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| Searching... Author: GALVIN, JAMES Matches Found: 382 Galvin, Brendan James Poet's Biography 244 poems available by this author 1/16/1991 First Line: No matter how far we back away from ourselves Last Line: & hagiographers will surround the motel 1/20/1991 First Line: & here is the sleeping woman doublecrossed Last Line: & we call this show father, fire & the fuse 1/23/1991 First Line: At the end of the. At the end of the Last Line: Violent & hungry as the lover 1847 First Line: Halfway down constitution hill the report of a pistol Last Line: Everywhere you step %into the indentations under grass A COLD BELL RINGING IN THE EAST Poem Text First Line: It woke me to this full moon Subject(s): Wind A PHOTO OF MINERS USA, 1908 Poem Text First Line: With trees backing them / instead of the pit's mouth Subject(s): Child Labor; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers AFTER MIDNIGHT First Line: In kansas a shadow is moving Last Line: Fray with the recitation %of another year AGAINST GENEALOGY First Line: Discovering the provenance of the name Last Line: Vigilance, and conflated now with blackie, %utterly wary and the perfect mouser AMERICAN NATURALIST WRITES TO A LONDONER, 1758 First Line: Now I will tell you our manner Last Line: Ghostly sleighrides through the dark ANALYSIS OF BATHTUB PANOPTICON, OR HYBRIDS OF INDEXES First Line: The index-maker has been working late in the postoperative light Last Line: Crime scene, sign, screen ANCHORITES First Line: On the saints' road Last Line: Therefore no holidays for them APPLE TALK First Line: I knew in april that would be Last Line: Over, and won't let go %your teeth till february APPLE TREES First Line: They look twisted Last Line: Resolve to try it again, %over and over? APPRENTICED TO THE BIRD MASTER First Line: Trout for his fish hawk's clamp ARRIVISTE HOUSES First Line: At night houselights in fog Last Line: In the post office parking lot AS HE FALLS First Line: Off a roof or scaffold %would almost be better Last Line: First years ago. Measure twice, %cut once, is propping him up AS IN A SUCCESSION OF RUSSIAN DOLLS First Line: A furry lump like the back of a brown creeper Last Line: Inside another, the husk of things to come Subject(s): Animals; Bats ASKING DIRECTIONS OF AN OLD KERRYMAN First Line: Get in close, past ASSEMBLING A STREET First Line: Let's give it the kamjian-boyadjian post Last Line: He's afraid to take her AT ELLEN DOYLE'S BROOK First Line: Since there's no childhood Last Line: A lady bequeaths her name AT THE DUNCAN BAN MACINTYRE MEMORIAL First Line: The poet of this place on the way Last Line: Laughing at lines remaindered %and brown and unbinding in their hands? AUTUMN ALPHABETS (3) First Line: When they put him to work Last Line: Janine, I will die without yu BACKTALK First Line: Like a cross between a hinge Last Line: Home to the poetry under my nose BATHTUB PANOPTICON First Line: I had a little desert, I kept it in the study Last Line: Charlotte, you need the razor to have marat BATS First Line: Somebody said for killing one Last Line: Pealing their single bell-notes through the dark BELOW THE HILL OF THE THREE CHURCHES First Line: The little oyster dragger swings out Last Line: Everything's deviating from the mean BIRDS First Line: Seeing them corner above fields BLUE LOUISE First Line: Zaffer, baby, milori, celeste, the sky so blue-colored Last Line: This is how entirely evening falls & BLUE WOODS First Line: You sat on the white line %at a bend of long pond road Last Line: Like a hypnotist's watch %is spinning in my own BROTHER FRANCISCO ANTHONY EATS AN APPLE First Line: After the first bite watered his thirst Last Line: Was immortality, he said, or never %to have tasted this fruit Subject(s): Fruit; Religion BYRUM BETWEEN THE HEADPHONES First Line: Sweeping my bounty hunter over the sands Last Line: To john l. Smith, doctor of medicine CAPE COD FOX First Line: Yesterday it foraged in the dunes Last Line: Footpads that keeps you on his mind Subject(s): Foxes CAPTAIN TEABAG AND THE WELLFLEET WITCHES First Line: Red-gold her hair the one night Last Line: Or curled up on holbrook avenue %one sunrise to the next CAROLINA WREN First Line: When this coast goes colder Last Line: Tricolors into an occasional %nuthatch I'll wish was you CARRIAGE MULE ON DECATUR STREET First Line: Far from cotton and red clay Last Line: Humility, saint mule CARROWKEEL First Line: If I can't be buried Last Line: In four or five millenia, to wait %long enough for sunrise to strike through CATALOG DREAMS First Line: Kiln-dried andalusian maple, blond walnut Last Line: Of bogwash, spill, and splat CAUTIONARY TALE First Line: The way was a scrub oak reaches Last Line: To the birds the way you do CHARLIE FOX First Line: Tell me again how he led the percherons Last Line: Of the man they should have buried at avalon CHICKADEE First Line: The crow is only an anvil Last Line: And taught me %the duende of chickadees COBWEBS ON THE HILLSIDE First Line: You could explain it away Last Line: Breakfast in the grass COLD BELL RINGING IN THE EAST First Line: It woke me to this full moon Last Line: In scrub, then dusk itself, %with its air of invisible mending Subject(s): Wind COMEBACK First Line: The word is they're well-ruffed again Last Line: Bringing fire on four sooty feet CONNECTICUT RIVER IN FLOOD First Line: We were with you, of course Last Line: Without asking how you happened %onto the roof of riverpark's new gazebo CONSTANT, A MYSTERY First Line: First cries of the outriding crows were all business Last Line: Blue as october decorating its chest, mystery %of the province of poetry Subject(s): Mystery CORNCRAKE First Line: To bake the rust off the needle Last Line: Troubling the grass over it COUGAR First Line: Non-native plantings stuck into lawns, Last Line: Going from car to porchlight, %the short hairs lifting off my neck. CROSSING PENTLAND FIRTH First Line: We might not see the old man of hoy Last Line: In a gray wave on our eyes CUCKOO First Line: A bull of sorrowful eye Last Line: You would always need %to name the place DAY AFTER LABOR DAY First Line: This green dark has a marsh in it Last Line: Is a weding? The world is a pudding %rarest things keep splashing into DAY IN TOWN First Line: Either way we have been set in motion Last Line: Pensively into the hearts, of, america DEAD SEA SCROLL First Line: In the holy city's harbor a howling heat, furious corona, mercantile boats Last Line: Was a god of war, that this life was preparation, and welcome to the parade grounds DEFENDING THE PROVINCES First Line: The man on the city corner Last Line: Ove the bay seemed to move closer DOG LOVE First Line: Now the shadow of the wolf in him Last Line: Or cold you