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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: WILLIAMS, JONATHAN Matches Found: 230 Williams, Jonathan Poet's Biography 230 poems available by this author 5-MAR First Line: Clean sheets Last Line: Just in case A GLIMPSE OF THE SECRET PATH Recitation by Author A LITTLE TUMESCENCE Poem Text First Line: This time, I mean it: Last Line: Imp, / simply Subject(s): Sex A VULNERARY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: One comes to language from afar, the ear Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary A.L.B. (1917-1978) First Line: He was %oald as the fells Last Line: And his throat war middlen slippy %and he is deed as a stean%but not gone %but not gone ACTION DURING THE POUR-DOWN AT PLUM ORCHARD GAP ... First Line: One samson's snakeroot in a clump of galax ACTUALLY, I DIDN'T COME OUT OF THE CLOSET UNTIL 1971 Last Line: Buck-toothed %southern %gurl genes! ADHESIVE AUTOPSY OF WALT WHITMAN First Line: Gentlemen, look on this wonder Last Line: That he was a kosmos is a piece of news we were %hardly prepared for AMORI ET DOLORI SACRUM Last Line: Boys %will be %boys' genes! ANCHORITE First Line: Quotes basil bunting from 'chomei at toyama': Last Line: Light airs of music... %we are left with %just the 'facts,' the endless %articulation Subject(s): Homosexuality ANCIENT OF DAYS First Line: Would that I %had known aunt cumi Last Line: She is gone, she %enjoyed her days AND HE HATH SOWN... Last Line: He hath made the dounghill %something less than it was ANTHROPOPHAGITES GET DOWN Last Line: Highway nc 107 south of hamlet %eat %300 feet ANTHROPOPHAGITES SEE A SIGN ON NC HIGHWAY 177 ... HEAVEN First Line: Eat Last Line: 300 feet AUBADE First Line: You could hear an ant Last Line: Fart %it was that %quiet AUBADE FROM VERLAINE'S DAY First Line: The cloud in my head Last Line: Who pecks %berries %from the %dogwood %makes these two clouds %one, one eye %open AUNT CREASY, ON WORK: First Line: Shucks %I make the livin Last Line: Uncle %just makes the livin %worthwhile AUNT DORY ELLIS, OF PENLAND, REMEMBERS WHEN SHE FELL First Line: The sky was high AUTOCHTHON First Line: If it was clinch valley, virginia BEA HENSLEY HAMMERS AN IRON CHINQUAPIN LEAF ON HIS ANVIL Last Line: Makes it %normal %again %I mean it's really %pretty! BENEDICTINE First Line: Father odo %of cluny Last Line: Some people couldn't say shit %if they had a mouth full BIG JACK BRUNSKILL BITCH-KITTY First Line: O quodam pre-and-post-bellum %finger-lickin late georgian gentility Last Line: O green as goslinshit, and fertile %to the poorest muse BLAZON, BUILT OF THE COMMONEST OF ALL COMMON BLUE BALL BLUES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: O, mr. Chemist, please let me buy Last Line: & pleasant gland! Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians BLUE BALL BLUES First Line: O, mr. Chemist, please let me buy Last Line: And we shall smear petroleum %on england's groin %& pleasantgland! Subject(s): Homosexuality BLUE RIDGE WEATHER PROPHET MAKES TWELVE STITCHES Last Line: It will make you at least for a little while feel %better about it - %before the real begins! BLUE RIDGE WEATHER PROPHET MAKES TWELVE STITCHES IN ... First Line: January %worst BOB DINSDALE BRIGHTON BELLE First Line: She's black with ten Last Line: Inches %I'm green with en- %vy BROWSING THROUGH A PLAYBOY MAGAZINE'S ADVICE COLUMN Last Line: In order to comply %with the demands %of the bbc's dietary programme %'nationwide slim 72' BUNK JOHNSON Recitation by Author Subject(s): Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949) BUNK JOHNSON Last Line: Fading out white %before day Subject(s): Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949) BUNK JOHNSON'S GRAVE AT NEW IBERIA First Line: Mr. Weeks, please