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Author: TWICHELL, CHASE Matches Found: 206 Twichell, Chase Poet's Biography 206 poems available by this author 1950 Poem Text First Line: 1950 was the perfect year to be born Subject(s): Time; Life; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity A LAMB BY ITS MA Poem Text First Line: Just before it rains, the lilacs Subject(s): Children; Divorce; Childhood ABANDONED HOUSE IN LATE LIGHT Poem Text First Line: A sparrow lights Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Animals ABANDONED HOUSE IN LATE LIGHT First Line: A sparrow lights %among the open cones AISLE OF DOGS First Line: In the first cage %a hunk of raw flesh Last Line: I don't know why, either ALTARS First Line: Birch bark was paper and kindling, sandals Last Line: Feeding like a young bear on that fruit ANIMAL CAUTION Poem Text First Line: Whenever I touch the cairn Subject(s): Human Behavior; Children; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Childhood ANIMAL GRAVES Poem Text First Line: The mower flipped it belly up Subject(s): Graves; Death - Animals; Tombs; Tombstones ANIMAL GRAVES First Line: The mower flipped it belly up Last Line: In the larger graveyard of the world ANIMAL LANGUAGES First Line: In snow, all tracks Last Line: Who have been to that place before me ARCHITECTURE First Line: I peer into japanese characters Last Line: Poetry's not window-cleaning %it breaks the glass ARSONIST AND FIREMAN First Line: It was the hot orange edge Last Line: Let it rest for a while in the scorched grass ASLEEP IN THE HEAT First Line: Whatever flowers were about to bloom BEAR ON SCALE First Line: Even dead, %her weight resists the rope harness Last Line: For no reason he can think of BEES First Line: The best berries are the last to ripen Last Line: The yellow jacket inside BLACK TRIANGLE First Line: The eye in the dollar bill watched me Last Line: Under the green and orange stars BLADE OF NOSTALGIA First Line: When fed into the crude, imaginary BLURRY COW Poem Text First Line: Two cows stand transfixed Subject(s): Cows BLURRY COW First Line: Two cows stand transfixed CAT AND MIRROR First Line: I'd like to turn my eyes Last Line: Kingdom of the moment, and rule it CEDAR NEEDLES First Line: Vendors croon their welcoming harangues CHANEL NO. 5 Poem Text First Line: Life had become a sort of gorgeous elegy Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses CHANEL NO. 5 First Line: Life had become a sort of gorgeous elegy Last Line: Inclined her head to smell her own gardenia Subject(s): Hotels CHEAP WHITE PAPER First Line: Sometimes I'm unfaithful Last Line: And ash from the burning leaves CITY ANIMALS First Line: Just before the tunnel, the train Last Line: Where will the angel rest itself? %what map will guide it home? CLOUD OF UNKNOWING First Line: In spring, the apple and cherry trees are clouds Last Line: Who speaks to me out of the blossoming cloud? COCKTAIL MUSIC First Line: All my life a brook of voices Last Line: When I lift the shell to my ear, %it's in there COLD, SUBSTANTIAL CLOUDS First Line: Stared at long enough COLORLESS CENTER OF EVERYTHING First Line: At the center of the wet clay CONDOM TREE First Line: Pleasure must slip Last Line: Out of the damp present %into our separate pasts CORPORATE GEESE First Line: When the big corporations began to build Last Line: Picked clean by the locusts of their own creation CUT First Line: I had a sorrow that misled me DECADE Poem Text First Line: I had only one prayer, but it spead Subject(s): Prayer DECADE First Line: I had only one prayer, but it spread Last Line: Wishing wants prayer to find that out DEVIL I DON'T KNOW First Line: It seems to be the purpose of mourning Last Line: Gutted, garnished, laid out on ice DIRT First Line: I was standing in the frozen garden Last Line: The compost layered with leaf-ghosts, %a crumb of what I was when I was alive Subject(s): Nature DISTURBANCES OF THOUGHT First Line: I step into a slim green boat Last Line: One candle for recklessness %another for stamina DREAM OF THE INTERIOR First Line: A dog that has been sleeping on a crypt Last Line: Lit by the sparks of the sea. A world %that will darken and abandon me ELECTRICAL STORM First Line: Beyond the rain ELEVEN HOURS First Line: I sat all day