douse them with %before the schoolbus comes DONEGAL First Line: Bog cotton and whin. A stone Last Line: Goes up each morning, %singing to penetrate the sun Subject(s): Donegal, Ireland; Exiles; Irish Language DOUBLE-ENDED DORY First Line: You mayn ever understand Last Line: With mine, and took the old country road DRAGGERS First Line: When nothing's going on but a wind Last Line: Slickers on this gray midwinter water DUNE SHACKS First Line: Evenings he'd walk in ELEGY FOR A VALEDICTORIAN First Line: All I remember of your address %is 'men of the class of '56, arise!' Last Line: Our damnedest for the faith of '56 %implore you in chorus to arise ENVOY First Line: I set out EPIPHANY First Line: The deep groaning of red horsepower, %colored lights strobing up elm street Last Line: A first phrase catching fire: spontaneous combustion, %like inscape, epiphany, like love at first si ESTUARY First Line: Even its latinate carries Last Line: On that bar in the estuary FALL SQUASHES First Line: The lettuce long bolted to exotic Last Line: With its journey packed in, %as deep as anything FAR MULLISKAY First Line: If the soul leaves the body as a mouse Last Line: Lit like saturday night in hell FEAR OF GRAY'S ANATOMY First Line: I will not look in it again Last Line: I will not open gray's anatomy again FEAR OF THE WALDORF CAFETERIA First Line: I am afraid if I go there again Last Line: And when do I %forgive myself my youth? FEW QUESTIONS FOR BEN FRANKLIN First Line: This wild tom picking his way Last Line: Any true believer entering a church? FIELD OF INHERITANCE First Line: In your drawings Last Line: That grew all winter %out of garden snow FIGURE OF SPEECH First Line: You're an oxymoron, beautiful cop Last Line: And hairstreaks, swallowtails FIRST NIGHT OF FALL First Line: Each july, an evening arrives Last Line: Wanders the house, shutting doors, sweeping %the blueprints for that day's disasters FOG TOWNSHIP First Line: It's that delicate time Last Line: Who's chipping for sustenance %along a pine's gray limb FOR A DAUGHTER GONE AWAY Poem Text First Line: Today there've been moments Subject(s): Absence; Daughters; Railroads; Separation; Isolation; Railways; Trains FOR A DAUGHTER GONE AWAY First Line: Today there've been moments Last Line: Whatever's driving those flocks %and drove the b & m freights into air Subject(s): Absence; Daughters; Railroads FOR A LITTLE GIRL OF POMPEII First Line: The dog's still jerking on his chain Last Line: Between the two of you, you two could lift me GANDY DANCERS First Line: Not men but guys, we knew it even then Last Line: All you'd ever need to ramble through this life GANG FROM BALLYLOSKEY First Line: Some mornings, missing the feel of lather Last Line: Then the whole graveyard swept with cloud GETTING THROUGH First Line: In one of my dreams somebody Last Line: Until crazy horse and his pony %lean into the pure breeze of intention GIFT APPLE FROM DERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE First Line: This time when he showed up in my dream life Last Line: More spring and breathing room GIFT FROM MONTANA First Line: She would lay it carefully out on the kitchen table Last Line: And ground down the bones of his name? GLASS First Line: What the warbler must have seen %was the world swung round Last Line: And all %in the time %it takes a flat stone to skip over water %and be let in GLENFILLAN SHEEPDOG TRIALS First Line: Once it took the field %we forgot its ripsaw profile Last Line: Flying-the white gate closes GRACKLES First Line: From a dream of armor collapsing Last Line: Vast collision, where they would provide %the final clatter of chrome GREAT BLUE First Line: Often, %around certain backwaters Last Line: Longevity, the journey %of the good and diligent soul GREAT HORNED OWLS First Line: A log shifting in the grate Last Line: A tremolo stitching the small hours together GREEN EVENING First Line: I paused by the fence Last Line: The others over that fence %into the orchard again HAMLET'S DOG First Line: Because it never ran its emotions through Last Line: And all the other furor that came after HEARING IRISH SPOKEN First Line: Later I'd understand how it put Last Line: Wondering if it meant some failing in me HOLDOUTS: 1 First Line: A quick flurry of snow buntings %flocking here and there above Last Line: And relating some grievance to the sea HOLDOUTS: 2. THE BONES First Line: They are brown here in the lee %of gull island, like old wood Last Line: Tuned with these pegs and keys, %something a bow or plectrum %drew music from, which now is elegy HOLY WELL First Line: I'll drink if I can find it Last Line: Ordinary: a wren entrusting %an egg to a saint's hand Subject(s): Christianity; Irish Catholic Church; Miracles HOTEL MALABAR First Line: That coat-of-arms over the mantel in there Last Line: And mac, you've won yourself %a lifetime of free medical consultations HUNGER IN ST. PETERSBURG First Line: Did we live in a building above the river Last Line: Who wants to know HURRICANE WARNING First Line: If you blow into this town I AM THE DONKEY OF BLIND RAFTERY First Line: I hugged panniers of turf, spuds, manure %served for mulching, but now Last Line: And down the ditchbacks from loughrea to ardrahan %my only wage his next song at my ear I DO NOT BELIEVE, AS SOME HERE IF MEMORY COMES TO THE TONGUE First Line: I ate a wild one off a cane Last Line: Clear as heartwood and white flower ILLUMINATED PAGE FROM THE CELTIC MANUSCRIPT BOOK First Line: This ball of cats Last Line: Crying out for general revenge IN EGG TIME First Line: All sixty-three of is years Last Line: Fall for, locked as we are %in our own distraction display IN IRELAND I REMEMBERED THE FOXES OF TRURO, MASSACHUSETTS First Line: The garda at my window, tipping Last Line: Death in a cache of yarn, and a girl %pretend to read above gelignite INTRACTABLE THINGS First Line: Take that snapping turtle we found Last Line: That his name was thoreau INVENTING BALLYGALVIN First Line: Because my cousin the priest Last Line: I'd murder cromwell for her IS First Line: Two feet away in geraniums Last Line: And a few feet into the air %is air IT WAS SNOWING AND IT WAS GOING TO SNOW First Line: There's a new complication in Last Line: Ruminating a mouthful of juniper JUNE LIGHT IN LOCUST GROVES First Line: When you said you had dreamed Last Line: Bridal s before their eyes JUST IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING WHO YOU ARE First Line: I am your little grandmother Last Line: And fields to liverpool Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents KALE SOUP First Line: The mayflower cafe, the vets' club on Last Line: You're gaffed by the hook %of this whole peninsula KNOT HOLE GANG First Line: Demarco said the special bus Last Line: With our lunch