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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: UPDIKE, JOHN Matches Found: 686 Updike, John Poet's Biography 686 poems available by this author 22-FEB First Line: Three boys, american, in dungarees Last Line: Looked forward to the summer that is past Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) 3 A.M. First Line: By the brilliant ramp Last Line: Sailors stick to the curb Subject(s): Night 61 AND 2/3 Poem Text First Line: How many more I must ask myself Subject(s): Aging 61 AND 2/3 First Line: How many more, I must ask myself Last Line: Held up to the bored blue sky like a cheek to kiss A MODEST MOUND OF BONES Poem Text First Line: That short-sleeved man, our Last Line: It sags! What buntingis flesh to be hung from such ele- gant balconies? Subject(s): Bones A PEAR LIKE A POTATO Poem Text First Line: Was it worms, having once bitten Last Line: Like this poor pear Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears A RACK OF PAPERBACKS Poem Text First Line: Gateway, grove, / and dover say Subject(s): Paperback Books A RESCUE Poem Text Recitation First Line: I wrote some words today that will see print Last Line: To all that lovely perishing outdoors Subject(s): Nature A SONG OF PATERNAL CARE Poem Text First Line: A lithuanian lithographer Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary A VISION Poem Text First Line: Said harvey swados to herbert gold Last Line: American fiction wept, and gave thanks Subject(s): Criticism & Critics ACADEMY First Line: The shuffle up the stairs betrays our age Last Line: A struggle it was, and a dream; we wake %to bright bald honors. Tell us our mistake ACCUMULATION Poem Text First Line: Busbound out of new york Subject(s): Time ACCUMULATION First Line: Busbound out of new york Last Line: Who grew up where I did, %ages ago Subject(s): Time AERIE Poem Text First Line: By following many a color-coded corridor Subject(s): Barbers; Hospitals AERIE First Line: By following many a color-coded corridor Last Line: And nimbly reached for his bag of old bread and his scissors Subject(s): Barbers; Hospitals AGATHA CHRISTIE AND BEATRIX POTTER First Line: Many-volumed authoresses Last Line: That end with innocence acquitted - %except for cotton-tail,who did it AIR SHOW Poem Text First Line: In shapes that grow organic and bizarre Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators AIR SHOW First Line: In shapes that grow organic and bizarre Last Line: And deep as this democracy's quick pride Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators AIRPORT First Line: Palace of unreality, where the place Subject(s): Air Travel AMEOBA First Line: Mindless, meaning no harm Last Line: Reduced to the o of a final sigh, %in time I died AMERICANA Poem Text First Line: Gray within and gray without: the dusk Subject(s): United States; America AMISH First Line: The amish are a surly sect Last Line: The licensed fools who travel far %to gaze upon these simple folk Subject(s): Amish AN IMAGINABLE CONFERENCE Poem Text First Line: Exchanging gentle grips, the men retire Last Line: Vistas of lilac weighted their shrewd lids Subject(s): Language; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Words; Vocabulary AN ODE Poem Text First Line: I'm going to write a novel, hey Subject(s): Novels & Novelists AN OPEN LETTER TO VOYAGER II First Line: Dear voyager: / this is to thank you for Subject(s): Space And Space Travel ANGELS First Line: They are above us all the time Last Line: Comfort with terror our mortal afternoons Subject(s): Art And Artists ANOTHER DOG'S DEATH Poem Text First Line: For days the good old bitch had been dying, her back Last Line: In a wheelbarrow up to the hole, her warm fur shone Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ANOTHER DOG'S DEATH First Line: For days the good old bitch had been dying, her back Last Line: In the wheelbarrow up to the hole, her fur took the sun Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ANTIGUA Poem Text First Line: The wind, transparent, cannot displace Subject(s): Antigua ANTIGUA First Line: The wind, transparent, cannot displace Last Line: A flaw in the glass, an airplabe glints Subject(s): Antigua APOLOGIES TO HARVARD; THE PHI BETA KAPPA POEM, 1973 Poem Text First Line: Fair, square harvard, crib of the pilgrim mind Subject(s): Harvard University APOLOGIES TO HARVARD; THE PHI BETA KAPPA POEM, 1973 First Line: Fair, square harvard, crib of the pilgrim mind Last Line: Seniors, come forth; we crave yoiur wrath and pity Subject(s): Harvard University AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW First Line: Is this the bliss for which you've tried to live? Last Line: All gone, endured. The square-made bed. Hi-tech %alarm clock, digital. The john. The check AUGUST First Line: The sprinkler twirls AUTHORS' RESIDENCES Poem Text First Line: Mark twain's opinion was, he was entitled Subject(s): Hartford, Connecticut; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens) AUTHORS' RESIDENCES First Line: Mark twain's opinion was, he was entitled Last Line: In boston. Writers, know your place %before it gets too modest to be known Subject(s): Hartford, Connecticut; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens) AVERAGE EGYPTIAN FACES DEATH First Line: Anubis, jackal-headed god Last Line: Death has no other name than ankh, life AZORES Poem Text First Line: Great green ships Last Line: Ahead are one Subject(s): Azores; Mountains AZORES First Line: Great green ships Last Line: The void behind, the void %ahead are one Subject(s): Azores; Mountains B.W.I. Poem Text First Line: Under a priceless sun Last Line: Goats and airmail / stationery Subject(s): British West Indies B.W.I. First Line: Under a priceless sun Last Line: The endless hours Subject(s): British West Indies BACK BAY Poem Text First Line: My adult unemployed son and I Subject(s): Boston; Clothing & Dress; Shopping BACK BAY First Line: My adult unemployed son and I Last Line: That catches light, then spills it like a god Subject(s): Boston; Clothing And Dress; Shopping BACK FROM VACATION Poem Text First Line: Back from vacation,' the barber announces Last Line: The evidence says, though their hearts cry, 'not so!' Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Vacation; Work; Workers BACK FROM VACATION First Line: Back from vacation,' the barber announces Last Line: Warm as if never shucked. The world is so small, %the evidence says, though their heart cry, 'not so Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Vacation BASEBALL Poem Text First Line: It looks easy from a distance, Subject(s): Baseball BATH AFTER SAILING Poem Text First Line: From ten to five we whacked the waves Last Line: Of flirting with immersion Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors BATH AFTER SAILING First Line: From ten to five we whacked the waves Last Line: This microcosmic version %of flirting with immersion Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing BEAUTIFUL BOWEL MOVEMENT First Line: Though most of them aren't much to write about Last Line: Stardust, how can I keep you? With this poem Subject(s): Excrement BEAUVAIS Poem Text First Line: Gigantic spiky head without a body Last Line: It counted, leaving god his vaults of air Subject(s): Animals BEAUVAIS First Line: Gigantic spiky head without a body Last Line: It counted, leaving god his vaults of air BEFORE THE MIRROR First Line: How many of us still remember Last Line: They new just how, I reflect, to lay it on BENDIX Poem Text First Line: This porthole overlooks a sea Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Washing Machines BENDIX First Line: This porthole overlooks a sea Last Line: While mother cooly makes inside %her little jugged apoocalypse Subject(s): Laundry And Laundering; Washing Machines BICYCLE CHAIN First Line: Left lying in the grass Last Line: With its ancient seedtime secret, %articulation BINDWEED Poem Text First Line: Intelligence does help, sometimes Last Line: Whose intelligence mirrors ours, twist for twist Subject(s): Weeds BINDWEED First Line: Intelligence does help, sometimes Last Line: Whose intelligence mirrors ours, twist for twist Subject(s): Weeds BIRD CAUGHT IN MY DEER NETTING Poem Text First Line: The hedge must have seemed as eve Last Line: Nor gravity-defying bird bones break. Subject(s): Birds BITTER LIFE First Line: O you dr. Ycas you! Last Line: One aeon, no one wept Subject(s): Sea BLESSING First Line: The room darkened, darkened until Last Line: The slenderness of your throat, %the blessed slenderness Subject(s): Love BLKED First Line: At first, the euphemistic 'blk' Last Line: And be a bulwark of defense BOIL Poem Text First Line: In the night the white skin Last Line: Undoubted through the infection Subject(s): Boils (skin Swellings) BOIL First Line: In the night the white skin Last Line: Undoubted though the infection Subject(s): Boils (skin Swellings) BRAZIL First Line: To go to the edge is to discover Last Line: Upon love's narcissistic enterprise Subject(s): Brazil BRIDGE Poem Text First Line: In my dreams I am always trying to get to the dummy Last Line: Which grinds, grinds away while we age and chat Subject(s): Bridge (card Game) BRIDGE First Line: In my dreams I am always trying to get to the dummy Last Line: And they grind away while we age and chat Subject(s): Bridge (card Game) BURNING TRASH Poem Text First Line: At night - the light turned off, the filament Last Line: Hypnotic tongues of order intervened Subject(s): Refuse & Refuse Disposal BURNING TRASH First Line: At night - the light turned off, the filament Last Line: String, napkins, envelopes, and paper cups, %hypnotic tongues of order intervened Subject(s): Refuse And Refuse Disposal BUSINESS ACQUAINTANCES First Line: They intimately know just how our fortune lies Last Line: We blush to know that nothing real is being said CALDER'S HANDS Poem Text First Line: In the little movie / at the whitney Last Line: Never doubted, never rested Subject(s): Calder, Alexander (1846-1923); Sculpture & Sculptors CALDER'S HANDS First Line: In the little movie %at the whitney Last Line: Never doubted, never rested Subject(s): Calder, Alexander (1846-1923); Sculpture And Sculptors CALENDAR Poem Text First Line: Toward august's end Last Line: Looks white to men Subject(s): Seasons CALENDAR First Line: Toward august's end Last Line: The northern nation %looks white to men Subject(s): Seasons CALIGULA'S DREAM First Line: Of gold the bread on which he banqueted Subject(s): Caligula (12 A.d.- 41 A.d.); Insomnia; Sleeplessness CALIGULA'S DREAM First Line: Of gold the bread on which he banqueted Last Line: Caligula, his mouth a mass of fur, %awoke, and toppled toward assassination Subject(s): Caligula (12 A.d.- 41 A.d.); Insomnia CAMERA Poem Text First Line: Let me gaze, gaze forever Last Line: Of my eyes' axed rapture Subject(s): Cameras CAMERA First Line: Let me gaze, gaze forever Last Line: Of my eyes' axed rapture Subject(s): Cameras CAPACITY First Line: Affable, bibulous Last Line: Passengers follow CARS IN CARACAS CREATE A RUCKUKUS Subject(s): Traffic CELERY Poem Text First Line: So near to air and water merely Last Line: Your dancer’s legs long as they leap Subject(s): Celery CELERY First Line: So near to air and water merely Last Line: Your dancer's legs long as they leap Subject(s): Celery CHAMBERED NAUTILUS Poem Text First Line: How many rooms one occupies to lead Subject(s): Room; Life CHAMBERED NAUTILUS First Line: How many rooms one occupies to lead Last Line: Where now the moaning has become one's own CHARLESTON First Line: A kind of wooden boston, crowding toward Last Line: The horizontal smudge, fort sumter, where %six hundred thousand men began to die Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Fort Sumter, South Carolina CHICORY Poem Text Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters CHICORY First Line: Show me a piece of land that god forgot Last Line: To salads and cooked greens, but will not thrive %in cultivated soil: it must be free CHLOE'S POEM First Line: When chloe flies on silken wings Last Line: Is chloe's way of treating me CLAN First Line: Emlyn reads in dickens' clothes Last Line: I trust everybody is %thankful for the williamses Subject(s): Williams (family Name) CLASSICAL OPTICAL First Line: The gray graeae Last Line: Stall halfway through CLOUD SHADOWS Poem Text First Line: That white coconut, the sun Subject(s): Clouds CLOUD SHADOWS First Line: That white coconut, the sun Last Line: Grave mountains belly dance CODE First Line: Were there no rain there would be little noise Last Line: With a fingernail, I'm back, I've got the goods COLONOSCOPY Poem Text First Line: Talk about intimacy! I'd rather not Subject(s): Colonoscopies COMMENCEMENT, PINGREE SCHOOL Poem Text First Line: Among these north shore tennis tans I sit Last Line: Up pops a daddy with a nikon. Click Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives COMMENCEMENT, PINGREE SCHOOL First Line: Among these north shore tennis tans I sit Subject(s): Family Life COMP. RELIGION Poem Text First Line: It all begins with fear of mana Last Line: Of mana as they ever were Subject(s): Religion; Theology COMP. RELIGION First Line: It all begins with fear of mana Last Line: Of mana as they ever were Subject(s): Religion COMPLIMENT Poem Text First Line: We were both of two minds about adultery Subject(s): Adultery; Love - Erotic COMPLIMENT First Line: We were both of two minds about adultery Last Line: She breathed the single smiling word 'terrific.' CONDO MOON Poem Text First Line: When plans were announced to tear down Last Line: And the black ocean where no microbe marred it Subject(s): Condominiums CONDO MOON First Line: When plans were announced to tear down Subject(s): Condominiums CONVERSATION Poem Text First Line: My little girl keeps talking to me Last Line: Don't leave. Don't leave me yet Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters CONVERSATION First Line: My little girl keeps talking to me Last Line: Don't leave. Don't leave me yet Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters CORINTH, MS First Line: Two railroads crossed here, making the dept hot Last Line: That roll east-west and north-south, marks the spot %a throng died for. I stood there all alone CORPUS CHRISTI Poem Text First Line: Corpus,' they say, as in 'habeas.' Last Line: A christ the angelo half chews down with shrimp Subject(s): Texas CORPUS CHRISTI First Line: Corpus,' they say, as in 'habeas.' Last Line: A christ the anglo half chews down with shrimp Subject(s): Jesus Christ COSMIC GALL Poem Text First Line: Neutrinos, they are very small Last Line: It wonderful; I call it crass Subject(s): Physics COSMIC GALL First Line: Neutrinos, they are very small Last Line: It wonderful; I call it crass Subject(s): Physics COURTESY CALL Poem Text First Line: My clothes leaped up when I came in Subject(s): Clothing & Dress COURTESY CALL First Line: My clothes leaped up when I came in Last Line: Said they, 'we love you.' I: 'I know, %I was advised,' and left Subject(s): Clothing And Dress CRAB CRACK Poem Text First Line: The blue crabs come to the brown pond's edge Last Line: Against their burning walls, into us Subject(s): Crabs CRAB CRACK First Line: The blue crabs come to the brown pond's edge Last Line: Against their burning wills, into us Subject(s): Crabs CUNTS Poem Text First Line: The venus de milo didn't have one, at least no pussy Last Line: Daphne, your fortune moistens. Stand. Bend down. / smile Subject(s): Reproductive System; Sex Organs; Genitalia CUNTS First Line: The venus de milo didn't have one, at least no pussy Last Line: Daphne, your fortune moistens. Stand. Bend down. Smile Subject(s): Reproductive System DAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: I was awakened from a dream Last Line: My daughter is a lioness, taken as a cat Subject(s): Daughters DAUGHTER First Line: I was awakened from a dream Last Line: My daughter is a lioness, taken as a cat Subject(s): Daughters DEA EX MACHINA Poem Text First Line: My love is like mies van der rohe's Last Line: Her supple shoulders call Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Mies Van Der Rohe, Ludwig (1886-1969); Poetry & Poets DEA EX MACHINA First Line: My love is like mies van der rohe's Last Line: She simply couldn't be, my love, %a millimeter cuter Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Mies Van Der Rohe, Ludwig (1886-1969); Poetry And Poets DEATH IN VENICE First Line: On one of those rare streets without a view Last Line: How will the ambulance come, we wondered %through all that stone whose veins are dirty water DECEMBER, OUTDOORS Poem Text First Line: Clouds like fish shedding scales are stretched Subject(s): Winter; Nature DECOR Poem Text First Line: Brown dominates this bar Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Brown (color); Pubs; Taverns; Saloons DECOR First Line: Brown dominates this bar Last Line: As if life is a long curing Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Brown (color) DEITIES AND BEASTS Poem Text First Line: Tall atlas, jupiter, hercules, thor Last Line: Is never mentioned in the press at all Subject(s): Cold War; Missiles; Guided Missiles; Ballistic Missiles DEITIES AND BEASTS First Line: Tall atlas, jupiter, hercules, thor Last Line: Is never mentioned in the press at all Subject(s): Cold War; Missiles DEJA, INDEED First Line: I sometimes think that I shall never view Subject(s): Deja Vu DESCENT OF MR. ALDEZ First Line: That cloud - ambiguous, not Last Line: Smiles knowingly, and dissipates Subject(s): Clouds DIFFERENT ENDING First Line: Eyes, look your last DILEMMA IN THE DELTA First Line: Osiris pales; the palace walls Last Line: Egyptian though your wicked heart is, %I can't resist a nose so nobly roman Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Noses DOG'S DEATH Poem Text Recitation First Line: She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Dead, The DOG'S DEATH First Line: She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car Last Line: To a newspaper carelessly left there. Good dog Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs DOWN TIME Poem Text First Line: Wiating for tom, the boy who can fix my computer if anyone can Subject(s): Aging DOWN TIME First Line: Waiting for tom, the boy who can fix my computer if Last Line: My neighbor's smoke has stopped rising; his fire, too, %is down DREAM AND REALITY Poem Text First Line: I am in a room Last Line: And this is reality Subject(s): Reality DREAM AND REALITY First Line: I am in a room Last Line: And this is reality Subject(s): Reality DREAM OBJECTS First Line: Strangest is their reality Last Line: Were filled to perfection by beggars we fear DUE RESPECT Poem Text First Line: Come moo, dear moo, let's you and me Last Line: And that's the way it shapes up, moo Subject(s): Language; Mothers; Words; Vocabulary DUE RESPECT First Line: Come moo, dear moo, let's you and me Last Line: And that's the way it shapes up, moo Subject(s): Language; Mothers DUET ON MARS First Line: Said spirit to opportunity Last Line: And meet before we die!' DUET, WITH MUFFLED BRAKE DRUMS Poem Text First Line: Where gray walks slope through shadows shaped like lace Last Line: Two gold and velvet notes – there rolls met royce Subject(s): Automobiles; Rolls, Charles Stewart (1877-1910); Royce, Frederick Henry (1863-1933); Cars DUET, WITH MUFFLED BRAKE DRUMS First Line: Where gray walks slope through shadows shaped like lace Last Line: I'd rather - much - make engineering history Subject(s): Automobiles; Rolls, Charles Stewart (1877-1910); Royce, Frederick Henry (1863-1933) DUTCH CLEANSER Poem Text First Line: My grandmother used it, dutch cleanser Last Line: The hour hand pushes around Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants DUTCH CLEANSER First Line: My grandmother used it, dutch cleanser Last Line: Around the can, like a minute hand %the hour hand pushes around Subject(s): Cleansing Agents EACH SUMMER'S SWALLOWS Poem Text First Line: How do they know Last Line: Us even in air Subject(s): Swallows EACH SUMMER'S SWALLOWS First Line: How do they know Last Line: Again is not there Subject(s): Swallows EARTHWORM Poem Text First Line: We pattern our heaven Last Line: Us even in air Subject(s): Worms EARTHWORM First Line: We pattern our heaven Last Line: Claustrophobia attacks %us even in air Subject(s): Worms EAST HAMPTON-BOSTON BY AIR Poem Text First Line: Oh dear, / the plane is so small the baggage Subject(s): Air Travel EAST HAMPTON-BOSTON BY AIR First Line: Oh dear, %the plane is so small the baggage Last Line: Us like an afterbirth Subject(s): Air Travel ELDERLY SEX Poem Text First Line: Life's buried treasure's deeper still Subject(s): Old Age; Love - Erotic ELDERLY SEX First Line: Life's buried treasure's buried deeper still Last Line: By lapfuls where, with dry precision, now %attentive irritation yields one pearl ELM Poem Text First Line: My thousand-thousand-leaved Last Line: Returning to dye the night Subject(s): Elm Trees ELM First Line: My thousand-thousand-leaved Last Line: Returning to dye the night Subject(s): Elm Trees ENEMIES OF A HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Dry rot intruding where the wood is wet Last Line: Carpenter ants; adultery; drink; death Subject(s): Houses ENEMIES OF A HOUSE First Line: Dry rot intruding where the wood is wet Last Line: Carpenter ants; adultery; drink; death Subject(s): Houses ENERGY: A VILLANELLE Poem Text First Line: The logs give back, in burning, solar fire Last Line: Nothing is lost but , still the cost grows higher Subject(s): Gasoline ENERGY: A VILLANELLE First Line: The logs give back, in burning, solar fire Last Line: Nothing is lost but, still, the cost grows higher Subject(s): Gasoline ENGLISH TRAIN COMPARTMENT Poem Text First Line: These faces make a chapel where worship comes easy Last Line: As across the eye of a bathysphere surfacing Subject(s): England; English ENGLISH TRAIN COMPARTMENT First Line: These faces make a chapel where worship comes easy Last Line: As across the eye of a bathysphere surfacing Subject(s): England EROTIC EPIGRAMS Poem Text First Line: The landscape of love Subject(s): Love EROTIC EPIGRAMS: 1 First Line: The landscape of love Last Line: One's own breath fogs EROTIC EPIGRAMS: 2 First Line: Iseult, ot tristan Last Line: But he knows has been dispatched EROTIC EPIGRAMS: 3 First Line: Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover Last Line: Until he produces a skull EURYDICE Poem Text First Line: Negress serene though underground Last Line: Tugged northward into night Subject(s): African Americans - Women EURYDICE First Line: Negress serene though underground Last Line: You gone, negress serene, %tugged northward into night Subject(s): African Americans - Women EVEN EGRETS ERR First Line: Egregious was the egret's error, very Last Line: It saw, and reaped extreme egritude EVENING CONCERT, SAINTE-CHAPELLE Poem Text First Line: The celebrated windows flamed with light Subject(s): Music & Musicians EVENING CONCERT, SAINTE-CHAPELLE First Line: The celebrated windows flamed with light Last Line: Were cased in thin but solid sheets of lead EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER Poem Text First Line: Pearl avenue runs past the high-school lot Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Basketball; Sports; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER First Line: Pearl avenue runs past the high-school lot Last Line: Beyond her face toward bright applauding tiers %of necco wafers, nibs, and juju beads Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Basketball; Sports EXPOSE First Line: Le monde regrets it must report Last Line: I still am drawn to venus, rather Subject(s): Venus (planet) EXPOSURE Poem Text First Line: Please do not tell me there is no voodoo Subject(s): Photography & Photographers EXPOSURE First Line: Please do not tell me there is no voodoo Last Line: Her real heart stops, you will know FALL First Line: The undertaker, who was with the local minister Last Line: Oh mama,' I said aloud, though I never called %her 'mama,' 'I didn't take very good care of you.' Subject(s): Mothers FAREWELL TO THE SHOPPING DISTRICT OF ANTIBES First Line: Next week, alas, boulangerie Last Line: Journaux will ask, though I'm away, %'un autre mari pour b.B.?' Subject(s): Antibes, France FARGO Poem Text First Line: The fertillest soil this side of the tigris Last Line: Rewards those god's grandeur does not drive mad Subject(s): Fargo, North Dakota FARGO First Line: The fertillest soil this side of the tigris Last Line: Rewards those god's grandeur does not drive mad Subject(s): Fargo, North Dakota FEBURARY 22 Poem Text First Line: Three boys, american, in dungarees FELLATIO Poem Text First Line: How beautiful to think Last Line: With a silver silo Subject(s): Love - Erotic FELLATIO First Line: How beautiful to think Last Line: With a silver silo Subject(s): Erotic Love FEVER Poem Text First Line: I have brough back a good message from the land of 102 degrees Last Line: That some secrets ard hidden from health Subject(s): Sickness; Illness FEVER First Line: I have brough back a good message from the land of 102 degrees Last Line: That some secrets are hidden from health Subject(s): Sickness FIREWORKS First Line: These spasms and chrysanthemums of light are like emotions Last Line: The pattern on the playroom wall %of tame and stable stars FLECKLINGS First Line: The way our american wildflowers hover Last Line: Proclaim the violence underfoot discovered Subject(s): Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) FLIGHT