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Author: WAGONER, DAVID Matches Found: 144 Wagoner, David Poet's Biography 144 poems available by this author A DAY IN THE CITY Poem Text First Line: Dismounting from stools and benches, pouring through bars Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A GIRL PLAYING IN A SANDBOX Poem Text First Line: She drops the plastic soldiers, the trucks Subject(s): Girls; Toys A GUIDE TO THE FIELD Poem Text First Line: Through the wild pasture, this mile of strewn grasses Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A PAIR OF BARN OWLS, HUNTING Poem Text First Line: Now slowly, smoothly flying over the field Subject(s): Owls; Hunting; Hunters A ROOM WITH A VIEW Poem Text First Line: At last, outside my window an expanse Subject(s): Landscape; Nature A SKATING LESSON Poem Text First Line: Her mother brought her halfway Last Line: Upright, devoted pupil Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Fathers & Daughters A SNAP QUIZ IN BODY LANGUAGE Poem Text First Line: We can't hear what they're saying, but that man Subject(s): Body, Human; Hugs & Hugging A VALEDICTORY TO STANDARD OIL OF INDIANA Poem Text First Line: In the darkness east of chicago, the sky burns over the plumbers' nightmares Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers A WARNING TO MY LOVE Poem Text First Line: Born in my mouth, the naked beast leaned out A WOMAN FEEDING GULLS Poem Text First Line: They cry out at the sight of her and come flying Subject(s): Gulls; Food & Eating; Seagulls A WOMAN PHOTOGRAPHING HOLSTEINS Poem Text First Line: Her slender body moves among the herd Subject(s): Love ADVICE TO THE ORCHESTRA Poem Text First Line: Start like pieces of string Subject(s): Music & Musicians AFTER READING TOO MANY POEMS, I WATCH A ROBIN TAKING A BATH Poem Text First Line: She does it so devotely Subject(s): Robins; Baths & Bathing; Showers & Showering AFTER THE SPEECH TO THE LIBRARIANS Poem Text First Line: I was speaking to the librarians Subject(s): Libraries & Librarians AFTERNOON OF SAND Poem Text First Line: Like retarded water Subject(s): Seashore; Wind; Beach; Coast; Shore AN ADDRESS TO WEYERHAEUSER, THE TREE-GROWING COMPANY Poem Text First Line: After miles of stumps and slash and the once-buried endeavors Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation AN ANTHEM FOR MAN Poem Text First Line: I sing the beast that is not beast: the unhorned Subject(s): Mankind; God; Singing & Singers; Human Race; Songs AN OFFERING FOR DUNGENESS BAY Poem Text First Line: The tern, his lean, slant wings Subject(s): Birds; Dungeness Bay, Washington ANAGRAMS Poem Text First Line: Many have rearranged their names Subject(s): Names; Language; Words; Vocabulary APPLYING FOR A LOAN WITH THE HELP OF THE DICTIONARY OF OCCUP. TITLES First Line: In my other lives, I've been a sheepskin pickler Subject(s): Borrowers & Lenders; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers ARCHEOLOGICAL NOTES Poem Text First Line: Wherever they put their feet, the herdsmen beyond astrakhan Subject(s): Archeology AT LUNCH WITH PSYCHIATRISTS Poem Text First Line: Psychiatrists sit up straight in contoured chairs Last Line: They turn aside and interrupt each pther Subject(s): Psychiatry; Lunch AT THE MOUTH OF A CREEK Poem Text First Line: This creek, as old as rain, flows past our fire Subject(s): Love BEGINNING Poem Text First Line: Here am I slippery Subject(s): Self BEING HERDED PAST THE PRISON'S HONOR FARM Poem Text First Line: The closer I come to their huge black-and-white sides Subject(s): Cows BEING SHOT Poem Text First Line: You'll hear it split-seconds later - tghe loud afterthought Subject(s): Shooting BETWEEN NEIGHBORS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The complainant is a big man Subject(s): Neighbors; Dogs; Parrots BREAKFAST Poem Text First Line: By the window, my girls are eating eggs and cereal Last Line: Except a hard one and want me to decide Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Food & Eating; Dogs; Contests BREAKING CAMP Poem Text First Line: Having spent a hard-earned sleep, you must break camp Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps BUMS AT BREAKFAST Poem Text First Line: Daily, the bums sat down to eat in our kitchen. