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Author: WRIGLEY, ROBERT Matches Found: 59 Wrigley, Robert Poet's Biography 59 poems available by this author A LOCK OF HER HAIR Poem Text First Line: As a hoodoo-voodoo, get-you-back-to-me tool, Subject(s): Hair; Love AFTER A RAINSTORM Poem Text First Line: Because I have come to the fence at night, Subject(s): Horses AFTER THE COYOTES' SONG Poem Text First Line: Now night is clearly darker than before Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares AMERICAN MANHOOD Poem Text First Line: In the dull ache that is midnight for a boy Subject(s): Teenagers; Boys; Night; Coming Of Age; Bedtime ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY Poem Text First Line: Lucy doolin, first day on the job, stroked his goatee Subject(s): Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Rats; Murder; Fathers & Sons; Conduct Of Life; Memory; Youth; Relationships AT THE BEACH Poem Text First Line: What are they, those burrowing crustaceans, the ones Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore BOVINITY Poem Text First Line: The steer has found, among the mud Last Line: Over the vast brown and white body of the earth Subject(s): Cattle C.O. Poem Text First Line: We left the quarter peep shows, the lurid skin Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors CAMPING Poem Text First Line: I see my father campng, twenty-seven years Subject(s): Campingl Fathers CREEL Poem Text First Line: We sentimentalize the weaver, the hands Subject(s): Weaving & Weavers DO YOU LOVE ME? Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: She's twelve and she's asking the dog, Subject(s): Children; Dogs; Childhood EARTHLY MEDITATIONS: 1. THE AFTERLIFE Poem Text First Line: Spring, and the first full crop of dandelions gone Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence EARTHLY MEDITATIONS: THE AFTERLIFE Poem Text First Line: Spring, and the fist full crop of dandelions gone Last Line: The baby's breath is no longer a rose Subject(s): Spring FINDING A BIBLE IN AN ABANDONED CABIN Poem Text Subject(s): Bible FIRST PERSON Poem Text First Line: One lies on one's back in the woods Last Line: The last one / to die Subject(s): Forests; Aging; Animals; Poetry & Poets; Mortality FOR THE LAST SUMMER Poem Text First Line: That summer with a thousand julys Subject(s): Music, Rock; Youth; Summer; War; Desire; Rock & Roll FROM LUMAGHI MINE Poem Text First Line: Dear father, / eleven days without sunlight. We go in Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers HOMAGE Poem Text First Line: The three-bladed, dunce-capped agitator pulsed Subject(s): Laundery & Laundering; Family Life; Relatives HORSEFLIES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: After the horse went down Subject(s): Horses; Death - Animals I LIKE THE WIND Poem Text First Line: We are at or near that approximate line Subject(s): Wind ICE FISHING Poem Text First Line: From open water at the lake's Last Line: By the blood-freckled cheek of the evening snow Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Winter IN THE DARK POOL, FINDING YOU Poem Text First Line: No lights, no moon, no stars in the mountains Last Line: High in the pine, dining on imaginary mice Subject(s): Love; Desire KISSING A HORSE Poem Text First Line: Of the two spoiled, barn-sour geldings Subject(s): Horses; Kisses LETTER TO A YOUNG POET Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In the biographies of rilke, you get the feeling Subject(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Poetry & Poets; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LIMBO Poem Text First Line: The preacher waited. So here Subject(s): Abortions; Death; Christianity; Dead, The LITTLE DEATHS Poem Text First Line: Every minute to two, another moth Subject(s): Death - Animals; Fish & Fishing; Moths; Anglers MAMMOTH Poem Text First Line: Returning the refilled feeder to its hanger on the tree, Subject(s): Hummingbirds MINERS SHAKING HANDS WITH A UNION MAN Poem Text First Line: These men are solemn and strong Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers MOONLIGHT: CHICKENS ON THE ROAD Poem Text First Line: Called out of dream by the pitch and screech Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Chickens; Grief; Ozarks (Mountains); Sorrow; Sadness MORELITY Poem Text First Line: The heavy thatch of needle and leaf Subject(s): Mushrooms; Morels MOUTH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When