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Author: DICKEY, JAMES Matches Found: 304 Dickey, James Poet's Biography 304 poems available by this author A DOG SLEEPING ON MY FEET Poem Text First Line: Being in his resting place Subject(s): Animals; Dogs A FOLK SINGER OF THE THIRTIES Poem Text First Line: On a bed of gravel moving Last Line: When I opened my mouth to the rich Subject(s): Poverty; Railroads; Wandering & Wanderers; Railways; Trains; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes A LETTER Poem Text First Line: Looking out of the dark of the town Last Line: And gets its strange spark from the world Subject(s): Letters; Memory A VIEW OF FUJIYAMA AFTER THE WAR Poem Text First Line: Wind, and all the midges in the air Subject(s): Japan; Japanese ADAM IN WINTER First Line: This road is a river, white Last Line: The ice turn sick at my heel ADULTERY Poem Text First Line: We have all been in rooms Subject(s): Hotels; Love - Marital; Marriage; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADULTERY First Line: We have all been in rooms Last Line: God bless you. Guilt is magical Subject(s): Hotels; Love - Marital; Marriage AFTER THE NIGHT HUNT Poem Text First Line: Along the dark bank of the river Subject(s): Hunting ANGEL OF THE MAZE First Line: At mid-morning her wheel-chair seems to rock Last Line: Ceremony, which is the dead ANGINA First Line: That one who is the dreamer lies mostly in her left arm Last Line: My peace, my poor place, my own ANTIPOLIS Poem Text First Line: Through the town-making stones I step lightly ANTIPOLIS First Line: Through the town-making stones I step lightly Last Line: Unbelieved, believing and dancing %most loving creature APOLLO First Line: So long %so long as the void Last Line: Of static. We bend, we pick up stones APPROACHING PRAYER First Line: A moment tries to come in Last Line: It may have been somehow said ARMOR First Line: When this is the thing you put on Last Line: When I begin living forever AT DARIEN BRIDGE Poem Text First Line: The sea here used to look Subject(s): Bridges AT DARIEN BRIDGE First Line: The sea here used to look Last Line: Out of which all miracles leap Subject(s): Bridges AT THE HOME FOR UNWED MOTHERS First Line: Gradually it is %from all sides coming Last Line: Smiles on whatever is there ATTEMPTED DEPARTURE First Line: I come back %hoping to leave Last Line: The only thing fleeing AUTUMN First Line: I see the tree think it will turn Last Line: To the mindless one color of life AWAITING THE SWIMMER First Line: Light fails, in crossing a river Last Line: The fear-killing moves of her body AX-GOD: SEA PURSUIT First Line: On the horizon, through the steam of exhausted blast-furnaces - fog - yes Last Line: Raise to heaven a breathing blue ax BAGGAGE KING First Line: There in new guinea, by the grounded metal Last Line: From the water, and nothing yet struck BASICS First Line: Who has told you what discoveries Last Line: And struck: at just this moment %found the word 'golden' BEE First Line: One dot Last Line: Dead hand on my shoulder, coach norton, I am your boy. BEHOLDERS First Line: Far away under us, they are mowing on the green steps Last Line: With deadly intent of love BEING First Line: It is there, above him, beyond, behind Last Line: Through the roof - wide - wider %wide awake BELOW ELLIJAY Poem Text First Line: Coming in to ellijay on the green BELOW THE LIGHTHOUSE Poem Text First Line: Now I can be sure of my sleep Subject(s): Sleep BETWEEN TWO PRISONERS First Line: I would not wish to sit Last Line: In the end at the end of a war BIOGRAPHY First Line: Don't tell me of that city Last Line: At the end of a city street BIRTH First Line: Inventing a story with grass Last Line: Change, to include a new horse BIRTHDAY DREAM First Line: At the worst place in the hills above the city Last Line: To bring me forth. The room was full of mildness. I was forty BLOOD Poem Text First Line: In a cold night Subject(s): Blood BLOOD First Line: In a cold night Last Line: She is safe with me BLOWGUN AND RATTLESNAKE First Line: Some fires are heard most truly Last Line: To explode, and listen again %for something else BREAD First Line: Old boys, the cracked boards spread before Last Line: I ate the food I ne'er had eat BREATH First Line: Breath is on my face when the cloudy sun Last Line: Then come to us slowly, out of nowhere and anywhere risen %breathlessly bright BRONWEN, THE TRAW, AND THE SHAPE SHIFTER, SELS. BUCKDANCER'S CHOICE Poem