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Author: WIER, DARA Matches Found: 126 Wier, Dara Poet's Biography 126 poems available by this author A KIND OF ROUX Poem Text First Line: Now and then a car will park below my window A SECRET MATTER OF GRAVE IMPORTANCE Poem Text First Line: Except when once we drew identical lots Subject(s): Relationships AFTER THE ABSENCE OF SOUND APPEARS THE PRESENCE OF MATERIAL First Line: If sound can be broken, %and it will be Last Line: After which everything is quiet AFTER THE CAR MUSEUM First Line: Really right after the eerie buzz of abstract %thinking Last Line: The cold, very cold air-conditioned atmosphere Subject(s): Automobiles; Museums AGAIN ERNIE'S HAND ON THE HAMMER First Line: The screen door smears the bridge Last Line: He's stroked it, new lines have settled in ALL IN A DAY'S WORK First Line: The pet store manager showed little sympathy Last Line: The herbivores gazed out across the empty range AMERICAN REVOLUTION First Line: God, the little black dog is ambitious Last Line: Hard iron, feels how the first few drops of milk from a nipple fizz ANOTHER AND ANOTHER First Line: There's room enough on this planet Last Line: Another identical matter ANOTHER FACTOR MAY HAVE BEEN THE COURSE OF TIME Poem Text First Line: Anybody melancholy admires a willow ANYTHING OF MINE YOU FIND IS YOURS First Line: I'll go run look between the butter Last Line: To stop all this, put your hand on my head, %encourage me torest APOLOGY FOR AND FURTHER EXPLANATION OF AN ATTEMPT TO DIVERT First Line: In my hometown it was like january Last Line: Lost in a basket of keepsakes APOLOGY FOR AND FURTHER EXPLANATION OF AN ATTEMPT TO DIVERT ACCUSATIONS OF EQUIVOCATIONS Poem Text First Line: In my hometown it was like january Subject(s): Home ASTRONOMY LAKE First Line: She came in casting books from her sleeve Last Line: He would not look at her ATTITUDE OF RAGS Poem Text First Line: It felt like a story sorry sorry it'd lost all its sentences Last Line: Was. We were rags in all in the hands of a nacroleptic duster Subject(s): Boats; Nature AUTOMATIC DIALOG REPLACEMENT First Line: I take it back Last Line: I wish I'd have said it. %you should have written it BARELY THERE First Line: It isn't fair is another way Last Line: I hear the new buddhist %coming by his voice %and lackadaisical drum's thump %from a long, long way BLUE OXEN Poem Text Subject(s): Ghosts BUCKHORN EXCHANGE First Line: On this perfectly clear fifth of july Last Line: So empty of heartbreak and loss Subject(s): Restaurants CHRISTIAN WHO MISJUDGED HER PARKING SPACE First Line: A fortune teller took one look Last Line: Miles of bright blue veins glowed in my immediate %future CUBIST ROTISSERIE First Line: You're living with an elephant Last Line: It's time to feed the elephant, and no one to blame DAYTRIP TO PARADOX First Line: Just as you'd expect Last Line: No one was expected to pay %hard cold cash in paradox apparently DEMOCRATIC VISTAS First Line: Steady flow along fingernail production pipelines Last Line: To warm up some biscuits? DISTANCE TOO FAR TO MEASURE First Line: Nebula of apparitions in a deadmall's parking lot Last Line: At no one. And we're not even close to the sea DREAMLAND First Line: It's not really enough Last Line: Light and inexhaustible Subject(s): Love EARLY AFTERNOON IN CUMMINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS First Line: It was like floating down a hallway Last Line: Yells at us as he mounts his blazing blind horse EDGES IN CREASES First Line: There went a wisp wasp on a leash with a whiplash Last Line: His fence. He was very proud of his sheep ENOUGH SAID First Line: The stray cat had no tail Last Line: Thoughts are best? God forbid, %there'd be one long thought ERNIE AND WEEK'S END First Line: Ernie dancing in biloxi, dancing Last Line: Pinning it by force of its own honest thorns ERNIE PREPARES THE TRASH First Line: He always creased the sheet Last Line: The neatest boy on the block ERNIE'S TRIP TO MISSISSIPPI First Line: In the cafe, a bleached willow Last Line: Larvae invent their own cocoons ERNIE, OF AN AFTERNOON First Line: Not the sweating beer can, the paint can Last Line: He is charmed