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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: GOLDBARTH, ALBERT Matches Found: 784 Goldbarth, Albert Poet's Biography 784 poems available by this author #1117 First Line: From here we can see the combination smoke as it ascends Last Line: Whatever they say as the flight goes down ...ONE OF WHOM HAD APPARENTLY DIED IN CHILDBIRTH... First Line: -it was, in its way, %a pieta Last Line: Then a 'black hole,' that the composition %cradles in the milkiest arms of the universe ...SUICIDE NOTE. BUT THE BODY OF FAMOUS DAILY POST Last Line: In the farther corner, two men 12,000 BONES OF FROGS AND TOADS First Line: And there's another line I've always liked in that poem Last Line: The babysbreath bones of the soul 1400 Poem Text First Line: Saps, and the anal juice of an otter, and pig's blood Subject(s): Paintings & Painters 15-APR First Line: My sister was 5. She'd saved 5 days' allowance - her 5 pennies 1563:01:00 First Line: My grandmother's being ejected from the mediterranean Last Line: Are warming their butts %at a rubbish fire. 1563. At last!-my grandmother feels at home 1563:02:00 First Line: The prestidigiatarory moon is levitating the oceanwaters Last Line: Here-' %look, one hopeful fellow offers her his spot at the rubbish fire 1563:03:00 First Line: There's a story my grandfather saved her from ruffians Last Line: The psyche stomps in golden boots, enacting dramas %in shrewd clean lines: timelessness, rapture, re 1563:04:00 First Line: And she wasn't a mobius-strip-of-a-woman miro Last Line: He's a few quick strokes of wailing, and %she's...A tenderness, a breath of paint, a heft of peasant 1563:05:00 First Line: A bruegel crowd scene: you can count 500 Last Line: Rising into the gray of the northern skies: it's slough and renewal, %slough and renewal, until the 1880 First Line: These women are alone-the one Last Line: He's there, in the painted air. And she %can feel the weight of this close brush 20TH CENTURY First Line: ...Planning to power-market...' this, some suit guy Last Line: ...That bends like all hell without snapping 26 First Line: This was the prayershawl: two huge, golden tassels Last Line: Multiple of thirteen, let me say it 27,000 MILES Poem Text First Line: These two asleep...So indrawn and compact Subject(s): Arctic; Birds; Migration 31-JAN-98 First Line: The week I turn fifty, the president's busy Last Line: He's writing: %rain on the river 35,000 FEET -- THE LANTERNS First Line: Every morning the stars would invisibly Last Line: The pressure that lights those lanterns 400,000 First Line: Why us, or how, or why the terrible Last Line: Eugene, sarasota, tulsa, eau claire A BRIEF, SYMBOLIC HISTORY OF THE TWO OPPOSED FORCES AT DAILY WORK IN THE UNIVERSE, WITH INTERIM SCEN Poem Text First Line: Later, in europe, paper mills Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Paper; Writing & Writers; Printing & Printers; Shoah A FILM Poem Text First Line: It's strangely like a man Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema A HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION Poem Text First Line: In the dating bar, the potted plants lean down Subject(s): Singles Bars A HUM Poem Text First Line: Now: sun through the blinds Subject(s): Sleep A LETTER Poem Text First Line: At the end of the day that's rubble around me Subject(s): Junk Mail; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) A MONUMENT Poem Text First Line: It's a weak chargray-and-camellia dusk Subject(s): Corpses; Cadavers A PHOTO OF A LOVER FROM MY JUNIOR YEAR IN COLLEGE First Line: Or the earth: one half in sun Subject(s): Memory; Photography & Photographers; Universities & Colleges A THEORY OF WIND Poem Text First Line: This is how the page must feel: it doesn't Subject(s): Wind A WOODEN EYE. AN 1884 SILVER DOLLAR. A HOMEMADE EXPLOSIVE. A SET OF FALSE TEETH. AND A 14-KARAT GOLD Poem Text First Line: Says my wife, and then she looks up from her book Subject(s): Science Fiction ACCOUNTINGS First Line: So, you want a lot of money -- the way Last Line: They meant there were griefs involved -- though kept on saving ACQUISITIONS First Line: The museum's newest, tooted in the media even down to a what Last Line: Is the one thing they can't take away from him AFTER SEEEING THE IMPRESIONIST GROUP EXHIBIT IN KANSAS CITY, WE DRIVE BACK THROUGH FLATNESS TO WICHI Poem Text First Line: Fofr monet the light is always exclamation points Subject(s): Kansas; Paintings & Painters AFTER SEEING THE IMPRESSIONIST GROUP EXHIBIT IN KANSAS CITY First Line: For monet the light is always exclamation points AGAIN Poem Text First Line: There was such darkness in him then. And I repeated Subject(s): Fathers; Illness; Mortality AGAIN First Line: There was such darkness in him then. And I repeated Last Line: Of closure in. It's a heartening fact. And then some AGAIN. A