Text First Line: So I would hear out those lungs Subject(s): Mothers; Singing & Singers; Songs BUCKDANCER'S CHOICE First Line: So I would hear out those lungs Last Line: On the wings of the buck and wing Subject(s): Mothers; Singing And Singers BUMS, ON WAKING Poem Text Last Line: More like living cover than it is Subject(s): Hoboes BUMS, ON WAKING Last Line: With water moving over their legs %more like living cover than it is Subject(s): Wanderers And Wandering CANCER MATCH First Line: Lord, you've sent both Last Line: To win, and not only win but win %big, win big CELEBRATION First Line: All wheels; a man breathed fire Last Line: Even in sleep, not to read %hoping for genesis CELEBRATION First Line: All wheels; a man breathed fire Last Line: In five strides a kind of loving, %a mortal, a dutiful son CHANGE First Line: Blue, unstirrable, dreaming Last Line: Impossible, brighter than sunlight CHENILLE First Line: There are two facing peacocks Last Line: And closed the door of the ark CHERRYLOG ROAD Poem Text First Line: Off highway 106 Subject(s): Adolescence; Junk & Junkyards; Love; Teen Agers CHERRYLOG ROAD First Line: Off highway 106 Last Line: Wringing the handlebar for speed, %wild to be wreckage forever Subject(s): Adolescence; Junk And Junkyards; Love CIRCUIT First Line: Beaches; it is true: they go on - on Last Line: This may just be it COMING BACK TO AMERICA Poem Text First Line: We descended the first night from europe - riding the ship's sling Last Line: The thing that sustains us forever in other places! Subject(s): Homecoming COMING BACK TO AMERICA First Line: We descended the first night from europe - riding the ship's sling Last Line: Symbol - the unforeseen on home ground - the thing that sustains us forever in other places! Subject(s): Homecoming COMMON GRAVE First Line: Some sit and stare Last Line: At just the wrong time to be heard %others, others CONCH First Line: Cry of something Last Line: By limit, father-rooted in sand CONFRONTATION OF THE HERO First Line: Claw-hammer, hay, and grease Last Line: And nail it to the ground in secret weeping COURTSHIP First Line: Though lumber was scarce, we found it Last Line: All ends in gentleness CRATERS First Line: Roots out of the ground and ongoing Last Line: We're in one, dry-heaving and crouching DARK ONES First Line: We in all lights are coming Last Line: Beats, feeding from your hand DAUGHTER First Line: Hospital, and the fathers' room, where light Last Line: One finger. Real god, roll %roll DAYBREAK First Line: You sit here on solid sand banks trying to figure Last Line: Somewhere in all thought DEBORAH AS SCION: 1. WITH ROSE, AT CEMETERY First Line: Kin: quiet grasses. Above Last Line: With my dead full-time and work-singing DEBORAH AS SCION: 2. IN LACE AND WHALEBONE First Line: Bull-headed, big-busted Last Line: Without levels, deepening for us DEER AMONG CATTLE Poem Text First Line: Here and there in the searing beam Last Line: As one of their own who shall rise Subject(s): Cattle; Deer DIABETES First Line: One night I thirsted like a prince Last Line: Sweetness everywhere, and I am calling my birds DOG SLEEPING ON MY FEET First Line: Being in his resting place Last Line: Sleeping to grow back my legs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOORSTEP, LIGHTNING, WAIF-DREAMING First Line: Who can tell who was born of what? Last Line: Dangerous, seeking ground DOVER: BELIEVING IN KINGS Poem Text First Line: As we drove down the ramp from the boat DOVER: BELIEVING IN KINGS First Line: As we drove down the ramp from the boat Last Line: Of england, the king smiles, climbing: running DREAM FLOOD First Line: I ask and receive Last Line: Lift. I am dreaming. Lift DRINKING FROM A HELMET Poem Text First Line: I climbed out, tired of waiting Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War DRINKING FROM A HELMET First Line: I climbed out, tired of waiting Last Line: And tell him I was the man Subject(s): World War Ii DRIVER First Line: At the end of the war I arose Last Line: For thousands of miles on the water DROWNING WITH OTHERS First Line: There are moments a man turns from us Last Line: And me laid out and alive %for nothing at all, in his arms DUSK OF HORSES First Line: Right under their noses, the green Last Line: Quiet, fragrant, and relieved Subject(s): Animals; Horses DUST First Line: Lying at home Last Line: Ready, always, for the next EAGLE'S MILE First Line: Unwarned, catch into this Last Line: Splinter uncontrollably