TO LIMBO Poem Text First Line: The line didn't move, though there were not Last Line: That some secrets are hidden from health Subject(s): Air Travel FLIGHT TO LIMBO First Line: The line didn't move, though there were not Last Line: While ill-paid wraiths mopped circles of night %into the motionless floor Subject(s): Air Travel FLIRT First Line: The flirt is an antelope of flame Last Line: Bound in warm plush at her white nape's neck FLURRY First Line: There is an excited non-serious kind of snowstorm Last Line: His duty to eros fulfilled, the world none the worse for it Subject(s): Snow FLY Poem Text First Line: What have we done this winter to deserve Last Line: Swat not, not I at the moment, all eye Subject(s): Flies FLY First Line: What have we done this winter to deserve Last Line: Swat not, not I at the moment, all eye Subject(s): Flies FOOD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It is always there Last Line: Whatever is you, is pure Subject(s): Food & Eating FOOD First Line: It is always there Subject(s): Food And Eating FRITILLARY First Line: The fritillary, %fickle, wary Last Line: Careless of etymologies FROM ABOVE First Line: These pink-white acres of overcast Subject(s): Air Travel FROST First Line: That snowless, warmthless january sucked Last Line: Salute it, listen to it, and forgive %intrusive life was we forgive our own FURNITURE First Line: To things we are ghosts, soft shapes Last Line: A blur, a mere smear on the unflinching stone GENERIC COLLEGE First Line: The statue of the founder wears a green Last Line: Well, time to brush the teeth and face the students Subject(s): Universities & Colleges GLASSES Poem Text First Line: I wear them. They help me. But I Last Line: From tabletops, and women frown Subject(s): Eyeglasses; Spectacles GLASSES First Line: I wear them. They help me. But I Last Line: From tabletops, and women frown Subject(s): Eyeglasses GOLFERS Poem Text First Line: One-gloved beasts in cleats, they come clattering Last Line: Mere men, old boys, lost, the last hole a horror Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOLFERS First Line: One-gloved beasts in cleats, they come clattering Last Line: Mere men, old boys, lost, the last hole a horror Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOODBYE, GOTEBORG Poem Text First Line: The countries we depart will manage without us Last Line: As if they relish our absence from this eden Subject(s): Sweden GOODBYE, GOTEBORG First Line: The countries we depart will manage without us Subject(s): Sweden GRADATIONS OF BLACK (THIRD FLOOR, WHITNEY MUSEUM) Poem Text First Line: Ad reinhardt's black, in 'abstract painting 33' Last Line: And lets leak through the dead white underneath Subject(s): Black (color); Kline, Franz (1910-1962); Paintings And Painters; Reinhardt, Ad (1913-1967); Rothko, Mark (1903-1970); Stella, Frank (b. 1936); Still, Clyfford (1904-1980); Reinhardt, Adolf Frederick GRADATIONS OF BLACK (THIRD FLOOR, WHITNEY MUSEUM) First Line: Ad reinhardt's black, in 'abstract painting 33' Last Line: And lets leak through the dead white underneath Subject(s): Black (color); Kline, Franz (1910-1962); Paintings And Painters; Reinhardt, Ad (1913-1967); Rothko, Mark (1903-1970); Stella, Frank (b. 1936); Still, Clyfford (1904-1980) GRANDDAUGHTER, FIRST MEETING Poem Text First Line: Not the best place for our meeting, this Last Line: I feel you around my finger like a ring Subject(s): Grandchildren GRANITE First Line: New england doesn't kid around Last Line: When I'm blinder than stone Subject(s): Graves; New England; Stones GREAT SCARF OF BIRDS First Line: Ripe apples were caught like red fish in the nets Last Line: Melting all thought, the southward cloud withdrew into the air Subject(s): Birds GRIEF OF CAFETERIAS First Line: Everyone sitting along with a sorrow Subject(s): Restaurants HANDKERCHIEFS OF KHAIBAR KHAN First Line: In nishapur did khaibar khan Last Line: With candor, quite diarmingly Subject(s): Iran; Petroleum HEAD OF A GIRL, AT THE MET Poem Text First Line: Vermeer's girl in your turban and pearl: Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Museums; Time; Art Gallerys HEADING FOR NANDI Poem Text First Line: Out of honolulu Last Line: Or would be, but for me Subject(s): Air Travel HEADING FOR NANDI First Line: Out of honolulu Last Line: Or would be, but for me Subject(s): Air Travel HEDGE First Line: In boyhood's verdure, as if underwater Last Line: The yard, so small, barer than an old rug HIGH-HEARTS First Line: Proud elephant, by accident of bulk Last Line: Too high and low at once, too hard and soft Subject(s): Elephants; Giraffes; Hearts HOEING Poem Text First Line: I sometimes fear the younger generation will be deprived Last Line: Has never rendered thus the world fecunder Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening HOEING First Line: I sometimes fear the younger generation will be deprived Last Line: Ignorant the wise boy who %has never rendered thus the world fecunder [or, has never performed this Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening HOME MOVIES First Line: How the children have changed! Rapt, we stare Last Line: To that calm light. The brief film ends Subject(s): Family Life HOSPITAL Poem Text First Line: Benign big blond machine beyond all price, Subject(s): Hospitals; Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The HOT WATER First Line: Imagine an empty house - a mansion, vast Last Line: Hot water, here among the icy stars HOUSE GROWING First Line: The old house grows, adding rooms of silence Last Line: The heartstones fatten on the vanished Subject(s): Home HOW TO BE UNCLE SAM Poem Text First Line: My father knew Subject(s): Fathers; Parades HOW TO BE UNCLE SAM First Line: My father knew Last Line: Mitts off %uncle sam! HUMANITIES COURSE Poem Text First Line: Professor varder handles dante Last Line: The “pageantry” of “western thought.” Subject(s): Harvard University HUMANITIES COURSE First Line: Professor varder handles dante Last Line: The 'pageantry' of 'western thought' Subject(s): Harvard University I MISSED HIS BOOK, BUT I READ HIS NAME Poem Text First Line: Though authors are a dreadful clan Last Line: "of anantanarayanan — Subject(s): Writing & Writers I MISSED HIS BOOK, BUT I READ HIS NAME First Line: Though authors are a dreadful clan Last Line: M. Anantanarayanan Subject(s): Writing And Writers IDYLL Poem Text First Line: Within a quad of aging brick IMAGINABLE CONFERENCE First Line: Exchanging gentle grips, the men retire Last Line: Vistas of lilac weighted their shrewd lids Subject(s): Language; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) IN EXTREMIS Poem Text First Line: I saw my toes the other day Last Line: I hid them quickly in my shoes Subject(s): Toes IN EXTREMIS First Line: I saw my toes the other day Last Line: Now, gnarled and pale, each said 'j'saccuse!' - %I hid them quickly in my shoes Subject(s): Toes IN MEMORIAM Poem Text First Line: Fate lifts us up so she can hurl Last Line: Watch o'er the happier of his lives: say, does he ewake, or sleep? Subject(s): Books; Motion Pictures; Reading; Movies; Cinema IN MEMORIAM First Line: Fate lifts us up so she can hurl Last Line: Say, does he wake, or sleep? Subject(s): Books; Motion Pictures IN MEMORIAM FELIS FELIS First Line: The pussycat on causeway street is closed Last Line: And form a cloud as fertile as the id Subject(s): Pornography IN PRAISE OF (C10H9O5)X Poem Text First Line: My tie is made of terylene Last Line: Shall never be unknotted Subject(s): Chemistry; Synthetic Fabrics IN PRAISE OF (C10H9O5)X First Line: My tie is made of terylene Last Line: Shall never be unknotted Subject(s): Chemistry; Synthetic Fabrics IN THE CEMETERY HIGH ABOVE SHILLINGTON First Line: We fifth-grade boys would thread tricolor strips Last Line: The pathway back with sharp-edged swords of stone INDIANAPOLIS First Line: A passion for roman order seized the plains Last Line: And porch-swing sex like a window box in bloom Subject(s): Indianapolis, Indiana INSOMNIA THE GEM OF THE OCEAN Poem Text First Line: When I lay me down to sleep Last Line: In restless sympathy here lie Subject(s): Waterbeds INSOMNIA THE GEM OF THE OCEAN First Line: When I lay me down to sleep Last Line: Two bags of water,it and I %in restless sympathy here lie Subject(s): Waterbeds INVALID KEYSTROKE First Line: Wee. Word. Processor,.Is.It.Not Last Line: Has.By.Some.Error.Cancelled.Me IOWA Poem Text First Line: White barns this morning match the trees Last Line: Our fruited plains as virgin as the moon Subject(s): Iowa IOWA First Line: White barns this morning match the trees Last Line: Our fruited plain as virgin as the moon Subject(s): Iowa ISLAND CITIES Poem Text First Line: You see them from airplanes, nameless green islands Last Line: Dewdrops of longing, jewels boxed in these blocks Subject(s): Air Travel ISLAND CITIES First Line: You see them from airplanes, nameless green islands Last Line: Dewdrops of longing, jewels, boxed in these blocks Subject(s): Air Travel ISLAND SUN First Line: When tghe albums of this century's intermingling Last Line: Whose back is gilden each time the planet turns Subject(s): Vacation JACOPO PONTORMO Poem Text First Line: Pontormo, hailed by michelangelo Last Line: Became the painted shell of disbelief Subject(s): Pontormo, Jacobo (1494-1557) JACOPO PONTORMO First Line: Pontormo, hailed by michelangelo Last Line: Became the painted shell of disbelief JANUARY Poem Text First Line: The days are short Subject(s): January JANUARY First Line: The days are short Last Line: The radiator %purrs all day JESUS AND ELVIS First Line: Twenty years after the death, st. Paul Last Line: Of a lovely young man, reckless and cool %as a lily. He lives. We live. He lives JOLLY GREENE GIANT First Line: You are large, father graham,' the young fan opined Last Line: And that is the heart of the matter Subject(s): Greene, Graham (1904-1991) JULY First Line: Deep pools of shade beneath dense maples Last Line: The ant-children busy and lazy below Subject(s): Summer JUNE Poem Text First Line: The sun is rich Subject(s): June; Nature KENNETHS First Line: Rexroth and patchen and fearing - their mothers Last Line: What pops into heads each named kenneth, redundantly Subject(s): Kenneth (name) KLIMT AND SCHIELE CONFRONT THE CUNT First Line: That women in their marble glory still Last Line: The flesh is gaunt and splotchy but alive, %and appetite torments its toothless mouth Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Reproductive System L'ECOLE BERLITZ First Line: Mademoiselle printemps, my sometimes instructress Last Line: She said, and I couldn't think of a word L.A. Poem Text First Line: Lo, at its center one can find oneself Last Line: To this waste of angels, of ever-widening gaps Subject(s): Los Angeles L.A. First Line: Lo, at its center one can find oneself Last Line: To this waste of angels, of ever-widening gaps Subject(s): Los Angeles LAMENT, FOR COCOA Poem Text First Line: The scum has come Last Line: Is come for good Subject(s): Cocoa LAMENT, FOR COCOA First Line: The scum has come Last Line: Is come for good Subject(s): Cocoa LAMPLIGHT First Line: Sent straight from suns Last Line: Of our harrowed needs, %and conversations grow LANDING IN THE RAIN AT LA GUARDIA Poem Text First Line: The death-grip of the chalky clouds lets slip Last Line: Unpreaching stony water. Whumppf; we're down Subject(s): Air Travel; La Guardia Airport, New York City LANDING IN THE RAIN AT LA GUARDIA First Line: The death-grip of the chalky clouds lets slip Last Line: The world's fair globe, a toy. Shea stadium. %upreaching stony water. Whumpff: we're down Subject(s): Air Travel; La Guardia Airport, New York City LATE JANUARY Poem Text First Line: The elms' silhouettes Last Line: Time's sharp edge is slitting another envelope Subject(s): Winter LATE JANUARY First Line: The elms' silhouettes Last Line: Time's sharp edge is slitting %another envelope Subject(s): Winter LEAVING CHURCH EARLY First Line: What, I wonder, were we hurrying to do Subject(s): Churches; Family Life; Forgiveness; Worship; Cathedrals; Relatives; Clemency LEAVING CHURCH EARLY First Line: What, I wonder, were we hurrying to do Last Line: We had no time, of course, we have no time %to do all the forgiving that we must do Subject(s): Churches; Family Life; Forgiveness; Worship LES SAINTS NOUVEAUX Poem Text First Line: Proust, doing penance Subject(s): Brancusi, Constantin (1876-1957); Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Paintings And Painters; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Sculpture & Sculptors LES SAINTS NOUVEAUX First Line: Proust, doing penance Last Line: Theologies of vision Subject(s): Brancusi, Constantin (1876-1957); Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Paintings