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Author: howe, susan Matches Found: 334 Howe, Susan Poet's Biography 287 poems available by this author (WHITE MARBLE) LEAF FRAME SHADOW LEAF Last Line: Tear pages from a calendar %scatter them into sunshine and snow 365 BOYS / CLOTHED IN SCARLET Last Line: That stood at the front of their army A WOMAN'S DELUSION Recitation by Author Subject(s): Women ACCESSIBLE PASSES ROMAN FOREST CRAGGY Last Line: Cord -- a long white city alba ACT OF UNIFORMITY Last Line: Often a shortcut %stands for chapter ADVANCED FROM EMDALE CABIN/TO LISNACREEVY COTTAGE NEITHER Last Line: Carried his webs to banbridge %could weave and read at once AGE OF RESPLENDENT LACE First Line: Penelope is presented as Last Line: Stem and clawfoot rushlight ANCIENT OF DAYS Last Line: Far back in some story %heard long ago AND IN A STAGE PLAY ALL THE PEOPLE KNOW RIGHT WEL, THAT HE Last Line: They cannot play their partes, they disorder they play & do themself no good AND THIS IS THE FRUIT OF YOUR LABOR First Line: That the sea brake extremely at the bar Last Line: Saw in the sand the print of savage feet ANTIPHON / VERSICLE / &PRAYER Last Line: In the s %cheme of %things ARISBE First Line: Phenomenology of war in the iliad %how men appear to each other when Last Line: In hidden escape possible %one mind as what-is-not ARRANGES AND UTTERS Last Line: Over-againstness at least %rigorism ARTICULATION OF SOUND FORMS IN TIME: 2. HOPE ATHERTON'S WANDERINGS First Line: Prest try to set after grandmother Last Line: These are the old home trees AS IF ALL HISTORY WERE A PROGRESS Last Line: The gospel did not grasp AS THOUGH BESIDE HERSELF Last Line: And she fled her ecstasies %many occasions AT SUPPER SOWANS FINE ENOUGH TO Last Line: By moonlight written fact irish %only in name limestone traveller AUDACITY OF FAVORITE CHILDREN Last Line: Searches the housetop in tatters BATS ON MY WING SUGGEST TATTERS First Line: One anecdote I may be permitted to give here, which will somewhat Last Line: Parading the streets with a very voluminous umbrella under each arm BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHORSHIP CONTROVERSY Last Line: Behold a mirror BLIND BLACK NIGHT Last Line: Ambiguous chants %and gestures BOILED MILK WAS GREATLY Last Line: Patrick bronte's childhood %their guests strove well BRIDE'S DAY First Line: Asleap %sleap %am welcome drifting mystery Last Line: Eden or ebb of the sea C*R AND SKULL ON COVERS Last Line: Writing ghost writing CAME SAW WENT RUNNING TOLD Last Line: In the synoptic tradition mary %enters the tomb CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 1 First Line: Vast oblong space Last Line: Howe carrying a white flag of truce %went toward the water CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 10 First Line: Holding hands with my skin Last Line: Revealed two figures timidly engraved on one another CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 11 First Line: I built a house Last Line: A golgotha %of corpses CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 12 First Line: Experience teaches Last Line: Sat in the hollow %of my pillow CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 13 First Line: The house was a model of Last Line: Outside, the world swarmed with sorcerers CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 14 First Line: On a day of rest Last Line: Then I lay down and put my mouth in the dust CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 15 First Line: The audience applauded Last Line: Thought resumed its rigid courtesy CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 16 First Line: If I am a mob Last Line: That holocaust %of negative hands CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 17 First Line: I stood bolt upright Last Line: No footing but the waters CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 18 First Line: The afternoon waned Last Line: Who were raindrops %clinging to bushes CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 19 First Line: In the 27th degree Last Line: Seemed to be enjoying himself CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 