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Author: BLUMENTHAL, MICHAEL Matches Found: 183 Blumenthal, Michael Poet's Biography 183 poems available by this author A MAN LOST BY A RIVER Poem Text First Line: There is a voice inside the body Last Line: For no good reason Subject(s): Life Choices A SUPERMARKET IN TEXAS Poem Text First Line: They have mated an apricot / with a plum, they have cloned Last Line: As god is my witness, or these witnesses my god Subject(s): God; Markets; Miller, Arthur (1915-2005); Supermarkets ABANDONING YOUR CAR IN A SNOWSTORM: ROSSLYN, VIRGINIA First Line: It is better %than leaving your wife or your nagging lover ACCOUNTANT First Line: This being cambridge, he too Last Line: That things may yet add up to add up ADVICE TO MY STUDENTSL HOW TO WRITE A POEM Poem Text First Line: Forget now, fofr a moment Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AND THE WAGES OF GOODNESS ARE NOT ASSURED Poem Text First Line: That jacob stole his own brother's blessing Last Line: Keep singing like that into the light of this darkening world Subject(s): Concentration Camps AND THE WAGES OF GOODNESS ARE NOT ASSURED (FOR AHARON APPLEF First Line: That jacob stole his own brother's blessing Last Line: Keep singing like that into the light of this darkening world ANGEL GABRIEL IS THE IMAGINATION First Line: He did not know if madness would survive into the night Last Line: With never a hand in his deep pockets that came up empty APPRENTICE First Line: His whole life had been movement Last Line: And his true love came to him in the luminous dark Subject(s): Apprentices ARK (FOR PEGGY AND HOWARD NEMEROV) First Line: My son plays with the ark you gave him Last Line: And multiply, who must replenish the earth ART OF POETRY First Line: Perhaps all we are here to say is: house Subject(s): Poetry And Poets AT LUCY VINCENT BEACH, EASTER SUNDAY 1986 First Line: In that long moment when you are trying to decide ATELIER RHEINGOLD First Line: Here is the room in which Last Line: To get, in his own way, home again AUBADE First Line: A silvered light against my hand Last Line: And lovlier than true BACK FROM THE WORD PROCESSING COURSE, I SAY TO MY OLD TYPEWRITER Poem Text First Line: Old friend, you Subject(s): Typewriters BACK FROM WORD-PROCESSING COURSE, I SAY TO MY OLD TYPEWRITER First Line: Old friend, you Last Line: Vibrate those aging hips again %beneath these trembling hands Subject(s): Computers; Typewriters BE KIND Poem Text First Line: Not merely because henry james said Last Line: And your eyes to the ground, and your little feet Subject(s): Kindness BEAR First Line: Last night I dreamt I was a bear Last Line: And put my bear hair everywhere BECAUSE MARRIAGE IS NOT FOR ROMANTICS First Line: We should meet in some central european city Last Line: Of romance and desire and impossible love BEFORE A STORM, IN SEPTEMBER First Line: Air inhales water and light so hard Last Line: The air surrendering its secret, and we %wet with the mere thought of it BITTER TRUTH First Line: The truth is a bitter truth-- Last Line: I too must end with I do not know: the sky, %the water on the lake, and the truth below BLEIBTREUSTRASSE First Line: I have sat on many streets Last Line: I speak your name BLUE First Line: Inside the hollowness that is bone Last Line: That says I love you, and when the bones %open out into their pelvic dust, the blue %that is always BLUEBIRD First Line: Perhaps it was these signs of early spring Last Line: Into the chilly, april night, still flame for you: %the spring that comes in earnest, even now BRAHMS First Line: It must be that my early friendship with defeat Last Line: Brahms will show you how loyal the notes are BUYING BASEBALL CARDS AT FORTY-TWO (FOR MARILYN LEVINE) First Line: It is because I wanted to see again their faces Last Line: As I, heading home to my son, have gone the way of all sons CAMBRIDGE First Line: Your neighbor has written a book CHEERS Poem Text First Line: Imagine drinking to the health Last Line: Hallowed the names of your loved ones, in sickness and in health Subject(s): Health; Toasts CHEERS First Line: Imagine drinking to the health Last Line: Hallowed the names of your loved ones, in sickness and in health CHERRIES First Line: After auschwitz, it's been said, it's no longer possible Last Line: And birkenau and dachau, relishing the taste of cherries %inmy mouth, refusing to believe they are t Subject(s): Nature CHRISTMAS ECLOGUE: WASHINGTON, D.C. First Line: The homeless have all gone home Last Line: That is not homeless pauses, looks around, %gives thanks, remains CIVIC LEADERS