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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS Matches Found: 59 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER IKKYU: 30, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is difficult to imagine the wordless conversations Last Line: The vast asteroid on its way toward la goes unmentioned. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations AFTER IKKYU: 39, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the next installment I'll give you crazy horse and anne frank Last Line: On a three-by-five card if we weren't drunk on our own blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations ASIDES, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you do? Why, everything Last Line: What will you do there? Be dead. Subject(s): Despair; Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 10: ON SEPARATION, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: My separation from the wetlands started even earlier Last Line: Of doubt lengthens. On my lungs Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 11: ON DEPTH, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: It would take more than a pebble, she says, to plumb Last Line: Our strength and will destroy us? Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 12: ON HIEROGLYPHS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Champollion fainted, she says, once he had wrested Last Line: A burning heart, failing to strike while hot, may not save the burning feet Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 13: ON WAYS OF THE BODY, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: In important ways, he says, the ways of the body Last Line: Warm flick of tongue on my face. Wet shock. Worried boundary or bone Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 14: ON BLINDMAN'S BUFF, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Was I frightened by what I saw, she asks, or by my own Last Line: Empty as the scene of a crime Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 15: ON SHARING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Why is it, she asks, that we cannot share experience Last Line: Reflection, the smooth surface lost in eddies and currents Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 16: ON CHANGE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: A splinter lodged in the brain, he says, this effort to trap Last Line: Thinks it is defeating the darkness Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 17: ON LIFT, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: I used to think, if I were light enough my conjectures Last Line: Stretching the distance between my breasts to incomprehension Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 18: ON DEPRESSION, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: What if sense disintegrates even though you're stroking Last Line: Would at least hold the promised hand Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 19: ON CHILDHOOD, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: I've had no childhood, he says. Small body, yes, small Last Line: Only a written language can die, all others disappear without a trace Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 1: ON THE HORIZONTAL, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: My mother, she says, always spread, irresistibly, across Last Line: Of soul. And only death to get you out Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 20: ON PATTERN, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: I wouldn't want to accuse you of imperfection Last Line: Of my absent loves but don't set a place for them at the table Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 21: ON SLOWING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Even if our life seems scattered, a text always going Last Line: Deeper, wholly internal, more intense for its pain? Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 22: ON AGING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Take the hordes of children, she says. So to take off on Last Line: Could? I once saw a dog stray into the subway and hit the live rail Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 23: ON CAUSE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: I step into my mother's room, she says, and though Last Line: The light falls into the arms of love Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 24: ON THE MILLENNIUM, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: There are many invisible borders, she says. Some erect Last Line: And the centuries pass intestate Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 2: ON THE VERTICAL, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: We must decipher our lives, he says, forward and backward Last Line: Already sided with the world Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 3: ON VERTIGO, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: That's why thought, he says, means fear. Slicked o'er Last Line: Narrow the gap between mistake and morning sickness Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 4: ON PLACE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: I sit in my own shadow, she says, the way my mother Last Line: Void the options. Then the project must be prolonged in terms of lack Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 5: ON EDEN, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Unreachable, she says, left of the left margin. A moment Last Line: Wrought by abstinence? Who could be so thorough? Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 6: ON DESIRE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Don't you think it a strange coincidence, he says, that Last Line: Looking at photographs in order to remember Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 7: ON THIRDS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Opens to the touch, he says, you have to feel it, and Last Line: If it were the essence of being close Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 8: ON BETWEENS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: We lie in the dunes, she says, drowned between sheets Last Line: I listen to my thirst and know incurable's the rule Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations CONVERSATION 9: ON VARIETIES OF OBLIVION, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: After bitter resistance the river unravels into the night Last Line: Next door. From left to right Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations DEATH IMPORTUNED, by HOMER EUGENE MCMASTER Poem Text First Line: I implore thee, death, give one more day Last Line: Dwell where life and I may still be one. Subject(s): Death; Imaginary Conversations; Dead, The FORGET-ME-NOT, by PEARL GUNN FOWLER Poem Text First Line: Oh, dear little forget - me - not Last Line: "a hero -- wounded -- has chosen me." Subject(s): Flowers; Imaginary Conversations GHAZALS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unbind my hair, she says. The night is white and warm Last Line: And a new sun to guide us, a holy book, tracked in new blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Imaginary Conversations; Music & Musicians; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime GHAZALS: 11, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brain opens the hand which touches that spot, clinically Last Line: Freeze in arid cold watch the reindeer watch the northern lights. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Hunting; Imaginary Conversations; Hunters GHAZALS: 12, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Says borges in ficciones, 'I'm in hell. I'm dead,' and the dark Last Line: Slapping the warm water on which the sun ripples and churns. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Imaginary Conversations; Dead, The; Wine GHAZALS: 18, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I told the dark-haired girl to come down out of the apple Last Line: My brain. We'll go to judah to wait for the apocalypse. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Imaginary Conversations; Nightmares GHAZALS: 21, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sings from the bottom of a well but she can hear him up Last Line: Drags the dead horse away to hollow swelling growls. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Death; Imaginary Conversations; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs GHAZALS: 22, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maps. Maps. Maps. Venezuela, keewanaw, iceland open up Last Line: Another target in chicago, tremulous bull's-eye for hog fever. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Maps; Travel; Journeys; Trips GHAZALS: 28, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hotel room (far above the city) I said I bet you Last Line: But rats, raccoon bones, snake skeletons and dark. Black dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Poetry & Poets; Sex GHAZALS: 29, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For my horse, brotherinlaw, who had no character Last Line: A fresh trout, salt, honey, and healing music. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Imaginary Conversations GHAZALS: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The alfalfa was sweet and damp in fields where shepherds Last Line: Two walls of bone, brain veering, bucking in fatal velocity? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Farm Life; Fights; Imaginary Conversations; Agriculture; Farmers GHAZALS: 32, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All those girls dead in the war from misplaced or aimed Last Line: And that nurse threw a tumor at you from the hospital window. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Imaginary Conversations; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness GHAZALS: 40, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you were less of a vowel or had a full stop in your Last Line: And the giant squid who scars the whale with sucker marks. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Imaginary Conversations GHAZALS: 44, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's a dark trough we'd hide in. Said his Last Line: And may you strike hard enough to see nothing at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations GHAZALS: 57, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought it was night but found out the windows were painted Last Line: Were what I truly wanted. So much silence and so many words. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Imaginary Conversations; Regret; Nightmares IN INTERIMS: OUTLYER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He halts. He haw. Plummets Last Line: Aloud and here and now. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Love; Memory; Nature; Reincarnation; Travel; Transmigration; Pretas; Journeys; Trips LETTERS TO YESENIN: 16, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today we've moved back to the granary again and I've anointed Last Line: Could be made a dance. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Russia; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 21, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To answer some of the questions you might ask were you alive and Last Line: Like it and should I put it off for a while? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Imaginary Conversations; Poetry & Poets; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 22, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These last few notes to you have been a bit somber like biographies Last Line: His deathless lines commemorating your last leningrad night. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Poetry & Poets; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 23, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to bother you with some recent nonsense; a classmate dropped Last Line: Ropes. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Imaginary Conversations; Poetry & Poets; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LETTERS TO YESENIN: 24, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend. It rained long and hard after a hot week and when I Last Line: Getting brainy and sad, to avoid leaving this physical world. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Food & Eating; Imaginary Conversations; Sickness; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Illness LETTERS TO YESENIN: 25, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An afterthought to my previous note; we must closely watch any self-pity Last Line: Those others. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Imaginary Conversations; Memory; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LETTERS TO YESENIN: 28; TO ROBERT DUNCAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O to use the word winged as in bird or victory or airplane for Last Line: Flapped your arms madly, unwinged but craving a little flight. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 29, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're nearing the end of this homage that often resembles a Last Line: Single green month to go from the closest to so far from death. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Imaginary Conversations; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LETTERS TO YESENIN: 30, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last and I'm shrinking from the coldness of your spirit: that Last Line: With faithfully until they cast you out. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Despair; Imaginary Conversations; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The MEDITATION ON CERTAINTY, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: The more a proposition hardens its glassy simplicity Last Line: Times called world. It spills your heart Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations MEDITATION ON FACT, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: I know' is supposed to express a relation between me and a fact Last Line: Distance. So drowned under thin ice. The sun far away and small Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations ONLY THE SOFT WIND, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: Life gazes long at me Last Line: Through the swinging treetops. Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Life; Wind SINGLE WOMAN SPEAKING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The imaginary lover, form in the mind Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People SONG 1, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Long %as in hypnosis Last Line: We try to make sense Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations THE FRIENDS OF HERACLITUS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Your friend has died, with whom Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Imaginary Conversations; City & Town Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Dead, The TO ONE UNBORN, by ELAINE M. LIVINGSTON Poem Text First Line: With eyes that use not earthly light or color Last Line: My child's grandchild, yet to be born on earth. Subject(s): Future Life; Imaginary Conversations; Retribution; Eternity; After Life |
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