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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: VAZIRANI, REETIKA Matches Found: 207 Jordan, Reetika Vazirani 4 poems available by this author BIDING First Line: I wanted him to be fastidious Last Line: That I miss every lonth on account of him, %holden is wasting my ticking sweet time LYING POSITIONS First Line: Ever sit on a train, wishing your fingers Last Line: To that lying position you groaned from jore. %police would find you the temple floor MALIK, MY FIRST COUSIN First Line: You stand, malik, my first cousin, beyond Last Line: Karnataka or california. God speed and god bless %the empty spaces, calendars, maps, your expectant ON HOW I DID NOT GIVE AUNT JUNI THE RIGHT THING ... First Line: Aunt juni asked us, %what would you take to the moon Last Line: Shd might have taken it %instead Vazirani, Reetika Poet's Biography 203 poems available by this author AEROGRAM PUNJAB First Line: We sailed by africa, back home [or, pyramids] Last Line: You're good with maps. Find me [or, what a holiday. I'm a globe] Subject(s): Africa; Geography; Maps; Sailors And Sailing; Travel AMMA'S RUBY First Line: Many cringed because amma gave gems Last Line: Who couldn't trade it for a decent fish AND MY GRAY, SHAGGY TERRIER, LADY, WHERE Last Line: Talk so much, it's now past ten o'clock AT THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC & First Line: At the society for the promotion of indian classical music & cultural among Last Line: God is powerful and we've had enough misery AT THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC AND .... Poem Text First Line: Maestro plays a raga at dusk Subject(s): India; Music & Musicians AT THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC AND .... First Line: Maestro plays a raga at dusk Last Line: We're miserable. Isn't god great? Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians AUNT JUNI IN HER JAPANESE GARDEN First Line: Those trees in aunt juni's garden Last Line: For something - a deft coiffure? - %her disbelief suspended like a cloud? AUNT JUNI'S CAROUSEL HORSE First Line: She put the carousel horse Last Line: That she had made well %or how they suited her AWAKE IN TWO ROWS THERE'S DADDY, MUM Last Line: Dazzled to be up at night deep in the ground BANKS OF THE GANGES First Line: When moon struck maryland, bombay ticked Last Line: Benares, hardwar, gaumuk, allahabad BEADS ON A MALA First Line: ...Tired maya going to my maker Last Line: Standing at the vanity %where I bleach me Subject(s): Children; Parents BEIJING Poem Text First Line: Mao wanted to get rid of birds Last Line: A watery eye is its only home Subject(s): Beijing, China; Birds BEIJING First Line: Mao wanted to get rid of birds Last Line: A watery eye is its only home Subject(s): Grief; Tears BEYOND HONEY SOUL BODY AND ROSE First Line: If it's true jazzmen hurt a load Last Line: Speed through first takes BOARDING: 1. MUSSOORIE, UTTAR PRADESH Poem Text First Line: In the himalayas, I ran faster than any girl Last Line: Then the mountain soldiers drove us up Subject(s): Railroads; Schools; Travel; India; Railways; Trains; Students; Journeys; Trips BOARDING: 1. MUSSOORIE, UTTAR PRADESH First Line: In the himalayas, I ran faster than any girl Last Line: Then the mountain soldiers drove us up Subject(s): Railroads; Schools; Travel BOARDING: 2. HOLIDAYS Poem Text First Line: In maths, geeta's long black plait Last Line: When jesus was born, it was quiet like this Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Schools; India; Nativity, The; Students BOARDING: 2. HOLIDAYS First Line: In maths, geeta's long black plait Last Line: When jesus was born, it was quiet, like this Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Schools BOARDING: 3. THE DIVORCE Poem Text First Line: We get measured and weighted in the spring Last Line: And it is never like that again, lustrous silk, shaking Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers & Daughters; India; Parting BOARDING: 3. THE