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Author: SEXTON, ANNE Matches Found: 626 Sexton, Anne Poet's Biography 626 poems available by this author 45 MERCY STREET Poem Text First Line: In my dream, / drilling into the marrow Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology 45 MERCY STREET First Line: In my dream, %drilling into the marrow Last Line: And its hauled up %notebooks Subject(s): God; Religion A CURSE AGAINST ELEGIES Poem Text First Line: Oh, love, why do we argue like this Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology A LITTLE UNCOMPLICATED HYMN Poem Text First Line: Is what I wanted to write Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology A STORY FOR ROSE ON THE MIDNIGHT FLIGHT TO BOSTON Poem Text First Line: Until tonight they were separate specialties Subject(s): Air Travel; Theology ABORTION First Line: Somebody who should have been born %is gone Last Line: Or say what you meant %you coward - this baby I bleed Subject(s): Abortion; God; Religion ADDICT First Line: Sleepmonger %deathmonger Last Line: Now I'm borrowed. %now I'm numb Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; God; Religion; Suicide ADMONITIONS TO A SPECIAL PERSON Poem Text First Line: Watch out for power Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ADMONITIONS TO A SPECIAL PERSON First Line: Watch out for power Last Line: Like a happened balloon Subject(s): God; Religion AFTER AUSCHWITZ Poem Text First Line: Anger, / as black as a hook Subject(s): God; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Religion; Shoah; Judaism; Theology AFTER AUSCHWITZ First Line: Anger, %as black as a hook Last Line: I beg the lord not to hear Subject(s): God; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Religion AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You said the anger would come back Subject(s): Anger; Theology AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN First Line: You said the anger would come back Last Line: And you will die somewhat, %again and again Subject(s): God; Religion ALL MY PRETTY ONES Poem Text First Line: Father, this year's jinx rides us apart Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters ALL MY PRETTY ONES First Line: Father, this year's jinx rides us apart Last Line: Whether you are pretty or not, I outlive you, %bend down my strange face to yours and forgive you Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; God; Religion AMBITION BIRD First Line: So it has come to this Last Line: There is folly enough inside this one Subject(s): God; Religion AN OBSESSIVE COMBINATION OF ONTOLOGICAL INSCAPE ... Poem Text First Line: Busy, with an idea for a code, I write Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology AND ONE FOR MY DAME Poem Text Recitation First Line: A born salesman, / my father made all his dough Subject(s): Americans; Fathers; United States; America AND ONE FOR MY DAME First Line: A born salesman, %my father made all his dough Last Line: Its highways built up like new loves, raw and speedy Subject(s): Americans; Fathers; God; Religion; United States ANGEL FOOD DOGS First Line: Leaping, leaping, leaping Last Line: And fly off into my terrified years Subject(s): God; Religion ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 1. ANGEL OF FIRE AND GENITALS Poem Text First Line: Angel of fire and genitals, do you know slime Variant Title(s): Slime Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 1. ANGEL OF FIRE AND GENITALS First Line: Angel of fire and genitals, do you know slime Last Line: As the sun dies in your arms and you loosen its terrible weight Variant Title(s): Slim Subject(s): God; Religion ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 2. ANGEL OF CLEAN SHEETS Poem Text First Line: Angel of clean sheets, do you know bedbugs Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 2. ANGEL OF CLEAN SHEETS First Line: Angel of clean sheets, do you know bedbugs Last Line: But inside my hair waits the night I was defiled Subject(s): God; Religion ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 3. ANGEL OF FLIGHT AND SLEIGH BELS Poem Text First Line: Angel of flight and sleigh bells, do you know paralysis Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 3. ANGEL OF FLIGHT AND SLEIGH BELS First Line: Angel of flight and sleigh bells, do you know paralysis Last Line: Where I stand in stone shoes as the world's bicycle goes by Subject(s): God; Religion ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 4. ANGEL OF HOPE AND CALENDARS Poem Text First Line: Angel of hope and calendars, do you know despair Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 4. ANGEL OF HOPE AND CALENDARS First Line: Angel of hope and calendars, do you know despair Last Line: There are no prayers here. Here there is no change Subject(s): God; Religion ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 5. ANGEL OF BLIZZARDS AND BLACKB Poem Text First Line: Angel of blizzards and blackouts, do you know raspberries Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 5. ANGEL OF BLIZZARDS AND BLACKB First Line: Angel of blizzards and blackouts, do you know raspberries Last Line: Take me back to that red mouth, that july 21st place Subject(s): God; Religion ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 6. ANGEL OF BEACH HOUSES AND PICNICS Poem Text First Line: Angel of beach houses and picnics, do you know solitaire Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 6. ANGEL OF BEACH HOUSES AND PICNICS First Line: Angel of beach houses and picnics, do you know solitaire Last Line: And left hundreds of unmatched people out in the cold Subject(s): God; Religion ANNA WHO WAS MAD Poem Text First Line: Anna who was mad, / I have a knife in my armpit Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ANNA WHO WAS MAD First Line: Anna who was mad, %I have a knife in my armpit Last Line: Pick up the parker pen I gave you. %write me. %write Subject(s): God; Religion AS IT WAS WRITTEN Poem Text First Line: Earth, earth, / riding your merry-go-round Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology AS IT WAS WRITTEN First Line: Earth, earth, %riding your merry-go-round Last Line: With its hungry red mouth %to suck at my scars Subject(s): God; Religion ASSASSIN First Line: The correct death is written in Last Line: I will see him home Subject(s): God; Religion AUGUST 17TH Poem Text First Line: Good for visiting hospitals or charitable work. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology AUGUST 17TH First Line: Good for visiting hospitals or charitable work. Last Line: And then stitched up again for the long voyage back Subject(s): God; Religion AUGUST 8TH Poem Text First Line: And do not be indiscreet or unconventional. Play it safe Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology AUGUST 8TH First Line: And do not be indiscreet or unconventional. Play it safe Last Line: Spooking my lonely hours, you were there, but pretend Subject(s): God; Religion BABY PICTURE First Line: It's the heart of the grape Last Line: Merely a kid keeping alive Subject(s): God; Religion BALANCE WHEEL First Line: Where I waved at the sky Subject(s): God; Religion BALLAD OF THE LONELY MASTURBATOR First Line: The end of the affair is always death Last Line: At night, alone, I marry the bed gone Subject(s): God; Love; Religion BAT Poem Text First Line: His awful skin Subject(s): Bats; Theology BAT First Line: His awful skin Last Line: Like a misshapen udder Subject(s): God; Religion BAYONET Poem Text First Line: What can I do with this bayonet Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology BAYONET First Line: What can I do with this bayonet Last Line: Vut with all the vibrations %of a crucifix Subject(s): God; Religion BEGINNING THE HEGIRA: FOOD Poem Text First Line: I want mother's milk Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology BEGINNING THE HEGIRA: FOOD First Line: I want mother's milk Last Line: And you walk away reading the paper Subject(s): God; Religion BEGINNING THE HEGIRA: THE MONEY SWING Poem Text First Line: Mother, father, / I hold this snapshot of you Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology BEGINNING THE HEGIRA: THE MONEY SWING First Line: Mother, father, %I hold this snapshot of you Last Line: If you don't want it to be snow %you just pay money Subject(s): God; Religion BELLS First Line: Today the circus poster Last Line: All the trembling bells of you %were mine Subject(s): God; Religion BESTIARY U.S.A.: HORNET Poem Text First Line: A red-hot needle Subject(s): God; Hornets; Religion; Theology BESTIARY U.S.A.: HORNET First Line: A red-hot needle Last Line: He wants you to walk into him as into a dark fire Subject(s): God; Hornets; Religion BESTIARY U.S.A.: STAR-NOSED MOLE Poem Text First Line: Mole, angel-dog of the pit Subject(s): Moles; Religion; Theology BESTIARY U.S.A.: STAR-NOSED MOLE First Line: Mole, angel-dog of the pit Last Line: Wearing your cross on your nose Subject(s): Animals; God; Moles; Religion BESTIARY U.S.A.: WHALE Poem Text First Line: Whale on the beach, you dinosaur Subject(s): God; Religion; Whales; Theology BESTIARY U.S.A.: WHALE First Line: Whale on the beach, you dinosaur Last Line: Putting on our socks and working in the little boxes we call the office Subject(s): God; Religion; Whales BIG BOOTS OF PAIN First Line: There can be certain potions Last Line: Of its greed for love %next thursday Subject(s): God; Religion BIG HEART First Line: Big heart, %wide as a watermelon Last Line: Takes it all in -- %all in comes the fury of love Subject(s): God; Religion BLACK ART First Line: A woman who writes feels too much Last Line: To eat up all the weird abundance her, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Religion BREAK First Line: It was also my violent heart that broke Last Line: The zeal of my house doth eat me up Subject(s): God; Religion BREAK AWAY First Line: Your daisies have come Last Line: No matter how often I sweep the floor Subject(s): God; Religion BREAST First Line: This is the key to it Last Line: I burn the way money burns Subject(s): God; Religion BRIAR ROSE (SLEEPING BEAUTY) Poem Text First Line: Consider / a girl who keeps slipping off Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology BRIAR ROSE (SLEEPING BEAUTY) First Line: Consider %a girl who keeps slipping off Last Line: God help -- %this life after death up Subject(s): God; Religion BUYING THE WHORE Poem Text First Line: You are the roast beef I have purchased Subject(s): Whores; Theology BUYING THE WHORE First Line: You are the roast beef I have purchased Last Line: Its cold hard quarters Subject(s): God; Religion CHILD BEARERS First Line: Jean, death comes close to us all Last Line: In the worry festering inside us, %let our children go so fast %they go Subject(s): God; Religion CHILDREN First Line: The childen are all crying in their pens Last Line: In the private holiness %of my hands Subject(s): God; Religion