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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: YAU, JOHN Matches Found: 296 Yau, John Poet's Biography 296 poems available by this author 18-JAN-79 First Line: So often artists have painted a woman 830 FIREPLACE ROAD First Line: When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing' Last Line: When painting, I'm not doing. I am in my doing. I am painting 830 FIREPLACE ROAD [2] First Line: No of the its of. Have the of have its Last Line: The destroying I of the image, the I of because. %I own no I. I own no painting A SHEAF OF PLEASANT VOICES Poem Text First Line: There are rooftops Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Mind, The AFTER First Line: I slum among crumbs, a spotted shadow Last Line: I slum among crumbs, a spotted shadow AFTER A PAINTING BY JASPER JOHNS First Line: It was only difficult being a corpse when he began forgetting Last Line: Becoming more themselves AFTER MOVING First Line: Even as the street becomes familiar to you AFTER MY CHRONOLOGY BY PETER LORRE First Line: The splattered flag of an idiot scavenger; this was how Last Line: Always waiting for the mirror to begin reciting the contents of its %solid lake? ALL THIS CHANGING TROUBLE LUCK AND SUDDENNESS First Line: Some of what came and some were poor ANGEL ATRAPADO IV First Line: It was my body I was watching. I was both in it and constructing it, both Last Line: Removed, the 'I' now looking back at what is there ANGEL ATRAPADO V First Line: The wirds he is writing down are starting to interfere with the ones he Last Line: To the window where you are standing, speaking to the voices roaming %the air behind you ANGEL ATRAPADO VI First Line: This fruit will change color in one day, lose its fragrance in two Last Line: I wanted to show you the pebbles balanced on the tip of my %yellow tongue, the stories clustered aro ANGEL ATRAPADO VII First Line: The one who says: I was almost alive or nearly dead or somehwere Last Line: Mouth or empty sky they once thought was theirs and theirs alone ANGEL ATRAPADO VIII First Line: Where will this voice go once it leaves me Last Line: Yes, I am inside the mirror, and I am watching you ANGEL ATRAPADO XIX First Line: I was the toad in tinsel Last Line: Another cabin roars toward the pyre ANGEL ATRAPADO XV First Line: Someone likes you, someone like you. Or is it? Someone like you Last Line: Away from here, toward rooms and clouds that have yet to open ANGEL ATRAPADO XVII First Line: There was nothing left to sent you, so I fashioned this from smoke Last Line: In his mouth, he must have known I had fished him in the car ANGEL ATRAPADO XX First Line: One of us is about to get up and dance in the dark Last Line: The one who had whammo on the mind ANGEL ATRAPADO XXI First Line: Something slips between Last Line: This tongue is a flower. Someday you will hear what it has to pay ANGEL ATRAPADO XXII (THE ELEMENTS) First Line: The one who says Last Line: With shoelaces of seaweed and salt ANGEL ATRAPADO XXIII First Line: The team of little blue voices began storming Last Line: Ride me down like a book whose bruises are burning ANGEL ATRAPADO XXIV First Line: It was early october Last Line: Whose imitations are scraped throughout the lair ANGEL ATRAPADO XXV First Line: I was starting to boil Last Line: Had I thrown them in the yields of today I would have said so ANGEL ATRAPADO XXVI (DEAR RILKE) First Line: Who among the many I am would answer me if I stalled out Last Line: Green blue flames rising toward the wind's coiled throat ANGEL ATRAPADO: 11 First Line: I eat rice with two wooden sticks Last Line: Talk, you are telling me something more about who you actually might be, you %are interrupting yours ANONYMOUS SELF-PORTRAIT WITH WOUNDED CHICKADEE First Line: Before the final operation Last Line: I was a rubber stone in a window %its glass jaws ajar ANOTHER LATE TALE First Line: Hommage: utopia parkway collagist Last Line: Adrift among %infrangible moolah scads AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN PINK AND BLUE First Line: My devotion to the federation of nincompoops Last Line: But in the meantime, would you quit kicking my pastry? AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN RED AND YELLOW First Line: I was born in shanghai Last Line: Our wits are short %but our tongues are long AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION First Line: Lend the old sentry a new way Last Line: Will this spill finall bleach me? AVENUE OF AMERICANS First Line: The audience cheers as the monkey correctly AVILA