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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: TANNING, DOROTHEA Matches Found: 39 Tanning, Dorothea Poet's Biography 39 poems available by this author 9 TABLE SETTINGS First Line: Candle-flame %someone gasps behind %red fingers Last Line: Finally %conscience is silent %as a plate ALL HOLLOWS' EVE Poem Text First Line: Be perfect, make it otherwise. Subject(s): Relationships; Life Choices ARTIST, ONCE Poem Text First Line: That was in a room for rent. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Pregnancy ARTSPEAK Poem Text First Line: If art would only talk it would, at last, reveal Subject(s): Art & Artists ASPECTS OF ICE (DETAIL) First Line: The chalky blur of failed snapshots defines my father's landscape Last Line: Sinisterly disappearing under filthy snowdrifts and dead wolves AWAKE AT FIFTEEN First Line: Once intended for a long voyage Last Line: Just imagine, I have a lover COLLAGE First Line: A studio afternoon %down left with you, at table chaos Last Line: The reason for this day of rain %for all things unbelievable believed COMING TO THAT Poem Text First Line: If it comes to that,' he said, 'there'll be no preventing it.' Subject(s): Language; Mind, The; Words; Vocabulary DESTINATIONS Poem Text First Line: Yesterday I saw some bears at the top of a waterfall Subject(s): Bears; Salmon END OF THE DAY ON SECOND First Line: Her husband, traveling for his company, is rarely home Last Line: In their frozen pose, their endless closing time EVENING First Line: He told us, with the years, you will come Last Line: And comforted them Subject(s): Comfort; Sympathy FIGURE APPROACHING, OPPOSITE First Line: It was someone I knew, had known in one of those lives Last Line: Behind me now, my grateful breathing glad she did not know me FLEA MARKET (RAINY DAY) First Line: Get out of the car. Walk into. Look a web-sited spider in the eye Last Line: Tarpaulins come out. Watch your step. Get the mirror into the car FOR INSTANCE First Line: Take a boy on a motorcycle Last Line: Himself and his steed; %both of them complete FORTUNE COOKIES First Line: Blackwidow and bluedaughter will precede a bronze fortune Last Line: Go mad and you will not become truly insane. Tomorrow you %will be chosen GRADUATION Poem Text First Line: He told us, with the years, you will come Subject(s): Graduation HEAVEN ON EARTH First Line: Pronounced in a phone booth long-distance from a friend Last Line: Sounds and love sounds that know no other heaven IL A TROUVE LA MORT First Line: In french death is feminine Last Line: Across the street-see her INSOMNIA, MY COUSIN First Line: You ride the night machine %witlessly in bedlam Last Line: Cousin, I repeatedly %betray you with its debris LANDSCAPE WITH POSTMARK First Line: On that plain of sand and wind in march Last Line: At derb amzmiz, %kasbah, marrakech LUCKY Poem Text First Line: Ever imagining the dire, the sudden Subject(s): Luck; Surgery; Food & Eating; Hair NEVER MND Poem Text First Line: Never mind the pins Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Relationships NO PALMS Poem Text First Line: No palms dolled up the tedium, no breathing wind. Subject(s): Mediums; Spiritualists NO PALMS First Line: No palms dolled up the tedium, no breathing wind Last Line: Still time to blow some kisses. Look up, there they go! RAIN OF BLOOD, AIX-EN-PROVENCE First Line: Toward noon, july 1608 Last Line: (who, by the way, %beat everyone at chess) RECKLESS WORDS First Line: Though they are not lies they lie upon Last Line: Crash-landing on the tarmac of backyard REPORT FROM THE FIELD First Line: Sublimation, a new version of piety Last Line: Agonizingly know it is more like dying RUE MONGE NARRATED First Line: Up or down it, disguise and Last Line: To be wildly, wildly %needed later on SECRET Poem Text First Line: On one of those birthdays of which I've had so many Subject(s): Birthdays SEQUESTRIENNE Poem Text First Line: Don't look at me SEQUESTRIENNE First Line: Don't look at me Last Line: Looking inside %at broken glass STRAWBERRIES First Line: Waiting in line for the bus that never comes Last Line: At me dripping in a red puddle of equanimity SYBARIS 1972 First Line: Siesta breathes in the old-plane-trees Last Line: Why is it widening, crowding me? TIME FLEW First Line: (2 hrs 10 min.) %flurries, flurries Last Line: Would have no end, both knew TO ZENO First Line: You with your equation, %an arrow plugs your heart Last Line: Deck me out in minutes TWO CITY MICE First Line: This is the hour for getting to where I'm supposed to be Last Line: This is your hour. I'm waiting in this hole I occupy WAVERLY AND A PLACE First Line: The room-a cave, %an alexandria before the flames Last Line: Merge, turn a cheek, a phrase, %leave this evening's alchemy WOMAN WAVNG TO TREES Poem Text First Line: Not that anyone would Subject(s): Trees ZERO Poem Text First Line: Now that legal tender has Subject(s): Money; Economics |
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