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Family Life; Food & Eating; Morning; Relatives BURIAL SONG Poem Text First Line: My body ran on its legs and waved its hands Subject(s): Body, Human BY STARLIGHT Poem Text First Line: Now far from those harsh lightsand the glare over cities Subject(s): Stars; Togetherness BY THE ORCHARD Poem Text First Line: Rushing through leaves, they fall Subject(s): Apples CARRYING THE FIRE Poem Text First Line: He felt fevered, even in the wind Subject(s): Illness; Death; Dead, The CASTLE Poem Text First Line: She forgot. She has to make one for her class Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Castles; Educators; Professors CATERPILLAR SONG Poem Text First Line: Summer and leaves filled me Subject(s): Caterpillars CEREMONY ON PIER 40 Poem Text First Line: No ships are shivering Subject(s): Piers CLANCY THE BURRO'S FIRST DAY IN HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: He wakens on bright straw Subject(s): Donkeys; Burros CLIMBING A TREE Poem Text First Line: My daughter's red-winged kite is stuck in the branches Last Line: Begins down here on dangerous grassland Subject(s): Danger; Trees CLOSING TIME Poem Text First Line: At midnight, flaking down like chromium Last Line: Who cartwheel out of sight, end over end Subject(s): Night; Parties; Bedtime COME BEFORE HIS COUNTENANCE WITH A JOYFUL LEAPING Poem Text First Line: Swivelling flat-soled on the dirt but ready to bound in arches Subject(s): Worship COME WITH ME Poem Text First Line: I was on the verge of the actual genuine Subject(s): Tourists; Motion Pictures; Man-woman Relationships; Movies; Cinema; Male-female Relations CREDO ADORATION Poem Text First Line: The metaphor shall be god. The host Subject(s): God CRITICAL DISTANCE Poem Text First Line: All game animals know what it is Subject(s): Hunting; Nature; Hunters CROSSING A RIVER Poem Text First Line: You kneel at the verge of this impassable arroyo Subject(s): Rivers CURTAINS Poem Text First Line: Grandpa took me along to the hospital Subject(s): Grandparents; Hospitals; Window Treatments; Childhood Memories; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Venetian Blinds; Curtains; Shades; Drapes CUTTING DOWN A TREE Poem Text First Line: Having picked your tree and cleared its base of suckers Subject(s): Trees DIARY Poem Text First Line: At monday dawn, I climbed into my skin Subject(s): Diaries DIZZY Poem Text First Line: I thought whirling Subject(s): Spinning DRIFTWOOD Poem Text First Line: From its burial at sea, a gray-white forest Last Line: Not one not beautiful Subject(s): Driftwood; Funerals - At Sea; Burials At Sea DUST DEVIL Poem Text First Line: Through stubble the color of dust, the dust devil Subject(s): Dust ELEGY FOR A DISTANT RELATIVE Poem Text First Line: This rubble of stained glass Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELEGY FOR A MINOR ROMANTIC POET Poem Text First Line: If that's you gesturing frantically Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ELEGY FOR YARDS, POUNDS, AND GALLONS Poem Text First Line: An unduly elected body of our elders Subject(s): Measurement Units ELEGY ON THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING Poem Text First Line: In my mother's garden even the ragweed Last Line: At everything we can still remember Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Old Age; Spring ELEGY WHILE PRUNING ROSES Poem Text First Line: I've weeded thier beds, put down manure and bark dust Subject(s): Roses; Gardens & Gardening; Death; Dead, The EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: I sing one for the giantess Subject(s): Women; Death; Dead, The ERICH THE PRINTER—(B. 1883-D. 1938): (1929) Poem Text First Line: Men's names (the prayers against misbirth) Subject(s): Printing & Printers EULOGY FOR RICHARD HUGO (1923-82) Poem Text First Line: We both wore masks. Mine over my mouth Last Line: Of ashes, he lies there now, its laureate Subject(s): Hugo, Richard (1923-1982) EVENING SONG ON OUR STREET Poem Text First Line: It was almost bedtime, and something was wrong Last Line: By both my hands again, and we walked home Subject(s): African Americans; Sickness; Singing & Singers; Streets; Negroes; American Blacks; Illness; Avenues FALLING ASLEEP IN A GARDEN Poem Text