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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: WALDMAN, ANNE Matches Found: 476 Waldman, Anne Poet's Biography 476 poems available by this author & SLEEP, THE LAZY OWL OF NIGHT Last Line: & sleep will make you sleep *BABY BREAKDOWN*; FOR BILL BERKSON Poem Text First Line: Lumbering logging lonesome Last Line: Warmth surrounds the circle as you cheer them on, em on Subject(s): Babies; Infants 2 A.M. TOULOUSE First Line: Heady talk in la garona restaurant after poetry show Last Line: D'accord. %'un armagnac?' 3 EPIPHANIES Poem Text First Line: What ever happened to Last Line: He cut me like a man. Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Love 50-STRING LUTE Poem Text First Line: Lifetimes / continue Last Line: Forty-eight times they spin, right, then left Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 50-STRING LUTE First Line: Lifetimes %continue Last Line: Just like nimble killers %on hand Subject(s): Marriage 8/9 Poem Text First Line: Languor, uselessness & general swamp I'd be or Last Line: Roving traveler. Subject(s): Babies; Fertility; Mothers; Infants A PHONECALL FROM FRANK O'HARA Poem Text First Line: I was living in san francisco Last Line: Dialing manhattan Variant Title(s): A Phone Call From Frank O'hara Subject(s): Death; O'hara, Frank (1926-1966); Dead, The ABATE THE CLAUSE First Line: Promiscuity is not the same game plan resolving differences of desire Last Line: In this scenario spare him would you? Never Subject(s): Marriage ABORTION First Line: What hag might I invoke? Last Line: El gobierno no es dueno de mi mente! ABOUT FACE First Line: In the broken range %of her voice ABROCHESE EL CINTURON DE SEGURIDAD First Line: A modern erosion of what it had, was not lasting Last Line: All the juices in the tropics won't help your pain ACT OF VIOLENCE First Line: I loved him on the sofa. I loved him on the floor. I loved him from Last Line: Ringed in a thousand golden circles. Look at it now. Here, this finger still exists Subject(s): Marriage ADULTERY First Line: Adultery %is old-fashioned Last Line: & me the red light %go go Subject(s): Marriage AFTER 'LES FLEURS' (PAUL ELUARD) Poem Text First Line: I am 20 years old and holding on Last Line: When I close my eyes I kill you. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Beginnings; Youth; Nightmares AFTER LI CH'ING-CHAO First Line: Drinking strong genmai tea AFTER MIRABAI First Line: Anne's gone mad she's a mess, hopeless Last Line: Now she's queen of her world AFTER THE GREEK First Line: Tiny acropolises %I dreamed Last Line: You're all jackals or yokels %after the same tricks! ALASKA PIPE DREAM ALETHEIA First Line: In the beginning of my tuning, in the act of tinkling a syllable Last Line: Our fertile meeting subsided. She kept upstaging me ALICE AURORA ALIEN KINSHIP SAYS I WAS THE TROBRIAND ISLANDER Poem Text First Line: Borrowed in blue. Rule & deal. What kinship system operative here if Last Line: Take that smirk off the face-gone-bush as your case may be Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ALIEN KINSHIP SAYS I WAS THE TROBRIAND ISLANDER First Line: Borrowed in blue. Rule & deal. What kinship system operative here if Last Line: Butch & take that smirk off the face-gone-bush as your case may be Subject(s): Marriage ALLEGORICAL DREAM First Line: Night's oral %death rattle Last Line: Language's allegorical dream Subject(s): Marriage ALLHALLOWS EVE First Line: My mother's ALONE IN HER SPRINT OF HIM Poem Text First Line: She alone in her sprint of him alone in her welcomed Last Line: It is liquid: it is silver. It is gold. It is holy Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ALONE IN HER SPRINT OF HIM First Line: She alone in her sprint of him alone in her welcomed & wedded car Last Line: Is a clear thread. It is liquid. It is silver. It is gold. It is holy Subject(s): Marriage ALPHABET OF MOTHER LANGUAGE Poem Text First Line: If kali were a car, what kind of car would she be? Subject(s): Alphabets; Language; Words; Vocabulary AMBER'S SAD WALKING SONG First Line: I tried to pin my hair down AMBROSE: NAM First Line: The cloudgatherer %with muscularf tautness Last Line: How many people were killed in the war, both sides Subject(s): Cambodia; Communism; Poetry And Poets; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War AMERICAN MANNERS First Line: You see the workers bore into the rock with a pneumatic drill AMSTERDAM First Line: Past club paradiso Last Line: Old dutch hippie's herb gift at hand %bom bom shivaya AMTRAK MEDITATION First Line: Fleeting hudson, fleeting crimping river ANACLASTIC First Line: Rays %of %broken Last Line: Where the taliban rule Subject(s): Marriage ANARCHY REGGAE First Line: It touches wire - scares up a storm Last Line: Dear delicious anarchy: many dark colors ANCESTOR, ANCESTOR Poem Text First Line: Cry to you papa who Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; India; Travel; Journeys; Trips ANCESTOR, ANCESTOR First Line: Cry to you papa who Last Line: But came in spurt in me Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; India; Travel ANCIENT SONG RISING Poem Text First Line: Salute gravettian-aurignacian Last Line: Where words collide out of igneous rubble. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Women ANDREAS First Line: I could tell right away he was german from his gruff italian, Last Line: I am hard on myself as well and hate that which is not perfect ANIMAL'D WITH JOB TO DO First Line: One could live outside two married bodies & be or not be a financial Last Line: Will not harm you. No spiders will harm you I will not let the spiders harm you Subject(s): Marriage APACHE TEARS First Line: My heart is breaking APRIL DREAM First Line: I'm with frank o'hara, kenward elmslie & kenneth koch visiting Last Line: To a large bay window which looks over a grade-school courtyard. Frank says, 'our youth.' ARGUMENT First Line: Up the night with elegant former secretary Last Line: Put all the demons to rest ARIES RISING First Line: Out of hand Last Line: All the way down Subject(s): Marriage ARISTOCRACY OF THE BRAIN First Line: Put in 'the divine magnet is on you & the magnet responds' ARTEMIS Poem Text First Line: I pray you are always above me Last Line: Midwife your sting. Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical AS A BLACK MAN MOVES First Line: A most astonishing thing is moving ASIDE: A JOT First Line: The fighting has been raging since dawn' comes live coverage Last Line: People are being slaughtered, are dying ASTROLOGY A MIDDLE NAME First Line: Red ray death %whips perceval must shun Last Line: Ad rudimentary subatomic infinitum Subject(s): Marriage AUGURIES Poem Text First Line: What is erroneous Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AUGURIES First Line: What is erroneous Last Line: In the genetic streams of children, remember that, in their genes Subject(s): Marriage BABY & THE GYPSY Poem Text First Line: Wizened elf woman Last Line: Don't you worry about that! Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABY'S PANTOUM Poem Text First Line: I lie in my crib midday this is Last Line: Mamma's sweeping or else boiling water for tea. Subject(s): Babies; Boys; Literary Form; Milk; Mothers; Infants; Milkmen; Milkmaids BARDO CORRIDOR First Line: I had my ego & two grams of hash Last Line: In a bardo corridor roar roar roar BATTERY Poem Text First Line: A trio of instruments you love the notes Last Line: Into eyes of love with eyes of love Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Male-female Relations BATTLE BEAST First Line: I woke in a terrible light Last Line: I woke in bright light to name 'fire' BERDACHE First Line: North american french Last Line: To get a husband Subject(s): Marriage BERTHE MORISOT First Line: Toward the end of her life she said that the Last Line: One of them a woman BIJOU First Line: Marlene gets her dots off the borneo maps BILL'S OLD GIRL First Line: The day was on fire but the night was still young BILLY WORK PEYOTE First Line: Keep it moving, billy - there's some motion Last Line: Moving keep it moving billy moving keep it bill BLESSING First Line: Or/blurt %stages Last Line: Get yr own map, woman Subject(s): Marriage BLUE MOSQUE First Line: This is many lifetimes from the capital of india speaking. Last Line: When I return to the harem quarters the black eunichs will bathe me BLUEHAWK First Line: Monk's gone Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music & Musicians BLUEHAWK First Line: Monk's gone Last Line: Soar high Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians BOOK OF EVENTS First Line: Sit %the logs Last Line: Let her live BORN AGAIN BLUES First Line: Orphaned orphaned mommy & daddy done gone Last Line: Got that born again inner demon child inside telling me crazy lies BURNING GHAT First Line: Sutee %a suture Last Line: On the flaming corpse Subject(s): Marriage BY CANDLE'S LIGHT A BEDOUIN Poem Text First Line: Say 'tree' say 'on the hill.' say 'game' say it is 'over'. Say (turning to Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BY CANDLE'S LIGHT A BEDOUIN First Line: Say 'tree' say 'on the hill.' say 'game' say it is 'over'. Say (turning to Last Line: Something needs a marxist blessing Subject(s): Marriage CABAL First Line: New green life is pricking the tussle Last Line: Jilted in the latest cabal CABIN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Eviction people arrive to haunt me Last Line: Needle tickle your shoulder, peak curve, fresh air. Subject(s): Homecoming; Moving & Movers; Universities & Colleges CAN'T TOUCH THIS First Line: Don't interrupt %the flow face to face Last Line: Of some vast wing alone command the rest -- we are CANZONE; FOR TED BERRIGAN, 1934-1983 First Line: I crisscross my feelings with a view Last Line: I was there & I was there by the window onto you. Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Heaven; Loss; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Paradise CHARIVARI/SYNTAGMA First Line: Something amiss awry the whole community knows it. An ill-starred Last Line: Hell breaks loose. Charivari punishes reprehensible unions. Charivari Subject(s): Marriage CHINA First Line: Acts to father Last Line: Image of the marrying maiden do prosper Subject(s): Marriage CHLOR-TRIMETON First Line: Restore to battle under the sun: chlor-trimeton. Restore to CLIMBS A TOWER AS IN A TALE Poem Text First Line: Moment hangs from a mouth. I love you christ the husband but trees Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CLIMBS A TOWER AS IN A TALE First Line: Moment hangs from a mouth. I love you christ the husband but trees Last Line: Out the eyes. Left to devices one does this & up a vertiginous step & up a step Subject(s): Marriage CODA A CODE First Line: Thy lip againe thy firm seal Last Line: In sentenc'd incision Subject(s): Marriage CODE: INTENSIFICATION OF SHADE First Line: In the terrain %& as time measured valuable Last Line: Time was never again numerous or attractive COLLEGE UNDER WATER Poem Text First Line: Who are these women and offices Last Line: Lies on the other side of the poem. Subject(s): Commencement; Exchange Students; Universities & Colleges; Writing & Writers; Graduation; Foreign Exchange Programs COLORS Poem Text First Line: Colors are more complicated than a state Last Line: Our red desire, green aspiration Subject(s): Colors; Paintings & Painters COMES-WITH-A-CHILD First Line: Problematic conjunctions with each other & with other things Last Line: And he -- dazzling electrons the two of them? -- by her side COMMON LAW Poem Text First Line: Common law you are always on your waking alarm by communal Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COMMON LAW First Line: Common law you are always on your waking alarm by communal Last Line: Common law is fine Subject(s): Marriage COMMON TUNE First Line: Ask those %who Last Line: & distant mandible lore Subject(s): Marriage COMPLAYNT; AFTER EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: I'm wanton - no I've stopped that Last Line: Continue! Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form; Mothers COSMOLOGY: WITHIN THE MIND OF THE SLEEPING GOD Poem Text First Line: The longest time in love with living Subject(s): Cosmology COSMOLOGY: WITHIN THE MIND OF THE SLEEPING GOD First Line: The longest time in love with living Last Line: Which will someday be planets Subject(s): Cosmology COUP DE GRACE Poem Text First Line: You say you know what's up, what's what, what is or isn't true Last Line: Hostage taking. It is dangerous? Canst be thyself and true? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets COVET First Line: It was a grandmother's working class gold band & later when one Last Line: To surrogate-marry even if a junkie is simply hungry Subject(s): Marriage COYOTE ALMOST TAKES A WIFE First Line: Sounds improbable but one day coyote went along the human road & Last Line: Way off the human road Subject(s): Marriage CRACK IN THE WORLD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I see the crack in the world Last Line: Walking on the periphery of the world. Subject(s): Birth; Bodies; Mothers; Women; Child Birth; Midwifery CREDO First Line: I want to live the state of 'co-emergent wisdom,' an old tantric notion Last Line: Of the post-modern dark ages, ergo more light! More poems! More light! CRIME WORK AFTER THE HOLOCAUST First Line: At the breakfast banquet all there is to eat there is to eat is cigarette Last Line: Love me when we abolished hunger CURE First Line: #name? Last Line: - will it cure? That's the mighty thing %- yes Subject(s): Marriage CURSE First Line: You loathsome miserable draconian tv patriarchs Last Line: Your genitalia will wither in the wind CUT-UP AMENDMENT 2 First Line: The proposed amendment to the colorado constitution Last Line: Unenforcable barbarity, claustrophobia & unconstitutional sexual grammar can't win! DALLAS First Line: I tried to sleep and not doing that the night before the things I could Last Line: And the decorum of traffic getting somewhere DARK O' NIGHT Poem Text First Line: In some places a woman would marry a woman which torques the Subject(s): Marriage; Night; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime DARK O' NIGHT First Line: In some places a woman would marry a woman which torques the Last Line: Night what do they do? Subject(s): Marriage; Night DEVIL'S WORKING OVERTIME Poem Text Recitation by Author DEVIL'S WORKING OVERTIME Last Line: Damn skeeters Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Sin; Slavery DIALOGUE First Line: Silicon chip: I know a lot yet do not live DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE SELF & THE SOUL Poem Text First Line: Within your delight I'm warm, exquisite, take pride Last Line: Or soar when you do. Subject(s): Soul DIAMOND First Line: Fluorite showing octagonal cleavage DIARIES Poem Text First Line: Martha was a girl after my own heart Last Line: People in my life. Subject(s): Diaries DIES SANGUINIS First Line: Touch him %like a priest Last Line: Sacrificing virility completely Subject(s): Marriage DISTANCE TRAVELED Poem Text First Line: Hoist sail, little bark of my wit! Last Line: At the foot of the mountain. Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Parting; Ocean; Journeys; Trips DIVA First Line: She never lost her voice or pounds DIVERTERE First Line: That couples go free Last Line: Marries for eternity Subject(s): Marriage DIVINATION First Line: Blurting a message in rocks, in birds DIVINE JEALOUSY First Line: At the door dear marryings Last Line: Hitched, just married, tied the knot, gave over to a lord Subject(s): Marriage DIVORCE WORK Poem Text First Line: This is an energy crisis Last Line: Distilling thru my eyes, tears for this whole world Subject(s): Divorce; Hispanic Americans; Law & Lawyers; Unfaithfulness; Latinos; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy DO WHAT I KNOW BEST Poem Text First Line: Actually, and weeping do nothing best Last Line: Holding edwin Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets DOOR CAR PAD HAIR DAVIDS First Line: Headstrong people butt the door. Orono. But the door DOPPELGANGER FLAME First Line: Marry that ye may prosper & conceive a better way to be innoculated Last Line: Virtual marriages where economies clash by night & yet you prosper you grow Subject(s): Marriage DOUG'S NATAL DAY First Line: Blinders on as a condition DOWRY First Line: #name? Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Marriage DRAM THREE TIMES STRANGE First Line: Love is a dram love is a cur love what makes the world go rue love is Last Line: A father both stranger than a curtain when a stranger arrives Subject(s): Marriage DUO First Line: #name? Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Marriage EARLY First Line: Family %truce %a truss Last Line: It had roses in it %sobs %& gobs %of roses EARLY First Line: So what... %boy, are you greek Last Line: It had the roses in it %sobs %& gobs %of roses EL RITO First Line: Joyful, as if you neared world's end ELAPIDATION First Line: Virgin %intacta %she is 'one-in-herself' Last Line: Throttle manhood's %dowry Subject(s): Marriage EMPTY SPEECH First Line: Empty city Last Line: Head of words ENVIRONMENTAL EVENT First Line: Record the bird song inside the oak wind Last Line: Play back phenomena, you have a voice of steel ERIC DOLPHY First Line: Out to lunch' Subject(s): Dolphy, Eric (1928-1964); Jazz; Music & Musicians ERIC DOLPHY First Line: Out to lunch' Last Line: In the thick of it now Subject(s): Dolphy, Eric (1928-1964); Jazz; Music And Musicians EVANGELLE Poem Text First Line: Ol / d / er / to make a spectable Subject(s): Mediums; Poetry & Poets; Witchcraft & Witches; Women; Spiritualists EVANGELLE First Line: Ol %d %er %to make a spectable Last Line: O yes she did she did Subject(s): Mediums; Poetry And Poets; Witchcraft And Witches; Women EVEN KEEL Poem Text First Line: Thinking you want to secure 'on an even keel' is not enough in this Last Line: And then be sacrificed the next day to a tutelary deity with your feather headdress on Subject(s): Marriage; Relationships; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EVEN KEEL First Line: Thinking you want to secure 'on an even keel' is not enough in this Last Line: A tuletary deity with your feather headdress on Subject(s): Marriage; Relationships EXPEDITION TO A LAKE First Line: Stop: if Last Line: & takes a husband Subject(s): Marriage EYES IN ALL HEADS TO BE LOOKED OUT OF Poem Text First Line: Formed a new beast today: eye of hawk Last Line: Cut cut! Subject(s): Eyes EZLN Poem Text First Line: Note this / a range of which Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Freedom; Human Rights; Labor Unions; Mexico; Military; Poverty; Strikes; Liberty; Labor Disputes; Lockouts EZLN First Line: Note this %a range of which Last Line: Terra-cotta idols %smashed to the ground Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Freedom; Human Rights; Labor Unions; Mexico; Military; Poverty; Strikes FACE THE ORIENT Poem Text First Line: I need to be dancing over the birth Last Line: Look here. The horizon is the book. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading FAIT ACCOMPLI (VERSION A) First Line: Look down. Heavier now. Onus of observable spectrums. A Last Line: How it's a threat it's a fret but confusion is like the metabolic %street. Been out there lately? FAIT ACCOMPLI (VERSION B) First Line: Look down. Heavier now. Onus of observable spectrums. Last Line: It's a wrecker, america: been out there lately? FAR FROM MY HEART First Line: I am carrying this weight around FAST SPEAKING WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Because I don't have spit Last Line: Coincidence of the same for all wandering spirits. Subject(s): Women FAST SPEAKING WOMAN & THE DAKINI PRINCIPLE First Line: As I began to write 'fast speaking woman,' I had in Last Line: Embodies the qualities of compassion, emptiness, and %sagacity FAST SPEAKING WOMAN, SELS First Line: I'm the woman never made a fool of Last Line: I take out my own mind FEMINAFESTO First Line: How different are times now for women writers, you ask. Last Line: Turn the language body upside down. What does it look like? FERTILE HOUSE First Line: Man's eros seems %a bout to act upon Last Line: & command a settled fertile house Subject(s): Marriage FIGURES FIRST PERSON First Line: I broke with the conventional world to get a little sleep Last Line: Patterns from ourselves to protect FIRST POEM First Line: I put these words down to touch them FLAME OR FLAMING Poem Text First Line: It was to be a day to old flames a day dedicated to the flaming of way Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FLAME OR FLAMING First Line: It was to be a day to old flames a day dedicated to the flaming of way Last Line: Which is salvation for her exed out of here Subject(s): Marriage FLORIDA MUSIC First Line: Palm talk? We are those FOR HARRY SMITH First Line: We joke about running off to thailand together Last Line: Missing you in the dark ages, buddy FOR J.A. AS DUSK DEEPENS CANYON Poem Text First Line: This time we were passing into night Last Line: Pyrola Subject(s): Canyons; Rocky Mountain Range FOR THE GIFTS OF TED Poem Text First Line: Who wields the press, who takes a Last Line: Squall, whose link is to ecstasy. Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Gifts & Giving; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph FOR YOU First Line: A beach you've never seen is where I've been FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS Recitation by Author FROM A CONTINUING WORK IN SPANISH First Line: I come to you from a dark corner on the farm Last Line: There is no artificial paradise in south america FUROR BELLICUS Poem Text First Line: The cobray m-11 and the tec-9 along with their relatives and clones Subject(s): Cold War; Crime & Criminals; Military; Prisons & Prisoners FUROR BELLICUS First Line: The cobray m-11 and the tec-9 along with their relatives and clones Last Line: Transmute furor bellicus to %mere flame or tear Subject(s): Cold War; Crime And Criminals; Military; Prisons And Prisoners FUTURE DUTY First Line: Mister a bold apostrophe an article to do bidding of an astonishment Last Line: Into future duty, future duty the laws do tighten their claws upon Subject(s): Marriage GAMETE First Line: Unless %chromosomal Last Line: But mine & husband's %to burst Subject(s): Marriage GENDER GAME Poem Text First Line: One said / once Last Line: That it could be a temple & tempestuous & strange of body because of marriage Subject(s): Games; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Sex; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GENDER GAME First Line: One said %once Last Line: - paint them - %ruby red Subject(s): Games; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Sex GEORGE SAND Poem Text First Line: Disguised bravado all doors open revise or polish Last Line: Sexless eroticism Subject(s): Sand, George (1804-1876); Dupin, Amanda. Baronne Dudevant GESTATIONAL First Line: A next incredulous time o belly time was again another being blessed Last Line: Paragraphs, staunch architectures of love Subject(s): Marriage GESTURES IN RED First Line: A shadow across my eye. You are memory GIANT NIGHT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Awake in a giant night Last Line: Just like what is here one minute and not the next. Subject(s): Christmas; December; Family Life; Holidays; New York City; Nativity, The; Relatives; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple GIRL ENTICED TO THE SKY First Line: She lived up there. It had been her home after a GLASNOST (VERSION A) First Line: I would her Last Line: They grew in my writing of them. They rehearsed a lot. %theywere fit to be tied GLASNOST (VERSION B) First Line: I would be her Last Line: They got out in time GLASS HYMEN RITE Poem Text First Line: & smash a glass Last Line: O smash the glass Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GLASS HYMEN RITE First Line: & smash a glass Last Line: O smash the glass Subject(s): Marriage GLOBAL POSITIONING Poem Text First Line: That the shoe fits for the inaugural demonstration should Subject(s): Politics & Government; War GLOBAL POSITIONING First Line: That the shoe fits for the inaugural demonstration should Last Line: Glass and its antecedents Subject(s): Politics; War GLYPHS Poem Text First Line: & the code / public record stopped