First Line: You learn to accommodate yourself to others, to fit into the Last Line: The dummy and I was the flutter passing through, on my way %to a parking lot of iridescent kin AVILA 2 First Line: I was not ready to buy the bathing suit she held up in front Last Line: Their mother. What they saw was a bucket. A page of the %future burning inside an empty book AVILA 3 First Line: How was I to know the one beneath me would become a fish Last Line: Sizzlers. I began believing in their tales, I began building%perfect pyramids beneath the sun BAR ORIENT First Line: Club stork Last Line: Fluted rug BARE SHEETS: 1 First Line: We walked through the afternoon's diminishing arches until we BARE SHEETS: 2 First Line: None of the many words we summoned to our sides fitted what BARE SHEETS: 3 First Line: (at the museum) BLUE LIZARD LOUNGE First Line: Do you still think about the little foil park Last Line: To slip or fall BORIS KARLOFF IN THE MUMMY MEETS DR. FU MANCHU First Line: Emerging from the woods, the audience stumbles upon an isolated Last Line: You must persuade the couple in front of you to remove their hats %and wigs BORROWED LOVE POEM: 1. Poem Text First Line: What can I do, I have dreamed of you so much Subject(s): Love BORROWED LOVE POEM: 1. First Line: What can I do, I have dreamed of you so much Last Line: Lost as I am in the sky Subject(s): Love BORROWED LOVE POEM: 10. Poem Text First Line: Now that the seven wonders of the night Subject(s): Love BORROWED LOVE POEM: 10. First Line: Now that the seven wonders of the night Last Line: Who preceded us across this burning floor Subject(s): Love BORROWED LOVE POEM: 2 Poem Text First Line: What can I do, all the years that we talked Subject(s): Love - Loss Of BORROWED LOVE POEM: 2. First Line: What can I do, all the years that we talked Last Line: Now that your name is not enough BORROWED LOVE POEM: 3. Poem Text First Line: What can I do, if a red meteor wakes the earth Subject(s): Love BORROWED LOVE POEM: 3. First Line: What can I do, if a red meteor wakes the earth Last Line: And the other is lost in the sky Subject(s): Love BORROWED LOVE POEM: 4. Poem Text First Line: What can I do, lost as I am in the wind Subject(s): Love BORROWED LOVE POEM: 4. First Line: What can I do, lost as I am in the wind Last Line: Now that this pen is empty Subject(s): Love BORROWED LOVE POEM: 5. Poem Text First Line: What can I do, now that the sky Subject(s): Love BORROWED LOVE POEM: 5. First Line: What can I do, now that the sky Last Line: Now that you have closed the book Subject(s): Love BORROWED LOVE POEM: 6. Poem Text First Line: Now that the sky is green Subject(s): Love BORROWED LOVE POEM: 6. First Line: Now that the sky is green Last Line: From the bottom of a thousand lakes Subject(s): Love BORROWED LOVE POEM: 7. Poem Text First Line: To some, the winter sky is a blue peach Subject(s): Love BORROWED LOVE POEM: 7. First Line: To some, the winter sky is a blue peach Last Line: Their wings full of yellow flour Subject(s): Love BORROWED LOVE POEM: 8. Poem Text First Line: What can I do, I never believed happiness Subject(s): Love BORROWED LOVE POEM: 8. First Line: What can I do, I never believed happiness Last Line: Pouring from the sun Subject(s): Love BORROWED LOVE POEM: 9. Poem Text First Line: What can I do, now that I have spent my life Subject(s): Love BORROWED LOVE POEM: 9. First Line: What can I do, now that I have spent my life Last Line: And I have started celebrating a completely %different life Subject(s): Love BORROWED LOVE POEMS: 1. First Line: What can I do, I have dreamed of you so much Last Line: For my shadow to fall back to the earth %lost as I am in the sky BORROWED LOVE POEMS: 10. First Line: Now that the seven wonders of the night Last Line: The claw marks of those %who preceded us across this burning floor BORROWED LOVE POEMS: 2. First Line: What can I do, all the years that we talked Last Line: Now that your name is not enough BORROWED LOVE POEMS: 3. First Line: What can I do, if a red meteor wakes the earth Last Line: What can I do, if one of us is lying on the earth %and the other is lost in the sky BORROWED LOVE POEMS: 4. First Line: What can I do, lost as I am in the wind Last Line: What can I do, now that this page is wet %now that this pen is empty BORROWED LOVE POEMS: 5. First Line: What can I do, now that the sky Last Line: Now that I am awake %now that you have closed the book BORROWED LOVE POEMS: 6. First Line: Now that the sky is green Last Line: From the bottom of a thousand lakes BORROWED LOVE POEMS: 7. First Line: To some, the winter sky