DIRTY BEAM OF SUNRISE THROUGH THE WINDOW Last Line: Two days of his life: mysteriously kaput AGAINST AN EMPTY BACKGROUND Last Line: Her stogie-smoking assistant hanrahan's very %skeptical look ALIAS: A SURVEY First Line: You aren't you. You're sleeping. Now your bones are ALIEN TONGUE First Line: Proficient in writing the 20th century poem now ALIENS' TRANSLATION MACHINE First Line: Shayneh puhnim my grandmother said in her evocative Last Line: Both such pretty faces ALL ABOUT First Line: We need to know about somebody worse than we are Last Line: Solved. What america, in any case, is all about ALL-NITE DONUTS First Line: A customer's blowing %smoke rings almost Subject(s): Prostitution ALONE First Line: If night is a sentence, the stars are its being diagrammed ALTERATION First Line: In an earlier, dead-end version of this poem Last Line: Any earlier, death-row version of this poem ALVEOLI Poem Text First Line: Who are these unsung perpetrators of taj mahals Subject(s): Human Body ALVEOLI First Line: Who are these unsung perpetrators of taj mahals Last Line: Of the doorway sleepers peeing will announce another day %tocart his heart around in. Now what's goi AMAZE First Line: When booger t delivered minks for the AMOUNTS First Line: As if there weren't enough. As if the 4,000 shoes Last Line: Sane lives require: let this one (blank) be sufficient AN ENORMOUS ELECTRO-MAGNET IS USED TO STEAL THE WORLD'S ELECTRICITY Poem Text First Line: Elsewhere, drowned atlantis is found, ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CANOPIC JARS First Line: (she's learned now, as she sauntered with a light tick-tock of he spandexed Last Line: Begins, and each jar holds its own one whole clear note ANCIENT SEMITIC RITUALS FOR THE DEAD First Line: I'm with thick, who supplies the lithe waitpeople of the guzzling Last Line: The following morning I wake up with my father on my mind %strange bedfellows AND ALWAYS THE WORK: THE WORK ITSELF Last Line: Would woo him back to finessing the drawingboard AND EVEN A BASICALLY TELL-A-JOKE-AND-CLEAR-THE-HELL-OUT VEHICLE Last Line: Recurrent adventure meant ('natch) vera goode AND NOW LET'S CHECK THE MAP... First Line: It's snowing': as if we really know Last Line: Over our ravaged heartscape, where it's endless %and deep, whatever 'it' is, and utterly baffles all AND SHADOWED HIM HOME, IN A NONDESCRIPT Last Line: They radiated 'gun.' at the corner AND SOMETIMES AS SHE SITS AT HER RECEPTIONIST DESK Last Line: Even rhymes with that well-known sinister sister AND THE RUSTLING BOUGH AS AN ALPHABET Poem Text First Line: Like anything else, the air in motion Subject(s): Wind AND THE RUSTLING BOUGH AS AN ALPHABET First Line: Like anything else, the air in motion Last Line: A blind god. He would read the world %by exactly that braille AND, FROM HER LAST-GASP YEARS Last Line: Poignant moment in thirty years occurs ANIMALS First Line: The feeling that I'm written. It comes Last Line: -just the first blank page, but before 'page,' %and before 'blankness.' ANOTHER PORTRAIT First Line: The kugel was good' ('good, good, good, always with Last Line: Thirty years ago. (a shrug) my uncle morris shapiro ANTHRO First Line: So much for metaphor. Those mounding clouds Last Line: We know that. Something purposeful; authorial APOLOGY First Line: I don't know what connects the different poetries Last Line: Deserve a reading better than we bring. %and william matthews too ARGUING BARTUSIAK Poem Text First Line: The idea is, the marriage still exists Subject(s): Marriage; Separation; Fidelity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Faithfulness; Constancy ARGUING BARTUSIAK First Line: My idea is, the marriage still exists Last Line: She wraps herself in that too ARK OF THE COVENANT First Line: Out of golazed polymer resins: 'your choice of corals or blues'...The ark Last Line: Yes, hre, and arcing over the bed, you might say as if in the sign of a covenant ARMIES OF IGNORANCE POEM First Line: So now we've done our income tax Last Line: And, lumphing and snortling behind them by hundreds: %tahr, tupaia, hoatzin, viscacha, topi, hyrax, Subject(s): Income Tax AROUND First Line: Sunrise sunset sunrise sunset sunrise Last Line: In the book, she looks at the painting ART HISTORY First Line: Their lives were solid, and so Last Line: Drowns up to the wrist AS RESPONSE First Line: This friend believes in god; and the light ASSEMBLY Poem Text First Line: That the wild call of water is a mystery but Subject(s): God ASSEMBLY First Line: That the wild call of water is a mystery but ASSEMBLY LINE First Line: Bad decisions: his meeting with thalia, one of the younger Last Line: #name? ASTOUNDING First Line: Saucer lands in wisconsin field Last Line: They've never seen anything so astounding ASTRONOMY First Line: It dies. And a gazillion years in the future Last Line: In silence for a while, in the light of