in the quiet room Last Line: Knowing the world would not shelter them EMPTY CRADLE SONGS Poem Text First Line: I think about the rooms Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood EMPTY WINDOWS First Line: Do I dare be as strange Last Line: Now break the glass EROTIC ENERGY Poem Text First Line: Don't tell me we're not like plants Subject(s): Plants; Coming Of Age; Girls; Planting; Planters EROTIC ENERGY First Line: Don't tell me we're not like plants Last Line: Blossom she has never seen before EVENING, HERRON'S FARM First Line: Lit by kerosene FIRE IN THE MIND First Line: Sputnik, in russian GHOST BIRCHES Poem Text First Line: The road crew worked all afternoon Subject(s): Nature GHOST BIRCHES First Line: The road crew worked all afternoon Last Line: Gone back to lie beside their stumps, %the old ones free to travel anywhere Subject(s): Nature GIRL RIDING BAREBACK Poem Text First Line: These late summer afternoons are so like childhood's Subject(s): Horses; Imagination; Summer; Fancy GIRL RIDING BAREBACK First Line: These late summer afternoons are so like childhood's Last Line: And the big imaginary animal of her self GIRL WITH SAD FACE First Line: Silence - that was her chosen music Last Line: Asking why am I alone? %which is also my question to her GIVENS First Line: One side of the dialogue GLIMPSE First Line: It was as if a window suddenly blew open Last Line: A path lay shadowy under my feet, %and I followed it HOLOGRAM First Line: At the center of the iris Last Line: Closed softly over nothing HORSE First Line: I've never seen a soul detached from its gender Last Line: But everyone looks at the horse HORSE-ANGEL First Line: Outside the hotels along the park Last Line: To where the wings stay furled HOTEL DU NORD First Line: On the lawn of the old hotel at twilight Last Line: There is no elsewhere Subject(s): Hotels HOW ZEN RUIINS POETS Poem Text First Line: Before I knew that mind Subject(s): Language; Thought; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary; Thinking HUNGER FOR SOMETHING Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I long to be in the woodpile Subject(s): Life Choices HUNGER FOR SOMETHING First Line: Sometimes I long to be the woodpile Last Line: Where the dogs of the self are feeding ICICLE First Line: Snow fills the space Last Line: Laughing. The snow and I %one transience! IGNORANT POEM First Line: I follow my breath as it goes in Last Line: For even the tallest ladders of reason IMAGINARY DOKUSAN: AUTUMN RAIN First Line: This is the first rain of autumn Last Line: And a new language in which to say it IMAGINARY DOKUSAN: BARKING DOG First Line: The long tail of my history Last Line: He goes on barking, and doesn't imagine me IMAGINARY DOKUSAN: FURNACE First Line: Anger wears the rubies of the coals Last Line: Fire stays fire IMAGINARY DOKUSAN: PERFUME First Line: Crushed lime halves in the sink Last Line: Which of the two pleasures is that? IMAGINARY DOKUSAN: RAT First Line: An emotion can start out hopeful Last Line: This anxiety slinks across my mind like a rat IMAGINARY DOKUSAN: STRANGER First Line: How suddenly you appeared Last Line: Wanting a simple stranger to be like a god IMAGINARY DOKUSAN: THISTLE First Line: This evening the thistles' surprising blue Last Line: Blind me or throw me back at myself IMAGINARY LAND First Line: The respectful hush-turned-to-silence IMMORTAL PILOTS First Line: The noise throws down Last Line: Riding the young green world that way, %to a climax of spectral light Subject(s): Nature IN BED WITH BOOKS First Line: Just before dawn, the dream hung IN THE EXPLODED VIEW First Line: The overlapping worlds INK STONE First Line: It's a green river stone Last Line: In a puddle of yesterday's rain INKSTONE Poem Text First Line: It's a green river stone, Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks INLAND Poem Text First Line: Above the blond prairies, Subject(s): Landscape INNOCENT ONE First Line: The watcher guarded the innocent one Last Line: We've grown up into a fine double person JACK'S FLASHLIGHT First Line: Three years old, my nephew JAPANESE WEEPING CHERRY First Line: The bed seems a raft set adrift JOHN JOSEPH IN THE BEYOND First Line: I always loved these open fields' KEROSENE First Line: Here comes a new storm, roiling and