is a blue peach Last Line: Their wings full of yellow flour BORROWED LOVE POEMS: 8. First Line: What can I do, I never believed happiness Last Line: And turn flowers into red candles %pouring from the sun BORROWED LOVE POEMS: 9. First Line: What can I do, now that I have spent my life Last Line: And I have started celebrating a completely different life BOWERY STUDIO First Line: It is never Last Line: The windows have their own tasks %the sky brings its own table BROADCAST FROM 791 BROADWAY First Line: Salacious, broken-nosed, bantamweight Last Line: Since I left you, many other curious celebrations have taken place BROKEN OFF BY THE MUSIC First Line: With the first gray light of dawn BROKEN SONNET Poem Text First Line: The world weeps. There are no tears Subject(s): Politics & Government; Social Commentaries BUFFALO AND MARSHMALLOWS First Line: It's an old glory Last Line: And flicked drivel into the yard CAMEO OF A CHINESE WOMAN ON MULBERRY STREET First Line: Her face this moon a house CARP AND GOLDFISH First Line: Some fish we peel back, leaving only the bones. Others devour us CASCADE First Line: We were sitting outside CASE First Line: I looked down, more slender than CASTOR AND POLLUX First Line: I don't know why I became a fiend and you didn't Last Line: The one between your teeth or the one you cannot breathe CENOTAPH First Line: The clues to what they remembered had been pasted into an album Last Line: The sun with the skulls, molding them into little mountains CENOTAPH OF SNOW First Line: Snow is both durable and deceiving. It can be shaped inot a wall CHARRED VOICE OF MAX ERNST First Line: I too volunteered to monitor CHINESE LANDSCAPE First Line: The heavy gray and white clouds surrounding the dark green Last Line: That are being told is a child. Each story believes in itself CHINESE VILLANELLE First Line: I have been with you, and I have thought of you Last Line: Now I am a lute filled with this wandering description CHORAL AMPHISBAENA First Line: I am learning to see CLAY NURSING HOME First Line: At the annual clay nursing home white elephant sale and picnic CONFESSIONS First Line: She spends her money in the desert, at the movies CONVERSATION AT MIDNIGHT First Line: Did I tell you about the couple who slipped into a well Last Line: If you want to lease me, go ahead and cry. You little parking lot CORPSE AND MIRROR: 1 First Line: When one of our citizens dies, his corpse is placed in his chariot CORPSE AND MIRROR: 2 First Line: When a comet passes over the town, whoever sees it knows a corpse CORPSE AND MIRROR: 3 Poem Text First Line: When the movie ends and the lights come on, the audience is puzzled Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States CORPSE AND MIRROR: 3 First Line: When the movie ends and the lights come on, the audience is puzzled Last Line: Long since fallen in. By then the mirror will have vanished and the %movie will have started. This t Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States DEAR First Line: I know you hardly ever leave your room now DIASPORA First Line: My father shifted in his chair and turned the page. He was reading the diary Last Line: I want to tell her that they left long ago, that their mission was fulfilled DIDN'T THEY LIKE YOU AS MUCH AS THE LIKE THEMSELVES? First Line: Whenever I am Last Line: Said I heard myself %talking to you when I was you DIFFEREMT CEREAL First Line: The moon shrinks behind a row of shriveled trees Last Line: The children have been shrieking for DIFFERENT PRINCE First Line: One name becomes two - siegfried and sassoon (or stop and shop) DIPTYCH First Line: Gray discs of unfinished light Last Line: In which everyone %has changed his or her name. %queen esther and her loyal objects %astor, mouki, a DISCOVERY OF HONEY First Line: Through the fading years a town had fallen together on the side DOMESTIC BLISS First Line: If I am as cute as a button Last Line: I need to get that sand back into my open veins DOUBLE AGENT I First Line: Who can say we did not take turns Last Line: Until it rots in your mouth DOUBLE AGENT II First Line: In each of us resides a popular medalist Last Line: Into believing what we say DOUBLE AGENT III First Line: You said Last Line: We pretended to glue to the sky DRAGON'S BLOOD: 1 First Line: I know all dreams grow to the size of a grapefruit DRAGON'S BLOOD: 2 First Line: I recheck the map and count the stones DRAGON'S BLOOD: 3 First Line: As the highway circles the mountain of red mirrors DRAGON'S BLOOD: 4 First Line: As the train chugs past the painting of your face DREAM HOSPITAL I First Line: One eye opens. Above it a cloud. Rounded edges where it Last Line: Yet, none of them are memorable in quite the same way DREAM HOSPITAL II First Line: Mouth maybe Last Line: These gravitational sockets DREAM HOSPITAL III First Line: I consult a pleasure map Last Line: The details of your mechanized brain DREAM HOSPITAL IV First Line: Why listen to the little blabber mouse proudly striding around Last Line: Each of you will soon be receiving the news you've been waiting for DREAM HOSPITAL V (FOR ERIC PETERSON) First Line: She walks by the window of the cafe where you and a friend Last Line: Night in your apartment, and the woman whose book you now own DREAM HOSPITAL VI First Line: Between prefabricated motels, their pastel stained fresco walls Last Line: Before all this began DREAM LIFE OF A COFFIN FACTORY IN LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS First Line: Earlier in the century it was not unusual to spend an evening Last Line: And everyone glistened with pride Subject(s): Americans; United States DREAM REPORT First Line: You learn the names of trees E PLURIBUS UNUM First Line: It is not longer necessary for sunlight EACH OTHER 1 First Line: In the middle of the unfolding, neither yours or mine nor ours Last Line: Cannot be filled, that we are on different sides of a window that %neither opens nor shuts EACH OTHER 2 First Line: What you said filled me with an expectation I tried to eliminate Last Line: The time I was an envoy to the porridge of popular echoes EACH OTHER 3 First Line: You were crying and saying my name, but you weren't crying Last Line: Caress its ensemble, night wehen shame leaves such gestures %intact as aspirins in a sealed bottle EACH OTHER 4 First Line: That air, its dust, was no longer available, no longer sold on Last Line: In towards a moment that slipped past, almost unnoticed until now EACH OTHER 5 First Line: We melted into each other like snow. We crashed against each Last Line: The moment of sunlight filling the doorway, where you are %standing, looking at this form you think EACH OTHER 6 First Line: I had stopped believing there were toher 'I's' when we met Last Line: Story passes. I thought there was no other story to tell EDIFICIO SAYONARA First Line: It is time to say goodbye, adios, sayonara. Last Line: Or years he would learn the meaning of its song ELECTRIC DRILLS First Line: I used to have a fear of tools, largely because of my father EMISSION CONTROL First Line: Maybe it has a mind of its own Last Line: Whatever it was I once knew %in the grave of my pet violin ENGINES OF GLOOM AND AFFECTION First Line: The sky is green, and there is no book to tell us what it means EPIC BONE HINGE First Line: Truffle eager norsemen set out after ephraim Last Line: Their fins clattering against the wind ESKIMO TALES First Line: He tied it with a piece of string ESKIMO VILLANELLE First Line: If this is the word, how did you know it? EXECUTIONER MEETS MISTER BALL AND CHAIN First Line: Become the next armload of fuzzy headlocks and iron bunny hugs Last Line: Rub this globe and feel the tapeworm music vibrating in the bumps FIFTH DIPTYCH First Line: The two cities %we plan to visit Last Line: Never mirror %their opposites FIFTH METABOLIC ISTHMUS SESTINA First Line: Sex thought really all there was Last Line: Sex miss makes what is there %is quiz question who sex fakes FIFTY FOR RICHARD NONAS First Line: What is it makes this place what it is and nowhere else? Last Line: Done before: what will you do now that you know that FILM ADAPTATIONS OF FIVE OF AMERICA'S MOST BELOVED POEMS First Line: It burns and winds. For as long as I can remember, my sunday task Last Line: Decides to buy two lottery tickets, one for each side of the coin FILM ADAPTATIONS OF FIVE OF AMERICA'S MOST BELOVED POEMS First Line: It burns and winds. For as long as I can remember, my sunday task Last Line: Name of akron decides to buy two lottery tickets, one for each side %of the coin FLYING INLAND First Line: The pilot looked out of the cockpit window and (as the city vanished) FORBIDDEN ENTGRIES II First Line: A fling sized bed slips onto the balcony of a picture frame Last Line: Above the salmon clouds FORBIDDEN ENTRIES I First Line: She is sleeping in the clasp of her sapphire pond while she Last Line: Petal of sand brushing against my gauze plug FORBIDDEN ENTRIES III First Line: The ones we once were wake up beneath the windowsill Last Line: Nothing happens. What I found was all over my hands FORBIDDEN ENTRIES IV First Line: The bridges suspended above the windows shook, welded pie Last Line: My tongue