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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: WALDNER, LIZ Matches Found: 143 Waldner, Liz Poet's Biography 143 poems available by this author A CALCULUS OF READINESS Poem Text First Line: I, too, come from the city of dolls. Subject(s): Dolls; Fish & Fishing; Anglers ACCORD First Line: Sticks stick up out of the brittle leaves the leather color of winter oak. A Last Line: Ment; I only hope it lasts ADJUNCT Poem Text First Line: The tomato plant is like a seven-story city hewn from the rock of the desert Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ADJURE INJURE: LAST CALL First Line: After a while the white night clouds climbed up Last Line: To feel this seeing I now cal being %and knew as the dark heart of 'me' ALCHEMIST'S MISFORTUNE First Line: Hemlock branches shook their heads Last Line: I've made myself not-matter AMEN (ON CHRISTMAS DAY) First Line: Prologue: rejoice all my hours Last Line: The play: I tried, you man, you imman, twice. %gimme flowers APOTHECARIES WEIGHT: TWENTY BRAINS MAKE ONE SCRUPLE First Line: Shaggy like a beard the shadow of the tree Last Line: Let the cabbage white eat gravity and green ARIADNE, HER COLLECT AND COMPLEXION First Line: The voice said, kneel down. %I knelt Last Line: Than in the fear of going, %unknowing, down ASSUMPTION First Line: Was she lifted up? The rusty wheels humming their rubber Last Line: Of the possible, the centripetal %world? AU PAIR A GREEN First Line: You could think of the new green as a sort of dirt on the trees at this point Last Line: To last %to come -- clean with me AU PAIR GIRL'S SPEECH First Line: Her secretary recorded it BEELZEBUB AND BABY J ATOP WINDHAM HILL, VERMONT First Line: Where are they who felled the trees Last Line: But the house you'll have to lease BEHIND PERFUME, ONLY SOLITUDE Poem Text First Line: Ink will come. Lamp lung Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness BELOVED, MERELY First Line: The dictionary suggests I do not need Last Line: And in any word discern the root (en route) %to some (any) where BIRTHDAY First Line: The jay, raucus in the white pine Last Line: Such intercourse gives me my life BISECTION (CHEERING, VIVI-) First Line: The flowers themselves are like knees Last Line: On my knees. Say I too know %what you means BOND ISSUE (1973) First Line: Della's motel and trailer park was kind of moody Last Line: And mikey shot himself in the head BOOM PROFITS OF DOOM First Line: Now it's later. Than it was. O poor hand on that man. What's its problem, do Last Line: Ess with the ghostes, gita bhopal. Hurry up please because you know what? It's %way past time BUD CABAL I First Line: Hooray, it is spring, it is beautiful here, hooray Last Line: And you just with abraxas %brushed your teeth BUT WHEN THE REPRESENTATION DOES NOT DO JUSTICE TO THE THOUGHT, THE First Line: I am the woman who had devils in her Last Line: Justice is doen. Done. %(I.E. I yam what I yam CALCULUS OF READINESS First Line: I, too, come from the city of dolls Last Line: Now give me a hand, plants. Now give me %good-night, stars CALL THE QUESTION First Line: How can I expect or be expected to keep up with my sins Last Line: It keeps the seer's boat afloat- %the seme in seems's sole hope? CHAMELEON Poem Text First Line: If you appear to a leaf the green of the laurel's Last Line: Away from my claws Subject(s): Chameleons CHEZ POETESS First Line: This is the glitter world Last Line: In this very special place CLEAVE VS. CLEAVE, OCCASION FOR A LITTLE PLAY First Line: She said something about me to me Last Line: Shame: to be visible %a shame: to pass unseen COURSE OF TRUE LOVE (TO DIE MANNER BORN) First Line: Everything was prepared, and even formed Last Line: For as long as one could see- %was stone upon artificed stone CREATION STORY First Line: I went out with elaine to look at the moon Last Line: Barbara was on the telephone; she made %a face hello DAMASCENE. SIN TAX, IMPUESTO, PUT IT THERE, SWELL First Line: Without taxis, we go nowhere Last Line: How good it costs to hire my car DETERMINATE INFLORESCENCE: EPHEMERA First Line: I am not making myself up for public consumption Last Line: Like a moth on the right flower at the wrong time of day DIALOGUM First Line: It has nothing to do with me Last Line: I'm allowed to say, %dear DINNER DATE First Line: Just a little word, w..: someone could say it to you, and it could make every Last Line: Heaven again means violence? DREAM OF HAT AND MOUTH First Line: A voice, maybe mine, is saying this Last Line: It might have been the voice of the angry april day Subject(s): Dreams; Voices DUTY AGAIN AND AGAIN DESIRE (FINISH WORK) First Line: Now it is our bounden duty Last Line: Recognize, even, the off angles of desire EAT RATIONAL: WATERCOURSE FOR TONGUES OF FLAME First Line: Bear: not to moan as you say to the audience, and this piece an erotics of Last Line: Sun see the water, and the I's therein ES / CHEW Poem Text First Line: The better to hear EVERYTHING BUT First Line: What, vhat, I always want the words out faster because I can feel the press Last Line: Velva man - but I wouldn't be if you paid me FEAR AND SUCKLING AND THE MIRRORING UNTO DEATH First Line: Two calcium clouds have appeared in the sky Last Line: Suck. Correct my vision %still me FLIGHT PATH OF REAL DESIRES: MY SISTER VISITS ON THE ASTRAL PLANE First Line: Here I am writing away and there you are shuffling your books. Except by the Last Line: Wet and cold. All told, my desire is toward dry socks and its angle of incidence acute FUR BOWSER First Line: The tops of the trees look like dog tails which is a thought I do not know what Last Line: That ole man goes rolling home: lightning means to give the dog a bone GAMBOL AND SPRING First Line: I am not used to men. I thought the first one Last Line: I'm not used to these heavenly labials, %either GENITIVE CASE (DESIDERUS) First Line: I wish there were a photograph of my hands when they were younger Last Line: Observe the object of desire become desire %for a star GET THEE TO A SUMMARY... First Line: For as they proceed, they but ever multiply Last Line: (hooray for captain spaulding, master of vexillology) HAND TO MOUTH: TWIST AND SHOUT First Line: Cold comes slow up out Last Line: Do you, too, recognize me %god so soon? HER FIRST RECKONING First Line: Pour wine into vessels the violet of woods Last Line: Why did you make me like this? HIGH CULTURE First Line: Cumulous on the glass of the sky, on Last Line: And the leaves of the hedge rustle HOMESEEKER'S PARADISE First Line: A blue part that is remembered Last Line: A garbage can is too good a place HOUSEWIFE'S LAMENT First Line: Here I am. Sam I am. Not spam. Nor pam, an awful name for another awful Last Line: Going to be able to hear. Big sigh and irritations. If only I owned my own home HYMN PO'DERMIC (BABY'S ON FIRE) First Line: Wasp, a needle sound Last Line: The needle paeon %eno tunes I AM A LEAF (THOUGH I DO IN RETROSPECT REGRET NONE OF US KNEW... First Line: Well, the trees are shimmering here in new york Last Line: The feeling of going while keeping still I MUST CONFESS A GREAT DEAL OF OBSCURITY... First Line: Nor any light though I dwelt in the body of the sun Last Line: I one poor amphibious piece of hope: ms. Caliban IMAGINED SNAKE IS THE SPORT OF THE ROPE First Line: I say bora bora Last Line: (the names of god themselves %sings) IMPRESSION AND TINCTURE OF REASON... First Line: She played the sensible operator but a little while Last Line: Had in his or he in hers-cusp and couloir-whisper'd the ear IN BRIEF, WE HAVE DEVOURED OURSELVES, AND DO... First Line: As they leave earth-here I falter-stealing Last Line: But woke beside some other I IN THE PENUMBRA OF THE PORTRAIT OF W.A. MOZART, A PERUKE First Line: There is no greater pleasure than pleasure in writing Last Line: Else knew how I would feel and I do %touching you? INDETERMINATE INFLORESCENCE: FLOWER PRESS First Line: A spadix is nothing but a fleshy spike or head Last Line: Comes to shovel from now on, I push IS NAMED) ORPHEUS First Line: Music, for instance Last Line: Wave on the water, the name's immortal but scored good-bye IS THIS HOW TO CONDUCT A LIFE? First Line: The match makes a fine wick Last Line: Trees burn. %encouraged, I cotyledon on LAST FRIDAY, 7 PM First Line: Sort of like a jar in tennessee I sat on a bench Last Line: Didn't spell anything and nothing %drew near LAUNDRESS MAUNDERS II First Line: Laundromat, laundrymat, here we are again. Agayne. Imagine spelling your Last Line: Hang my laundry to dry on trees LEAVING First Line: That the breath in the trees is so like speech Last Line: Under its tongue, the trees keep absent Subject(s): Absence LETTER HEAVEN-SENT First Line: The cloud lays the ladder %of its word upon the water Last Line: What I want is to be meant LETTUCE (BUT IS THIS?) BEGIN First Line: But is this where to begin? Hansel and gretel didn't know they'd begun until Last Line: Hunger talking. Low blood sugar bids you adieu MAPPER OF (POSSIBLE) FACT First Line: Wife of bath, a model? Forsooth, single, however many times husbanded. For Last Line: Always at your side to be with you in your need - and mine MAUNDY THURSDAY IN TRANSLATION First Line: Do you know what I have done to you? Last Line: In you, I drip from every leaf MISSES COORDINATES: OLD WORLD MAIL ORDER First Line: We lived in a map of the world Last Line: Was very fine for us MISSION CONTROL First Line: Well, we are doing the best we have with what we can or something to that Last Line: Cards. There's lift-off stains and everything. Everything's ok MY HAND First Line: My hand is like a house to me Last Line: All perfectly good NEW AGE First Line: I. Its humble beginnings Last Line: Erasure. Here, is there a danger? She tells it as a healing story. She says she is a channel NOR; TRULY, CAN I PEREMPTORILY DENY... First Line: My wanting wanted without study or deliberation to know things Last Line: Him to be and what before me, wonted, he was NOVICE Poem Text First Line: The baby maples hold out their hands Last Line: This I could see Subject(s): Nature NOVICE First Line: The baby maples hold out their hands Last Line: When he flew, he left the skin of his motion. %this I could see OBJECT OBEISANCE First Line: The garbage can wraps its yellow rope arms Last Line: A tree a rope never is OF UNKNOWING AGAIN First Line: Not mine. Could not. Some humped bug lumbers across the formica-topped Last Line: My hands held sudden and fast in your mouth OFF COURSE: INEFFABLE First Line: O small sunlight on the bark which faded before I could finish Last Line: The laminae make up the face. Of course %the cotyledon wearies ON FIRST LOOKING INTO GRAY'S BOTANY: A. OF VEGETATION IN GENERAL First Line: When it had merely to unfold and grow Last Line: Embryo like a little ear, hear %I write you call me ON FIRST LOOKING INTO GRAY'S BOTANY: B. CATALOGUE RAISONE First Line: The tree in itself in its whole vegetation Last Line: In mind %bore seed %of kind %and rind ON FIRST LOOKING INTO GRAY'S BOTANY: HOW, NOW First Line: The problem of sex to solve %she set herself Last Line: (smoke, eyes) an answer %still, I tried ON FIRST LOOKING INTO GRAY'S BOTANY: I'M A BIT TRANSFORMED First Line: Behold the inorganic world, or mineral kingdom Last Line: Destitute of life, said asa gray ON FIRST LOOKING INTO GRAY'S BOTANY: IN SO DISMAL A CALAMITY First Line: So briskly locomotive %as her hair Last Line: Why should one %not an other? %just %so ON FIRST LOOKING INTO GRAY'S BOTANY: LAST SUPPER FIRST First Line: Veritable physiology %vert mange, blanc mange Last Line: See similar words on a page %(rending) ON FIRST LOOKING INTO GRAY'S BOTANY: NOR ANY OTHER ............ First Line: Than sharp a knife %nor microscope %nor wordable witness Last Line: What does she live upon? %what her object and use? ON FIRST LOOKING INTO GRAY'S BOTANY: RABE First Line: The organs of vegetation are tired Last Line: Which way to go) %and we do not know or %care ON FIRST LOOKING INTO GRAY'S BOTANY: STYLE 2 First Line: The simplest & most persistent %is what for? Last Line: Give rise %in their fossil remains %to fruit ON FIRST LOOKING INTO GRAY'S BOTANY: THE FIRST OF TIME First Line: At first, %small and imperfect, %it grows and develops Last Line: An explanation is %only a likeness %only like another thing ON FIRST LOOKING INTO GRAY'S BOTANY: WHAT IS TRUE IN A GENERAL WAY First Line: I lifted the candle to drink. %the heater ever on, my head shorn Last Line: Shall we commence with the seedling %just rising from the ground? %oh