First Line: So much virtue in a single room! Last Line: Reaches out %in search of a knee CONNOISSEUR OF STARTS First Line: He loved the quick and hot commencements best Last Line: In fits and starts: the connoisseur of endings COUVADE First Line: When your wife uttered your son Last Line: Will speak his name into the tight tercet %of their togetherness. And his son %will call him father, CURE First Line: Not just my family, dear god Last Line: This longing to stop things from dividing, %I write this poem DAYENU First Line: Had he rescued the nightingales from the floods Last Line: Oh, it would have been enough, lord %dayenu, dayenu. %and for years DAYS WE WOULD RATHER KNOW Poem Text First Line: There are days we would rather know Last Line: Of the ginkgo, something to keep for a better tomorrow: / days we would rather know that never come DAYS WE WOULD RATHER KNOW First Line: There are days we would rather know Last Line: Of the ginkgo, something to keep for a better tomorrow: %days we would rather know that never come DEEP ECOLOGY First Line: My wife stays home and stares at the amaryllis Last Line: The deep echo of that flower's bloom %for the empty sound of two hands clapping? Subject(s): Nature DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CHILD AND A POEM First Line: If you are terrified of your own death Last Line: You may want to write a poem DISAPPOINTMENTS OF CHILDHOOD First Line: Imagine, now, an affection the same size Last Line: Their small bones %growing constantly inward %from your spreading arms DOWN DIGNIFIED First Line: He thought he would merely continue Last Line: Of everything beyond its own demise DRINKS AND KISSES First Line: My mouth puddles with bourbon and the taste Last Line: I pucker forth to kiss you among the dying trees DUNG BEETLES First Line: They accept whatever excrement Last Line: Thanking the immaculate gods %for the divine orderliness %ofthis shit-ridden world DUSK: MALLARDS ON THE CHARLES RIVER First Line: So much like an old couple EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION Poem Text First Line: Because I want to educate him early Last Line: Language to language, house to house Subject(s): Children; Education; Childhood EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION First Line: Because I want to educate him early Last Line: Hello good-bye hello good-bye hello good-bye Subject(s): Children; Education EARTH WAS TEPID AND THE MOON WAS DARK Last Line: And then it was over, the day. And again the moon ELEGY FOR MY MOTHER: THE DAYS (BETTY BLUMENTHAL) First Line: It has been twenty-five years, now Last Line: Of death, the kiss all life comes from ELEPHANTS DYING First Line: It is as if they are ashamed Last Line: And how they beat the earth to sleep %with their huge feet, their tails, %their beautiful, dead bone EMILIO ROMA IS DEAD (IN MEMORIAM, EMILIO ROMA III) First Line: Yours were the sexy subjects Last Line: In the gaze of our foremost philosopher, %that last perceiver EMILIO ROMER IS DEAD Poem Text First Line: Yours were the sexy subjects Last Line: In the gaze of our foremost philosopher, / that last perceiver Subject(s): Death EPITHALAMIUM: THE SINGLE LIGHT First Line: Just as coitus means, really, to travel together Last Line: Was meant to be, this utterance that love alone makes true, %its single light still burning in your FALLING ASLEEP AT THE EROTIC MOZI First Line: Because I want to watch them do what I would like to do Last Line: I hunger. I fidget. I dream. I fall asleep FATHER First Line: I hold a candle to your face Last Line: Be water, father, %be blood FIRST SNOW: CAMBRIDGE, MASS Poem Text First Line: The trees cough up a plentitude of starlings Last Line: Or snow could, or the starlings in earnest Subject(s): Snow FIRST SNOW: CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS First Line: The trees cough up a plenitude of starlings Last Line: Or snow could, or the starlings in earnest FISH FUCKING First Line: This is not a poem about sex, or even Last Line: Happily ever after, chasing each other, lustful %as stars through the constantly breaking water FIVE ANSWERS TO SACVAN BERCOVITCH First Line: In a drizzle, maybe, in the sun Last Line: When some learned singing, others how to pray FLIRTATION First Line: I am tired of looking at you through this glass Last Line: In satin sheets, sipping imported brandy: %whispering each other's name to the impossible windows FOR H., DEAD IN A CAR AT THIRTY-EIGHT Poem Text First Line: Today I blessed every little thing in the world Last Line: Calling not me that must have called it to you Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Mortality