whole EAGLES First Line: If I told you I used to know the circular truth Last Line: Claw-stone, everything under ENCLOSURE First Line: Down the track of a philippine island Last Line: On the enemy's women %with intact and incredible love Subject(s): World War Ii ENCOUNTER IN THE CAGE COUNTRY First Line: What I was would not work Last Line: For a few things in this world: we know you %when you come, green eyes, green eyes ENTERING SCOTT'S NIGHT First Line: Interweaving %of histories: %a torso enchanted into thread. Time spun inside Last Line: On serpent-stone totally dancing EXCHANGES First Line: Under the cliff, green powered in from the open Last Line: Among the fish. %-- let us speak softly of living EXPANSES First Line: Enjoyable clouds, and a man comes Last Line: Joy like short grass EYE-BEATERS First Line: Come something - come blood sunlight - come and they break Last Line: Like eyes. Therapist, farewell at the living end. Give me my spear FACES SEEN ONCE First Line: Faces seen once are seen Last Line: Unbearable memoryless face FACING AFRICA First Line: These are stone jetties Last Line: Fear like a dancing of peoples FALLING Poem Text First Line: The states when they black out and lie there rolling when they turn Variant Title(s): Fall Subject(s): Accidents FALLING First Line: The states when they black out and lie there rolling when they turn Last Line: Feels herself go go toward go outward breathes at last fully %not and tries less once tries tries ah Variant Title(s): Fal Subject(s): Accidents FALSE YOUTH: AUTUMN: CLOTHES OF THE AGE Poem Text First Line: Three red foxes on my head, come down Subject(s): Writing & Writers FALSE YOUTH: AUTUMN: CLOTHES OF THE AGE First Line: Three red foxes on my head, come down Last Line: Through my wings - or ripped apart %for rags: %poetry Subject(s): Writing And Writers FALSE YOUTH: TWO SEASONS First Line: I have had my time - dressed up as something else Last Line: Print as a shape of fire - and of youth as a lifetime search%for the blind FALSE YOUTH: TWO SEASONS (WINTER) First Line: Through an ice storm in nashville FARMERS First Line: There are not many meteors over the flat country Last Line: The moon has troubled the sown seed FATHERS AND SONS First Line: Curled, too much curled, he was sleeping Last Line: He would have grown out of. Something. Music FENCE WIRE Poem Text First Line: Too tight, it is running over Last Line: Whether outside around, or in Subject(s): Farm Life; Fences; Agriculture; Farmers FENCE WIRE First Line: Too tight, it is running over Last Line: Whether outside, around, or in Subject(s): Farm Life FIEND First Line: He has only to pass by a tree moodily walking head down Last Line: Where his knocked-off panama hat was in his painfully vanishing hair FIEW OF FUJIYAMA AFTER THE WAR First Line: Wind, and all the midges in the air Last Line: Overcome by the enemy's peace? FIREBOMBING First Line: All families lie together, though some are burned alive Subject(s): War FIREBOMBING First Line: Homeowners unite Last Line: Absolution? Sentence? No matter %the thing itself is in that Subject(s): World War Ii FLASH First Line: Something far off - buried deep and free Last Line: Blinding, blood-brotherly %beyond-speech answer FOG ENVELOPS THE ANIMALS Last Line: Silence. Whiteness. Hunting FOLK SINGER OF THE THIRTIES First Line: On a bed of gravel moving Last Line: When I opened my mouth to the rich Subject(s): Poverty; Railroads; Wanderers And Wandering FOR A TIME AND PLACE First Line: May we be able to begin with ourselves Last Line: Exactly, %or near enough FOR RICHARD WILBUR First Line: In such a trememdous window Last Line: Alive, where one can get a look FOR ROBERT BHAIN CAMPBELL First Line: Unwandering, I can move Last Line: In my office death-wish, must hear FOR THE DEATH OF VINCE LOMBARDI Poem Text First Line: I never played for you. You'd have thrown Last Line: We're with you all the way you're going forever, vince. Dickey Subject(s): Football; Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970); Sports FOR THE DEATH OF VINCE LOMBARDI First Line: I never played for you. You'd have thrown Last Line: You're going forever, vince Subject(s): Football; Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970); Sports FOR THE LAST WOLVERINE Poem Text First Line: They will soon be down Subject(s): Eagles FOR THE LAST WOLVERINE First Line: They will soon be down Last Line: Lord, let me die - but not die %out FOR THE NIGHTLY SCENT OF THE HUNTER ORION