2 First Line: An apostle in white Last Line: His cry of alarm %astonished everyone CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 20 First Line: Envoy offers terms of peace Last Line: Hidden in the fierce hearts of children CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 21 First Line: I looked at our precise Last Line: Migrations of immense flocks of redeemers darkened ther sky CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 22 First Line: Anecdote of the retreat Last Line: But is he lucky CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 23 First Line: Here was the town once Last Line: The glorious success of his grand enterprise %still elude him CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 3 First Line: A council of war Last Line: Between moaning pines %and tangled vines CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 4 First Line: Neutrals collected bones Last Line: Like a huge shield CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 5 First Line: Because dreams were oracles Last Line: We screamed our war-cry %and rushed in CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 6 First Line: It was him Last Line: And helped himself to me CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 7 First Line: God is an animal figure Last Line: And tell resurrection stories CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 8 First Line: There on the deck, child Last Line: I'll meet you soon -- ' he said %and vanished in the fog CHANTING AT THE CRYSTAL SEA: 9 First Line: We cooked trout and perch Last Line: I kept my gun-match burning when it rained CHARACTER WALKS ON THATCH Last Line: You child of atsumori old cloak %faded gown sleeve flung open CHILDREN' I CRIED / MY WORDS FLUTTERED DOWN Last Line: And thanking the gods out loud CLAIM CLOUD CUT IN TWO BY SHARPNESS Last Line: The wood -- the rock -- the cave CLARIONS FROM THE KEEP TWO SHIP Last Line: Ror -- he -- burst -- into -- laughter CLINGING -- TO -- THE / ALTAR -- PILLARS -- HE Last Line: Beneath the mute %who in monarch CLOSED FIST WITHHOLDING AN OPEN PALM First Line: The great fleet of unready Last Line: Leap for some spot where a foot may jump %and cease from falling CONSENT IN THE HEAVENS Last Line: Rebels are quartered here CONSUMABLE COMMODITY CONTEMPT OF THE WORLD Last Line: Every rational being CORNER TO CORNER Last Line: In some gruff argument COUNT HIM A MAGICIAN Last Line: Emptyeyed blanksmiling CRUCIFIED BY ORDINANCE Last Line: Goes peers ferrets to the last %obligation DARE I HINT AT THAT WORSE TIME WHEN, STRUNG TOGETHER Last Line: Inexplicable agony and misery to be a part of the dreadful thing DEAR PARENTS / A THOUSAND LOVELY THOUGHTGS THIS SUNNY MORN Last Line: And sleep under frost and stars DEAR PARENTS / I AM WRITING BY CANDLELIGHT Last Line: Salvages %or %savages %at the east end of the island a grea t fire DEDICATION TO M ENOUGH Last Line: Come veil the thought of %I shall dress primrose DEEPER THAN METAPHYSICS DENSE IN PARAMETER SPACE Last Line: Enlightenedly to do DINNER SOMEWHERE Last Line: Pushing the dark before it DISTANT THE GOD SUBJECT CANVAS DIVORCE I MANUSSION ROUND Last Line: Goodbye to all the little fir trees %of the future DOMINANT IDEOLOGIES DRIFT Last Line: In those copies are copies DREADFUL AT HELL DRIEST FACTS / OF BIBLIOGRAPHY Last Line: Blades blades & blades EACH / FLOOR / HAD / ONE Last Line: Countryside %for %a %considerable %distance ELECTION-VOCATION Last Line: Ariadne's diadem %zodiac helmet belt EMPEROR / S BODY U Last Line: Mbroidered %on his sho %e ENEMY COMING ON ROADS Last Line: Burning blue lights %signals of distress ENGLAND'S BLACK TRIBUNAL: CONTAINING THE COMPLETE Last Line: Crown, where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the world ENGLELANDTS MEMORIAEL First Line: Tragicum theatrum actorum Last Line: Holland hamilton capel %cromwell ET CHAOS & PHLEGETHON Last Line: Harsnett's declaration %is a weapon EVEN AFTER THE MONARCHOMACHISTS Last Line: Piled up syllogisms EVERYBODY KNOWS BUT DOESN'T Last Line: Oh when when EXILES WANDER / AND RETURN FROM FICTION OF FALSEHOOD