dear ON MOVING AGAIN Poem Text First Line: This evening, walking along the long field Subject(s): Trees ON THE WAY First Line: I passed the yews at the funeral home Last Line: May I like a nail in a carpenter's hand %go home ORPHEUS UNDER THE TABLE First Line: On being served ephemera: Last Line: This was, too PASSING First Line: It's winter and it will be for awhile Last Line: Until, as now, it up and walks %right through me Subject(s): Winter PHOTO (OP/TATIVE) SYNTHESIS Poem Text First Line: The general increase in green Subject(s): Nature POOR COTYLEDON First Line: A bean affords a similar and more familiar illustration Last Line: The proper material, 'f' -able-o people! %its sweet and eatable seed POST PRANDIAL First Line: Time, fine, a fine time was had by all. The tine of the fork, the fork of Last Line: Party. It left a welt like missing you POSTCARD: TO MY AMAZE First Line: Dear who. Why dear? Why a letter? It is valentine's day. Let that be an answer Last Line: Out of the mouths of babes PRAYER Poem Text First Line: If I were in a book it would be the book Subject(s): Soul; Angels QUESTION OF THE RED SULFUR First Line: It is not martin luther Last Line: Have heard- %she answers, in a word RADIOACTIVE ASSAY AND EPITAPH: INDIAN SCHOOL Poem Text First Line: The way paved with iron of interdicted sites Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Philosophy & Philosophers; Science; Scientists RADIOACTIVE ASSAY AND EPITAPH: INDIAN SCHOOL First Line: The way paved with iron of interdicted sites Last Line: Language forbidden, the world learned bacon's Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Philosophy And Philosophers; Science RAMPANT First Line: The question of brahms becomes a question of music, alas. It is associated with Last Line: Escaped the erratic truths of last lines.)(phew) Subject(s): Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) REDUCTIO First Line: Call: he strives to go the neatest way unto corruption Last Line: Call: he seeks in any rete the suppos'd repose of death %response restiveness REQUEST FOR A LITTLE WATER MUSIC FROM THE NIGHT First Line: Inyaha itifada intimada madre falafel mater dolorosa estrella del Last Line: Stali ly shas tadai sy...> like so. %for me ROUTINE FIDELITIES First Line: In the night %I walk around the empty house Last Line: We are climbing jacob's ladder %nothing's doing here SACRAMENTO O NO Poem Text Subject(s): Time; Nature SCIENTIFIC METHOD: 1. NOTEBOOK First Line: Belief like hell can affect you & how you behave Last Line: Things are like other things and so can be mistaken SCIENTIFIC METHOD: 2. OBSERVATION First Line: I thought the professor in the next room Last Line: This is the engineering building SCIENTIFIC METHOD: 3. INTERROGATION AND CONCLUSION First Line: Should that semi-colon be a colon? Last Line: Baconian, in a pig's eye SEATTLE, THIRD AND PIKE First Line: After my reading, on the night-gleaming street belonging Last Line: Still, the wish for congruency. For some other to come to know SELF PORTRAIT AS PENCIL ON PLACEMAT First Line: Alone. And alone. The pencil knows Last Line: As dream is to wake-same message as ever: %send word SELF-REPRESENTATION First Line: How blurry the trees in these window reflections Last Line: But daily I rehearse %how I drowned SEMBLANCE: SCREENS Poem Text First Line: A moth lies open and lies Subject(s): Insects; Bugs SOLITARY AND SEMI-MUSICAL CONFINEMENT First Line: I found a bird skull with a yellow feather on it Last Line: You'll never walk alone STRAIGHT FLUSH First Line: The hand, the hand of the man who sat on my couch and held whatever I put Last Line: How it is kind not to say things not to say and rehearsing how needful it is to speak SUCH AS REDUCED THE HEATHENS TO DIVINITY... First Line: In our study of anatomy there is Last Line: Something in us that can be %without us, and will SUFFICIENT CAUSES AND ARTIFACTS First Line: For the voice to cry, all flesh is grass Last Line: For we all do fade as a leaf SUN DIAL First Line: Therein a bed, they are. One supposes that the other doesn't notice they're not Last Line: Shadow of your wife TALENTED AND GIFTED First Line: He hurt her amateur feelings. No