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Author: DOTY, MARK Matches Found: 156 Doty, Mark Poet's Biography 156 poems available by this author 63RD STREET Y First Line: All night steam heat pours Last Line: Though I will not stay to watch them Subject(s): Homosexuality A DISPLAY OF MACKEREL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: They lie in parallel rows Subject(s): Mackerel A GREEN CRAB'S SHELL Poem Text First Line: Not, exactly, green: Subject(s): Summer ADONIS THEATER Poem Text First Line: It must have seemed the apex of dreams Subject(s): Americans; United States; America ADONIS THEATER First Line: It must have seemed the apex of dreams Last Line: In this light, whether we look to %or away from the screen Subject(s): Americans; United States ADVENT CALENDARS First Line: These were our first instruction Last Line: Half the windows closed. %there is no single location of miracle AGAINST PARADISE First Line: Past the paperwhites breathing Last Line: I couldn't love any world but this. %it's almost dark. Johnny boy ALMOST BLUE Poem Text First Line: If hart crane played the trumpet Last Line: And you let to and why not Subject(s): Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music & Musicians ALMOST BLUE First Line: If hart crane played the trumpet Last Line: Breathing in the lindins %and you let go and why not Subject(s): Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music And Musicians ANCIENT WORLD First Line: Today the masons are auctioning Last Line: Even if we hardly know them, %even if it no longer signifies, if it only shines ANNA KARENINA First Line: This morning a hurrying white boat Last Line: Her thoughts are on the future so ARARAT Poem Text First Line: Wrapped in gold foil, in the search ARARAT First Line: Wrapped in gold foil, in the search Last Line: And there were two of every animal inside me ART LESSONS First Line: Bored with the still life her painting teacher Last Line: Perfect collonades. Mother, father, %listen: I was not born but made AT THE GYM Poem Text First Line: This salt-stain spot Subject(s): Gymnasia ATLANTIS: 1. FAITH Poem Text First Line: I've been having these / awful dreams, each a little different Last Line: I didn’t know who I was trying to protect Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 1. FAITH First Line: I've been having these %awful dreams, each a little different Last Line: I didn't know who I was trying to protect Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ATLANTIS: 2. REPRIEVE Poem Text First Line: I woke in the night / and thought, it was a dream Last Line: It was only a dream Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 2. REPRIEVE First Line: I woke in the night %and thought, it was a dream Last Line: Nothing's wrong now, %it was only a dream Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ATLANTIS: 3. MICHAEL'S DREAM Poem Text First Line: Michael writes to tell me his dream Last Line: What something is in order to hold it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 3. MICHAEL'S DREAM First Line: Michael writes to tell me his dream Last Line: What something is in order to hold it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ATLANTIS: 4. ATLANTIS Poem Text First Line: I thought your illness a kind of solvent Last Line: Drenched, unchanged Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 4. ATLANTIS First Line: I thought your illness a kind of solvent Last Line: Drenched, unchanged Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ATLANTIS: 5. COASTAL Poem Text First Line: Cold april and the neighbor girl Last Line: Stubborn girl. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 5. COASTAL First Line: Cold april and the neighbor girl Last Line: She cradles the wild form. %stubborn girl Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ATLANTIS: 6. NEW DOG Poem Text First Line: Jimmy and tony / can't keep dino Last Line: The animal, the new Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 6. NEW DOG First Line: Jimmy and tony %can't keep dino Last Line: The animal, the new Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BECOMING A MEADOW First Line: A bookstore in a seaside town Last Line: Of the one before, %and half blows away in spray, backward the open sea BEGINNERS Poem Text First Line: The year miss tynes enrolled our class Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students BEGINNERS First Line: The year miss tynes enrolled our class Last Line: Might lean toward it and whisper, %until it was more ancient, with all it knew Subject(s): Education; Schools BILL'S STORY Poem Text First Line: When my sister came back from africa Last Line: Shut up, mother, I said, and annie died Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness BILL'S STORY First Line: When my sister came back from africa Last Line: It was to reach her, if I heard her calling. %shut up, mother, I said, and annie died Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BOOTBLACK First Line: What can be said of this happiness? Last Line: He is the image of achieved joy BOX OF LILIES First Line: I'm driving to work, late Last Line: The trumpets in their brave clusters %year after year BRIAN AGE SEVEN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Grateful for their tour Subject(s): Children; Portraits; Childhood BRILLIANCE First Line: Maggie's taking care of a man Last Line: Doubloons, icon-colored fins %troubling the water? BROADWAY Poem Text First Line: Under grand central's tattered vault Last Line: The jewel of love for us Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple BROADWAY First Line: Under grand central's tattered vault Last Line: Are replenishing the jewel of love for us Subject(s): Cities; New York City CEMETERY ROAD Poem Text First Line: No one's been buried here for years Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards CEMETERY ROAD First Line: No one's been buried here for years Last Line: Though perhaps what lies before you %can't be called that Subject(s): Cemeteries CHANTEUSE First Line: Prendergast painted the public garden Last Line: My city, my false, %my splendid chanteuse CHARLIE HOWARD'S DESCENT Poem Text First Line: Between the bridge and the river Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Death; Dead, The CHARLIE HOWARD'S DESCENT First Line: Between the bridge and the river Last Line: Can afford to give COLLECTION OF MINERALS First Line: Weekdays on the island my father Last Line: From the box one by one and traded them %for something I now cannot remember COUTURE Poem Text First Line: Peony silks Subject(s): Beauty; Clothing & Dress CREPE DE CHINE Poem Text First Line: These drugstore windows Last Line: Call me crepe de chine Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CREPE DE CHINE First Line: These drugstore windows Last Line: Call me crepe de chine Subject(s): Homosexuality DAYS OF 1981 Poem Text First Line: Cambridge street, summer Last Line: A blue I could barely see Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States DAYS OF 1981 First Line: Cambridge street, summer Last Line: The astonishing flowers, seething %a blue a could barely see Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States DEATH OF ANTINOUS First Line: When the beautiful young man drowned Last Line: Become its own object, the way %that desire can make anything into a god Subject(s): Homosexuality DEEP LANE Recitation by Author Subject(s): Dogs DEMOLITION Poem Text First Line: The intact facade's almost black DEMOLITION First Line: The intact facade's now almost black Last Line: And the whole thing wavers as though we'd dreamed it, %our black classic, and it topples all at once DIFFERENCE Poem Text First Line: The jellyfish / float in the bay shallows Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DIFFERENCE First Line: The jellyfish %float in the bay shallows Last Line: So full %of longing for the world, %changes its shape? Subject(s): Homosexuality DOOR TO THE RIVER First Line: He means,I think, there's an out Last Line: Of course this is what death will be. Fine ELIZABETH BISHOP, CROTON (WATERCOLOR, 9 X 5.75 , N.D.) First Line: Exiles see xiles everywhere Last Line: Autobigraphical. Or: %enisled, this ellipse is coral & sable... Subject(s): Paintings And Painters ELIZABETH BISHOP, CROTON (WATERCOLOR, 9 X 5.75, N.D.) Poem Text First Line: Exiles see exiles everywhere Last Line: Enisled, this ellipse is coral & sable Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ESTA NOCHE First Line: In a dress with a black tulip's sheen Last Line: We have to stand on. Put it on, %it's the only thing we have to wear EXHIBITION OF QUILTS First Line: Necessity bloomed %into an exuberance of scraps Last Line: Whirling