again, follows itself down. I taste the tremble FORBIDDEN ENTRIES V First Line: The second sign is usually made of stolen cinnabar Last Line: Latest examples of imitation contraband FORBIDDEN ENTRIES VI First Line: Wire adjustments and battery update. The bathers ignore the Last Line: A blazing shadow rises FORBIDDEN ENTRIES VII First Line: I have not encountered this variant of fur before. A swill of fetid rumors Last Line: Which fails to listen to its commands FOURTH METABOLIC ISTHMUS SESTINA First Line: Hair sack is always slick seat Last Line: Taste hair sack mull why slick %sack mull why mate taste false GENCHIS CHAN: PRIVATE EYE 8 First Line: I plugged in the new image fertilizer Last Line: Inside your black eyes and black tongue %I would have memorized its song GENGHIS CHAN: PRIVATE EYE 1 First Line: I was floating through a cross section Last Line: A foul lump started making promises in my voice GENGHIS CHAN: PRIVATE EYE 2 First Line: I looked down GENGHIS CHAN: PRIVATE EYE 3 First Line: We surfed out of the alley GENGHIS CHAN: PRIVATE EYE 4 First Line: Rusted pundit, throttled chin GENGHIS CHAN: PRIVATE EYE 5 First Line: You looked up and said GENGHIS CHAN: PRIVATE EYE 6 First Line: I am just another particle cloud gliding across the screen GENGHIS CHAN: PRIVATE EYE 7 First Line: You will remember the tourist's jawbone GENGHIS CHAN: PRIVATE EYE XXI First Line: I am a hat softener Last Line: To the smallest dimes GENGHIS CHAN: PRIVATE EYE XXII First Line: Aquarium night steers Last Line: Its insect logic GENGHIS CHAN: PRIVATE EYE XXIII (HAIKU LOGBOOK) First Line: Feed him his lights Last Line: Point to sudden breath GENGHIS CHAN: PRIVATE EYE XXIV First Line: Grab some Last Line: First steps GENGHIS CHAN: PRIVATE EYE XXIX First Line: Mirror film stain Last Line: Anvil clock hair %condom audience dog GENGHIS CHAN: PRIVATE EYE XXV First Line: Simple sample Last Line: Talk muck GENGHIS CHAN: PRIVATE EYE XXVI First Line: Honking Last Line: Cut stench GENGHIS CHAN: PRIVATE EYE XXVII First Line: Moo goo Last Line: Piss pot GENGHIS CHAN: PRIVATE EYE XXVIII First Line: Droll moll Last Line: Yell high GENGHIS CHAN: PRIVATE EYE XXX First Line: Shoo war Last Line: Wig maw %mustard tongue HALFWAY TO CHINA First Line: While lying on a beach, he remember the photograph he once saw HOBOKEN PALACE GARDENS First Line: We sat beneath a webbed and vaulted sky Last Line: I am, as always, your disobedient servant HOSPITAL PARKING LOT RENDEZVOUS First Line: Eviscerated bugs were once weathervanes for astronomers Last Line: A long red rung without a ladder I WAS A POET IN THE HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN First Line: Do you remember me as a spy Last Line: And I am walking toward him, %an aged but determined man with a cane IF YOU ASKED First Line: No it didn't get too cold here too often IN BETWEEN AND AROUND First Line: And all the while we were kissing Last Line: All the while INFIDEL'S ROMANCE First Line: Even now I am called gobi snow Last Line: Hard glue some zealots %still call the world INSTANT COFFEE First Line: In the woods behind the city they say a parachute snagged high INTRODUCTION Poem Text First Line: It had to be from someone whose grandparents were born in shanghai Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Asian Americans - Chinese; Self; Heritage; Heredity; Chinese In The United States KISS First Line: Was it a 'please urge' or a 'police purge' or some combination of both? LA BREA First Line: Dozens of blue relics slip from their envelopes, rise and turn toward LATE NIGHT MOVIES I First Line: In a small underground laboratory the brain of a Last Line: Forever in the hallways leading to the sea LATE TALE First Line: Then several (like five) venture there Last Line: When the tale began loosening the blackened tiles %lodged inside the infinitely broken sea LETTER FROM MARINA First Line: Amidst this haste and filth %beside the river's black violin Last Line: Argued over %and tried to burn M IS FOR MOUSE AND MEDICINE First Line: The mouse is one of the most ancient medicines used by mankind Last Line: Of their next escapade. A tall yellow shadow lurks outside MANHATTAN MINIATURE First Line: The predators removed their harnesses, and vanished into the exposed MARCO POLO Poem Text First Line: Recently he has turned to us and said: 'it's bizzare to think about' Subject(s): Polo, Marco (1254-1324) MARCO POLO First Line: Recently he has turned to us and said: 'it's bizare to think about' Subject(s): Polo, Marco (1254-1324) MEDUSA Poem Text First Line: Finally, the remaining distinctions