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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: VOLKMAN, KAREN Matches Found: 133 Volkman, Karen Poet's Biography 133 poems available by this author A LIGHT SAYS WHY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A light says why. From all the poor prying. Again we attain a more AND THE URGE IS LESS... Last Line: Astral offal-savoring our lunar liquor, the way we do AND WHEN THE NIGHTS... Last Line: Minutes? %which extremest west will swallow all this tending? Variant Title(s): Three Prose Poems: AUGUST COULD ASK... Last Line: Year? And the brat of limit with her mottled, filthy fist? This is my letter %to losses-swallow it AWARDS NIGHT First Line: I watched the oscars the year laurence olivier Last Line: The ones behind the scenes - which we clicked %off, then as always, without reading BETRAYAL First Line: A certain %never said Last Line: Claimed like cool water %frailer bowl CASANOVA IN LOVE Poem Text First Line: My dainty delinquents Subject(s): Love; Casanova, Giacomo (1725-1798) CASANOVA IN LOVE First Line: My dainty delinquents Last Line: My hunger is my art CASE First Line: Old wolf, I said Last Line: Be still CHEMISTRY First Line: Having lived with the lightning Last Line: Wonder and fire, levitating mass CHRONICLE First Line: The sea's tedious soliloquies Last Line: Who bides her time COMBUSTION First Line: In my wrist Last Line: They have no wings CREATE DESIRE Poem Text First Line: Someone was searching for a form of fire. Subject(s): Desire; Mind, The CREATE DESIRE First Line: Someone was searching for a form of fire Last Line: The death of water is the birth of air DAFFODILS First Line: Oh my mimics, my gangly girls, Last Line: Marina, sophia, on the train. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS First Line: Never mind the climate. The gladiolas open up with the Last Line: Innards are beginning to rust DEAR NOON, WHAT GOES UP AND UP AND NEVER OTHERS? WHAT TO SAY IT'S Last Line: It was wiser, it kept the mute number-void or grieve. Or where %we go, arc-ache of ending, we stay t DEAR NOON... Last Line: Go, arc-ache of ending, we stay to leave DO NOT THINK, BELOVED... Last Line: And the which, and the gone DOES THIS HURT? Last Line: Call it seat-in-the-skull, %heap, hovel. %philtre; love DR. FEELGOOD First Line: Got to be a gimcrack somewhere could gauge the scope of it Last Line: Untranslatable. Paeans. In a gutteral. Tongue END OF THE DAY... Last Line: Smear beneath the nails to mark the eager workers EQUATIONS First Line: The moon isn't looking for solutions Last Line: Will not leave me whole EVENING First Line: The child calling and calling Last Line: Tower, bulbous, beneath which %a frail white dog must be asleep FIRST GREETING... Last Line: Such rigid divisions. Come in FOR SIZE First Line: What are you asking, in that small Last Line: Pile in. But to ask how these changes take %and grow, is like asking how %that fragile stitching hol FORTUNE First Line: From the window, cutting onions Last Line: One last sad kiss, say %'knew her when,' and pass from that place %where lightning never strikes FROM SHORE Poem Text First Line: The ocean goes, for fat miles Subject(s): Sea; Ocean FROM SHORE First Line: The ocean goes, for fat miles Last Line: To you, who grew up inland GLADIOLI First Line: The elegant gladioli Last Line: Forgive me GOLD BOOK First Line: It told the story of a runaway rose Last Line: Use the shears? Which arm was missing HE DECIPHERS... Last Line: Doll-faced tuesday, when it might be free HEROIC ROSES First Line: Because grief's season %is never a new one Last Line: Old skeleton, zone of echoes, %when you roam I BELIEVE THERE IS A SONG Poem Text First Line: I believe there is a song that is stranger than wind, that sips the scald Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Mind, The I BELIEVE THERE IS A SONG THAT IS STRANGER THAN WIND, THAT SIPS THE Last Line: Silver hands of the fountain. But if it is space you must fail in, tach %it din I BELIEVE THERE IS... Last Line: Space you must fail in, teach it din I HAVE A FRIEND... Last Line: This is the scar I NEVER WISH TO... Last Line: She who cuts her hands off must drink with her tongue Variant Title(s): I Never Wish To Sing Again As I Used To, When Two New Eyes Could. I WAS WATCHING... Last Line: Sky-eyed scholar, pale confucius: put down your book I WISH NEVER TO SING Poem Text First Line: I never wish to sing again as I used to, when two new eyes could Subject(s): Body, Human; Mind, The I WON'T GO IN TODAY... Last Line: Grace. But yesterday, imperious echo, knows who you are Variant Title(s): Untitle IF IT BE EVENT... Last Line: Dream is dare is dagger. Your turn Variant Title(s): Untitle IMPLORERS, CONNIVERS... Last Line: Made thee. And it is always night somewhere click the indigent clocks Variant Title(s): Three Prose Poems: IN REHEARSAL First Line: The mustachioed