DIVORCE First Line: We get measured and weighted in the spring Last Line: And it is never like that again, lustrous silk, shaking Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers And Daughters BOARDING: 4. INDEPENDENCE Poem Text First Line: When I am ten, the british quit Last Line: Foggy weather, shakespeare. We made a trade Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Independence; Libraries & Librarians; India; English History BOARDING: 4. INDEPENDENCE First Line: When I am ten, the british quit Last Line: Foggy weather, shakespeare. We make a trade Variant Title(s): Independenc Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Independence; Librarians And Libraries BOARDING: 5. THE DADAR SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND Poem Text First Line: They ask me, what are shadows? Last Line: A girl, I have lost my way Variant Title(s): The Dadar School For The Blind Subject(s): Blindness; Schools; Inida; English In India; Visually Handicapped BOARDING: 5. THE DADAR SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND First Line: They ask me, what are shadows? Last Line: A girl, I have lost my way Variant Title(s): The Dadar School For The Blin Subject(s): Blindness BOARDING: 6. GRADUATION Poem Text First Line: Today I notice how lush it is since I came when doorways Last Line: Phoned, her parents had already traded beauty for his land Subject(s): Commencement; Schools; India; Graduation; Students BOARDING: 6. GRADUATION First Line: Today I notice how lush it is since I came when doorways Last Line: Phoned, her parents had already traded beauty for his land Subject(s): Commencement; Schools BOUCHERON, SHALIMAR, MORE SHOES First Line: Friday I get paid checks for debt Last Line: Wedding bouquets planted this future Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Travel BUS NORTH First Line: My bus broke down and the next one came Last Line: And you see we are honored to have traveled so far BUS NORTH First Line: When I saw him looking, I held myself in Last Line: And we are honoured you see to travel so far Subject(s): Buses; Guests; Hotels; Tourists; Travel BUT HERE IN YOUR BROTHER'S FLAT IN COLABA Last Line: Their profits to have you come around CALCUTA, FOR JAI First Line: At first my hostess sent me on my own Last Line: Who slept alone and who couldn't rest CALCUTTA, FOR JAI First Line: There are toys to show us what cabbages are Last Line: What she said, anuradha, who writes articles %about the commerce of surrounding villages CHALLENGE First Line: Swallow me I challenged Last Line: Through %with her lime eyes open CHANEL LIPSTICK First Line: Daddy always said this many Last Line: Photo lipsticked like this Subject(s): Cosmetics; Passports; Retail Trade; Shopping; Travel; Vacation CHASING LIME First Line: I wish I were a better hindu Last Line: You kept repeating, sarla, take your time CITY TOUR First Line: I rode through bombay, my kemize pressed in Last Line: Bright nights known to the harsh horns of taxis CONFEDERATE Poem Text First Line: He doesn't look like a citadel cadet Variant Title(s): No Bumper Sticker Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; India CONFEDERATE First Line: He doesn't look like a citadel cadet Last Line: On my face never turned me porcelain Variant Title(s): No Bumper Sticke Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; India CROWN PRINCESS MINA OF ALIGARH AT THE WRESTLING MATCH First Line: She would wed the undefeated Last Line: Who was completing a mausoleum %for his legitimate queen DAUGHTER-MOTHER-MAYA-SEETA Poem Text First Line: To replay errors Last Line: On my face never turned me porcelain Subject(s): Life; Mothers & Daughters DAUGHTER-MOTHER-MAYA-SEETA First Line: To replay agonies was the necessary terror Last Line: When you gather around me %newness comes into the world Subject(s): Life; Mothers And Daughters DAUGHTERS IN THE MORNING First Line: When kiran and I left in the evening Last Line: The bright lake my darlings Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters DAYS IN PUNJAB First Line: The sansevieria plants were vicious and hardy along the bricks %in front Last Line: At three, we waited for the postman's cycle bell and had tea a %few times before the war Subject(s): Guests; Punjab (asia); Travel DEDICATED TO YOU First Line: It is the thing you do open a book Last Line: And you loved him who died before you were born Subject(s): Honor; Poetry And Poets DEVI First Line: Her father is your father: my aunt Last Line: Lit amid garlands, and living up to her name DINNER RULES First Line: Dinner rules went like this: don't squirm Last Line: At night we hid our candy in our shoes DIVINING GOD First Line: Sixty-four positions you flip me %rope me wrists pin me Last Line: Mother what you lived I learned %smiling at the list of chores DOLMEN BUILDER First Line: In a studio the smell of glue Last Line: Or facts from a past you tap the strange edges Subject(s): Sculpture And Sculptors DREAM OF THE EVIL SERVANT Poem Text First Line: We kept war in the kitchen Last Line: I am wretched. Be my mother. Be my maid Subject(s): Dreams; India; Nightmares DREAM OF THE EVIL SERVANT First Line: We kept war in the kitchen Last Line: I am wretched. Be my mother. Be my maid Subject(s): Dreams; India First Line: Lastly, marvelous, I wanted to be rich Last Line: Our million defects, blew out of a volume of history EMIGRATION Poem Text First Line: No packing list, and no money Last Line: And good evening from a lighted coast Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Journeys; Trips EMIGRATION First Line: No packing list, and no money Last Line: Passport checkpoint, the lighted coast [or, and good evening from a lighted coast] Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel ENGLISH Poem Text First Line: Their army barracks were fun in the jungle Last Line: With its thin rays on the windowpane Variant Title(s): Lunch At The Army Canteen Subject(s): English Language; Generals; Great Britain - Civil War; Military; Soldiers; English Civil War ENGLISH First Line: Their army barracks were fun in the jungle Last Line: With its thin rays on the windowpane Variant Title(s): Lunch At The Army Cantee Subject(s): English Language; Generals; Great Britain - Civil War; Military; Soldiers FATHER'S PORTRAIT; CHOWPATTY BEACH, BOMBAY First Line: Your brothers still use hindi slang when they Last Line: English and tried to hide the foreign nouns FIDDLER ON THE ROOF First Line: You might as well have been tevye, and home Last Line: At night in anatevka regrdless of the change FRIDAY MIXER Poem Text First Line: The chapel hill rotary invited me twice Last Line: The duchess who sailed days across a flat world Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Parties FRIDAY MIXER First Line: The chapel hill rotary invited me twice Last Line: The duchess who sailed days across a flat world Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Parties FROM THE POSTCARD AT VERTIGO BOOKSTORE IN D.C. Poem Text First Line: N the photograph of billie holiday taken by mickey pallas at the 1957 Subject(s): Holiday, Billie (1915-1959) GARDENING: HOLLYWOOD LANE First Line: To buy peat, dung, it was crazy Last Line: Rooted on her windowsill Subject(s): Dahlias; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Plants GHALIB ON HIS RUINED HOUSE First Line: When asked to meet my death, I'll go Last Line: This, nasimi, I can't endure GHALIB SPEAKS OF HIS POET FRIENDS Poem Text Subject(s): Poetry & Poets GHALIB SPEAKS OF HIS POET FRIENDS First Line: All my life I've been amending their verses Last Line: I'm'not up to correcting the ghazals of a tufta GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA First Line: She struck all of us city brides Last Line: Our lips and practiced the dare to be taken Subject(s): Brides; Women GOING TO SEE THE TAJ MAHAL First Line: When we set out on the train to agra Last Line: To free them from the so-called glamour of a mumtaz Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Mansions; Taj Mahal; Travel GREAT HALL