and sleeping stars, %bethlehem in broad daylight FIRE TO FIRE Poem Text First Line: All smolder and oxblood Last Line: Which is why the corona’d seedhead flashes the finches down Subject(s): Fire; War FIRE TO FIRE First Line: All smolder and oxblood Last Line: The corona'd seedhead flashes the finches down Subject(s): Fire; War FLIT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: = Subject(s): Chickadees; Winter FOG First Line: The crested iris by the front gate waves Last Line: I would say anything else %in the world, any other word FOG SUITE: 1. A FIVE PANELED SCREEN First Line: Fog-lacquered, %varnished in thin Last Line: Where desire begins FOG SUITE: 2. First Line: What I love about language Last Line: The world's lustered by the veil FOG SUITE: 3. First Line: Or else I love fog Last Line: Of a ghost's embrace FOR LOUISE MICHEL First Line: Above all else, I am taken by the revolution %you wished %dogs would bite Last Line: Do they still send soldiers %against the people FOUR CUT SUNFLOWERS, ONE UPSIDE DOWN First Line: Turbulent stasis on a blue ground Last Line: Evening is overtaking them. %in this last light they are voracious GARDEN OF THE MOON First Line: The school bus rattled around more turns Last Line: With that same breathless look GARDENIAS First Line: In puerto rico in 1939 my mother has leaned Last Line: For the truck grinding gravel at the foot of the hill GOLDEN RETRIEVALS Poem Text First Line: Fetch? Balls and sticks capture my attention Subject(s): Dogs GREEN CRAB'S SHELL First Line: Not, exactly, green Last Line: Of ourselves, %similarly, %revealed some sky GROSSE FUGE First Line: This october morning, %soft lavender bursts above the plymouth Last Line: There is no resolution in the fugue Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HAIR Poem Text First Line: In a scene in the film Subject(s): Hair; Motion Pictures; Concentration Camps; Movies; Cinema HAIR First Line: In a scene in the film Last Line: Is a part of her, her own HARBOR LIGHTS Poem Text First Line: I'm coming home through the red lacquered lobby Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life HARBOR LIGHTS First Line: I'm coming home through the red lacquered lobby Last Line: Of appearances behind her window, %her glaze of rain, her veil Subject(s): Cities HEAVEN First Line: Tonigh there's a mirror on the sidewalk Last Line: Out of their contexts. She knew she could lie there, %with her stranger, with the living animal betw HEAVEN FOR HELEN Poem Text First Line: Helen says heaven, for her, Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise HEAVEN FOR STANLEY Poem Text First Line: For his birthday, I gave stanley a hyacinth bean Subject(s): Friendship HOMO WILL NOT INHERIT Poem Text First Line: Downtown anywhere and between the roil Last Line: Gorgeous, and on fire. I have my kingdom Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Gays & Lesbians; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men HOMO WILL NOT INHERIT First Line: Downtown anywhere and between the roil Last Line: Gorgeous, and on fire. I have my kingdom Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Homosexuality; Marginality, Social HORSES First Line: The nights were blue and star-regular as church Last Line: To give birth, lovely and not ours HORSES AFTER A HURRICANE First Line: How they eased out from the bamboo brake Last Line: With the gobs, and after, when we were faithless, %and entirely tender HUMAN FIGURES First Line: On the number fifteen bus on porttrero hill Last Line: Behind them firures molded %into something intimate, something to hide HURRICANE First Line: When our local psychic Last Line: And we lit more candles, to more brightly see us IN THE FORM OF SNOW First Line: The summer I turned eighteen I worked Last Line: Could have happened, and this did INDEPENDENCE DAY First Line: Benches spangled in shade Last Line: As if even the stars spoke to each other as they fell ISIS: DOROTHY EADY, 1924 First Line: I was never this beautiful Last Line: Though the audience accepts it, %as they always have, and are moved LA BELLE ET LA BETE First Line: My heart,' he said, 'is the heart Last Line: Everything, the coming to love LAMENT-HEAVEN First Line: What hazed around the branches Last Line: That could not go go on without us, %and I was inconsolable LATE CONVERSATION First Line: From the window twenty-eighth