that star AT 5306 First Line: Now that my father's dead, my mother -- pitterpats Last Line: Back in years, and a column rises on either side %of the door, in the shape of a man in torn shoes AT DEATH First Line: We don't know what escapes. Though Last Line: In the secular dark, in the secular light AT THE HEART Poem Text First Line: And so I was sentenced to life in prison AT THE HEART First Line: And so I was sentenced to life in prison ATAVISM / BOWL First Line: And every night returning to the black AWAY Poem Text First Line: We think a blink it tiny but AWAY First Line: We think a blink is tiny but Last Line: Would row me away on the black sea %of that disappearing ink BACK IN THE PARTITE FRACAS BAR CLICHE First Line: A tiara of antennae in the center of its noggin Last Line: It was dividing into different countries and separate speech BE A REPORTER HERSELF-WHY NOT? AND YET Last Line: Stream through the halls of local news are so BE-AN-OTHER STRUCTURES First Line: The needlenosed defiance heats the dogtooth plains Last Line: It needs to be broken by the paw of the world BEAUTY OF ONE DAY'S TUMBLING-OFF-THE-CATWALK-ENDING Last Line: Rejected rejected rejected BECAUSE IT HAPPENED Poem Text First Line: A death-cry ripens, and rises - a boy's Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies BECAUSE IT HAPPENED First Line: A death-cry ripens, and rises - a boy's Last Line: Traces the shape of a chambered nautilus BEFORE Poem Text First Line: The class was history, that's Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry BEFORE First Line: The class was history, that's Last Line: The message its salt BELIEVING A RESONANT CHORT EXISTS BETWEEN HIS WORK AND... First Line: As to the whale's gullet I have been pleased to paint Last Line: Level two. They're dancing, in red. %who is he to stop them? BILINGUAL First Line: Somewhere along the line we were taught Last Line: We're all the vast chasm. We're all the thin vine BILL MATTHEWS First Line: Slub he used, and slur a lot, and blurred Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Friendship; Language BIRDS First Line: The supposedly cheerful colors ob budgies Last Line: A flock of birds, of wild birds, was flying overhead, %released from some terrible service BLADE First Line: At one clear moment in history BLANK WIDE FACE First Line: Would you like me to ead you a poem Last Line: And wills what she needs to its surface BLEEDING BOY Last Line: -on video, sucking' BLUE FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: Autumn, light's the world's list Subject(s): Flowers BODY Last Line: What lasts through that? BOMBYKOL: 1. First Line: Three sweet jock guys and danalee, this great bodacious lesbo Last Line: In a cubic yard, the long sculls of his feathery antennae %going crazy BOMBYKOL: 2. First Line: In the 1700s, fellow entomologists sent specimens Last Line: Than the period at the end of, and so on, and so forth, %etc BOMBYKOL: 3. First Line: Stinger's real name is robert. That became bob Last Line: Like a birdcage cover. Antoinette's red nest Subject(s): Names BONDS First Line: We rise from earth like taffy being pulled Last Line: Years. Who else is he going to tell, if not her? BOOK ABOUT REMBRANDT First Line: And then - for the siege had long before depleted their foods BOOK OF HUMAN ANOMALIES First Line: Maud stevens received her first tattoo in 1904 Last Line: In and out of breath through our complex sleeps %astonishing Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BOOK OF SPEEDY: 1. First Line: The far trees bristle up like a hairbrush Last Line: Was as if something else was making itself heard through the donkey BOOK OF SPEEDY: 2. First Line: Among the stunted duns and tans Last Line: Supplicants thronging at various niches and altars: this mouth %is an oracle, this one not? BOOK OF SPEEDY: 3. First Line: And the future is read in the slippery knots and inclines Last Line: I once heard a blues harmonica player %insist his soul was in his spit BOOK OF SPEEDY: 4. First Line: Thunder %breaks out of the deeply fulminous clouds Last Line: Flesh in this poem, in this city, at any moment you think about %human suffering, there's suffering BOOK OF SPEEDY: 5. First Line: That night there's a 'scene' in the bedroom. She Last Line: Could think it as 'yes, %he'll protect us.' BOOK OF SPEEDY: 6. First Line: And the battle is fought in the filamental flash Last Line: Try telling this woman curled in her bed despairing %tell the biopsy slide BOOK OF SPEEDY: 7. First Line: The reverend patrick bronte, wishing to know more about Last Line: And out of the woman, a song BOOKS/P,L,E First Line: The usual troubles stumble in, in the usual morning light Last Line: I'm stamping their notebook complete BOTTLE. SO THEY KNEW HIS WEAKNESS Last Line: He laughed. And that was unwise BRAIN FISHED THROUGH THE NOSTRILS Last Line: The everlasting range of