stagehand is striking the sets Last Line: Pass me sweetbreads through unbreakable glass INFERNAL First Line: Is it better to die by the hand of an intimate Last Line: You stay close to the shore INFIDEL First Line: If the impersonal made pesonal isn't personal, then what is there Last Line: The fool says to the bastard, you mean they fly too IT COULD BE A BIRD First Line: It could be a bird that says summer, that says gather no late failing Last Line: Unnumbered mesh of other, kill, kiss KISS ME DEADLY First Line: How do you get so close to the window Last Line: In this boomtown boudoir, baby, %you always wrong KISS ME DEADLY: 1 First Line: How do they get so close to the window Last Line: This ribbon round my fingertip, %to keep you KISS ME DEADLY: 2 First Line: Should it be better, going off, grim Last Line: And space and silence shrill and wide KISS ME DEADLY: 3 First Line: Two things torch a fragment Last Line: Let's smash the cup and saucer, %spill the wine KISS ME DEADLY: 4 First Line: She moves, she means, she masters Last Line: She gave, she grieve, she amn't. %she behave KISS ME DEADLY: 5 First Line: Though intentions erode like the moon Last Line: In this boomtown boudoir, baby, %you always wrong LADY OF THE LAKE... Last Line: The abandonment of seeming-weeping like a two-bit sermon-mis- %tress sum LATE SHOW First Line: The theatre's dim-lit lobby surrounds me Last Line: Eyes narrowing, she touches it again LIGHT SAYS WHY... Last Line: Faces. And a body, shrunk and scurvy, built to burn LOOKING BACK First Line: We forgot our coats, shoes Last Line: For goodness, for goodness, for goodness LOST HE SAYS... Last Line: Take flight loudly as soon as we see LOVE (AMONG THE RUINS) First Line: Conventional wisdom suggesting Last Line: White promise, collusion -- coherent gown MAKING WON TONS First Line: You strip the withered tongues Last Line: I cook my dumplings %with a maker's grace MAY Poem Text Subject(s): May (month) MAY First Line: In may's gaud gown and ruby reckoning Last Line: In the pleatpetal purring of mouthweathered may MEET ME TWO YEARS... Last Line: As constellations %speak scale to the molecules. A o e MORE FEET ON MORE LEGS, MORE HANDS ON MORE WRISTS, MORE Last Line: Plunder, who will be dove MORE FEET ON MORE... Last Line: Will you be ardor? When your dream is blaze and plunder, who will be %dove? MOWING AFTER DARK First Line: Because it spills all day Last Line: You spike the paths you like. %the circle wins NEW HEAVEN, NEW EARTH First Line: Snow is falling, in a world much like this one, the wood dark, sky Last Line: The body on the path) keen and shine NO NOISE SUBTRACTS... Last Line: Touched death, and are opening this first time NO REGRETS First Line: Edith piaf, you are singing Last Line: Despise the given life NOW I PROMISE... Last Line: Then, never-pieces of plan and purpose. That they stay O CORONET... Last Line: We measure the world by its margins.' (so saying ends) O VERB, O VOID... Last Line: Hex of my heart, blight of my thigh, %my heat and light OCTAVES, OVATIONS... Last Line: Brandished-when I am? OR WOULD TRIUMPH... Last Line: Than the crack of reason in the frame OVER COFFEE First Line: The cut, taut gills of your hands Last Line: Tonguing, grateful, the last stray %trickle from my lip PERSEPHONE AT HOME First Line: No good reflecting on what might have been Last Line: I am alive PHOTOS IN THE MAIL First Line: Straight from seattle filmworks to our home Last Line: We need exposure, sure as your lens-cap %cloaks the hole in black POEM First Line: My hayseed harlequin %what's a bloomer to you Last Line: And a flown is a fell POEM First Line: Black corners of winter, whom %do you pine for? Last Line: Singing cipher, %the roof is a door PREGNANT LADY PLAYING TENNIS Last Line: A crazy slam past the net: past the lines, %past the out zone, past the court's steel network wall PRIMITIVES First Line: Every heaven is a star put on Last Line: Every stream every tree every stone PROBLEM OF THESE... Last Line: A tender truant, passing, blows me a kiss on burnt fingers, on fever %lips RAIN FALLS... Last Line: When I lose you RED SHOES First Line: Not red, she said, but the dark Last Line: Ballerina, when are you going to learn REFLECTIONS First Line: That time, you stood on my bed admiring the winter trees Last Line: Whose name means, in the dead greek language, I am hiding REGRET LYRIC First Line: As though there were too much Last Line: In wide morning, leaving wing ROSE GARDEN First Line: A polka strikes up in the old gazebo Last Line: Even the scentless SCARECROW First Line: Love loves the time when the road ends Last Line: End well SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY First Line: Never having owned Last Line: Unpeopled landscapes alone SEASONAL First Line: Much melting, and crows close to home SHADOW OF A DOUBT First Line: Link the I to the n and get nothing Last Line: A good day to fold blue