midsentence Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Tongues; Words; Vocabulary; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America GLYPHS First Line: & the code %public record stopped midsentence Last Line: They were bled %who reads them now? %idzat %artist Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Poetry And Poets; Tongues GO, POEM GO-BETWEEN BETWEEN First Line: Language does more than merely communicate and 'express.' Last Line: The texts are throbbing with sound. I vocalize them to you. I type them to you GOD'S HIDDEN PURPOSE First Line: A long %way %'round Last Line: (the real sheikh knows when I am pure or impure Subject(s): Marriage GODDESS OF WISDOM WHOSE SUBSTANCE IS DESIRE First Line: You want distraction's collar & necktie GOING IN Poem Text First Line: We are going in the water for the rest of the day Last Line: So bad being here, alive and wet all over and you along. Subject(s): Exchange Students; Travel; Venice, Italy; Foreign Exchange Programs; Journeys; Trips GRACE OF THESE LACUNAE First Line: Grew small in late afternoon Last Line: His is the man's realm %fear & desire GUARDIAN & SCRIBE First Line: You are my naming person back of the tongue Last Line: Sparks fly out the throat up the page--seeds of future %poetic fire GUSTON First Line: A skeletal guardian, a hungry ghost, a mafia man, an old implant, Last Line: In the center of his life all the details showed one heart-risk GYPSY NUN First Line: She wants to be weaving Last Line: On, off %on %on H.D. First Line: Split from hesperus' %she said join us Last Line: For the poem-chase HAG OF BEARE (CAILLECH BERRI) Poem Text First Line: I ebb like the ocean Subject(s): Irish Language; Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting; Women's Rights; Gaelic; Feminism HAG OF BEARE (CAILLECH BERRI) First Line: I ebb like the ocean Last Line: That's all you get to blunt your knife Subject(s): Irish Language; Poetry And Poets; Translating And Interpreting; Women's Rights HAG'S HEART First Line: Pre-adamite sun pours down on aged stones & ferns Last Line: & my hag's heart gets heavy with these things HELD TOGETHER WITH A DESK First Line: What makes a man move HER NIGHT First Line: Out of an eye comes research Last Line: This is an ordinary great deal to know HER SURE JOY Poem Text First Line: Image of tall bed. Grow weak. Groan. Her cliche. Her japanese robe Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HER SURE JOY First Line: Image of tall bed. Grow weak. Groan. Her cliche. Her japanese robe Last Line: He yet fetches for her Subject(s): Marriage HERMAN & HO First Line: Power to the all men all women all people . Solidarity against a muta Last Line: Be true. Up the aisle with you Subject(s): Marriage HEURISTICALLY SPEAKING Poem Text First Line: Meant to be proud meant to be astonished & full of surprise at the Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HEURISTICALLY SPEAKING First Line: Meant to be proud meant to be astonished & full of surprise at the Last Line: What enemy? Say it, I do. I do what. Espouse Subject(s): Marriage HEX First Line: Be fruitful Last Line: & breed %a little irony Subject(s): Marriage HIEROS GAMOS First Line: #name? Last Line: - & into inner sanctum peep Subject(s): Marriage HOPES & FEARS Poem Text Subject(s): Hopes; Fears HOW I BECAME BIBLICAL First Line: The boundary of my might wanting to be agreed upon. Last Line: And one of strength & metal HOW THE SESTINA (YAWN) WORKS Poem Text First Line: I opened this poem with a yawn Last Line: I choose all of you for my poem personally Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares I AM BLINDED BY A FIERY CIRCLE First Line: It is summer 1970 Last Line: No, don't do it' %(desperate) %'too bright!' I AM THE GUARD! First Line: You are fun %you are god %you are %'far-out-like-a-light' Last Line: So I write about heaven I BOW AT BODHGAYA Last Line: Diamond throne-- %his vajra daughter I GUARD THE WOODS First Line: I guard the woods so that no one enters Last Line: Unless you are in love I QUIT First Line: I quit the night you left, quit getting lost outside Last Line: I could never stop I THOUGHT I WAS IN FILMS First Line: A train on your thoughts, buzzard thoughts to get home on a IN THE PARK OF BROTHERLY LOVE First Line: Perhaps the sky was clouding over after all, the INCANTATION Poem Text First Line: Light as motion, people flit lightly along Last Line: To hold the golden light of winter dusk. Subject(s): Conversation; Life; Old Age; Poetry & Poets INSURRECTION First Line: Night media told %urgent weight of Last Line: Who you %who you be? INVOCATION First Line: All the city city is delighted with the Last Line: Fast-trembling %song IOVIS 19: WHY THAT'S A BLADE CAN FLOAT First Line: The poet has by now travelled a distance, spanning mental universe Last Line: They tend to shatter the words they tend IOVIS OMNIA PLENA First Line: Mature love you say but my wounds come out through inner temple IOVIS: ALL IS FULL OF JOVE: 21. SELF OTHER BOTH NEITHER First Line: The desultory hours go slogging by Last Line: Think of the present as a dimensionless membrane IOVIS: ALL IS FULL OF JOVE: 22. PIECES OF AN HOUR First Line: Rip rip rip rip rip rip rip %in the cave Last Line: Hits its hard black underbelly 3 times %knock knock knock IT SOUNDS IT Poem Text First Line: You & I out of all dreaming Last Line: This scheme Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Sleep; Thought; Nightmares; Thinking IUS PRIMAE NOCTIS Poem Text First Line: Ditch a king marry another king. Switch a ring marry another ring Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IUS PRIMAE NOCTIS First Line: Ditch a king marry another king. Switch a ring marry another ring Last Line: In a black rat plague Subject(s): Marriage JACK KEROUAC DREAM First Line: He's talking speedily about the evil of the feminine but he likes it. Last Line: His eyes moist and glassy JOANNE First Line: She suffers even in medicines, idols JULY 4TH First Line: Wood green. Grandfather built it Subject(s): Fourth Of July JUNE DREAM First Line: I am a three-dimensional map for doctor 'sneakers' burroughs. Last Line: Apartments? I awake with the task to go boil water, for coffee, for tea JUNGLEFICATION Poem Text First Line: Maze jungle rising into sky Subject(s): Hearts; Love JUNGLEFICATION First Line: Maze jungle rising into sky Last Line: Resilient magics or Subject(s): Hearts; Love JURASSIC First Line: You think time had lost its way for you Last Line: Perhaps this is the last light you will ever see %lining the beautiful earth KALIGAT First Line: Bought big red wooden hoop bracelets about eight-inch diameter Last Line: With earthly/unearthly desire Subject(s): Marriage KARYOGAMY First Line: The gardener works on the tent pole KEEPING ABREAST IN BANGKOK First Line: A gang of transvestites has been robbing tourists Last Line: To feed the tourists chocolates laced with tranquilizers KILL OR CURE First Line: One can still fill whole books with descriptions Last Line: Stepping off the plane from managua to miami KINSHIP'S TOUCH AWAY First Line: #name? Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Marriage KONTRANIKI Poem Text First Line: Cave life in the hebron hills Last Line: From here to eternity Subject(s): War; Social Commentaries LABOR DAY First Line: Slouched like LACRIMARE, LACRIMATUS Poem Text First Line: Strum / a ton / a rung Subject(s): Crying; Latin Language; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Tongues; War; Women LACRIMARE, LACRIMATUS First Line: Strum %a ton %a rung Last Line: I wonder what dido understood Subject(s): Crying; Latin Language; Poetry And Poets; Tears; Tongues; War; Women LADY TACTICS First Line: She %not to be confused with she, a dog Last Line: Not to be confused with sentimental %or sly LAMENT YOU ARE IN THIS MIND OF First Line: Like a lament singing through your marrow all at Last Line: She wants to be as big as the ocean to sink these %thinking tears LAST DINNER First Line: Evening hot we compliment LAST RITE First Line: We stop %brother & I, his wife, our children Last Line: Spec to haunt an eye LE NOZZE, A ROMP First Line: Four sopranos one mezzo two tenors one baritone three bass sing into Last Line: Which builds into a blissful hymn. The curtain comes down on one %dysfunctional day Subject(s): Marriage LEONARDO Poem Text First Line: Winter nights Last Line: "& free my captive bird" Subject(s): Paintings And Painters LESSONS SHED LIGHT First Line: Sanctity of text, devoted reader Last Line: That melt into pleasure of kiss & book LETHE First Line: Nor child painted sick LIGHT & SHADOW Poem Text First Line: Rest you by this various planet Last Line: Swaying in the tender light & shadow Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Shadows LINEAGE First Line: Pass %ethos, an essay Last Line: It will not harm you Subject(s): Marriage LINES TO A CELEBRATED FRIEND First Line: I feel me in you when you say where you go next, not stopping Last Line: For heaven's sake allen, pull up those baggy pants LIP OF THE REAL Poem Text First Line: Exhaust appearance & / get the what-was-hidden or what's Subject(s): Art & Artists; Burroughs, William S. (1914-1997); Poetry & Poets LIP OF THE REAL First Line: Exhaust appearance & %get the what-was-hidden or what's Last Line: Bring all to it, william %naming your planets & stars Subject(s): Art And Artists; Burroughs, William S. (1914-1997); Poetry And Poets LOKAPALA: 1. BODY First Line: Placed here %feet on ground Last Line: Conquer with my seductive arm %lean back LOKAPALA: 2. SPEECH First Line: Speech is intimate Last Line: Conquer with your tongue LOKAPALA: 3. MIND First Line: Mind of spectral places Last Line: Here's earth %stake it out LOOKING DOWN THE BEAUTIFUL PEMIGEWASSET VALLEY First Line: Once spare of feasting eyes LORE First Line: It was a mercy %her %bishop's thing Last Line: Poets are saints in the sedge LOVE OF HIS ART First Line: I have not mastered cinematic intelligence Last Line: Because my eyes sigh in debt to yours LULLABY First Line: Kind fire kind coal MAIL-ORDER GROOM First Line: Kiss %hand %some skull part Last Line: At a touch of %bride let's hear Subject(s): Marriage MAKEUP ON EMPTY SPACE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I am putting makeup on empty space Last Line: Singing & moaning in empty space Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women MALE GAZE MALE First Line: Yearning in his voice man to man man on man had remembered I Last Line: And after this man is gone try the different heartbreak tones of saigon Subject(s): Marriage MAMMOTH First Line: Bewilderment acquiescing in a view, my long term to see you MANAGUA SKETCHES First Line: Christian santos the poet led me into her home. Last Line: Sharp angular lines, vibrating war-torn landscapes MARIANNE MOORE First Line: And reading out from a manuscript Last Line: & music inexorably owned MARRIAGE OF WILLIAM BLAKE First Line: On the day of his death he stopped work and turned to catherine Last Line: Coming to him, and would not be long now.' Subject(s): Marriage MATRIARCHLY Poem Text First Line: I gave this part away from me Last Line: To bring it on again Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Mothers; Poetry & Poets; Women - Writers MAUVE FLOWERS OF THE UBIQUITOUS WISTERIA First Line: The lapse attributed to the most jarring Last Line: Take a solitary dinner, an early dark bed MEN & WOMEN First Line: A woman goes away thinking the world MEN OUGHT TO LOVE MEN/(AND DO) Poem Text Last Line: The gay lordy praise her name Subject(s): Love; Gays & Lesbians; Marriage MEN OUGHT TO LOVE MEN/(AND DO) Last Line: The gay lordy praise her name Subject(s): Marriage METABOLIC First Line: It was %a force Last Line: Identity in %pollock's absence Subject(s): Marriage MILES ABOVE First Line: To be silent was a thought concerning you MILLENNIUM SUTRA First Line: What learned Last Line: Thus have I heard MIRROR MEDITATION Poem Text First Line: Look at my face Last Line: Lead me astray Subject(s): Meditation MONTANE First Line: Past crumbled miner shack on quick return %to mineral earth %shadow canyon Last Line: (& here ensues a list of mountains) MOON-IN-HAND First Line: Beauty is set apart Last Line: The little %crown %you took Subject(s): Marriage MORE MORES First Line: In the county of durham men with guns escort the bridal party to Last Line: Their brides. (stop) (help) (continue Subject(s): Marriage MORTIFICATION Poem Text First Line: Someone dies & / then a cat dies Subject(s): Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America MORTIFICATION First Line: Someone dies & %then a cat dies Last Line: Book again, being in the same place Subject(s): Native Americans; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers MOTHER & CHILD; AFTER CAREW Poem Text First Line: What is the destination of the sunlight's particles? Last Line: Under your innocent lashes Subject(s): Babies; Literary Form; Mothers; Infants MOTHER COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: What is around me is Last Line: But you know you do, you do Subject(s): Americans; Patriotism MOTHER GRACE Poem Text First Line: Mother-in-law is absolute tyrannical law is dietary law is the vittles on Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MOTHER GRACE First Line: Mother-in-law is absolute tyrannical law is dietary law is the vittles on Last Line: Other forms of life Subject(s): Marriage MOTHER'S CURSE; FOR DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Text First Line: Out of my pen: curses ride down Last Line: To meet the faces of women who take the words out of my mind. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Breast Feeding; Family Life; Life; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nursing (infants); Relatives MS. STEIN First Line: Ms. Stein likes it with sunlight & a kitchen Last Line: I'm a big woman full of words MS. STEIN MURDEROUS MAN & WIFE THINGS First Line: Sleep: violent %church: receptor blocked Last Line: Consumption: cells of a nutritive cycle of animal %eats plastic, metal etecetera Subject(s): Marriage MUSE First Line: I am this one writing to be more herself in the thought Last Line: Saw herself dancing in there, and the flames were the notes of my songs MUSICAL GARDEN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Can't give you up, can't stop Last Line: Can't give it up! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love MUST BE NEW JERSEY First Line: Later we're looking at the india slides Last Line: They even got the rickshaws & dancing girls! MY 16 First Line: Combat, as thing of highest importance MY KIND OF MAN Poem Text First Line: I like a man to know a lot more than I do Last Line: I'm afraid this very minute I won't find this any man. Subject(s): Love; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People MY LADY First Line: I wish to speak to you about my lady Last Line: & the way she undoes me %my lady my lady NAME AS REVERY First Line: Ate the bare limbs of words Last Line: Lefevre, my mother, exposed in sandals & silk NAPPING IN THE SHADOW OF DAY Poem Text First Line: The house is still that shook with glee Last Line: Hush he's lightly breathing Subject(s): Babies; Infants NERVES: TERRORIST FOR LANGUAGE Poem Text First Line: Nerves, blind / attraction to Subject(s): Language; Literary Form; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary NERVES: TERRORIST FOR LANGUAGE First Line: Nerves, blind %attraction to Last Line: Act like you're dead & %remember you're dead Subject(s): Language; Literary Form; Poetry And Poets NET LIFE First Line: Insects, larvae, the mesh of forms. Net life. Last Line: About the day 'it's sunday, again, a mesh of forms' NIGHT WING First Line: That we might be caustic, luminous, stride into night Last Line: Clouds anymore, but down through them from vantage-eye of sun NIJINSKY First Line: I danced very little because I was sad & sad because I thought that my Last Line: Not love me? I weep weep she weeps & weeps Subject(s): Marriage NIPPLE THAT DOES NOT ASK A SIGH First Line: How many colors in a love drama sleeping. Mauve? Tangential? Last Line: Never hardened in prison paint Subject(s): Marriage NOMAD'S SONG First Line: I meet my selves when we cry like water Last Line: And you sing, your selves liberated as a nomad NOOSPHERE First Line: Literally we're