FOR H., DEAD IN A CAR AT THIRTY-EIGHT First Line: Today I blessed every little thing in the world Last Line: Calling not me that must have called it to you FORCES First Line: Who, having lived more than a moment Last Line: Chooses us over and over until we're chosen for real FREUDIAN SLIP First Line: Though she coaxes the embroidered silk Last Line: And when she says I love you, %she means watch your step, %the rest of your life GARDEN First Line: It is an old store, older Last Line: In the new garden from which all eat, %and in which no one wants to plant GARMENTS First Line: Now the sun's yellow smock is falling again GEOLOGIST (GRAND CANYON, MAY 1988) First Line: He had made a life of stone Last Line: Pyrite for true gold. He was not fool enough %ever to take gneiss for granite Subject(s): Nature GERMANS First Line: Punctual, decent, historically regal Last Line: And what are they reading? The tagesspiegel GOD LOVES YOU, AND SO DO I Poem Text First Line: Because it is what he says always, to anyone Subject(s): Fathers & Sons GOD LOVES YOU, AND SO DO I First Line: Because it is what he says always, to anyone GROWING OLD IN WEST VIRGINIA First Line: Like some ripe, old couple Last Line: Morning came, %found us in a tapestry of light HALF FULL First Line: Ahead the taillights of cars like raccoon's eyes Last Line: The full moon rising like love in the rearview mirror HAPPIEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE (FOR D.) First Line: You were in chicago. It was september Last Line: The pages of newsprint in your hand, turning HAPPY POEM First Line: This is a poem against false piety and sadness Last Line: This is my poem. And it is your poem. %and it is not sorry about anything... %not even this HEART OF QUANG DUC First Line: When quang duc poured gasoline all over his body Last Line: Forever, or for very long HEARTS OF MEN First Line: Swing %like pendulums Last Line: For the shaken trill %of their weeping-- %their cleft, broken hearts? I AM SICK OF THE RICH First Line: I am sick of the rich, the way Last Line: Iceberg, complaining to no one in particular %of the darkness, the seaweed, the incredible poverty I HAVE LIVED THIS WAY FOR YEARS AND DO NOT WISH TO CHANGE Poem Text First Line: I hope you'll forgive the black paint Last Line: The chocolate-covered cotton balls Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Conduct Of Life I HAVE LIVED THIS WAY FOR YEARS AND DO NOT WISH TO CHANGE First Line: I hope you'll forgive the black paint Last Line: Help yourself to the jellyfish, the goose down, %the chocolate-covered cotton balls Subject(s): Writing And Writers I THINK CONSTANTLY OF THOSE WHO WERE TRULY GREAT Poem Text First Line: And. To be pertfectly honest, it bums me out Last Line: My own small deeds into their magnificent arms Subject(s): Humility I THINK CONSTANTLY OF THOSE WHO WERE TRULY GREAT First Line: And, to be perfectly honest, it burns me out Last Line: My own small deeds into their magnificent arms ICARUS DESCENDED First Line: I was a bird once, and I flew Last Line: Of cold metal where your wings once were IN A CEMETERY IN KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE First Line: Bolander, blixen, wellington, and crumb Last Line: Of such thoughts to be thought, books to be read %among the mute cerebrations of the dead IN A HELICOPTER OVER PARACHUTE, COLORADO First Line: I am not sure what the gods would have thought of this Last Line: The greatest kindness is not reverence, and whether men %canlong continue to move mountains, or moun IN ASSISI First Line: This morning, in assisi, I woke Last Line: Singing in the stream, this all I know of perfect joy, %and all the white doves kissing in its name INVENTORS First Line: Imagine being the first to say: surveillance' IT HAPPENS First Line: A man wakes. A woman wakes JULIEK'S VIOLIN Poem Text First Line: In the dank halls of buchenwald Last Line: Juliek plays on. / and the children, / as if in answer, / burn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism JULIEK'S VIOLIN First Line: In the dank halls of buchenwald Last Line: Juliek plays on. %and the children, %as if in answer, %burn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JUNGIANS & FREUDIANS AT THE JOSEPH CAMPBELL LECTURE First Line: The jungians are all wearing purple Last Line: Over jungian wine and freudian doughnuts %in the pale, white room LAST SUPPER First Line: None of us is christ, really Last Line: Descends over three men fingering the truth %of themselves in the solitary darkness: %the wax of the LEAP CHILD First Line: Born on a day which