don't bury me among them Subject(s): Graves; Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Music & Musicians; Tombs; Tombstones BUNK JOHNSON'S GRAVE AT NEW IBERIA First Line: Mr. Weeks, please don't bury me among them Subject(s): Graves; Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Music And Musicians CARL NIELSEN Last Line: Sang one fine tune! CELESTIAL CENTENNIAL REVERIE FOR CHARLES E. IVES: PART 2 First Line: (1) can a tune %literally represent a stone Last Line: (31) cherished thoughts, sacred communities %now vanished t CHAMELEON First Line: At 14 I decided it was avant-garde to dig Last Line: When I write dearest to you in a letter, then %that's different, %isn't it? Subject(s): Homosexuality CHARLES IVES First Line: Where o %where %are Last Line: New haven, %west redding, and %heaven! %all aboard! %amen! CHARLIE PARKER TURN ON THE BIRD, THE BIRD Last Line: The early bird %turns worms t CHIROMANTIC PHILOGIST, OR, A BRIEF WORD FROM CHARLES ... First Line: Cave, it means cave CHORALE OF CHEROKEE NIGHT MUSIC AS HEARD THROUGH AN ... First Line: Wahuhu wahuhu wah COBWEBBERY First Line: The best spiders for soup Last Line: And let's stay here %and rot in the fields %and sit still t COLOSSAL MAW FROM WAR-WOMAN DELL, GEORGIA First Line: More mouth on CRACKER-BARREL REVERIES ON THE TUNE PAX AMERICANA First Line: Feller over in %franklin Last Line: Why some things bes plain obvious %people get %what they want CUSTODIAN OF A FIELD OF WHISKEY BUSHES Last Line: You get when its right %boys im talkin about somethin %good genes! DADDY BOSTAIN, THE MOSES OF THE WING COMMUNITY Last Line: Little ol %dried up %soul! %jest make %good kindlin wood %fer hell... DADY BOSTAIN, THE MOSES OF THE WING COMMUNITY MOONSHINERS First Line: God bless her pore DALESMAN CONSIDERS Last Line: Valley of the whirling, splashing %river between reeth and richmond: %sualadala DANGEROUS CALAMUS EMOTIONS First Line: Traffic jam! Tram drivers Last Line: Variable, viable, %veritable walt %whitman! Subject(s): Homosexuality DAVENPORT GAP First Line: The young grove on the eastern slopes of Last Line: In the dining room %since mr. Jefferson %dined there %alone... %a liriodendron %wind, a liriodendron DAVENPORT GAP First Line: The tulip poplar is not a %poplar it is magnolia Variant Title(s): A Week From The Big Pigeon To The Little Tennessee Rive Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) DEALER'S CHOICE AND THE DEALER SHUFFLES First Line: I saw the chattahoochee river get a haircut Last Line: I saw a man who saw these too %and said though strange they were all true DEAR REVEREND CARL C. MCINTIRE Last Line: Myrtle jean pugh, co-captain %james river industrial league of %white women bowlers, %team # 16 DEAR REVEREND CARL C. MCINTIRE First Line: Just a note DERACINATION First Line: Definition: root, %a growing point Last Line: Epiphanies pull up %from roots- %epiphytic, making it up %out of the air DIRGE FOR SEER-SCRIVENER, PRINCE-PLANGENT OF GORMENGHAST First Line: This is the kind of vision Last Line: I lament all ravens and the owls in hell %who stay his hand %and dis-connect this sun DISTANCES TO THE FRIEND First Line: Thoreau, grabbing on, hard Last Line: Bitter landscapes, unlovely Subject(s): Homosexuality DOMESTIC BLISS AMONGST THE CELTIC BRIGANTES OF WEST RIDING First Line: Behind the marquetry panel Last Line: But, mostly, we stay home %and let our imaginations roam %tom %likes them %too DRAFTS FOR DIMITIES, COVERLETS & QUILTS First Line: Napoleon crossing the rocky mountains ELECTRONIC LYRE, STRUNG WITH POETS' SINEWS First Line: Hey, dead-head, %maenads got your tongue? Last Line: All ass is grass, so let's make hay!' Subject(s): Homosexuality ELEGY FOR A PHOTOGRAPH OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS First Line: The last, absolutely the last Last Line: The sacred red anemones of osiris %falling in the blue waterfalls of %lebanon- %and you knew it EPITAPH ON UNCLE NICK GRINDSTAFF'S GRAVE Last Line: Lived alone suffered alone died alone genes! EPITAPH ON UNCLE NICK GRINDSTAFF'S GRAVE ON THE IRON ... First Line: Lived alone EPITAPHS FOR TWO NEIGHBORS IN MACON COUNTY NO POET COULD ... First Line: Uncle iv owens FARMER BERESFORD, ON NOBILITY IN LANGSTROTHDALE CHASE First Line: If thou piss free Last Line: Fart dry, %and pay 20 shillings in t' pound, %no man can touch thee! FASTBALL Poem Text First Line: Not just folklore, or / a tall can of corn (or grass on cranberry street) Last Line: Old solitary whiff-beard Variant Title(s): Fast Ball Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) FASTBALL First Line: Not just folklore, or %a tall can of corn (or grass on cranberry street) Last Line: Bingo!- %old solitary whiff-beard Variant Title(s): Fast Bal Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) FBI FILES ON / THE LATE EMILE DE Last Line: Told someone he wanted %to be an eggplant %when he grew up Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 FINGER EXERCISES First Line: Went down to the %boneyard Last Line: Those on whom we lay %no hands Subject(s): Homosexuality FLOWER-HUNTER IN THE FIELDS First Line: A flame azalea, mayapple, maple, thornapple Last Line: Philadelphia blue laws! %high hills, %stone cold %sober %as october FOUND POEM NUMBER 1 First Line: (fifth general hospital, bad cannstatt/ Last Line: And them big motherfuckers %go %chew! %chew! FOUR-WAY GAY (VERSION FOR ENGLISH COUNTRY GENTS) First Line: Dave and jack; %rick and him; Last Line: Dave and rick; %jim and jack; %jim and dave; %jack and rick-%plus fours! FOURTEEN-YEAR OLD SAMUEL PALMER'S WATERCOLOUR ... First Line: Grey sky %mottled with blue & Last Line: This %little %gate %very bright %br. Light FRANCIS POULENC First Line: O salades! %o mes delices! Last Line: Salut! %o zut %alors! FROM THE TALMUD First Line: Britisher %was in the cab Last Line: This %isn't %new york %this %used to be %new york FROM UNCLE JAKE CARPENTER'S ANTHOLOGY OF DEATH ON ... First Line: Loney ollis %age 84 Last Line: Grates dere honter %wreked bee trees for hony %cild ratell s nak by 100 %cild dere by thousen %I nod FRUITS CONFITS First Line: Neck tureen %turtle nectarine Last Line: Dans passy %au tombeau %de de- %bussy FULL-FRONTAL CARD OF MR. E.M. FORSTER First Line: Line drawing indicates path of the sensation Last Line: From the back %(figure a) %into the ideas (figure b) GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Last Line: And that's all she wrote! GASTRONAUT First Line: Bob brown's gone globe-gliding GEORGE FOX First Line: (moved to open to the people Last Line: Speaks from a stone on %firbank fell by %crockaloyne GLIMPSE OF THE SECRET PATH Last Line: Used by beatrix potter to visit %dear mrs. Tiggy-winkle Subject(s): Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943) GRANNY DONALDSON SCOFFS AT SKEPTICS & THE UNINITIATED First Line: Question: whut fer HEADMASTER First Line: In the school greenhouse Last Line: Swimming pool filter house %in the study, in the car, %in bedrooms and in bathrooms HEART-SONG DEAR TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE First Line: Don't let the sun set on your head! I said Last Line: It stood %in the pine wood %out back %it was black %as a heart HERMIT CACKLEBERRY BROWN, ON HUMAN VANITY Last Line: Just good to hold the world together %like hooved up ground %thats what HISTORY 7: TO SLEEP NAKED Last Line: With a naked friend genes! HOMAGE TO R. CRUMB, THE CRUMMY GOYA, THE RUNNY GOYIM First Line: Hot springs %it says Last Line: Such tunes, %such tunes, %such tunes will make %your boogie %ooze HOMAGE TO THE REVEREND