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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: SHAUGHNESSY, BRENDA Matches Found: 96 Shaughnessy, Brenda Poet's Biography 96 poems available by this author A POET'S POEM Poem Text First Line: If it takes me all day, Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AFTERLIFE, HER EMPTY DRESS First Line: I lie quiet among my possible suits %feet to head, feet to head Last Line: You in the night, that finer %edge, the old arc of your hand ALL POSSIBLE PAIN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Feelings seem like made-up things, Subject(s): Pain; Relationships; Suffering; Misery ARACHNOLESCENCE First Line: I see I have so quickly endeared you to my dazzled fray Last Line: Before I poison my own sleep with the wanderlust %of this my stardom in the galaxy of worms and toxi ARTLESS Poem Text First Line: Is my heart. A stranger Subject(s): Love BIG GAME Poem Text First Line: What began as wildfire ends up BREASTED LANDSCAPE First Line: If not so cloaked with the desire Last Line: But I brought you there CALLING HER HOME First Line: She died before I was born but that didn't stop us Last Line: Flying off, her mouth opening %in surprise to find herself there CARD 19: THE SUN Poem Text First Line: When you show yourself to the woman Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CINEMA POISONING First Line: I will be your first, your thirst, your third Last Line: The sex & chess & cello fever's gone %from your myopic trust, my avalon DEAR GONGLYA Poem Text First Line: The most inscrutable beautiful names in this world Subject(s): Names; Gays & Lesbians; Desire; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DEAR GONGLYA, First Line: The most inscrutable beautiful names in this world Last Line: Love %your igor DRIFT Poem Text Subject(s): Travel; Love - Complaints; Disappointment; Absence; Journeys; Trips; Separation; Isolation EMBARRASSEMNT: 5. DOCUMENTARY First Line: This clothing, a maladaptive wrapping Last Line: To make flesh less various with others EMBARRASSMENT Poem Text Subject(s): Love EMBARRASSMENT First Line: It's a wave, isn't it? Not a particle Last Line: Why dirtier than before? EMBARRASSMENT: 1. ETYMOLOGY First Line: On the subject of our names Last Line: It is always spent EMBARRASSMENT: 2. TELEOLOGY First Line: Sheer fabric trailing through 4 a.M. Last Line: I thought it was opaque and earlier EMBARRASSMENT: 3. MATHEMATICS First Line: I know you know I know Last Line: Of what I now know twice EMBARRASSMENT: 4. THE PRINCIPLE OF THE BORG First Line: Saying 'there's no one like me' Last Line: In any way. Which should be enough for you EMBARRASSMENT: 6. MEDICINE First Line: The cure for embarrassment Last Line: Taking them smoother in the future EMBARRASSMENT: 7. COSMOLOGY First Line: Things are less embarrassing Last Line: Attract what we repel EMBARRASSMENT: 8. APOLOGY First Line: Even the clumsiest fate is perfectly shaped Last Line: With such an annihilating blush, %with such a stutter EPITHALAMENT Poem Text First Line: Other weddings are so shrewd on the sofa, short Subject(s): Love - Unrquited; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITHALAMENT First Line: Other weddings are so shrewd on the sofa, short Last Line: I can hear you's in your room. I hear mine %in another room.In another's EVER First Line: Where, swift and wool in going Last Line: Not leave and take me %nowhere, swift and wool in going FETISH:THE HISTORICAL ORPHAN First Line: Czarina! Tell me your not giving up the rogue Last Line: A fusing of the retinas, to see yourself as I see you FORTUNE Poem Text First Line: Luck today will be skill tomorrow. If only your fear Subject(s): Fortune; Luck FORTUNE First Line: Luck today will be skill tomorrow. If only your fear Last Line: Fabric woven by apprentices whose fingers %are sad and large with the work of beginning Subject(s): Fortune; Luck GLISTEN First Line: I will not forgive you, but I will grow in your house Last Line: Of nurseshark and trembling Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Vegetables GLOSSARY (OF THE BODY, PERFORMED IN ABSENTIA) First Line: Appendix a: irregular verbs Last Line: Enormous language smears your place HEAD HANDED Poem Text First Line: Stop belonging to me so much, face-head. Subject(s): Self I WISH I HAD MORE SISTERS Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Sisters; Conduct Of Life I'M OVER THE MOON Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I don't like what the moon is supposed to do. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Moon; Love - Erotic ILLUMINE First Line: I open her dark diary Last Line: How light tears, sears %the body. And seals %in its impossible script INAPPROPRIATE DREAMS Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares INTERIOR WITH SUDDEN JOY First Line: To come into my room is to strike strange Last Line: Mercury, columbine. Come let us miss %another wintertime JOUISSANCE First Line: Your phantoms hang neatly from skyhooks Last Line: The description of this you hold under %like a genius in dark water LACQUER First Line: I found my mother's diary Last Line: An alien pox in the polished dark LAMP GARDEN First Line: Neither electric nor flame, unimaginable sunlight or plagiarist moon Last Line: Reading this book. It keeps my place, like love or a father, it gives %me away LETTER TO THE CREVICE NOVICE Poem Text First Line: I wanted nothing. I am not a stray mule Subject(s): Letters LETTER TO THE CREVICE NOVICE First Line: I wanted nothing. I am not a stray mule Last Line: Good:tight no-love-you's in a tongue %thicker than water. Bluer too Subject(s): Letters LIQUID FLESH Poem Text First Line: In a light chocolatine room Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Relationships; Body, Human; Infants; Parenthood LURE, LAPSE First Line: There is no style in sleep Last Line: Our winter-slung bodies fooled %and necklaced with furious morning MAGI Poem Text Subject(s): Mothers ME IN PARADISE Poem Text First Line: Oh, to be ready for it, unfucked, ever-fucked Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Passion; Absence; Separation; Isolation MIDDLE Poem Text First Line: The last minutes of your life Subject(s): Middle Age MIDDLE First Line: The last minutes of your life Last Line: Without this voice, you will spend all winter %blackening into bits Subject(s): Middle Age MISTRESS FORMIKA First Line: In temple city, in this tight lighthouse of rare women Last Line: By the broken fence, firewood for a home too well built %for such arsonists of the flesh to resist MUSEE First Line: I've been so lovingly breathed into it appears I can't move Last Line: When you see a bust of ancient, broken personage, someone %without a name is running faster OKINAWA, KISSED FROM WIVES First Line: The flies drink the soup and so do you Last Line: Around delicate intestines in a birthday dish ONE LOVE STORY, EIGHT TAKES Poem Text Subject(s): Love - Loss Of OUTFOXED Poem Text First Line: Red foxes are not allowed Last Line: All brought to by fox news Subject(s): Foxes; Sex; Racism PANOPTICON First Line: My bedroom window can be seen from the viewing deck Last Line: Pair of binoculars, in the dark, watching whoever is %watching me, watch me PARALLAX 1 First Line: Excluding genitalia %what is a man Last Line: Come closer, toward the light PARALLAX 2 First Line: Kitten, six-pack, magnolia Last Line: First dangerous, then fragile, then repulsive %then repulsed PARTHENOGENESIS Poem Text Subject(s): Food & Eating; Body, Human PERFECT ENDING First Line: Be anti-grandmother in your little black box Last Line: Shut up, in everyear, in the negative mirror %in the absolute no light Subject(s): Grandparents PLURANOVA First Line: Our bodies are stunted with scarce %infinity. With our bodies Last Line: Flint, then dropped it here. I missed %it. Yes, I killed it. I kissed you POSTFEMINISM Poem Text First Line: There are two kinds of people, soldiers and women Subject(s): Survival; Women's Rights; Feminism POSTFEMINISM First Line: There are two kinds of people, soldiers and women Last Line: There are two kinds of people. Hot with mixed %light, drunk with insult. You and me Subject(s): Survival; Women's Rights PROJECT FOR A FAINTING Poem Text First Line: Oh, yes, the rain is sorry. Unfemale, of course, the rain is Subject(s): Love - Unrequited PROJECT FOR A FAINTING First Line: Oh, yes, the rain is sorry. Unfemale, of course, the rain is Last Line: Not all transparent, and the temperature %I felt that. What you say is not less than that QUESTION AND ITS MARK First Line: May I cast a spell on the many swans of leda Last Line: Leda possessed a pair of knees that also bent %in prayer. I ask of you only what she asked for there Subject(s): Death; Memory; Wishes RISE First Line: I can;t believe you've come back Last Line: Once more, you lie with me, smelling %of almonds, as the poisoned do ROSARIUM First Line: Ardent goodwife of a