CHRISTMAS EVE Poem Text First Line: Oh sharp diamond, my mother Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology CHRISTMAS EVE First Line: Oh sharp diamond, my mother Last Line: Somehow, it were one of yours Subject(s): God; Religion CIGARETTES AND WHISKEY AND WILD, WILD WOMEN Poem Text First Line: Perhaps I was born kneeling Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology CIGARETTES AND WHISKEY AND WILD, WILD WOMEN First Line: Perhaps I was born kneeling Last Line: In case mercy should come %in the nick of time Subject(s): God; Religion CINDERELLA Poem Text First Line: You always read about it Subject(s): Cinderella CINDERELLA First Line: You always read about it Last Line: Regular bobbsey twins. %that story Subject(s): God; Religion CINQUAINS Poem Text First Line: Evil / beware! Subject(s): Evil; Mothers; Spring CIVIL WAR First Line: I am torn in two Last Line: And sing an anthem %a song of myself Subject(s): God; Religion CLOTHES Poem Text First Line: Put on a clean shirt Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology CLOTHES First Line: Put on a clean shirt Last Line: I would die full of questions trousseau Subject(s): God; Religion COCKROACH First Line: Roch, foulest of creatures Last Line: And held up to the light like a glass of water Subject(s): God; Religion CONSORTING WITH ANGELS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I was tired of being a woman Subject(s): Women CONSORTING WITH ANGELS First Line: I was tired of being a woman Last Line: I'm no more a woman %than christ was a man Subject(s): God; Religion; Women COURAGE Poem Text First Line: It is in the small things we see it Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology COURAGE First Line: It is in the small things we see it Last Line: You'll put on your carpet slippers %and stride out Subject(s): God; Religion CRIPPLES AND OTHER STORIES Poem Text First Line: My doctor, the comedian Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology CRIPPLES AND OTHER STORIES First Line: My doctor, the comedian Last Line: As you prod me with your rib dog's neck Subject(s): God; Religion CROSSING THE ATLANTIC Poem Text First Line: We sail out of season into an oyster-gray wind Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; God; Religion; Sea; Sea Voyages; Theology; Ocean CROSSING THE ATLANTIC First Line: We sail out of season into an oyster-gray wind Last Line: This dead street never stops Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; God; Religion; Sea; Sea Voyages CURSE AGAINST ELEGIES First Line: Oh, love, why do we argue like this Last Line: Talk back to your old bad dreams Subject(s): God; Religion DADDY WARBUCKS First Line: What's missing is the eyeballs Last Line: As we board our velvet train Subject(s): God; Religion DADDY WARBUCKS Poem Text First Line: What's missing is the eyeballs Subject(s): Fictional Characters; Fathers & Daughters; Incest; Death DEAD HEART First Line: It is not a turtle Last Line: It kills %without drawing blood Subject(s): God; Religion DEATH BABY First Line: I was an ice baby. %I turned to sky blue Last Line: And there will be %that final rocking Subject(s): God; Religion DEATH KING First Line: I hired a carpenter Last Line: His tyranny, his absolute kingdom, %with my aphrodisiac Subject(s): God; Religion DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 1. OYSTERS First Line: Oysters we ate, %sweet blue babies Last Line: And the child was defeated. %the woman won Subject(s): God; Religion DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 2. HOW WE DANCED First Line: The night of my cousin's wedding Last Line: Like a great god and we bent together %like two lonely swans Subject(s): God; Religion DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 3. THE BOAT First Line: Father %(he calls himself 'old sea dog') Last Line: The cold wing that has clasped us %this bright august day Subject(s): God; Religion DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 4. SANTA First Line: Father, %the santa claus suit Last Line: For the train that comes no more Subject(s): God; Religion DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 5. FRIENDS First Line: Father, %who were all those friends Last Line: Oh god, %he was a stranger, %was he not Subject(s): God; Religion DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 6. BEGAT First Line: Father me not Last Line: We are two birds on fire Subject(s): God; Religion DEMON Poem Text First Line: I mentioned my demon to a friend Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology DEMON First Line: I mentioned my demon to a friend Last Line: At that anonymous altar Subject(s): God; Religion DESPAIR Poem Text First Line: Who is he? / a railroad track toward hell Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology DESPAIR First Line: Who is he? %a railroad track toward hell Last Line: My arms have been speechless Subject(s): God; Religion DIDN'T KNOW First Line: Mother, I said, %when hardly five, %where do we live Last Line: And found me afraid. %he didn't know %didn't know Subject(s): God; Religion DIVISION OF PARTS First Line: Mother, my mary gray Last Line: To make me your inheritor Subject(s): God; Religion DIVORCE Poem Text First Line: I have killed our lives together Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology DIVORCE First Line: I have killed our lives together Last Line: But there is no one to cover me -- %not even god Subject(s): God; Religion DIVORCE PAPERS, SELS. Subject(s): God; Religion DOCTOR OF THE HEART First Line: Take away your knowledge, doktor Last Line: To spite you, you wallowing %seasick grounded man Subject(s): God; Religion DOCTORS Poem Text First Line: They work with herbs Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology DOCTORS First Line: They work with herbs Last Line: But god returns them on foot Subject(s): God; Religion DOORS, DOORS, DOORS: 1. OLD MAN Poem Text First Line: Old man, it's four flights up and for what Subject(s): Old Age; Theology DOORS, DOORS, DOORS: 1. OLD MAN First Line: Old man, it's four flights up and for what Last Line: With no new land to make for and no new stories to swap Subject(s): God; Religion DOORS, DOORS, DOORS: 2. SEAMSTRESS Poem Text First Line: I'm at pains to know what else I could have done Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Theology DOORS, DOORS, DOORS: 2. SEAMSTRESS First Line: I'm at pains to know what else I could have done Last Line: But pack up and move in here, him being my son Subject(s): God; Religion DOORS, DOORS, DOORS: 3. YOUNG GIRL Poem Text First Line: Dear love, as simple as some distant call Subject(s): Family Life; Love; Theology DOORS, DOORS, DOORS: 3. YOUNG GIRL First Line: Dear love, as simple as some distant call Last Line: Tell them I remake and smooth your bed and am your wife Subject(s): God; Religion DOUBLE IMAGE First Line: I am thirty this november Last Line: Not soothe it. I made you to find me Subject(s): God; Religion DREAMING THE BREASTS Poem Text First Line: Mother, / strange goddess face Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology DREAMING THE BREASTS First Line: Mother, %strange goddess face Last Line: Can go galloping, galloping, %wherever you are Subject(s): God; Religion DREAMING THE BREASTS First Line: Mother %strange goddess face Subject(s): God; Religion EARTH First Line: God loafs around heaven Last Line: And come down %and give it a bath %now and then Subject(s): God; Religion EARTH FALLS DOWN First Line: If I could blame it all on the weather Last Line: That no one can reach, %even for a wedding. %perhaps for a death Subject(s): God; Religion EARTHWORM Poem Text First Line: Slim inquirer, while the old fathers sleep Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology EARTHWORM First Line: Slim inquirer, while the old fathers sleep Last Line: Be severed and rise from the dead like a gargoyle %with two heads Subject(s): God; Religion EATING THE LEFTOVERS: DIVORCE, THY NAME IS WOMAN Poem Text First Line: I am divorcing daddy - dybbuk! Dybbuk Subject(s): Divorce; God; Religion; Theology EATING THE LEFTOVERS: DIVORCE, THY NAME IS WOMAN First Line: I am divorcing daddy - dybbuk! Dybbuk Last Line: That I turn invisible, but married, at last Subject(s): Divorce; God; Religion EATING THE LEFTOVERS: THE CONSECRATING MOTHER Poem Text First Line: I stand before the sea Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology EATING THE LEFTOVERS: THE CONSECRATING MOTHER First Line: I stand before the sea Last Line: Like the song of solomon Subject(s): God; Religion EIGHTEEN DAYS WITHOUT YOU, SELS. First Line: As we kissed good-bye Last Line: And we will take a supper together and that will be that Subject(s): God; Religion EIGHTEEN DAYS WITHOUT YOU: DECEMBER 1ST Poem Text First Line: As we kissed good-bye EIGHTEEN DAYS WITHOUT YOU: DECEMBER 2ND Poem Text First Line: I slept last night Subject(s): Sleep; Dreams; Mothers; Death; Nightmares; Dead, The ELEGY IN THE CLASSROOM Poem Text First Line: In the thin classroom, where your face Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ELEGY IN THE CLASSROOM First Line: In the thin classroom, where your face Last Line: Who was wise, wise, wise Subject(s): God; Religion ELIZABETH GONE Poem Text First Line: You lay in the nest of your real death Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ELIZABETH GONE First Line: You lay in the nest of your real death Last Line: Elizabeth, until you were gone Subject(s): God; Religion END, MIDDLE, BEGINNING Poem Text First Line: There was an unwanted child Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology END, MIDDLE, BEGINNING First Line: There was an unwanted child Last Line: Let him drill you into no one Subject(s): God; Religion ERRAND First Line: I've been going right on, page by page Last Line: Like moth wings for a short while in a small place Subject(s): God; Religion EVIL EYE First Line: It comes oozing %out of flowers at night Last Line: Giving up one life %for one life Subject(s): God; Religion EVIL SEEKERS First Line: We are born with luck Last Line: And then tear it from its roots %and bury it, %bury it Subject(s): God; Religion EXPATRIATES First Line: My dear, it was a moment Last Line: Mouths calling mine, mine, mine Subject(s): God; Religion FALLEN ANGELS First Line: They come on to my clean Last Line: Before you pinch me %into the grave Subject(s): God; Religion FALLING DOLLS First Line: Dolls, %by the thousands Last Line: Born but never fed Subject(s): God; Religion FARMER'S WIFE First Line: From the hodge porridge Last Line: Better, my lover, dead Subject(s): Despair; Farm Life; God; Marriage; Religion FAUSTUS AND I Poem Text First Line: I went to the opera and god was not there Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FAUSTUS AND I First Line: I went to the opera and god was not there Last Line: I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran Subject(s): God; Religion FEBRUARY 11TH