First Line: At four, we put on our slacks Last Line: The ceiling feels like whispering Subject(s): Schools; Teaching And Teachers HAMLET OUT IN THE NIGHT First Line: No one to talk to: no one Last Line: I'll be in the street with my riddle Subject(s): Mothers And Sons HE AND I SAT ACROSS THE ROUND TABLE Last Line: Over continents, then taking hold HE LET A WOMAN ON THE TRAM (MADE ROOM ON A STAIR) Last Line: On her brown arm no bangle keeping her with one man HEART DONOR First Line: You gave you son his first erector set Last Line: And all the other world came into view HER FINAL WORD TO VISHNU First Line: Now that I've praised you %temple's afternoons Last Line: I will go tasting grey salt freedom HERE IN THE CAPITOL First Line: He left her too much alone it's true Last Line: Pleased to announce she could not %always meet when they required her HOLIDAY AT HOME First Line: Thanks to this century of travel Last Line: He said, o light-struck evening Variant Title(s): Poem For A Holiday At Hom Subject(s): Railroads; Travel HOLLYWOOD AND HYDROQUINONE First Line: She lightened her skin %played sousa and joplin Last Line: I am your mother invent me Subject(s): Immigrants; Language - Pronunciation; Maryland HOUSEKEEPING IN THE NEW WORLD; MARYLAND 1969 First Line: She cut her hair and joined a writing class Last Line: Returned to the nothing smell of steam I UNBUTTON MY BLOUSE First Line: No there is nothing today I want to read I want to gather you like Last Line: Put your ear on my breast where life looms large do my will yours %radha I WATCHED YOU PRAY BEFORE THE BLUE HEAD OF GANESH Last Line: Mix allah with brahma and vishnu and mahesh IN THE WAR; PATIALA, PUNJAB, 1966-67 First Line: I later learned we ate our milking goats Last Line: And hari rode a green bus to the western border INDEPENDENCE Poem Text First Line: When I am nine, the british quit Subject(s): India - British Rule INDIAN JUGGLERS' 1820 BY JAMES GREEN First Line: We were a curio back then, historical %now dark and small, barefoot, in shawls Last Line: The anglo-indian school of artists was done for %as we were (the clever people juggling INTO THE CAPITOL; IN MEMORY OF MARYELLEN WENDEL (1962-1983) First Line: She'd plan to cross the creek and meet me Last Line: Keys, and we promised not to miss anyone IT'S A YOUNG COUNTRY First Line: And we cannot bear to grow old Last Line: Pack lightly we move so fast Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel; United States IT'S A YOUNG COUNTRY AND WE CANNOT BEAR TO GROW OLD Poem Text First Line: James baldwin marilyn monroe IT'S ME, I'M NOT HOME Poem Text First Line: It's late in the city, and I'm fast asleep Subject(s): Calls And Calling, Social; Love Affairs; Romance; Telephones IT'S ME, I'M NOT HOME First Line: It's late in the city, and I'm fast asleep Last Line: Please leave a message after the beep Subject(s): Calls And Calling, Social; Love Affairs; Romance; Telephones IT'S RAINING First Line: For so long there is nothing to do Last Line: We are bright, two bulbs nearing the city from a dark roof Subject(s): Leisure; Walking LALEH OF CARAVY STREET First Line: The way I dress, men think Last Line: Out, black dress, luggage for shoes Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Youth LETTER FROM BLACKSBURG First Line: Boston's teeming streets [or, my friend of the teeming streets in boston] Last Line: Talks we are having Subject(s): Letters; Writing And Writers LETTER TO A COUSIN First Line: Bhabhi said this yogurt came from amma's yogurt Last Line: Or why we have such sindhi names LETTER TO A HUSBAND First Line: Fifth day past the full moon you ended Last Line: Because the champak trees never took root LETTER TO JAIPUR First Line: I wanted to tell you Last Line: Lint slanting in the sun's column Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service LETTER TO JAIPUR, 1989 Poem Text First Line: I wanted to tell, rekha Last Line: Nineteen forty-four to fifty-five Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains); Letters LETTER TO