bandages, please. A panda bear from the Last Line: Relative of god. Make that mature feelings THIS IS NOT NORMAL MOVEMENTS OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM First Line: Ok, here we go, yes. Press. Again? For time? No? For space? No? For they are Last Line: About animals, which you still had hopes were real THOUGH THE RADICAL HUMOUR CONTAIN IN IT OIL FOR SEVENTY... First Line: I can but plea, it seems; how this goes hard upon me Last Line: Become but pantalones to my severer contemplation TRADING LITTLE TRINKETS WITH THE GODS First Line: So ok. Soak. Souk. Bazaar. Bizarre. Why am I - was I? - printing? I like the Last Line: Casional blue sparks are crossing the page TRANSITIVE, INTRANSITIVE: EXTEMPORARY MEASURES First Line: Two crows above the marsh: sew Last Line: The shining hour' improved TREE-KEEPER'S DAUGHTER SPEAKS First Line: It is no good Last Line: What shall be done in the dry? TRUST Poem Text First Line: If I would be walking down the road Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy TRUTH, BEAUTY, TREE Poem Text First Line: Such embroidery of the green Last Line: We hope to see through (to) / always Subject(s): Beauty TYLER First Line: Is it true you have the instincts of a small bird? Last Line: Your feathers %wing me %here UNDER THE TINSEL THERE IS THE REAL TINSEL' Last Line: Having said that it seems I have nothing to say. I am a turtle crawling down a %carpeted hall alone UNMOURNING WATER OF THE WRITING PEN First Line: One doesn't like to push one's luck Last Line: The tongue around the 't' in enter %subterranean forms of the stem UPPER CLASS First Line: For three days the trees Last Line: My very pestilence is wealth USE MAKES MASTER (AN ABLATIVE OF MEANS) First Line: For you are the only poet Last Line: Although even the rain washes its hands of me %will never be your middle name VEGETABLE HISTORY First Line: I grew up in the company of rhubarb Last Line: Upright again %that was me VEGETABLE HISTORY: RED-NECK, QUEER First Line: I grew up in a darkness of rhubarb Last Line: To light that %was me VERNATION First Line: It is said to be inflexed or reclined in vernation Last Line: And in the morning-glory twisted, besides VERY BIG WIND First Line: I dreamed a tornado. White-glove affair (no dust, no muss, ich muss, ichthys Last Line: Knowledge of houses, sex with the trees. The fish rises to the flicked fly's and %yours to my need WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR. DOES First Line: My life, however, does not Last Line: Whereas I have ruined too many words already WEDNESDAY MORNING PRAY TIME First Line: Trial. Tribulation. Psycho-sexual amputation. So busy. So big. What is happen Last Line: The beginning was the word and with it, heaven saved me WELLING First Line: (interruptus - %do we wish to write with this pen or with this pen? One is skin Last Line: The way a knife - no, no. This is the end of our willing WHEN I WAS IN LOVE AND OUT OF ALL ELSE Poem Text WHERE BROKEN (THE DARKNESS Poem Text First Line: Cows on the spine of the hill like the spine of a book are some letters Subject(s): Books; Cows; Alphabets; Reading WHERE CREDIT IS DUE: DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE? First Line: To speak. So to speak. Of steven's creek, home to six streams of cars flowing Last Line: Now will bear. So to speak WHERE, BROKEN (THE DARKNESS First Line: Cows on the spine of the hill like the spine of a book are some letters Last Line: However, there are other books WHEREIN OUR BONES WITH STARS SHALL MAKE ONE PYRE... First Line: There is no item of your coming Last Line: (or more of the same) be in love with dead sir thomas browne WHIM First Line: Now the women, too, began to move and shift their civil engineering Last Line: Turn together, as one, to watch the play of leaf patterns on the sun WITH THE TONGUES OF ANGELS First Line: He cut off my tongue and put it in my mouth Last Line: In the beginning I laughed: hee hee I yam %and I will be WITNESS Poem Text First Line: I saw that a star had broken its rope WITNESS First Line: I saw that a star had broken its rope Last Line: I am the dawn horse. %ride me |
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