bad fisherman, I am blessed Last Line: The mirror, strong as a tapestry needle, and thorugh %this eye I fit, smaller, deeper, inside Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen SIMULACRA First Line: Having no effect on myself %a mirror erases me. My own touch Last Line: This is what I used to see the feel SLEPTEMBER First Line: I love the quiet but I carve out its motives Last Line: Silencer on the future perfect literature smuggled %forever out of your implicit country STARTING HERE AND GOING BACK First Line: Stranded so well in easy %failure. Rose hung Last Line: Nothing but slow %brings light. By accident STILL LIFE, WITH GLOXINIA Poem Text First Line: I will make something of you both pigment Subject(s): Paintings & Painters STILL LIFE, WITH GLOXINIA First Line: I will make something of you both pigment Last Line: As suspected. I am cold now and I cannot %paint or move you SWELL First Line: Svelte with eventual sex, who could help Last Line: This strumpet muscle under your breast describing %you minutely, volupt, volupt TEN JENNIES First Line: My house is just big enough to fit most Last Line: Ourselves to the outer rim of summer %and now never any jennies THE POETRY OF DANGER Poem Text THE QUESTION AND ITS MARK Poem Text First Line: May I cast a spell on the many swans of leda Subject(s): Death; Memory; Wishes; Dead, The THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF (AND NECESSARY STEPS TOWARD) MAKING ART Poem Text First Line: Pure art is, in a sense, pure innocence. Subject(s): Art & Artists THE WORLD'S ARM Poem Text First Line: A strong, pale wind on the thighs, Subject(s): Natujre THIRTEENTH SUMMER Poem Text First Line: Who is twelve? Not you, in absolute skirt Subject(s): Aging; Children; Summer; Childhood THIRTEENTH SUMMER First Line: Who is twelve? Not you, in absolute skirt Last Line: Heat, from your round body as you cross into sleep Subject(s): Aging; Children; Summer THIS PERSON-SIZED SKY WITH BRUISE Poem Text First Line: Simultaneously orange and violet, TORN PATCH NEAR NIGHT First Line: I will not forgive you, but I will grow in your house %sweet as corn Last Line: Where nurse shark tremble in the nighthole, %with the blindness we had, too TRANSPASSIONAL First Line: Perfection is the campsite for those who have stopped halfway Last Line: Do I fell abandoned. Belonging is invisible:I, on the other hand %am merely shielding VAPOR THROUGH VARIOUS SATINS First Line: I have been so dirty %in each place you've looked Last Line: Silhouette etched, rising %more visible, more liquid VESSEL First Line: The woman wore tall, thin heels in a snowstorm, shined, curvy Last Line: Too have felt such creature pleasures. The pull of surprise in tak %ing, half-empty, the half-full VISITOR Poem Text First Line: I am dreaming of a house just like this one Subject(s): Hope; Desire; Optimism VOLUPTUARY First Line: Normal love begs for kink. Loving wrong Last Line: When the darker sun inside feeds %the silence of starker stars WHAT'S UNCANNY First Line: Is the body's wiry edge singed & dried Last Line: This loss of breathing. Listen for it WHY IS THE COLOR OF SNOW? Poem Text First Line: Let's ask a poet with no way of knowing. Subject(s): Snow; Loneliness; Immortality WRONGBODIED First Line: Like this baby boy standing there on the corner Last Line: Next corner, god, me YOU LOVE, YOU WONDER Poem Text First Line: You love a woman and you wonder where she goes all night Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Nature Of; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men YOU LOVE, YOU WONDER First Line: You love a woman and you wonder where she goes out all night in Last Line: Everything about love. If she's leaving you now, you already know %it YOU'RE NOT HOME, IT'S PROBABLY BETTER First Line: I am calling to wish you well. I am calling because I want to Last Line: And so dear when ruined YOUR NAME ON IT Poem Text First Line: Let this one clear square of thought be just Subject(s): Names; Rooms YOUR NAME ON IT First Line: Let this one clear square of thought be just Last Line: There's always the window, your signature Subject(s): Names; Rooms YOUR ONE GOOD DRESS Poem Text First Line: Should never be light. That kind of thing feels Subject(s): Love - Erotic YOUR ONE GOOD DRESS First Line: Should never be light. That kind of thing feels Last Line: Taking it off never matters. That just wears you down Subject(s): Erotic Love |
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