EUTHANASIA First Line: My mother argues FEAR First Line: In fall when we went the roads FLOOD First Line: The obese man with a goiter Last Line: And lean hard into one another %like headwaters joining a flood FOR A FEW SECONDS THERE I WAS A PANTHER First Line: I looked like a woman looks Last Line: Nails, I combed the panther's hair FROM MY HOUSE TO YOURS First Line: The village store closed for good Last Line: Goes on goes on, goes on, goes on, goes on between us GEGENSCHEIN First Line: Someone has over-stimulated the celestial animals Last Line: Groove faster into counterglow GOLD STANDARD First Line: There are stripes running through the mind Last Line: What ailed them. Saint elmo's fire, perhaps, will-o'-the- %wisp, pseudo-fate HANDFUL OF PORCUPINE QUILLS First Line: I confess I threw away that Last Line: That didn't change. %but I threw it in HAT ON A POND Poem Text First Line: Fish dragging banners behind them HAT ON A POND First Line: Fish dragging banners behind them Last Line: Hat close, getting there HEALTHY-MINDED, UPLIFTING, OPTIMISTIC First Line: A single wire hanger on a nail by itself Last Line: Is spoken, socially redeemed, like a virgule, %and/or any other oblong HOLIDAYS First Line: How many times our hands will enter Last Line: It is something to look at %when we won't look at one another HYPNAGOGIC ADAGIO First Line: It began with the egg-and-dart Last Line: And wanted him beyond sense %with no thought of what it meant I REMEMBER RILKE First Line: I remember rilke sopping wet Last Line: Her sensible wrist. I don't %truly remember much more about rilke IDIOGRAPHIC First Line: Lawns scattered with ghosts, with clothes on Last Line: Bone on the sweet side of a snaredrum IF AFTER ALL EXCUSES SUDDENLY THERE IS NEVER AGAIN A NEED FOR ANY First Line: Gaffe, ladder, bronze, little bronze wall Last Line: Which touches neither not one nor any other %and what is even stranger IF I WERE A RAPTOR CRUISING THROUGH THE TIMETABLES OF HISTORY First Line: I would want you to come with me into those years Last Line: Because there were no chickens in babylon ILLUMINED WITH THE LIGHT OF FITFULLY BURNING CENSERS First Line: Intelligent voice of a suburban housewife Last Line: He was my wife INCIDENT ON THE ROAD TO THE CAPITAL Poem Text First Line: A wolf had grown tired of his character and sought Subject(s): Wolves INDEPENDENCE DAY Poem Text First Line: We'd incorporated a laundry lending motion Last Line: To praise the courage of our leader Subject(s): Free Will & Determinism INDEPENDENCE DAY First Line: We'd incorporated a laundry lending motion Last Line: To praise the courage of our leader INNATE DECEPTION OF UNSPOILED BEAUTY First Line: My silk legs give rise to bird calls Last Line: Nests of grass fiber and fall prey to nothing %save their most natural enemies INVISIBLE IN THE TORN OUT INTERIORS Poem Text First Line: A man looked at us across his little dish Subject(s): Homecoming; Death; Dead, The INVOLUNTARY COMPULSORY First Line: Why did you want me there Last Line: Why could I not at least %shut my eyes? IS IT YOU? Poem Text First Line: Whose clouds are those? Whose nematodes? Subject(s): Relationships IS IT YOU? First Line: Whose clouds are those? Whose nematodes? Last Line: To the beautiful empty room? IT GIVES US A CHANCE TO LEAN CLOSE TO A FRIEND Last Line: It stands by the executioner when he decides %what to wear ITALICS ARE MINE! First Line: There was breathing but there were no bodies Last Line: Crashingly thunderous rounds of applause almost, %shocking, and it was JESUS IS THE REASON First Line: Our grieving games commenced in the fall Last Line: Round of tournaments jesus is the reason for KENO First Line: Her mother's old and can't help herself KIND OF ROUX First Line: Now and then a car will park beneath my %window Last Line: And the yards of worn-out curtains housespiders %leave you, veils, gossamer, veils LAND OF STEADY HABITS Poem Text First Line: Goats with baby goats chewed on shirts Subject(s): Time; Nature; Chicago LAST SYLLABLE OF RECORDED TIME First Line: Remember the clothcover, a scythe of red Last Line: We know exactly what it feels like and we don't %know what it is LATE AFTERNOON ON A GOOD LAKE First Line: The water gives, it gets us Last Line: Shaking a cup of ice, I want %to drink that water LEFT BEHIND First Line: Shabby leather satchel packed full Last Line: No watchface around, plenty time LITTLE BLACK TANGRAMS Poem Text First Line: No one felt in the dark for his hat. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Nature; Relationships LONGING First Line: I'd like your boney, articulate hand Last Line: To make an idol of it. %I have sometimes done so LUCILLE AND ERNIE'S MASTER BEDROOM First Line: In the closet Last Line: Quiet enough for wool carpets, %lit cigarettes, linen bedding, %gold gilded eyelids, lashes, %sequin LUCILLE'S KUMQUAR - COLORED KIMONO LUCILLE'S KUMQUAT COLORED KIMONO First Line: Lies on her chest of drawers Last Line: Ernie goes on to work, %lucille bends low, %ironing nuisance out LUCILLE'S KUMQUAT-COLORED KIMONO Poem Text First Line: Lies on her chest of drawers Last Line: Ironing nuisance out Subject(s): Love MADE IN THE MORNING Poem Text First Line: Purely a perched peach, pretty Last Line: Steaming, lickety-split Subject(s): Morning ME & MY MANTILLA First Line: Because I wanted a day in exchange Last Line: That slashing reproach enough? MIDGE IN THE MORNING First Line: Purely a perched peach, pretty MODERN VERSION OF THE WAY THE ROSARY WAS ONCE SAID THROUGHOUT WESTER First Line: I'm not sewing velvet patches on a woolen blanket Last Line: Of a mule surveying the sun and the moon NEEDLE THREADER IN NEED OF A NEEDLE Poem Text First Line: Tincture of morphine, tincture of so-forth blue hazarding Last Line: To wear, nearby a llama stepping into its pajamas Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse NIGHTSHADE First Line: As when asked someone says Last Line: Reticulate in the mountain laurel, %twisted brother NOT A VERBAL EQUIVILANT Poem Text First Line: You said one thing as a way ofsaying something else Last Line: Curve in the road that will point us slowly into as nearby cave Subject(s): Language; Relationships NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE First Line: We're made to Last Line: Come here to me, come here Subject(s): Love OBJECTS IN MIRROR APPEAR COLDER THAN THEY ARE First Line: Yet to see furtively into a future had been Last Line: Story, ditto, same here, ibid, op. Cit OLD-FASHIONED First Line: Next to my best friend I woke up Last Line: Everything I'd understood and not forgotten ORGANIZED WATER First Line: At first it sounds like water dripping Last Line: In a trail to follow, somewhere to go PAST SORROW First Line: In the pool along the walk PEPTALK FOR FIREWORKS First Line: Drizzle your embers over us, spritz Last Line: Longer know what to do with them PERHAPS DIED & GONE TO HEAVEN First Line: And when they rolled me over Last Line: And they turned back to their experiments %and their trails and left it POSITIVE RESPONSE TO REASONABLE REQUEST First Line: The day I first Last Line: To question %what I was doing there. %I don't know the answer PRECIOUS CELESTIAL MEMBRANE First Line: I'd fallen off my tricycle %and you said, good, do it again Last Line: Universe, eyeteeth of the reknowned %eternal life REDOLENT WITH PENCIL SHAVINGS First Line: After all these months %the frog hasn't melted Last Line: The frog has lifted %and the roses with ironclad petals RIDING WITH PLATO ON A NORTHBOUND TRAIN First Line: Everything plato ever started should Last Line: Which one of us will claim possession of the sun? SEA FOAM First Line: Tomorrow is today's perfect thought Last Line: But, alas, first I will need to be tuned SEA INFLUENCE First Line: The day couldn't have been more beautiful Last Line: How many of them were gone, erasing this poem SELLING YOUR MOTHER First Line: Where's copper's worth more than the Last Line: Called skin with funny particulars SHE THINKS SHE HUNG THE MOON First Line: My head is a pincushion for darning needles Last Line: It is a cave curtained by a waterfall SIGHT FOR SORE EYES First Line: Somebody I didn't know stood me in a corner Last Line: A bat started embroidering its babies TEACHER SAID First Line: Imagine someone you love is dead Last Line: Be tidy, be so careful, be very sweet Subject(s): Education; Schools TELEGNOSIS