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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: YOUNG, KEVIN Matches Found: 216 Young, Kevin Poet's Biography 216 poems available by this author (SPEAKEASY) First Line: The band vamped, %sunlight leaving-sequined Last Line: I done married mud %& took on his name (STILLS) First Line: In fishnets her gams caught %any sucker she'd want Last Line: My billboard forehead, %her name all over it (STILLS) First Line: We undress shy %as a gun Last Line: Even my shadow %has me followed (THE CHANTEUSE) First Line: I was born down the road %where there ain't no Last Line: If you stare straight %at it, a camera, don't look away (THE FRAME) First Line: Wearing silver like a screen Last Line: & who the hell you been (THE GAMBLE) First Line: How horrible the night without %her in it! She like las Last Line: Taking blind the curves (THE GAME) First Line: Here the ashtrays smoke %by themselves, wind Last Line: Raising dirty mason jars %of soured grapes 1975 First Line: Since there was no better color Last Line: Some beautiful boy segregates coffe, no cream, %black, onto his creased & bleached lap ALMANAC, 1939 First Line: The midwives all were scarecrows Last Line: The children had to fall ANATOMY First Line: Deep %in the heart %of the house Last Line: Cause they can't grow %nothing %at all ANTHEM First Line: God, you are gorgeous Last Line: Back stripes - hunh - stars ANYBODY SPEAKING WORDS First Line: Nothing can breathe Last Line: To gain here. Gone, %nothing can stir Subject(s): Absence ARIA First Line: She is rainy season Last Line: A dear distance AUBADE Poem Text First Line: There is little else Last Line: Does, & make us day? Subject(s): Life; Love AUBADE First Line: There is little else Last Line: Or rise, as sun %does, & make us day? Subject(s): Life; Love AUTUMN SONG First Line: Even a dog got him Last Line: All night in, or sing BAGTIME First Line: Like hot food %I love you Last Line: When I want %whatever's left BANJO First Line: And after 3 days rain Last Line: All night - if they want BAPTISM First Line: Maybe you came here to kill a little Last Line: One - might make it BARBEQUE DREAMS: I SWEAT AND TURN Last Line: Or is he a she? Maybe BARBERSHOP RITUAL First Line: Baby brother can't wait Last Line: Distress signs to the ancestors: %remember us, remember our names! BEAUTY First Line: Before the sixth annual Last Line: In a light this beautiful BEYOND WORDS Poem Text First Line: If you bomb / the ind Subject(s): Music & Musicians; City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Popular Culture - United States BLACKBOTTOM First Line: Like coffee %I do not care Last Line: Saying ah, awake, after BLUE MOVIE First Line: It's midnight %midday once Last Line: Dawn as noon sun %streams in BLUEGRASS First Line: No use driving Last Line: Limbs, cyclones BLUES First Line: Gimme some fruit Last Line: Without you supposed to do BOASTS First Line: Wouldn't be no fig leaf Last Line: Round the block %I'm done BOOGALOO First Line: And so you say Last Line: That thud you love, %sighing BOOGIE-WOOGIE First Line: I'll be your lunch Last Line: Gone - spliced in, %us laughing BREAK First Line: I'm about to waltz Last Line: Baby, don't go! BUSKING First Line: The day folds up like money Last Line: Mornings, I am fed by flies, %strangers, sunrise CADILLAC MOON Poem Text Subject(s): Basquiat, Jean-michel (1960-1988); Popular Culture - United States; Social Commentaries CAKEWALK Poem Text First Line: Baby, you make Last Line: Bloodhound ground Subject(s): Fruit; Desire; Love CAKEWALK First Line: Baby, you make %me want Last Line: A freedom-not this red %bloodhound ground CALYPSO First Line: I touch my hair and Last Line: Into my mouth salt blooms! CAMPBELL'S BLACK BEAN SOUP First Line: Candid, warhol %scoffed, coined it Last Line: The uncanny, making %a tin thing sing. CAN-CAN First Line: I am some sitcom Last Line: To mere mutters & other %words for yes CASSIUS CLAY BY BASQUIAT First Line: I'm pretty! %I shook up Last Line: & crowd-his undented smile- %that smarts still CASTING First Line: I learned to shoot Last Line: The birthmark a doctor %removed so young %now only my slight, %side scar remembers CENTRAL STANDARD TIME First Line: Down below, everywhere, all Last Line: What