human hungers: still requires BRANCH: 1. RELATIVES First Line: This means even saint catherine of siena, who drank Last Line: Who died in childhood; maybe even the ghost Subject(s): Family Life BRANCH: 2. DWELLING First Line: This winter air could crack, this winter night is like a black shell Last Line: Passing a kiln. Not its kiln, maybe. But, still: a kiln, %a family dwelling Subject(s): Houses BRANCH: 3. RELATIVES First Line: And the problem is we want to be a 'self,' a pure Last Line: In the deeps of the pacific: our cousins, contacting us Subject(s): Family Life; Self BRANCH: 4. TREE First Line: Even the mutual lust of the moon and the waters Last Line: With the almond-oval, purple eyes Subject(s): Trees BRANCH: 5. RELATIVES First Line: That year, the kirkhill orphanage released his set of documents Last Line: Is the original endometrium. Even the haze and the lights Subject(s): Family Life BRIEF, SYMBOLIC HISTORY OF THE TWO OPPOSED FORCES .............. First Line: Later, in europe, paper mills %will thrive, will nearly colonize Last Line: That dates back more than a hundred years BRIGHT MOTES IN THE CORNER OF YOUR EYE First Line: His telling about the islands makes me think Last Line: Finally all of them were the same BROTHERLY Poem Text First Line: And wasn't he the one that flew? And wasn't he the one Subject(s): Self; Dreams; Nightmares BRUNO'S PLACE First Line: This 'planet' is a baked clay pancake Last Line: His life, its history of error, its grit and volts, %and then how to get on with it BUDGET TRAVEL THROUGH THE UNIVERSE First Line: We can rig a supernova in a single laptop jiffy Last Line: And beached on a foreign shore BURDEN OF MODERNITY': THE BOOK, THE GOD, THE CHILD First Line: United airlines check-in: and the line is arranged Last Line: Running through the tunnels of what was rejected Subject(s): Books; Children; God BY ONE First Line: That's all it requires. The law of even Last Line: One wheel to steer by CALL 1-800-THE-LOST First Line: And whenever we see a flower that's red Last Line: In the miraculous everyday afternoon light CAMERA LUCIDA First Line: Night: the birds Last Line: Night, it's a time of interlockings CAN'T, 'NESSA. YOU CANNOT KEEP ON Last Line: Think how I feel, I'm your sis CANCELING OUT First Line: What my catholic cronies call original sin Last Line: Across the linoleum. 'here. Take a load off your feet.' CANCELING OUT First Line: What my catholic cronies call original sin Last Line: Across the linoleum. 'here. Take a load off your feet' CANYON GORGE ARROYO Poem Text First Line: How many other codices Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Earth; Grandparents; Tradition; Dead, The; World; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers CANYON GORGE ARROYO First Line: How many other codices Last Line: And I studied %I could read him like an open book Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Earth; Grandparents; Tradition CANYON GORGE, ARROYO First Line: How many other codices %and folios are stored down there Last Line: I could read him like an open book CATHAY First Line: That same year, columbus CHANGES: 1 First Line: The clouds split open, soft, like the morning bread Last Line: (he's pleased that this poem changed at the asterisk) CHANGES: 2 First Line: If we place the classic ratfaced, red-shorts 1930s mickey Last Line: Of cloudy water flying back compactly to an aspirin again CHANGES: 3 First Line: In a mid-manhattan art museum, a woman is carefully loving Last Line: Manatee: mermaid CHANGES: 4 First Line: There's a joke about a hen that eats a dollar bill each night Last Line: To his widely admired 'trees in snow' CHEESE First Line: We know now it'll kill you Last Line: What the photographer has us say CHEYENNE WAS RAISED BY INDIANS ..., FR. THE MUTLIVERSE CHILDREN OF ELMER First Line: Somewhere as I write this, sandi ybarra, 12, is happy or Last Line: ...As if I were the guardian of those small stamped %expiration dates. As if I could preserve them CHILDREN/EXPEDIENCIES First Line: The purpose of a pen: to write Last Line: Brandy through the nib of a fountain pen' CIRCA 1861 Poem Text First Line: Mother? I'm here again to freshen the water - lots Subject(s): :dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Radio CIRCA 1861 First Line: Mother? I'm here again to freshen the water: - lots Last Line: We feel like weeping: the news is piercing our hearts CIVILIZED LIFE First Line: She moves like smoky honey, like electric smoky honey, and Last Line: Their animal hollering given containment CLOSER Poem Text First Line: Lucifer,' a student once wrote, 'fell COCK Poem Text First Line: A month before his dinner with the visiting spanish lawyer, Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Religion; Fathers & Sons; Lesbians; Theology COLLECTING: AN ESSAY First Line: In the 'fuckee bars' of that oriental city, floor