OVER A FOREST CLEARING First Line: Now secretness dies of the open Last Line: In his fabulous, rigid, eternal %unlooked-for role FOR THE RUNNING OF THE NEW YORK CITY MARATHON First Line: If you would quicken the city with your pelting Last Line: All winning, one after one FORM First Line: Pull out the pissed-on clinkers Last Line: Than our two hostile cadavers, together FOX BLOOD First Line: Blood blister over my thumb-moon Last Line: My thumb, a hammering day-and-night sign %of that country FROM TIME First Line: My hands that were not born completely Last Line: Half-approving %time releasing GAMECOCK First Line: Fear, jealousy and murder are the same Last Line: Battling to the death for what is his GIFT First Line: Lack of sleep thins you Last Line: Slides its circle forward, %and in it, her face GILA BEND Poem Text First Line: Where aerial gunnery was, you think at first a cadaver GILA BEND First Line: Where aerial gunnery was, you think at first a cadaver Last Line: Much harder than that GOODBYE TO SERPENTS First Line: Through rain falling on us no faster Last Line: The water in the air without support %sustained in the serpent's eye HEAD-AIM First Line: Sick of your arms Last Line: Straight into your oncoming face, the head %not fail, not tell HEADS First Line: There is no longer any reason to confuse Last Line: The sides of their heads against banks HEAVEN OF ANIMALS First Line: Here they are. The soft eyes open Last Line: They rise, they walk again Subject(s): Animals HEDGE LIFE First Line: At morning we all look out Last Line: King-walking hill after hill HORSES AND PRISONERS First Line: In the war where many men fell Last Line: Take his nude child in his arms HOSPITAL WINDOW First Line: I have just come down from my father Last Line: I have just come down from my father Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Hospitals HUNTING CIVIL WAR RELICS AT NIMBLEWILL CREEK Poem Text First Line: As he moves the mine detector HUNTING CIVIL WAR RELICS AT NIMBLEWILL CREEK First Line: As he moves the mine detector Last Line: But saying, 'fathers! Fathers!' ICE SKIN First Line: All things that go deep enough Last Line: Listening hard for a buried cannon, %stands also, calm as glass IMMORTALS First Line: Always as it holds us in one place, the earth Last Line: Up front for all of us IN THE CHILD'S NIGHT First Line: On distant sides of the bed Last Line: The secret of the game IN THE LUPANAR AT POMPEII First Line: There are tracks which belong to wheels Last Line: But truly know it IN THE MARBLE QUARRY Poem Text First Line: Beginning to dangle beneath Subject(s): Marble; Quarries IN THE MARBLE QUARRY First Line: Beginning to dangle beneath Last Line: Felt here as joy Subject(s): Marble; Quarries IN THE MOUNTAIN TENT First Line: I am hearing the shape of the rain Last Line: I shall rise from the dead, I am saying IN THE POCKET Poem Text First Line: Going backward Last Line: Come up leaf stand kill die strike / now Subject(s): Football IN THE POCKET First Line: Going backward Last Line: Come up - leap stand kill die strike %now Subject(s): Sports IN THE TREE HOUSE AT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: And now the green household is dark IN THE TREE HOUSE AT NIGHT First Line: And now the green household is dark Last Line: And with them I move gently. %I move at the heart of the world INSIDE THE RIVER Poem Text First Line: Dark, deeply. A red INSIDE THE RIVER First Line: Dark, deeply. A red Last Line: Sing. See no one INTO THE STONE Poem Text First Line: On the way to a woman, I give INTO THE STONE First Line: On the way to a woman, I give Last Line: I am known; I know my love ISLAND First Line: A light come from my head Last Line: Like the sun taking place on the sea JEWEL First Line: Forgetting I am alive, the tent comes over me Last Line: To the matched, priceless glow of the engines, %alone, in late night Subject(s): War JOEL CAHILL DEAD First Line: The farmer, fighting busily for his home, %heard, in the pouring sound of fire Last Line: Turned down, to bother no one while he slept %in its fluted veil of glass JUDAS First Line: Mark. Hair, one strand of it, can curl Last Line: From the golden hysteria of heaven KNOCK First Line: Sharing - what sharing - quickly who Last Line: Anything? Have they come for us? KUDZU First Line: Japan invades. Far eastern vines Last Line: And prospered, till rooted out LAKES OF VARMLAND First Line: Under the terrible north-light north-sea Last Line: Or