monsters they must be %warnng us about CHEER First Line: I am %a stadium! Last Line: Little porch light on CHORALE First Line: Quite difficult, belief Last Line: Share my shivering bed CHORUS First Line: She walking %away like being Last Line: Tall in heels %like achilles CLYDE PEELING'S REPTILAND IN ALLENWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA First Line: You must admit it's natural Last Line: To pet as it walks past %souvenir, survivor CODA First Line: The stars, they don't do Last Line: Unwashed - I will %no more wear CONSTANCE First Line: In the far room Last Line: The color of railroad pennies COTILLION First Line: Tonight I am a man Last Line: Tonight I tango %alone COUNTRY (& WESTERN) First Line: This is the letter Last Line: Angel who fell I'll %never tell DEEP SONG First Line: Belief is what %buries us - that Last Line: The dark the deep DEGREES First Line: The weather in my head Last Line: Effortless, suffocating snow DIRGE First Line: Rain then. Things Last Line: Nor believes DISASTER MOVIE THEME MUSIC First Line: Winding back roads %I believe in you Last Line: Won't hardly start DITTY First Line: You, rare as georgia Last Line: Night, a lifetime DIXIELAND Poem Text First Line: I want the spell Last Line: The cops without one clue Subject(s): Passion DIXIELAND First Line: I want the spell %of a woman-her Last Line: The cops without one clue DOO WOP First Line: Honey baby %lady lovely Last Line: Corner song %done wronged DOS CABEZAS 2 First Line: We are the walking Last Line: S curse %& cure: remember DRIVING INDEPENDENCE DAY First Line: War built the roads you cross. Men with bad Last Line: The slowest, the most words are kept DRUM TALK First Line: I cannot bear to become Last Line: With yours - to share! DRY SPELL First Line: Waking early %with the warming house Last Line: Wife's earthen arms DUET First Line: This town is twos Last Line: & tain't nothing - without you EARLY BLUES First Line: Once I ordered a pair of shoes Last Line: But they never came EARLY SHOW Poem Text First Line: Here even the darkness Subject(s): Flop-houses; Sex EARLY SHOW First Line: Here even the darkness %is watered down Last Line: On account of too much sun EDDIE PRIEST'S BARBERSHOP & NOTARY Poem Text First Line: Is music ... Is men / off early from work ... Is waiting Subject(s): Barbers; Hair EDDIE PRIEST'S BARBERSHOP & NOTARY CLOSED MONDAYS First Line: Is music - is men Last Line: Your turn - you are next ENCORE First Line: Are the proper Last Line: Me whiles I flee ENVOY First Line: I quit. Resigned Last Line: Bidness - of breathing EPITHALAMION First Line: Before the world Last Line: Moon-made sea ERNOK First Line: Awol, snafu, vip Last Line: W/in 30 days %rsvp asap ERRATA Poem Text First Line: Baby, give me just Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary ERRATA First Line: Baby, give me just Last Line: With this sing %I'll thee shed ETUDE First Line: I love making %love most just Last Line: Mattress a life- %boat, listing EULOGY Poem Text First Line: To allow silence Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness EVENSONG First Line: At dusk women %walking alone give off Last Line: Airborne, oblivious, halfway %to happy EVERY DAY SINCE I HAVE PRACTICED A SORT Last Line: Its thick chain locked. You gone with the key EVERYWHERE IS OUT OF TOWN First Line: Beanville. Tea %party. Five black cats Last Line: Drumsticks, neck. Dark meat FANTASIA First Line: Day disappears %like a dove Last Line: You sleep beside me FEVER First Line: I cannot remember the rain Last Line: Till the yard smells of ghosts FIELD SONG First Line: The narrow hollow Last Line: Of her spine, lying fallow FIELD TRIP First Line: Not enough Last Line: Bones & grease & fossil %enough to feed %a father's fire FILM NOIR (THE CHASE) Poem Text First Line: I didn't have a rat's chance Last Line: Her snuffed, stubbed out / lipstuck cigarette Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema FILM NOIR (THE CHASE) First Line: I didn't have a rat's chance Last Line: Her snuffed, stubbed out %lipstuck cigarette Subject(s): Motion Pictures FILM NOIR (THE LOOT) First Line: I breezed by %the insecurity guard Last Line: & hushmoney %slowly, to sea FILM NOIR (THE SET-UP) Poem Text First Line: Snake oil sales Last Line: Home, humming