girls Last Line: I say unto you: at the end, all of us - couriers.' COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL/LITTLETON,CO First Line: Here, thirteen high school students died Last Line: Might hold this drink, %might take it into our systems COME TO. AND WISHED HE HADN'T. THE PAIN Last Line: In the middle of the worked-out continuity COMPASSES First Line: If the past will be seen to validate a current national image Last Line: Clink together inside a velvet bag on the fat hip of power CONJUGAL BEAUTY First Line: One cop is up to literally his keester Last Line: His brother mycroft, puzzling out the same misdeeds through 'ratiocination' alone CONJUGAL BEAUTY First Line: One cop is up to literally his keester Last Line: Persuaded. He'd have done it %differently, if he'd been there, if he straddled the beast CONTINUUM: 1 First Line: Well, I went went went to heaven, baby baby Last Line: (de doop de doop de doop, ba, de doop de doop) CONTINUUM: 1. First Line: Well I went went went to heaven, baby baby Last Line: (de doop de doop de doop, ba, de doop de doop) CONTINUUM: 2 First Line: Once you have a chair Last Line: Where none had been before, from out of nowhere: %a chair CONTINUUM: 2. First Line: Once you have a chair Last Line: Where none had been before, from out of nowhere: %a chair CONTINUUM: 3 First Line: One tick-one putz's little sizzle of hate Last Line: Mommy,' he pointed, 'those chairs are carrying the river!' CONTINUUM: 3. First Line: One tick-one putz's little sizzle of hate Last Line: Mommy,' he pointed, 'those chairs are carrying the river CONTINUUM: 4. A SONG ABOUT COLONIAL TIMES First Line: #name? Last Line: Throgh a milking stoole, or my plain cheayr CONTINUUM: 4. A SONG ABOUT COLONIAL TIMES First Line: #name? Last Line: Throgh a milking stoole, or my plain cheayr' CONTINUUM: 5 First Line: Also, in 1673, the goodwife faithine winterhorpe, who fell asleep while Last Line: In mind. Among its many lovely implications, this: there might be hope for %all of us CONTINUUM: 5. First Line: Also, in 1673, the goodwife faithine winterthorpe, who fell Last Line: Implications, this: there might be hope for all of us CONTINUUM: 6 First Line: The denizens of heaven have no bodies Last Line: I see them cavorting around the rim of that yeasty rink CONTINUUM: 6. First Line: The denizens of heaven have no bodies Last Line: I see them cavorting around the rim of that yeasty rink CONTINUUM: 7. THE FURNITURE MAKERS HAVE THREE PATRON SAINTS First Line: Thank you for the shield-back chair and the ladder-back chair Last Line: Saint victor, saint joseph, saint anne CONTINUUM: 8 First Line: In just a few minutes the cleanup crew Last Line: That sliver from its silver-inlaid memorial box and sets it, %a chair, at their table CONTINUUM: 8. First Line: In just a few minutes the clean-up crew Last Line: A chair, at their table CORD First Line: What can I compare them to, five years later, except their child Last Line: To sever it, quicker and worse COSMOLOGY OF EMPTY First Line: This might explain why the original dot Last Line: Neither of them speaking a word COUNTERFEIT EARTH! First Line: It's 2157. Two adventuring spacemen rocketing home Last Line: Zen: the writing is the wall Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States COUNTERVALENT LAZE First Line: I don't care about that book on 'aggressiveness training' Last Line: Uncomplicated alphaomega electron home CREATURES OF THE ABYSS First Line: Not for me, the easy loves and death-throes Last Line: With a small light dangling in front of them CROSS-COUNTRY, & MOTIF APPEARS First Line: The volks grows close as a skullcap Last Line: Luck, also clinging to a face CROWN AND PLATE AND BRIDGE First Line: It's hidden in the haggis or the ratatouille Last Line: I think I could do something with that CUP First Line: Toward the end, when the pain from the cancer Last Line: The lord's return with a nice cup of tea.' but %the meant it; she was steeped in it DAILY, MORE OFTEN THAN WHITE HOUSE WATCH OR SPORTS Last Line: When I do, a few of vera's exploits DANCING First Line: In this part of town they stack their flat round corncakes Last Line: The molecules won't allow it DANIELLE SUITE Poem Text First Line: The real story is: that they DATING REPORT First Line: Don calls, to tell me about a woman he's dating Last Line: The waters pouring in between DAYS WITH THE FAMILY REALIST First Line: A doorknob on a chicken Last Line: Bank heists, moon shots, deathless poems,. %go milk a fish she also said DAZZLE First Line: Dare ya, this was kansas DEAR POETRY: Poem Text First Line: Well, my mailbox has been visited Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DEEP AND CRAVING HUNGER ... FOR THE PAST First Line: And so she looked back. Remembering DEER First Line: Gumshoes, shamuses, private-eyes, -dicks, ops, are terms Last Line: Now I turn back to my mother's