Last Line: Age, imbecility, the walk to rat farm FABLED FOUNDER IN DARKNESS Last Line: Am arrived at upper memory %eroded base on shallow step FACE TOWARD THE COURT SILENCE Last Line: Fragmentary narrative enclaves FAR -- OFF -- IN -- THE -- DREAD Last Line: Been open and bolted it FINDING THE WAY FULL OF PEOPLE Last Line: And knows not why FIRST DIDN'T WRITE IT Last Line: Of gold of thorn of glory FIRST ENGLISH CHILD BORN IN NEW ENGLAND WAS NAMED PERE FIVE -- PRINCES / BURIED -- THEIR Last Line: Est -- of -- fortun %e FLANK PARTIES ADVANCED. Last Line: We marched with drums beating and colors flying FORBAD / E COHABIT Last Line: Mating with %a beast FREQUENTLY PALACE SUPERSTITION Last Line: Putting footprints in the sand GATE OF REUBEN Last Line: The gate of naphtali GEN / TLE A Last Line: Of gr %eatne %es GOES PEERS FERRETS TO THE LAST / OBLIGATION Last Line: Crucified by ordinance GREAT CAESAR'S GHOST Last Line: A form and nearby form GREEN -- CHASTE -- GAIETY -- PURETY -- SH -- INCA Last Line: Spinet -- stain -- clairf -- sh -- chara -- sh -- mirac HALLUCINATED TO INFINITY Last Line: Walking on the sea and feeding HE WS SEQUESTERED PURSEVANTED PLUNDERED IN DGNNRE OF REBEL Last Line: Aftershock of iconoclasm HEARING OUR OARS WHERE THEIR FREED GOATSTEPS SPED Last Line: Clouded in the scales of a fish HEATHEN WOMAN Last Line: Shifts the balance %of emphasis HELIOPATHY First Line: Insofar initiand two fold invisible errand HER DIARY SOARED ABOVE HER HOUSE Last Line: I think of them lying dead in their graves HEROD -- FEVER -- ITCHIN / G -- SKIN -- PAIN -- INFLAM Last Line: Sent -- guards -- to %execute -- antipater HIERARCHY, HIERARCHY! Last Line: Addressing a crowd %from the wrong rostrum HOMELESS TRIBE / A GREEN-BELLIED SEA Last Line: To be picked up %erratic seconds ago HOMEMADE BREAD WAS/FADGE THE RAISED SODA Last Line: In meal and flour was %called 'baking' HOPE ATHERTON'S WANDERINGS, SELS. First Line: To kin I call the iron-woods Last Line: Wade waist deep maidsworn men %crumbled masonry windwept hickory HORIZON First Line: I am another generation Last Line: My map is rotten and frayed with rain HOUNDS OF / THE HUNTSMAN OF Last Line: Around his mouth %shines %like a star HOW CLEARLY THIS -- AND THEY Last Line: Chairs seem straw in the streets I AM GOING AWAY, WHEN HE DIRECTED MY ATTENTION TO THE KITE Last Line: And the wind, and so forth; but I take my chance of that I AM NOT AFRAID TO CONFESS IT Last Line: Love for the work's sake I BECOME FRIENDLY WITH MR. DICK Last Line: Putting some of the trouble out of his head, after it was taken off, into mine I JOHN BRIGHT PICTURE Last Line: Mortal contained in I KNEW WHAT WAR WAS Last Line: Gleam of a lance or helmet, heredity always smouldering I THE FLY Last Line: Gullet of hook %all sky I WANDER ABOUT AS AN EXILE Last Line: True submission and subjection I WRITE AT NIGHT IDEA OF A BODY THE BODY IMMEDIATE ACTS IN COM / PLETE ARMOR Last Line: Louis leap %ed onto the b %each IN HIS SISTER'S PAPERS Last Line: Saying so I name nobody IN ITS FIRST DUMB FORM Last Line: Matches coughing like live things IN THE EVANGELIST'S MIND Last Line: The way the shepherd the vine IN THE HIGH QUIRE Last Line: In the ace of speechstone %spelling surname IN THE PARMENIDEAN TEXT INTENT ITHURIEL Last Line: Mail dropping below %the line INTRACTABLE ETHICAL PARADOX Last Line: Utter immensities whisper INVISIBLE ANGEL CONFINED Last Line: A demon daring down in hieroglyph and stuttering IS THAT THE SAME AS HELL Last Line: Tell lies and I will tell ISLAND OF THE FIERCE BEAST Last Line: Island of the glass bridge JOSEPH DREAMT Last Line: Brothers -- thre %w him in a pit KING Last Line: Delight %s in war KING OF RICHTEOUSNESS Last Line: Waiting for a restoration %and righteousness LANGUAGE OF STATE SECRETS Last Line: Heroic virtue & fame LAST FIRST PEOPLE First Line: We sailed north %it was march Last Line: Hence a sign or token %impression or trace LEAHISWEDDEDTOMEINTHENIGHT First Line: His bleary-eyed -- less Last Line: Pillars -- was -- a -- sign %of -- being -- born LEISURE OF THE THEORY CLASS First Line: No. 115 george meredith's %fountain