bags sweating %sandwich oils through the long afternoon Subject(s): Sports LAST MAN IN THE QUABBIN First Line: When I heard r. Dobson moulton Last Line: Whatever I dump into this reservoir %comes out the end of a boston faucet LAST OPEN-AIR CONCERT First Line: One seems to have Last Line: O last little stridulous frost-hung haiku LATE AUGUST IN THE FOG First Line: This little whiff of oil paint Last Line: Who knows what hybrids, what wild repasts LATE MARCH SNOW First Line: There was dublin paddy shannon Last Line: With this unstable bent to praise LEN ROBERTS First Line: If forgetting what you know Last Line: To speak to some %sweet %lost %voice LETTER ACCOMPANYING A CASK OF SEEDS FROM AMERICA (1723) First Line: Mohawk corn refuses no ground LETTER ACCOMPANYING THE SPECIMEN OF AN AMAZING BIRD, 1763 First Line: If shipboard rats %haven't worried this little beauty Last Line: Collecting them like fruit Variant Title(s): Letter Accompanying The Specimen Of An Amazing Bir LIGHT FROM FUNDY First Line: All night a wind Last Line: Leaves, in the first place %fall appears LISTENING BY A WOODPILE, NIGHT OF MOON AFTER SNOW First Line: Having done all I can for now Last Line: Will break to the fragrant %abiding scripture of the trees LISTENING TO SEPTEMBER First Line: In this season of brief arrivals Last Line: Passing through, I don't %want to spot them %for my list just now LONG POND SUMMER First Line: Dawn creeping gray from offshore Last Line: Like the moon coming up on long water LORANZO NEWCOMB'S FIDDLER CRAB LETTER TO MISTRESS MARY COLBY First Line: They look but partly hatched LYING TO FALL WARBLERS First Line: Little questions of eyestripe Last Line: Stay here, under the steel edge %sweeping a way for rain MAIDEN UNCLES First Line: Around and around the inner Last Line: The last to have our tea.' MAN ADDRESSES HIS HOUSE First Line: Like a wren somehow strayed into rush hour Last Line: That's true because it's unspoken MAN OF SKILL IN THESE COLONIES First Line: As to your questioning mr. Spragg's MAYFLIES First Line: Years in the bottom scum Last Line: He watches from those trees MIDSUMMER NOCTURNE First Line: Among pine tips the hawks have sailed over Last Line: Cranks herself up and lets go Subject(s): Nature; Summer MIRANDA WRITES First Line: Postcards after she Last Line: You love miranda MOCKINGBIRD First Line: Far into moonlight he tries %to recall his own song Last Line: Banged to a bass difference MOONSCAPE WITH ZIPMART AND HERON First Line: Next morning, in one of the many pinevilles Last Line: Inherent in orange cement-block bunkers MOUSE First Line: I can see why john clare carried you around Last Line: And launch you into the grass. Adios MUSEUM OF MEMENTO MORI First Line: Now that she's a steel canyon Last Line: Of its weather, sets out to find us MY FROST DREAM First Line: Farm boys on a hillside in new hampshire Last Line: Says, 'x, meet brendan galvin...' Variant Title(s): Fros MY GRANDMOTHER STEALS HER LAST TROUT First Line: Last night a star followed Last Line: Marriage, and set her hand %in the plate bearing water NEEDSONG First Line: Sweetmeat, what we need is a tune Last Line: Can whistle on the paths among the trees NEVADA GLASSWORKS First Line: Ka-boom! They're making glass in nevada Last Line: The bomb-dead kids are burned & burn & burn NEW SECT First Line: These passionaries, as you may know NEW-WORLD DREAM First Line: Nothing had ever fallen NIGHT WAYS First Line: Like rock-and-roll with headlights Last Line: Its green-yellow almond eyes %holding you in its dreaming regard NIMBLEJACKS First Line: Remember hot spats and the kaiser Last Line: In their sights on main street, %leaning left and right to keep us level? NORWEGIANS AT THE SHETLAND HOTEL First Line: Fifty years ago, sailing home on one cylinder Last Line: Bloodaxe, and followed beflowered wives %up the gangplank of the bergen ferry NOSS First Line: In yellow solipsist faces Last Line: Towards some measure of humility OCTOBER DORY RACE First Line: Thud of the brass cannon Last Line: Or winslow homer %or homer OCTOBER FLOCKS First Line: Not a starry ball of land birds OLD CLOTHES First Line: Often I visit them where they slump Last Line: Some thread of evidence %that proves I was going straight OLD MAP OF BARNSTABLE COUNTY First Line: It doesn't show Last Line: Even the black squares %will have moved on OLD TRIP BY DREAM TRAIN First Line: Engine and tender, old loaf-shaped pullman Last Line: On old shoes, and call that warehouse %of sheeted furniture home? Subject(s): Railroads OLD WOMAN TELLING ANOTHER VERSION First Line: She begins as if memory were faultless Last Line: Call to each other across the pond, %and nothing can be done OLD WOODSROADS First Line: Sowed shut with humus Last Line: And lift these old tracks %back to light ONE FOR THE LIFE LIST First Line: Not a yellowthroat Last Line: Thumbsqueaks on clear windowpanes, %not to say their names, %and the shadow of death passes %across ORCHID First Line: Seen in the south of that country's south, near the wavefront of total Last Line: War, secret heliotropes, orchid in the orchidbox, god in abeyance ORCHID & EURYDICE First Line: In one version you must convince every living thing one by one Last Line: I am trying to invent a way for you to buy me back ORCHID PROJECT First Line: The voluptuous horror of spending Last Line: I am familiar with certainty OURO PRETO First Line: A woman in a blue shirt, resinous cafezinho, low sandstone buildings Last Line: Lota de macedo soares, the day opens out like a tiny atlas-flower PATIENCE OF WHITE BIRCHES First Line: Because they come up PELICAN First Line: That look of a singular relic Last Line: Hanging around for crumbs PENNIES, A HISTORY First Line: Raking a generation of oak leaves Last Line: They were the keys to a new world PHOTO OF MINERS USA, 1908 First Line: With trees backing them %instead of the pit's mouth Last Line: The artless smirk on the boy %with the high forehead %who thinks he will croon his way %out of this? Subject(s): Child Labor; Industry; Labor And Laborers PITCH PINES First Line: Some trees loft their heads Last Line: Heat popped their seeds %to the charred ground PLOESTI First Line: When they trapped my uncle red mchugh Last Line: I'd rather go back again and bomb ploesti POCOCURANTE First Line: Word for the ringsnake Last Line: From october in, and went away POEM OF THE TOWHEE First Line: Peripheral leaf-shufflers Last Line: Grave and acute, in characters %beyond any translation Subject(s): Environment; Nature POLLEN First Line: As when a breeze Last Line: Wings circle you, %surrounding the years PONDYCHERRY First Line: The way some people sing for themselves Last Line: That I've lived other places, other lives? PORTUGUESE UNCLE First Line: There was a grove next