begin Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical MEDUSA First Line: Finally, the remaining distinctions begin Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical MIRAGE First Line: Urchins, I have been told Last Line: Crammed into our mouths, the threads %infiltrating our years of research MISSING PAGES First Line: From the balcony of the seaside hotel you can see the jeweled towers MODERN LOVE First Line: The clouds continued swelling like poisoned fish MON ALIAS, MONA LISA First Line: Mon alias Last Line: Alon amis MOVIES AS A FORM OF REINCARNATION: BORIS KARLOFF REMEMBERS BEING First Line: I was not born in dulwich or brighton, but in camberwell, south Last Line: These or none? Or am I what vanishes behind your eyes without %ever going away? MR DEAD AND MRS FREE First Line: Electric earth tilts away Last Line: Around last strings %of borrowed hair MUDDY PUTTI UNDER IMPECUNIOUS SUN First Line: Enginous uncle Last Line: Conjures putrescent %pustule disguise NANTUCKET First Line: It was late in the afternoon when I returned with the paper bag NASTY ORDERS PACIFY QUEEN First Line: Antonia greases limp braids Last Line: Zeppelin flames kindle antonia NEW YORK MAP COMPANY (1) Poem Text First Line: Acton town manufacturing Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORK MAP COMPANY (1) First Line: Acton town manufacturing Last Line: Zanzibar courier service Subject(s): Cities; New York City NEWLY RENOVATED OPERA HOUSE ON GILLIGAN'S ISLAND First Line: Between the hastily sketched chalk curtains a backdrop of yellow cliffs Last Line: Of threatening clouds. A faint breeze tingles the air, its fleshy remnants NINETY-NINE YAUPON ROSARY CYCLE First Line: Many eyes Last Line: You dumpy %hollywood opportunity NO ONE EVER TRIED TO KISS ANNA MAY WONG First Line: She's trying to find a way to turn her cup NOISE OF LIFE First Line: One summer they stayed with her family at their cabin; peeling paint NOTES FROM THE NIGHT EDITOR First Line: A corrupt newspaper publisher takes up painting Last Line: He becomes an ape and starts a ruckus ONE HUNDRED VIEWS OF THE OUTSKIRTS OF MANHATTAN First Line: An immense copper moth Last Line: Beneath a rinsed %junk dog sky ONE HUNDRED VIEWS OF THE PORT OF BALTIMORE First Line: An air-brushed statue of edgar allen poe Last Line: Two mirrors--empty as teardrops-- %emerge from beneath tomorrow's ruined sky ONE MORE EXCUSE First Line: There were neither pillars to pry apart Last Line: Through your outer membranes OVAL OF OXIDIZED POTATOES First Line: Ode to avoid portrait of oneself Last Line: For bloated bigoted %roadside bottom troglodytes PAINTER ASKS First Line: Why go toward the palaces of description Last Line: Gathering along bottom of last dream %to touch daylight's rim %why leaving thinking for thought PARADISE First Line: The motorcycle was saved when the driver's head PETER LORRE CONFESSES HIS DESIRE TO BE A POET First Line: I've already telephoned olympus and its legions of winged Last Line: Knows no building you would enter PETER LORRE DREAMS HE IS THE THIRD REINCARNATION OF A GEISHA First Line: Opipum is the religion of the feeble, the game, and the assaulted Last Line: Progeny? Why not choose exinction PETER LORRE IMPROVISES MR. MOTO'S MONOLOGUE First Line: I floatg outside your windows on rainy nights, a blanket of gray Last Line: An engine of rebuilt fur. I'm what slips through your purified crave PETER LORRE PREPARES FOR HIS FINAL SOLILOQUY First Line: There isn't time to measure the plunge of winter's corpse or Last Line: To the brimming balconies of a yellow heaven PETER LORRE RECORDS HIS FAVORITE WALT WHITMAN POEM FOR POSTERITY First Line: I am an indigestable vapor rising from the dictionary Last Line: While the outer me, the bun you tufted, was heavy-lipped %reflection of uncanny twittering amidst gn PETER LORRE REMINISCES ABOUT BEING A SIDEKICK First Line: Iron cloud, bronzed sunset, stolen dream Last Line: In order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes? PETER LORRE SPEAKS TO THE SPIRIT OF EDGAR ALLEN POE DURING A SEANCE First Line: Back then which is anywhere in back of now Last Line: I might dig myself out of the roles %blind biographers have stuck me in PETER LORRE WONDERS WHICH ARTIST SHOULD PAINT HIS PORTRAIT First Line: Case stockings shutters gum smoke lampshade shoes. Tall lace Last Line: Of intimate incandescence? Suspended and finally let loose PICADILLY OR PARADISE First Line: When I leap through the flung-open windows of your dance Last Line: Or you are dousing candles in the last yawns of our jury PICTURE BOOK First