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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: ANANIA, MICHAEL Matches Found: 143 Anania, Michael Poet's Biography 143 poems available by this author A HANGING SCREEN Poem Text First Line: In warm sunlight jade Last Line: The line out of reach Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Dreams; Nightmares A SECOND-HAND ELEGY; FOR DOUGLAS DICKEY, PFC., USMC Poem Text First Line: How can I be bitter?' Last Line: Exhaust the evening, waiting for something to happen Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Heroism A STRATAGEM Poem Text First Line: Geography matters Last Line: And it is purple night Subject(s): Nature AFTER A DRAWING ON PAPYRUS First Line: Dark lady in the pale Last Line: A purer form of hunger AFTER NERUDA First Line: Against blue moving Last Line: And perhaps %some yellow flowers AFTER-MILKING First Line: (burden of that hyphenation Last Line: Swallow it back and start all over AFTERNOONS Poem Text First Line: Quick passage into Last Line: The wide world circling Subject(s): Mdemory; Time AFTERNOONS First Line: Quick passage into Last Line: The wide world circling AND SO First Line: You were saying, weren't you Last Line: Like music arching into song AND THIS IS FREE First Line: In this film, now thirty years old Last Line: Then I guess I got a touch of the blues APPLES First Line: The news -- precious little Last Line: Of news and weather invisibly %symmetrical and lost among the leaves APRIL SNOW: AN IMPROVISATION First Line: Light tricks us sometimes Last Line: Remember, she might have said, remember me ARBOR LODGE First Line: Make it a monument Last Line: And are planted at the roadside AS EVER First Line: In or among %the gray unsettling Last Line: Words like gauds spun and spinning AS IN A POUR TRACT First Line: Early lilacs %husks gathered like Last Line: In sea water and song AS SEMBLANCE, THOUGH First Line: The nothing -- or the not -- supposes, of course Last Line: Lilt, silt swirl, the earth's long hush humming AS THOUGH First Line: As though the pine sap Last Line: Still playing -- what is %remembered as forgetfulness AUTUMN MORNNG, 1989 First Line: Avianca, an explosive device Last Line: Videotape unspooled and passed around AVANT COURIER First Line: How the dust gathered in drifts Last Line: A measure of an obliterated shape BELL SOUNDS First Line: Angled in, crevacing %the edged places where Last Line: Wind and water have not made BLIND PEW First Line: Nowhere to go, nothing to see' Last Line: Places, dreaming of gold and silver BORROWED MUSIC First Line: The water is blue and not turquoise Last Line: Conjecture, adroit leaves signing leaf veined mud CANTICLE First Line: And now we want' Last Line: Have been breathing CANTILENA First Line: Buds, husks, leaves and flowers gone Last Line: Top-of-the-charts, only the strong survive COMPLAINT First Line: Why must you sleep like that Last Line: Like a fan hidng a smile CONSOLATION First Line: Whatever you want Last Line: Beneath a breaking wave CONSTRUCTIONS First Line: This is how the lines run Last Line: In a scattering of leaves DARKER COLORS First Line: Sit and spin, things Last Line: With you and curl like smoke DE KOONING First Line: How is it the light %grows furious once again Last Line: In music silence %drives the song DECEMBER COMMONPLACE First Line: Bare foxglove stems Last Line: Branch through crystals %and course and grow DEMI-ODE: BINOMIAL QUANTITIES First Line: One adds or subtracts Last Line: And there the dance, quenching fire DIVERSIONS UPON AN OLD REFRAIN First Line: One, the pebble %gathering in several places Last Line: Implicit war or a dreamer intent on loss %one, the pebble DOCUMENT First Line: Ellis island and the confusion Last Line: Hope of change was given in explanation DRIFTS First Line: Dissonant, drawn out Last Line: The street I track %with chaotic song ECLOGUE First Line: How sudden they seem Last Line: Taking as you always %do, the a train EDGE OF AUTUMN First Line: The wind, a rustle of