pen given to Last Line: Has been engaged in doing %her work for philanthropy LIFE LA / ND FRIEND Last Line: Howls a wind %ow stil %iness in rooms %sombre and slo LIGHT OF OUR DARK IS THE FRUIT OF MY WOMB Last Line: Are slipping out of question LIVED PROMISCUOUS! Last Line: In moveable tent %s MAGI -- TO -- THE -- RISING -- SUN Last Line: Of -- a -- motionless -- soul MAN / WHOSE ONLY CLOTHING WAS HIS HAIR Last Line: Where the waves washed MARK -- MAR -- HA -- FOREST -- 1 -- A -- BOUNDRY -- MANIC Last Line: Hearted -- land -- land -- land -- district -- boundry MARY MANNING PRESENTS THIS/BOOK TO HER DEAR SISTER Last Line: Invisible she grows tired and %beside vast catacomb thebes MAY 1ST. BORN ON FISHAMBLE STREET, DUBLIN. SECOND SON OF A Last Line: Respectable, incurably forlorn, in putnam's monthly magazine in new york city. It is bartleby MELVILLE'S MARGINALIA Subject(s): Mangan, James Clarence (1803-1849); Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets MELVILLE'S MARGINALIA Subject(s): Mangan, James Clarence (1803-1849); Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Poetry And Poets METAPHOR OF A SEA RAGING Last Line: We wonder under water METAPHOR OF A STAKE Last Line: Fear destroys all welcome %house-arrest MITHRAS MITHRES MITHRA MORNING Last Line: Sheet of water at the edge of woods MOTIF OF FEAR IS MISSING Last Line: Some manuscripts and versions %her sadness MUST LIE OUTSIDE THE HOUSE Last Line: To write against the ghost NARRATIVE OF FINDING Last Line: The feeding narrative in mark NEITHER JOHN AND JOHN HARBINGER First Line: In peter she is nameless Last Line: As if all history were a progress NESMEJANA REFLECTS THE WONDER NETHER JOHN AND JOHN HARBINGER Last Line: Some love-impelled figure NIGHT -- AND -- THE -- PERPETRATOR Last Line: Hair -- 0f -- the -- hun NO FURTHER TRACE Last Line: To no one without %reasons NO MEN / AS EXPECTED Last Line: He is speaking %to the army NONCONFORMIST'S MEMORIAL First Line: Jesus saith unto her, woman Last Line: Lord, and that he had spoken these %things to her NOTHING ELSE EXISTS OR NOTHING EXISTS Last Line: Fleece of the lamb of god %torn off NUMEROUS SINGULARITIES Last Line: House and host %vanished O / WHERE -- ERE / HE -- HE -- A Last Line: Yea -- order of knighthood %brim O LORD / O LORD Last Line: Audpaged doe of title-page OARSMAN, OARSMAN Last Line: I braided the air ON THE LOSING SIDE Last Line: Love once said in her mind %enlightenedly to do OPENING WORDS OF PATRIARCHA Last Line: Off the stage untruth OUR LAW / VOCABLES / OF SHAPE OR SOUND Last Line: Ceremonial evolutions in the dark OURSELF ANSWER OURSELF OUT OF ENCLOSURE SHE / WAS OUT OF ENCLOSURE Last Line: Her body trembled like a leaf OWN POLITICAL LITERATURE PAST / WILL OVERTAKE Last Line: Defining %spheres %and %snares PENULTIMATE REDACTOR Last Line: As s. John says in apocalypse PERFECTIBILITARIANS WERE WRONG Last Line: My fir coat dragged behind me on the pavement PLACE OF IMPORTANCE AS IN THE OLD DAYS Last Line: Summer's elegy %sunset survived POET'S ICONOCLASM Last Line: A little space among herds PRAYERS / RUN THROUGH OUT LAWS Last Line: & from the neighboring camp we can hear the bugle calls going all day PREFACE First Line: After the critical and public failure of moby-dick and then pierre in 1851-53 Last Line: A feather on the edge of a bird's wing PROGENY ENVISAGES PROGENY Last Line: Tickled the heels of even the great achilles PYTHAGOREAN SILENCE, SELS. PYTHAGOREAN SILENCE: 1. PEARL HARBOR First Line: Buffalo %12.7.41 %(late afternoon light) Last Line: Will we ever leave childhood together PYTHAGOREAN SILENCE: 2. PYTHAGOREAN SILENCE First Line: He plodded away through drifts of ice Last Line: Time to set our face homeward %shadow-emperor PYTHAGOREAN SILENCE: 3 First Line: Some particular place fleeting %and fixed particulars Last Line: Weeds shiver and my clothes spread wide R??CKENFIGUR Poem Text First Line: Iseult stands at tintagel Last Line: Never forever whoso move Subject(s): Rivers READER OF POETRY THIS BOOK Last Line: Legend familiar in legend %the arrow king and no king REAL AUTHOR OF THE LIE Last Line: The king exactly