she bought the gift shop ventriloquist's dummy Subject(s): Ventriloquists & Ventriloquist Dummies MOWING Poem Text First Line: Sleepy and suburban at dusk, Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; Bees; Lawn Mowers; Beekeeping MY FATHER'S FINGERNAILS Poem Text First Line: In the hardware store a young clerk Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NEIGH Poem Text First Line: The farrier drops the left hind hoof, Subject(s): Horses; Accidents NUTHATCH SITTING ON A BEAR'S NOSE Poem Text First Line: Really just a small cast iron representation Subject(s): Cemeteries; Statues; Graveyards OF DIAMONDS Poem Text First Line: The dew has sown a field of diamonds Last Line: Is walked by animals unaware of the true worth / of diamonds Subject(s): Hunting; Compassion ONIONS Poem Text First Line: A rooster pheasant crows in the gully Last Line: To the cellar, where they will remain for months Subject(s): Onions; Pregnancy PARENTS Poem Text First Line: Old two-hearted sadness, old blight Last Line: "a kind of bird, who believes he reigns there Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Relationships PARKING Poem Text First Line: Today I live where I have always been Last Line: Lands, and coos like a fool in the dark Subject(s): Automobiles; Middle Age; Youth; Passion PREY Poem Text First Line: We're walking through stubble and rain Last Line: His meat, as the sun that rises is his fire Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Nature; Hunters PROGRESS Poem Text First Line: Web by web the ruined work of spiders Subject(s): Spiders RELIGION Poem Text First Line: The last thing the old dog brought home Subject(s): Dogs; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers SEEN FROM THE PORCH, A BEAR BY THE HOUSE Poem Text First Line: A mail of mud Last Line: So instead I yell hey Subject(s): Bears; Fear SHORT ANSWER: MISHAP WITH A NAIL GUN Poem Text First Line: Something about the nail through my hand said jesus. Or was it shit? Subject(s): Tools; Accidents SINATRA Poem Text First Line: That skinny fuck-up, all recklessness and bones Last Line: Of man I might've been, what sort I've become Subject(s): Sinatra, Frank (1915-1998) SISYPHUS BEE Poem Text First Line: I couldn't help it, I nearly fell asleep Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping SLOW DREAMS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: All my life I have been bothered by them Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares SOUNDINGS Poem Text First Line: The birdhouse made from a gourd is wired Subject(s): Wind Chimes THE AFTERLIFE OF MOOSE Poem Text First Line: As the moose is obsessed, relentlessly Last Line: As for the afterlife, I’ll take his chances Subject(s): Moose THE BELIEFS OF A HORSE Poem Text First Line: In the field out back Subject(s): Horses; Ranch Life THE EMBLEM Poem Text First Line: In the last days of the sun Subject(s): Bicycles; Youth; Bad Bheavior; Cycling THE GRANDMOTHERS Poem Text First Line: He thought, this is the way they all are Last Line: The long, long night they must swim through Subject(s): Grandparents; Cancer (Disease); Family Life; Mortality THE PROPHECY Poem Text First Line: The minister's enunciations cut like knives Last Line: Behind which we wailed and sang Subject(s): Music, Rock; Rock & Roll THE PUMPKIN TREE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Up a lattice of sumac and into the spars Last Line: Of the wood it cannot know it is bound for Subject(s): Pumpkins THOSE RICHES Poem Text First Line: The week after your father left Subject(s): Poverty; Automobile Drivers TORCH SONGS Poem Text First Line: I would speak of that grief Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (Music); Grief; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Love; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Sorrow; Sadness UNDER THE DOUBLE EAGLE Poem Text First Line: His pansies drink / the darkness down, replenishing their purples Last Line: Scented chamber, its smooth grain and slim-waisted body – sing Subject(s): Singing & Singers WAIT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: He also finds the wood and steel beautiful, Subject(s): Hunting; Hunters WHAT MY FATHER BELIEVED Poem Text First Line: Man of his age, he believed in the things Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Teaching & Teachers; Patriotism; Educators; Professors |
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