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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: TEARE, BRIAN Matches Found: 61 Teare, Brian Poet's Biography 61 poems available by this author ( ADAM ) IN FRAGMENTS/WITH A POEM ENGRAVED/DOWN THE THIGHS First Line: His body not pastoral Last Line: Engraving desire with cuts %inside AGAINST ABSTRACTION First Line: If I had what you might call a 'heart,' it'd be junk Last Line: Never sky, that classic starless economy: empty AGORAPHOBIA: A REPLY First Line: Not yet. Frost hasn't hit. Gripping the branches, only Last Line: In hours, the room will work me into tapestry AND I THE CHILD WHO'S TWO OF EVERYTHING Last Line: You can never leave the photographs and disappear ANGELUS Poem Text First Line: Peace, okay!, speak goodness of marriage Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Marriage; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives APIARY First Line: Albino-white and paler still against august's hothouse fog and throb, he Last Line: Body broke into soft boxes of gold AUNT JACKIE: INSOMNIA, TUCSON, AZ CA. 1975 First Line: Heat storms shake their goldpans for the rattle Last Line: And smudged pages, and we'd steal it shut, %he and I together, with our tongues' AVIARY HOUR First Line: In memory, in the fairy tales read to you before bedtime, sleep Last Line: With me: the butt of his gun come down the one sure mercy you could see BAD LIKE First Line: : being girls dressed up; 'pretty,' old men saying, 'like your mother'; a Last Line: Said?-that made mother say we had his mouth BECAUSE DAVID & JONATHAN First Line: Touch. After the youth, carrying arrows back to town, has gone Last Line: There is no road out of the body they make in the field BUT THIS IS YEARS LATER Last Line: In the real, someone-a double, a liar-was running home CALIFORNIAN Poem Text First Line: It began like this: a radio Subject(s): Summer; Drought; Death; Songs; Dead, The CHILDREN'S SONGS First Line: What they wished for we wanted, too, that christmas Last Line: Our silence was shell around her: kept, inscrutable surface with a roar %inside DANGEROUS KITCHEN First Line: Divorce proceedings: getting mother on the cross-town bus, the only one Last Line: A man's lullaby: mothering the blade DEAD BOY TO THE SCHOLARS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE FAIRY TALE First Line: At the edge of the glade Last Line: Won't hold the wound I leave-' DEAD HOUSE SONNET Poem Text First Line: House of each sentence endlessly hinged, house of each phrase Subject(s): Language; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary DETAIL FROM SET FOR A SOUTHERN GOTHIC First Line: The boy unbuckles on the spread like an old leather belt Last Line: Who measure the space between us, the distance, and the price of the distance DETAIL FROM SET FOR A SOUTHERN GOTHIC First Line: On the spread the boy unbuckles like an old leather belt Last Line: He could briefly think: I'm beneath summer rain; I've never been touched DROUGHT SUMMER: PHOTO JOURNAL First Line: Even the fucking air is mortgaged,' she says and points Last Line: You won't respect her' %-the window the field shimmers shotgun DROWNED HOUSES First Line: No pang or panic between the ribs. It came quick when we woke, wet Last Line: He made sure she'd feel it forever EDEN INCUNABULUM Poem Text First Line: So his luciferous kiss, ecliptic : me Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Relationships; Death; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Dead, The EDEN OF THE AUTHOR OF SLEEP First Line: And sleep to grief as air is to the rain Last Line: The world's own weapons turned against it EDEN TIRESIAS: 1. I AM THE SIGN OF THE LETTER,... First Line: No seed. Flat beneath my hand Last Line: As its own elegy, as adam did not EDEN TIRESIAS: 2. ...AND THE DESIGNATION OF THE DIVISION First Line: Mons: venus-field held horizon by sharp Last Line: I loved it. He could not touch me there EDEN TIRESIAS: 3. I AM THE SIGN OF THE LETTER, AND THE ... First Line: No seed. Flat beneath my hand Last Line: Love it. He could not touch me there FAMILY ESTABLISHMENT First Line: Painted right on the sign! Last Line: Intricate seed-pearls, maggots stitched glimmer into the dark garments of %our skin FIRST PERSON PLURAL IS A HOUSE First Line: Where I put myself in the third person in a bed I know Last Line: And me. When I say I, I mean eye, sum of my watching GENIUS LOCI Poem Text First Line: Make it / the place Subject(s): Oakland, California; City & Town Life; Life Choices HELLO Poem Text Subject(s): Music & Musicians HOUSE IN