leaves Last Line: The lasting rhythms of an insistent dance EDVARD MUNCH First Line: They gather into their own secrets Last Line: Aswirl in whatever she might have imagined ELMWOOD First Line: The walk curves downward Last Line: At the fission of light EPODE First Line: I can say only that this comes back from seeing yesterday Last Line: And, as hey say, speak for themselves ESTHETIQUE DU RALE First Line: What we are confused by Last Line: And blue quaker ladies, le dernier cri FAIR MAID OF RIBBLESDALE First Line: The stone, she thought Last Line: Like waves, defining the shore FALL First Line: Sunday in the snow Last Line: The streetlights and neon are %falling together in the snow FIFTY-TWO DEFINITE ARTICLES First Line: The footfall %exactly what you want to start Last Line: And you soar like a bi-plane %through its sentence together FIGURES IN A LANDSCAPE First Line: In the space between Last Line: Bearing substance into time FINALITY OF A POEM First Line: All day, that %is forever Last Line: It is that's ending FIVE PROPER NOUNS: 1. OSTRA BRAMA First Line: Wherever rivers move Last Line: A snarled castastrophe FIVE PROPER NOUNS: 2. NOVGOROD First Line: The cloister and the cloister Last Line: Leaves widening itself away FIVE PROPER NOUNS: 3. TSCHERNIGOW First Line: As dance imposes itself Last Line: Going down in a hiss of steam FIVE PROPER NOUNS: 4. KAUNAS First Line: Branches over the river Last Line: Spins off into an early dark FIVE PROPER NOUNS: 5. PUSTOSHKA (1941) First Line: These plains run off the edge Last Line: Keep your ear to the ground FIVE SONGS IN SEQUENCE First Line: Begins there %among hands Last Line: Into an already %interrupted night FOR EZRA POUND, OLD First Line: Of a new vintage proffered Last Line: In new light the graving hand FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY POEM, AUGUST 6, 1985 First Line: Light on moving water Last Line: Blue bunsen votive flames FOUR EXEMPLARY TEXTS: 1. First Line: Living in a circle proposes Last Line: That waking always fashions there FOUR EXEMPLARY TEXTS: 2 First Line: Villagers pass by like figures Last Line: After shrine. We wait for your blessing FOUR EXEMPLARY TEXTS: 3 First Line: However we return, these shapes Last Line: Insisteing we are what we were here before FOUR EXEMPLARY TEXTS: 4 First Line: I wanted to tell you a dream Last Line: Heels, flatwater plainsong, this laughter FOUR POSTULATES Poem Text First Line: What is most valued, Last Line: The long land rests against our feet Subject(s): Home; Iowa FOUR POSTULATES First Line: What is most valued Last Line: The long land rests against our feet FRAGMENT First Line: The golden stand' Last Line: In every detail GEORGIC First Line: Virgil talked of corn, of farmers Last Line: War's lightnings at the high euphrates GIN MUSIC First Line: You listen for a long time, half-listen, even Last Line: Into damp soil and take leaf and flower HANGING SCREEN First Line: In warm sunlight jade Last Line: The line out of reach IN HER OWN DEFENSE First Line: The witness takes the stand Last Line: Drowning in sharp water INCIDENTAL MUSIC First Line: Stylus bobbing %above dark vinyl %like a dragonfly Last Line: Petals opening iridescent %birdflowers city singers %are blowing in their hands Variant Title(s): Incidental Music; For A. K. Ramanujan, 1929-199 INTERSTATE 80 First Line: The detail, of course Last Line: A quiet air, transgressed JOURNEY; FOR TED MALLORY (WHO DIED, DECEMBER 1963) First Line: Just north of clark street Last Line: We pass in the dead of august JUDY TRAVAILLO VARIATIONS First Line: There is always the other one Last Line: His devotion and her eyes when they parted KING DRIVE First Line: Sometimes south parkway Last Line: Morning's blue jitneys %catfishing by LE JARDIN DE CLAUDE MONET First Line: It is not the hand Last Line: Bridge, pond and steeple -- keep time LINES FOR GRACE SLICK First Line: Hit was a ladie Last Line: She had no refrain LUCY TO THE DRIVER First Line: My sister lotte lived Last Line: To live in a warm place LUMEN First Line: Yearning and dying' Last Line: Flesh and vesture still MANDAN First Line: This is my own wilderness Last Line: The dark stains of their covered fires MATERIALS OF JUNE Poem Text First Line: Clear vials of cloudy Last Line: With hair-thin tubercles extended Subject(s): Flowers MATERIALS OF JUNE First Line: Clear vials of cloudy Last Line: With hair-thin tubercles extended MAUDE First Line: What with one thing and another, angels Last Line: A quiet place inside, and angels tending it MEMORIAL DAY Poem Text First Line: It is easily forgotten, year to Last Line: And walking, our own sway and balance, fails us Subject(s): Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY First Line: It is easily forgotten, year to Last Line: And walking, our own sway and balance, fails us MISSING MATTER First Line: Of course, it is improbable Last Line: So certain it ripples like water across blank spaces MISSOURI AMONG RIVERS First Line: The river I commend to you so often Last Line: Give no emblem's figured name MOTET Poem Text First Line: At odds again Last Line: Flex of possibility Subject(s): Life; Love; Transience MOTET First Line: At odds again' Last Line: Hands moving, the certain %flex of possibility MT. VERNON GARDENS, 1978 First Line: Nothing goes on Last Line: Years beneath our skin NEWS NOTES, 1970 First Line: And the bottles -- rocks flew Last Line: Tread into a widening slag NIGHTS AT THE BON TON First Line: Good old red and blue Last Line: Diamonds and pearls at the sweat rings shine NOT THAT FAIR FIELD First Line: There is a vertigo in every order Last Line: Pomegranate and ink smudge bursting with seed NOVEMBER OR ELSE: AN ODE First Line: S'posing it was %pine needles Last Line: With their fierce monochrome in tact NOVEMBER REQUIEM TO OURSELVES First Line: Erie %where slate planes Last Line: An old fire %was autumn OCTOBER EVENING First Line: West of the near west side Last Line: A thousand years of snow OCTOBER TRIPTYCH First Line: It begins with %lake-gulls, white and silent Last Line: Soft stuff of an autumn michigan OF THE RIVER ITSELF First Line: This is my advice to foreigners Last Line: We do not lose our place ON THE CONDITIONS OF PLACE First Line: Loitered, you might say Last Line: The probable line of what is seen ORANGES AND LEMONS First Line: It hardly matters &there at the easel Last Line: Occasion of light through %sun-streaked tall windows OURSELVES First Line: This gathering of chance Last Line: Something is passing through OUT & ABOUT First Line: A whale of a good time he had, all things considered; the Last Line: Apparent, twin infinities, love's old sweet song, a %proposed axis between us OUT OF DAZZLEMENT; FOR ELIZABETH STREB First Line: Two notes unevenly %played as shore and sea Last Line: Along the salt edge of song OUT WEST First Line: Clara held her hand against the sky Last Line: Rememberng my other self in you PARK ABOVE ALL OTHERS CALLED, RIVERVIEW First Line: Bust of schiller on a hillside Last Line: Demanding the voice that speaks through PASTORAL (FROM A NATION OF FURNISHED ROOMS) First Line: So ike says, what ya got ya got Last Line: Started going down behind the five-and-dime PETRARCHAN FOLIO (42R), SELS First Line: In the land of the original scribe, %an inverted triangle-it says Last Line: Letter and the tongue lifts itself %to the voiceless onset of her name Variant Title(s): From The Petrarchan Folio (42r PINE TREES WITH CHILD First Line: Waft, wave %the pine fronds Last Line: Of this day's moving PLACE THAT'S KNOWN First Line: Out on the front step fifty years ago Last Line: Their faces, so many stomachs clutched in pain %your father, she said, my mother and sleep POCHADES First Line: Across a narrow lake, cottonwood Last Line: And glass sectioned into bangles PRIMARY EXEGESIS First Line: Nothing more than was Last Line: Its palm opening the day PSYCHE AND EROS First Line: His sepal wings and her arms petalled Last Line: Lip to lip, then stone to stone. Ah eros RATHER LIKE First Line: Plays on and on Last Line: Home wounded and ashamed REEVING