saying here the head sphere Last Line: I write these musings as poet trying to make sense of her world NOTORIOUS First Line: Known for cutting up Last Line: Known for toppling the house of representatives NOUNS OF THE HOUSE First Line: I do yes I do I promise to love & placate mister/mrs in times of trial Last Line: Stumble together about the stones about the nouns of the house Subject(s): Marriage NUMBER SONG Poem Text First Line: I've multiplied, I'm 2 Last Line: Kind congruity. Subject(s): Babies; Hearts; Love; Parents; Infants; Parenthood NUN ABUTSU First Line: Sea wind Last Line: The road %east %is a song OBEDIENCE & THE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I do yes I do I promise to love & placate mister/mrs in times of trial OBIT First Line: Necrology? Death roll? Last Line: Took a powder down the information highway OBJECTS OF DESIRE Poem Text First Line: K, j, b, & a all characters, all stalwarts Subject(s): Desire OBJECTS OF DESIRE First Line: K, j, b, & a all characters, all stalwarts Last Line: Mouth again %mouth again again Subject(s): Desire ODE TO MY PAYCHECK First Line: For my poor paycheck & to my sad paycheck - amends ODE TO SPEECH First Line: I cannot be but Last Line: What goddess will%abide %a %dull %self-serving %ignorant %tongue? %I speak it %you play me %that for Variant Title(s): Of Ah O OF A CRUEL MISTRESS First Line: She's cut me out of her life OKAY THE DREAM First Line: Loaded %& covered %medieval wagons Last Line: Now, a beach, a deserted stage %child's %eyes gone OLD DREAM RITUAL First Line: Sister bernadette is heckling me Last Line: It's as big as the world OLYMPIC FLAME First Line: The olympic flame comes to toulouse Last Line: To paris on time? ON A KNEE First Line: One said once to get down on a lithesome knee & ask for a fecund Last Line: The cool modernist new york springtime. Mister & me. We were very gay then Subject(s): Knees; Marriage ON WALT WHITMAN'S BIRTHDAY First Line: O strategic map of disasters, hungry america ONE INCH OF LOVE IS AN INCH OF ASHES Poem Text First Line: Allen ginsberg came to see me in a dream Last Line: You know what the chinese poet said, anne, / 'one inch of love is an inch of ashes' Subject(s): Love – Complaints; Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997) ONE ON HER SIDE First Line: What she does with leaf, twig, bird, lorgnette ONE TASTE Poem Text First Line: Lone spot on the chanter who is writer Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Writing & Writers; Paradise; Male-female Relations; Loneliness ONE TASTE First Line: Lon- (sounds like 'lawng') on-on-ong Last Line: Reach up now %reach reach Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Writing And Writers OPPOSITIONAL POETICS First Line: How do we now navigate a new chaos of possibility? Last Line: As the muse said to hilda doolittle, 'write, write or die.' ORPHAN First Line: Close ties both sides unless you are orphan-born. And even then & Last Line: Never banish the orphan. Take her in Subject(s): Marriage OUR PAST First Line: You and my life was meant to run from yours Last Line: As I came toward you you said what a youthful gait %you have OUTED FOR ETERNITY First Line: Potency %is not Last Line: Take a vow Subject(s): Marriage OUTSIDE CYBERSPACE First Line: Friendship %for beings Last Line: Praxitilean curve of the blue god's hips %outside cyberspace Subject(s): Marriage PAEAN: MAY I SPEAK THUS? First Line: Lovers: %may you be inside each other Last Line: Earth earth air air fire fire water water PARIS DAY Poem Text First Line: I've had it here craving for new york city every day Last Line: Let's go back immediately! Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); New York City; Writing & Writers; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple PARTED TOGETHER First Line: Missoula, I slept inside your walls PASSION BEING WRITING First Line: The way you describe any animal for slaughter Last Line: 3 centimeters (when cervix was dilating) %size 10 throbbing PAUL ELUARD Poem Text First Line: I have been reading about paul eluard tonight Last Line: He lived on love, cold water, and poetry. Subject(s): Books; Pain; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Suffering; Misery PENELOPE'S VERSION First Line: In a minute: daniel cell, magnets, iron fillings PEOPLE ARE SEEN BY ANIMALS First Line: Happy cat would love to jump off PERSONAL UNIVERSE First Line: Wicket chatres lava PHILOSOPHIA PERENNIS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I turned: quivering yellow stars in blackness Last Line: The nomads walk & walk. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PHOTOS AT THE EDGES First Line: I was stepping out of being a teenager PICTURES FROM TOFUKUJI; FOR PHILIP WHALEN Poem Text First Line: The buddha is dying Last Line: Where resides the man who sent me them Subject(s): Buddhism; Japan; Sects; Buddha; Buddhists; Japanese PILLAR OF FIRE First Line: Though %claimed %or spoken for Last Line: Genes don't go hog-wild in derision Subject(s): Fire; Marriage PLUTONIUM POEM Poem Text First Line: Fuck plutonium! Love it? Hate it? Last Line: Reincarnated for a quarter of a million years Subject(s): Physics; Radioactivity POEM EN FORME DE LA BOUCHE Poem Text First Line: Night first settles in the corners of your mouth Last Line: Vast rambling speeches. O mouth: swallow the night! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POLEMIC First Line: World's gone as usual askew Last Line: Take in the dark view. Darker view. %ask. Don't ask POOR SPORT First Line: You are an act involving an unintentional deviation from accuracy POSSE First Line: We have a posse of women PRATITYA SAMUTPADA First Line: Do you know this term, my friend Last Line: By this merit may all obtain omniscience PREDATORY First Line: Holy family %in animal parts Last Line: Dressed damsels/cross-gendered animals/eye dilation/sweat secretion Subject(s): Marriage PRESSURE First Line: When I %see you Last Line: Now coaxing midnight gentle midnight no escape PROBLEM First Line: Shove feelings back Last Line: Home city, no matter, proves PULSE First Line: She swallowed the drug with her whole heart. Last Line: Fuchsia lipstick. She could face the world QUEEN First Line: My sandpaper husband who QUEER HEART First Line: Suck cock, father country Last Line: Blessings on all natural acts QUOTE CAPTIVE First Line: Orbits of intertextual modern talk Last Line: Now sing and write this down RAT TEMPLE First Line: Linking the name and the thing not a simple operation Last Line: When the lizard clucks, the women beat the floor & say %'krishna, krishna' REBUILDING OF DETROIT First Line: Once upon a time a person became more than one of us RED HAT LAMA First Line: Red hat lama's hat is big flat flame Last Line: Red hat diamond lotus lama in mind of me REPLACEMENT First Line: I am watching how one is changing my place REPLENISH MAKING TWINE IF YOU LIKE First Line: Somehow dreamed together Last Line: Bow vulnerable %(knees) %under sign of capricorn REVOLUTION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Spooky summer on the horizon I'm gazing at Last Line: And never waste a minute Subject(s): Revolutions RHUMBA Poem Text First Line: Say 'bells' say 'buckskin leggings' say 'drumstick' say 'domestic' say Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RHUMBA First Line: Say 'bells' say 'buckskin leggings' say 'drumstick' say 'domestic' say Last Line: Show' say 'we go hand in hand.' Subject(s): Marriage RIDDLE A GEOGRAPHIC AMBITION First Line: Deities %of the %volcano Last Line: Before she cools down RIPARIAN First Line: Basho dogs us here %albeit 'pets %not aloud' %and five miles down Last Line: I'm just going to walk over to it RITE First Line: Brassy choir lament Last Line: To pronounce you %man & wife Subject(s): Marriage ROMANCE Poem Text First Line: Born & lost in a throw of time Last Line: Not behaving like any government. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Passion; Romance; Eros ROOMS Poem Text First Line: That it would be okay very soon okay, that okay it could be sooner before I Subject(s): Buddhism; Psychoanalysis; Reason; Women; Buddha; Buddhists; Psychoanalysts; Psychotherapy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals ROOMS First Line: That it would be okay very soon okay, that okay it could be sooner before I Last Line: Over. You don't even have a vocabulary yet Subject(s): Buddhism; Psychoanalysis; Reason; Women RUDESTE First Line: She ne're visits. I want her perfecte Last Line: & seeing all lyfe as writing, a genuine worlde RUSSIAN NELLI First Line: Come, russian nelli Last Line: It spins, it spins' she sings SAID SO First Line: They said must not, must not be said. They said it SAVONAROLA ON MY MIND: A VALENTINE First Line: You enter, report. Now there are 3 stars in a triangle SCALLOP SONG Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I wore a garland of the briar that put me now in awe Last Line: & leave all sorrow bye & bye. Subject(s): Babies; Creation; Parents; Infants; Parenthood SCIENCE ANNALS First Line: Chinese fireworks on the lawn. Lotus opening in distress to love Last Line: Tigers will have the day with grrr with growl Subject(s): Marriage SCIENCE TIMES First Line: Must know all color, must know such tolerance SECLUSION, CONCEALMENT & VEILING Poem Text First Line: The bridegroom in ancient sparta supped on the wedding night at Last Line: Accompanied by her sister dressed exactly like herself Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SECLUSION, CONCEALMENT & VEILING First Line: The bridegroom in ancient sparta supped on the wedding night at Last Line: Is married she is accompanied by her sister dressed exactly like herself Subject(s): Marriage SELVES THE SHELF OF BALLADS MADE FROM First Line: If I was a carpenter Last Line: Before you get married some pleasure to see Subject(s): Marriage SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN Poem Text First Line: Enter / swallow / each calling Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing & Writers; Italians; Motion Pictures - Play Writing; Journeys; Trips SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN First Line: Enter %swallow %each calling Last Line: But speak of more cheerful imaginings Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing And Writers SEX & INTRIGUE (SHE SEDUCES A TERRORIST & HAS TO LEAVE TOWN) First Line: She continues her memoirs, which seem seem more scurrilous Last Line: There are obviously some provocateurs at work SEXUAL MOTION Poem Text First Line: A vision of a wifely woman one half of her face black the other half Last Line: It is she my wifely sorcerly ayami, a terrifying sexual motion Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SEXUAL MOTION First Line: A vision of a wifely woman one half of her face black the other half Last Line: Ayami, a terrifying sexual motion Subject(s): Marriage SHAMAN HISSES YOU SLIDE BACK INTO THE NIGHT First Line: It turns me weak it turns me weak - it turns me weak Last Line: Salmon color woman skin make her skin a drum to heal SHARK PEOPLE First Line: A divinity goes mute goes charioteering goes hidden underground Last Line: Like the incense you give a passing thought to Subject(s): Marriage SHOPPING SPREE Poem Text First Line: Whose whose property property is whose whose in the origin origin Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SHOPPING SPREE First Line: Whose whose property property is whose whose in the origin origin Last Line: Frenzy frenzy. Custody custody is brutal brutal. (one voice) custody is brutal Subject(s): Marriage SHREE JAGANNATHA First Line: It is written Last Line: What -- text -- did -- you -- come -- from -- out -- of -- what -- oppositional -- dream Subject(s): Buddhism; India; Middle East SILVERHANDS First Line: A bear destroys the dwarf & marries snow white Last Line: Fear of animal paws Subject(s): Marriage SIMULACRUM (NOT A REAL LIFE, CHEAP IMITATION) First Line: Coruscated distress %condition or Last Line: I want us all to die SKIN MEAT BONES First Line: I've come to tell you of the things dear to me Last Line: & protect endangered species also SLAUGHTER First Line: Way you describe animal Last Line: Makes any woman shake SLEEVE OF CARE First Line: Guard %up %the sleeve Last Line: He does %& she? %she does rest Subject(s): Marriage SNOW Poem Text First Line: Snow comes down on new york city Last Line: You will later eat before it is cooked. Subject(s): New York City; Snow; Winter; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SO HELP ME SAPPHO Poem Text First Line: Lofty teacher had / put an end to his argument Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Zeus SO HELP ME SAPPHO First Line: Lofty teacher had %put an end to his argument Last Line: Maidenhead, did she commit suicide Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Muses; Mythology; Poetry And Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Zeus SO HELP ME SAPPHO First Line: She, the other one, a creature rapt longer than space in atention Last Line: Lopped off, never emasculated %diminished of arrogance SOFA IS BLACK First Line: Monsieur is here. I am reading. Reading the novel. Last Line: The sofa is blue, no the sofa is black. The sofa is black SOLIPSISTIC, ANATOMICAL Poem Text First Line: One said once an overt thing a relevant thing & the first time heard it Last Line: Incomplete tempestuous calm & strange of body trembling because of marriage Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SOLIPSISTIC, ANATOMICAL First Line: One said once an overt thing a relevant thing & the first time heard it Last Line: Spun incomplete tempestuous calm & strange of body trembling because of marriage Subject(s): Marriage SOME OF THE THINGS I SEE FOR YOU Poem Text First Line: Great & dramatic he is sprouting a truant Last Line: Dazzling sun moaning in my past Subject(s): Memory; Past SONNET FOR BROKEN WINDOWS First Line: I am meaning to inundate you with light SONNET: O HUSBAND! Poem Text First Line: O husband! This word of care born Last Line: I'm a woman, am empty, yet full of light for thee. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Eros; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SPARROW First Line: Recognizing a life SPEL First Line: As once one's flesh Last Line: Hetero world %hetero whirl Subject(s): Marriage SPEL AGAINST SPECIOUS ONES First Line: That they be doused in hot roiling water Last Line: On banish ho hum!--gone gone out of gentle pathways SPIN OR LACE IT IN STORY Poem Text First Line: There was a spinster Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations SPIN OR LACE IT IN STORY First Line: There was a spinster Last Line: Did not want to stop imagining Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Writing And Writers SPRECHSTIMME (COUNTESS OF DIA) Poem Text First Line: Mouth down at sides Subject(s): Art & Artists; Betrayal; Deception; Love; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Women - Writers SPRECHSTIMME (COUNTESS OF DIA) First Line: Mouth down at sides Last Line: What need his guns Subject(s): Art And Artists; Betrayal; Deception; Love; Poetry And Poets; Singing And Singers; Women - Writers STAR DUST First Line: Kenward elmslie & joe brainard took jackie curtis & me on a STEREO Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Marriage marriage is like you say everything everything in stereo Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives STEREO First Line: Marriage marriage is like you say everything everything in stereo Last Line: Marriage is sweeter sweeter than you think. Think Subject(s): Marriage STREET OF HUMAN BODIES Poem Text First Line: For he must repair to his father-in-law, the meter-outer-of-support if Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives STREET OF HUMAN BODIES First Line: For he must repair to his father-in-law, the meter-outer-of-support if Last Line: & women 'doings.' ways? Subject(s): Marriage STREET RETREAT First Line: Spare any change?' %we tried panhandling on mulberry street Last Line: Night after night like this would you go mad? STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD COMPARED TO A BUBBLE First Line: Walking towards the imaginal and literal site Last Line: Not a revealed religion but a walk on a wildebeeste side SUCHLIKE First Line: In a wealth of nations