half-face REFUGE THE MOMENT SERENE Last Line: The distant hermit -- the intellection of the stars REMEMBERED A FRAGMENT OF THE KING'S FACE Last Line: Remembered the squeeze of a boundry REVOLUTIONARY IMAGINATION RIVER MEADOWS / DENSE DARK Last Line: This chapter and that %legitimate ROOKH WHICH STRAY Last Line: Even in the old story %arrow ragged lallah ROUGH MESSENGER TRUST Last Line: Coming from a remote field %abandoned to me RUCKENFIGUR First Line: Iseult stands at tintagel %on the mid stairs between Last Line: Lyric over us love unclothe %never forever whoso move SALMASIUS. HIS DISSECTION Last Line: I am afraid of him SCATTERING AS BEHAVIOR TOWARD RISK First Line: On a - suddenly...On a - was shot thro with a dyed - dyed - a soft' Last Line: Secret fact a title given %the reviser SCENE CALVARY THE OPEN DESTITUTE Last Line: I will use the bare name %christ SECRET HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE SET OUT TO LEARN WHAT FEAR WAS Last Line: No pocket compass or notched tree SH -- DISPEL -- IRIS -- SH -- SNOW -- SWARD -- WIDE -- HA Last Line: Sh -- woof -- subdued -- toward -- foliage -- free -- sh SHE FLED FROM CONSOLATION Last Line: She is matron undone her hair %falling down SHE RISES WHILE IT IS STILL DARK, TO TRACE A MILITARY Last Line: These little empires were settled about one hundred years after the flood SILENCE WAGER STORIES: HALF THOUGHT THOUGHT OTHERWISE Last Line: Loveless and sleepless the sea SILENCE WAGER STORIES: I KNOW I KNOW SHORT CONVICTION Last Line: I thought you would come away SILENCE WAGER STORIES: 1 First Line: Battered out of isaiah Last Line: Letting the slip out %glorious in faithfulness %reason never thought saw SILENCE WAGER STORIES: 10 First Line: Claim foreign order Last Line: Troublous or sadder %estranged of all strange %let my soul quell %give my soul ease SILENCE WAGER STORIES: 11 First Line: Antic prelate treason Last Line: Claim foreign order %plummet fetter seem %wild as lovedeath %two tell aginstself SILENCE WAGER STORIES: 12 First Line: Strange fear of sleep Last Line: Strange always strange %estrange that I desire %keep cover come cover SILENCE WAGER STORIES: 13 First Line: Lies are stirring storms Last Line: Qauiet place to stop here %who knows ever no one knows %to know unlove no forgive SILENCE WAGER STORIES: 2 First Line: You already have brine Last Line: I know and I do not know %non attachment dwell on nothing %peace be in this house %only his name and SILENCE WAGER STORIES: 3 First Line: Having a great way to go Last Line: Sometimes by the seaside %all echoes link as air %not I cannot tell what %so wanton and so all about SILENCE WAGER STORIES: 4 First Line: Fields have vanished Last Line: I'm free and I'm famished %and so to the irish %patrol sentinel ensigh %please feel my arms open SILENCE WAGER STORIES: 5 First Line: The issue of legitimation Last Line: Fluttering robes of covetous %he is incomprehensible he %makes darkness his covert SILENCE WAGER STORIES: 6 First Line: Ages pre-supposed ages Last Line: Fabricating senselessness %he has shattered gates %thrown open to himself SILENCE WAGER STORIES: 7 First Line: Though lost I love Last Line: But for the hate of it %questionless limit %unassuaged newly fledge %a counter-covenant SILENCE WAGER STORIES: 8 First Line: Mysterious as night itself Last Line: Language a wood for thought %over the pantomime of thought %words words night unto night SILENCE WAGER STORIES: 9 First Line: Drift of human mortality Last Line: From communion of wrongdoing %doubleness amoung the nouns %ifeed and feed upon names SILENCE WAGNER STORIES Poem Text First Line: When I come to view Last Line: Loveless and sleepless the sea SILK / SYMBOLIC / PRAEPARATIVE Last Line: Cloud %soft %threada %twist SILKWORM -- PEACOCK -- SALAMANDER Last Line: Wind -- cloud -- rainbow -- moon SING -- TO -- YAHWEH -- FOR -- HE Last Line: Ancient -- city -- of -- jezreel SONNETS First Line: Come in light variable and with calm SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS Recitation by Author First Line: Say that a ballad / wrapped in a ballad SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 