First Line: Tricks of the weather Last Line: Winnowings of a long winter RETURN First Line: The distance back is greater Last Line: You, carry those distances, also RIVERSONGS OF ARION, 1-10 SECOND-HAND ELEGY; FOR DOUGLAS DICKEY, PFC., USMC First Line: How can I be bitter?' Last Line: Exhaust the evening, waiting for something to happen Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SEQUENCE COMPOSED ON GRAY PAPER First Line: Mid-january mums %and white statice Last Line: Scrum gurried to an eighteen %wheeler: vamp to chorus! SET/SORTS: SET First Line: Like accidents, surely Last Line: Skin moistens skin SET/SORTS: SORTS First Line: In spaces where %touch begins, fails, Last Line: By our absence divided SEVEN PIECES FOR UNACCOMPANIED VOICE First Line: Like tapwater in your hand Last Line: And what is still impending SHADOW PUPPETS First Line: Against a room's neutrality Last Line: Gaping, a play of grace and need SHEAR FACE First Line: This bluff face, brown and yellow clay Last Line: And you say it's beautiful SKY AT ASHLAND First Line: Dust-colored water, golden Last Line: Haloed, imperturbable western sky SOME OTHER SPRING First Line: You know how it goes,' he said Last Line: Certainties, the right airborne, at play SOMEWHAT GRAY AND GRACEFUL; FOR REGINALD SHEPHERD First Line: Left behind. Consider the frayed %horizon and the likelihood Last Line: Like breath anticipating speech SONGE VERT(E) First Line: As quick as anything Last Line: Is a fact of distance SONGS FROM AN INSTITUTION #2 First Line: Lovejoy %my heart goes out to Last Line: High on the mountain SONGS FROM AN INSTITUTION: 1 First Line: Wreck of a pearl-diver, old bastard Last Line: Deep down where it used to be SONGS FROM AN INSTITUTION: 3 First Line: I was at iwo Last Line: And did a deadly dance SONGS INTENDED FOR FAMILIAR PLACES First Line: Light along an edge Last Line: It is here names and their %implicit voices matter SQUARE: BUM'S PARK First Line: Smells of urine Last Line: There's no such thing as reform STRATAGEM First Line: Geography matters Last Line: And it is purple night STUDY WITH SEVERAL FIGURES, INCOMPLETELY RECALLED First Line: In the curious vase painting, denise martin Last Line: Almost the exclusive property of the stage SUCH SUMMERS First Line: Knee and twilight Last Line: In search of accident SUMS First Line: Whatever bends or breaks Last Line: Ascendng your spine TEMPER First Line: I think of you all Last Line: Steerage in striped pants, to this river, my face in the glass THE FINALITY OF A POEM Poem Text First Line: All day, that Last Line: It is that’s ending Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THINGS AINT WHAT THEY USED TO BE First Line: Heel and toe Last Line: Locked into %moist fingers TO MYSELF AND FOR AUGUST 5, 1964 First Line: I have a new tie from france Last Line: Am I a songster or a dealer TOUCHING THE GROUND First Line: Nothing we know of seems Last Line: But ourselves we celebrate and save TRACINGS First Line: Nothing but this continent Last Line: That fronted on the open west VALEETA First Line: Once more %and then Last Line: Morning valeeta %not goodnight VARIATIONS FOR A SUMMER EVENING Poem Text First Line: Thank you and goodbye' Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Roach, Max (b. 1924); Young, Lester ('prez') (1909-1959) VARIATIONS ON STRYK'S BASHO First Line: Like the old oak Last Line: This dust to be a firmament WAITING THERE Poem Text First Line: Nothing but this continent Last Line: That fronted on the open west Subject(s): West - U.s.; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity WAITING THERE First Line: As others or ourselves Last Line: Own turnings overgrown WAR STORY First Line: (at this date exact order is impossible) Last Line: My thigh as examples of pain WHAT ARE ISLANDS TO ME NOW First Line: Carved wood, bronzes, tracings ice %crystals leave on the windowpane Last Line: Red picot cream colored petals recalled %more than seen, the moment teetering there |
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