First Line: All day the bees have come to the garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Sleep FINALE Poem Text First Line: They have torn the house Subject(s): Houses; Demolition FOG Poem Text First Line: Though your brothers, after the long hunt and the fasting Subject(s): Hunting; Nature; Hunters FOR A GRIZZLY BEAR SLEEPING Poem Text First Line: He has turned himself and let himself lie down Last Line: As he has always been, awake or sleeping Subject(s): Bears FOR A STUDENT SLEEPING IN A POETRY WORKSHOP Poem Text First Line: I've watched his eyelids sag, spring open Subject(s): Classmates; Dreams; Schools; Sleep; Teaching & Teachers; Schoolmates; Nightmares; Students FOR A THIRD ANNIVERSARY Poem Text First Line: You brought me wildflowers once, not the real ones Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Flowers; Time FOR A WINTER WREN Poem Text First Line: In the first rain after a dry summer Subject(s): Wrens FOR AN OLD WOMAN AT THE GATE Poem Text First Line: Your permission slip has been stationed, decoded, stamped Subject(s): Security Checks; Women - Old Age FOR LAUREL AND HARDY ON MY WORKROOM WALL Poem Text First Line: They're tipping their battered derbies and striding forward Subject(s): Comedy; Hardy, Norvell (Oliver) (1892-1957); Laurel, Stan (1890-1965); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema FOR THE YOUNG VINE MAPLES Poem Text First Line: If they sprout deep Subject(s): Maple Trees GIFT WRAPPING Poem Text First Line: Already imagining her Subject(s): Gifts & Giving GOD AND MAN AND FLOWER Poem Text First Line: But, my dear lord, now that it's in your hand Last Line: O find yourself in the hands of the living god Subject(s): Flowers; God; Mankind; Religion; Human Race; Theology GRAY FOX IN A ROADSIDE ZOO Poem Text First Line: Around and across his pen, light-footed, the fox Last Line: He is almost weightless on the tracer of nothing Subject(s): Nature HOW STUMP STOOD IN THE WATER Poem Text First Line: Ice had many sons. 'find me my food!' he shouted Last Line: On his own feet, holding his life in his hands Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples IN A COUNTRY CEMETERY Poem Text First Line: I had been reading tombstones and drinking in Last Line: Before it was too late Subject(s): Cemeteries; Drinks & Drinking; Graveyards; Wine IN A GARDEN Poem Text First Line: The day you said you loved me, we found ourselves Last Line: (looking the other way.) Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love - Beginnings; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets IN RUBBLE Poem Text First Line: Right after the bomb, even before the ceiling Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 IN THE SHADE OF THE OLD APPLE TREE Poem Text First Line: There's barely room enough under the branches Last Line: Ready for almost anything Subject(s): Apple Trees LAMENT FOR THE NON-SWIMMERS Poem Text First Line: They never feel they can be well in the water Last Line: They splash ashore, pretending to feel buoyant Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers LOST Poem Text First Line: Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Subject(s): Forest MADSTONE Poem Text First Line: When he had killed a white-tailed deer Last Line: In his belly another madstone Subject(s): Hunting; Hunters MARSH LEAF Poem Text First Line: The swamp reeds murmur the song Subject(s): Leaves MUSE Poem Text First Line: Cackling, smelling of camphor, crumbs of pink icing Last Line: My gristle-breasted, slack-jawed zealot, kiss me again Subject(s): Muses MY FATHER'S FOOTBALL GAME Poem Text First Line: He watched each tv game for all he was worth, while swaying Subject(s): Fathers; Football MY FATHER'S GARDEN Poem Text First Line: On his way to the open hearth where white-hot steel Subject(s): Fathers; Junk And Junkyards; Metaphor; Mills And Millers; Steel; Similes MY FATHER'S GHOST Poem Text First Line: I counted them, and now I look through the door Last Line: My father's ghost in my arms in his dark doorway Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Relatives MY MOTHER'S POEM Poem Text First Line: Redwing blackbird, sitting on a stalk Last Line: Already knowing the end and the answer Subject(s): Mothers; Poetry & Poets MY SNAKE Poem Text First Line: By the