JAIPUR, 1989 First Line: I wanted to tell, rekha Last Line: Hills of the himalayas, %nineteen forty-four to fifty-five Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains); Letters LETTER TO THE MOOR Poem Text First Line: How could I have ignored you Subject(s): Letters LETTER TO THE MOOR First Line: How could I not see you [or, have ignored you] Last Line: I call it a life Subject(s): Letters LOBSTER First Line: I don't think you ever got used to crabs Last Line: An immigrant is a kind of suicide LOVE CYCLES First Line: You enter your trousers Last Line: Myself richer, unsure, and fortified LOVER First Line: Odd this hotel privacy. Married Last Line: If I never sip this again, I already tasted the morning Variant Title(s): The Lover New Delhi, 196 Subject(s): Love Affairs LULLABY Poem Text First Line: I would not sing you to sleep Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings LULLABY First Line: I would not sing you to sleep Last Line: And hope the terror in my heart stirs you Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings LUXOR First Line: Nothing matters but the door egyptian Last Line: Ply the wrong questions Variant Title(s): Radha-krishn MAHADEVI CHASTENS HER LOVER, LORD OF MALLIKA First Line: You're calling my pager goes Last Line: Nothing nickel paper british stranger %muttering long lines no trains MAHADEVI TO KAUSHIK First Line: So they tried to pair me with you Last Line: From whom I have suffered no regret MAHARAJA OF PATIALA First Line: The palace opened sesame Last Line: Of khaki on my tongue: I said %my children Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage - Forced; Tradition MALIK, MY FIRST COUSIN First Line: You stand, malik, my first cousin, beyond Last Line: Or, like the conqueror, to emigrate MAY QUEEN First Line: You're pretty said the sign Last Line: Take this turn to be loved Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers And Daughters MAYA TO HERSELF AND THEN TO HER GARDENER Poem Text First Line: Grass cut trees need pruning Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening MAYA TO HERSELF AND THEN TO HER GARDENER First Line: Grass cut trees need pruning Last Line: Already made [a pot of] coffee have some I am up Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening MEMORY I First Line: To say that my father came from a village and by his own Last Line: And the early weatherman reports a slight chance of rain all %afternoon MERCATOR PROJECTION First Line: In the kitchen hung the mercator map Last Line: And the longitudes coincided at the poles MICA First Line: Most week-ends, surgeons came for lamb and raita Last Line: Packed over a quarter-acre yard MILLION BALCONIES First Line: I'm half bengali, so I went to calcutta Last Line: Manager I found a city on his face MOUTH-ORGANS AND DRUMS Poem Text First Line: Fighting god it shattered belts Last Line: All flags no one kingdom select Subject(s): Politics & Government; War MOUTH-ORGANS AND DRUMS First Line: Fighting god it shattered belts Last Line: All flags no one kingdom select Subject(s): Politics; War MRS. BISWAS First Line: The taj mahal brings to mind a fiefdom - it could have been Last Line: Grow longer %than the spine of a practical %man, longer than the reign of an ordinary queen MRS. BISWAS BANISHES A FEMALE RELATIVE First Line: That is not the way Last Line: Let her clothes grow thin MRS. BISWAS BREAKS HER CONNECTION WITH ANOTHER RELATIVE First Line: Nobody can please her except god Last Line: She is that type of girl MRS. BISWAS GIVES ADVICE TO A GRANDAUGHTER First Line: What did I learn in loretto college Last Line: You sit here I am coming MRS. BISWAS GOES THROUGH A PHOTO ALBUM First Line: Mrs. Biswas goes through a photo album Last Line: Canvas -- only that one kept my beauty MRS. BISWAS OF MARYLAND ON THE PHONE First Line: That sindhi boy is keen on you Last Line: A scholar, but that sindhi, tsch, clever in accounts MRS. BISWAS REMEMBERS MOOKHERJEE First Line: Of course I remember mookherjee Last Line: On his devotions