door Last Line: To their true shapes POTATO VARIATIONS First Line: If they were men and women Last Line: In those river trees. Say something %in american and wave POTSO, MY WINE-DARK UNCLE First Line: I incarcerate you behind Last Line: An empty mustard jar Subject(s): Family Life; Uncles QUILT SONG First Line: Nothing for distance but to fit it Last Line: From the scrapbag, piece it out RADIATOR MUSIC First Line: Tonight, being old enough, I can smile Last Line: Find a way from under whatever hill %they were banished to? RAIDING THE BOUNDARY STONE First Line: When mother set out in the dark Last Line: Just stood forgetting where, why RAINED OUT First Line: That wide bay rippled with just Last Line: And the dolphins: gone RAISING WALLS IN IRELAND First Line: Always those strangers coming RED TOOLBOX First Line: You might have made something Last Line: I know why sometimes the world %needs to be flawless imperfectly RING OF QUAIL BONES First Line: I found them just off the fireroad Last Line: Occurred, models of perfection I had %no fingers fine enough to assemble ROYAL First Line: They moved across the screen like a computer simulation Last Line: The thou & the shalt & the not RUNNING First Line: Experts say for me to do it well Last Line: Dowitcher coot yellowlegs %brant bufflehead knot Subject(s): Sports RURAL MAILBOXES First Line: The air can still inspire Last Line: A month from now, two birds will build SAINTS IN THEIR OX-HIDE BOAT, SELS. First Line: And so whatever way clouds went, we went Last Line: Lump of everlastingness. You'll never know %unless you drop that quill and sail, my boy SAINTS IN THEIR OX-HIDE BOAT, SELS. First Line: Without fail these three things Last Line: Their faces. We are %going down this creek! SAINTS IN THEIR OX-HIDE BOAT: SAINT BRENDAN'S PSALM First Line: Doctor of our hearts, now we are as Last Line: Up the sides of the water SAMUEL GORTON First Line: Days ago,passing through shawomet Last Line: Quietly as a fox on the ends of my toes Subject(s): Death; Peace; Plantation Life; Preaching And Preachers SAYING HER NAME First Line: Women who heard Last Line: As in a quilt %steps out saying her name SEA FOGS AT THE CHEQUAMMITT INN First Line: In the midst of the deepest Last Line: Sits up on open sea, %grasping around for bedside oars SEA HUNS First Line: Two days later I'm on the train Last Line: The boy stood on the burning deck SEALS IN THE INNER HARBOR First Line: Ducks, at first, except they didn't Last Line: Needing a place to spit and plan %the rescue of children's children Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEEING FOR OURSELVES First Line: There are people so big in the brain Last Line: It'll snatch us out of the tanglefoot %of ourselves SELLING IT First Line: There are couples whose eyes fill with Last Line: To vanish as we will somewhere out there SENGEKONTACKET First Line: For the way they fan their wings Last Line: Penn squidder, tackle you had to %throw yourself into SGT. CROCKER NEWTON ON THE USUAL SUSPECTS First Line: New age lizards, washashores, blow-ins Last Line: You're liable to find you hung %your schnozzola in the closet SKY AND ISLAND LIGHT First Line: My mother used to watch the angels Last Line: I'll give the in-laws a scrub, too SKYLIGHTS First Line: Every october, after a day when something Last Line: And how to get there SNAKEBIT, 1752 First Line: Six foot of mingled orange, tawny Last Line: Feet clawing air. A green miasma ran in me yet Variant Title(s): Snakebi SOME ENTERTAINMENTS SENT WITH A GIFT SNUFFBOX CARVED FROM AN ALLIGATOR First Line: I pray this will open prime conversations Last Line: And was yet flattened beneath the foot of god? Variant Title(s): Some Entertainment Sent With A Gift Snuffbox Carve SOUL IS NOT COLORLESS First Line: Nine a.M. Growl of withdrawing bolts Last Line: A dream of flight evicted and battling %to get back under his skin SOUTH UIST BUS (OUTER HEBRIDES) First Line: He's a wee handy man, climbing %onto the bumper to whack the battery Last Line: And our driver says, 'one of us %wants to know where a man %might buy a pair of boots like those' STEALING THE CHRISTMAS GREENS First Line: Fifty miles down the road you can give Last Line: Christmas eve), and rinse a glass clean %for the chief of police STILLBORN First Line: I fell nameless out of time and was Last Line: From its orange beak pass through me STONE ARABIA FARM First Line: This upstate air is open steelwork Last Line: He's dragging home through snow STONES OF CALLANISH First Line: So far removed from bishops Last Line: Astonished at this world, their vision %never to be reined by fiat or commandment STRIVER'S MOON First Line: Insects are laying down their high tension trills Last Line: And hunchbacks of piety how it's done SUMMER SCHOOL First Line: Three coke bottles of your uncle sal's Last Line: Mercury through our fingers. What's worse, %sicilian muse, I knew you knew SWALLOWS First Line: The only one Last Line: No field guide can delineate TALKING TO ANNE FROM HER DREAM First Line: No two in synchrony, and not one Last Line: For accepting these shambles %and shaggy reasons for everything TAR First Line: Technically it was liquid asphalt Last Line: Flames upon the night %isn't monsanto chemical or exxon TAUTOG First Line: Capone-face, fish Last Line: And it could hear me %tell him, try again THERE IS ONE IN THIS COUNTRY THERE IS THE BODY LYING IN STATE Last Line: Of supplication known as sleep THIEF OF YOUR POEM First Line: At the end of his first line Last Line: This is the way it will %feel for him each time THIS FOG First Line: A bluefin may nose Last Line: Thermopanes %haven't yet shattered TO A LONE HITCHHIKER OF THE 1950S First Line: What a piece of work you were Last Line: She'll change your inner weather, %even make you learn to drive Subject(s): Hitchhikers TOAD First Line: Trencherman of the moist places Last Line: Into his fields as a welcome to you Subject(s): Toads TOTENBUCH First Line: Waking is looking. By which I mean I woke Last Line: A monocle & brought no luggage. Damn the bugs TOWN PIER PARKING LOT First Line: From the time we were caught up Last Line: A heron flying in, just blue enough %to be separate from fog TRANSMIGRATION First Line: When your bones turn Last Line: Drags up new stars, magnitudes %winking out of the portside dark TRYING TO FLATTER TWELVE MILE RIVER First Line: Later you will touch on everything Last Line: Breaking into whatever %ways there are TRYING TO READ THE ROAD First Line: Seven a.M. Still mans the perfect %dactyls of a raccoon, nightlife's Last Line: Nothing to tell me which morning %I blinked and found you gone UNCLE PATRICK AND THE DOPPELGANGERS First Line: From speculating that the cause Last Line: To himself from a niche in a sligo church wall UNCLE PATRICK ROOTS FOR THE FUZZY-WUZZIES First Line: He would hunt the british empire down Last Line: The wadi, at these he'd snap the tube off, %another fed-up sports fan UNDER MY STORNOWAY HAT First Line: Thinking along its designs Last Line: Who told me, side-of-his-mouth %near scrabster, keep moving UNDERWORLD HOMILY First Line: Green and aloe and on the stumble Last Line: While I took breath in this one UNSET First Line: The day bloomed outward Last Line: Nothing stolen, nothing %borrowed, nothing sold VEGETABLE: 1 First Line: Two weeks to halloween and this thing Last Line: You taste it first.' 