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Author: WAKOSKI, DIANE Matches Found: 43 Wakoski, Diane Poet's Biography 43 poems available by this author A POET RECOGNIZING THE ECHO OF THE VOICE Poem Text First Line: We are burning Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Identity; Sexism; Women; Women's Rights; Separation; Isolation; Feminism AN APOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Past exchanges have left orbits of rain around my face Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism APPARITIONS ARE NOT SINGULAR OCCURRENCES Poem Text First Line: When I rode the zebra past your door Subject(s): Death; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations BELLY DANCER Poem Text First Line: Can these movements which move themselves Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Dancing & Dancers; Desire; Women BLACKJACK SESTINA Poem Text First Line: Twenty stories high above the desert Subject(s): Cards Games; Gambling; Wagering; Betting BLUE ICE WOLF Poem Text First Line: Like a paper with a bent corner, haphazardly Subject(s): Hospitals; Wolves; Dogs; Supernatural BLUE MONDAY Poem Text First Line: Blue of the heaps of beads poured into her breasts Subject(s): Blue (Color) COINS AND COFFINS UNDER MY BED Poem Text First Line: Three children dancing around an orange tree Last Line: And the sun catching it, as it swings Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DANAE Poem Text First Line: It was a shower of g(rain) Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical DANCING ON THE GRAVE OF A SON OF A BITCH Poem Text First Line: God damn it, / at last I am going to dance on your grave, Subject(s): Man-woman Relationship; Divorce; Farewell; Money; Dancing & Dancers; Graves; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones DIANE'S PERSONAL GHOST RANCH Poem Text First Line: I imagine riding a ghost-stallion, my Subject(s): Ghosts; O'keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986); Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); Ranch Life EMERALD ICE Poem Text First Line: If I were a jeweler Subject(s): Beauty; Emeralds; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums FOR WHITMAN Poem Text First Line: I have observed the learned astronomer Last Line: The unnamed / the unnameable Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE LOSS OF HIS TEETH Poem Text First Line: An ultimate / in the un-romantic Last Line: Got the teeth in your mouth Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Teeth; Washington, George (1732-1799); Toothaches INSIDE OUT Poem Text First Line: I walk the purple carpet into your eye Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Relationships JUNK JEWELRY Poem Text First Line: My husband buys me pearls Subject(s): Healing; Cures JUSTICE IS REASON ENOUGH Poem Text First Line: He, who was once my brother, is dead by his own hand Last Line: Reason enough for anything ugly. It balances the beauty in the air Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Suicide; Incest MEDEA THE SORCERESS Poem Text First Line: She is in the home for unwed mothers Subject(s): Women MY MOTHER'S MILKMAN Poem Text First Line: Cloyce hamilton, / a slender tan man in white uniform Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids MY TROUBLE Poem Text First Line: My trouble / is that I have the spirit of gertrude stein Last Line: Somebody's / secretary Subject(s): Toklas, Alice B. (1877-1967) PATRIOTIC POEM Poem Text First Line: George washington, your name is on my lips Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) PICTURE OF A GIRL DRAWN IN BLACK AND WHITE Poem Text First Line: A girl sits in a black room Subject(s): Girls; Reality RINGLESS Poem Text First Line: I cannot stand the man who wears Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers SEA THRIFT & GORSE Poem Text First Line: As if the sea is not the most extravagant Subject(s): Sea; Names; Ocean SESTINA FROM THE HOME GARDENER Poem Text First Line: These dried-out paint brushes which fell from my lips have been removed Subject(s): Divorce SMUDGING Poem Text First Line: I come out of a california orange grove Subject(s): Orange; Orchards TEARING UP MY MOTHER'S LETTERS Poem Text First Line: The rain of summer thunders down past the sweet peas Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Letters; Grief; Self-hate; Sorrow; Sadness THANKING MY MOTHER FOR PIANO LESSONS Poem Text First Line: The relief of putting your fingers on the keyboard, Subject(s): Education THE ASIAN GAY DISCO IN LA Poem Text First Line: He sits there with his pad of paper Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians THE DIAMOND DOG Poem Text Subject(s): Dogs THE DIAMOND DOG FOLLOWS ME TO THE COURT OF PONCE DE LEON Poem Text First Line: They announce me as a princess, Subject(s): Fountains; Gifts & Giving; Infinity THE DUCHESS POTATOES Poem Text First Line: My people grew potatoes Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes THE EMERALD TATTOOED ON MY ARM Poem Text First Line: Tattoos are taboo / in the bourgeois white world Subject(s): Tattoos THE FATHER OF MY COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: All fathers in western civilization must have THE HITCHHIKERS Poem Text First Line: They burn you Subject(s): Hitchhikers THE ICE EAGLE Poem Text First Line: It was with resolution that she gave up the Last Line: The ice people can do nothing / but melt Subject(s): Reality; Swanson, Gloria (1897-1983); Women THE PHOTOS Poem Text First Line: My sister in her well-tailored silk blouse hands me Subject(s): Family Life; Photography & Photographers; Relatives THE PUMPKIN PIE, OR REASSURANCES ARE ALWAYS FALSE; THOUGH WE LOVE THEM Poem Text First Line: Pumpkin, / freshly scraped out of its tightly adhering Subject(s): Food & Eating; Pies; Pumpkins THE RING Poem Text First Line: I carry it on my keychain, which itself Subject(s): Rings; Keys; Divorce THE STORY OF RICHARD MAXFIELD Poem Text First Line: He jumped out of a window Subject(s): Maxfield, Richard (1927-1969); Composers; Suicide; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin UNEASY RIDER Poem Text First Line: Falling in love with a mustache Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Motorcycles WAITING FOR THE MORNING GLORIES Poem Text First Line: Each year, / no matter what seeds, out of Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories WHY I AM NOT A PAINTER Poem Text First Line: No ideas / but in things? But then Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Landscape |
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