A. RUFUS MORGAN, ON MOUNT LECONTE ... First Line: Rufus %you reckon there's Last Line: Anything in heaven %worth climbing %173 times? HONEY LAMB First Line: The boysick (by gadzooks thunderstruck) Last Line: Or go down %on %that catamite cat, kid ganymedes, %mead-mover, %erstwhile eagle-scout %bed-mate Subject(s): Homosexuality IMITATION COCKNEY HOMAGE TO FLAUBERT Last Line: Just a mot %juste t IN LUCAS, KANSAS First Line: Samuel perry dinsmoor Last Line: All these things %are constructed in cement %and by 1927 %hehad used over 113 tons %or about %2273 s IN MARSDEN HARTLEY'S HAND First Line: Happily contented %they have to come of themselves Last Line: Somehow %this business of one %isn't big enough %love again,%always love IN THE PIEDMONT First Line: The stem of jesse's rod INTAKE AT OUGHTERSHAW Last Line: The %little %field %that %mat %had JACK SPICER First Line: There was his poem Last Line: Weary in the weeds without the hots %for anyone %let's hope death %has a big one %for jack JARGON SOCIETY POSTCARD NO. 16 Last Line: As you walk with your baby, %down by the san francisco bay... JEAN SIBELIUS THE DRONE OF OVERTONES IN Last Line: A ry field by %a river JEFF BROOKS, WAGON-MASTER OF ANDREWS Last Line: Except %the creak %of leather JEFF BROOKS, WAGON-MASTER OF ANDREWS, EN ROUTE TO First Line: No %other JOHN CHAPMAN PULLS OFF THE HIGHWAY TOWARDS KENTUCKY First Line: O'nan's %auto JOHN DOUGLASS KEVIN HE SAYS Last Line: He's straight LA SOURCE First Line: The conasauga and the LACONIC, CONTRAPUNTAL NOCTURNE OF TWO GOATSUCKERS ... First Line: Chuck-will-widow chuck-will-widow LAMENTS FROM THE PIGEON ROOST NEWS First Line: Once we all grew shellot LAST WANK OF MAJOR WEDGWOOD-WANKER Last Line: Old %china %hand %job genes! LEAF OF GALAX AND THE HABIT OF PYROLA First Line: Iwauchuwa in japan, shortia galicifolia in transylvania LECONTE HIGH-TOP First Line: Unde the rondelay %the sun Last Line: Into the wind and rain a %winter wren %again, again - %its song %needling the pines LEE OGLE TIES A BROOM & PONDERS CURES FOR ARTHURITIS Last Line: And I %still tie thesehere brooms %pretty good genes! LEOS JANACEK Last Line: Into the blue of the sky LES CHAMPS ELYSEES DE LA GRANDE CUISINE Last Line: Farmboysin %framboises genes! LES VACANCES DE JOCK TATTIE Last Line: Loch, n'est-ce pas? LIPSTICK SIGN UNDER THE CONCRETE BRIDGE OVER MIDDLE CREEK First Line: Ass is nice LITTLE TUMESCENCE First Line: This time, I mean it: Last Line: Situation, such outrageous %limitation, %limp, %simply Subject(s): Sex LOGGER TO DOZER First Line: If you work LOOK-OUT TOWER AT MOUNT VENUS, LOUISIANA First Line: Yes yes o lord yes, the bestest, sweetest Last Line: You know: %'nappy' pussy, %like counting %prayer-beads: Subject(s): Homosexuality LORD, WORKING IN MYSTERIOUS WAHWYS, AT SCALY MOUNTAIN First Line: Married a dryman and MAD DICK METAFOURS NEAR THE END First Line: As bob dole often %says god bless america Last Line: And god bless america %cause nobody else will MISERICORD First Line: A dignified figure Last Line: And a long corn bin %as they kneel behind %a pile of grain MISS LUCY MORGAN SHOWS ME A PHOTOGRAPH OF MRS. MARY MITCHELL MNEMONIC WALLPAPER PATTERN FOR SOUTHERN TWO-SEATERS First Line: White only black only MR. RUFUS COOK First Line: Dear mr. Cook MRS. SADIE GRINDSTAFF, WEAVER & FACTOTUM, EXPLAINS First Line: I figured Last Line: Of %mebby MUSE-FLASH FOR RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD First Line: Come on, %gene Last Line: Lummy jean licklighter %in an attic %over near viper MY QUAKER-ATHEIST FRIEND, WHO HAS COME TO THIS MEETING-HOUSE First Line: What do you do Last Line: The ones you can touch, %the ones that yield %and a respect for the music... %what else can you tell NIGHT LANDSCAPE IN NELSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY First Line: Ah, moon, shine Last Line: Thou as amber in thy %charred-keg, hickory sky... %still as a still, steep %as a horse's face NOSTRUMS OF THE BLACK MOUNTAIN PUBLICAN First Line: Best thing NOTE ON THE EUROPEAN BACKGROUND OF SEMPERVIVUM TECTORUM First Line: This wort NOTICE IN EIRE First Line: Ladies & gentlemen will not Last Line: Pull the flowers in this garden O FOR A MUSE OF FIRE! First Line: Date: tuesday, may 13, 1958- Last Line: Say, stan, baby, how's it feel to hit 3000? %'uh, it feels fine' OLD MAN SAM WARD'S HISTORY OF THE GEE'HAW WHIMMY-DIDDLE First Line: Some folks say Last Line: Flippers-dingers, fly- %killers and bull-roarers, I can %kill a big fly at 60 feet %watch here OMEN FOR STEVIE SMITH First Line: This is your aunt, stevie Last Line: Yes, stevie, they too %shall come at last %to whinny-moor...%the five of you %shall dance that heath ON COWEE RIDGE Poem Text First Line: John gordon boyd / died on the birthday Subject(s): Death; Writing & Writers; Mourning; God; Dead, The; Bereavement ON THE FUEL TANK, RED BULL WHARF Last Line: Laugh, %if you didn't ORANGE COUNTY BLUES First Line: Fresh, ford-run-over Last Line: The possum, %like the literary life, %it's a little rank %lately... OSIRIS, FROM HIS CAVE TO SPRING First Line: For the scripture is written OUTDOOR GAMES NEAR WASHINGTON NEW TOWN First Line: One young lady %about eight Last Line: She turns around, hoists her knickers %and says: %fook off, %you silly booger! OVID, MEET A METAMORPHODITE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Hermaphroditus, a delight, a Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Sex Role; Mythology OVID, MEET A METAMORPHODITE First Line: Hermaphroditus, a delight, a Last Line: O, one'll get you two: a toy of double-shape %the cream of %genes! OVID, MEET A METAMORPHODITE First Line: Hermaohroditus, a delight, a %dreamboat on lake salmacis Last Line: The cream of %genes! PAINT SIGN ON A ROUGH ROCK Last Line: Of shady valley %be prepared %to %meet god PAINT SIGN ON A ROUGH ROCK, YONSIDE OF BOONE SIDE OF First Line: Beprepa %redto PAINTING THE DAISIES WITH LARRY Last Line: His jockey shorts %on friday night PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE (1911-1979) First Line: Gentlemen I must %report from a visit Last Line: To lesbos %the natives are lesbians %to a man PILEATED WOODPECKER'S RESPONSE TO FOUR DOGWOOD BERRIES First Line: Kuk %kuk kuk PLAIN, ABSOLUTELY UNREFINED First Line: Yessir buddy %three moon pies and a nehi Last Line: If I was lucky %and had me maybe just one more %moon pie genes! PLAIN, ABSOLUTELY UNREFINED First Line: Yessir buddy PLINTH BRONZE OF GALAX LEAF Last Line: In leach's %celadon %on %bronze POETICULES CRITICASTERS KITSCHDIGGERS & JUSTFOLKS, SELS. R.F.G RAINY DAY AT MISS FIST'S Last Line: Coloring in %the coloring book genes! RED-BONE HEAVEN REFLECTIONS FROM APPALACHIA First Line: Dawn songs in the dews of young orange trees; Last Line: They lie on the great st. John's river's waters %in the monocular sunlight %three miles wide %lid to REMAINS OF A SIGN, MITCHELL COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA First Line: Sink hole REVEREND SEPTIMUS BUSS MEETS THE GREAT NORWEGIAN Last Line: Cowt %nowt %nobbut %newts RHYME WITHOUT END FOR HOWARD FINSTER ABOUT HOW IT ... First Line: I thought at first of swarms of bees RICHARD BRATHWAITE, OF WESTMORLAND, REPORTS Last Line: Is a small member, but %very glibbery RIDE IN A BLUE CHEVY FROM ALUM CAVE TRAIL TO NEWFOUND GAP First Line: Goin' hikin'? %git in! Last Line: Think I'll sell this car, go to denver, %set up a center... %name's davis, %what's yours? RIDE IN THE BLUE CHEVY FROM ALUM CAVE TRAIL TO ... First Line: Goin' hikin ROB AT HOME Last Line: In his room ROUND OF NOUNS IN JACKSON COUNTY