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Author: STANFORD, FRANK Matches Found: 97 Stanford, Frank Poet's Biography 97 poems available by this author ALBINO First Line: I am afraid of you, macculduff,' Last Line: The point of a knife, twenty years old, %began working its way out of his knee ALLEGORY OF DEATH AND NIGHT Poem Text First Line: When he comes home from work Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives ALLEGORY OF DEATH AND NIGHT First Line: When he comes home from work Last Line: She turns a flashlight on %the man's body, looking for seed %ticks that have been there since dawn BASS First Line: He jumps up high Last Line: The indian says %he is like a goose %passing in front %of the moon BETWEEN LOVE AND DEATH First Line: I watched the woman in the room Last Line: Asking did I know the woman, %and I said no, not I BLOOD BROTHERS First Line: There was born in the camp with six toes Last Line: It was the summer of the chinese daughter %I danced on the levee BLUE YODEL First Line: The girl in the black sweater Last Line: When I passed them asleep in their boathouse %her sweater dried in the air %like a black flag BLUE YODEL OF THE DESPERADO First Line: I went to new york to leave you Last Line: And when I got to where I was going %the place I came from %I needed a knife to clean my fingernails BRAKE First Line: I saw them coming down the back road Last Line: Born in the camp with six toes lewis says BROTHERS ON SUNDAY NIGHT First Line: We'd been dreaming Last Line: Then we heard %shouting that tore out the light BURIAL SHIP First Line: Jimmy's wolf died Last Line: It kept on going towards the heavens %it was a shooting star CEMETERY NEAR THE SEA Poem Text First Line: The word has no luck Subject(s): Sea; Graves; Ocean; Tombs; Tombstones CHIMERA First Line: I dream I am asleep in a boat Last Line: I am afraid a woman %will burn my hair CIRCLE OF LORCA Poem Text First Line: When you take the lost road Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Relationships CREST Poem Text First Line: The night was a bad one. Subject(s): Driving; Ferry Boats; Night; Rain; Relationships; Bedtime DEAD ORCHARD Poem Text First Line: Like seven birds sleeping on the plateau Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DEATH AND MEMORY Poem Text First Line: When poor women died Subject(s): Funerals; Poverty; Women; Hair; Burials DEATH AND MEMORY First Line: When poor women died Last Line: Living and wearing the beautiful hair of the dead. %I knew what to do, %I knew DEATH AND THE ARKANSAS RIVER First Line: Walking from the killing place Last Line: Fighting with pillows, so quiet %not a soul is wakened EVERYBODY WHO IS DEAD Poem Text First Line: When a man knows another man Subject(s): Death; Barbers; Dead, The EVERYBODY WHO IS DEAD First Line: When a man knows another man Last Line: The old men line up by the chair %and the barber pours a little %in each of their hands FAITH, DOGMA, AND HERESY Poem Text First Line: It was sunday, before dinner. Subject(s): Murder FAREWELL First Line: Is a word Last Line: Like a sword %that has worn out %the scabbard FIRE LEFT BY TRAVELLERS First Line: Before in our lives we have all gone down Last Line: I looked down the steep slope of those days %a skier getting ready for a jump %I had things to say FLIES ON SHIT Poem Text First Line: To the gentlemen from the south Subject(s): Southern States; Flies; South (u.s.) FREEDOM, REVOLT, AND LOVE Poem Text First Line: They caught them. Subject(s): Love; Murder FREEDOM, REVOLT, AND LOVE First Line: They caught them Last Line: She died on the table like that, %smoke coming out of his mouth FRIEND OF THE ENEMY Poem Text First Line: The yolk went down my leg Subject(s): Eggs; Nature GETTING TO SLEEP First Line: The two sisters come home for the holidays Last Line: Like a man with long sideburns %climbing the pine stairs in sock feet, %a man the both of them are I GOSPEL BIRD: 1: SUPERMAN First Line: Dressed in a superman suit Last Line: In a copper-wired co-cola bottle. %he says, 'I'll tend to you boy, I'll tend to you.' GOSPEL BIRD: 2: FIRE First Line: Chitum's cripple nigger carpenter Last Line: And drug him deep into the diamond woods. %my hand and chitum's store burned that night GOSPEL BIRD: 3: FLY AWAY, FLY AWAY First Line: My father talked like he was singing Last Line: Fly away, fly away, gospel bird,' I cried HIDDEN WATER