bed on july 23rd 1995 DESERT SONG First Line: They tongued my mons -- the animals; and Last Line: And lot before them, before I turned DIAGRAMS Poem Text First Line: What encourages our belief in the screw as a diagram DIME CALL First Line: Dead jews, dead jews, just points now an underground %telephone cable Last Line: Till my head rings %till they tell me DISCARDS: 1. THE JUNKSHOP OF SCIENTIFIC SPECULATION First Line: Faces a neighborhood that, like all of the clockwork models Last Line: That shivered like a leaf, but that was long ago. A leaf, then %just this dimness DISCARDS: 2. TASHLICH First Line: But tashlich is simpler, if similarly Last Line: Of the people I've needed to kill %in order to get here DISCARDS: 3. BUTTONED-TIGHT SUIT First Line: Tomorrow I'm going to take the stove to the doctor's.' Last Line: Curling up there, through the long night, %with the homunculus in his buttoned-tight suit DNA First Line: And there, in the desert of zin, the children did thirst Last Line: And down to meet the ocean? DOCTOR NITTY-GRITTY First Line: The voices of friends in turmoil, over the voices of yesterday's friends Last Line: From another twenty-four hours of mulch, a loveliness blossoms DOLPHIN: MONOLOGUE & SONG First Line: Once I approached you Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters DONALD DUCK IN DANISH First Line: This woman's tongue is being torn out. Yes. And I'm not being Last Line: The duck sign. Then a kiss. Slut. (the end DONE First Line: I'm done. I've finished writing a poem Last Line: Of tiny clips that must be %necessary for somebody's industry DOUBLES First Line: In an earlier version, I had him voyaging home Last Line: How wonderful that the damp sand carried for ballast doubles as coolant, too DRUGSTORE, 1958 First Line: Just walk right in and demand your Last Line: Aren't even made of the same material DURER Poem Text First Line: The dessicated flukes of a whale. A leech so Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528) DURER First Line: The dessicated flukes of a whale. A leech so Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528) DYING AWAY FROM YOU First Line: A fire siren in san antonio. Long smoke Last Line: We're both her old, easing voice D_L_'S First Line: There might be a planet. Before that Last Line: The story of before-is recited D____ L____€™S Poem Text First Line: There might be a planet. Before that, Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry EARLIEST PUNCTUATION First Line: It's like the midwife's knife ECSTASY First Line: But not what you're thinking. Ecstasy originally: ex, 'out of,' + Last Line: And flew directly away from the promise of light and honey EDGEWATER HOSPITAL Poem Text First Line: Keeps a different time. Across the street, lake michigan folds Subject(s): Hospitals EFFECT OVER DISTANCE Poem Text First Line: The six-foot indigo plumes of the 'sacred necropolis bird Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Public Worship; Jews; Church Attendance; Judaism EFFECT OVER DISTANCE First Line: The six-foot indigo plumes of the sacred necropolis bird Last Line: I sat there on fire, I sat there burning into the starry future ELBEE NOVELTY COMPANY INC. Poem Text First Line: For I have seen louie berkie in his warehouse rows of plastic Subject(s): Business; Businessmen; Businesswomen ELBEE NOVELTY COMPANY INC. First Line: For I have seen louie berkie in his warehouse rows of plastic Last Line: The silence, right? I know, I live alone. Here, shake my hand on it Subject(s): Business ELEMENTS First Line: The cool, dusk-blue of the shadows of these dutch plums ELLIS First Line: The story of america's poor is a cheap whack Last Line: From the deep meat hert of her EMERGENCE OF FLIGHT FROM ARISTOTLE'S MUD First Line: You bitch, you sonofabitch, you flaming bitch-on-wheels Last Line: Stupidly after it as it fluttered, rose, and was lost %to sight: its sky-blue silk in the blue of th ENGRAVINGS IN THE BOOKS OF THE 17TH CENTURY SCIENTIST/MYSTIC First Line: Beryllium is there. Styrofoam is there. The circuitry Last Line: And asking the gods she knows, what's the deal ENORMOUS ELECTRO-MAGNET IS USED TO STEAL THE WORLD'S ELECTRICITY First Line: Elsewhere, drowned atlantis is found (populated Last Line: In a premise as tough as monogamy ENTIRE LIVES First Line: If only the simple indigenes of the place disported themselves Last Line: Her mother is swinging the iron in its dark wonderful arc ESTHER First Line: To the house of king, fist, whip, molestar Last Line: Let me put in a word for him ETRUSACAN First Line: Xzn'g yv ivzw yb zmb nzm li dlnzm orfermt Last Line: Bluish-gray and a layer of airy meringue: two bodies, all night, coupled together in darkness, whisp EXHIBIT HALL First Line: These aren't marble knee boots, this Last Line: As if it were bequeathed us EXORCISM First Line: What's the restless djinn inside she's washing away Last Line: There isn't enough white porcelain in the world EXPLANATION First Line: Supposedly I was babysitting for bernie and lorrie isaacson Last Line: To dabble in paleontology EXPLANATION First Line: They say this really happened, in the church of eternal light EYE OF BEHOLDER First Line: Got the money?