and the other world MRS. BISWAS'S CAREER AS A PAINTER First Line: After school, mr. Chandana gave us lessons Last Line: Transferred to flower arrangement as a charity volunteer MY BROTHER, THE WEDDING First Line: Daddy walks me slowly past the guests and they rise Last Line: I don't recognize anyone Subject(s): Brides; Churches; Honeymoons; Wedding Song NIGHT ON THE QUEEN MARY First Line: Counting heads to new york Last Line: Your own voice picks up someone's else's Subject(s): Greyhounds; Travel NIKOS AT 42 Poem Text First Line: Today's like yesterday Subject(s): Idleness; Marriage; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NIKOS AT 42 First Line: Today's like yesterday Last Line: And all those who are sore at me, we'll take the quick %embrace by the door Subject(s): Idleness; Marriage NIKOS OF CARAVY STREET First Line: Nikos, she said, don't kill yourself Last Line: One minute left for dead, %the next putting on aftershave Subject(s): Life; Social Problems NO COMPLAINTS First Line: I look at my books, but I don't want to read Last Line: Then I open my door to the street NO COMPLAINTS First Line: Poverty, what do I plan to do? Last Line: Ink: it's on my hands Subject(s): Love NO SABOTAGE First Line: The soul goes in search of omega Last Line: Spent, elated you are on the road Subject(s): Sabotage NUDES First Line: Manet degas in a book Last Line: Nude room I'm in the middle of Subject(s): Railroads; Travel OAM SRI RAM First Line: If oam has forms, they will come to us Last Line: Like desire traversing a throat ON THE FAST TRAIN First Line: I began thus: a rajdhani express Last Line: Bewildered among aunts and blurry station doors ONE WEEK IN THE VILLAGE First Line: But he saw my lost look %near other women bathing Last Line: No books to brace %them in the havoc Subject(s): Vacation; Villages PANDAVAS' GAMBLE First Line: Returning from the capitol Last Line: To go now meant take nothing Subject(s): Cities; India; Travel PATANJALI, SELS First Line: I came to meditation thinking Last Line: Above everything I wish you well PERGOLA First Line: Let me tell you about roses climbing Last Line: Roses you've read too much about Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses; Spain PERSONAL ADS Poem Text First Line: So I paid her twice a week Subject(s): Divorce PERSONAL ADS First Line: So I paid her twice a week Last Line: Children you never had will ask you why Subject(s): Divorce POSTCARD AT VERTIGO BOOKS IN D. C., SELS First Line: In the photo of billie holiday at the 1957 newport jazz festival Last Line: Glamour-we look for it and it's not there Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Famous People; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Photography And Photographers; Singing And Singers POSTCARDS & TELEGRAMS First Line: When you were out of town, and the red flag Last Line: Boulevards or a sky's unreal blue PREFERENCE OF VISHNU First Line: Now to change a cloak a ring Last Line: I'd rather hold the world on my thigh PUJA First Line: If you're hungry, why don't you eat Last Line: Not to miss the man, but his echo QUIET DEATH IN A RED CLOSET Poem Text First Line: Fourteen anniversaries Last Line: Someone had to go Subject(s): Absence; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The QUIET DEATH IN A RED CLOSET First Line: Fourteen anniversaries Last Line: In marriage, %someone had to go Subject(s): Absence; Death RADHA First Line: What do they say of me - that I'm Last Line: While it lasted those green and rainy days RADHA ON QUEEN MAYA IN RED SANDSTONE First Line: Yes never mind the flickering lamp %I am lying on my side Last Line: Small a railing medallion %on a stupa I called my world RADHA TO KRISHNA ABOUT THEIR DIFFERENT COLORED SKINS First Line: Even in this dark country %we say dasa darkone go to hell straight to Last Line: That's what we are to them myth RADHA-PANDORA-EVE First Line: I opened the lid between the thighs Last Line: Change this coming out of me roses RAHIM MULTANI: 1. KING PRAWNS First Line: When