And Painters; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Sculpture And Sculptors LIGHT SWITCHES Poem Text First Line: Lord, but one wearies of flipping them Subject(s): Light Switches LIGHT SWITCHES First Line: Lord, but one wearies of flipping them Last Line: With the morning shave and the midnight douche Subject(s): Light Switches LITERARY DUBLIN First Line: Damn near where'er you look, a writer's ghost Last Line: And daedalus's execration hung %above the city like a blind man's blessing Subject(s): Behan, Brendan (1923-1964); Dramatists; Dublin, Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Plays And Playwrights; Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) LITTLE POEMS First Line: I woke up tousled, one strap falling Last Line: The caption read, 'alone, kim cries' LIVING WITH A WIFE Poem Text First Line: Barefoot in purple pants Last Line: Where I would scour my teeth Subject(s): Love – Marital; Family Life LIVING WITH A WIFE, SELS. Subject(s): Marriage LONG SHADOW Poem Text First Line: Crossing from a chore as the day Last Line: Makes a path from my feet; I am my path Subject(s): Shadows LONG SHADOW First Line: Crossing from a chore as the day Last Line: Makes a path from my feet; I am my path Subject(s): Shadows MAPLES IN A SPRUCE FOREST Poem Text First Line: They live by attenuation Last Line: In its mouth my body tastes like stale milk Subject(s): Maple Trees MAPLES IN A SPRUCE FOREST First Line: They live by attenuation Last Line: A little while, the fretted gloom %is dappled with chartreuse Subject(s): Maple Trees MARCH: A BIRTHDAY POEM Poem Text First Line: My child as yet unborn, the doctors nod Last Line: You, red and blind and blank, gulp the air Subject(s): March (month) MARCH: A BIRTHDAY POEM First Line: My child as yet unborn, the doctors nod Last Line: When on that day without a yesterday %you, red and blind andblank, gulp the air Subject(s): March (month) MARCHING THROUGH A NOVEL Poem Text First Line: Each morning my characters Last Line: The marsh of blank paper Subject(s): Novels & Novelists MARCHING THROUGH A NOVEL First Line: Each morning my characters Last Line: Forward. Believe me, I love them %though I march them to finish them off Subject(s): Novels And Novelists MARRIAGE COUNSEL Poem Text First Line: Why marry ogre Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE COUNSEL First Line: Why marry ogre Last Line: Ogre? I wonder MAY Poem Text First Line: Now children may Last Line: Look at some baseball / on tv Subject(s): Spring; Baseball MAY First Line: Now children may Last Line: Look at some baseball %on tv Subject(s): Spring MEDITATION ON A NEWS ITEM First Line: Yes, yes, and there is even a photograph Last Line: Administered by the queen of hearts Subject(s): Castro, Fidel (b. 1926); Fishing And Fishermen; Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) MELANCHOLY OF STORM WINDOWS First Line: We touch them at the raw turns Last Line: Ambiguous, we have no place %where we, once screwed, can say, that's it Subject(s): Storm Windows MELTING First Line: Airily ice congeals on high Last Line: The dead storm's soul to the unmoved sea MENAGERIE AT VERSAILLES IN 1775 First Line: Cygnets dark; their black feet Last Line: And turned his long bill sidewise Subject(s): Animals; Versailles, Frances MIAMI First Line: As in some car chase on sunday night tv Last Line: The moon keeps skidding through the gilded clouds Subject(s): Miami, Florida MIDPOINT First Line: Of nothing bur me, me Last Line: Which brought me this far; henceforth, if I can, %I must impersonate a reasonable man Subject(s): Aging; Family Life; Life; Self MILADY REFLECTS Poem Text First Line: When I was known as aphrodite, men Subject(s): Venus (planet); Venus (goddess) MILADY REFLECTS First Line: When I was known as aphrodite, men Last Line: I think I'll have them disconnect the phone MILLIPEDE First Line: Oi! Oi! Noli me tangere, no argument Last Line: Poor millipede - he must have been a he - %to catch the eye of the real housekeeper Subject(s): Insects MIME First Line: On the black stage he Last Line: Fall halted up, up. Praise be %mimesis mimesis mimeis mime MINORITY REPORT Poem Text First Line: My beloved land Last Line: You are the only land Subject(s): United States; America MINORITY REPORT First Line: My beloved land Last Line: You are the only land Subject(s): United States MISS MOORE AT ASSEMBLY First Line: A 'chattering, gum-snapping audience' Last Line: Say, 'I've always wanted to play a snare drum'? Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972) MITES First Line: A house-dust mite (dermatophagipodes farinae) Subject(s): Mites MOBILE OF BIRDS Poem Text First Line: There is something / in their planetary weave that is comforting Last Line: Alone in their suspenseful world Subject(s): Birds MOBILE OF BIRDS First Line: There is something %in their planetary weave that is comforting Last Line: Alone in their suspenseful world Subject(s): Birds MODERATE First Line: Soulage's space is deep and wide Last Line: I harked, and heard, and here I live, %delighted to be relative Subject(s): Art And Artists MODEST MOUND OF BONES First Line: That short-sleeved man, our Last Line: Is flesh to be hung from such elegeant balconies? Subject(s): Bones MODIGLIANI'S DEATH MASK; FOGG MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE Poem Text First Line: The shell of a doll's head Last Line: An oddly favored grapefruit rind Subject(s): Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) MODIGLIANI'S DEATH MASK; FOGG MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE First Line: The shell of a doll's head Last Line: Preserved inside its glass case like %an oddly favored grapefruit rind Subject(s): Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) MONEY Poem Text First Line: Money is such a treat. Subject(s): Money MOONS OF JUPITER First Line: Callisto, ganymede, europa, io Last Line: To stop the inward chant, this is not real Subject(s): Jupiter (planet) MOSQUITO First Line: On the fine wire of her whine she walked Last Line: By side we, murderer and murdered, sleep Subject(s): Mosquitoes MOUNTAIN IMPASSE Poem Text First Line: Stravinsky looks upon the mountain Last Line: Igor, you never listen Subject(s): Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971) MOUNTAIN IMPASSE First Line: Stravinsky looks upon the mountain Last Line: Igor, you never listen Subject(s): Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971) MOUSE SEX Poem Text First Line: In my cellar the poisoned mice, thirsty to death Last Line: Rises about us like a hostile house Subject(s): Mice MOUSE SEX First Line: In my cellar the poisoned mice, thirsty to death Last Line: We enter into one another; the universe %rises about us like a hostile house Subject(s): Mice MOVIE HOUSE First Line: View it, by day, from the back Last Line: Could secrete a pyramid %to sight the stars by Subject(s): Motion Pictures MR. HIGH-MIND Poem Text First Line: Eleven rogues and he to judge a fool Last Line: To see it coinciding with the rest Subject(s): Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Names MR. HIGH-MIND First Line: Eleven rogues and he to judge a fool Last Line: And for a passing moment is distressed %to see it coinciding with the rest Subject(s): Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Names MUNICH Poem Text First Line: Here hitler had his first success, disguised Last Line: In markets far removed from earth and blood Subject(s): Munich, Germany MUNICH First Line: Here hitler had his first success, disguised Last Line: The vegetables are stacked like giant jewels %in markets far removed from earth and blood Subject(s): Munich, Germany MY CHILDREN AT THE DUMP First Line: The day before divorce, I take my children Last Line: Love it now, but we can't take it home Subject(s): Refuse And Refuse Disposal NAKED APE First Line: The dinosaur died, and small Last Line: With grasping hand and saucy wife, %the upright life Subject(s): Anthropology NATURAL QUESTION Poem Text First Line: What rich joke does Last Line: As if to tickle it forth? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening NATURAL QUESTION First Line: What rich joke does Last Line: As if to tickle it forth? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening NATURE First Line: Is such a touching child Last Line: If it had not grown alone NEOTENY First Line: According to webster's, the condition Last Line: And the axolotl ('esteemed for food in mexico,' %says webster's) covets our lovableness Subject(s): Language NEW ORLEANS Poem Text First Line: Fruit of a french scam, the new world being Last Line: And bad rock outshouts jazz's gracious ghost Subject(s): New Orleans NEWLYWEDS First Line: We're married,' said eddie Last Line: Said, eddie, 'yeah, mebbe' Subject(s): Fisher, Eddie (b. 1928); Marriage; Reynolds, Debbie (b. 1932) NEWS FROM THE UNDERWORLD First Line: They haven't found the w Last Line: The thing called 'strangeness' is preserved Subject(s): Physics NIGHT FLIGHT, OVER OCEAN Poem Text First Line: Sweet fish tinned in the innocence of sleep Last Line: Dim swimmers borne toward the touchdowb spank Subject(s): Air Travel NIGHT FLIGHT, OVER OCEAN First Line: Sweet fish tinned in the innocence of sleep Last Line: Dim swimmers borne toward the touchdown spank Subject(s): Air Travel NOT CANCELLED YET Poem Text First Line: Some honorary day Subject(s): Postage Stamps NOT CANCELLED YET First Line: Some honorary day Last Line: And a flickering of fingers, letting go NOTE TO THE PREVIOUS TENANTS Poem Text First Line: Thank you for leaving the bar of soap Last Line: And dried in the air like the floor Subject(s): Moving & Movers NOTE TO THE PREVIOUS TENANTS First Line: Thank you for leaving the bar of soap Subject(s): Moving And Movers NOVEMBER Poem Text First Line: The light the sun withdraws the leaves replace Last Line: Misstrums me, or tries a new tune Subject(s): November NOVEMBER First Line: The light the sun withdraws the leaves replace Last Line: With brightness at the window like a face Subject(s): November NUDA NATENS First Line: Anthea, your shy flanks in starlight Last Line: Bent silver about your pudenda Subject(s): Erotic Love OCTOBER First Line: The month is amber, %gold and brown Last Line: Go haunt a night %of pumpkin grins ODDLY LOVELY DAY ALONE First Line: The kids went off to school Last Line: If people don't entertain you, %nature will ODE First Line: I'm going to write a novel, hey Last Line: And thereby spite the noes Subject(s): Novels And Novelists ODE III.II: HORACE Poem Text First Line: Let the boy, timber-tough from vigorous soldering Last Line: Though he has the head start, and her step is hesitant Subject(s): Soldiers; Death ODE TO ROT Poem Text Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence OHIO: 1 Poem Text First Line: Rolling along through ohio Last Line: The stars sit athwart our thoughts / just so Subject(s): Ohio OHIO: 1 First Line: Rolling along through ohio Last Line: The stars sit athwart our thoughts %just so Subject(s): Ohio OHIO: 2 First Line: To be fair, though, about that day Subject(s): Ohio OHIO: 2 First Line: To be fair, though, about that day Last Line: Like hammered melody the empty road %soared east and west. No static. Air Subject(s): Ohio OLD-FASHIONED LIGHTNING ROD First Line: Green upright rope Last Line: I dare you OMEGA Poem Text First Line: This little lightweight manacle whereby Last Line: And add me to the unseen trapper’s kill Subject(s): Watches OMEGA First Line: This little lightweight manacle whereby Last Line: And add me to the unseen trapper's kill Subject(s): Watches ON AN ISLAND Poem Text First Line: Islanded, my wife turned on the radio for news of home Last Line: A still moon plates the sealed spot where they were Subject(s): Vacation ON AN ISLAND First Line: Islanded, my wife turned on the radio for news of home Last Line: A still moon plates the sealed spot where they were Subject(s): Vacation ON INCLUSION OF MINIATURE DINOSAURS. BREAKFAST CEREAL BOXES Poem Text First Line: A post-historic herbivore Last Line: And thus begins the dawn of man Subject(s): Cereals, Prepared ON INCLUSION OF MINIATURE DINOSAURS. BREAKFAST CEREAL BOXES First Line: A post-historic herbivore Last Line: And thus begins the dawn of man Subject(s): Cereals, Prepared ON THE RECENTLY MINTED HUNDRED-CENT PIECE First Line: Whatg have they done to our dollar, darling Last Line: Have done done our doll dollar Subject(s): Money ON THE ROAD Poem Text First Line: Those dutiful dogtrots down airport corridors Last Line: At whose end a man just like you guards the grail Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails ON THE WAY TO DELPHI Poem Text First Line: Oedipus slew his father near this muddy field Last Line: All out: parnassus. The oracle's voice is wild Subject(s): Delphi; Castri