blankets and forget SHIPWRECK POEM First Line: Navigation's gone haywire. Who's to blame? Last Line: Not with the compass, not with the map. SHREWD STAR... Last Line: And lie. But constellation mute cyclops, my ravaged child, weeps every eye Variant Title(s): Untitle SONNET Poem Text First Line: Sleeping sister of a farther sky Subject(s): Space & Space Travel;conduct Of Life; Body, Human; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension SONNET First Line: The sky we bear on our shoulders, heaven-height Last Line: Skies the sentence, articulate, complete SONNET First Line: Retinal snowfall, anything that slips Last Line: Dissembles also. Kill it where it lies SONNET First Line: Lease of my leaving, heartfelt lack, what does Last Line: Will there be an end to all this falling? SONNET First Line: When ash november orders its demise Last Line: Each human cutting, vertebrae and nerve SONNET First Line: As the dream a consciousness adored Last Line: All formless fire, a body of the lord SONNET First Line: Blank bride of the hour, occluded thought Last Line: The far aphelion of a darkest veil? SONNET First Line: Never got, and never thought, and yet Last Line: Ever's ardor will never not beget SONNET First Line: Name your weapon. Wanton wink of lip Last Line: Each urge a freak of need, a seeded yawn SONNET First Line: Now you nerve. Flurred, avid as the raw Last Line: Which eats the excess. The strangle in the shine SONNET First Line: What is this witness, the watching ages Last Line: Distinct the dolor, and kind the killing SONNET First Line: Tilt the placeless waver of this moving Last Line: Eye-gold arrows, pierce-pulse, a failing felt SONNET First Line: It's nothing. A blue wheel blurring, and a wind Last Line: Greets the eye that blinds it. The other sleeps SONNET First Line: This din and this condition. Thinking thief Last Line: Silence whitens every bright array STORY LEFT... Last Line: Measure, who reads in bed Variant Title(s): Three Prose Poems: STRICTLY POLITICAL First Line: Your trotskyite friend poured his coffee Last Line: It was something on which we agreed TENDER FEATHER... Last Line: Thou, gold thought, unlettered (there will be blood) THE GOLD BOOK Poem Text First Line: It told the story of a runaway rose Subject(s): Books; Roses; Reading THEFT First Line: Two men filched pumpkins from the grocery display Last Line: Something stolen. We must have known THERE COMES A TIME... Poem Text THERE COMES A TIME... Last Line: Fitful keeper, who sears and scalds. But my zero, sum and province, %whose howl, skies the all Variant Title(s): Untitled; Three Poem Subject(s): Nature; Poetry And Poets THERE WAS A STARE... Last Line: Waver, %rumor, rock-pit. Pawn, gaud. Vacancy's ambassador, other-we are %here Variant Title(s): There Was A Star THEY MAKE IT GO... Last Line: Echo: I am fame TO TAKE, TO MAKE... Last Line: A tune for your tattered tunic, my thieving pearl TULIPS First Line: Immoderation is the seasonal edict: tulips spike from the earth Last Line: That must have been empty, that must have held nothing at all VAMPIRE'S VILLANELLE First Line: How will the lovelies sleep tonight? Last Line: How well the lovlies sleep at night, %when I take each locket-lady for my bride WE DID THINGS... Last Line: Moment (blemish and blossom) we are gaze Variant Title(s): Untitle WEEKEND First Line: Now, though, the wind lifts in a thousand particular stories Last Line: Inspects a ribcage. Necessity, old comrade, tags along WELL, YOU NEEDN'T First Line: In discord this incipience, disregard Last Line: Spruce tree, vagrant, where do you list? WHAT I MEET OF... Last Line: This my beggar's cup, my collar. All I love WHAT WE KNOW... Last Line: Is to be won that we wager. Drink the dark dram, lover, and be wine WHAT, I SAID... Last Line: Or horizon to axis. Or exile to in. Barbarous tongue to true language %me to him WHEN KISS SPELLS CONTRADICTION First Line: When kiss spells contradiction it spills an ocean of open clothes. I gave Last Line: Tender. I'll never. None WHEN KISS SPELLS... Last Line: If kiss were question, were caution. What he knew of. Trice and %tender. I'll never. None Variant Title(s): When Kiss Spells Contradictio WHITE LILY First Line: Gnomish in its rounded hunch Last Line: And seizes in her strong white legs %the truant moon WHY ARE YOU HERE?... Last Line: Or when the still shell softly metal mottles me Variant Title(s): 'why Are You Here All Alone? Why Don't You Go Out An WINGS, MOUTH, RANGE First Line: A huge black butterfly shambles Last Line: Watch it angle, weak, away, relieved %at the frail destruction left undone WINTER ABSTRACT First Line: Call me no one, candle abandoned Last Line: For more malignant fires, benigner poles YELLOW DRAPES... Last Line: Protective rind. So I kill the world when I see you. %berry, eye YES THE RED FLOWER... Last Line: Which is me? |
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