railroad tracks, on cinders Last Line: None of us ever said a word about it Subject(s): Snakes; Children NINE CHARMS AGAINST THE HUNTER First Line: In the last bar on the way to your wild game Subject(s): Hate; Sports NUTHATCH Poem Text First Line: Quick, at the feeder, pausing Last Line: For just one more all morning Subject(s): Birds PEACOCK DISPLAY Poem Text First Line: He approaches her, trailing his whole fortune Subject(s): Birds PHOTOGRAPHING A RATTLESNAKE Poem Text First Line: On smooth sand among stones Last Line: Back to its still life Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Rattlesnakes PRAYER Poem Text First Line: From this one breath Subject(s): Prayer PRESSING LEAVES Poem Text First Line: My daughters bring me leaves Last Line: To help the others unfold outisde the windows Subject(s): Leaves; Daughters SPEEDING Poem Text First Line: My friends and I wanted to drive fast Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Speed STAYING ALIVE First Line: Staying alive in the woods is a matter of calming down Subject(s): Forests; Survival; Wilderness; Woods STOPPING ALONG THE WAY Poem Text First Line: Heading south toward campus, my car Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Possums THAT CHILD Poem Text First Line: That child was dangerous. That just-born Subject(s): Babies; Native Americans - Children; Infants THE ACTRESS AND THE RAT Poem Text First Line: I can hear her feet overhead. As ever, at night Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Man-woman Relationships; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Male-female Relations; Stage Life THE ASTRONOMER'S APPRENTICE Poem Text First Line: Observing the noon sun over bangalore Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers THE AUTHOR OF AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY SKETCHES A BIRD, NOW EXTINCT Poem Text First Line: When he walked through town, the wing-shot bird he'd hidden Subject(s): Birds THE BEST SLOW DANCER Poem Text First Line: Under the sagging clotheslines of crepe paper Subject(s): Youth; Dancing & Dancers THE BURNING BUSH Poem Text First Line: A quick flare takes the leaves Last Line: The bush stands bare at the edge of the silent prairie Subject(s): Fire THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF THE BIRDS Poem Text First Line: Falling asleep, the birds are falling Subject(s): Birds THE ELDERS Poem Text First Line: When by the fire at sundown the elders Subject(s): Aging THE END OF THE STORY Poem Text First Line: After dressing up out of a dress-up basket Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Night; Bedtime THE ESCAPED GORILLA Poem Text First Line: When he walked out in the park that early evening Subject(s): Apes; Escapes; Zoos; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Fugitives THE FAN DANCE Poem Text First Line: I was seven and sally rand wasn't wearing Subject(s): Children; Burlesque; Dancing & Dancers; Innocence THE FIRST MOVIE Poem Text First Line: I walked with jessamine, the tall black lady Last Line: Sayng hush, hush, but I 'd hushed myself already Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Childhood Memories THE FOUR FATES Poem Text First Line: The greeks had words for them. They were the parcae: Subject(s): Mythology - Classical THE GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD MORNING OF FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: He knew he was asleep and was dreaming Subject(s): Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936) THE HOLD-UP Poem Text First Line: First comes a fence, then the mouth of an alley Subject(s): Crime & Criminals THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When our semi-conductor Subject(s): High Schools; Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE LESSONS OF WATER Poem Text First Line: When given a place to wait, it fills that place Subject(s): Learning; Water THE LONELINESS OF THE 100-METER DASH MAN Poem Text First Line: Crouching, he puts the stiffened tips of his fingers Subject(s): Loneliness; Track Athletics; Running Races; Pole Vaulting; Discus Throwing; Shot Putting; Running Hurdles THE MAN FROM THE TOP OF THE MIND Poem Text First Line: From immaculate construction to half death Subject(s): Robots & Robotics THE MODELS