ON THE WAY TO DELPHI First Line: Oedipus slew his father near this muddy field Last Line: All out: parnassus. The oracle's voice is wild Subject(s): Delphi ONE TOUGH KERATOSIS Poem Text First Line: My hands have had their fun, and now must suffer Last Line: A tidy rosy trace has still to heal Subject(s): Hands ONE TOUGH KERATOSIS First Line: My hands have had their fun, and now must suffer Last Line: A tidy rosy trace has still to heal Subject(s): Hands ONE-YEAR-OLD First Line: Wakes wet; is prompty toileted Last Line: And jargons, jargons all day long Subject(s): Babies OPEN LETTER TO VOYAGER II First Line: Dear voyager: %this is to thank you for Last Line: Sincerely yours, %a fan Subject(s): Space And Space Travel OPTICAL HYPERTENSION First Line: Your optic nerve is small and slightly cupped' Last Line: Screwed to taut bliss by what raw sight absorbs ORIGIN OF LAUGHTER First Line: Hunched in the dark beneath his mother's heart Last Line: Will half-protective flesh, a laugh is born Subject(s): Laughter ORTHODONTIA First Line: You see them everywhere, the grinning martyrs Last Line: To what end? Lips whose curves can barely dig %to parallel perfections that look false Subject(s): Braces (orthodontia) ORVIETO Poem Text First Line: The train stopped. We stood at a taxi stand Last Line: Hills, fields, a train, not ours, glinting toward rome Subject(s): Italy ORVIETO First Line: The train stopped. We stood at a taxi stand Last Line: Hills, fields. A train, threadlike, glinted toward rome OVERHEAD RACK First Line: Worst of all, and most hated by me Last Line: Oh, would I were a flying macrophage! OXFORD, THIRTY YEARS AFTER Poem Text First Line: The emperors' heads around the sheldonian Last Line: Old england's sky of hurrying gray stones Subject(s): Oxford University OXFORD, THIRTY YEARS AFTER First Line: The emperors' heads around the sheldonian Last Line: Old england's sky of hurrying gray stones Subject(s): Oxford University PAIN Poem Text First Line: Pain flattens the world - its bubbles Last Line: Pain leads us to consider anew Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN First Line: Pain flattens the world - its bubbles Last Line: Pain leads us to consider anew Subject(s): Pain PAINTED WIVES Poem Text First Line: Soot, house-dust, and tar didn't go far Last Line: She smiles through the brushstrokes at someone still there Subject(s): Marriage; Paintings And Painters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PAINTED WIVES First Line: Soot, house-dust, and tar didn't go far Last Line: She smiles through the brushstrokes at someone still there Subject(s): Marriage; Paintings And Painters PALE BLISS Poem Text First Line: Splitting a bottle of white wine Last Line: In the middle of the day Subject(s): Love - Erotic PALE BLISS First Line: Splitting a bottle of white wine Last Line: With a naked woman %in the middle of the day Subject(s): Erotic Love PARTY KNEE Poem Text First Line: To drink in moderation, and to smoke Last Line: A buffered aspirin for a splitting leg Subject(s): Parties; Human Behavior PARTY KNEE First Line: To drink in moderation, and to smoke Last Line: A buffered aspirin for a splitting leg Subject(s): Parties PASTORAL PEAR LIKE A POTATO First Line: Was it worms, having once bitten Last Line: Here in the sun of a somewhat cloudy morning Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees PENUMBRAE Poem Text First Line: The shadows have their seasons, too Last Line: Like a stairway that does not rise Subject(s): Shadows PENUMBRAE First Line: The shadows have their seasons, too Last Line: Like a stairway that does not rise Subject(s): Shadows PERFECTION WASTED Poem Text First Line: And another regrettable thing about death Last Line: Imitators and descendants aren't the same Subject(s): Life PERFECTION WASTED First Line: And another regrettable thing about death Last Line: Who will do it again? That's it; no one; %imitators and descendants aren't the same Subject(s): Life PHENOMENA First Line: The tide goes up and down in the creek Last Line: The flame is furious in its cell below. Under the moon the cold stones wait PHILOLOGICAL First Line: The british puss demurely mews Last Line: As every schoolchild ought to know PIET First Line: How strange to see a career straight as an arrow! Last Line: That proved his dream to be (bull's-eye!) the fact Subject(s): Business; Labor And Laborers PILLOW Poem Text First Line: Plump mate to my head, you alone absorb Last Line: When the morning discloses your wrinkles Subject(s): Pillows PILLOW First Line: Plump mate to my head, you alone absorb Last Line: The strange night with me, and are depressed %when the morning discloses your wrinkles Subject(s): Pillows PLANTING A MAILBOX Poem Text First Line: Prepare the ground when maple buds have burst Last Line: A branch post office blooms Subject(s): Mailboxes; Moving & Movers PLANTING A MAILBOX First Line: Prepare the ground when maple buds have burst Last Line: A branch post office blooms Subject(s): Mailboxes; Moving And Movers PLANTING TREES Poem Text First Line: Our last connection with the mythic Last Line: Told me over and over, spreading Subject(s): Trees PLANTING TREES First Line: Our last connection with the mythic Last Line: Told over and over, spreading Subject(s): Trees PLAYER PIANO Poem Text First Line: My stick fingers, click with a snicker Last Line: Misstrums me, or tries a new tune Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PLAYER PIANO First Line: My stick fingers, click with a snicker Last Line: Misstrums me, or tries a new tune Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PLOW CEMETERY Poem Text First Line: The plow: one of the three-mile inns that nicked Last Line: Plow cemetery, downhill from the church Subject(s): Cemeteries; Family Life; Grandparents; Homecoming; Graveyards; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers PLOW CEMETERY First Line: The plow: one of the three-mile inns that nicked Last Line: My life in time will seal shut like a scar Subject(s): Cemeteries; Family Life; Grandparents; Homecoming POEM FOR A FAR LAND First Line: Russia, most feminine of lands Last Line: Between what was and that which is Subject(s): Russia POISONED IN NASSAU First Line: By the fourth (or is it the fifth?) Last Line: Perhaps it was the conch salad, or is %the something too rich in creation Subject(s): Nassau, Bahamas POMPEII First Line: They lived, pompeiians Last Line: Enslaved their liquids well; pornography %became their monument Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy POOEM Poem Text First Line: I, too, once hoped to have a hoopoe Last Line: (sighed) your far-off friend, u.E. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary POOEM First Line: I, too, once hoped to have a hoopoe Last Line: (signed) you far-off friend, u-e Subject(s): Language POP SMASH, OUT OF ECHO CHAMBER First Line: O truly, lily was a lulu Last Line: She is dry and famous now. %wow Subject(s): Singing And Singers POPULAR REVIVALS 1956 Poem Text First Line: The thylacine, long thought to be extinct Last Line: And in the films, co-starred with stewart granger Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema POPULAR REVIVALS 1956 First Line: The thylacine, long thought to be extinct Last Line: And in the films, co-starred with stewart granger Subject(s): Motion Pictures POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: KIEV Poem Text First Line: Clutching his cross, st. Vladimir Last Line: With gilt above the purple parks Subject(s): Kiev, Ukraine POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: KIEV First Line: Clutching his cross, st. Vladimir Last Line: Where peasant women supplicate Subject(s): Kiev, Ukraine POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: LENINGRAD Poem Text First Line: To build a window on the east' Last Line: Some couples twist in our hotel Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia; Leningrad; Petrograd POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: LENINGRAD First Line: To build a window on the east' Last Line: Some couples twist in our hotel Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: MOSCOW Poem Text First Line: Gold onions rooted in the sky Last Line: To keep such beauty singular Subject(s): Moscow POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: MOSCOW First Line: Gold onions rooted in the sky Last Line: To keep such beauty singular Subject(s): Moscow POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: TBILISI First Line: Rich georgian farmers send their sons Subject(s): Tbilisi, Georgia POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: TBILISI First Line: Rich georgian farmers send their sons Last Line: By name, surmounts the once-walled ridge Subject(s): Tbilisi, Georgia POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: YEREVAN Poem Text First Line: Armenia, asia's waif, has here Last Line: Begins the brutal, ancient west Subject(s): Yerevan, Armenia POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: YEREVAN First Line: Armenia, asia's waif, has here Last Line: For there, where noah docked his boat, %begins the brutal, ancient west Subject(s): Yerevan, Armenia POSTCARDS ON MY WINDOW LEDGE Poem Text First Line: He's there, yes with hardy, larkin heaney Last Line: My face, tiny, watching him Subject(s): Great Britain; Soccer; Writing & Writers; Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Childhood Memories PRAGUE, AGAIN Poem Text First Line: First seen in '64, a city then Last Line: Besiege the castle and its phantom lord Subject(s): Prague, Czech Republic PRAGUE, AGAIN First Line: First seen in '64, a city then Last Line: Beseige the castle and its phantom lord PUBLIUS VERGILUS MARO, THE MADISON AVENUE HICK Poem Text First Line: It takes a heap o' pluggin' t' make a classic sell Last Line: It takes a heap o' pluggin' t' make a classic sell Subject(s): Guest, Edgar Albert (1881-1959); Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil PUBLIUS VERGILUS MARO, THE MADISON AVENUE HICK First Line: It takes a heap o' pluggin' t' make a classic sell Last Line: It takes a heap o' pluggin' t' make a classic sell Subject(s): Guest, Edgar Albert (1881-1959); Virgil (70-19 B.c.) PURA VIDA Poem Text First Line: Such heat! It brings the brain back to its basic blank Subject(s): Heat; Mnd, The PURA VIDA First Line: Such heat! It brings the brain back to its basic blank Last Line: The brain's dry buzz revives, a bit, as evening falls QUERY Poem Text First Line: Pear tree, why blossom? Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears QUERY First Line: Pear tree, why blossom? Last Line: In an agony's %sproutings) it must Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees RACK OF PAPERBACKS First Line: Gateway, grove, %and dover say Last Line: Their spines are not %austerely stiff Subject(s): Paperback Books RADIATORS First Line: Not theirs the stove's inflammatory drama Last Line: But we scorn them like monarchs born of the sun RAINING IN MAGENS BAY First Line: The sky, paid to be blue Last Line: The way for man to be is mixed %with sun and salt and sea and shadow Subject(s): Vacation RAINSPOUT First Line: Up the house's nether corner Last Line: Pour his loot into the gutter Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Poetry And Poets RATS Poem Text First Line: A house has rotten places: cellar walls Last Line: Fallen to dust, and droppings, and dry clues Subject(s): Rats RATS First Line: A house has rotten places: cellar walls Last Line: Where we pretend we're clean and all alone Subject(s): Rats READING, PA First Line: Munificence of textiles, coal, and steel Last Line: Now where they shopped and movies showed there is %blank blue glass: banks and welfare offices REALITY First Line: Displacing our plausible dream piece by piece Last Line: The world prates its promises and stale laws RECITAL; ROGER BOBO GIVES RECITAL ON TUBA Poem Text First Line: Eskimos in manitoba Last Line: Solo, quite like roger bubo! Subject(s): Music & Musicians RECITAL; ROGER BOBO GIVES RECITAL ON TUBA First Line: Eskimos in manitoba Last Line: Solo, quite like roger bubo! Subject(s): Music And Musicians REEL First Line: Whirl, whorl, or wharve! The world Last Line: And even stars affirm: %whatever whirls is real Subject(s): Language RELATIVES Poem Text First Line: Just the thought of them makes your jawbone ache Last Line: To love one's self is to love them all Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives RELATIVES First Line: Just the thought of them makes your jawbone ache Last Line: To love one's self is to love them all Subject(s): Family Life RELIGIOUS CONSOLATION Poem Text First Line: One size fits all. The shape or coloration Subject(s): Religion; Theology REPORT OF HEALTH Poem Text First Line: I am alone tonight Last Line: Inviting me