'no, you' VEGETABLE: 2 First Line: And now, as though a zupkin did Last Line: That had names once, and may again VOICE AT THE MARSH'S EDGE First Line: Not as if that mockingbird I spoke to %its eye clear as a monk's Last Line: Command do I need? Listen, whoever %if I have to decode it, forget it WALTER ANDERSON SLEEPING ON THE LEVEE First Line: In new orleans to research hurricane betsy Last Line: Mer-hen, the garget, the stant WAR INTHE GARDEN First Line: Stomach-foot's about it Last Line: Till the last raspberry %stops the year's traffic again WARMTH First Line: One flick of the wrist Last Line: Who else is out there %sleeping in your woodpile WARNING TO THE COMET HYAKUTAKE ABOUT THE OLAFSEN BROTHERS First Line: At first you were only a smear Last Line: Conceivably reach you and make trouble Subject(s): Brothers; Comets WE LIVE IN THE LARGESS OF OUR NICKLE-DIME MOMENTS First Line: Even adonis, that gored fertility boy Last Line: We will weep for in a coming world Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Farm Life; Harvest; Obituaries WEAVE A CIRCLE ROUND ME THRICE First Line: Before you filled the dark eye Last Line: I was in a movie seven miles away WEST CORK: THE ROAD BOWLERS First Line: On one leg, arms held open to the sky Last Line: Is only a clamber over this pasture wall WHEELBARROW First Line: Though I have come to it late Last Line: Door to door, looking for home WHIPPOORWILL First Line: Bird of those hours when the night Last Line: I would lead the moon in all its phases home Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills WHIRL IS KING First Line: Here and there Last Line: Of my own, grabbing the rail %just before the misstep WHY THERE IS SPRING LIGHTNING: LETTER TO B. FRANKLIN First Line: In positing my earlier theory WIDOW AT WHALEROAD'S END First Line: Sometimes, reading late, I glimpse Last Line: Across the skillet's rim, %mimics the cracking of a whip Variant Title(s): The Widow At "roadstead's End WILD APPLE TREES First Line: As the fox, unexpected Last Line: To live in the whereabouts %of that first orchard still WILD BLACKBERRIES First Line: There are places where things Last Line: Down hollow, faint in early dark WILLOW, WISHBONE, WARBLERS First Line: The way this willow traps Last Line: There like a small horseshoe stamped in WINTER OYSTERS First Line: February: water and sky a gape Last Line: But a dash of bourbon to punctuate %each salty imperative WINTER RUNNER First Line: Then he invented the running wolf behind the wind Last Line: Behind an island: the purpling sea: %sky citrus, pear, then empty of these lights WITH ANNE AT THE PEABODY First Line: In this house of the chemical error Last Line: As though just ahead %they could slip back into the flesh WOODSMOKE First Line: It drifts out like Last Line: Rooted in flames %as I am rooted in flames WRENS ON SHETLAND First Line: Whatever sings bigger Last Line: Spreader of havoc YOU DROVE OUT FROM DROGHEDA First Line: Once, on a dare, you stuck a fist Last Line: Appear to be shouting at you YOUNG OWLS First Line: Now crows mill blackly above them Last Line: How nothing in this world %gets out of its life alive Galvin, James Poet's Biography 134 poems available by this author A DISCRETE LOVE POEM Poem Text First Line: This is for you, with your umbrella Last Line: This is for that night your body was neither here nor there Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited; Sex A MAN'S VOCATION IS NOBODY'S BUSINESS Poem Text First Line: Overcome with humility in the american west Last Line: Bound for the edge of the world Subject(s): History; Past; West (u.s.); Youth; Historians; Southwest; Pacific States A POEM FROM BOULDER RIDGE Poem Text First Line: The skeleton of a teepee stood on boulder ridge Subject(s): Houses; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A POEM FROM THE EDGE OF AMERICA Poem Text First Line: There are ways of finding things, like stumbling on them Last Line: Although it might by why Subject(s): Nature; Wyoming A PORTRAIT OF MY ROOF Poem Text First Line: My steel roof mirrors clouds Last Line: Unlike anything one finds in reflection Subject(s): Animals; Clouds; Grass; Snakes; Steel; Serpents; Vipers A SECOND TIME Poem Text First Line: It was the year I cut logs for the new house and roads, roads like veins Last Line: When they starved out and moved on, they burned their houses down to get the nails back Subject(s): Mountains; Snow; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ABOUT Poem Text First Line: Facts about the iris Last Line: It’s tomorrow. Call out for someone Subject(s): Eyes ABOVE HALF MOON Poem Text First Line: Not even a brid can sleep in thin air, a thousand feet higher Last Line: Shuttered windows, a flower made of timber, whose trail down is a crooked stem Subject(s): Moon; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) AFTER THE PAPAGO Poem Text First Line: I've done it now Last Line: On the homeward road Subject(s): Desire; Fish & Fishing; Houses; Trout; Anglers AFTER THE PAPAGO First Line: I've done it now. %I've come back where something good is my desire Last Line: I like it and gather it up. %now I turn homeward %on the homeward road AGAINST THE REST OF THE YEAR Poem Text First Line: The meadow's a dream I'm working to wake to Last Line: Forever comes to mind, and peaks where the snow stays Subject(s): Dreams; Rivers; Winter; Nightmares AGRICULTURE Poem Text First Line: Tonight the rain can't stand up straight, but once Last Line: But a window sailing through the night Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Farm Life; Horses; Rain; Agriculture; Farmers AIRBRUSH Poem Text First Line: The sky was an occasion Last Line: And they have shadows, double Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ALMOST NOON Poem Text First Line: The water, you remember / was so cold it took our breath Subject(s): Sun; Water ANOTHER STORY Poem Text First Line: I always thought you favored the bride Last Line: For as long as we stay here Subject(s): Mirrors; Marriage; Pregnancy ANTHROPOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Remember the night you got drunk / and shot the roses? Last Line: For the archer’s bow to become a violin Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Fathers; Guns; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse ART CLASS Poem Text First Line: Let us begin with a simple line Last Line: The horizon will not stop abstracting us Subject(s): Art & Artists; Drawing; Poetry & Poets AS IF Poem Text First Line: I thought it took Last Line: Having risen all night to see you Subject(s): Passion; Sex AT THE SAND CREEK BRIDGE Poem Text First Line: The path of most insistence Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Guns; Mountains; Nature; Rivers; Trout; Anglers; Hills; Downs (great Britain) AVATAR Poem Text First Line: The imperceptible Last Line: And there you are Subject(s): California; Magic; Names BLUE OR GREEN Poem Text First Line: We don't belong to each other. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets CACHE LA POUDRE Poem Text First Line: The whole world / (which you said I was Subject(s): Colorado (state); Mountains; Snow; Hills; Downs (great Britain) CARTOGRAPHY Poem Text First Line: Out on the border a howl goes up, skinning the cold air Last Line: It's real, it doesn't exist, it's on all the black maps Subject(s): Boundaries; Maps; Wings; Borders CHERRY BLOSSOMS BLOWING IN WEST BLOWING SNOW Poem Text First Line: In all the farewells in all the airports in all the profane dawns Last Line: Among cherry blossoms blowing in west, blowing in snow, weren’t we something? Subject(s): Life CHERRY BLOSSOMS BLOWING IN WET, BLOWING SNOW First Line: In all the farewells in all the airports in all the profane dawns Last Line: Blossoms blowing in wet, blowing snow, weren't we something? CINQUE TERRE Poem Text First Line: Time was the five towns Subject(s): Diving & Divers DEAR ALPENROSE GROWING BY THE DOOR First Line: Bride of the desert %dawdling in eternity, fully Last Line: At rising up out of death DEAR MISS EMILY Poem Text First Line: I knew the end would be gone before I got there. Subject(s): Divorce DEAR PREVAILING WIND First Line: Without inherent power to exist Last Line: Mane swirling as you pass without passing DEAR SUNSET THROUGH SPRING SNOW First Line: Grave warmth, %someone else's %life becomes mine %pray for me Last Line: Crucified into artifact. %some clouds are beating %up some other clouds- %oh, bloodly tresses DEATH AT WORK Poem Text First Line: A chevy engine hangs by a chain Last Line: With everyone afraid and trying not to be Subject(s): Death; Labor & Laborers; Dead, The; Work; Workers DEPENDING ON THE WIND Poem Text First Line: A score of years ago I felled a hundred pines to build a house. Subject(s): Loss; Transience; Divorce; Impermanence DOUBLE RAINBOW Poem Text First Line: Well aren't you the harsh necessity, DRIVING INTO LARAMIE Poem Text First Line: Out here sheer force of sky bearing down Last Line: That god is impressed above all by defiance Subject(s): Death; Driving & Drivers; Oregon; Religion; Dead, The; Theology DRUTHERS Poem Text First Line: Between permission Subject(s): Life EVERYONE KNOWS WHOM THE SAVED ENVY Poem Text First Line: It isn't such a bad thing Last Line: Everyone knows whom the saved envy Subject(s): Angels; Life; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) EXPLICATION OF AN IMAGINARY TEXT Poem Text First Line: Salt is pity, brooms are fury Last Line: The other half are mirrors Subject(s): Churches; Mirrors; Salt; Cathedrals FIRE SEASON Poem Text First Line: All the angels of tie siding were on fire Subject(s): Fire FIVE PAINTINGS BY CLARA VAN WANING Poem Text First Line: I only paint landscapes. People are just Subject(s): Paintings & Painters FOOL'S ERRAND Poem Text First Line: Alone, like a feather in the air Subject(s): Beauty; Cactus; Clowns; Girls FOR OUR BETTER GRACES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: God loves / the rain, not us Last Line: "her fragrance Subject(s): God; Love; Pine Trees; Rain; Trees FOR REMEMBERING HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT YOU Poem Text First Line: Your loneliness and mine Subject(s): Absence; Change; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness FRAGMENTS WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING...A MIDWESTERN HEAT WAVE Poem Text First Line: However lonely we were before / becomes unclear Last Line: By setting-free the soil Subject(s): Farm Life; Heat; Middle West; Oklahoma; Summer; Weather; Agriculture; Farmers; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States FUGUE FOR A DROWNED GIRL Poem Text Recitation First Line: It is the time of evening that promises miracles to anyone Last Line: Might be willow sticks. Fish swim into her hair. One by one the lights in her nails go out Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Rivers; Suicide; Dead, The GEOMETRY IS THE MIND OF GOD Poem Text First Line: A point is that which has no part Last Line: I'd say it's a green thorn in the heart Subject(s): Geometry; God; Mathematics GETTING A WORD IN Poem Text First Line: Very sad Last Line: Come out of nowhere) / very sad Subject(s): Grief; Language; Rain; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness; Words; Vocabulary GROVE First Line: I have been standing for weeks Last Line: Underwing blue, greenbottle, stained-glass red HEMATITE LAKE Poem Text First Line: There is another kind of sleep Last Line: Not even nightfall, whose gold we are, can find us Subject(s): Birds; Lakes; Nature; Swans; Pools; Ponds HERMITS Poem Text First Line: The more I see of people, the more I like my dog Last Line: Hermits never know they’re dead till the roof falls in Subject(s): Absence; Hermits; Misanthropy; Separation; Isolation HIGH PLAINS RAG Poem Text First Line: But like remorse Last Line: It can never stop . Subject(s): Grass; Prairies; Plains HIGH PLAINS RAG First Line: But like remorse %the prairie grass %seeks emptiness Last Line: Feels %so nearly endless %it cannot ever stop HOW SHY THE ATTRACTION Last Line: The rest, the rain, %is a tinker's damn Subject(s): Rivers HOW THEY GO ON Poem Text First Line: The otherwise beautiful girl Last Line: The same as if they heard and understood Subject(s): Beauty I LOOKED FOR LIFE AND DID A SHADOW SEE Poem Text First Line: Some little splinter Last Line: In the hollows of her eyes Subject(s): Beauty; Girls; Night; Shadows; Bedtime INDEPENDENCE DAY, 1956, A FAIRY TALE Poem Text First Line: I think this house's mouth is full of dirt Last Line: I know because someone, or his assistant, suffered here Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day IT JUST SO HAPPENS Poem Text First Line: You fingered the white top Last Line: That knocks the wind out of the ground Subject(s): Anxiety; Conversation; Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness JUSTICE Poem Text First Line: All around the