black Last Line: Backlight to see each other Variant Title(s): Ange KID MUSIC First Line: I aimed this arrow %at the music I loved Last Line: All music calls up the first music LAPSES OF TURQUOISE SEA Poem Text First Line: I bit down on the hard Subject(s): Scuba Diving LAPSES OF TURQUOISE SEA First Line: I bit down on the hard LAST LOOK BACK First Line: Things change behind my back Last Line: Numerous as the trees LATE COMERS First Line: I paid a dollar fifty LAUGHING BIRD First Line: The pileated woodpecker doesn't laugh Last Line: Always five strokes. I'm you, I'm you LET X LILACS AGAIN First Line: A bridge of lilacs crosses the brook Last Line: And never bring me back? LITTLE SNOWSCAPE Poem Text First Line: Consciousness ends, says the snow Subject(s): Cold LITTLE YELLOW FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: I don't know what they are Subject(s): Birds LITTLE YELLOW FLOWERS First Line: I don't know what they are Last Line: Which resemble the feet of birds LOCUST First Line: Its shell reminds me of the year Last Line: That made it fly is gone LOST BIRDS First Line: People said the silence was spooky Last Line: When I can hear them? MAKESHIFTS First Line: Nothing has a name it can't Last Line: That I've gathered and paralyzed MAN WHO PRACTICES NEXT DOOR First Line: Sometimes his notes make a staircase MANTELPIECE First Line: Dreams brought back to me Last Line: Would actually say %such a thing in public METEOR SHOWERS, AUGUST, 1968 First Line: A night in august MINOR CRUSH OF CELLS First Line: I thought that the earth MINOR PROBLEMS First Line: This morning it seems likely Last Line: Its own steep facade and falls back MISTAKE First Line: It was as if someone had made a mistake Last Line: A bird in snow, then birdless snow MONASTERY NIGHTS Poem Text First Line: I like to think about the monastery Subject(s): Zen Buddhism MOON IN THE PINES First Line: I do not remember MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS First Line: Dry waterfall-that's what it's called Last Line: The crowbar, as I have not MY LISTENER First Line: When hope forms a bud of prayer Last Line: I'm there alone with him MY RUBY OF LASTING SADNESS First Line: The ring sparks MY SKELETON First Line: My skeleton wants to eat nothing Last Line: A lot about the dreamer from the dream MY TASTE FOR TRASH First Line: I've got a taste for trashy thrillers Last Line: And people would already know it MY TOSHIBA First Line: Under the lake's black ice Last Line: A bird flies across %and leaves no trace MYSTERY First Line: Snow drags yards %of sequins over the road Last Line: Emptied of golden seed NOT LIKE WATER First Line: Glass dust, crushed cans O MIAMI First Line: Wherever the cloth of my dress touched me ODDS First Line: The maxim 'lucky at cards' ONE PHYSICS First Line: Once, in the creaking hammock OTHER KNIFE First Line: Minnows glittered in the shallows Subject(s): Minnows OUT OF EARSHOT First Line: A face's final bones PAINT Poem Text First Line: Lotions and scents, ripe figs Subject(s): Paintings And Painters PAINT First Line: Lotions and scents, ripe figs Last Line: Open, eye and door Subject(s): Paintings And Painters PAPER WHITE NARCISSUS First Line: Awake or asleep PARTITA FOR SOLO VIOLIN First Line: What comes to mind is a pond PASSING CLOUDS First Line: One sip of self-understanding Last Line: Until the animals come to feed on them %or the hungry frost PINE Poem Text First Line: The first night at the monastery, Subject(s): Zen Buddhism; Nature PINE First Line: The first night at the monastery Last Line: Its branches over their history PLANET OF SMOKE AND CLOUD Poem Text First Line: The earth could not keep Subject(s): Politics & Government; War PLANET OF SMOKE AND CLOUD First Line: The earth could not keep Last Line: Locked in a radiant cinder Subject(s): Politics; War POOLS, FR. THE GHOST OF EDEN First Line: I used to look into the green-brown Last Line: Trapped as I am in the purely human POSTSCRIPT HOUSE First Line: It's where we'll write the last few pages of our lives Last Line: And be gone by the time we wake up PRIVATE AIRPLANE First Line: On the grass airfield, a wife Last Line: And not its passenger? RELIGIOUS WATER First Line: Staggered by cold and currents REMEMBER DEATH First Line: Nothing in the red leaves Last