-then jo-boy is your go-to neighborhood Last Line: God see?-this is her daughter FAHRENHEIT 451 First Line: There's a series of mystery novels Last Line: Among them, to disgrace them if it should be found FAMILY/GROVE First Line: It's common to say of bad acting, or family photos like these Last Line: The very light we see by held steady, longer than even a life, in the grain FAMOUS BRIDGES First Line: For most of us, I suppose, the learning of what FANG First Line: They both remember the throat Last Line: That ever stabbed us %the tooth of a wolf FANTASY TOY First Line: Biting the coin: is it fit Last Line: They dance out the door in one another's arms FAR First Line: A docu-film from 1912: a shaman %of the western steppes is 'traveling Last Line: She pointed where the thread dropped out. %'it's visiting the other side' FAR : AN ETYMOLOGY First Line: One who goes far ways': a way-'far'er; or sea Last Line: It's still alive...It screams then, %bringing it closer FARDER TO REACHE First Line: Kepler was born in 1571. He knew about as much of the night sky and Last Line: Disappears-which is, of course, the day clearing its throat for speech. FEELERS First Line: A brick is floating around the room Last Line: Even stone is impressionable FELLOWSHIP OF THE FIRST MARSHMALLOW First Line: Outside of bunny's brew city pub Last Line: Hey, brother dog' I nod to him. %'hiya guy' he says FILM First Line: It's strangely like a man FINELY WRITTEN LABELS Poem Text First Line: It isn't enough we knolw these pains Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary FINELY WRITTEN LABELS First Line: It isn't enough we know this pain Last Line: Botanical garden denizens - loved, by %which I mean: brought into language FIVE POUNDS First Line: But aren't all prayers aerosol?-they leave Last Line: And that cloud, with its skin of a thousand wings FLORID STORY First Line: That butcher apron stood on its own Last Line: Humming now, she's pummeling it in the brutal and gentle water FLOWRES OF KOONWARRA First Line: No. A tannish gray fossil Last Line: Surley they lay themselves %down in exactly these flowers FLUID, DRUID; ENAMEL, CAMEL-'JIVE' Last Line: #name? FLUTE / THE TEN LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL First Line: A man will -- fizz is the closest word, it will feel as if his Last Line: Of them, we're here now, go live your life, we're not lost FOE, SHARPSHOOTER, MISS DRAGONSCLAW Last Line: And clipped to save in a file FOR WHAT'S AT HAND First Line: Enter paul blaisdell. And from a carn of latex Last Line: Stuffed the pharaoh's nostrils with peppercorns FOURTEEN PAGES Poem Text Subject(s): Fathers; Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930); Books & Reading FROM THE BOOK First Line: This is the book of losers, the guiness of thoroughbreds Last Line: Brought her, epoch by epoch, to what was our earth FROM THE MOON First Line: The gizmos bollix up a line, and Last Line: Hey! You call that closure?' she said FUTURES First Line: The sky is nearly plaided with the speedy traffic Last Line: Would never be allowed. After all, the battle is never over;%there's so much left to be done GALLERY Poem Text First Line: When my grandfather stepped from the boat Last Line: And pretty as a picture Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration GALLERY First Line: When my grandfather stepped from the boat Last Line: And pretty as a picture Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration GAMMA First Line: Good morning' is a message, if a simple one Last Line: The morning is good GAS First Line: That year, my mother was dying. And other things Last Line: Behind you say it's time to step on it buddy and go Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline; Memory GEESE First Line: On a brittle winter afternoon in moscow, the american Last Line: Too, although we never see it happening' %-- a thread in the lining Subject(s): Houdini, Harry (1874-1926); Jews; Russia GEESE First Line: On a brittle winter afternoon in moscow, the american Last Line: Too, although we never see it happening' %-a thread in the lining GEESE JAZZ First Line: And time, that river, erodes away Last Line: The river, the geese overhead GENERATIONS: 'DUO TRIED KILLING MAN WITH BACON' First Line: At tornado force, a full length of uncooked spaghetti Last Line: Stared down, as if our lives depended on this GENERATIONS: ***!!!THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY!!!