SUMMER WITH A SLAPPED FACE IN IT First Line: Again: he swears he'll never. Smiles Last Line: Who'd answer if you'd leave? IN THE LIBRARY OF THE FAIRY TALE First Line: There's one the folklorists Last Line: How he came to learn it, the teller can only say, sir, it's always been %a borrowed song IN THE LIBRARY OF THE FAIRY TALE First Line: They would be stupid children who asked why Last Line: You would have preferred to destroy him IN WINTER, INTERIOR First Line: In white rooms drowsy with chemical light Last Line: To the story. What they have %is not enough INDIANA LETTER SENT WITH SNAPSHOTS & SNOW TO MY MOTHER First Line: The old corn tilled under earlier in the week, field heavy and stubbled Last Line: Only with words: the world alive and broken with snow INVOCATION First Line: Begin sinister. Sincerity like a fairy tale, some treacle Last Line: How our stories begin LARGO Poem Text First Line: Now the rain Subject(s): Rain; Togetherness LITTLE ERRAND Poem Text First Line: I gather the rain Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LONG AFTER HOPKINS Poem Text First Line: Nothing at dusk, lord, but dust Subject(s): Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889) MARRIAGE ELEGY First Line: Her mind left her body to walk. It wasn't her fault, her fingers Last Line: World down to our bones, a murder going soft in the marrow of us MILK-FATHER First Line: Once a young husband for a year grew restless Last Line: Meanwhile slept: evidence: it was said among them in those parts %a child can know too much: can die OF A SLEEPING MAN, & A SECOND MAN AWAKE First Line: So love unhoused us: sweat %the summer's continual Last Line: A breath could wreck it PERCEIVING IS THE SAME AS RECEIVING, AND IT IS THE SAME AS RESPONDING Poem Text First Line: Thought begins as small floral bowls Subject(s): Perception; Thought; Thinking POEM BETWEEN LIEN BREAKS First Line: [why?] %so that after, every kiss could become metaphor, but a metaphor for Last Line: His brother inside the room- %his body.'] PRAYER TO ST. FRANCIS Poem Text First Line: Now low rod : Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Marriage; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ROOM WHERE I WAS BORN First Line: Repeats itself like paper. Origami house, her body Last Line: I am waiting. I will not die like this again RULES FOR THE TELLING First Line: For the child, stories happen forever Last Line: And, bed undone like a zipper, the child will fall %all night, and it will go unheard, unpunished in RULES FOR THE TELLING First Line: Her telling has rules, the child knows, parts Last Line: This is knowledge: the child awake as the light goes out SAY IT WAS FATHER BOUGHT THE WORD Last Line: In memory of my mother's body and I would begin again SET FOR A SOUTHERN GOTHIC First Line: From here, this poem a neon pall over the tarry asphalt Last Line: In the flesh, and how do I know it isn't- %'I love you,' he says SHIRLEY TEMPLE FOR THE GIRLS First Line: He said, slicking back his black widow's peak two-handed with his black Last Line: You've had enough, ray,' the bartender said SLEEPING BEAUTY & THE PRINCE: SELF-PORTRAIT AS VICTIM & PERPETRATOR First Line: Yes, it's a joke-in the florists' dictionary Last Line: How could I imagine such hands? TENEMENT BODY Poem Text First Line: The air swells - pure burn; the windows sweat Subject(s): Bodies; Fire TENEMENT BODY First Line: The air swells - pure burn; the windows sweat Last Line: A thrill of combustion, its wings awash in ash Subject(s): Bodies; Fire THEN WE WERE RAPTURED First Line: Faith moved in next door Last Line: Into gold, dozens of cracked fantastics TOUCH First Line: Between us we felt nothing Last Line: Why hide behind your hair?' TOWARD LOST LETTERS First Line: Dear ernst krieger: %the photo album unfolds its aerial cemetery Last Line: I write out loud your sexed and crowded mouth. %yours, ever, %b TRICK NOIR First Line: Close your eyes and you're stoned, child, here on river road Last Line: And worse than a woman: a faggot. Which would be you TUTELARY FOREST First Line: Dear reader: %like a child beware & enter here beneath what branches, what Last Line: Remember: she would have your heart out, & eat it too. As deep calls %to deep, she asked for it by n TWO ELEGIES CONCERNING FEAR Poem Text First Line: Not thought, fact Subject(s): Fear WHEN THE SPLIT BEGAN Last Line: Her mind among her child WORD COCK AND THE SUBLIME First Line: Memory of him begins in my mouth; finger whet Last Line: How a mouth can open and close on nothing |
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