1 First Line: Say that a ballad %wrapped in a ballad Last Line: Water's edge to say goodbye SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 10 First Line: Saga of scaef %cast ashore as a stranger Last Line: Set family name in secret form SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 11 First Line: Ego vanished and the world Last Line: Night dips her body back scorn SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 12 First Line: Scientifical study of light Last Line: Abash negation %gnashing pattern of alliteration SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 13 First Line: Numerology of universal harmony Last Line: Beginning how shallow sky is SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 14 First Line: Clock that cannot compass slab Last Line: Prophesy say to the wind SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 15 First Line: Soul my shadow and my children Last Line: Veiled venus and veiled nature SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 16 First Line: Configuration of dice fortune Last Line: Down with the bird of heaven down SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 17 First Line: School europe Last Line: Edged anthems shroud dread SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 18 First Line: Durer's contemplative melancholy Last Line: Blind destiny menacing catastrophe SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 19 First Line: Old poet bare foothold Last Line: Backward blind tower cold battlefront %instant SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 2 Poem Text First Line: Right or ruth / rent Subject(s): Language Poetry SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 2 First Line: Right or ruth %rent Last Line: Fugitive dialogue of masterwork Subject(s): Language Poetry SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 20 First Line: Horsemen with outstretched arms %half supernatural horses Last Line: Searchless so whispered called a breath %or breathing SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 3 First Line: Sabbath and sweet spices Last Line: Remembered name in quiet %remembered precepts SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 4 First Line: Twenty lines of Last Line: Glass face %caressing the athwart night SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 5 First Line: Torn away from number weight Last Line: Reaching out alone in words oh %peerless poesy SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 6 First Line: Transgression links remembering %dark spell Last Line: Nimble phantasma capering on a page %with antic gesture SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 7 First Line: Human-space and night-space %metaphorical Last Line: Pure knowledge freed from willing %fixed in fleeting SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 8 First Line: Skeletal kin %tilt %italic lunacy Last Line: Empty dominions beyond structure SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 9 First Line: Passion %and intellectual articulation Last Line: Number of times and [or, in] all things SPHERES OF POPES MARKED RAMPARTS Last Line: We have been to those white clifts STARK / QUAKE Last Line: In caves %my %dream %vision STEPPING CAREFULLY AND CAUTIOUSLY Last Line: Pushing aside the branches STOICS ACADEMICS PERIPATETICS Last Line: We plural are the speaker STOP CLINGING TO ME Last Line: Here is the depth of it SWIFTNESS DIVINATION THESE FALSE GODS Last Line: After winter across an empire of icy light TEMPLE OF ISIS AT SAIS THAT THIS Poem Text First Line: Day is a type when visible Last Line: Age or century for a day is Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THAW / GLOW OF WINTER'S HABITATION THE MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: For we are here Last Line: Bedsted. . . .