house huge elms and oaks Subject(s): Cicadas; Elm Trees; Justice; Oak Trees LEFT-HANDED POEM Poem Text First Line: I am the self of my former shadow Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Prairies; Rivers; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains LISTEN HARD Poem Text First Line: Enough and you can hear Last Line: Listen to the sound of the book when it closes Subject(s): Books; Sound; Reading LITTLE DANTESQUE First Line: It turns out %the dogs were in control all along Last Line: 4. The dogs want out. %how like them MATERIALISM Poem Text First Line: If things aren't things Last Line: Hold me still Subject(s): Materialism; Nature; Property; Possessions METEOROLOGY Poem Text First Line: The heart is such a big awkward girl Last Line: Even the best days Subject(s): Evil; Gasoline; Good; Weather; Windows; Wyoming MISERICORD Poem Text First Line: Out at the end of a high promontory Subject(s): Girls; Mountains; Pain; Silk; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery MY DEATH AS A GIRL I KNEW Poem Text First Line: I was in a story Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Girls; Trees; Dead, The MY SISTER Poem Text First Line: My sister is a place where NATURA MORTA Poem Text First Line: I don't mind one or two Subject(s): Buzzards NAVIGATION Poem Text First Line: Evergreens have reasons Subject(s): Language; Mountains; Mouths; Nature; Navigation; Sky; Trees; Words; Vocabulary; Hills; Downs (great Britain) NEWS Poem Text First Line: These afternoons seem to occur more Last Line: Like a sudden flow of blood from the mouth Subject(s): News NOT SO MUCH ON THE LAND AS IN THE WIND Poem Text Last Line: I walk toward the tree to make it green Subject(s): Nature NOT SO MUCH ON THE LAND AS IN THE WIND NOTES FOR THE FIRST LINE OF A SPANISH POEM Poem Text First Line: We remember so little Last Line: Outside the mind, the snow undresses and lies down Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers ODE TO SIGNIFICANCE Poem Text First Line: Implications arrive in unfamiliar places ODE TO THE BROWN PAPER BAG Poem Text First Line: Let's be more specific Subject(s): Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers OLD MEN ON THE COURTHOUSE LAWN, MURRAY, KENTUCKY Poem Text First Line: You might call this / the far side of the river Subject(s): Illinois; Indiana; Kentucky; Ohio; Rivers; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes ON EXPLORATION Poem Text First Line: A hawk drops to the treetop Subject(s): Explorers; Poetry & Poets; Universe; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers ORIGINAL First Line: Waves fell to their knees and didn't see anything PONDEROSA First Line: It was out in the middle of the light, no way back for that old giant Last Line: What were your thoughts, concerning history? PORTUGUESE UNCLE First Line: There was a grove next door Last Line: Hair pasted black, wet %to their true shapes POST-MODERNISM Poem Text First Line: A pinup of rita hayworth was taped Last Line: Do I know him? Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Bombs; Death; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Actresses; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Students; Educators; Professors POSTCARD Poem Text First Line: Days are cubes of light Last Line: Some days I go looking for the sky Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Nebraska; Sky; Agriculture; Farmers PRACTICE Poem Text First Line: The world arrived / so carefully packed Last Line: With speech Subject(s): Bible; Speech; Oratory; Orators PROMISES ARE FOR LIARS Poem Text First Line: Because, you know REAL WONDER Poem Text First Line: In the stunned little interval Last Line: Preceding real wonder . Subject(s): Fences; Houses; Spring; Winter REGARD Poem Text First Line: In regard to their own movement Last Line: Turning through the fire . Subject(s): Fire; Winter RESURRECTION UPDATE Poem Text First Line: And then it happened Last Line: An aspirin in a glass of water Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; World RIGHT NOW Poem Text First Line: The mind assumes the position Last Line: You could lose in a heartbeat Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin RINTRAH ROARS Poem Text First Line: My father-in-law writes from umbria (where peasants eat songbirds Subject(s): Comedy; Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973); Umbria, Italy ROLLING SUN First Line: I bear a ghost to the lost Last Line: No frills %kiss me RUBBER ANGEL Poem Text First Line: The world is not Last Line: I dare you Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Forests; Owls; Philosophy & Philosophers; Woods SAPPHIC SUICIDE NOTE Poem Text First Line: Day out Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Letters; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Suicide; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SAPPHIC SUICIDE NOTE First Line: Day out %no worldly joy Last Line: Italics mine SARA Poem Text First Line: Sara stays at home. / her looks are plain Last Line: A white cloth against the glass Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Insanity; Paintings & Painters; Suicide; Voices; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness SEMPITERNAL Poem Text First Line: Out at sea the sun / was shining Last Line: North each time . Subject(s): Sea; Silver; Sun; Water; Whales; Ocean SHADOW-CASTING Poem Text First Line: This boy's father dies. / fine. / it always happens. / the boy knows Last Line: This boy, it always happens, doesn’t know what to do anymore Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Fish & Fishing; Life; Sports; Dead, The; Anglers SHOW AND TELL First Line: This is the wave of gravel where she let me off on the edge of my %life Last Line: You think god can't give up? SMALL COUNTRIES Poem Text First Line: In defense of whatever happens next, the navy of flat-bottomed Last Line: Dark rush across the prairie towards him and over him Subject(s): Country Life SO LONG Poem Text Subject(s): Fathers SPEAKING TERMS Poem Text First Line: All around me to-ing and fro-ing Last Line: And start walking Subject(s): Contrariness; Lectures; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking SPECIAL EFFECTS Poem Text First Line: My shirts on the line Last Line: In your body Subject(s): Rain SPRING BLIZZARD Poem Text First Line: A limb's sententious crack Last Line: I wish you wouldn't look at me that way Subject(s): Snow; Spring STATION (1) Poem Text First Line: I envy the soldiers' sleep -- ah, the sleep of a soldier Last Line: No, no one Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Sleep; Soldiers STATION (3) Poem Text First Line: I was teaching my little sister how to fly when she broke Last Line: "the snow is disappearing toward