into your hair Subject(s): Love REPORT OF HEALTH First Line: I am alone tonight Last Line: The lilac bush is a devil %inviting me into your hair Subject(s): Love REQUIEM Poem Text First Line: It came to me the other day Subject(s): Death; Self; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence RESCUE First Line: I wrote some words today taht will see print Last Line: To all that lovely perishing outdoors Subject(s): Nature RETURNING NATIVE Poem Text First Line: What can you say about pennsylvania Last Line: And gets the cement to deliver a kiss Subject(s): Homecoming; Pennsylvania RETURNING NATIVE First Line: What can you say about pennsylvania Subject(s): Homecoming; Pennsylvania REVELATION Poem Text First Line: Two days with one eye Last Line: A kind of joke, a pop-up book Subject(s): Eye Patches REVELATION First Line: Two days with one eye Last Line: A kind of joke, a pop-up book Subject(s): Eye Patches RICHMOND Poem Text First Line: The shadows in his eye sockets like shades Last Line: An etching of, wry-necked in death, virginia Subject(s): Richmond, Virginia RICHMOND First Line: The shadows in his eye sockets like shades Last Line: An etching of, wry-necked in death, virginia Subject(s): Richmond, Virginia RIO DE JANEIRO Poem Text First Line: Too good to be true - a city that empties Last Line: Far off in brasilia's cubes, feign impotence Subject(s): Rio De Janeiro RIO DE JANEIRO First Line: Too good to be true - a city that empties Last Line: White politicians dazzling in the polish, %far off in brasilia's cubes, feign impotence Subject(s): Rio De Janeiro ROCKETTES First Line: Now when those girls, all thirty-six, go Last Line: Then lets us go; they smile because %they know we know they know we know Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers ROMAN PORTRAIT BUSTS Poem Text First Line: Others in museums pass them by Last Line: But their putrefying individuality Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors ROMAN PORTRAIT BUSTS First Line: Others in museums pass them by Last Line: Unsoftened by history, such %indigestible gristle Subject(s): Sculpture And Sculptors ROOM 28; NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON First Line: Remembered as octagonal, dark-panelled Last Line: Here on the cusp, in neither century Subject(s): National Portait Gallery, London SAILS ON ALL-SAINTS DAY First Line: One does not expect to see them, out there Last Line: To its own slim shadow, mast-straight and blue Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing SAND DOLLAR First Line: This disc, stelliferous Last Line: What one realm spends %another can use SAO PAULO First Line: Buildings to the horizon, an accretion Last Line: Of heaven, transparently, the muchness hushed Subject(s): Sao Paulo, Brazil SAYING GOODBYE TO VERY YOUNG CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: They will not be the same next time. The sayings Last Line: This world brave with hellos turns all goodbye Subject(s): Change; Children; Childhood SCENIC Poem Text First Line: O when in san francisco do Last Line: And, in its center, alcatraz Subject(s): San Francisco SCENIC First Line: O when in san francisco do Last Line: An unmarred prospect of the bay %and, in its center, alcatraz Subject(s): San Francisco SEA KNELL First Line: I wandered to the surfy marge Last Line: I hearkened with an ear much less %byronic than before Subject(s): Whales SEAGULLS Poem Text First Line: A gull, up close, / looks surprisingly stuffed Last Line: Among our mortal apprehensions Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Poetry & Poets; Seagulls SEAGULLS First Line: A gull, up close, %looks surprisingly stuffed Last Line: Beautiful gods stroll unconcerned %among our mortal apprehensions Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Poetry And Poets SEAL IN NATURE First Line: Observed from down the beach, the seal Last Line: For the silent observer supreme Subject(s): Seals (animals) SEATTLE UPLIFT Poem Text First Line: Rain, now as all night, is tapping Last Line: But nothing distinct enough; I am still up too high Subject(s): Seattle, Washington SEATTLE UPLIFT First Line: Rain, now as all night, is tapping Last Line: But nothing distinct enough; I am still too high up Subject(s): Seattle, Washington SELF-SERVICE Poem Text First Line: Always I wanted to do it myself Last Line: I pinch off my share, and pay Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops SELF-SERVICE First Line: Always I wanted to do it myself Last Line: I pinch off my share, and pay Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations SENSUALIST First Line: Come, capsicum, cast off they membranous pods Last Line: Compounded spices, come: dissolve in me Subject(s): Medicine SEVEN NEW WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE MOON First Line: Man, am I sick Last Line: Which answers why Subject(s): Moon SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL PROCESSES: ODE TO HEALING Poem Text First Line: A scab / is a beautiful thing - a coin Last Line: Of better proof of le bon dieu Subject(s): Healing; Cures SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL PROCESSES: ODE TO HEALING First Line: A scab %is a beautiful thing - a coin Last Line: Faith is health's requisite: %we have this fact in lieu %of better proof of le bon dieu Subject(s): Healing SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL PROCESSES: ODE TO ROT Poem Text First Line: Der gut herr gott Last Line: Achieves in plants, in living plants Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL PROCESSES: ODE TO ROT First Line: Der gut herr gott Last Line: The lightning-forged organic conspiracy's %merciful counterplot Subject(s): Decay SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: ODE TO ENTROPY Poem Text First Line: Some day - can it be believed? Last Line: To power all the heavens madmen have ever proposed Subject(s): Entropy SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: ODE TO ENTROPY First Line: Some day - can it be believed? Last Line: There is still enough energy in one overlooked star %to power all the heavens madmen have ever propo Subject(s): Entropy SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: ODE TO GROWTH Poem Text First Line: Like an awl-tip breaking ice Last Line: Within us of less dimension than a freckle Subject(s): Growth SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: ODE TO GROWTH First Line: Like an awl-tip breaking ice Last Line: Within us of less dimension than a freckle Subject(s): Growth SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: TO CRYSTALLIZATION First Line: The atom is a crystal Last Line: The form of crystal admits no angle but its own Subject(s): Crystallization; Physics SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: TO EVAPORATION First Line: What lifts the ocean into clouds Subject(s): Evaporation SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: TO EVAPORATION First Line: What lifts the ocean into clouds Last Line: More mighty than a waterfall Subject(s): Evaporation SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: TO FRAGMENTATION First Line: Motion, motion Subject(s): Fragmentation SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: TO FRAGMENTATION First Line: Motion, motion Last Line: Would never have taken root Subject(s): Fragmentation SEVEN STANZAS AT EASTER Poem Text First Line: Make no mistake if he rose at all Last Line: And crushed by remonstrance Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology SEVEN STANZAS AT EASTER First Line: Make no mistake if he rose at all Last Line: And crushed by remonstance Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SHAVING MIRROR First Line: Among the brobdingnagians gulliver Last Line: Made up of several colors altogether disagreeable Subject(s): Mirrors SHILLINGTON First Line: The vacant lots are occupied in the woods Subject(s): Home; Shillington, Pennsylvania SHILLINGTON First Line: The vacant lots are occupied in the woods Last Line: We have one home, the first, and leave that one. %the having and the leaving go on together Subject(s): Home; Shillington, Pennsylvania SHIPBORED Poem Text First Line: That line is the horizon line Last Line: The blue below and I are, too Subject(s): Ships & Shipping SHIPBORED First Line: That line is the horizon line Last Line: The blue below and I are, too Subject(s): Ships And Shipping SHORT DAYS First Line: I like the way, in winter, cars Last Line: The thirst of broad day has begun SHUTTLE First Line: Sitting airborne on the %new york-to-boston shuttle Last Line: And the shuttle is always crowded Subject(s): Air Travel; Capp, Al (1909-1979); Cartoons And Cartoonists SIN CITY, D.C. Poem Text First Line: Hays says ray lies Last Line: Into paperback runaway Subject(s): Washington, D.c. SIN CITY, D.C. First Line: Hays says ray lies Last Line: Into paperback runaway Subject(s): Washington, D.c. SKYEY DEVELOPMENTS Poem Text First Line: The clouds within the milky way Last Line: The scales against a battleship. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers SKYEY DEVELOPMENTS First Line: The clouds within the milky way Last Line: The mad things dreamt up in the sky %discomfort our philosophy Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers SLEEPING WITH YOU Poem Text First Line: One creature, not the mollusk Last Line: Behind like matereial in a trench Subject(s): Love SLEEPING WITH YOU First Line: One creature, not the mollusk Last Line: That unpoliced swirling of spirit %whose sharing is a synonumn for love Subject(s): Love SLEEPLESS IN SCARSDALE First Line: Prosperity has stolen stupor from me Last Line: I await the hours guiltily, %hoping for one with whom I can make a deal Subject(s): Insomnia SLUM LORDS Poem Text Subject(s): Upper Classes; Absence; Neighbors; Separation; Isolation SMALL-CITY PEOPLE First Line: They look shabby and crazy but not Last Line: No one would choose that chose you, %flatteringly Subject(s): Cities SNAPSHOTS First Line: How good of mrs. Metz! The blur Last Line: This place is where I was inspired %to - stop me, if your eyes are tired Subject(s): Photography And Photographers SNOWDROPS 1987 First Line: Isn't it nice (diane keaton Subject(s): Snow SOLITAIRE Poem Text First Line: Black queen on the red king Last Line: Behind like materiel in a trench Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards SOLITAIRE First Line: Black queen on the red king Subject(s): Card Games SOLITARY POND First Line: The fall we moved to the farm, I was thirteen Last Line: The very scratches left by my experiement Subject(s): Farm Life SOME FRENCHMEN Poem Text First Line: Monsieur etienne de silhouette Last Line: Developed just in time for bed Subject(s): Ampere, Jean Jacques Antoine (1800-1864); Capital Punishment; Daguerre, Louis (1789-1851); France; Guillotin, Joseph Ignace (1738-1814); Paintings And Painters; Sax, Adolph (1814-1894); Silhouette, Etienne De (1709-1767); Writing & Writers; Hanging; Exec SOME FRENCHMEN First Line: Monsieur etienne de silhouette Subject(s): Ampere, Jean Jacques Antoine (1800-1864); Capital Punishment; Daguerre, Louis (1789-1851); France; Guillotin, Joseph Ignace (1738-1814); Paintings And Painters; Sax, Adolph (1814-1894); Silhouette, Etienne De (1709-1767); Writing And Writers SOMETIME SPORTSMAN GREETS THE SPRING First Line: When winter's glaze is lifted from the greens Subject(s): Sports; Spring SOMEWHERE First Line: Travelling alone through europe Last Line: To make, of this scuttle and heartbeat, art Subject(s): Travel SONG OF MY SELF Poem Text First Line: What is there about me that likes the arly dark? Last Line: In a sort of cosmic sourness, the sweat of my mind Subject(s): Self SONG OF MY SELF First Line: What is there about me that likes the arly dark? Last Line: With something else, which rides and sees Subject(s): Self SONG OF PATERNAL CARE First Line: A lithuanian lithographer Last Line: She did. They lived in lithgow, austl., %litherly ever after Subject(s): Language SONG OF THE OPEN FIREPLACE First Line: When silly sol in winter roisters Last Line: It's time for bed Subject(s): Fireplaces SONIC BOOM Poem Text First Line: I'm sitting in the living room Last Line: I shant look up to see it drop Subject(s): Air Travel SONIC BOOM First Line: I'm sitting in the living room Last Line: And if it does, with one more pop, %I shan't look up to see it drop Subject(s): Air Travel SONNET TO MAN-MADE GRANDEUR First Line: The pyramids rooted in a rubble of beggars and bored camels Subject(s): Churches; Graves; Monuments; Pantheon, Rome; Parthenon; Pyramids; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones SONNET TO MAN-MADE GRANDEUR First Line: The pyramids rooted in a rubble of beggars and bored camels Last Line: Majesty! We have lifted you up on the backs of slaves %whoselives you still hold as the curved earth Subject(s): Churches; Graves; Monuments; Pantheon, Rome; Parthenon; Pyramids SONNET: THE DYING PHOBIAC TAKES HIS FEARS WITH HIM First Line: Visions of flame fanned out from the cigarette SONNET: TRY - NO MORE ACCESS TO HER UNDERPANTS Poem Text First Line: Her red dress stretched across the remembered small Last Line: Said he, ''my last steps aren't propelled by just schweppes!'' SOUND HEARD EARLY ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY First Line: The thump of the newspaper on the porch Last Line: Has brought to us glad tidings, and we stir SOUTH OF THE ALPS First Line: Signorina angeli, veteran of vogue Last Line: Tell me - why doesn't anything last? Subject(s): Beauty; Italy; Transience SPANISH SONNETS: 1 First Line: By the light of insomnia, truths Subject(s): Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 1 First Line: By the light of insomnia, truths Last Line: The tortured torture, and worse gets worse Subject(s): Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 2 First Line: He omits, goya, not even the good news Last Line: And people are meat, as for francis bacon Subject(s): Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 3 First Line: Yes, self-obsession fills our daily clothes Last Line: We cannot stop clinging where we are Subject(s): Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 4 First Line: Each day's tours, I gather sandy castles Last Line: And I try to picture your body part by part %to supplant the day's crenellated loot Subject(s): Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 5 Poem Text First Line: The land is dry enough to make the rivers Last Line: Road maps pour out of me in a stream Subject(s): Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 5 First Line: The land is dry enough to make the rivers Last Line: Who could ever love me? Misread %road maps pour out of me in a stream Subject(s): Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 6 First Line: Neumatico puntrado - we stopped Last Line: In silence wielded sickles. They had seen Subject(s): Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 7 First Line: All crises pass, though not the condition of crisis Last Line: The streets, though dim, are safe at night. Lovers %touch, widows wear black, all is known Subject(s): Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 8 First Line: These islands of history amid traffic snarls Last Line: Tulips outnumber truths in my madrid Subject(s): De Luna, Alvaro; Joan I (juana La Lorca), Queen Of Spain; Spain SPRING SONG Poem Text First Line: The fiddlehead ferns down by our pond Last Line: All growth's a slave, and rot is boss Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence SPRING SONG First Line: The fiddlehead ferns down by our pond Last Line: All growth's a slave, and rot is boss Subject(s): Decay SQUIRRELS MATING Poem Text First Line: In fits and starts around Last Line: Their chase in fits and starts Subject(s): Reproduction; Squirrels; Mating SQUIRRELS MATING First Line: In fits and starts around Last Line: Their chase in fits and starts Subject(s): Reproduction; Squirrels STOLEN First Line: What is it like, to be a stolen painting Last Line: Disappeared excellence to its throne? STORY OF MY LIFE First Line: Enthused I went to yale, enthused Last Line: Quitely simply, as 'enthusiast' STUNT FLIER First Line: I come into my dim bedroom Last Line: To demonstrate how easy gliding is Subject(s): Babies STYLES OF BLOOM First Line: One sudden week (the roads still salty %and only garlic green) forsythia Last Line: Burdensome summer has come SUBTROPICAL NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Orion is upstanding overhead Last Line: A cadillac prowls by, in search of sleep Subject(s): Florida; Night; Bedtime SUBTROPICAL NIGHT First Line: Orion is upstanding overhead Last Line: A cadillac prowls by, in search of sleep Subject(s): Florida; Night SUBURBAN MADRIGAL Poem Text First Line: Sitting here in my house Last Line: A gorgeous gree Subject(s): Suburbs SUBURBAN MADRIGAL First Line: Sitting here in my house Last Line: A gorgeous green sunset streaking his panes Subject(s): Suburbs SUMMER: WEST SIDE Poem Text First Line: When on the coral-red steps of old brownstones Last Line: By one more night’s deposit of vigil Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SUMMER: WEST SIDE First Line: When on the coral-red steps of old brownstones Last Line: Seem slightly darkened %by one more night's deposit of vigil Subject(s): New York City SUNDAY First Line: This day that would tell us what we are Last Line: Where all days are sundays %disguised as work days Subject(s): Sabbath SUNDAY IN BOSTON Poem Text First Line: The fags and their gay dogs are patrolling Last Line: In turn give back the hollow sound of bells Subject(s): Boston SUNDAY IN BOSTON First Line: The fags and their gay dogs are patrolling Last Line: The suburbs send us their stifling cars, and we %in turn give back the hollow sound of bells Subject(s): Boston SUNDAY RAIN Poem Text First Line: The window screen / is trying to do Last Line: Only the words / across Subject(s): Rain; Crossword Puzzles SUNDAY RAIN First Line: The window screen %is trying to do Last Line: But appears to know %only vertical words Subject(s): Rain SUNFLOWER Poem Text First Line: Sunflower, of flowers Last Line: You wear a girl's / bonnet behind? Subject(s): Sunflowers SUNFLOWER First Line: Sunflower, of flowers Last Line: You wear a girl's %bonnet behind? Subject(s): Sunflowers SUNGLASSES First Line: On an olive beach, beneath a turquoise sky Last Line: And her copper skin, all verdigris! Subject(s): Sunglasses SUNSHINE ON SANDSTONE First Line: Golden photon white on granulated red makes brown Last Line: Sdeem meditating irregularities: %lord's thoughts SUPERMAN Poem Text First Line: I drive my car to supermarket Last Line: Super-super-superwho? Subject(s): Super (word) SUPERMAN First Line: I drive my car to supermarket Last Line: Super-super-superwho? Subject(s): Super (word) SWITZERLAND First Line: The orderly hand of man, hollowing Last Line: When the deck clerk forgets what language he's speaking Subject(s): Switzerland TAO IN THE YANKEE STADIUM BLEACHERS Poem Text First Line: Distance brings proportion. From here Last Line: Hold motionless while berra flies to left Subject(s): Baseball; Chinese Literature; Sports TAO IN THE YANKEE STADIUM BLEACHERS First Line: Distance brings proportion. From here Last Line: And, distant as a paradise, experts, passionate and deft, %wait while berra flies to left Subject(s): Baseball; Chinese Literature; Sports TASTE First Line: I have, alas, no taste Last Line: Abundant, reckless, cheerful. Go screw, taste - %itself a tasteless suggestion Subject(s): Taste (esthetics) TAX-FREE ENCOUNTER First Line: I met a fellow in whose hand Last Line: He sly smiled and slowly backed %away, his principal intact TELEPHONE POLES Poem Text First Line: They have been with us a long time Last Line: By being never green Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Telephones; Work; Workers TELEPHONE POLES First Line: They have been with us a long time Last Line: These giants are more constant than evergreens %by being never green Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Telephones THE AMISH Poem Text First Line: The amish are a surly sect Last Line: To gaze upon these simple folk Subject(s): Amish; Mennonites THE ANGELS Poem Text First Line: They are above us all the time Last Line: Comfort with terror our mortal afternoons Subject(s): Art & Artists THE BEAUTIFUL BOWEL MOVEMENT Poem Text First Line: Though most of them aren't much to write about Last Line: Stardust, how can I keep you? With this poem. Subject(s): Excrement THE BLESSING Poem Text First Line: The room darkened, darkened until Last Line: The blessÈd slenderness Subject(s): Love THE CLAN First Line: Emlyn reads in dickens' clothes Subject(s): Williams (family Name) THE DESCENT OF MR. ALDEZ Poem Text First Line: That cloud - ambiguous, not Last Line: Smiles knowingly, and dissipates Subject(s): Clouds THE FURNITURE Poem Text First Line: To things we are ghosts, soft things Subject(s): Furniture; Mankind; Human Race THE GREAT SCARF OF BIRDS Poem Text First Line: Ripe apples were caught like red fish in the nets Last Line: The southward cloud withdrew into the air Subject(s): Birds THE HANDKERCHIEFS OF KHAIBAR KHAN First Line: In nishapur did khaibar khan Subject(s): Iran; Petroleum; Persia; Oil THE MENAGERIE AT VERSAILLES IN 1775 Poem Text First Line: Cygnets dark; their black feet Subject(s): Animals; Versailles, Frances THE MILLIPEDE Poem Text First Line: Oi! Oi! Noli me tangere, no argument Subject(s): Insects; Bugs THE MOSQUITO Poem Text First Line: On the fine wire of her whine she walked Last Line: By side we, murderer and murdered, sleep Subject(s): Mosquitoes THE NAKED APE Poem Text First Line: The dinosaur died, and small Last Line: The upright life Subject(s): Anthropology THE ORIGIN OF LAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: Hunched in the dark beneath his mother's heart Last Line: Where the known rhythm holds its secret place Subject(s): Laughter THE PLACE LEFT BEHIND Poem Text First Line: Look. The place left behind sits in a pale sun Last Line: She was! The deep echoes! The way I care! Subject(s): Past THE ROCKETTES Poem Text First Line: Now when those girls, all thirty-six, go Last Line: They know we know they know we know Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE SOLITARY POND Poem Text First Line: The fall we moved to the farm, I was thirteen Last Line: The very scratches left by my experiment Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOMETIME SPORTSMAN GREETS THE SPRING Poem Text First Line: When winter's glaze is lifted from the greens Last Line: Hope springs eternally, but spring hopes fade Subject(s): Sports; Spring THE STORY OF MY LIFE Poem Text First Line: Enthused I went to yale, enthused Subject(s): Human Behavior; Wit & Humor; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE STUNT FLIER Poem Text First Line: I come into my dim bedroom Last Line: To demonstrate how easy gliding is Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE VISIONS OF MACKENZIE KING First Line: I, william lyon mackenzie king Subject(s): Canada; King, William Lyon Mackenzie (1874-1950); Canadians THE WITNESSES Poem Text First Line: From anne frank's house in amsterdam Last Line: But these, of hatchlings wakening at night Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945) THIN AIR First Line: By holding one's head stock-still and measuring Last Line: Murderously fast. Oh, we would die, %squashed snails, were the world one shade more solid Subject(s): Air Travel THOUGHTS WHILE DRIVING HOME Poem Text First Line: Was I clever enough? Was I charming? Last Line: He's deep. He's deep. He's deep? Subject(s): Parties THOUGHTS WHILE DRIVING HOME First Line: Was I clever enough? Was I charming? Last Line: So they murmured, when I'd left the party, %'he's deep. He'sdeep. He's deep'? Subject(s): Parties TICK First Line: Ruddy bloodbody %a-wiggle like a star TIME'S FOOL First Line: Frederick alexander pott Subject(s): Punctuality TIME'S FOOL First Line: Frederick alexander pott Last Line: This was the time agreed upon? Subject(s): Punctuality TO A BOX TURTLE Poem Text First Line: Size of a small skull, and like a skull segmented Last Line: But nature’s tumults pool to form a giant peace Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises TO A BOX TURTLE First Line: Size of a small skull, and like a skull segmented Last Line: But nature's tumults pool to form a giant peace Subject(s): Turtles TO A DEAD FLAME First Line: Dear x, you wouldn't believe how curious Last Line: Set spinning to confuse and stay the sun Variant Title(s): To A Former Mistress, Now Dea Subject(s): Old Age TO A FORMER MISTRESS, NOW DEAD Poem Text First Line: Dear x, you wouldn't believe how curious Last Line: Or putting myself to bed, but it's a lie TO A WATERBED Poem Text First Line: No frog prince ever had a pond Last Line: I love you so much I cannot sleep Subject(s): Waterbeds TO A WATERBED First Line: No frog prince ever had a pond Last Line: I love you so much I can't sleep Subject(s): Waterbeds TO A WELL-CONNECTED MOUSE First Line: Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie Last Line: When a's I' th' family, bro' an' bro TO AN USHERETTE First Line: Ah, come with me Last Line: And I shall say I love you some TO ED SISSMAN First Line: I think a lot about you, ed Subject(s): Sissman, Louis Edward (1928-1976) TO ED SISSMAN First Line: I think a lot about you, ed Last Line: Who took ten years of life on trial %and lent pentameter another voice Subject(s): Sissman, Louis Edward (1928-1976) TO TWO OF MY CHARACTERS Poem Text First