kiran went out of town I took the girls to get haircuts Last Line: Nights we wore our best saris, women everywhere rustling %in the room Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Youth RAHIM MULTANI: 2. A DROPPED SHAWL First Line: There he wsa rahim, owner of the delhi palace grand, in Last Line: His cousin, but a brother from the camp; not a brother, his %best friend Subject(s): Unfaithfulness RAHIM MULTANI: 3. IF ONLY A TASTE First Line: A car came from the delhi grand Last Line: His look asked would you and I said I would Subject(s): Love; Unfaithfulness RAHIM MULTANI: 4. A HUSBAND'S RETURN First Line: I was expecting rain for a week no rain came Last Line: Held rahim's scent and nothing else Subject(s): Marriage; Unfaithfulness RAJDHANI EXPRESS First Line: Protests painted on walls by the railway Last Line: Stretch northward, cropless and rich RAMAYANA First Line: You cabled tomorrow I am coming Last Line: Froze between the moon and me Subject(s): Bombay, India; Family Life; Travel RAS MOHUN First Line: I hear bill hancock's hammer fastening sheetrock Last Line: Is there for keeps, plying the air like a flag READING THE POEM ABOUT THE YEW TREE Last Line: And they will be expecting me when I arrive REMEMBERING JEAN RHYS First Line: To think of bitter memories back in one's sleep Subject(s): Memory; Rhys, Jean (1894-1979) REMEMBERING JEAN RHYS First Line: To think of bitter memories back in one's sleep Last Line: Writing, roughed and ready, dressed to the nines Subject(s): Memory SEETA Poem Text First Line: Thinking myself between cities Last Line: My life did not comprise me it was so brief Variant Title(s): Seeta In Her Old Age Subject(s): Aging; Life; Old Age SEETA First Line: Thinking myself between cities Last Line: My life did not comprise me it was so brief Variant Title(s): Seeta In Her Old Ag Subject(s): Aging; Life; Old Age SELF AND SOUL TAKE TWO First Line: My hair was black as night sea Last Line: In my name and a red door to the house Subject(s): Identity; Self; Soul SERVICE; FOR DEEPIKA First Line: We gathered at the university Last Line: For us. Later we watched him pocketing food SHUFFLE First Line: Foolscap the shape of whys Last Line: Young one wet in my womb thinking Subject(s): Grandparents SKIN First Line: Even in this country Last Line: Peppercorn cinnamon cane SMELL OF LEATHER First Line: He's round up five of us and any child Last Line: Shoes lacked as a boy, recalled as a father STAR-READER, PALM-READER First Line: At central library in bombay, my eldest cousin Last Line: The city's glittering streets to celebrate SUNDAY SCHOOL Poem Text First Line: The blue-haired ladies thought us refugees Last Line: A bicentennial flush with millennia Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools SUNDAY SCHOOL First Line: The blue-haired ladies thought us refugees Last Line: A bicentennial flush with millennia Subject(s): Religious Education SUNDER JETHANAND: JETH IS YOUR FATHER Last Line: Your name stays like a feature of my mind TEMPLE; MARYLAND, 1974 First Line: One thing everyone knew you could do was talk Last Line: Agarbati, rose water, and your own musk THANKSGIVING AT THE CRANBERRY BOG First Line: Collecting firewood on a breezy trail Last Line: Continents speak as if we'd never left them long ago THE LOVER Poem Text First Line: I took the train from patiala Last Line: I’ll raise my girls, then I’ll be back to taste the morning Variant Title(s): The Lover New Delhi, 1965 Subject(s): Love Affairs THE POSTCARD AT VERTIGO BOOKS IN D. C., SELS Poem Text First Line: In the photo of billie holiday at the 1957 newport jazz festival Last Line: Look for it and it’s not there Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Famous People; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Photography & Photographers; Singing & Singers TIFFIN FOR TEA, LORRY FOR TRUCK First Line: To say he got out of his village by cunning Last Line: Fog owns the morning and you can't travel Subject(s): Fathers; Immigrants TO ANGELINA FROM NIKOS IN