Subject(s): Mothers; Sisters STATION (4) Poem Text First Line: Its back was leaves that mimed the leaves in back of us Last Line: "the backdrop won’t drop back Subject(s): Piety; Sisters STATION (5) Poem Text First Line: Somewhere between a bird's nest and a solar system Last Line: Washing less than nothing from your hands Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Birds; Jesus Christ STORIES ARE MADE OF MISTAKES Poem Text First Line: Even the pole bean tendrils sought out and gripped their Last Line: My dad used to ride this black mare... Subject(s): Hearts; Poetry & Poets SYNOPSIS OF A FAILED POEM Poem Text First Line: Every simile is elegy Subject(s): Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TESTIMONY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You can't step into the same Last Line: Either. Not once Subject(s): Butter; Flowers; Rivers THE GIANTS OF HISTORY Poem Text First Line: The little people behind the scenes are getting ugly Last Line: No good to them now, in their hour of need Subject(s): Friendship; Giants; History; Historians THE HEART Poem Text First Line: A stumblebum in scree Last Line: With his throat cut Subject(s): Butterflies; Hummingbirds; Insects; Bugs THE IMPORTANCE OF GREEN Poem Text First Line: Small towns are for knowing who's poor Last Line: No more than the dress itself / of green Subject(s): Green (color); Poverty; Tailors; Towns; Dress Makers THE LAST MAN'S CLUB Poem Text First Line: My grandfather was always sad. Sadly, as a boy, he paddled his canoe Last Line: After that he was never sad, not even when the river died Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Hudson River; Life; Old Age; Dead, The THE MEASURE OF THE YEAR Poem Text First Line: A canoe made of horse ribs tipped over in the pasture Last Line: I thought I’d seen that happen Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing THE SACRAL DREAMS OF RAMON FERNANDEZ Poem Text First Line: Ramon fernandez did not live Last Line: He said, god has brought me here Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners THE SMALL SELF AND THE LIBERAL SELF Poem Text First Line: Perhaps you didn't realize Last Line: "no one is allowed to speak now Subject(s): Sky THE STORY OF THE END OF THE STORY Poem Text First Line: To keep from ending Last Line: Only the stories about them do Subject(s): Suicide THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE Poem Text First Line: The real is not what happens but what is Last Line: Only the stars, which do not know, can tell Subject(s): North Pole; Stars THE WAR THAT ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK Poem Text First Line: The little wind I saw curving and lifting Last Line: Where she grazes the horizon down to nothing Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Horses; Humanity; Nature THEY HAVEN'T HEARD THE WEST IS OVER Poem Text First Line: So that no one should forget, and no one be forgotten -- isn't that Last Line: Arms to the north, and the road from here keeps going, as if it were going somewhere Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Disappeared Persons; Funerals; Mountains; Trees; Wyoming; Dead, The; Missing Persons; Burials; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THREE SONNETS Poem Text First Line: Where I live distance is the primal fact Last Line: Only philosophies of suffering Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Prophecy & Prophets TIME OPTICS Poem Text First Line: Where the ditch vaults the river Last Line: I'll be alright gone Subject(s): Rivers; Time TO A FRIEND I CAN'T FIND Poem Text First Line: What about this, after all Last Line: The living started digging out Subject(s): Absence; Colorado (state); Friendship; Separation; Isolation TO SEE THE STARS IN DAYLIGHT Poem Text First Line: You have to go down / in a deep mine-shaft or a well Subject(s): Mines & Miners; Stars TO THE REPUBLIC Poem Text First Line: Past / fences the first sheepmen cast across the land, processions Subject(s): Life; Nostalgia TOTEM Poem Text First Line: Riding a '23 farmall round and round on a hot afternoon, I always Last Line: Didn't try to find the snag. This year. Everything that died, died twice Subject(s): Forests; Woods TRESPASSERS Poem Text First Line: Now, on this new page Last Line: As if drawn by a magnet Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TWELVE-STEP PROGRAM First Line: Kill your father %get with child your mother Last Line: Inhale the water. %complete the form TWO HORSES AND A DOG Poem Text First Line: Without external reference Last Line: Wearing dogtags with scripture on them Subject(s): Honesty; Humility; Morality; Ethics UNTITLED, 1968; FOR MARK ROTHKO Poem Text First Line: There's no such thing as an emergency Last Line: I know someone, or his assistant, suffered here Variant Title(s): Veronica Subject(s): Blood; Drinks & Drinking; Evening; Wine; Sunset; Twilight WATER TABLE Poem Text First Line: How shy the attraction / of simple rain to the east wind Last Line: To write his name Subject(s): Autumn; Brooks; Mines & Miners; Mountains; Nature; Seasons; September; Water; Fall; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (great Britain) WATERSHED Poem Text First Line: Here the land is tilted / like a gambrel roof. The world Last Line: The knife that cuts the rain in two, the lie Subject(s): Colorado (state); Mountains; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain) WESTERN CIVILIZATION Poem Text First Line: That woman still lives at her ranch Last Line: That just now shaded your eyes Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Stars; Wyoming WHAT I'VE BELIEVED IN Poem Text First Line: Propped on blocks, the front half of a packard car rides the hillside Last Line: Waited years to be asked Subject(s): Automobiles; Junk & Junkyards; Rust; Cars WHAT WE SAID THE LIGHT SAID Poem Text First Line: Mystery moves in god-like ways Subject(s): God; Mystery; Saxophones; Women YOU KNOW WHAT PEOPLE SAY Poem Text First Line: Sulky what-ifs Last Line: The norm is always incorrect. If what? Subject(s): Dramatists; Hell; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists Galvin, James J. 4 poems available by this author LADY OF O First Line: By the seven stars of her halo Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MORNING STAR First Line: I loathe the very thought of her Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OX-BONE MADONNA First Line: Once they minted our lady in multiple golden medallions Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible STORY OF THE END OF THE STORY First Line: To keep from ending Last Line: Only the stories about them do Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Poetry And Poets |
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