Line: The film is gray and wobbly, and shot through with jolts of tarnished PLEASURES OF EXILE First Line: About an hour before dawn the women squeeze themselves into POSTCARD FROM GEORG TRAKL First Line: I am a row of golden diesel tags Last Line: I want to strip %the greasy donut gangs %of all their golden cares POSTCARD FROM GEORG TRAKL First Line: I collect tolls from rocks Last Line: You are beside me %untying you hair %you neck is starting to snow POSTCARDS FROM NEBRASKA First Line: How do I get onto these trivial subjects? Only you are subject to PREDELLA First Line: After removing the anodized plate, the two electricians discover an PREDELLA First Line: A blue woolen glove folded over like an old one dollar bill someone Last Line: So much so the days would have to begin elsewhere PROSCENIUM First Line: The wires in his head were leaking Last Line: And the audience that is content to know %everything turned out as planned RADIANT SILHOUETTE: 1 First Line: Blue leather harness slips off glistening shoulders RADIANT SILHOUETTE: 2 First Line: There is no place in this dark RADIANT SILHOUETTE: 3 First Line: Baudelaire took the train RADIANT SILHOUETTE: 4 First Line: Frenzy softens the air RADIANT SILHOUETTE: 5 First Line: Dear matted squirrel tongue READING OF AN EVER-CHANGING TALE First Line: Certain colors got lodged under RECOIL First Line: Clouds drape moon in striped appeals RED FOUNTAIN First Line: When the last mirage RETIRED WRESTLER First Line: Usually, when the late-afternoon sun Last Line: My name is tonsil trash %the delirious assyrian RETURN OF THE HUNTERS First Line: Anywhere is conterminous with another RETURN OF ULYSSES: 1 First Line: They do not believe they visited islands that never existed RETURN OF ULYSSES: 2 First Line: We were walking from one end of the island to the other ROBERT HERRICK First Line: I like wallpaper that makes sense RUMORS First Line: At the beginning of a street some say never ends RUSSIAN LETTER Poem Text First Line: It is said, the past Subject(s): Time RUSSIAN LETTER First Line: It is said, the past Last Line: As it shrieks %down from the sky RUSSIAN LETTER (1) First Line: It is said, the past %sticks to the present Last Line: As it shrieks %down from the sky RUSSIAN LETTER (2) First Line: Did we watch the phone sit still %like a frog Last Line: Flying into language's %colorless flame RUSSIAN LETTER (3) First Line: Dear painter of clouds %what proof will there be Last Line: Dear syllables retrieved from the rain %dear wind alone with your song RUSSIAN LETTER [2] First Line: Did we watch the phone sit still Last Line: Flying into language's %colorless flame RUSSIAN LETTER [3] First Line: Dear painter of clouds Last Line: Dear syllables retrieved from the rain %dear wind alone with your song RUSSIAN LETTER [4] First Line: Cara finestra aperta Last Line: Dearest wind-borne %shadow of a silhouette RUSSIAN LETTER [5] First Line: Dear bed of snow Last Line: Ready to penetrate %the blackened earth RUSSIAN LETTER [6] First Line: Amidst this haste and filth Last Line: Argued over %and tried to burn SAM SPADE HAIKU First Line: Perfect oval SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF BOULLEE First Line: Roof shaped like a strawberry. Hurriedly torn SCULPTOR WHISPERS IN THE SLEEPING POET'S EAR First Line: Leonardo knew the wings of birds would one day be worn by Last Line: Didn't need to have the same dream twice SEANCE MUSIC First Line: Salt starts falling from my tongue SECOND DIPTYCH First Line: Sun suspends itself Last Line: Separating the head %from the feet SECOND SELF-PORTRAIT WITH MAX BECKMANN First Line: I am falling into the harbor Last Line: Amidst orchid blossoms %and clattering tambourines SECRET LIFE OF A STATUETTE First Line: Woof it's hard having so many arms and heads Last Line: Get out of here you gratuitous vermin %go back to the hackensack of your gravy SELF PORTRAIT WITH MAX BECKMANN First Line: One vision alone would be much simpler Last Line: I am a painter %who sleeps in a small room %adjacent to the long corridors %of a yellow night SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BRUNO TAUT First Line: An infernal flutteriing: I don't know Last Line: Invading our throats SELF-PORTRAIT WITH MAX BECKMANN First Line: One vision alone would be much simpler Last Line: Adjacent to the long corridors %of a yellow light SELF-PORTRAIT WITH UNIDENTIFIED PAINTING First Line: An emulsion of signal fires Last Line: With flakes of spit and gold SERENADE First Line: The window reflect the fuscous clouds SEVENTH POSTCARD FROM GOTTFRIED BENN First