gumshoe blues Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema FILM NOIR (THE SET-UP) First Line: Snake oil sales Last Line: Tired, I humped it %home, humming gumshoe blues Subject(s): Motion Pictures FILM NOIR (THE SUBPLOT) First Line: Figures. Her chloroform perfume %flushing my face, my nose Last Line: Another & love, down ocean %after ocean of FILM NOIR: MIDNIGHT RAMBLE First Line: Leaving the coffin-cold %theater in winter Last Line: Sure as a man-bearded, polite- %already fixed up & fried FILM NOIR: THE HIDEOUT First Line: Woke up dead %tired, in my arms %an empty Last Line: Night staining the streets clean FILM NOIR: THE WAGON First Line: My reputation %exceeds me. Temptation Last Line: Into wind & plant %each one a kiss FISH STORY First Line: For you I would give up Last Line: How lucky they are FIVE First Line: No one whispers how old Last Line: And thin, a childhood FOR THE CONFEDERATE DEAD Poem Text First Line: These are the last days Subject(s): African Americans - History; Black Heritage FOXTROT First Line: Yours is sweet %sadness, bitter after Last Line: To touch your feet FUNK First Line: It finally forms - the stank Last Line: Ingenuity, lake of dreams GUMBO First Line: How the stomach, starved, %spits out food Last Line: Unstirred soup's GUTBUCKET First Line: I want, like Last Line: This well too long HARVEST SONG First Line: Lover you leave me Last Line: I will take them in HERO First Line: We are making that noise Last Line: As sleep %as apple HOLLYWOOD AFRICANS First Line: Basquiat paints %the town. Paw Last Line: Fresh into pavement, %permanent as a rap %sheet, booked HOMAGE TO PHILLIS WHEATLEY First Line: There are days I can understand Last Line: At sea which owns no country Subject(s): Sea; Ships And Shipping; Water HONKY TONK First Line: At least %I do not need Last Line: And still %this traffic HOW TO MAKE RAIN First Line: Start with the sun Last Line: Wood - is a boy drowning inside the earth HUNDRED & SIX DEGREES First Line: This could be a good day. It starts Last Line: Like a chost is baking sweet potato pies %through the night.Your favorite Variant Title(s): Whatever You Wan I LOVE YOU THE WAY A LIAR LOVES Last Line: My neighbor's noisy light, restless dark INSTRUMENTAL First Line: I have put down words in order Last Line: Undergrown place INTERLUDE First Line: I know now who Last Line: Again his own reflection INTERMEZZO First Line: Lately I head down Last Line: Like stones off the steady water JACK JOHNSON: BLACK JACK First Line: Some call me spade Last Line: Hit me again JACK JOHNSON: THE CROWN First Line: In order to take Last Line: The world champion's till a nigger JACK JOHNSON: THE FIX First Line: That fight with willard was a fix Last Line: Saved. Best %believe I stood up %smiling JACK JOHNSON: THE RING First Line: The bed is just Last Line: Champ, con, or stripped %like my crown JACK JOHNSON: THE UPSET First Line: Who told you %I was yellow Last Line: Treading this ring %like water, %my wide wake JINGLE First Line: Put me on the rack Last Line: Break, an ache JITTERBUG First Line: Today nothing %sounds good Last Line: The geese bumping %within my skin JIVE First Line: Do you remember the heat Last Line: A deal, backroom, bail JOOK First Line: You have me %to you quite addicted Last Line: World, old crow JUBILEE First Line: Sister, you are a late-night Last Line: Done, promising return LANGSTON HUGHES Last Line: Won't you sned %all heaven's news Subject(s): Hughes, Langston (1902-1967); Memory LAST SUPPER First Line: I've seen hogs herded for slaughter Last Line: They get the apportioned body, %a sanctioned measure of salvation LATE BLUES First Line: If %I die, %let me Last Line: To start up now LETTERS FROM THE NORTH STAR First Line: Dear you: the lights here ask Last Line: Almost forgotten of flying, %of soaring free, south, %down. So long. X's, os LITANY First Line: The dirt grows up Last Line: My million names LOCOMOTIVE SONGS First Line: We were hobos every year Last Line: The other %out to wave LYRE First Line: Walking up the hill Last Line: Forever from me you went MADRIGAL First Line: Who can stand Last Line: Will come, undress the trees MAN STRUCK LIGHTNING - 2 WITNESSES First Line: Hell is no help Last Line: From our words %must burn MIC CHECK First Line: This morning I wake Last Line: Thronging %my tongue MISS LUCILLE First Line: She had long since %stopped living Last Line: Herself in, too shiny %empty to ignore MOOD First Line: I got the 'noid Last Line: Take hold a me! MUZAK First Line: When old, do not let me bark Last Line: Please make me mild NOCTURNE First Line: I have other names Last Line: Begging be saved NONES First Line: Stammer me. %stutter utter Last Line: Mumble, you %I curse croon ODE TO THE MIDWEST Poem Text First Line: I want to be doused Subject(s): Middle West; Conduct Of Life; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States ONION GUM (1983) First Line: Onion gum Last Line: Your mouth %taste lk onions OPERA First Line: Why do we talk Last Line: For helping slow us down OVERTURE First Line: When I have begun the long Last Line: Frail, fragrant weeks PARLOR SONG First Line: I spider the days Last Line: Insurance %&whiskey PASTORALE First Line: Outside azaleas bloom loud Last Line: Hills, onto lawns %struggling green PERCENT ROLL First Line: My teeth it seems Last Line: The smallest stones PIETA Poem Text First Line: I hunted heaven Subject(s): Seeking; Patience PLAINSONG First Line: The green is gone Last Line: Business end of a slender cigarette PLAYER PIANO First Line: On the sun-starched Last Line: For you I would churn %its salt to taffy PRELUDE First Line: The red ink of insects Last Line: Killed staining evening QUIVIRA CITY LIMITS First Line: Pull over. Your car with its slow Last Line: Thousand bones carry, now call home RAMBLE First Line: Lady, you are my mobile Last Line: Some stubborn %mule called morning RECITATIVE First Line: Pulling mad toms Last Line: The line, to which it & I %are tied REED SONG First Line: What any god %would, to hold Last Line: Till I can, no more, sing out REQUIEM First Line: Your name is harm. %the bar fills Last Line: Rider, you are a whole %church-worth of hurt REVIVAL First Line: Came early with Last Line: Sound everyone %listened for REWARD Poem Text First Line: Run away from this sub- / scriber for the second time Subject(s): African Americans - History; Slavery; Escapes; Black Heritage; Serfs; Fugitives REWARD First Line: Run away from this sub- Last Line: Accord, they may still be for- %given by RHAPSODY First Line: Tonite too many things lead Last Line: Like a night watchman RHYTHM & BLUES First Line: Through the wall %I hear them Last Line: Eavesdropped breath RIFF First Line: I am all itch, %total, since you done Last Line: Blue from the sky: a safe! ROADHOUSE First Line: Wake me like a lake %after december, sugar Last Line: Empty & alone %as a motel pool ROCK First Line: I swing shut. %spit, &am a shame Last Line: My mouth closed SAINT JOE LOUIS: SURROUNDED BY SNAKES Poem Text First Line: Bip! Splat! / bop Last Line: Hiss his cauliflower ear Subject(s): Louis, Joe (1914-1981) SAVOY First Line: To tango Last Line: To god %&part %way back SAXOPHONE SOLO First Line: Drive till sun stares Last Line: What makes his ears bend SAYING GRACE: THE BOILING First Line: My grandfather wore white Last Line: Then beaten good & white SAYING GRACE: THE CURES First Line: When the colds came Last Line: Dogs, unfed, unasked for, underneath SAYING GRACE: THE KITCHEN First Line: Heard tell mama's Last Line: She stowed a second set of eyes SAYING GRACE: THE LIVING First Line: After independence day Last Line: Enough to believe we had more %than they did SAYING GRACE: THE PRESERVING First Line: Summer meant peeling peaches Last Line: Would warm most way home SAYING GRACE: THE QUENCH First Line: Thirst kept with us all Last Line: There, soaking up that clear %careless sky SAYING GRACE: THE SALON First Line: Missus king's was more Last Line: But I sewed up myself SAYING GRACE: THE SLAUGHTER First Line: Everything we ate was on foot. We didn't have Last Line: Couldn't cut it with her brown, brown eyes SAYING GRACE: THE WORKS First Line: Broke as we were, we didn't need Last Line: & thick black rain up SCHERZO First Line: Such schism Last Line: The dawn, keep %the dark company SERENADE First Line: I wake to the cracked plate %of moon being thrown Last Line: Broken bright SHIMMY First Line: You are, lady %admired - secret Last Line: My tongue like arsenic SIREN First Line: On the fire throw Last Line: & heart - be me