Poem Text First Line: Music begins, and here they come toward us Subject(s): Models THE OTHER HOUSE Poem Text First Line: As a boy, I haunted an abandoned house Subject(s): Home THE PATH Poem Text First Line: The path led just a shade too steeply Subject(s): Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails THE PRINCIPLES OF CONCEALMENT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If you're caught in the open Subject(s): Identity THE RECOGNITION Poem Text First Line: I recognize myself, but not by sight Subject(s): Self THE RED HAT Poem Text First Line: The lady had come right through the front door Last Line: Smiling behind the screen with her clothes off Subject(s): Women – Old Age; Hats; Memory THE ROSEBUSH; A MEMORY OF THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text First Line: He was going to plant a rose. He'd found it mildewed Subject(s): Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963) THE SHOOTING OF JOHN DILLINGER OUTSIDE THE BIOGRAPH THEATER Poem Text First Line: Chicago ran a fever of a hundred and one that groggy sunday Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Dillinger, John (1902-1934); Indiana THE SICK CHILD Poem Text First Line: That child was quiet and would no longer run Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE TEAL'S WING Poem Text First Line: About the tide line above the dead Subject(s): Animals; Death; Seashore; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore THE WATER LILY Poem Text First Line: As slowly, as carefully as a wading bird Subject(s): Art & Artists THE WORDS Poem Text First Line: Wind, bird, and tree Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE WORDS-AND-MUSIC MEN Poem Text First Line: They said they could make up songs Subject(s): Language; Music & Musicians; Words; Vocabulary THEIR BODIES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: That gaunt old man came first, his hair as white Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THIS IS A WONDERFUL POEM Poem Text First Line: Come at it carefully, don't trust it, that isn't its right name Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THOREAU AND THE BODY Poem Text First Line: The lighthouse-keeper told him where he could / find it Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) THOREAU AND THE TOADS Poem Text First Line: After the spring thaw, their voices ringing Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Toads THOREAU WADING IN A RIVER Poem Text First Line: On summer days at the swampy edge of the river Last Line: Going zap1 and zap! Zap! Zap! All the way home Subject(s): Rivers; Summer; Swimming & Swimmers; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) TO A PANHANDLER WHO, FOR A QUARTER, SAID 'GOD BLESS YOU' Poem Text First Line: You held out your hand, expecting (on the average) nothing Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Gratitude; God TO MY FRIEND WHOSE PARACHUTE DID NOT OPEN Poem Text First Line: Thrown backward first, head over heels in the wind Subject(s): Parachutes TREE HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Last spring a neighbor boy / nailed up a house in a tree Subject(s): Houses; Play; Trees; Youth TRYING TO WRITE A POEM WHILE THE COUPLE UPSTAIRS MAKE LOVE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: She's like a singer straying slowly off key Subject(s): Neighbors; Love - Erotic; Poetry & Poems TUMBLEWEED Poem Text First Line: Here comes another, bumping over the sage Subject(s): Weeds UP AGAINST THE SEA Poem Text First Line: At the foot of the cliff, the sea is taking back Subject(s): Seashore; Erosion; Beach; Coast; Shore WADING IN A MARSH Poem Text First Line: Nothing here in this rain-fed marsh Subject(s): Swamps; Walking; Bogs; Fens; Marshes WAITING ON THE CURB Poem Text First Line: Stalled by traffic, waiting for the light Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHISTLER'S MOTHER Poem Text First Line: My father said his mother bought it for him Last Line: It was the only art my father owned Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Family Life WORMS Poem Text First Line: When the spade turns over, the worms Last Line: All taken in by the darkness of the mouth Subject(s): Worms |
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