflower on the windowsill says to me Subject(s): Suicide THE RETURN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: An idea ran around the world Subject(s): Life THE SOUL AND BODY OF JOHN BROWN Poem Text First Line: His life is in the body of the living. Subject(s): Brown, John (1800-1859) THE SPEAKING TREE Poem Text First Line: Great alexander sailing was from his true course turned Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Identity; Trees THE SPEED OF DARKNESS Poem Text First Line: Whoever despises the clitoris despises the penis Subject(s): Sex; Reproduction; Love - Erotic; Mating THE SUROUNDED Poem Text First Line: They escape before, but their shadows walk behind Subject(s): Social Commentaries THEN Poem Text First Line: When I am dead, even then / I will still love you, I will wait in these poems Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians THEN First Line: When I am dead, even then %I will still love you, I will wait in these poems Last Line: It is building music Subject(s): Homosexuality THEN I SAW WHAT THE CALLING WAS First Line: All the voices of the wood called 'muriel' Last Line: And then I arrived at the powerful green hill THEORY OF FLIGHT: NIGHT FLIGHT: NEW YORK First Line: Lucid at dusk the city lies revealed Last Line: Believe that we bloom upon this stalk of time THEORY OF FLIGHT: PREAMBLE First Line: Earth, bind us close, and time; nor, sky, deride Last Line: In past in future in motility THEORY OF FLIGHT: THE GYROSCOPE First Line: But this is our desire, and of its worth Last Line: Maintaining the soul's polarity; be: fly THEORY OF FLIGHT: THE LYNCHINGS OF JESUS First Line: Passage to godhead, fitfully glared upon Last Line: The wind %shout to us %fly THEORY OF FLIGHT: THE STRUCTURE OF THE PLANE First Line: Kitty hawk is a caesar among monuments Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators THEORY OF FLIGHT: THE STRUCTURE OF THE PLANE First Line: Kitty hawk is a caesar among monuments Last Line: Go answering -- answering -- fly Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators THEORY OF FLIGHT: THE TUNNEL First Line: No work is master of the mine today Last Line: Time and our dividend of history THEORY OF FLIGHT: THEORY OF FLIGHT First Line: You dynamiting the structure of our loves Last Line: Say yes, people %say yes %yes THIS HOUSE, THIS COUNTRY First Line: Always I travelled farther Last Line: But reckon with their struggle and their seasons THIS IS GOING TO BE ABOUT SMOKE Last Line: The wheeled gates sealed THIS MORNING Poem Text First Line: Waking this morning, / a violent woman in the violent day Variant Title(s): Waking This Morning Subject(s): Violence THIS MORNING First Line: Waking this morning, %a violent woman in the violent day Last Line: This morning, waking the world away %in the violent day Variant Title(s): Waking This Mornin Subject(s): Violence THIS PLACE IN THE WAYS Poem Text First Line: Having come to this place Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THIS PLACE IN THE WAYS First Line: Having come to this place Last Line: Poems in throat and hand, asleep, %and my storm beating strong! Subject(s): Poetry And Poets THOUSANDS OF DAYS First Line: Morning cried by the bed Last Line: And speak another breath THREE BLACK WOMEN First Line: Invading nightmare, spinning up through sleep Last Line: Fire, black women, nightmare, dances, sleep THREE SIDES OF A COIN First Line: Am I in your light Last Line: The straight beautiful children the coins the clocks %tick tick TIME EXPOSURES Poem Text First Line: When the exposed spirit, busy in daytime Subject(s): Time TIME HINDER NOT ME; HIS ARMS REACH HERE AND THERE First Line: I will not care for time. Forbidding me Last Line: This I deeply believe TO BE A JEW IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Poem Text First Line: Mother and listener she is, but she does not listen Last Line: Daring to live for the impossible Subject(s): Jews; Twentieth Century TO ENTER THAT RHYTHM WHERE THE SELF IS LOST Last Line: Writing the poem; in love making; bringing to birth TO KEEP THE WEAKNESS SECRET Last Line: Fear; smell of the city of pain %his wife TRADITIONAL TUNE First Line: After the revolution came the fuehrer Last Line: The saced dangerous harbor, jerusalem TRADITIONAL TUNE First Line: After the revolution came the fuehrer Last Line: The sacred dangerous harbor, jerusalem TRANSGRESS First Line: That summer midnight under her aurora Last Line: Branch lifted green from the dead shock of stone TREE First Line: It seemed at the time like a slow road and late afternoon Last Line: For images: of process, or death, or flame; of love, or seeming, or speed TRINITY CHURCHYARD (FOR MY MOTHER & HER ANCESTOR, AKIBA) First Line: Wherever I walked I went green among young growing Last Line: To you, mother, I walk, making our poems TROPHIES First Line: The choice proposed: ascends, the nervy conductor Last Line: And all our heroes are afraid TWO ILLUMINATIONS First Line: Storm and disorder and the giant emotions Last Line: Contract like a cloud of birds about a tree TWO VOYAGES: MEDITERRANEAN First Line: On the evening of july 25, 1936, five days after the outbreak Last Line: Atlantis buried outside %to be won TWO VOYAGES: THE CRUISE First Line: Goodbye! Called the stockholders as the ship pulled out from Last Line: Saner than angels, promise of safety, harbor TWO YEARS First Line: Two years of my sister's