comes again Last Line: To have been born at all, though the stuttering %years sometimes skip over his good name %without ev LEARNING BY DLING First Line: And now the day is mine and it is sweet Last Line: Just claim your loss tonight. And don't repeat LETTERS FLOATING AROUND ELLIS ISLAND First Line: Today I was thinking about the millions of letters Last Line: The ever-rising berg, the revivifying thal LIFE GOES ON Poem Text First Line: Over the dulling years you write Last Line: About the light on the table Subject(s): Love; Language; Words; Vocabulary LIGHT, AT THIRTY-TWO First Line: It is the first thing god speaks of Last Line: All things lovely there. As that first poet wrote, %in his first book of poems: let there be light % LITRAJURE OF EVERYDAY LIFE First Line: Nothing derivative here Last Line: And unmediated from within the sweet %potpourri of its ribbed compendium: %nowhere indexed, nowhere LOOKING FOR WILDFLOWERS IN BERNHEIM FOREST First Line: The dogtooth violet, the chickweed Last Line: Through the woods, calling out %such words as only love can name LOSS First Line: Something falls from you, life Last Line: Loss persuades me it is real, %irrevocable, %unsure of its own resurrection. %as we are, david, as w LUKACS FURDO: DECEMBER 31. 1995 First Line: Why should I not be among them Last Line: To heal ourselves before we are healed MAN LOST BY A RIVER First Line: There is a voice inside the body Last Line: For having strayed %from the path of his routine, %for no good reason Subject(s): Men MAN WHO NEEDED NO ONE First Line: He wanted to need no one, not Last Line: Asking for a light to see by, a match %to retrieve his heart with from the widening dark MATINEE First Line: It could almost be an affair, this slinking off Last Line: If desire only wanted what desire had MEDITATION ON POLITICS AT THE QUABBIN RESERVOIR (FOR JOSEPH First Line: All day there has been no peace Last Line: Where we meet to become this: possessors %of a merely partial purity, a purely human one Subject(s): Nature MELANCHOLY First Line: Though the flutist was beautiful Last Line: It is almost night %when the joys of this life %finally find you again, %looking for tulips beneath MUSHROOM HUNTING IN LATE AUGUST, PETERBOROUGH, N.H. First Line: The drosophila wing of the morning moon Last Line: I stumble out into the sunlight. %I pucker my lips at the morning moon. %and I eat Subject(s): Mushrooms; New Hampshire MUSIC OF WHATEVER First Line: The way goethe counted out hexameters Last Line: Your voice in the unchilled wind making music %of even this even now even here NEVER TO HAVE LOVED A CHILD Poem Text Last Line: And what has become of them now Subject(s): Love NEVER TO HAVE LOVED A CHILD Last Line: And what has become of them now NIGHT BASEBALL First Line: At night, when I go out to the field Last Line: That boy still rising from his theft to find the light NIGHT THE DANCING DIED (APRIL 19, 1968) First Line: The night martin luther king was shot Last Line: Went burning in the chilly april air NO MORE KISSING - AIDS EVERYWHERE Poem Text First Line: He says it to the young couple Last Line: Kissing their way towards heaven until they die Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness NO MORE KISSING - AIDS EVERYWHERE First Line: He says it to the young couple Last Line: Kissing their way towards heaven till they die Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness OCTOBER SESTINA: THE SHADOWS First Line: The maple that was amber this time Last Line: Songing the quiet of this restless time, as the dead %spreadtheir fingers beneath the widening shado OLD PAINTER AT THE VIOLIN First Line: Because it is his destiny Last Line: Because, in the cacophony of this life, %the one voice he always heard clearly %was his own ON THE EDGE AT SANTORINI First Line: You understand now %what it means Last Line: Watch the rest of your life %fall like rain to the hungry sea OPUS POSTHUMOUS Poem Text First Line: I love the way the dead keep writing to us Last Line: Place beyond desire and meanness, beyond dust Subject(s): Death; Writing & Writers; Dead, The OPUS POSTHUMOUS First Line: I love the way the dead keep writing to us Last Line: A place beyond desire and meanness, beyond dust Subject(s): Death; Writing And Writers ORDINARY HEARTBREAKS Poem Text First Line: The day dawns, and what do you do with your one body? Last Line: You feel a revolution coming, / your own four walls trembling ORDINARY HEARTBREAKS First Line: The day dawns, and what to do with your one body? Last Line: You feel a revolution coming, %your own four walls trembling ORDINARY/EXTRAORDINARY