& bed rope THE NONCONFORMIST'S MEMORIAL Recitation by Author Subject(s): Jesus Christ THEIR: BOOK OF STELLA First Line: Dilapidation at erected original Last Line: King lear act 1. %scene 1 THERE ARE NOT LEAVES ENOUGH TO CROWN TO COVER TO CROWN TO COVER First Line: For me there was no silence before armies Last Line: That are anonymous, slighted-inarticulate THIRSTY AFTER FAME Last Line: Mercurius politicus %melancholicus THIS STILL HOUSE Last Line: Emblems gold and lead THORN, THISTLE, APRON LEAF Last Line: Impaled again %in a netting of fences THOROW (1) First Line: Go on the scout they say Last Line: Themis %thou sculling me %thiefth THOROW (2) First Line: During the winter and spring of 1987 I had a writer-in-residency grant Last Line: Every name driven will be as another rivet in the machine of a universe flux TO MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER, WRITTEN ON A FLIGHT ... First Line: Caught here, in an arc Subject(s): Mormons TO MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER, WRITTEN ON A FLIGHT ... First Line: Caught here, in an arc Last Line: Through which I see you. Sunlight where we both dwell Subject(s): Mormons TUNING THE SKY First Line: Oblivious window of quiet %closing Last Line: Run level %hop lob TWO POEMS FOR H.D. 1886/1986 First Line: Site of old shekomeko UTMOST / LIGHT / MOTE Last Line: Eyes -- up %to %fire VENGENCE MUST BE VIEW OF MAGISTERIAL AUTHORITY Last Line: Fanatical swift moving authority VOICES OF CHILDREN Last Line: Through elm, moon, elf, soar %wife WATER CAPTIVE / VALLEY IN THE SHADOW OF MY HAND Last Line: I the fly %gullet here %water captive WE ENTER THE ANCIENT TOWN OF SWORDS, CONSISTING OF A LONG Last Line: Taken and sacked by o'melaghlin, king of meath WE THAT WERE WOOD Last Line: Bride be my bow my lyre my quiver WERE PROTESTANT DISSENTERS Last Line: I cannot hear your wandering prayer %of quiet WHAT'S IN A LAKE? Last Line: If only this or that would happen WHEN NIGHT CAME ON Last Line: Isled on all removes %when night came on WHETHER THE WORDS BE A COMMAND Last Line: All other peace -- effectual crucifying knowledge WHITE FOOLSCAP: BOOK OF CORDELIA Poem Text First Line: Heroine in ass-skin / mouthing o helpful Subject(s): Language Poetry WHITE FOOLSCAP: BOOK OF CORDELIA First Line: Heroine in ass-skin %mouthing o helpful Last Line: Ifor I %haveaten %it a %way Subject(s): Language Poetry WHO / WHITEWASHED EPOCH Last Line: In the castle, doors open like beggars WHO IS NOT A WILD ENTHUSIAST Last Line: As a bird before any WILD AND TAME / ARE BORN Last Line: Give hand, bow %traverse to partner WOMAN WHOSE BREASTS Last Line: Her head had been cut off WORN OUT MAN Last Line: As the trees in the forest %against white snow ZINGIS FILLED / NINE SACKS Last Line: Passed the d %anube on ice Howe, Susan Elizabeth 47 poems available by this author ALTERNATIVES TO WINTER First Line: One bitter dawn, walk Last Line: To tether him, guide him back ANOTHER AUTUMN First Line: This pear is the shape of my womb Last Line: Crosswise, through the heart APPETITES First Line: When I was fifteen, my thighs pale Last Line: Muttering pork chop, pork chop ARCHANGEL First Line: Stone spirit Last Line: The physics of sunrise BIG TRADITION First Line: When you marry into this family COMING TO BIRTH First Line: I imagine those above us Last Line: To the delicious breast DEATH OF A GUPPY First Line: It was all Last Line: Food I have %yes, eaten DEEP CANYON, LATE NIGHT First Line: When my husband drives the dark Last Line: To point out the safest way home DEER PASS THROUGH THE DUSK First Line: Like old memories- %half-imagined, half-real Last Line: Toward evening %but the shadow's substance DOGS OF RARAMOUCHI First Line: Carina, negro, and lobo, the girl calls them Last Line: In four directions. Believe it. Don't ask %the source of our velvet excess FEEDING First Line: I am walking my puppy Last Line: Shiver, exposed, blind-sided %by a swift, keen hunger FIGHTING WITH MY MOTHER First Line: My mother, riding Last Line: Sometimes it is FLYING AT NIGHT First Line: Although we are putting it off Last Line: There are forces building up FREAK ACCIDENT CLAIMS RHINO First Line: She blundered to her death, like a woman Last Line: To the body -- heave and throe %heave and throe GIRL WITH THE MANDOLIN First Line: When you see the painting she comes Last Line: Too young to refuse or give permission IN THE CEMETERY, STUDYING EMBRYOS