bitter illness Last Line: I have burned the beans again UNBORN SONG Poem Text First Line: Rabbits breed, flies breed, said the virgin lady Subject(s): Reproduction; Mating UNBORN SONG First Line: Rabbits breed, flies breed, said the virgin lady Last Line: The womb saying welcome, the sun saying dare VICTIMS, A PLAY FOR THE HOME First Line: And if the curtain lifts, it is a window-shade Last Line: I know a way to start! Laughs, and slams out the door VOICES First Line: Voices of all our voices, running past an imagined race Last Line: The child's look at the world. In all its voices VOICES OF WAKING First Line: Whenever you wake, you will find journeying Last Line: The vision of the body of the soul WAITING FOR ICARUS Poem Text First Line: He said he would be back and we'd drink wine together Subject(s): Icarus; Waitiing; Promises; Inventions & Inventors WAITING FOR ICARUS First Line: He said he would be back and we'd drink wine together Last Line: It would have been better than this WAKE ISLAND Poem Text First Line: Proof of america! A fire on the sea, Subject(s): Wake Island; World War Ii; Second World War WAKING THIS MORNING Last Line: In the violent day WALTZ Poem Text First Line: In the night-snow, the floating snow Subject(s): Relationships; Snow; Dancing & Dancers WARDS. ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL, HYDE PARK CORNER First Line: Lying in the moment, she climbs white snows Last Line: Walking into our life WATCHER First Line: She said to me, he lay there sleeping Last Line: And though I weep in my dream, %when I wake I will not weep WATER NIGHT Poem Text First Line: The sky behind the farthest shore Subject(s): Sleep WATER NIGHT First Line: The sky behind the farthest shore Last Line: To make a lake of dream WATERLILY FIRE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Girl grown woman ... Fire... Mother of fire Subject(s): New York City; Fire; Life; Change; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple WATERLILY FIRE (FOR RICHARD GRIFFITH) First Line: Girl grown woman fire mother of fire Last Line: The city of endless cycles of the sun. %I speak to you you speak to me WEDDING PRESENTS First Line: Griefs Last Line: Award themselves in love, most perfect wreath WELCOME FROM WAR First Line: The woman to the man Last Line: I will kiss, I will bless %all the beginnings WHAT DO I GIVE YOU First Line: What do I give you? This memory Last Line: The sacred body of thirst WHAT DO WE SEE? First Line: When they're decent about women, they're frightful about children Last Line: Will we never see? Will we ever know? WHAT HAVE YOU BROUGHT HOME FROM THE WARS First Line: What have you brought Last Line: Of our century %each face killed WHAT I SEE First Line: Lie there, in sweat and dream, I do, and 'there' Last Line: Whatever is locked into you now while I sweat and dream WHAT THE KING SAID First Line: Today your ambassador said in fun Last Line: Do do do it to me WHAT THEY SAID First Line: After I am dead, darling Last Line: You will love everyone WHEN HE BEGAN TO WITNESS First Line: When he began to witness, it was not to a journey Last Line: Going through the same course: the meanings and knowings WHEREVER Last Line: I will make WHO IN ONE LIFETIME First Line: Who in one lifetime sees all causes lost Last Line: Life in her own defeat, stands, though her whole world burn,%a childless goddess of fertility WILLKIE -- STOPLESS FALLING THROUGH AIR First Line: For the first time today Last Line: The national officers handle the big accounts: general motors %or bethlehem steel WILLKIE IN THE GULLIVER First Line: When after the screens of the evening of defeat Last Line: My voice, my life, he knows; my life, my home WILLKIE: WORDS FROM RUSSIA First Line: When I flew into russia I said to my friend Last Line: Night-sound in the country of the opposites WIND ARROW, WIND ROSE First Line: Wind arrow, wind rose, the wind currents in air Last Line: The pilot, speaking: it was a marvelous flight. Fantastic! Not %a single coincidence! WOMAN AND EMBLEMS First Line: A bird flew out of a cloud Last Line: To blinding music, the deliberate strings WOMAN AS MARKET First Line: What was it? What was it? WOODEN SPRING Poem Text First Line: How horrible late spring is, with the full death of the frozen tight bulbs Subject(s): Spring WOODEN SPRING First Line: How horrible late sprng is, with the full death of the frozen Last Line: Life in this lack of death, comfort on this wide ground WORD OF MOUTH: I / THE RETURN Poem Text First Line: Westward from sete Last Line: They wake Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) WORD OF MOUTH: I / THE RETURN Poem Text First Line: Westward from sete WORD OF MOUTH: I / THE RETURN First Line: Westward from sete Last Line: Amor, pena, desig Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) WORK, FOR THE DAY IS COMING First Line: It is the poem, yes Last Line: Inviting you through states of being %poem WREATH OF WOMEN First Line: Raging from every quarter Last Line: Among her fountains WRITER First Line: His tears fell from his veins Last Line: No one spoke this language YES First Line: It's like a tap-dance Last Line: Your biggest surprise %comes after yes YOUNG GIRL OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY First Line: Stallions go leap, and rimfire knows Last Line: All indiana crystal in my tears |
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