bilberry; whatever LAZARUS TO THE ASSEMBLED First Line: It is you who have made light crawl Last Line: Bring out your dead, I cry LEAP First Line: The only thing I have of jane macnaughton Last Line: While I examine my hands Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Memory; Suicide LETTER First Line: Looking out of the dark of the town Last Line: And gets its strange spark from the world Subject(s): Letters; Memory LIBERATOR EXPLODES First Line: There, in the order of traffic Last Line: Your brothr of parallel fire LIFEGUARD First Line: In a stable of boats I lie still Last Line: And hold in my arms a child %of water, water, water Subject(s): Lifeguards; Sports LISTENING TO FOXHOUNDS First Line: When in that gold Last Line: Who may be straining to hear LITTLE MORE First Line: But the little more: the little more Last Line: Surging bull-breasted %head-down, unblocked LOOKING FOR THE BUCKHEAD BOYS First Line: Some of the time, going home, I go Last Line: Fill 'er up. Fill 'er up, charlie.' LORD IN THE AIR First Line: Shook down - shook up on these trees they have come Last Line: Up death or desire, but only to give - give what was never LOW VOICE, OUT LOUD First Line: A good many times I've come down among you Last Line: Fire-bringing ignorance MADNESS Poem Text First Line: Lay in the house mostly living Last Line: Help help madness help Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness MADNESS First Line: Lay in the house mostly living Last Line: With freedom saying bringing %help help madness help Subject(s): Insanity MAGUS First Line: It is time for the others to come Last Line: This child is not more than a child MANGHAM First Line: Somewhere between bells the right angles staggered Last Line: Devils, lightning, ice or indifference: %identities! Identities! MARRIAGE SONGS First Line: The figure entering Last Line: Stretching %into the future MARY SHEFFIELD First Line: Forever at war news - I am Last Line: New music - long - long %past MATH First Line: Numbers who can't ever hear me Last Line: Triangle gone luminous! MAY DAY SERMON TO THE WOMEN OF GILMER COUNTY, GEORGIA, BY A WOMAN First Line: Each year at this time I shall be telling you of the lord Last Line: At their own pace the cow shuts its mouth and the bible is still %still open at anything we are gone Variant Title(s): May Day Sermon To The Women Of Gilmer County, Georgi MEADOW BRIDGE First Line: There might be working some kind of throwaway Last Line: No softening. %field, what hope? MERCY First Line: Ah, this night - this night mortality wails out Last Line: Alive, and with me at the end MESSAGES First Line: Over and around - grass banked and packed short and holding back Last Line: Son. That does not matter MEXICAN VALLEY First Line: The day works on Last Line: The long-lost mexican sun MOON FLOCK First Line: No, don't ask me to give you Last Line: Hair-tearing and coming MORNING First Line: A dog surroundingly howls Last Line: In its rays set closer than teeth MOVEMENT OF FISH First Line: No water is still, on top Last Line: The instinct of fear and trembling, %and, of its one movement, the depth Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen NAMELESS First Line: Sure. All the time I come up on the evil Last Line: Who planes, as high as he can get %for nothing NEAR DARIEN First Line: It may be the sea-moving moon Last Line: By her eyes catching fire in the morning NIGHT BIRD First Line: Some beating in there Last Line: And a half-you of air NIGHT POOL First Line: There is this other element that shines Last Line: I own, wrap her in many towels OBSTRUCTIONS First Line: Things placed there Last Line: Still tasting of ghosts, who all like it OF HOLY WAR Poem Text First Line: O sire, I dreamed OLYMPIAN First Line: Los angeles back-yarding in its blue-eyed waters Last Line: To glory, I lumbered for gold ON THE COOSAWATTEE First Line: Into the slain tons of needles Last Line: There, with the black dream of the dead canoe %over our faces ON THE HILL BELOW THE LIGHTHOUSE First Line: Now I can be sure of my sleep Last Line: Coming back, coming back, going over ONE First Line: No barometer but yellow Last Line: All other not. %one %one OTHER First Line: Holding onto myself by the hand Last Line: This tree cast down its foliage with the years OWL KING First Line: Through the trees, with the moon underfoot Last Line: I believe everything, I am here Variant Title(s): The Cal PAESTUM Poem Text First Line: Around a lemon tree throwing