First Line: Rough butt creek RUSTICATED VARIATION ON A POEM BY LADISLAV NOVAK SELECTED LISTINGS FROM THE WESTERN CAROLINA TELEPHONE First Line: Applewhite max moss floda SEPTEMBER SATISFACTION OF UNCLE IV OWENS Last Line: I got %a rat-proof %crib! Genes! SERIES OF FIVE CHARRED, BLACKENED LUMPS Last Line: (2) the lamb chop %(3)the mushroom (4) the tomato (5) the kidney SHEPHERD First Line: I could tell he were gone Last Line: His eye were cold %just like when you tell a dead lamb's, %it were like that SHOTGUN SHUBA THINKS Last Line: Ruth died. %gehrig died. %a long way, %a long time ago... SIR EDWARD ELGAR Last Line: Hill tune and wind song with maluerne's ear SNUFFY SMITH'S COLOSSAL MAW FROM WAR-WOMAN DELL Last Line: That woman %than ass %on a goose SOLOMON'S LAMENT FOR STEFAN WOLPE First Line: For, lo, the winter is past Last Line: Tell him, %I am sick of love SPRING THAW AT THE OLD GOODMAN PLACE First Line: The more %you come Last Line: The more %you can! STANDING BY HIS TRAILER-STUDIO IN CAMPTON, KENTUCKY Last Line: It needs wings %and a lions tail %some damn woman down in lexington %wants it STANDING BY HIS TRAILER-STUDIO IN CAMPTON, KENTUCKY First Line: That piece STILL WATER FOR LORINE NIEDECKER (1903-1970) First Line: She seined words %as others stars Last Line: Along the bank %where the peony flowers %fall %her tall friend %the pine tree %is still there %to se STONE SIGN BY THE TEMPLE CONGREGATIONAL COMMUNITY First Line: U %need SWEET AIRES THAT GIVE DELIGHT First Line: There was an old fart from toulon Last Line: Sur la terrasse %it could really tear-ass %and enchantingly blast clair de lune SWITCH BLADE (OR, JOHN'S OTHER WIFE) First Line: Men share perceptions (and %their best friends' wives) SYLLABLES IN THE FORM OF LEAVES First Line: Fox plus razor equals %the eye Last Line: Turn over, %you new leaf, %ewe! Subject(s): Homosexuality SYMPHONIC DANCES, OPUS 45 First Line: Lento assai: %a sigh Last Line: And this is as %together %as it %gets SYMPHONY NO. 3, IN D MINOR Poem Text Subject(s): Language; Nature; Writering & Writers; Animals; Words; Vocabulary SYMPHONY NO. 5, IN C SHARP MINOR: 1. FUNERAL MARCH First Line: Mahler, from his studio on the 11th floor of the Last Line: Where black wheels smash %all %one roll of the drum SYMPHONY NO. 5, IN C SHARP MINOR: 2. STORMILY AGITATED First Line: To be a block of flowers Last Line: To be shone on %endlessly %to be there, there %and blessed SYMPHONY NO. 5, IN C SHARP MINOR: 3. SCHERZO First Line: One two three Last Line: At maiernigg on the %worthersee %and up the tree: %cacophony%one two three SYMPHONY NO. 5, IN C SHARP MINOR: 4. ADAGIETTO First Line: One feels %one clematis petal Last Line: Fell %its circle %is all %glimmer on this pale %river SYMPHONY NO. 5, IN C SHARP MINOR: 5. RONDO-FINALE First Line: Schoenberg: I should %even have liked to observe Last Line: His tie was knotted %with eclat %on the dead run! T-SHIRT FOR THE SHOCK TROOPS OF GENERAL WILDE Last Line: War against the mulierists: %somdomite might THE FBI FILES ON / THE LATE EMILE DE Poem Text Last Line: When he grew up Subject(s): Federal Bureau Of Investigation THE FBI FILES ON / THE LATE EMILE DE Poem Text THE HONEY LAMB Poem Text First Line: The boysick (by gadzooks thunderstruck) Last Line: Erstwhile eagle-scout / bed-mate Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians THE LOOK-OUT TOWER AT MOUNT VENUS, LOUISIANA Poem Text First Line: Yes yes o lord yes, the bestest, sweetest Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians THE MIDNITE SHOW Poem Text First Line: Red-wigglers, night-crawlers Subject(s): Country Life THE WRECK ON THE A-222 IN RAVENSBOURNE VALLEY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Where the car hit him, fireweed sprang with Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death; Youth; Dead, The THOSE TROUBLESOM DISGUISES First Line: Sat will & kate %doing a mr & mrs THREE BEARS OF DIFFERENT SIZES, DREAMING FROM THREE THREE DALES LIMERICKS First Line: There was an old raven of tarset Last Line: And was of no use for the rent THREE GRAFFITI IN THE VICINITY OF THE MIKADO BAPTIST First Line: Bulldogs %stamp out THREE LIMERICKS FOR THE THREE PEAKS: 1 First Line: Assessing the angle of ingleborough Last Line: Mixed with paine's grey, %he kept in a monochrome shingle burrow THREE LIMERICKS FOR THE THREE PEAKS: 2 First Line: Edward lear was the sort of gent Last Line: He chortled - and sidled up penyghent THREE LIMERICKS FOR THE THREE PEAKS: 3 First Line: Turner was fast to decide Last Line: Is worth the glum climb %to get to the tarns up on whernside THREE RIPPLES IN THE TUCKASEIGEE RIVER First Line: Tsi ksi tsi THREE SAYINGS FROM HIGHLANDS, NORTH CAROLINA: First Line: But pretty though as Last Line: Your points is blue %and your timing's %a week off %sam creswell, auto mechanic THREE THEFTS FROM JOHN EHLE'S PROSE First Line: Every night TO CARVE IN WILD CHERRY FOR JOHN JACOB NILES First Line: 30 dulcimers TRADITIONALLY ACCOMMODATING SPIRIT OF THE TRIUMPH OF CRAFT: A VIGNETTE FROM THE HEBRIDES FOR A... First Line: Lad asks bessie %the old lady Last Line: With all that steel wool %you steal? %well then, %I'm knittin' %a kettle TWO PASTORALS FOR SAMUEL PALMER AT SHOREHAM, KENT Poem Text First Line: I cannot put my hand into Subject(s): Landscape TWO PASTORALS FOR SAMUEL PALMER AT SHOREHAM, KENT: 1. First Line: If the night could get up & walk' Last Line: Now two eyes in %my saturated %head! TWO PASTORALS FOR SAMUEL PALMER AT SHOREHAM, KENT: 2. First Line: One must try behind the hills' Last Line: Yields all power %in the valley of vision %eight suns, %on eight stems, %aflame! UNCLE IV SURVEYS HIS DOMAIN FROM HIS ROCKER First Line: Mister williams %lets youn me move Last Line: Mite nigh the awkerdist thing %I seen UNCLE TOT HARPER UNITARIAN CRI DE GUERRE, CHEZ POINT, VIENNE (ISERE) First Line: Du beurre! Last Line: Donnez-moi du beurre! %toujours de beurre! VALEDICTION FOR MY FATHER, BEN WILLIAMS (1898-1974) First Line: All the old things Last Line: Are gone now %and the people are %different VICTORIEA WOOD, IN 'TALENT' Last Line: Coq au vin %was %love in a lorry VOTRE SANTE AT THE HEADWATERS OF THE SANTEE First Line: Which water we drank of, it ...' VULNERARY (FOR ROBERT DUNCAN) First Line: One comes to language from afar, the ear Last Line: And the sweet-shrub WEE TOT FOR CATULLUS First Line: Eye laddie! Last Line: Jock strap %traps jock %catso %fatso WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF THE MORE REMOTE MOUNTAINS OF First Line: Horseleg %john WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF THE THREE TUTELARY HAMADRYADS First Line: Busthaid %blockade WHO IS LITTLE ENIS? First Line: Little enis is %one hunnert an' 80lbs of Last Line: Yonder in the blue %grass... %carlos & blue, %thinking of you... %hail & farewell WHOLE SCENE, IN A TWO-HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD DEMOGRAPHIC ... First Line: A long row to hoe WORKSOP, NOTTS. First Line: Your brothers never used to do it Last Line: Just look at those sheets %I ought to rub your nose in it WRECK ON THE A-222 IN RAVENSBOURNE VALLEY First Line: Where the car hit him, fireweed sprang with Last Line: Where the dill %lulls, %and all boys %spoil... YE RATTLE-SNAKE First Line: Of the thickness YELL FOR THE GREATEST TERRIBLE WRITER IN THE WORLD: First Line: Amanda! Amanda! Sis-boom-bah Last Line: Mckittrick! Mckittrick! %rah-rah-rah! %ros! Ros! %the rest is dross! YELLOW PERIL AT MOORE'S GROCERY First Line: Cold %beer ZEPHYRINE BARBARACHILD |
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