speech it goes without saying manifest destiny Last Line: Non-sufi wind. Dust moat in her maverick I told you so eye Subject(s): Marriage SUMUNGALA'S MOTHER SPEAKS First Line: I'm free! Last Line: I mediate upon this as happiness SUN THE BLOND OUT Poem Text First Line: That's my mind out nines in coke Last Line: Rich pieces of orchestra shimmer in this century only. Subject(s): Publishing; Writing & Writers; Publishers SUPPOSE A GAME First Line: Suppose language is a game Last Line: Or glint as weapons in moonlight? SWISS BANKER First Line: Lunch on the train. Two bottles of wine. Last Line: Does he forget? I am the innocent, I am always the innocent TALISMAN First Line: Unraveling scarf, a jeweled scarf owned since childhood Last Line: To please you with its ambience & death vibe TALKING MUSHROOMS First Line: Side 1, 7pm %can't wait till the part figaro Last Line: Wake up instantly - turn the music over TELL A STORY ABOUT A THRESHOLD HERE First Line: The country is calling, marry uncle sam. Rudimentary fear. War Last Line: Related. I gather I hunt I gather I hunt. I hunted. Never for a husband Subject(s): Fear; Marriage THE DE CARLO LOTS Poem Text First Line: You are parceled out over the post office Last Line: Measuring the lots, the dreams by Subject(s): Exchange Students; Farewell; Letters; Postal Service; Universities & Colleges; Foreign Exchange Programs; Parting; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE LIE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Art begins with a lie Last Line: That's the story, sharp speck in the eye. Subject(s): Art & Artists THE STICK Poem Text First Line: Crumpled paper, little stick Last Line: Mother's love? Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Sons THE VO OF THEM Poem Text THERE WAS A TIME AN ECLIPSE Poem Text THERE WAS A TIME AN ECLIPSE Last Line: Art' to me is like walking down the street with someone and saying don't you love that building Subject(s): Eclipses; Glaciers; Moon; Music And Musicians; Nature; Sky THERIGATHA, SELS. THIN-SKINNED First Line: The world may be shaped as nourished Last Line: Shed a petal, disappear Subject(s): Marriage THINKING RIGHT INSIDE THE THING First Line: Sadness about the coaches jane always like a dinner there THIS OBJECT First Line: An object looks old but is as new as a ...' THROW MATCHES AT THE SUN! Poem Text THY LIP Poem Text First Line: Thy lip thy eye thy brow thy single nature thy chorus thy marriage to Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THY LIP First Line: Thy lip thy eye thy brow thy single nature thy chorus thy marriage to Last Line: Ious care thy pavaillion in baths do steepe them in common marriage amen Subject(s): Marriage TO BLUNT THE KNIFE Poem Text First Line: Range / a rest / face off Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused; Journeys; Trips; Wife Beating TO BLUNT THE KNIFE First Line: Range %a rest %face off Last Line: I sought the wild animal %salamat jalan Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry And Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused TO HUMMINGBIRD First Line: Odd paradigm of speed TO THE CENSORIOUS ONES First Line: I'm coming up out of the tomb, men of war Last Line: I'm opening the box %boo! Variant Title(s): To Jesse Helms Et Al TORPEDO First Line: All hands grow excited TRACT First Line: I live with them: %palms, scrubs, oaks Last Line: I lived beyond extinction so far, you too children listen %-- a terrible news TRAVEL BEING LOVE First Line: I awoke in an ancient country to you Last Line: While a green oilcloth shines in a new light TRIANGLE First Line: The 2nd moon curled in a grimace TRIOLET Poem Text First Line: A perfectly clear liquid like water Last Line: Last night, in the cold hospital, this is what I saw. Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors TU'M First Line: Tum' %tomb %pro %prodromus Last Line: Penance for an age feminine: %plastique Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Memory; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War TWO AMERICAN NOZZLE RELICS First Line: Especially if you sing it accurately with smiles TWO HEARTS; AFTER SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text First Line: She's got my heart and I've got hers Last Line: We're stuck with each other's hearts now. Subject(s): Hearts; Love TWO MEN First Line: Writing to one man of another. Now there are 2 Last Line: Thighs of men. It does not change anything UNDER MY BREATH First Line: Of memory there was also a song Last Line: One might imagine it -- emptied shade UNDER THE SUN Poem Text First Line: John cage was a new or short or longer pause suppliant. John cage was a friend Subject(s): Cage, John (1913-1992) UP Poem Text First Line: Reach me / I reach you Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise UP First Line: Reach me %I reach you Last Line: Taste me now (offers up palm of left hand) %(right hand lifts up making gesture as if writing on the Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of UPADESHA: CYCLE OF DESIRE Poem Text First Line: Unheard / you do / stand me Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love UPADESHA: CYCLE OF DESIRE First Line: Unheard %you do %stand me Last Line: In flagrant periphrasis %heat's language Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love VELENTINES First Line: I will write it out: a parable makes VERSES FOR THE NEW AMAZING GRACE First Line: The grace of all the bards who pen Last Line: With her haunting melody VOWELS First Line: Hefty 'a' you hold the world like atlas WALK AROUND TIME First Line: Girl bouncing red ball corner sullivan & spring streets 1953 Last Line: No one there the lone & level desks %sands of nebraska raising arms to stretch WALK ON ROSES First Line: Melodrama of someone's youth WANDERLUST First Line: Unsuited %& was %a root Last Line: Pavati & shiva: the destruction of the world Subject(s): Marriage WAR BRIDE First Line: Who lives with a just war honorable mail order catalog afraid to Last Line: Row he'll be home. Maybe a hopeful letter some news stuck in the blue metal slot Subject(s): Marriage WARBLER First Line: In being musical you put in the jerusalem artichoke, a kind WAX GIRL First Line: Ornamental %presence Last Line: Growing warm %that wax girl Subject(s): Marriage WEST POINT First Line: They come for me in a big limousine. The driver, a Last Line: Spit and shine. Tamed to be fierce, unbending under %the seasoned officer's eye WHEN THE WORLD WAS STEADY First Line: Blazing cinders blaise cendrars for my sake excellence as from Last Line: Armor we do this in love I mean let's use this like lovers WHITE EYES First Line: Friends & relatives Last Line: & everybody was watching. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Canada; Family Life; Travel; Canadians; Relatives; Journeys; Trips WHY I MEDITATE First Line: I sit because I'm wing'd with awe WIDE RECEIVER First Line: You are designated 'wide receiver' Last Line: Where all the old scores settle, then churn again -- hike! WILT First Line: If a man dies a bachelor the balinese say that in the next life he will Last Line: Der an occult power or impotent Subject(s): Marriage WINE CUP OF NIGHT PLAY First Line: When you have amassed the tones-of-wear, of weight lift, a public life Last Line: Beltane festival. Closer in the small bed Subject(s): Marriage WITHIN A BUDDING First Line: Rich %in %expletive %surprise Last Line: Pent up for inking %the windswept ruin Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989); Friendship; Poetry And Poets; Women - Writers WORKER SONG First Line: Breach %in the breath day Last Line: She's a good old pal Subject(s): Marriage WRITING First Line: And putting my hand to my body examine a body Last Line: I touch my breasts, yes I touched them. Imagine the rest YOUTH & WOMAN First Line: You were the talk of all my travel days YUM YAB First Line: How many heads %wily, cynical do I have? Last Line: And needing you, ornament, %my subjugated 'other.' ZOO First Line: Push the gesture %far as it will go Last Line: See the animals in the zoo' %& never returns Subject(s): Marriage |
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