Last Line: Steps down, is whole there, and stands Subject(s): Greece; Nature; Greeks PATIENCE: IN THE MILL First Line: Through a place in the roof the sun came down Last Line: Opening the bags, tasting the slanted sugar as he would PERFORMANCE First Line: The last time I saw donald armstrong Last Line: Beside his hacked, glittering grave, having done %all things in this life that he could Subject(s): World War Ii PINE First Line: Low-cloudly it whistles, changing heads Last Line: Here like almighty %glory PINE: TASTE, TOUCH AND SIGHT Poem Text First Line: More and more, through slow breaks PLACE First Line: We are nerve-blowing now. Unspeaking and whiteness around. Warm wind Last Line: I can tell you here PLACE OF THE SKULL First Line: I used to get up, in the tent Last Line: Half-knows such seeming peace POEM First Line: For having left the birds that left me Last Line: You are: green-legged, but nailed there POEM First Line: O death, so dear to me Last Line: The soul half-opened as a wound %and let him fly POISONED MAN First Line: When the rattlesnake bit, I lay Last Line: With the promise of harvest for no one POWER AND LIGHT First Line: I may even be Last Line: Who turns on. I am a man PURGATION First Line: Beyond the eye, grasses go over the long fields Last Line: Both sighing like grass and fire PURGATION (SECOND VERSION) First Line: Before and after the eye, grasses go over the long fields Last Line: Both sighing like grass and fire PURSUIT FROM UNDER First Line: Often, in these blue meadows Last Line: Pitch a tent in the pasture, and starve RAFTERS First Line: My father never finished Last Line: But now they just haunt the place RAIN GUITAR First Line: The water-grass under had never waved Last Line: Cathedral water, and improved READING GENESIS TO A BLIND CHILD First Line: I am hiding beside you to tell you Last Line: Within its speaking, speaking REINCARNATION First Line: Still, passed through the spokes of an old wheel, on and around Last Line: In a sudden giving-withdrawing move, like a county judge striking a match REINCARNATION (2) First Line: One can do one begins to one can only Last Line: In midair where it shall be %where it is Variant Title(s): Reincarnation (ii REMNANT WATER First Line: Here in the thrust-green Last Line: Suffering its consequences, dying, %living up to it RIB First Line: Something has left itself scattered Last Line: As I rise, going moonward toward better %and better sleep ROOT-LIGHT, OR THE LAWYER'S DAUGHTER First Line: That any just to long for Last Line: Head-down, and there she is SALT MARSH First Line: Once you have let the first blade Last Line: In their marvelous, spiritual walking %everywhere, anywhere SAYING OF FAREWELL First Line: You've dressed yourself so white for it! And you poise Last Line: Into the oncoming never SCARRED GIRL First Line: All glass may het be whole Last Line: In sight, and the only way SCRATCH First Line: Once hid in a fiery twist Last Line: Which will be, I do not know. %I shall dream of a crown till I do SCREENED PORCH IN THE COUNTRY First Line: All of them are sitting Last Line: Or how they do it SEA First Line: Who told you that the sea said something SEEKING THE CHOSEN First Line: It is good, when leaving a place Last Line: Me, that I still could achieve it, still rise SHARK'S PARLOR First Line: Memory: I can take my head and strike it on a wall on cumberland Last Line: Feeling more in two worlds than one in all worlds the growing %encounters SHEEP CHILD First Line: Farm boys wild to couple Last Line: Themselves, they marry, they raise their kind Subject(s): Farm Life SHOW US THE SEA First Line: Real god, roll %roll as a result Last Line: The stone. Statue, yes: creature lured into being %by gestures it has chosen in tis sleep SIX First Line: When you think strong enough, you get something Last Line: Falling - now falling %more than now SLAVE QUARTERS Poem Text First Line: In the great place the great house is gone from - in the sun Last Line: Acknowledge, but own? Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs SLAVE QUARTERS First Line: In the great place the great house is gone from - in the sun Last Line: Amazing eyes, and not %acknowledge, but own? Subject(s): Slavery SLED BURIAL, DREAM CEREMONY Poem Text First Line: While the south rains, the north Subject(s): American Civil War; Funerals; United States - History; Burials SLED BURIAL, DREAM CEREMONY First Line: While the south rains, the north Last Line: On utter foreignness, before he fills and sails down Subject(s): American Civil War; Funerals; U.s. - History SLEEPERS First Line: There is a sound you can make, as if someone asked you Last Line: The lifted spaces, unburied SLEEPING OUT AT EASTER First Line: All dark is now no more Last Line: For the king's grave turns you to light SMALL SONG First Line: I'm laughing, but being very quiet about it Last Line: Hang-period - meridian passage: %sing SNAKEBITE First Line: I am the one Last Line: Cut to save it. Me SNOW ON A SOUTHERN STATE First Line: Alongside the train I labor Last Line: Falling into the river SNOW THICKETS First Line: Helplessly besieging: it is dim Last Line: Down-dealt to the upthrust SPRING-SHOCK First Line: All bubbles travelling Last Line: At sixty. 'I want your car,' I said SPRINGER MOUNTAIN First Line: Four sweaters are woven upon me Last Line: Deer for the first and last time SPRINGHOUSE, MENSES, HELD APPLE, HOUSE AND BEYOND First Line: Nothing but one life: all stands Last Line: Far orchards blazing with slant SPRINTER AT FORTY First Line: Knowing that nothing is in it Last Line: In violent motion, sliding on cement STRENGTH OF FIELDS First Line: Moth-force a small town always has Last Line: Of us. %my life belongs to the world. I will do what I can STRING First Line: Except when he enters my son Last Line: Dead before I was born SUMMONS First Line: For something out of sight Last Line: Pulls wide the great, thoughtful arrow SUN Poem Text First Line: O lord, it was all night Subject(s): Love SUN First Line: O lord, it was all night Last Line: As we lay, o lord %in hell, in love Subject(s): Love SUSTAINMENT First Line: Here at the level of leaves supposedly for good Last Line: His head in his own image where it flowed TAPESTRY AND SAIL First Line: A wrong look into heavy stone Last Line: Tautening and resolving, dwelling slowly THE ANGEL OF THE MAZE Poem Text First Line: At mid-morning her wheelchair seems to rock THE ANNIVERSARY Poem Text First Line: She is who THE BEING Poem Text First Line: It is there, above him, beyond, behind THE CANCER MATCH Poem Text First Line: Lord, you've sent both Subject(s): Cancer (disease) THE CHILD IN ARMOR Poem Text First Line: On such a day I see him in the window THE DUSK OF HORSES Poem Text First Line: Right under their noses, the green Last Line: Quiet, fragrant, and relieved Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE ENCLOSURE Poem Text First Line: Down the track of a philippine island Last Line: With intact and incredible love Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE FATHER'S BODY Poem Text First Line: His father steps into the shower Subject(s): Fathers THE FIREBOMBING Poem Text First Line: Homeowners unite Last Line: The thing itself is in that Subject(s): War THE FIRST MORNING OF CANCER Poem Text First Line: The first morning of cancer he awoke Subject(s): Cancer (disease) THE GAME Poem Text First Line: In the world, or behind the world THE GAMECOCKS Poem Text First Line: As I think of pine needles Subject(s): Childhood Memories THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS Poem Text First Line: Here they are. The soft eyes open Subject(s): Animals THE HOSPITAL WINDOW Poem Text First Line: I have just come down from my father Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Hospitals; Dead, The THE JEWEL Poem Text First Line: Forgetting I am alive, the tent comes over me Last Line: Alone, in late night? Subject(s): War THE LANDFALL Poem Text First Line: Blue water: upon it two possible movements THE LEAP Poem Text First Line: The only thing I have of jane macnaughton Last Line: While I examine my hands Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Memory; Suicide THE LIFEGUARD Poem Text First Line: In a stable of boats I lie still Subject(s): Lifeguards; Sports THE MOVEMENT OF FISH Poem Text First Line: No water is still, on top Last Line: And, of its one moment, the depth Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE PERFORMANCE Poem Text First Line: The last time I saw donald armstrong Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE SHARK'S PARLOR Poem Text First Line: Memory: I can take my head and strike it on a wall on cumberland island Subject(s): Sharks THE SHEEP CHILD Poem Text First Line: Farm boys wild to couple Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SIGNS Poem Text First Line: If he should lift his hand Subject(s): Children; Hospitals; Childhood THE SIX Poem Text First Line: When you