First Line: The day is favorable for real-estate affairs Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FEBRUARY 11TH First Line: The day is favorable for real-estate affairs Last Line: Part swiss watch, part indian head Subject(s): God; Religion FEBRUARY 17TH First Line: Take nothing for granted Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FEBRUARY 17TH First Line: Take nothing for granted Last Line: That all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end Subject(s): God; Religion FEBRUARY 20TH First Line: Concentration should be easier Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FEBRUARY 20TH First Line: Concentration should be easier Last Line: Hurry up somebody's dead we're still alive Subject(s): God; Religion FEBRUARY 21ST First Line: The day is favorable for teamwork Last Line: As we dance the karate, the mad burlesque Subject(s): God; Religion FEBRUARY 3RD First Line: Your own ideas may be too fanciful to be practical Last Line: Useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan Subject(s): God; Religion FEBRUARY 4TH First Line: The day is good for attempts to advance a secret hope or dream Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FEBRUARY 4TH First Line: The day is good for attempts to advance a secret hope or dream Last Line: All from the room I pray to when I am dreaming and devout Subject(s): God; Religion FIERCENESS OF FEMALE First Line: I am spinning, %I am spinning on the lips Last Line: Flowers smash through the long winter Subject(s): God; Religion FIRE THIEF First Line: It began with begging Last Line: Its mother, %to forgive, %to forgive Subject(s): God; Religion FIREBOMBERS First Line: We are america Last Line: America, %where are your credentials Subject(s): God; Religion FISH THAT WALKED First Line: Up from oysters %and the confused weeds Last Line: What you can only visit Subject(s): God; Religion FLEE ON YOUR DONKEY Poem Text First Line: Because there was no other place Subject(s): God; Insanity; Religion; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology FLEE ON YOUR DONKEY First Line: Because there was no other place Last Line: Those I loved best died of it - %the fool's disease Subject(s): God; Insanity; Religion FLIGHT Poem Text First Line: Thinking that I would find you Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FLIGHT First Line: Thinking that I would find you Last Line: Had nowhere else to go Subject(s): God; Religion FOR ELEANOR BOYLAN TALKING WITH GOD Poem Text First Line: God has a brown voice Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FOR ELEANOR BOYLAN TALKING WITH GOD First Line: God has a brown voice Last Line: Oh eleanor, eleanor, %tell him before death uses you up her, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Religion FOR GOD WHILE SLEEPING Poem Text First Line: Sleeping in fever, I am unfit Subject(s): Illness; Theology FOR GOD WHILE SLEEPING First Line: Sleeping in fever, I am unfit Last Line: On your own breathing, poor old convict her, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Religion FOR JOHN, WHO BEGS ME NOT TO ENQUIRE FURTHER Poem Text First Line: Not that it was beautiful Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FOR JOHN, WHO BEGS ME NOT TO ENQUIRE FURTHER First Line: Not that it was beautiful Last Line: My kitchen, your kitchen, %my face, your face Subject(s): God; Religion FOR JOHNNY POLE ON THE FORGOTTEN BEACH Poem Text First Line: In his tenth july some instinct Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FOR JOHNNY POLE ON THE FORGOTTEN BEACH First Line: In his tenth july some instinct Last Line: Johnny, each summer that moves inside my mind Subject(s): God; Religion FOR MR. DEATH WHO STANDS WITH HIS DOOR OPEN First Line: Time grows dim. Time that was so long Last Line: So that I may sqat at the edge trying on %my black necessary trousseau Subject(s): God; Religion FOR MY LOVER, RETURNING TO HIS WIFE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: She is all there Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy FOR MY LOVER, RETURNING TO HIS WIFE First Line: She is all there Last Line: As for me, I am a watercolor. %I wash off Subject(s): God; Religion; Unfaithfulness FOR THE YEAR OF THE INSANE Poem Text First Line: O mary, fragile mother Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FOR THE YEAR OF THE INSANE First Line: O mary, fragile mother Last Line: I am locked in the wrong house Subject(s): God; Religion FORTRESS First Line: Under the pink quilted covers Last Line: I promise you love. Time will not take that away her, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Religion FRENZY Poem Text First Line: I am not lazy Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FRENZY First Line: I am not lazy Last Line: Wide as an english bathtub Subject(s): God; Religion FROG PRINCE First Line: Frau doktor %mama brundig Last Line: That blind poppy, that innocent globe, %that madonna womb up Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion FROM THE GARDEN Poem Text First Line: Come, my beloved Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening FUNNEL Poem Text First Line: The family story tells, and it was told true Subject(s): Family Life; Ancestors & Ancestry; Religion; Theology FUNNEL First Line: The family story tells, and it was told true Last Line: Of childen their careful slice of suburban cake Subject(s): God; Religion FURY OF BEAUTIFUL BONES First Line: Sing me a thrush, bone Subject(s): God; Religion FURY OF COCKS First Line: There they are Subject(s): God; Religion; Sex FURY OF COOKS First Line: Herbs, garlic Subject(s): God; Religion FURY OF FLOWERS AND WORMS First Line: Let the flowers make a journey Last Line: They slide into the ear of a corpse %and listen to his great sigh Subject(s): God; Religion FURY OF GUITARS ... First Line: This singing Subject(s): God; Religion FURY OF HATING EYES First Line: I would like to bury Last Line: Mice are watching you %from behind the kind bars Subject(s): God; Hate; Religion FURY OF OVERSHOES First Line: They sit in a row %outside the kindergarten Last Line: And thinking %nothing of it? Subject(s): Children; God; Kindergarten; Religion; Shoes FURY OF SUNRISES First Line: Darkness %as black as your eyelid Subject(s): God; Religion FURY OF SUNSETS First Line: Something %cold is in the air Subject(s): God; Religion GHOSS First Line: Some ghosts are women Last Line: Showing their innocent bottoms, wailing for lucifer Subject(s): God; Religion GHOSTS Poem Text First Line: Some ghosts are women Subject(s): Women GOD'S BACKSIDE Poem Text First Line: Cold / like grandfather's icehouse Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology GOD'S BACKSIDE First Line: Cold %like grandfather's icehouse Last Line: And plan their wedding Subject(s): God; Religion GOD-MONGER First Line: With all my questions Last Line: Who am I to reject the naming of foods %in a time of famine Subject(s): God; Religion GODFATHER DEATH Poem Text First Line: Hurry, godfather death Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology GODFATHER DEATH First Line: Hurry, godfather death Last Line: Put a finger on his back %for the big blackout, %the big no Subject(s): God; Religion GODS Poem Text First Line: Mrs. Sexxton went out looking for the gods Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology GODS First Line: Mrs. Sexxton went out looking for the gods Last Line: At last! %she cried out, %and locked the door Subject(s): God; Religion GOING GONE Poem Text First Line: Over stone walls and barns Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology GOING GONE First Line: Over stone walls and barns Last Line: Them to this one for she too %is making a trip Subject(s): God; Religion GOLD KEY First Line: The speaker on this case Last Line: As if an enlarged paper clip %could be a piece of sculpture. %(and it could.) Subject(s): God; Religion GRANDFATHER, YOUR WOUND Poem Text First Line: The wound is open Last Line: Your head is what I remember Subject(s): God; Grandparents GRANDFATHER, YOUR WOUND First Line: The wound is open Last Line: Blinking its dry wings over us all, %over my wound %and yours Subject(s): God; Religion GULL First Line: You with your wings like spatulas Last Line: Is crooked and vain and has been cut from a book Subject(s): God; Religion HANSEL AND GRETEL Poem Text First Line: Little plum, said the mother to her son Last Line: And I would be a cannibal Subject(s): Cannibalism & Cannibals; Theology HANSEL AND GRETEL First Line: Little plum, said the mother to her son Last Line: And fine white linen %like something religious up Subject(s): God; Religion HER KIND Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I have gone out, a possessed witch Subject(s): Women HER KIND First Line: I have gone out, a possessed witch Last Line: A woman like that is not ashamed to die. %I have been her kind Subject(s): God; Religion; Women HEX First Line: Every time I get happy Last Line: But book my double Subject(s): God; Religion HOARDER First Line: There is something there Last Line: I am not an idler %am I Subject(s): God; Religion HOG Poem Text First Line: Oh you brown bacon machine Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology HOG First Line: Oh you brown bacon machine Last Line: For its own little death Subject(s): God; Religion HORSE First Line: Hore, you flame thrower Last Line: Into its own body Subject(s): God; Religion HOUSE First Line: In dreams %the same bad dream goes on Last Line: Those people who stand at the open windows like objects waiting to topple Subject(s): God; Religion HOUSEWIFE Poem Text First Line: Some women marry houses Subject(s): Housewives HOUSEWIFE First Line: Some women marry houses Last Line: A woman is her mother. %that's the main thing Subject(s): God; Housewives; Religion; Women HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME Poem Text First Line: What is death, I ask Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME First Line: What is death, I ask Last Line: Until the kingdom, %however queer, %will come Subject(s): God; Religion I CALLED HIM COMFORT, FR. LETTERS TO DR. Y Subject(s): God; Religion I REMEMBER Poem Text First Line: By the first of august Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology I REMEMBER First Line: By the first of august Last Line: The door to your room was %the door to mine her, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Religion I'M DREAMING THE MY LAI SOLDIER..., FR. LETTERS TO DR. Y Subject(s): God; Religion IMITATIONS OF DROWNING Poem Text First Line: Fear / of drowning / fear of being that alone Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology IMITATIONS OF DROWNING First Line: Fear %of drowning %fear of being that alone Last Line: But in the end it's fear %that drowns you Subject(s): God; Religion IN CELEBRATION OF MY UTERUS Poem Text First Line: Everyone in me is a bird Subject(s): Women; Body, Human; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery IN CELEBRATION OF MY UTERUS First Line: Everyone in me is a bird Last Line: Let me sing %for the supper, %for the kissing, %for the correct %yes Subject(s): God; Religion; Women IN EXCELSIS Poem Text First Line: It is half winter, half spring Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology IN EXCELSIS First Line: It is half winter, half spring Last Line: To suck at my scars Subject(s): God; Religion IN THE BEACH HOUSE Poem Text First Line: The doors open Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology IN THE BEACH HOUSE First Line: The doors open Last Line: Over and over, %in their room dog's neck Subject(s): God; Religion IN THE DEEP MUSEUM Poem Text First Line: My god, my god, what queer corner am I in Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology IN THE DEEP MUSEUM First Line: My god, my god, what queer corner am I in Last Line: Far below the cross, I correct its flaws. %we have kept the miracle. I will not be here Subject(s): God; Religion INTERROGATION OF THE MAN OF MANY HEARTS First Line: Who's she, %that one in your arms Last Line: Not by morality or law, %but by time Subject(s): God; Religion INVENTORY OF GOODBYE First Line: I have a pack of letters Last Line: Making it dangerous with its red Subject(s): God; Religion IRON HANS Poem Text First Line: Take a lunatic Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology IRON HANS First Line: Take a lunatic Last Line: From the awful babble %of that calling Subject(s): God; Religion IS IT TRUE? First Line: Once more %the sun roaming on the carpenter's back Last Line: The wings go on flapping %despite it all, %despite it all Subject(s): God; Religion IT IS A SPRING AFTERNOON Poem Text First Line: Everything here is yellow and green Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology IT IS A SPRING AFTERNOON First Line: Everything here is yellow and green Last Line: And the blind men can also see Subject(s): God; Religion IT'S MUSIC YOU'VE NEVER HEARD, FR. LETTERS TO DR. Y Subject(s): God; Religion JANUARY 19TH First Line: Your home can be helpful to your health through rest Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology JANUARY 19TH First Line: Your home can be helpful to your health through rest Last Line: The sweet cereal, the sweet thumb Subject(s): God; Religion JANUARY 1ST First Line: Today is favorable for joint financial affairs but do not Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology JANUARY 1ST First Line: My daddy played the market Last Line: I will not speculate today %with poems that think they're money Subject(s): God; Religion JANUARY 1ST First Line: Today is favorable for joint financial affairs but do not Last Line: With poems that think they're money Subject(s): God; Religion JANUARY 24TH First Line: Originality is important Last Line: Bewginning, she of the riddle, she keeps me here, %toiling and toiling Subject(s): God; Religion JESUS PAPERS, SELS. Subject(s): God; Religion JESUS WALKING Poem Text First Line: When jesus walked into the wilderness Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology JESUS WALKING First Line: When jesus walked into the wilderness Last Line: Is to be a man carrying a man Subject(s): God; Religion JESUS, THE ACTOR, PLAYS THE HOLY GHOST Poem Text First Line: Oh, mother, / virgin mother Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology JESUS, THE ACTOR, PLAYS THE HOLY GHOST First Line: Oh, mother, %virgin mother Last Line: But let me be born again %into something true Subject(s): God; Religion JUNE BUG First Line: June bug came on the first of june Last Line: Like shoes after a wedding car Subject(s): God; Religion JUST ONCE Poem Text First Line: Just once I knew what life was for Subject(s): God; Love; Religion; Theology JUST ONCE First Line: Just once I knew what life was for Last Line: And hoarded these constants into morning %only to find them gone Subject(s): God; Love; Religion KE 6-8018 Poem Text First Line: Black lady, / two eyes Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology KE 6-8018 First Line: Black lady, %two eyes Last Line: Although I will wait, %unleashed and unheard Subject(s): God; Religion KEEPING THE CITY First Line: Once, %in august %head on your chest Last Line: Who knows what he keepeth Subject(s): God; Religion KILLING THE LOVE Poem Text First Line: I am the love killer Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology KILLING THE LOVE First Line: I am the love killer Last Line: Dancing alone %as the cars go by Subject(s): God; Religion KILLING THE SPRING Poem Text First Line: Spring had been bulldozed under Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology KILLING THE SPRING First Line: Spring had been bulldozed under Last Line: Once upon a time a young person %died for no reason. %I was the same Subject(s): God; Religion KIND SIR: THESE WOODS Poem Text First Line: Kind sir: this is an old game Subject(s): Children; Games; Self; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements KIND SIR: THESE WOODS First Line: Kind sir: this is an old game Last Line: Still, I search in these woods and find nothing worse %than myself, caught between the grapes and th Subject(s): God; Religion KISS First Line: My mouth blooms like a cut Last Line: Pure genius at work. Darling, the composer has stepped into fire Subject(s): God; Religion KITE First Line: Here, in front of the summer hotel Last Line: Maybe, after all, he knew something more and was right Subject(s): God; Religion KNEE SONG Poem Text First Line: Being kissed on the back Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology KNEE SONG First Line: Being kissed on the back Last Line: Striking yes yes yes small %and me maker Subject(s): God; Religion LAMENT Poem Text First Line: Someone is dead Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LAMENT First Line: Someone is dead Last Line: Unaccustomed to anything else %goes all the way down Subject(s): God; Religion LANDSCAPE IN WINTER First Line: Snow, out over the elephant's rump Last Line: As the night waits for its breakfast Subject(s): God; Religion LEAVES THAT TALK First Line: Yes. %it's may 20th and the leaves Last Line: And faithless to the summer Subject(s): God; Religion LEGEND OF THE ONE-EYED MAN First Line: Like oedipus I am losing my sight Subject(s): God; Religion LESSONS IN HUNGER Poem Text First Line: Do you like me?' Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LESSONS IN HUNGER First Line: Do you like me?' Last Line: Riddled with what his silence said Subject(s): God; Religion LETTER WRITTEN DURING A JANUARY NORTHEASTER Poem Text First Line: Monday / dearest, / it is snowing, grotesquely snowing Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LETTER WRITTEN DURING A JANUARY NORTHEASTER First Line: Monday %dearest, %it is snowing, grotesquely snowing Last Line: But he belongs to me like lost baggage Subject(s): God; Religion LETTER WRITTEN ON A FERRY WHILE CROSSING LONG ISLAND SOUND Poem Text First Line: I am surprised to see / that the ocean is still going on Subject(s): Ferry Boats; God; Long Island Sound; Nuns; Religion; Theology LETTER WRITTEN ON A FERRY WHILE CROSSING LONG ISLAND SOUND First Line: I am surprised to see %that the ocean is still going on Last Line: They call back to us %from the gauzy edge of paradise, %good news, good news Subject(s): Ferry Boats; God; Long Island Sound; Nuns; Religion LETTERS TO DR. Y. First Line: Dr. Y. %I need a thin hot wire Last Line: So this is happiness, %that journeyman Subject(s): God; Religion LITTLE GIRL, MY STRING BEAN, MY LOVELY WOMAN Poem Text First Line: My daughter, at eleven (almost twelve), is like a garden Subject(s): Daughters LITTLE GIRL, MY STRING BEAN, MY LOVELY WOMAN First Line: My daughter, at eleven (almost twelve), is like a garden Last Line: You will strike fire, %that new thing Subject(s): Daughters; God; Religion LITTLE PEASANT First Line: Oh how the women Last Line: In his deep pants pocket. %krr. Krr Subject(s): God; Religion LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD Poem Text First Line: Many are the deceivers Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion; Theology LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD First Line: Many are the deceivers Last Line: That little birth, %from their going down %and their lifting up Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion LITTLE UNCOMPLICATED HYMN First Line: Is what I wanted to write Last Line: I look for uncomplicated hymns %but love has none Subject(s): God; Religion LIVE Poem Text First Line: Well, death's been here Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LIVE First Line: Well, death's been here Last Line: I say live, live because of the sun, %the dream, the excitable gift Subject(s): God; Religion LOBSTER Poem Text First Line: A shoe with legs Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LOBSTER First Line: A shoe with legs Last Line: And paint it red Subject(s): God; Religion LOCKED DOORS Poem Text First Line: For the angels who inhabit this town Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LOCKED DOORS First Line: For the angels who inhabit this town Last Line: I can only sit here on earth %at my place at the table Subject(s): God; Religion LOST INGREDIENT First Line: Almost yesterday, those gentle ladies stole Last Line: Would keep us calm and prove us whole at last Subject(s): God; Religion LOST LIE First Line: There is rust in my mouth Last Line: That your dear curly head %was, was, was, was Subject(s): God; Religion LOVE LETTER WRITTEN IN A BURNING BUILDING Poem Text First Line: Dearest foxy, / I am in a crate Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LOVE LETTER WRITTEN IN A BURNING BUILDING First Line: Dearest foxy, %I am in a crate Last Line: Straight from united fruit, inc Subject(s): God; Religion LOVE PLANT First Line: A freak moist flower Last Line: A pink doll with her frantic green stuffing Subject(s): God; Religion LOVE SONG Poem Text First Line: I was / the girl of the chain letter Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LOVE SONG First Line: I was %the girl of the chain letter Last Line: That music, %that theater, %that field of ponies Subject(s): God; Religion LOVE SONG FOR K. OWYNE First Line: I washed lobster and stale gin Last Line: Like pale acrobats or gently drunken flowers Subject(s): God; Religion LOVING THE KILLER Poem Text First Line: Today is the day they shipped Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LOVING THE KILLER First Line: Today is the day they shipped Last Line: Even though the killer in you %has gotten out Subject(s): God; Religion LULLABY Poem Text First Line: It is a summer evening Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LULLABY First Line: It is a summer evening Last Line: While the goat calls hush-a-bye Subject(s): God; Religion MADAME ARRIVES IN THE MAIL First Line: Madame, I have a confusion Last Line: With the awful black words pushing me