First Line: The dead around here Last Line: Translucent and budding, curl up Subject(s): Cemeteries INSOMNIAC First Line: The serial killer Last Line: To live out my life LARGE, AMERICAN GALLINACEOUS BIRD' First Line: Think of the turkeys in the turkey sheds Last Line: Guests with what sounds like the welcome %pitiful, pitiful, pitiful LESSONS OF EROSION First Line: To hike to the spires, you climb Last Line: Than how the land needs you, %saliva, blood, bile LETTER TO MY HUSBAND, SENT FROM IRELAND First Line: You would like this kitchen-it tilts Last Line: In which the wasp died LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD: THE STATUE HAS HER SAY First Line: Men are always doing it -- conceiving Last Line: Always going numb Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty MANTIS First Line: Leaf and stick, stick-brown Last Line: Five inches long, every day growing MARY KEEPS ALL THESE THINGS First Line: I stir the innkeeper's sympathy Last Line: Of this small and brilliant life MOUNTAIN PSALM First Line: We didn't come here to pray Last Line: In the clean moment, on the legitimate rock MOUNTAINS BEHIND HER First Line: When she appears %there are always mountains behind her Last Line: As for the others, the narrator reports, %they never reach the summit Subject(s): Fairy Tales NIGHT JOGGING IN THE CITY First Line: No stars, but there is weather Last Line: Somebody's womb against time NOR AM I WHO I WAS THEN First Line: Far north in the county Last Line: Of my imagination ON LOSING MY CAMERA BELOW DEAD HORSE POINT First Line: I would really like to know Last Line: Hope for, what I already love PALEONTOLOGIST WITH AN EAR INFECTION First Line: I am hearing through my bones Last Line: Of the mortal fights its way out and in PILL ON THE CARPET First Line: I pick it up outside the restroom door Last Line: For the woe that is in life' REAL THING First Line: Strawberry days, summer festival Last Line: The win-a-glass crystal cup SEXUAL EVOLUTION First Line: We live on the bottom Last Line: The surface, washed themselves up SOPHIA WHISPERS First Line: Just before dawn you lie on a cot Last Line: In this tension between wave and sky, this balanced %surfacethat always proceeds from depth STOLEN TELEVISION SET First Line: At the seaview retirement home, the elderly Last Line: Throb of comfort like a dark, first home SUMMER DAYS, A PAINTING BY GEORGIA O'KEEFFE First Line: The skull of an elk is the center -- parched, cleaned Last Line: Eyeless sockets and the silent, imminent skull Subject(s): Mormons TELEPHONING CHINA First Line: Is an act of faith: trust enough numbers Last Line: A thin, wavering arc over the world THINGS IN THE NIGHT SKY First Line: First the deepening of elements we long for Last Line: Receiving infinite differences %dark centers of bright stars Subject(s): Mormons TIGER EATING A EUROPEAN First Line: Most exquisite toy, whimsey and revenge Last Line: Makes the tiger growl, the european scream TO A RECREATIONAL PARACHUTIST First Line: Humans imagined flight Last Line: And the great bloom %of the earth, rising TO MY BROTHER IN HIS CASKET First Line: Across the vast distance of the funeral Last Line: Nor what it was that I had hoped to know TO THE MAKER OF THESE PETROGLYPHS First Line: Chipping your lines into stone Last Line: And show a people shattered %never whole WE LIVE IN THE ROADSIDE MOTEL First Line: Five days in elko in january Last Line: Where soft things with tender %bellies can hide out WHAT TAKES THE PLACE OF THE BODY First Line: A widow, she trusts her house Last Line: On her children and herself WHY I AM A WITCH First Line: Because each october the maple in the field WISDOM OF THE PYROTECHNICIAN First Line: Bombs are the biggest Last Line: But sheltered his sleeping son WOMAN WHOSE BROOCH I STOLE First Line: She hadn't hoped to be lifted after passing Last Line: Coming through in pink glitter and gold Subject(s): Mormons YOUR LUCK IS ABOUT TO CHANGE' First Line: Ominous inscrutable chinese news Last Line: Then savor the newborn babe Subject(s): Christmas; Fortune Tellers; Luck |
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