Line: Emily, as I entered a real greenhouse Subject(s): Novels & Novelists TO TWO OF MY CHARACTERS First Line: Emily, as I entered a real greenhouse Last Line: And, here among real flowers, fear I failed TOME THOUGHTS, FROM THE 'TIMES' First Line: Oh, to be orville prescott Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Novels & Novelists; Prescott, Orville (1906-1996) TOME THOUGHTS, FROM THE 'TIMES' First Line: Oh, to be orville prescott Last Line: By prescott, deep in short-stemmed clover Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Novels And Novelists; Prescott, Orville (1906-1996) TOOCHACHE MAN First Line: The earth has been unkind to him Last Line: He must have suffered greatly TOOLS Poem Text First Line: Tell me, how do the manufacturers of tools Subject(s): Tools TOOLS First Line: Tell me, how do the manufacturers of tools Last Line: Enduring with a thrift that shames our wastrel lives TOPSFIELD FAIR First Line: Animals seem so sad to be themselves Last Line: And, stuck like stamps in species. Go out of date Subject(s): Animals TOSSING AND TURNING Poem Text First Line: The spirit has infinite facets, but the body Last Line: We are turning Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness TOSSING AND TURNING First Line: The spirit has infinite facets, but the body Last Line: We are turning Subject(s): Insomnia TOUCH OF SPRING Poem Text First Line: Thin wind winds off the water Subject(s): Spring TOUCH OF SPRING First Line: Thin wind winds off the water Last Line: Sharpening her claws on the flesh-pink wood Subject(s): Spring TRANSPARENT STRATAGEMS Poem Text First Line: To be unseen: a key to sea survival Subject(s): Sea; Ocean TRAVEL TIPS First Line: The trams in amsterdam are yellow Last Line: You'd better take a boat TREES EAT SUNSHINE First Line: It's the fact Last Line: Let us all strive to resemble this giant! TROPICAL BEETLES First Line: Composed of horny, jagged blacks Last Line: And win, when stepped on in the dark, %disgusted exclamations Subject(s): Beetles; Insects TSOKADZE O ALTITUDO First Line: Tsokadze leans unknowlingly Last Line: Ah, c'est bon, when tsokadze skies Subject(s): Skiing TULSA Poem Text First Line: Not oral roberts' city of heavenly glitz Last Line: The cherokee street people blink away Subject(s): Tulsa, Oklahoma TULSA First Line: Not oral roberts' city of heavenly glitz Subject(s): Tulsa, Oklahoma TUNE IN, AMERICAN TYPE First Line: Ah, to be set and printed in Last Line: Squeezed flat from british pulp. He non- %ny nonny, etc Subject(s): Books; Great Britain; Printing And Printers; Typesetting TWO CUNTS IN PARIS First Line: Although stone nudes are everywhere -- some crammed Last Line: His creatures, all, the homely means to spawn TWO HOPPERS; DISPLAYED IN THE THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA COLLECTION First Line: The smaller, older 'girl at a sewing machine' Last Line: The letter. Hopper is saying, 'I am vermeer' Subject(s): Hopper, Edward (1882-1967) TWO LIMERICKS FOR THE ELDERLY: 1 Poem Text First Line: There was an old poop from poughkeepsie Last Line: Said he, ''when I say 'noli tangere,' me is implicit but not, I think, tacit! Variant Title(s): Two Limericks After Lear: 2 Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888) TWO LIMERICKS FOR THE ELDERLY: 1 First Line: A touchy old gent from cohasset Last Line: Is implicit but not, I hope, tacit Variant Title(s): Two Limericks After Lear: Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888) TWO LIMERICKS FOR THE ELDERLY: 2 Poem Text First Line: A touchy old gent from cohasset Last Line: Said he, ''when I say 'noli tangere,' me is implicit but not, I think, tacit!' Variant Title(s): Two Limericks After Lear: 1 Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888) TWO LIMERICKS FOR THE ELDERLY: 2 First Line: There was an old poop from poughkeepsie Last Line: That peppy old poop from poughkeepsie Variant Title(s): Two Limericks After Lear: Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888) TWO SONNETS ...: NO MORE ACCESS TO HER UNDERPANTS First Line: Her red dress stretched across the remembered small Last Line: And locked in antarctic ice by this bitch Subject(s): Lust TWO SONNETS ...: THE DYING PHOBIAC TAKES HIS FEARS WITH HIM First Line: Visions of flame fanned out from the cigarette Last Line: Annul their old contract and set him free Subject(s): Fear TYPICAL OPTICAL First Line: In the days of my youth Last Line: My old eyeballs enfold %no print any finer %than sans-serif bold Subject(s): Sight UPON BECOMING A SENIOR CITIZEN First Line: The day, another ice-pure installment Last Line: Leaf fires, knickers, and love from above UPON LEARNING .. A TOWN EXISTS IN VIRGINIA CALLED UPPERVILLE First Line: In upperville, the upper crust Last Line: Fair upperville, accept my song UPON LEARNING THAT A BIRD EXISTS CALLED THE TURNSTONE Poem Text First Line: A turnstone turned rover Last Line: The terns cried, 'return!' Subject(s): Turnstones UPON LEARNING THAT A BIRD EXISTS CALLED THE TURNSTONE First Line: A turnstone turned rover Last Line: While yearning above her %the terns cried, 'return!' Subject(s): Turnstones UPON LOOKING INTO SYLVIA PLATH'S LETTERS HOME Poem Text First Line: Yes, this is how it was to have been born Last Line: My works overweight; yet we feel twins Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) UPON LOOKING INTO SYLVIA PLATH'S LETTERS HOME First Line: Yes, this is how it was to have been born Last Line: My works overweight; and yet we feel twins Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) UPON SHAVING OFF ONE'S BEARD Poem Text First Line: The scissors cut the long-grown hair Last Line: At the forgotten boy I was Subject(s): Beards; Shaving UPON SHAVING OFF ONE'S BEARD First Line: The scissors cut the long-grown hair Last Line: At the forgotten boy I was Subject(s): Beards; Shaving UPON THE LAST DAY OF HIS FORTY-NINTH YEAR First Line: Scritch, scratch, said the frozen spring snow Last Line: And feels the gut pull of steep maturity Subject(s): Middle Age UPON WINNING ONE'S FLIGHT IN THE SENIOR FOUR-BALL First Line: Oh, where have they gone to -- the eight-iron stiff to the pin Last Line: Of applause in the tent, a pleasantry, a loss V.B. NIMBLE, V.B. QUICK Poem Text Recitation First Line: V.B. Wiggelsworth wakes at noon Subject(s): Harvard University; Science; Scientists V.B. NIMBLE, V.B. QUICK First Line: V.B. Wiggelsworth wakes at noon Last Line: Instructs the jellyfish to spawn, %and, by one o'clock, is gone Subject(s): Harvard University; Science VENETIAN CANDY Poem Text First Line: How long will our bewildered heirs Subject(s): Venice, Italty; Tourists VENETIAN CANDY First Line: How long will our bewildered heirs Last Line: Had spent in the feathery bed %at the europa e regina VERMONT Poem Text First Line: Here green is king again Last Line: Comes further south Subject(s): Vermont VERMONT First Line: Here green is king again Last Line: Comes further south Subject(s): Vermont VERO BEACH BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: Three score three years ago, a thousand miles Last Line: The forceps tug me one notch further out Subject(s): Birthdays VERO BEACH BIRTHDAY First Line: Three score three years ago, a thousand miles Last Line: The forceps tug me one notch further out Subject(s): Birthdays VIBRATION First Line: The world vibrates, my sleepless nights Last Line: My heart, and murmured, I am you VIDEO First Line: Bathe me in lavender VISION First Line: Said harvey swados to herbert gold Last Line: American fiction wept, and gave thanks Subject(s): Critics And Criticism VISIONS OF MACKENZIE KING First Line: I, william lyon mackenzie king Last Line: Shaving soap spoke to me, of mother and dogs, %in those decades of demons of whom I was one Subject(s): Canada; King, William Lyon Mackenzie (1874-1950) VOW First Line: May I forever a muse- %um friend of early music be Last Line: When we have run our mortal race %from sopranino to contrabass Subject(s): Music And Musicians WAITING ROOMS: BOSTON LYING-IN Poem Text First Line: Here women, frightened, bring their sex Last Line: Our bottoms betray us and beg for the light Subject(s): Hospitals; Women; Sex WAITING ROOMS: BOSTON LYING-IN First Line: Here women, frightened, bring their sex Last Line: Our bottoms betray is and beg for the light Subject(s): Hospitals WAITING ROOMS: MASS. MENTAL HEALTH Poem Text First Line: The mad are mad for cigarettes Last Line: Murder to out; when women crack sex Subject(s): Hospitals; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness WAITING ROOMS: MASS. MENTAL HEALTH First Line: The mad are mad for cigarettes Last Line: Murder to out; when women crack, sex Subject(s): Hospitals; Insanity WASH Poem Text First Line: For seven days it rained that june Last Line: With hosannas of cotton and hallelujahs of wool Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering WASH First Line: For seven days it rained that june Last Line: With hosannas of cotton and halleluiahs of wool Subject(s): Laundry And Laundering WASHINGTON Poem Text First Line: Diagonal white city dreamed by a frenchman Last Line: And of sleep Subject(s): Washington, D.c. WASHINGTON First Line: Diagonal white city dreamed by a frenchman Last Line: With love of my country, of cunt, and of sleep Subject(s): Washington, D.c. WASHINGTON: TOURIST VIEW First Line: The protesters in their houses built of placards Subject(s): Washington, D.c. WHITE DWARF Poem Text First Line: Welcome, welcome, little star! Last Line: An antidote to cosmic fright Subject(s): Stars WHITE DWARF First Line: Welcome, welcome, little star! Last Line: An antidote to cosmic flight Subject(s): Stars WHY THE TELEPHONE WIRES DIP & POLES ARE CRACKED & CROOKED Poem Text First Line: The old men say Last Line: Each pole, a c aw Subject(s): Telephones WHY THE TELEPHONE WIRES DIP & POLES ARE CRACKED & CROOKED First Line: The old men say Last Line: Each pole, a caw Subject(s): Telephones WIDENER LIBRARY, READING ROOM Poem Text First Line: Eight years removed from them, I sit among Last Line: Ill, here in thr vault of its vague inten Subject(s): Harvard University; Librarians & Libraries WIDENER LIBRARY, READING ROOM First Line: Eight years removed from them, I sit among Last Line: Your discipline implied; the feat feels meant %ill, here in the vault of its vague intent Subject(s): Harvard University WIND Poem Text First Line: If god has any voice it is the wind Last Line: "wheerrre, and begging, Subject(s): Wind WIND First Line: If god has any voice it is the wind Last Line: In his mouth my body tastes like stale milk Subject(s): Wind WINTER OCEAN Poem Text First Line: Many-maned scud-thumper, tub Last Line: Portly pusher of waves, wind-slave Subject(s): Sea; Ocean WINTER OCEAN First Line: Many-maned scud-thumper, tub Subject(s): Sea WITHIN A QUAD First Line: Within a quad of aging brick Last Line: Contain an oddly actual rage Variant Title(s): Idyl Subject(s): Universities & Colleges WITNESSES First Line: From anne frank's house in amsterdam Last Line: But these, of hatchlings wakening at night Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945) WOODEN DARNING EGG First Line: The carpentered hen Last Line: The angle, sits down %and coos 'bevel bevel' WORKING OUTDOORS IN WINTER First Line: It can be done. The seal of frost Last Line: Men are, their burning gristle built to push %against the zero waiting all around WORLDLY MONK'S SONG First Line: O it's only a papal moon Last Line: If you beleaguered me YOU WHO SWIM First Line: You who in water move as one Last Line: Are shut. We swim our dead men's lives Subject(s): Swimming YOUNG MATRONS DANCING First Line: Corinna foots in bare feet Last Line: And mime with scarce-diminished grace %perpetuation of the race Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers YOUTH'S PROGRESS Poem Text First Line: When I was born, my mother taped my ears Last Line: At twenty-one, I was elected zeus Subject(s): Growth; Youth YOUTH'S PROGRESS First Line: When I was born, my mother taped my ears Last Line: At twenty-one, I was elected zeus Subject(s): Growth; Youth ZIP CODE ODE Poem Text First Line: America, you catnip bin Last Line: Frpm tx. To vt. Subject(s): Zip Codes ZIP CODE ODE First Line: America, you catnip bin Last Line: From tx to vt Subject(s): Zip Codes ZOO BATS First Line: In the central park zoo, just past the ants Last Line: To the night like a cup of water to the sea Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Zoos ZULUS LIVE IN LAND WITHOUT A SQUARE Poem Text First Line: In zululand the huts are round Last Line: There are no squares in zululand Subject(s): Zulus ZULUS LIVE IN LAND WITHOUT A SQUARE First Line: In zululand the huts are round Last Line: There are no square in zululand Subject(s): Zulus |
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