around Subject(s): God; Religion MAIDEN WITHOUT HANDS First Line: Is it possible %he marries a cripple Last Line: A kind of purple heart, %a talisman, %a yellow star Subject(s): God; Religion MAKING A LIVING Poem Text First Line: Jonah made his living Last Line: Mine comes from th exact same place Subject(s): Bellies MAKING A LIVING First Line: Jonah made his living Last Line: My death the same Subject(s): God; Religion MAN AND WIFE Poem Text First Line: We are not lovers Last Line: It is a kind of beathing Subject(s): Marriage MAN AND WIFE First Line: We are not lovers Last Line: If they could only fly the distance her, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Religion MARCH 4TH First Line: The high ones, berryman said, die, die, die Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology MARCH 4TH First Line: The high ones, berryman said, die, die, die Last Line: And the cat. Love rises like bread as we go bust Subject(s): God; Religion MARCH 7TH First Line: The day is favorable for creative work Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology MARCH 7TH First Line: The day is favorable for creative work Last Line: A fat asthmatic asia, a mother-in-law Subject(s): God; Religion MARY'S SONG First Line: Out of egypt %with its pearls and honey Last Line: And each will wave good-bye Subject(s): God; Religion MAY 30TH Poem Text First Line: Don't look now, god, we're all right Last Line: Don’t send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone Subject(s): God; Religion; Death; Theology MAY 30TH First Line: Don't look now, god, we're all right Last Line: Don't send io his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone Subject(s): God; Religion MENSTRUATION AT FORTY Poem Text First Line: I was thinking of a son Subject(s): God; Menstruation; Middle Age; Religion; Theology MENSTRUATION AT FORTY First Line: I was thinking of a son Last Line: I would have possessed you before all women, %calling your name, %calling you mine Subject(s): God; Menstruation; Middle Age; Religion MOOSE Poem Text First Line: American archangel you are going Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology MOOSE First Line: American archangel you are going Last Line: And keep your proud body past your mystery and mine Subject(s): God; Religion MOSS OF HIS SKIN First Line: It was only important Last Line: How I hold my daddy %like an old stone tree Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; God; Religion MOTHER AND DAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: Linda, you are leaving Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology MOTHER AND DAUGHTER First Line: Linda, you are leaving Last Line: Fruit and pass the time of day Subject(s): God; Religion MOTHER AND JACK AND THE RAIN First Line: I have a room of my own Last Line: Up my daily bread, to endure, %somehow to endure Subject(s): God; Religion MOTHERS Poem Text First Line: Oh mother / here in your lap Subject(s): Family Life; God; Religion; Relatives; Theology MOTHERS First Line: Oh mother %here in your lap Last Line: When someone else %is as empty as a shoe Subject(s): Family Life; God; Religion MR. MINE Poem Text First Line: Notice how he has numbered the blue veins Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology MR. MINE First Line: Notice how he has numbered the blue veins Last Line: Yet in my heart I am go children slow gone Subject(s): God; Religion MUSIC SWIMS BACK TO ME Poem Text First Line: Wait mister. Which way is home? Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC SWIMS BACK TO ME First Line: Wait mister. Which way is home? Last Line: The night I came I danced a circle %and was not afraid. %mister Subject(s): God; Music And Musicians; Religion MY FRIEND, MY FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Who will forgive me for the things I do? Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology MY FRIEND, MY FRIEND First Line: Who will forgive me for the things I do? Last Line: With no special legend or god to refer to, %I think it would be better to be a jew Subject(s): God; Religion NOON WALK ON THE ASYLUM LAWN Poem Text First Line: The summer sun ray Subject(s): Depression, Mental; God; Religion; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Theology NOON WALK ON THE ASYLUM LAWN First Line: The summer sun ray Last Line: There is no safe place Subject(s): Depression, Mental; God; Religion NOT SO. NOT SO Poem Text First Line: I cannot walk an inch Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology NOT SO. NOT SO First Line: I cannot walk an inch Last Line: You have a thousand prayers %but god has one Subject(s): God; Religion NUDE SWIM First Line: On the southwest side of capri Last Line: Shut down as if they were %suddenly ashamed Subject(s): God; Religion; Sports O YE TONGUES Poem Text First Line: Let there be a god as large as a sunlamp to laugh his heat at you Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology O YE TONGUES First Line: Let there be a god as large as a sunlamp to laugh his heat at you Last Line: For god was as large as a sunlamp and laughed his heat at us %and therefore we did not cringe at the Subject(s): God; Religion OBSESSIVE COMBINATION OF ONTOLOGICAL INSCAPE ... First Line: Busy, with an idea for a code, I write Last Line: I touched and a miracle I really wrote Subject(s): God; Religion OH Poem Text First Line: It is snowing and death bugs me Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology OH First Line: It is snowing and death bugs me Last Line: Oh, my dear, not why Subject(s): God; Religion OLD Poem Text First Line: I'm afraid of needles Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology OLD First Line: I'm afraid of needles Last Line: In a dream you are never eighty her, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Religion OLD DWARF HEART Poem Text First Line: When I lie down to love Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology OLD DWARF HEART First Line: When I lie down to love Last Line: Even if I put on seventy coats I could not cover you... %mother, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Religion ON THE DUNES Poem Text First Line: If there there is any life when death is over Subject(s): Seashore; Future Life; Beach; Coast; Shore; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ONE-EYE, TWO-EYES, THREE-EYES Poem Text First Line: Even in the pink crib Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ONE-EYE, TWO-EYES, THREE-EYES First Line: Even in the pink crib Last Line: So they took root in her heart %with their religious hunger t into her mouth Subject(s): God; Religion ONE-LEGGED MAN First Line: Once there was blood Last Line: I wanted only to watch her quietly %as she worked Subject(s): God; Religion OPERATION First Line: After the sweet promise Last Line: My stomach laced up like a football %for the game her, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Religion OTHER First Line: Under my bowels, yellow with smoke, it waits Last Line: Then I can sleep. %maybe Subject(s): God; Religion OYSTERS First Line: Oysters we are Subject(s): God; Religion PAIN FOR A DAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: Blind with love, my daughter Subject(s): Horses; Mothers & Daughters PAIN FOR A DAUGHTER First Line: Blind with love, my daughter Last Line: And I saw her, at that moment, %in her own death and I knew that she knew Subject(s): Animals; God; Horses; Mothers And Daughters; Religion PAPA AND MAMA DANCE First Line: Taking into consideration all your loveliness Last Line: Papa and mama did so. Can we do less gone Subject(s): God; Religion PASSION OF THE MAD RABBIT First Line: While the carrots sang arias into the holy earth Last Line: I whispered, %a fool has risen Subject(s): God; Religion PLAY First Line: I am the only actor Last Line: Will make an interesting play. %don't you agree Subject(s): God; Religion POET OF IGNORANCE First Line: Perhaps the earth is floating Last Line: But who am I to believe in dreams Subject(s): God; Religion PORCUPINE First Line: Spine hog, %how do you grow Last Line: And why not, old %spine hog u.S.A Subject(s): God; Religion PORTRAIT OF AN OLD WOMAN ON THE COLLEGE TAVERN WALL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Oh down at the tavern Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology PORTRAIT OF AN OLD WOMAN ON THE COLLEGE TAVERN WALL First Line: Oh down at the tavern Last Line: Around their round table %until they are still Subject(s): God; Religion PRAYING ON A 707 Poem Text First Line: Mother, / each time I talk to god Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology PRAYING ON A 707 First Line: Mother, %each time I talk to god Last Line: Mother, %you and god %float with the same belly %up Subject(s): God; Religion PRAYING TO BIG JACK Poem Text First Line: God, jack of all trades Last Line: And you banish all the world Subject(s): God; Religion; Prayer; Theology PRAYING TO BIG JACK First Line: God, jack of all trades Last Line: And you banish all the world Subject(s): God; Religion PROTESTANT EASTER Poem Text First Line: When he was a little boy Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology PROTESTANT EASTER First Line: When he was a little boy Last Line: Those are the people that sing %when they aren't quite %sure Subject(s): God; Religion RACCOON Poem Text First Line: Coon, why did you come to this dance Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology RACCOON First Line: Coon, why did you come to this dance Last Line: Clanging the garbage pail like great silver bells Subject(s): God; Religion RAPUNZEL Poem Text First Line: A woman / who loves a woman Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion; Theology RAPUNZEL First Line: A woman %who loves a woman Last Line: And only as she dreamt of the yellow hair %did moonlight sift into her mouth Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR Poem Text First Line: After adam broke his rib in two Last Line: Like a watermelon Subject(s): God; Religion; Rats; Theology RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR First Line: After adam broke his rib in two Last Line: Deserve to smile in eternity %like a watermelon Subject(s): God; Religion RED DANCE First Line: There was a girl Last Line: Going down with god's first creature %dancing all the way Subject(s): God; Religion RED ROSES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Tommy is three and when he's bad Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology RED ROSES First Line: Tommy is three and when he's bad Last Line: Of red red roses he gives her Subject(s): God; Religion RED SHOES First Line: I stand in the ring Last Line: What they did would do them in Subject(s): God; Religion RIDING THE ELEVATOR INTO THE SKY Poem Text First Line: As the fireman said Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology RIDING THE ELEVATOR INTO THE SKY First Line: As the fireman said Last Line: Some useful door -- %somewhere -- %up there Subject(s): God; Religion RINGING THE BELLS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: And this is the way they ring Subject(s): Bells; Depression, Mental; Insanity; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness RINGING THE BELLS First Line: And this is the way they ring Last Line: They tell you to go. And you do Subject(s): Bells; Depression, Mental; God; Insanity; Religion RISK First Line: When a daughter tries suicide Last Line: And the mother lies down on her marriage bed %and eats up her heart like two eggs Subject(s): God; Religion ROAD BACK First Line: The car is heavy with children Last Line: Like a persistent rumor %that will get us yet Subject(s): God; Religion; Vacation ROOM OF MY LIFE First Line: Here, %in the room of my life Last Line: And the sea that bangs in my throat Subject(s): God; Religion ROWING Poem Text First Line: A story, a story! Subject(s): God; Rowing ROWING First Line: A story, a story! Last Line: This story ends with me still rowing Subject(s): God; Religion ROWING ENDETH First Line: I'm mooring my rowboat Last Line: That untamable, eternal, gut-driven ha-ha %and lucky love Subject(s): God; Religion RUMPELSTILTSKIN Poem Text First Line: Inside many of us Subject(s): Doppelgangers; Fairy Tales; God; Religion; Theology RUMPELSTILTSKIN First Line: Inside many of us Last Line: One part a barbed hook, %one part papa, %one part doppelganger Subject(s): Doppelgangers; Fairy Tales; God; Religion SAID THE POET TO THE ANALYST Poem Text First Line: My business is words. Words are like labels Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology SAID THE POET TO THE ANALYST First Line: My business is words. Words are like labels Last Line: And ridiculous and crowded with all %the believing money Subject(s): God; Religion SAINTS COME MARCHING IN First Line: The saints come, %as human as a mouth Last Line: Onto the surgical andiron %of god Subject(s): God; Religion SCORPIO, BAD SPIDER, DIE:, SELS. Subject(s): God; Religion SEA CORPSE First Line: The beach was crowded Last Line: It must be necessary Subject(s): God; Religion SEAL First Line: I dreamt of a seal Last Line: As he lets out his blood Subject(s): God; Religion SELF IN 1958 Poem Text First Line: What is reality Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology SELF IN 1958 First Line: What is reality Last Line: If I could remember how %and if I had the tears Subject(s): God; Religion SERMON OF THE TWELVE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First Line: January? %the month is dumb Last Line: But he never dies, never dies Subject(s): God; Religion SHEEP First Line: Little oily fuzzbear Last Line: Choking on its green alphabet Subject(s): God; Religion SHOUT First Line: Are you in eden again, america Last Line: Only that it was hungry Subject(s): God; Religion SICKNESS UNTO DEATH First Line: God went out of me Last Line: To the crazy woman in the next bed Subject(s): God; Religion SILENCE First Line: My room is whitewashed Last Line: And the vibrating red muscle %of my mouth Subject(s): God; Religion SIXTH PSALM Poem Text First Line: For america is a lady rocking on a porch in an unpainted house Last Line: Activity. / for america only your dolls are cheerful Subject(s): United States; Social Commentaries SIXTH PSALM First Line: For america is a lady rocking on a porch in an unpainted house Last Line: For america only your dolls are cheerful Subject(s): God; Religion SMALL WIRE Poem Text First Line: My faith / is a great weight Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology SMALL WIRE First Line: My faith %is a great weight Last Line: As easily as ten cents used to %bring forth a coke Subject(s): God; Religion SNAIL Poem Text First Line: The snail in his museum Last Line: They swallow the rest Subject(s): Snails; Food & Eating; Theology SNAIL First Line: The snail in his museum Last Line: They swallow the rest Subject(s): God; Religion SNAKE First Line: Made of old rags of tongues Last Line: And allow all our body hair to turn green with envy Subject(s): Animals; God; Religion; Snakes SNOW Poem Text First Line: Snow, / blessed snow, / comes out of the sky Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology SNOW First Line: Snow%blessed snow Subject(s): God; Religion SNOW First Line: Snow, %blessed snow, %comes out of the sky Last Line: Today god gives milk %and I have the pail Subject(s): God; Religion SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS Poem Text Recitation First Line: No matter what life you lead Subject(s): Fairy Tales SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS First Line: No matter what life you lead Last Line: And sometimes referring to her mirror %as women do Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion SO Poem Text First Line: I search within Subject(s): Self SOME FOREIGN LETTERS Poem Text First Line: I knew you forever and you were always old Subject(s): God; Religion; Spinsters; Theology; Old Maids SOME FOREIGN LETTERS First Line: I knew you forever and you were always old Last Line: To mumble your guilty love while your ears die Subject(s): God; Religion; Spinsters SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA Poem Text First Line: Must you leave, john holmes, with the prayers and psalms Subject(s): Holmes, John (1904-1962); Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA First Line: Must you leave, john holmes, with the prayers and psalms Last Line: And go down that river with the ivory, the copra and the golher, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Holmes, John (1904-1962); Poetry And Poets; Religion SONG FOR A LADY Poem Text First Line: On the day of breasts and small hips Subject(s): Love - Erotic; God; Religion; Theology SONG FOR A LADY First Line: On the day of breasts and small hips Last Line: As you knead me and I rise like bread Subject(s): Erotic Love; God; Religion SONG FOR A RED NIGHTGOWN Poem Text First Line: No. Not really red Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology SONG FOR A RED NIGHTGOWN First Line: No. Not really red Last Line: How the moon floats through her %and in between Subject(s): God; Religion SPEAKING BITTERNESS First Line: Born like a dwarf Last Line: For when I die there'll be no one to say: oh no! %oh dear Subject(s): God; Religion STAND-INS First Line: In the dream %the swastika is neon Last Line: And went back to sleep %and another start Subject(s): God; Religion STARRY NIGHT First Line: The town does not exist Last Line: From my life with no flag, %no belly, %no cry Subject(s): Depression, Mental; God; Religion; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) STORY FOR ROSE ON THE MIDNIGHT FLIGHT TO BOSTON First Line: Until tonight they were separate specialties Last Line: I am almost someone going home. The story has ended Subject(s): God; Religion SUICIDE NOTE Poem Text First Line: Better, / despite the worms talking to Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology SUICIDE NOTE First Line: Better, %despite the worms talking to Last Line: Seeing what they sensed all day Subject(s): God; Religion SUN First Line: I have heard of fish Last Line: Until I am laid away forever, %a thin gray banner Subject(s): God; Religion SURGEON First Line: Jack, oh big jack Last Line: The memory of my bones flying %up into your hands Subject(s): God; Religion SWEENEY First Line: My sweeney, mr. Eliot, %is that australian who came Last Line: Surely the words will continue, for that's what's let that's true Subject(s): God; Religion SYLVIA'S DEATH Poem Text First Line: O sylvia, sylvia / with a dead box of stones and spoons Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) SYLVIA'S DEATH First Line: O sylvia, sylvia %with a dead box of stones and spoons Last Line: O funny duchess! %o blond thing Subject(s): God; Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Religion TAKER First Line: While the house was away Last Line: As best she could, %limb to limb Subject(s): God; Religion TALKING TO SHEEP First Line: My life %has appeared unclothed in court Last Line: To the black sheep I am. %baa. Baa. Baa Subject(s): God; Religion TELEPHONE First Line: Take a red book called telephone Last Line: As I knife out your name and all your dead kind Subject(s): God; Religion THAT DAY Poem Text First Line: This is the desk I sit at Subject(s): God; Love; Religion; Theology THAT DAY First Line: This is the desk I sit at Last Line: But this is the typewriter that sits before me %and love is where yesterday is at Subject(s): God; Love; Religion THE ABORTION Poem Text First Line: Somebody who should have been born / is gone Last Line: Yoiu coward – this baby that I bleed Subject(s): Abortion THE ADDICT Poem Text First Line: Sleepmonger / deathmonger Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; God; Religion; Suicide; Theology THE AMBITION BIRD Poem Text First Line: So it has come to this Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE ANGEL FOOD DOGS Poem Text First Line: Leaping, leaping, leaping Subject(s): Christianity; Women; Theology THE ASSASSIN Poem Text First Line: The correct death is written in Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE AUTHOR OF THE JESUS PAPERS SPEAKS Poem Text First Line: In my dream Subject(s): Christmas; God; Women; Nativity, The THE BALANCE WHEEL Poem Text First Line: Where I waved at the sky Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE BALLAD OF THE LONELY MASTURBATOR Poem Text First Line: The end of the affair is always death Subject(s): God; Love; Religion; Theology THE BELLS Poem Text First Line: Today the circus poster Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE BIG BOOTS OF PAIN Poem Text First Line: There can be certain potions Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE BIG HEART Poem Text First Line: Big heart, / wide as a watermelon Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE BLACK ART Poem Text First Line: A woman who writes feels too much Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE BREAK Poem Text First Line: It was also my violent heart that broke Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE BREAK AWAY Poem Text First Line: Your daisies have come Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE BREAST Poem Text First Line: This is the key to it Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE CHILD BEARERS Poem Text First Line: Jean, death comes close to us all Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: The childen are all crying in their pens Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE CIVIL WAR Poem Text First Line: I am torn in two Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE DEAD HEART Poem Text First Line: It is not a turtle Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE DEATH BABY Poem Text First Line: I was an ice baby. / I turned to sky blue Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE DEATH KING Poem Text First Line: I hired