Line: Cold festers %on a map Last Line: Their animal shirts %and iron tresses SHANGHAI SHENANIGANS First Line: The moon empties its cigarette over a row of clouds SHEATH OF PLEASANT VOICES First Line: There are rooftops %made of cloud remnants Last Line: From the chambers of a lost book SHIMMERING PEDIMENT First Line: An overloaded circuit - lightning SLEEPLESS NIGHT OF EUGENE DELACROIX First Line: In north africa, delacroix had seen a jewish wedding which he Subject(s): Delacroix, Eugene (1798-1863) SO MUCH HAS ALREADY HAPPENED First Line: I am on the shrapnel inlaid verandah Last Line: And come back into the cold SOMETIMES First Line: What I think I am looking for is a place SOTTO VOCE First Line: It is raining in new york. Raining and raining Last Line: But certainly not years it will rise above my windows SPIN, SPELL, SPILL First Line: We met in a crowded auditorium, agreed to rendezvous on a train STAR-CROSSED DUET OF MISS BURAKUMIN AND MISTER HOLLYWOOD First Line: O she'll be clomping around the fountain when he drums Last Line: O soon the world will be dancing on the windows of your thumbs STORIED FIBS PILED HIGH First Line: Omigosh Last Line: Their river's %cosmetic dialect STUDIO DREAM First Line: Your face is a shoe Last Line: You've got an empty head %but no place to cram it SUITE OF IMITATIONS WRITTEN AFTER ... LI HE & LI SHANG-YIN First Line: When she left she took everything - her hair SUMMER RENTAL First Line: Mrs. Trashbag was unable to come to any reasonable appraisal of what Last Line: Mutilated the night in your sleep, there is no turning back TELEPHONE CALL First Line: He was my third roomate. We were together for twenty-four TEN SONGS First Line: Trying to find a way to say something that would make it TEXAS SPRAWL First Line: Another barrel of insect casings THE DREAM LIFE OF A COFFIN FACTORY IN LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS Poem Text First Line: Earlier in the century it was not unusual to spend an evening Subject(s): Americans; United States; America THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT OF EUGENE DELACROIX Poem Text First Line: In north africa, delacroix had seen a jewish wedding which he Subject(s): Delacroix, Eugene (1798-1863) THEIR SHADOWS First Line: According to my mother THINGS I SHOULD TELL YOU BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE First Line: Princess sitting duck isn't my real name Last Line: Princess sitting duck isn't my nickname either THIRD SELF-PORTRAIT WITH MAX BECKMANN First Line: I am incapable of writing to you Last Line: And I am the last little bicycle %parked before the battlefront THREE LULLABIES FOR TRAKL: 1. First Line: The mountain named after the one Last Line: House of fire %are you at it again THREE LULLABIES FOR TRAKL: 2. First Line: The moon stares into the mirror Last Line: One animal licks another %why do we go on singing this song THREE LULLABIES OF TRAKL: 3. First Line: September hoists its flame against Last Line: The hair floated to the surface %did you try and lift up its intolerant flame THRID VARIATION ON CORPSE AND MIRROR First Line: I crossed the street Last Line: While a hand waved good-bye %to the body it once carried TOY TRUCKS AND FRIED RICE First Line: The chinese benevolent association's annual christmas party was TWO AZTECS FROM NEW JERSEY First Line: I don't know what else to attribute it to Last Line: From the satellite channels of old mister daylight TWO KINDS OF SONG First Line: It is said the palace was modeled on a dream, but even what the TWO MEDIATATIONS ON GUANAJUATO First Line: Postcards are fragments of an encyclopedia; and typical of one VARIATIONS ON CORPSE AND MIRROR First Line: When a corpse meets a corpse there is a mirror between them VARIATIONS ON CORPSE AND MIRROR (SECOND SET) First Line: I crossed WE ARE ALL VULTURES First Line: The man in the next bed died just after eating lunch WESTERN RECTANGLE First Line: North of the factory outlet tall grasses predominate, with large gnarled trees Last Line: Countryside, looking for evidence of communication from the boreholes WHISPERS INSIDE THE GARAGE First Line: He wanted to learn a discipline, but he couldn't decide Last Line: Maybe you'll even hear us when we fall WHY DID WHAT WAS THEN First Line: At first the game had rules, but in recent centuries they were replaced WRITTEN IN THE YEAR OF THE PARROT First Line: Knowing that no two years are interchangeable Last Line: That had taken up unsightly residence %in the remains of the nearby trees YOU MUST REMEMBER |
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