is slick with rain Last Line: My face, yours, closing LATE FLIGHT Poem Text First Line: The pilot of the little plane must stop his engines Last Line: The self is made of night Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Flying LATE FLIGHT First Line: The pilot of the little plane must stop his engines Last Line: The self isn't made of language; the self is made of night Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Flight LATIN DANCES First Line: My father writes from arizona Last Line: The rhythmic and reeling pleasures of survivors LETTER FROM THE COAST First Line: All afternoon the town readied for storm Last Line: I wish you were here LETTER TO GOD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The dogs were tired and bewildered Last Line: It’s still possible a reply might reach them Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology LILACS IN NYC First Line: Monday evening, e. 22nd %in front of jimmy and vincent's Last Line: As april does to lilacwood LILIES IN NEW YORK Poem Text First Line: A drawing: smudged shadow, deep worked areas of graphite Last Line: Open. And who could hope to draw that? Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple LOST IN THE STARS First Line: The cafe musicale: %a sort of salon organized %by billy-sweet, irksome billy Last Line: The black glove opens %and there it is, still falling, %beyond memory, beyond recovery, %the snow of MESSIAH (CHRISTMAS PORTIONS) First Line: A little heat caught %in gleaming rags Last Line: Waves of praise? Still time. %still time to change MURANO First Line: Toxic salts, arsenic and copper Last Line: Stolen from byzantium? %and now you're glass NANCY OUTSIDE IN JULY First Line: In these prints, twenty-five variations Last Line: And awkward as it is, spells out nothing %if not your name NIGHT FERRY First Line: We're launched into the darkness Last Line: Woodsmoke risen from the chilly store NO First Line: The children have brought their wood turtle Last Line: His prayer, %the single word of the shell, %which is no NOCTURNE IN BLACK AND GOLD First Line: Tonight the harbor's %one lustrous wall, the air a warm gray Last Line: As shimmer is. Go. %don't go. Go NOIR First Line: It's the hotel balcony, after midnight ONE OF THE ROOMING-HOUSES OF HEAVEN First Line: Last night I dreamed of bobby again Last Line: I can't remember now a single thing he said Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness PARADISE: 1 First Line: For you it's a hotel whose prime is long past Last Line: Or, heaven is somewhere you don't need %to love anyone to feel all right PARADISE: 2 First Line: I read that blind children Last Line: Whether the subject of object %of desire is made more beautiful PARADISE: 3 First Line: I forget who told the story Last Line: And it's all right PARADISE: 4. First Line: Maybe the dead look back Last Line: In longing, like the rest of us PARAGON PARK First Line: Across the highway's a city beach Last Line: And before them the horses hurrying away PAUL'S TATTOO Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The flesh dreams toward permanence, PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER First Line: The youth groups have all built floats Last Line: In which she must imagine the form of her son PINK PALACE First Line: My father would take me, saturdays Last Line: Look at this one, and held me higher PLAYLAND Poem Text First Line: The black piano player's straightened hair Last Line: "continues, yes, light the light, I’ll be home, late tonight, Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music PLAYLAND First Line: The black piano player's straightened hair Last Line: Continues, yes, light the light, I'll be home %late tonight Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music PRIVATE LIFE First Line: Little kaiser, the parrot %in our local headshop's sidewalk cage Last Line: Lifts and curls out to the world, performing %all night in his blanketed cage REPLICA OF THE PARTHENON First Line: One of my presents, one christmas Last Line: This was in nashville, in 1957 ROBERT HARMS PAINTS THE SURFACE OF LITTLE FRESH POND Poem Text First Line: Surface the action of the day, ROCKET First Line: In iowa, 1971, I wore my hair Last Line: Than he remembered, less dangerous ROW OF IDENTICAL COTTAGES First Line: All night the flag outside our window Last Line: Stenciled on