a carpenter Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 1. OYSTERS Poem Text First Line: Oysters we ate, / sweet blue babies Last Line: The woman won Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Oysters; Food & Eating; Coming Of Age THE DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 2. HOW WE DANCED Poem Text First Line: The night of my cousin's wedding Last Line: Like two lonely swans Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Dancing & Dancers THE DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 3. THE BOAT Poem Text First Line: Father / (he calls himself 'old sea dog') Last Line: Bailing the boat Subject(s): Fathers; Boats THE DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 4. SANTA Poem Text First Line: Father, / the santa claus suit Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE DIVISION OF PARTS Poem Text First Line: Mother, my mary gray Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE DOCTOR OF THE HEART Poem Text First Line: Take away your knowledge, doktor Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE DOUBLE IMAGE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I am thirty this november Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE EARTH Poem Text First Line: God loafs around heaven Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE EARTH FALLS DOWN Poem Text First Line: If I could blame it all on the weather Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE ERRAND Poem Text First Line: I've been going right on, page by page Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE EVIL EYE Poem Text First Line: It comes oozing / out of flowers at night Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE EVIL SEEKERS Poem Text First Line: We are born with luck Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE EXORCISTS Poem Text First Line: And I solemnly swear THE EXPATRIATES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My dear, it was a moment Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FALLEN ANGELS Poem Text First Line: They come on to my clean Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FALLING DOLLS Poem Text First Line: Dolls, / by the thousands Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FARMER'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: From the hodge porridge Subject(s): Despair; Farm Life; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FIERCENESS OF FEMALE Poem Text First Line: I am spinning, / I am spinning on the lips Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FIREBOMBERS Poem Text First Line: We are america Subject(s): United States; Theology THE FISH THAT WALKED Poem Text First Line: Up from oysters / and the confused weeds Last Line: In this country of dirt Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE FORTRESS Poem Text First Line: Under the pink quilted covers Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FROG PRINCE Poem Text First Line: Frau doktor / mama brundig Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion; Theology THE FURY OF ABANDONMENT Poem Text First Line: Someone lives in a cave Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion THE FURY OF BEAUTIFUL BONES Poem Text First Line: Sing me a thrush, bone Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FURY OF COCKS Poem Text First Line: There they are Subject(s): God; Religion; Sex; Theology THE FURY OF COOKS Poem Text First Line: Herbs, garlic Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FURY OF EARTH Poem Text First Line: The day of fire is coming, the thrush, Subject(s): Environmental Abuse; God THE FURY OF FLOWERS AND WORMS Poem Text First Line: Let the flowers make a journey Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FURY OF GOD'S GOOD-BYE Poem Text First Line: One day he Subject(s): God THE FURY OF GUITARS AND SOPRANOS Poem Text First Line: This singing Subject(s): Singing & Singers THE FURY OF HATING EYES Poem Text First Line: I would like to bury Subject(s): God; Hate; Religion; Theology THE FURY OF OVERSHOES Poem Text First Line: They sit in a row / outside the kindergarten Subject(s): Children; God; Kindergarten; Religion; Shoes; Childhood; Theology; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers THE FURY OF RAINSTORMS Poem Text First Line: The rain drums down like red ants, Subject(s): Rain THE FURY OF SUNDAYS Poem Text First Line: Moist, moist, / the heat leaking through the hinges, Subject(s): Sabbath; Conduct Of Life; Sunday THE FURY OF SUNRISES Poem Text First Line: Darkness / as black as your eyelid Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FURY OF SUNSETS Poem Text First Line: Something / cold is in the air Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE GOD-MONGER Poem Text First Line: With all my questions Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE GOLD KEY Poem Text First Line: The speaker on this case Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE HOARDER Poem Text First Line: There is something there Last Line: "I am not an idler Subject(s): Family Life; Dolls THE HOROSCOPE POEMS: FEBRUARY 11TH Poem Text First Line: The day is favorable for real-estate affairs Last Line: As we dance the karate, and mad burlesque Subject(s): Divorce THE HOROSCOPE POEMS: FEBRUARY 21ST Poem Text First Line: The day is favorable for teamwork THE HOROSCOPE POEMS: FEBRUARY3RD Poem Text First Line: Your own ideas may be too fanciful to be practical Last Line: Useful, graceful, sturdy, and with no caper no plan Subject(s): Ideas; Books; Reading THE HOROSCOPE POEMS: JANUARY 1ST Poem Text First Line: My daddy played the market Last Line: With poems that think they're money Subject(s): Familylife; Stock Exchange; Money; Speculation THE HOROSCOPE POEMS: JANUARY24TH Poem Text First Line: Originality is important Last Line: Or maybe you did Subject(s): Women; Dreams; Hope THE HOUSE Poem Text First Line: In dreams / the same bad dream goes on Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE INTERROGATION OF THE MAN OF MANY HEARTS Poem Text First Line: Who's she, / that one in your arms Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE INVENTORY OF GOODBYE Poem Text First Line: I have a pack of letters Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE KISS Poem Text First Line: My mouth blooms like a cut Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE KITE Poem Text First Line: Here, in front of the summer hotel Last Line: "maybe, after all, he knew something more Subject(s): Seashore THE LEGEND OF THE ONE-EYED MAN Poem Text First Line: Like oedipus I am losing my sight Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE LITTLE PEASANT Poem Text First Line: Oh how the women Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE LOST INGREDIENT Poem Text First Line: Almost yesterday, those gentle ladies stole Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE MAIDEN WITHOUT HANDS Poem Text First Line: Is it possible / he marries a cripple Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE MOSS OF HIS SKIN Poem Text First Line: It was only important Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE NUDE SWIM Poem Text First Line: On the southwest side of capri Subject(s): God; Religion; Sports; Theology THE OPERATION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: After the sweet promise Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE OTHER Poem Text First Line: Under my bowels, yellow with smoke, it waits Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE PAPA AND MAMA DANCE Poem Text First Line: Taking into consideration all your loveliness Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE PASSION OF THE MAD RABBIT Poem Text First Line: While the carrots sang arias into the holy earth Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE PLAY Poem Text First Line: I am the only actor Last Line: Don’t you agree? Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE POET OF IGNORANCE Poem Text First Line: Perhaps the earth is floating Last Line: But who am I to believe in dreams? Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE RED DANCE Poem Text First Line: There was a girl Last Line: Dancing all the way Subject(s): Charles River, Massachusetts THE RED SHOES Poem Text First Line: I stand in the ring Last Line: What they did would do them in Subject(s): Women; Shoes; Theology THE RISK Poem Text First Line: When a daughter tries suicide Last Line: And eats up her heart like two eggs Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Suicide THE ROAD BACK Poem Text First Line: The car is heavy with children Subject(s): God; Religion; Vacation; Theology THE ROOM OF MY LIFE Poem Text First Line: Here, / in the room of my life Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE ROWING ENDETH Poem Text First Line: I'm mooring my rowboat Last Line: That untamable, eternal, gut-driven ha-ha and lucky love Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE SERMON OF THE TWELVE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Poem Text First Line: January? / the month is dumb Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE SICKNESS UNTO DEATH Poem Text First Line: God went out of me Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE SILENCE Poem Text First Line: My room is whitewashed Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE STAND-INS Poem Text First Line: In the dream / the swastika is neon Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE STARRY NIGHT Poem Text First Line: The town does not exist Subject(s): Depression, Mental; God; Religion; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890); Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Theology THE SUN Poem Text First Line: I have heard of fish Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE SURGEON Poem Text First Line: Jack, oh big jack Last Line: Up into your hands Subject(s): Surgery THE TAKER Poem Text First Line: While the house was away Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE TOUCH Poem Text First Line: For months my hand had been sealed off Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE TRUTH THE DEAD KNOW Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Gone, I say and walk from church Subject(s): Death; God; Parents; Religion; Dead, The; Parenthood; Theology THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES Poem Text First Line: If you danced from midnight Last Line: With their lucifer kicking Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Air Travel THE WALL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Nature is full of teeth Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE WEDDING NIGHT Poem Text First Line: There was this time in boston Last Line: And before it was time Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE WEDDING RING DANCE Poem Text First Line: I dance in circles holding Last Line: Waiting for a magnet Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Marriage