Line: And I'll be back-that gets said %in the slowness of the good-bye REVENGE First Line: He was standing on the hotel balcony Last Line: Fueled by what's left of the future RHYMES FOR OLD AGE First Line: The wind's untiring saxophone ROACH HOLDER, CIRCA 1967 First Line: Look what I have in my hand Last Line: Strange keepsake ROAD TAR Poem Text First Line: A kid said you could chew road tar Subject(s): Roads; Tar; Paths; Trails ROAD TAR First Line: A kid said you could chew road tar Last Line: And a girl with a burned tongue was conceived RUINER OF LIVES First Line: Who knows how things end up Last Line: Here under the cold, %crumbling trees of heaven RULE OF THE NORTH STAR First Line: I should be ashamed to love Last Line: Catch the starlight, and a gray wind %scribbles in the drifts of ash SAINT ANIMAL First Line: Suddenly it was clear to me Last Line: What it was like to be without me SECRETS First Line: All my childhood was spent Last Line: The little towel, put it away SELF-PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: I know I promised to stop Subject(s): Children; Secrets; Relationships; Childhood SHADES OF GRAND CENTRAL First Line: You could tell that the flowers Last Line: The dog bodies took each rib with a seizure, %white-backed and ravenous SILVER AND WHITE ELEGY First Line: I'm telling this to the brook [it listens to me with its shadow ears] Last Line: Who will I be, until I become you? SILVER SLUR Poem Text First Line: Nothing stays attached to what I saw Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Sex; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin SIX BELONS First Line: The ruckled lips gaped slightly, but when Last Line: That caused this arousal, this feeding %and now a sudden loneliness SLEEPING PAINT, FR. THE GHOST OF EDEN First Line: When I began to paint the pictures Last Line: One will abandon the other SMELL OF SNOW, FR. THE GHOST OF EDEN First Line: There's a dream I keep dreaming Last Line: Crushed out in the innocent jaws SNOW First Line: Every day it snows an inch or two Last Line: At bed time comforts me SNOW IN CONDOLAND Poem Text First Line: I enter the orchard at nightfall Subject(s): Nature SNOW IN CONDOLAND First Line: I enter the orchard at nightfall Last Line: In the dark, still infant part, %where a faint pink fever %was once supressed Subject(s): Nature SNOW LIGHT Poem Text First Line: I stop, winded. The air sifting down Last Line: Though that is the meaning we give them Subject(s): Light; Snow SOLO Poem Text First Line: Nothing to watch but the snow Subject(s): Snow; Solitude; Loneliness SOLO First Line: Nothing to watch but the snow Last Line: In the numberless fish of the snow SOON Poem Text First Line: When I say the word walk, or even spell it, Subject(s): Language; Dogs; Words; Vocabulary STIRRED UP BY RAIN Poem Text First Line: I fired up the mower Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed STIRRED UP BY RAIN First Line: I fired up the mower Last Line: Believing is different than understanding STONE STEPS First Line: Three stone steps lead Last Line: My work is to know %what I am STRAY First Line: The cat was starving, missing a foreleg Last Line: Which part is the cat %and which the mind? STRIPPED CAR Poem Text Subject(s): Social Commentaries STRIPPED CAR First Line: There's something in me that likes Last Line: Private piece to kill? Will we do it? SUCKLING PIG First Line: What's the difference SUMMER RAIN First Line: First association: two sounds Last Line: I would not kiss and touch, then lie to you? TEA MIND First Line: Even as a child I could %induce it at will Last Line: Now it can finally disappear THE BLADE OF NOSTALGIA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When fed into the crude, imaginary Subject(s): Nostalgia THE HOTEL DU NORD Poem Text First Line: On the lawn of the old hotel at twilight Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE IMMORTAL PILOTS Poem Text First Line: The noise throws down Subject(s): Nature THE INNOCENTS Poem Text First Line: The watcher guarded the innocent one Subject(s): Self; Human Behavior; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE IRIS, THAT SEXUAL FLOWER Poem Text First Line: I was standing in the frozen garden Last Line: That bucket, in sexual water Subject(s): Iris (flower); Sex THE POOLS Poem Text First Line: I used to look into the green-brown Subject(s): Water; Nature TO THE READER: BLUNT ELEGY First Line: I'm leaving now, closing Last Line: As the face of snow TO THE READER: IF YOU ASKED ME Poem Text First Line: I want you with me, and yet you are the end Subject(s): Language; Books; Words; Vocabulary; Reading TO THE READER: IF YOU ASKED ME First Line: I want you with me, and yet you are the end Last Line: I'm just a broom, sweeping TO THE READER: POLAROIDS Poem Text First Line: Who are you, austere little cloud Subject(s): Togetherness TO THE READER: POLAROIDS First Line: Who are you, austere little cloud Last Line: But the darkness does not persist TO THE READER: THE LANGUAGE OF THE CLOUD Poem Text First Line: Come with me to a private room Last Line: Before the amnesia takes them Variant Title(s): Sexual Gatha Subject(s): Sex TO THE READER: THE LANGUAGE OF THE CLOUD First Line: Come with me to a private room Last Line: Before the amnesia takes them Variant Title(s): Sexual Gath Subject(s): Sex TO THE READER: TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: Whenever I look Subject(s): Evening; Absence; Sunset; Twilight; Separation; Isolation TO THE READER: TWILIGHT First Line: Whenever I look %out at the snow Last Line: When the horse speaks TODAY'S LAPSES First Line: There's a country I like to visit Last Line: Don't look for me tonight TOUCH-ME-NOT First Line: I have to fight in myself the desire Last Line: And which I fear will go on living %after the loved world dies TRANSFIXED BY THE SWIMMERS First Line: Flashy with clean blue chemicals TRANSLATIONS FROM THE RATIONAL First Line: The roofless houses by the roadside drown TULIP First Line: It's slippery on the high fence Last Line: I have to abandon the poem %to follow it VERGE First Line: Inside language there was always %an inkling Last Line: Words telling secrets %to no one but river and rain VIOLENCE TO LANGUAGE First Line: There's a trail near here Last Line: Of all the old elegances, one by one VISITORS First Line: Red fox flashing through the pines Last Line: Say fuck you! To hunger VOICE OF THE AIR First Line: There's something I know Last Line: I'll die in which ever world I choose WALKING MEDITATION Poem Text First Line: I'm the first tall animal Subject(s): Walking; Nature WALKING MEDITATION First Line: I'm the first tall animal Last Line: Swims right through it WARS First Line: The edge of the woods Last Line: The dead soldiers of their two small armies WATERCRESS AND ICE WEIGHTLESS, LIKE A RIVER Poem Text First Line: I heard of a teacher and went to him. Subject(s): Zen Buddhism WEIGHTLESS, LIKE A RIVER First Line: I heard of a teacher and went to meet him Last Line: Turned toward the sound WHITE CONCLUSION Poem Text First Line: What's left of the day Subject(s): White (color) WHITE MERCEDES First Line: A loon divides the lake, calling wild WHITE PINE First Line: Trees have been witness Last Line: With some new kids WHY ALL GOOD MUSIC IS SAD Poem Text First Line: Before I knew that I would die Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore WHY ALL GOOD MUSIC IS SAD First Line: Before I knew that I woud die Last Line: That seemed for an instant to be %something outide myself, before I knew %that the sea was my bed an Subject(s): Seashore WILD MARE First Line: A wild mare comes down out of the secret canyon Last Line: Her dripping muzzle and studies me WINDOW IN THE SHAPE OF A DIAMOND First Line: Our room in the hotel was dark WINE First Line: The mint springs up WORD SILENCE First Line: The flame of fucking is a flame Last Line: And there I sleep like an innocent %among the words I loved %but crushed for their inflammable perfu WORDS FOR SYNTHESIZER First Line: When I first heard WORLDLINESS Poem Text First Line: When I close my eyes Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses WORLDLINESS First Line: When I close my eyes Last Line: Anonymously hard that I forgave him Subject(s): Hotels YEAR I GOT RID OF EVERYTHING First Line: A huge invisable magnet dragged me Last Line: And danced alone in the great emptiness ZAVEN, WIRED & TIRED First Line: It's like thrashing out past the breakers Last Line: How can I become the tree, if I am the tree? |
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