think strong enough you get something THE STRENGTH OF FIELDS Poem Text First Line: Moth-force a small town always has, Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE STRING Poem Text First Line: Except when he enters my son Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THEM, CRYING First Line: In the well-fed cage-sound of diesels Last Line: The superhuman tenderness of strangers THREE First Line: I alone, solemn land Last Line: This may be it, too TO BE DONE IN WINTER First Line: What you hold Last Line: With the spark-pounding cold TO HIS CHILDREN IN DARKNESS First Line: You hear my step Last Line: Into your room %they are. I am TO LANDRUM GUY, BEGINNING TO WRITE AT SIXTY First Line: One man in a house Last Line: Here, or ever. Here, where he begins TO THE BUTTERFLIES First Line: Open windows; we always have them, have Last Line: And us in the dresses and shirts TOMB STONE First Line: This place named you Last Line: Echo, because of a foot. %pass, human step TREES AND CATTLE Poem Text First Line: Many trees can stand unshaded Last Line: A ccow beneath it lies down Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers TREES AND CATTLE First Line: Many trees can stand unshaded Last Line: A cow beneath it lies down Subject(s): Farm Life TURNING AWAY First Line: Something for a long time has gone wrong Last Line: Later, much later on TWIN FALLS First Line: They fall through my life and surround me Last Line: On great, other wings than its own TWO POEMS OF FLIGHT-SLEEP First Line: With this you trim it. Do it right and the thing'll fly Last Line: I guess, in central park, I can tell you, too, after all %these years. So was I TWO POEMS OF GOING HOME First Line: The keeper %is silent - is living in the air not Last Line: Filler 'er up. Fill 'er up, charlie TWO POEMS OF THE MILITARY First Line: Prepared for death and unprepared Last Line: In peace peace peace %one two %in sleep TWO WOMEN First Line: Alone here. Beach, drum out Last Line: Like sand-grains, unintended %born infinite UNDER BUZZARDS Poem Text First Line: Heavy summer. Heavy. Companion, if we climb our mortal bodies UNDERGROUND STREAM First Line: I lay at the edge of a well Last Line: And then I smiled, and fell VEER-VOICES: TWO SISTERS UNDER CROWS First Line: Sometimes are living those who have been seen Last Line: Of tongue, their cry of unfathomable hordes VEGETABLE KING First Line: Just after the sun Last Line: Magnificent pardon, and dread, impending crime VENOM Poem Text First Line: Forever, it comes from the head. Where does it end VENOM First Line: Forever, it comes from the head. Where does it end Last Line: Turn it, turn it, %brother VIA APPIA First Line: Going through me, the roman sun Last Line: I still can make you. I am coming VICTORY First Line: By september 3rd I had made my bundle Last Line: His master, and the new prince of peace VOYAGE OF THE NEEDLE First Line: The child comes sometimes with his mother's needle Last Line: Of this household, weightless as love WALKING ON WATER Poem Text First Line: Feeling it with me Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology WALKING ON WATER First Line: Feeling it with me Last Line: Shall pass, as if led by the nose into heaven Subject(s): Bible; Religion WALKING THE FIRE LINE First Line: Dead on one side Last Line: Just here, but why, or nearly why WALL AND CLOUD First Line: The white cloud bearing to me the carkness of my mind Last Line: Into more and more reality, set deep in the light of the world WALTER ARMISTEAD First Line: Remember: not making %memory climb the mind, as he Last Line: The strings, the winter of the leaves WAR WOUND First Line: It wounded well -- one time and Last Line: Small, but with world-fury WEDDING First Line: During that long time, in those places Last Line: Now never worn by woman in its life WEEDS Poem Text First Line: Stars and grass Last Line: Come forward. A man loves you Subject(s): Weeds WEEDS First Line: Stars and grass Last Line: Come forward. A man loves you Subject(s): Weeds WHEN First Line: A prisoner in this space perpetually narrow Last Line: The window opens to summer WHY IN LONDON THE BLIND ARE SAVIORS Poem Text First Line: Levelly into his face WINTER TROUT First Line: In the concrete cells of the hatchery Last Line: For once, that winter bought ZODIAC First Line: The man I'm telling you about brought himself back alive Last Line: The star-beasts of intellect and madness |
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