THE WHITE SNAKE Poem Text First Line: There was a day Last Line: A cold sweat broke out on his upper lip for now he was wise Subject(s): Charms (magic); Snakes; Wisdom THE WIFEBEATER Poem Text First Line: There will be mud on the carpet tonight Last Line: And the wife and daughter knit into each other / until they are killed Subject(s): Women – Abused; Family Life; Theology THE WITCH'S LIFE Poem Text First Line: When I was a child Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE WONDERFUL MUSICIAN Poem Text First Line: My sisters, / do you remember the fiddlers Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THERE YOU WERE Last Line: Who admire my ocean view Subject(s): God; Religion THOSE TIMES Poem Text First Line: At six / I lived in a graveyard full of dolls Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dolls THOSE TIMES First Line: At six %I lived in a graveyard full of dolls Last Line: So that I might hear %the unsaid more clearly Subject(s): God; Religion THREE GREEN WINDOWS Poem Text First Line: Half awake in my sunday nap Last Line: It is a time of water, a time of trees Subject(s): Childhood Memories THREE GREEN WINDOWS First Line: Half awake in my sunday nap Last Line: It is a time of water, a time of trees Subject(s): God; Religion TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO TRIUMPH Poem Text Recitation First Line: Consider icarus, pasting those sticking wings on Subject(s): Icarus; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Snodgrass, William Dewitt (1926-2009); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO TRIUMPH First Line: Consider icarus, pasting those sticking wings on Last Line: See him acclaiming the sun and come plunging down %while his sensible daddy goes straight into town Subject(s): God; Icarus; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Religion; Snodgrass, William Dewitt (b. 1926); Women's Rights TO LIKE, TO LOVE First Line: Aphrodite, %my cape town lady Last Line: As I love america, you might mutter, %before you fall asleep Subject(s): God; Religion TO LOSE THE EARTH First Line: The wreckage of europe or the birth of africa Last Line: You were fed -- %and then you knew Subject(s): God; Religion TORN DOWN FROM GLORY DAILY Poem Text First Line: All day we watched the gulls Subject(s): Birds; God; Theology TORN DOWN FROM GLORY DAILY First Line: All day we watched the gulls Last Line: They cushion their fishy bellies %with a brother's crumb Subject(s): God; Religion TOUCH First Line: For months my hand had been sealed off Last Line: Nothing will stop it, for this is the kingdom %and the kingdom come Subject(s): God; Religion TRUTH THE DEAD KNOW First Line: Gone, I say and walk from church Last Line: To be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone Subject(s): Death; God; Parents; Religion TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES First Line: If you danced from midnight Last Line: To let them climb in after %with their lucifer kicking Subject(s): God; Religion TWELVE-THOUSAND-DAY HONEYMOON First Line: The twelve-thousand-day honeymoon is over Last Line: In the little highways %where you remain Subject(s): God; Religion TWO HANDS Poem Text First Line: From the sea came a hand Subject(s): Hands TWO HANDS First Line: From the sea came a hand Last Line: And applaud, world, %applaud Subject(s): God; Religion TWO SONS First Line: Where and to whom Last Line: Like cut flowers and ask how you are and where you've been Subject(s): God; Religion UNKNOWN GIRL IN THE MATERNITY WARD Poem Text First Line: Child, the current of your breath is six days long Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology UNKNOWN GIRL IN THE MATERNITY WARD First Line: Child, the current of your breath is six days long Last Line: Go child, who is my sin and nothing more Subject(s): God; Religion US Poem Text First Line: I was wrapped in black Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology US First Line: I was wrapped in black Last Line: And we harvested, %we harvested gone Subject(s): God; Religion VENUS AND THE ARK Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The missile to launch a missile Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology VENUS AND THE ARK First Line: The missile to launch a missle Last Line: And from the planet park %they heard the new fruit drop Subject(s): God; Religion WAITING HEAD First Line: If I am really walking with ordinary habit Last Line: But no one came no one came Subject(s): God; Religion WAKING ALONE First Line: Skull, %museum object Last Line: I hold up my hand and see %only nails Subject(s): God; Religion WALKING IN PARIS Poem Text First Line: I come back to your youth, my nana Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WALKING IN PARIS First Line: I come back to your youth, my nana Last Line: Our lives once more perfected %and unused Subject(s): God; Religion WALL First Line: Nature is full of teeth Last Line: That separates you from god Subject(s): God; Religion WALLFLOWER Poem Text First Line: Come friend, / I have an old story to tell you Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WALLFLOWER First Line: Come friend, %I have an old story to tell you Last Line: The blissful pastimes of the parlor -- %I'll never know Subject(s): God; Religion WANTING TO DIE Poem Text First Line: Since you ask, most days I cannot remember Subject(s): Suicide WANTING TO DIE First Line: Since you ask, most days I cannot remember Last Line: And the love, whatever it was, an infection Subject(s): God; Religion; Suicide WATER Poem Text First Line: We are fishermen in a flat scene Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WATER First Line: We are fishermen in a flat scene Last Line: Holding a lady's wornout shoe Subject(s): God; Religion WEDDING NIGHT First Line: There was this time in boston Last Line: And before it was time Subject(s): God; Religion WEDDING RING DANCE First Line: I dance in circles holding Last Line: Waiting for a magnet Subject(s): God; Religion WEDLOCK First Line: My breast waited Last Line: Like two frozen paintings in a field of poppies Subject(s): God; Religion WELCOME MORNING Poem Text First Line: There is joy / in all Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WELCOME MORNING First Line: There is joy %in all Last Line: The joy that isn't shared, I've heard, %dies young Subject(s): God; Religion WHAT HAS IT COME TO, DR. Y, FR. LETTERS TO DR. Y Subject(s): God; Religion WHAT THE BIRD WITH THE HUMAN HEAD KNEW Poem Text First Line: I went to the bird Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WHAT THE BIRD WITH THE HUMAN HEAD KNEW First Line: I went to the bird Last Line: Yet abundance reamins. %then I knew Subject(s): God; Religion WHAT'S THAT Poem Text First Line: Before it came inside / I had watched it from my kitchen window Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WHAT'S THAT First Line: Before it came inside %I had watched it from my kitchen window Last Line: What else is this, this intricate shape of air? %calling me , calling you Subject(s): God; Religion WHEN MAN ENTERS WOMAN Poem Text First Line: When man / enters woman / like the surf biting the shore Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WHEN MAN ENTERS WOMAN First Line: When man %enters woman %like the surf biting the shore Last Line: Though god %in his perversity %unties the knot Subject(s): God; Religion WHEN THE GLASS OF MY BODY BROKE Poem Text First Line: Oh mother of sex, / lady of the staggering cuddle Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WHEN THE GLASS OF MY BODY BROKE First Line: Oh mother of sex, %lady of the staggering cuddle Last Line: And I sink softly into %the heartland Subject(s): God; Religion WHERE I LIVE IN THIS HONORABLE HOUSE OF THE LAUREL TREE Poem Text First Line: I live in my wooden legs and o Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WHERE I LIVE IN THIS HONORABLE HOUSE OF THE LAUREL TREE First Line: I live in my wooden legs and o Last Line: My green green hands Subject(s): God; Religion WHERE IT WAS AT BACK THEN Poem Text First Line: Husband, / last night I dreamt Subject(s): Marriage; Dreams; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Nightmares WHITE SNAKE First Line: There was a day Last Line: A kind of blue funk. %is it not Subject(s): God; Religion WIFEBEATER First Line: There will be mud on the carpet tonight Last Line: And the wife and daughter knit into each other until they are killed Subject(s): God; Religion WITCH'S LIFE First Line: When I was a child Last Line: Then sitting there %holding a basket of fire Subject(s): God; Religion WITH MERCY FOR THE GREEDY Poem Text First Line: Concerning your letter in which you ask Subject(s): Confessions; God; Greed; Religion; Avarice; Cupidity; Theology WITH MERCY FOR THE GREEDY First Line: Concerning your letter in which you ask Last Line: The world's pottage, the rat's star Subject(s): Confessions; God; Greed; Religion WOMAN WITH GIRDLE Poem Text First Line: Your midriff sags toward your knees Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WOMAN WITH GIRDLE First Line: Your midriff sags toward your knees Last Line: Into your redeeming skin Subject(s): God; Religion WONDERFUL MUSICIAN First Line: My sisters, %do you remember the fiddlers Last Line: Little eichm;anns, %little mothers -- %I'd say Subject(s): God; Religion WORDS Poem Text First Line: Be careful of words Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WORDS First Line: Be careful of words Last Line: Once broken they are impossible %things to repair Subject(s): God; Religion YELLOW Poem Text First Line: When they turn the sun Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology YELLOW First Line: When they turn the sun Last Line: Never die, not one of us, we'll go on won't we Subject(s): God; Religion YOU ALL KNOW THE STORY OF THE OTHER WOMAN Poem Text First Line: It's a little walden Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology YOU ALL KNOW THE STORY OF THE OTHER WOMAN First Line: It's a little walden Last Line: Headquarters of an area, %house of a dream gone Subject(s): God; Religion YOU, DOCTOR MARTIN Poem Text First Line: You, doctor martin, walk Subject(s): God; Insanity; Religion; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology YOU, DOCTOR MARTIN First Line: You, doctor martin, walk Last Line: Waiting on the silent shelf Subject(s): God; Insanity; Religion YOUNG Poem Text First Line: A thousand doors ago Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Relatives YOUNG First Line: A thousand doors ago Last Line: Elbows, knees, dreams, goodnight Subject(s): God; Religion YOUR FACE ON THE DOG'S NECK First Line: It is early afternoon Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology YOUR FACE ON THE DOG'S NECK First Line: It is early afternoon Last Line: Letting my face rest in an assembled tenderness %on the old dog's neck Subject(s): God; Religion |
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