the clapboard along the waterfront: %cleome, peony, rose SHAKER ORCHARD Poem Text First Line: Holding even flowers subject SHAKER ORCHARD First Line: Holding even flowers subject Last Line: Having managed both to contain light %and to bear SIDESHOW First Line: The goat without ears coughs Last Line: In the miserable tent, my teacher SIGNAL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Lost cockatiel, cried the sign, hand-lettered SIX THOUSAND TERRA-COTTA MEN AND HORSES First Line: Some farmers digging a well Last Line: Into the dark perfectly for two thousand years, %good-natured, their faces open and uncomplicated STAIRS First Line: Back when arden could still climb our stairs Last Line: The fear that makes the stairway steeper STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE First Line: Poetry has always been a voice fro those without voices, a Subject(s): Politics & Government; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE First Line: Poetry has always been a voice fro those without voices, a Last Line: Profiteering, to the careless destruction of life Subject(s): Politics; War THE DEATH OF ANTINOUS Poem Text First Line: When the beautiful young man drowned Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE EMBRACE Poem Text First Line: You weren't well or really ill yet either; Subject(s): Illness THE HOUSE OF BEAUTY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In jersey city, on tonnelle avenue, THREE SUNDAYS, A SATURDAY, ROSES, PHOTOGRAPHS Poem Text First Line: Sunday after you're gone I photograph Subject(s): Love THREE SUNDAYS, A SATURDAY, ROSES, PHOTOGRAPHS First Line: Sunday after you're gone I photograph Last Line: These are the wonders of the world Subject(s): Love TIARA Poem Text First Line: Peter died in a paper tiara cut Last Line: But ask for it? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness TIARA First Line: Peter died in a paper tiara cut Last Line: What could any of us ever do %but ask for it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TO BESSIE DRENNAN Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO BESSIE DRENNAN First Line: Bessie, you've made space dizzy Last Line: Is it anything but joyous, %the arc his red scarf %transcribes in the air? TO CAVAFY First Line: We were talking about desire Last Line: But that wasn't what mattered at all TO THE ENGRAVER OF MY SKIN Poem Text First Line: I understand this pact is mortal, TUNNEL MUSIC First Line: Times square, the shuttle's quick chrome Last Line: So utterly of the coming world it is TURTLE, SWAN Poem Text First Line: Because the road to our house Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness TURTLE, SWAN First Line: Because the road to our house Last Line: Of polished tortoise - I do not want you ever to die Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness WARE COLLECTION OF GLASS FLOWERS AND FRUIT, HARVARD .... First Line: Strange paradise, complete with worms Last Line: Mouthed to the shape of how soft things are, %how good, before the disappear WHERE YOU ARE: 1 Poem Text First Line: Flung to your salt parameters in all that wide gleam Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WHERE YOU ARE: 1 First Line: Flung to your salt parameters in all that wide gleam Last Line: And ask are you awake Subject(s): Homosexuality; Love WHERE YOU ARE: 2. EVERYWHERE Poem Text First Line: I thought I'd lost you. But you said I'm inbued Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WHERE YOU ARE: 2. EVERYWHERE First Line: I thought I'd lost you. But you said I'm inbued Last Line: Where breath ends, air starts Subject(s): Homosexuality WHERE YOU ARE: 3. VAN GOGH, FLOWERING ROSEBUSHES: 1889 Poem Text First Line: A billow of attention Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WHERE YOU ARE: 3. VAN GOGH, FLOWERING ROSEBUSHES: 1889 First Line: A billow of attention Last Line: Of each arriving wave Subject(s): Homosexuality WHITE POURING First Line: I was a swan, %and I slept in the reeds Last Line: The beautiful kingdom is over WINGS First Line: The bored child at the auction Last Line: Which has become itself %as it has disappeared WITH ANIMALS First Line: Wet grass, headlights streaking morning fog Last Line: And the flooding darkness. The life does'nt care. %the life only wants, the fugitive life |
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