SLIDE GUITAR First Line: Tonight I wake with mud Last Line: In their lead balloons SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE THE STARGAZERS Last Line: Let the water stand, and still they bloom SONG OF SMOKE Poem Text First Line: To watch you walk Subject(s): Desire SONG OF SMOKE First Line: To watch you walk Last Line: Only a chimney SONG OF SOLSTICE First Line: So this is what death sounds: screech Last Line: Becoming anything else, grow tall SONG OF SOWING First Line: We are always Last Line: Mattering - of is us SOON I'LL THANK YOU FOR LEAVING Last Line: Our now-final meal, broke open empty SORROW SONG First Line: Saying goodbye to the body Last Line: Hymn - asking, asking SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY, 1962 First Line: Let's see -- first afros I saw -- were on these girls Last Line: And left it on the sidewalk -- with our streaming %eyes -- with the rain SPECTACLE: ATLAS First Line: Unveiled he stood Last Line: A world at all: it's me SPECTACLE: BROTHERHOOD First Line: First whitefolks %she'd seen - were able Last Line: Beats beats - for yall %and yall alone SPECTACLE: CONTORTIONIST First Line: See there's this %way of turning Last Line: She can't for the life %of her lern how SPECTACLE: PACHYDERM First Line: Just within the circus Last Line: Toothless as a parlor piano SPECTACLE: THE ESCAPE ARTIST First Line: Beyond the people Last Line: Would anyone want to SPECTACLE: THE THIN MAN'S APPRENTICES First Line: Little lmen born with three heads Last Line: Stretched clear cross the weight of this world SPECTACLE: THE WONDER TONGUE First Line: We took our feet astonished Last Line: All of us are sold STRIDE PIANO First Line: I wish to tell you I want Last Line: Let go this green STUMBLING HOME IN LAST NIGHT'S Last Line: No one answers %where you are SUITE First Line: No more flights- %the climb up the steep Last Line: Have lit the light- %house & left SUMMER SONG First Line: I think of your kiss Last Line: Their long south journey SWING First Line: You climb the tree Last Line: By billion winds TACIT First Line: Even language %leaves us - even the train Last Line: Spirits in flame TELEVISION WE BOUGHT TIDES ME Last Line: Don't call me hon. They work for you too TELLER First Line: She read nothng but hands Last Line: The heart pounding, fleeing, reachng THE DRY SPELL Poem Text First Line: Waking early / with the warming house Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Cokking & Cooks; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers THE LIVING Poem Text First Line: After independence day / all our toys began to tear Subject(s): Cotton; Farm Life; African Americans - History; Agriculture; Farmers; Black Heritage THE MISSION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Back there then I lived Subject(s): Mortality; Conduct Of Life; Fathers THERE ARE NO MORE SAINTS Last Line: My hairshirt, my tiny albatross THESE DAYS SO HOT YOU FORGET Last Line: And even I will lose your name, not sleep THRENODY First Line: Even cars have their graveyards Last Line: The color of ash, %of ember TORCH SONG First Line: The heaven of her Last Line: & the forty %sorrows again TORNADO WEATHER First Line: We arrive %this town hot as a dime Last Line: & skies always calm %unchanging, crazy clear Subject(s): Tornadoes TUNE First Line: In the africa %of your eyes - my Last Line: Into tuneless this URGENT TELEGRAM TO JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT Poem Text First Line: Havent heard from you in ages stop love your Subject(s): Basquiat, Jean-michel (1960-1988) VESPERS First Line: Along this strange shore Last Line: Flotsam swaying wind VISITING HOME First Line: Look there - past %those bitter figs Last Line: Is wherever we're not VOWS First Line: My wife of words Last Line: My widowed voice WAKE First Line: Jesus tucked with cousins into mirrors Last Line: Smiling family, a father the other WHEN I SAID I DIDN'T MIND Last Line: Tell me his name WHITEWASH First Line: The boys just blew Last Line: You out back to dry ZOOT Poem Text First Line: Speakeasy she Last Line: Me, fa, fast, quick- / silvered - Subject(s): Music & Musicians ZOOT First Line: Speakeasy she. %am sunder Last Line: Me, fa, fast, quick %silvered |
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