Poem Text HIDDEN WATER First Line: A girl was in a wheelchair on her porch Last Line: And walking off with a stranger %to lie down and drink in the dark I'D BEEN WALKING FOR EVER SO LONG First Line: I'd been walking for ever so long thirteen miles I bet Last Line: I know snatch wasn't looking and he was asleep %so I kissed sonny liston on his black neck IN ANOTHER ROOM I AM DRINKING EGGS FROM A BOOT Poem Text First Line: What if the moon was essence of quinine Subject(s): Richter, Hans (1888-1976) INSTEAD Poem Text First Line: Death is a good word Subject(s): Death; Dead, The INSTEAD First Line: Death is a good word Last Line: You'll have to say it %soon, you know. To your %wife, your child, yourself INTRUDER First Line: In the evenings they listen to the same Last Line: As long as I live nobody %touches my dogs my friends INVENTORY Poem Text First Line: A man came into the store Subject(s): Knives; Daggers INVENTORY First Line: A man came into the store Last Line: Stealing a little jam %by god if I didn't hear someone %hit the bedrock again Subject(s): Knives ISLAND First Line: Lord it was dark up yonder Last Line: That was because he had keys you could send back %and many pillows %whoa back boys oh goddamn ISLAND FUNERAL Poem Text First Line: Mama julinda is let down in a hole Subject(s): Funerals; Burials ISLAND FUNERAL First Line: Mama julinda is let down into a hole Last Line: An island funeral %where days passed like a barge, %around us many stars sinking in their light KITE First Line: Before he stole mr. Charlie's sedan Last Line: He thought, one more time, he wanted to be: %flatweeding, rocking dead easy LAP First Line: She pours sweetmilk over me before the sun comes up Last Line: She mosaics the lord's mysteries %with scales and egg yolks %emma is a humming LIES First Line: There are ships leaving tonight but I don't know where Last Line: I'll look at the moon like a bleeding toenail %the dancers will pass by LIGHT BLUE Poem Text First Line: The white clothes on the line put the man to sleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Relationships; Nightmares LIGHT THE DEAD SEE First Line: There are many people who come back Last Line: The dead have told these stories %to the living LINGER First Line: The moon wanders through my barn Last Line: The wind blows through the trees %like a woman on a raft LIVING Poem Text First Line: I had my quiet time early in the morning Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Country Life; Relatives LIVING First Line: I had my quiet time early in the morning Last Line: Jimmy liked 'take out some insurance on me baby' by %jimmy reed LIVING WITH DEATH First Line: Long ago a man came to our place Last Line: She said death won't dare %touch a hair on our heads MAN IS SO AFRAID Poem Text First Line: Man is so afraid, he look down at cock, long ago many Subject(s): Conduct Of Life MAN IS SO AFRAID, HE LOOK DOWN AT COCK, LONG AGO MANY MEMORY IS LIKE A SHOTGUN KICKING YOU NEAR THE HEART First Line: I get up, walk around the weeds Last Line: She gets up, comes into the room naked %with her split pillow, %says what's wrong, %I say an eyelash MILK TRUCK RUNNING INTO A CRAZY MAID ... First Line: They pull a coat over an old woman's eyes Last Line: An old woman holding them %taking them down into water MINNOW First Line: If I press Last Line: The ripples %it makes %can move %the moon NARCISSUS TO ACHILLES First Line: Yesterday, I passed over a bridge Last Line: Such thoughts I had, %I cannot tell you NOCTURNAL SHIPS OF THE PAST First Line: There was always a great darkness Last Line: Like a sleeping knife that runs deep %through the belly %thetomb ships come PICTURE SHOW NEXT DOOR TO THE STAMP STORE ... First Line: The movie has not begun Last Line: The movie is beginning. %the lid on the machine %comes down like a guillotine PITS Poem Text First Line: We go on and we tremble. Subject(s): God; Relationships; Conduct Of Life PLACE ON A GRAVE First Line: It's not hard to forget what they ate Last Line: Like a wooden figure on the prow %of a ship with no horizon PLANNING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THOSE WHO HAVE GONE Poem Text First Line: Soon I will make my appearance Subject(s): Mortality PLAY IN WHICH DARKNESS FALLS Poem Text First Line: Two girls runaway from the home. They have a revolver Subject(s): Roussel, Raymond (1877-1933); Girls; Escapes; Death; Fugitives; Dead, The POEM Poem Text First Line: I am afraid a woman Subject(s): Fear PUMP First Line: There was always a lizard Last Line: I liked bathing buck naked %under the pump, %not in a goddamn washtub RIVERLIGHT Poem Text First Line: My father and I lie down together. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Dead, The ROOMS First Line: A boy sits on the mantle with a piece of string Last Line: The fat woman rocking near the door %laughs at the boy with the sleeve over his eyes SINGING KNIVES First Line: The dogs woke me up Last Line: Blowing a jug %with a string full of crappie %and the cotton making every day SNAKE DOCTORS: 1: PIG First Line: I was in the outhouse Last Line: He was bleeding on my foot I said %'midget, I got friends on that river' SNAKE DOCTORS: 2: THE ACOLYTE First Line: The men rode by Last Line: The boat drifted away %a man said 'shadrach, meshach, and abednego' SNAKE DOCTORS: 3: HAMBONE First Line: They tied his hind legs together Last Line: I saw a knife in the moonlight %'sweet jesus' I said %born in the camp with six toes cut me down SNAKE DOCTORS: 4: CHAINSAW First Line: The man cut his hand off at dawn Last Line: When the flies got bad %I kept the hand in the smokehouse SNAKE DOCTORS: 5: SWIMMING AT NIGHT First Line: The midget ran his finger across his neck Last Line: Baby gauge sucked the poison out %oh sweet jesus the levees that break in my heart SUN GO DOWN First Line: I spent many afternoons Last Line: One of them wiped his nose %'step back boy %a dead man here' TALE First Line: The maid used to pull the drapes Last Line: The girls waited in the orchards %there was no need to lie TERRORISM First Line: While my mother is washing the black socks Last Line: And I will work that dark loose %from the backbone with my thumb. %mother, the sad dance on fire THE ARKANSAS PRISON SYSTEM Poem Text First Line: Is like a lyric poem Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Arkansas; Convicts THE INTRUDER Poem Text First Line: In the evenings they listen to the same Subject(s): Friendship; Dogs THE LIGHT THE DEAD SEE Poem Text First Line: There are many people who come back Subject(s): Death, Return From THE SINGING KNIVES Poem Text First Line: The dogs woke me up Subject(s): Knives; Hunting; Fish & Fishing; Daggers; Hunters; Anglers THE SNAKE DOCTORS Poem Text First Line: I was in the outhouse Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Crime & Criminals; Pigs; Anglers; Boars; Hogs THE TRUTH Poem Text Subject(s): Truth; Poetry & Poets; Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay) THE WOLVES Poem Text First Line: At night while the dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THEIR NAMES ARE SPOKEN First Line: Where the saplings come up Last Line: Now night a cool moss %on the undersides of the cold ground %keeps growing on the stones THERE IS NO WHERE IN YOU A PARADISE THAT IS NO PLACE First Line: One day when it rained and no one was for working THEY WERE SOCIETY PEOPLE First Line: I was a cook in the army so when I got out Last Line: I learned in vietnam one year. I fixed %a dinner none of her friends will ever forget TRANSCENDENCE OF JANUS Poem Text First Line: I am not asleep, but I see Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WANTED Poem Text First Line: A white bull, a cassock, an antique mirror Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema WEARINESS OF MEN Poem Text First Line: My grandmother said when she was young Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers WHAT ABOUT THIS Poem Text First Line: A guy comes walking out of the garden Subject(s): Shooting; Drinks & Drinking; Music & Musicians; Strangers; Wine WIND BLOWING ON A SICK MAN First Line: Men with no headlights drive up in front of a whorehouse Last Line: The further they drive down the road %the closer their voices get WISHING MY WIFE HAD ONE LEG First Line: Caryatid with eyes of nails Last Line: Caryatid with the heart of a feather WOLVES First Line: At night while the dogs Last Line: With their hearts eat out Subject(s): Animals; Dogs YOU Poem Text First Line: Sometimes in our sleep we touch Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations YOU First Line: Sometimes in our sleep we touch Last Line: The darkest hair being brushed %in front of the darkest mirror %in the darkest room |
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