IN THE POCONOS First Line: Most days the present lasts approximately Last Line: Are doing something with mine THAT VAGRANT MISTRAL VEXING THE SUN: A FAR CRY Poem Text First Line: I washed my brain and hung it to dry Last Line: For birds, in lieu fo words, and seeds Subject(s): Language THATCHED First Line: I step aside the light Last Line: I'll get back to you tomorrow THE BATTURE Poem Text Subject(s): Rivers; Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The THE ITALICS ARE MINE! Poem Text First Line: There was breathing but there were no bodies THE PRESSURE OF THE MOMENT Poem Text First Line: The pressure of the moment can cause someone to kill someone or something Subject(s): Activity; Exercise THE TEACHER SAID Poem Text First Line: Imagine someone you love is dead Last Line: Be tidy, be so careful, be very sweet Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students THEY'RE GONE First Line: You may have to wait another generation Last Line: I can't remember the last time I saw one. %they're gone THIEF OF SPARKS First Line: God was coming from an unnamed galaxy Last Line: At a snowleopard patrolling an onyx maze in moonlight THIS COLD NOTHING ELSE First Line: A housesnake's made her next in the woodshed TOO MUCH UNANSWERED Poem Text First Line: What was I doing stuck in a math problem in a boy's mind TORN BETWEEN TWO LOVERS First Line: Like a bad piece of paper Last Line: Nothing sacred. %nothing doing. %nothing to worry about TRAILING-OFF OF ARGUMENTS IN PROSPECT OF LAMENTS IN THE GRAVEYARD... First Line: Nothing would close in the commercial zones Last Line: Through its hair, doing a little war shimmy, %a little come-hither honey I'm home TVI First Line: Was it like now then for neils bohr Last Line: Of a few miles round the point of my arrival %this time I'm caught in passion's trammels UNINTENTIONAL COUNTER-CONTEMPLATIVE OPAQUE DISUNITIES Poem Text First Line: When I popped you up side the head with the harp of a piano Subject(s): Conduct Of Life UPDATE ON JEKYLL AND HYDE Poem Text First Line: When you live alone with no one else Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness UPDATE ON JEKYLL AND HYDE First Line: When you live alone with no one else WE WILL GIVE IT A NAME LATER, AFTER IT BECOMES MORE FAMILIAR First Line: Sandhill cranes come to the rescue, without Last Line: Incessantly. But only when I am flying, falling WE'RE ALL GHOSTS NOW Poem Text Subject(s): Ghosts WE'VE MADE A LOT OF OXYMORONIC PROMISES Poem Text First Line: We've made a lot of promises. I suspect we've kept many secrets Subject(s): Promises WHAT HAPPENED WHERE THE SHOIVEL WENT Poem Text First Line: A hundred crows worked on the plain on the riverside WHERE DO YOU STAND ON GOD? Poem Text First Line: Everywhere we stand on god we stand on god Last Line: An upheavled tilted texts of sacred recipes & the tap that tingles Subject(s): God WHISPERING CAMPAIGN THROUGH ALL OF THE DARKEST DAYS OF A YEAR First Line: I seriously lacked a theory Last Line: Ah to be haunted and charged WHITE BOAT First Line: The birds are sleeping, it's far from morning Last Line: The white boat doesn't want to go home Subject(s): Boats; Nature WHO IS GOD? SO ASKED OUR DOG Poem Text First Line: How many seasons are there? Subject(s): Dogs; God WINSLOW HOMER'S BLUES First Line: Though the book was not meant Last Line: I closed the book and put it back %with its blue spine unbroken WISHING THERE WERE SOME BETTER WAYS OF EXPLAINING OURSELVES TO BIRDS First Line: It's one o'clock in the ocean Last Line: Golden spike, who's touched it today? WITHOUT A SIMILAR CONDITION INCLUDING THIS CONDITION First Line: The father away from the center of power Last Line: Never more than a few feet away %from its friend Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Houses WORDS THAT ONCE BREATHED First Line: Bedlam. Now in silence broken %and bent by birds singing in Last Line: Struggling to break free of the form known as %tiffany setting YOUR POSTURE IS POSITIVELY ALARMING First Line: I love your every gesture and those places Last Line: That the top of a silo can be called a pumpkin, %melon, parachute or umbrella |
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