HIS OLD AGE Poem Text First Line: The time comes, angelina, and the day's blinking Last Line: So all my life I rode my horse Subject(s): Old Age TO ANGELINA FROM NIKOS IN HIS OLD AGE First Line: The time comes, angelina, and the day's blinking Last Line: So all my life I rode my horse Subject(s): Old Age TO IMRAN IN BOMBAY First Line: Salaam aleikhem, imran, once more Last Line: The eyes of planes, the lights of travelers Subject(s): Bombay, India; Hinduism; Religion TO RICHMOND AND BACK First Line: We hope after william marries Last Line: A two-karat ruby in prongs Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Richmond, Virginia; Travel TO TARA First Line: I am writing to you, tara Last Line: And ashok is moving to delaware TO TELL YOU HONESTLY, IT CAN'T HAPPEN Last Line: The empty spaces, calendars, maps, your expectant face TRAIN WINDOWS First Line: Give me the summary, you said. What did Last Line: Peered back as greetings to a traveller TYPE A Poem Text First Line: Blind date is how I lucked out with him Subject(s): Love; Romeo & Juliet TYPE A First Line: Blind date is how I lucked out with him Last Line: The right place the time he was out of sight Subject(s): Love; Romeo And Juliet TYPE A PERSONALITY First Line: It was my one year anniversary dating him Last Line: And this is about time & location location location Subject(s): Relationships UNDA-WALA, THE EGGMAN; PATIALA, PUNJAB First Line: They say I waited at the windowsill Last Line: Still cycling around in patiala UNDERGROUND; PATIALA, PUNJAB, 1966-67 First Line: Mummy said mali dug the shelter Last Line: With us, but we left them bleating on the lawn WESTERN-TRAINED IN THE OTHER WORLD First Line: He bolted out of bed full of ideas Last Line: A fox-trot, saw yourself in black tuxedos Subject(s): Death - Children; Hospitals; Physicians; Sickness WHAT A FISHER GIRL SAID IN DEFENSE OF ABSENCE, HER LOVER First Line: At least he kept his promise %he said I'll make you rich Last Line: Did I contain your %desire for the myth of me WHAT I WAS THINKING WHEN HE DIDN'T WRITE First Line: Helen lives in germany Last Line: And my love is pushing me with his hard wind Subject(s): Letters; Writing And Writers WHAT MY BEST FRIEND SAID TO CONSOLE ME First Line: Neera says the tall virginian Last Line: You have two years I have one Subject(s): Consolation WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A MAN First Line: When infatuations buried me Last Line: She is shallow, the brain of a bird Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Love Affairs WHEN I WAS A HOUSEWIFE First Line: Give me a second to get caught up with fashion Last Line: Afternoons fly like a saturday Subject(s): Housewives WHITE ELEPHANTS First Line: New to us: white elephant sale ads Last Line: Lead a pilgrimage or a parade WHITE ELEPHANTS II First Line: We might've been better off somewhere else Last Line: And bronze elephants waiting on the front steps WHITE OAK, 1975 First Line: Home was where they added strips of tarmac Last Line: And all night we'd smoke in unlocked cars WIDOWS: A SECTION OF THE LAW BOOKS First Line: What about their celibacy? Last Line: And I do not know what equals adultery Variant Title(s): A Section Of The Lawbooks: Widow WILLIAM'S VISIT Poem Text First Line: He came like a slipknot his car Last Line: Pretend it's paris june light until eleven o'clock Subject(s): Automobiles; Guests; Travel; Cars; Visiting; Journeys; Trips WILLIAM'S VISIT First Line: He came like a slipknot his car Last Line: Pretend it's paris june light until eleven o' clock Subject(s): Automobiles; Guests; Travel WINTER AFTERNOON First Line: What god freezes our lighted fountain Last Line: This much is true, untrue, how you pine Variant Title(s): Ghazal On A Winter Afternoo Subject(s): Jealousy YOU REMEMBER DRIVING ON SHIRDI ROAD Last Line: The empty spaces, calendars, maps, your expectant face YOUR WIFE HAS GONE TO BARODA ON HOLIDAY Last Line: Is clear, go to india and come back |
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