First Line: Courage and sleep, lindsay said Last Line: Are the extraordinary flowers %we carry, speechlessly, %intoour ordinary rooms OVER OHIO First Line: You can say what you want about the evils of technology Last Line: An andean condor sailing over ohio, above the factories, %above the dust and the highways and the mi PACT First Line: It's an old truth, that always lurks behind the curtain Last Line: Of that old truth, the one there waiting by the curtain PHOTOGRAPH OF GIACOMETTI First Line: The man's life is his work Last Line: A long shadow crossing the glazed street %to reclaim his body, before the rain does PLEASURES OF OLD AGE First Line: When my grandmother lisette turned ninety-nine Last Line: How she would gladly tremble for them again, %even now POEM BY SOMEONE ELSE First Line: This is not my poem Last Line: It is not my poem, %but only my brother's-- %who lives in another country POEM FOR MY FATHER AT EIGHTY-FIVE AFTER CROSS-COUNTY SKIING First Line: It is as the good book says: he whom the gods love Last Line: Turning my face toward the sun, correcting the world POEM, AGAINST HESITATION First Line: Her tilted chin mimics the rise Last Line: Oh, kiss her already, you fool, %the darkness surrounds us POET, MARRIED First Line: He missed his loneliness Last Line: Whatever it was he had left PRAISE First Line: I roll from the bed mornings Last Line: All I will remember %are last night's stars... %what they disturb, %and what they rectify PRAYER FOR MY SON (FOR NOAH) First Line: Little bird, %small sacred flake Last Line: But through passionate eyes PUER AETERNUS First Line: The wax wings of icarus haunt you Last Line: From the shadows: the kind voice of daedalus %whispers its warning as you head for the sun PUZZLE First Line: In the old family photograph, they are all Last Line: To speak your name quietly into their strange completeness REFINISHING THE TABLE First Line: You still remember the nick your sister made Last Line: Calling your sister, the dead trees and the %mute children of another life back to the table RISK First Line: There are lives so safe you could weep for them Last Line: All the risk I would ever need SAMIZDAT'S MUSE First Line: He had been writing ambiguous love poems Last Line: Not entirely of their own choosing SAXOPHONE First Line: Just as the mind gasps and dies a little at orgasm Last Line: Trembling the darkness, finding its way to you SAY (FOR WENDY PARSONS) First Line: Say you have always wanted to be someone Last Line: Gets in their way, in whatever guise r SERIAL MONOGAMY First Line: For seven years I have been here loving your teeth Last Line: Desire runs hot as surprise over your eyelids, toes, %your lovely new body SNOWSTORM First Line: White's the crazed color of the day Last Line: Whiteness of our lives before moving on once again %into the real and quotidian darkness of the next SOME NIGHTS AT THIRTY First Line: Some nights you are the dirty girl from iowa Last Line: Shifting me to first gear and pedaling like crazy, %in our old bed of fantasy and remarkable absence SQUID First Line: So this is love Last Line: And all nausea reduces, finally, to a hunger %for what is naked and approachable, %tangible and deli STAMPS First Line: They are the world's licked emissaries STONES First Line: We live in dread of something Last Line: Not even the fish %will pause to tell apart SUPERMARKET IN TEXAS First Line: They have mated an apricot %with a plum, they have cloned Last Line: As god is my witness, or these witnesses my god Subject(s): God; Markets; Miller, Arthur (b. 1915) SWITCH-HITTERS Poem Text First Line: How many home runs / mickey mantle hit Last Line: Up and over the fence, a home run Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples SWITCH-HITTERS First Line: How many home runs %mickey mantle hit Last Line: And up over the fence, a home run Subject(s): Physical Disabilities THE ACCOUNTANT Poem Text First Line: This being cambridge, he too Last Line: That things may yet add up to add up Subject(s): Accountants & Accounting THE CONNOISSEUR OF STARTS Poem Text First Line: He loved the quick and hot commencements best THE DISAPPOINTMENTS OF CHILDHOOD Poem Text First Line: Imagine now, an affection the same size Last Line: From your spreading arms Subject(s): Childhood Memories THE FLIRTATION Poem Text First Line: I am tired of looking at you through this glass Last Line: Whispering each other's name to the impossible windows Subject(s): Desire THE FORCES Poem Text First Line: Who, having lived more than a moment Last Line: Chooses us over and over until we've chosen for real THE GEOLOGIST (GRAND CANYON, MAY 1988) Poem Text First Line: He had made a life of stone Last Line: Ever to take the gneiss for granite Subject(s): Nature THE NEW YORKER POEM Poem Text First Line: It is best to mention a painter Last Line: Quotidian and blemished and loved by everyone Subject(s): New Yorker, The (periodical); Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets THE PLEASURES OF OLD AGE Poem Text First Line: When my grandmother lisette turned ninety-nine Last Line: How she would gladly tremble for them again, / even now Subject(s): Old Age; Romance; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE YOUNG Poem Text First Line: So here they are Last Line: Telling them how it is Subject(s): Youth THIS IS IT First Line: Ah, john, the world is cold Last Line: On the day of your birth. Happy birthday. %this is it TIP OF THE ICEBERG TODAY I AM ENVYING THE GLORIOUS MEXICANS Last Line: Mexicans beside the wild chrysanthemums--%besude the rose, the sangria and the happy earth TONGUES Poem Text First Line: I turn to my cold blood Last Line: In the cold, brackish language of water, / and of salt Subject(s): Language TONGUES First Line: I turn to my cold blood Last Line: In the cold, brackish language of water, %and of salt TWICE-BORN MATCHES First Line: I sit by the water, a box Last Line: I reach into my pocket for my matches, %hoping to find one %that will burn a second time UNITED JEWISH APPEAL Poem Text First Line: My grandmother was eighty-nine and blind Last Line: And of change, forever singing the praises / of the united jewish appeal Subject(s): Old Age; Grandparents; Childhood Memories; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers UNITED JEWISH APPEAL First Line: My grandmother was eighty-nine and blind Last Line: Of the united jewish appeal WALK ON A SUMMER'S NIGHT First Line: Not to go out in melancholy, or in rage Last Line: Before you call them your own WASHINGTON HEIGHTS Poem Text First Line: Even the bad bews came slowly and was afraid Last Line: For the ice truck, buried the dead, called it home Subject(s): Washington Heights, New York City; Childhood Memories WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, 1959 First Line: Even the bad news came slowly and was afraid Last Line: As long as the mail kept coming, we smiled, waited %for the ice truck, buried the dead, called it ho WASP IN THE STUDY First Line: It knows the window's the way out WATCHING LA BOHEME WITH MY FATHER First Line: I used to wonder why these simple deaths Last Line: For we have learned to sing together rather well-- %before the lights went out, before the curtains WAVING GOOD-BYE TO MY FATHER First Line: My father, folding toward the earth again, plays Last Line: To live, dear father, is to forgive. %and I forgive WEEDING First Line: Some say it's woman's work, this bending Last Line: In any place the gods might pause to occupy, %as they do here and now, amen WHAT A TIME! Poem Text First Line: To dance, at a dark party, to old tunes Last Line: Yeah man, and you hop into the night, transformed Subject(s): Parties WHAT A TIME! First Line: To dance, at a dark party, to old tunes WHAT I BELIEVE First Line: I believe there is no justice Last Line: So as not to disturb anyone, %so as not to interfere %with what we believe in WHAT SURVIVES First Line: Over the dulling years Last Line: About love. %about language. %about the light on the table WHO WILL LIVE IN OUR HOUSES WHEN WE DIE? First Line: The silent hush, the rusted hinges Last Line: And how can the unborn sing for us %when we return to the earth? WINTER LIGHT First Line: In the flat, clean light of winter Last Line: The coldness of stone and hover above everything, %in the stark, immaculate light of winter WISHES THAT COULD LAST A LIFETIME First Line: Now it is once again the cold morning Last Line: It lasts and lasts. It goes on, %ephemeral as breath, wishful as all thinking. %enough to last an en WISHFUL THINKING First Line: I like to think that ours will be more than just another story Last Line: And the flames of longing: a bird rising over the ashes, a dream WOMAN INSIDE First Line: There is a woman %inside me Last Line: She is the one %who wakes %with her arms around me %when I wake %alone YIN AND YANG First Line: My love is simple Last Line: Singing: moon, moon, stars, stars YOUNG First Line: So here they are Last Line: Telling them how it is Subject(s): Youth YOUNG BIRDS CRYING LATE AT NIGHT First Line: At night you can hear them Last Line: Of their impotent wings as the stars %ember and rise up %to light this palpitating world |
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