*** First Line: The handbills shrill, in searing orange-crimsons. Any century Last Line: - each, beseeching allegiance. %earth; and air GENERATIONS: CON CARNE First Line: My father had worked ten-hour days from when he'd turned sixteen Last Line: But that, as my reticent family says when pressed. Is another story GENERATIONS: THE FICTION SHELF First Line: The swiss watch isn't ticking for a week, before Last Line: - she's spirited back to the land of isn't GESTURE MADE IN THE MARTIAN WASTES First Line: Ancient earth's a boomboom afternoon Last Line: And our on-loan solar resplendence GETTING TO SEE First Line: And at 3 a.M., december 26th, at the 24-7 Last Line: To see the dna of the city recombine GIOTTO: SAINT FRANCIS PREACHING TO THE BIRDS: ABOUT1300 First Line: He also preached to the wolves and the fishes GIRL WHO MARRIED A WOODEN POUNDER First Line: All morning and then through the rise Last Line: Some splinters of the other GIVERNY First Line: Though sometimes, by the end, the farm becomes your own GLASS First Line: Once in another country they numbered his arm Last Line: And the border is never more than this glass GLASS First Line: #name? Last Line: That was also the moment his reason shattered Subject(s): Glass And Glassblowers GOAT/CAT/DOG Poem Text First Line: Two rapscallion nannies GODZILLAS First Line: Every building fibrillates. The army tanks and the submarines Last Line: A boy and his plastic dimestore dinosaur GOING BACK First Line: And what did he wear? A white hat Last Line: For we say our blessings over you GOING IN COMING OUT First Line: Now we will have to enter it GOING NOWHERE Last Line: Ted venture, jungle explorer: rejected GOLD / SILK First Line: An uncle whose business was cufflink GOLD NOTE LOUNGE First Line: She was a smoky-throated eel-boned woman, that's Last Line: And we slick back our greased wings of hair %and enter our own night of dancing GOLIATH AND THE BARBARIANS First Line: Even the atom is a tension Last Line: The way it did at the first mitosis Subject(s): Goliath GRANDMA'S First Line: Name was rose. Every evening Last Line: Preserved at her page GREAT ONES First Line: Thunderclaps (inside of which an intercontinental flight's a toothpick Last Line: The heavens weep, to ask for something, manna, stars, %so modest as reprieve GREAT TOPICS OF THE WORLD First Line: Who are they battling now? The bedouin nomads Last Line: As if these were the great topics of the world GREED SONG First Line: Today, I want %everything. It's not Last Line: Through the dark ducts. %and I want the ducts GULF First Line: At a certain season, and with Last Line: Under sea-wind that blows without end %from the gulf GUNSHOT IN THE PARKING LOT First Line: Is a pop in that vast public space, a dot Last Line: To me!' her voice lost in the general din and disdain HAIR PIECES First Line: The four-year-old is sleeping %in the field, and a butterfly Last Line: He's calling us to worship %the moment, fleeting though it is HAM(S) First Line: Everyone remembers when naomi slowly Last Line: As both the cattle and the prod HARDY BOYS' DETECTIVE HANDBOOK (1959): 1. TAPS First Line: Hooligans sapped the shamus and lammed with the swag Last Line: --of what? Not that can't b/ clamp HARDY BOYS' DETECTIVE HANDBOOK (1959): 1. TAPS First Line: Hooligans sapped the shamus and lammed with the swag Last Line: -of what? No that can't b/ clamp HARDY BOYS' DETECTIVE HANDBOOK (1959): 2. PERPVIC First Line: One, she loosely based on the faux (yet still expensive) celadon ming vase Last Line: It dirty before it leave the mint' HARDY BOYS' DETECTIVE HANDBOOK (1959): 3. CONFUSION First Line: Joe knows he has 'the hot pants' for iola (erotic attraction Last Line: (chapter xii), he's at last confessing the truth HARDY BOYS' DETECTIVE HANDBOOK (1959): 3. CONFUSION First Line: Joe knows he has 'the hot pants' for iola (erotic attraction) Last Line: (chapter 12), he's at last confessing the truth HARDY BOYS' DETECTIVE HANDBOOK (1959): 4. MIRROR First Line: She remembers the fragrance released from cut white pine Last Line: With fifty dollars a day; but a good joe after all' HARDY BOYS' DETECTIVE HANDBOOK (1959): 4. MIRROR First Line: She remembers the fragrance released from cut white pine Last Line: With fifty dollars a day; but a good joe after all HARDY BOYS' DETECTIVE HANDBOOK (1959): 5. GOOD First Line: The whispers motel: rooms by the hour is sometimes known to rent rooms Last Line: And slips inside his kickass tapshoe-soled black boots HARDY BOYS' DETECTIVE HANDBOOK (1959): 5. GOOD First Line: The whispers motel: rooms by the hour is sometimes known to rent rooms Last Line: And slips inside his kick-ass tapshoe-soled black boots HE HAS Poem Text First Line: The high-boned taut-toned moody ink-eyes beauty Subject(s): Eyes HE WAS READING THE GREAT JEWISH MYSTICS First Line: And light was a body. Then another said the body was Last Line: You could weep: such passion, such balance HEART HEART HEART HEART HEART HEART HEART First Line: And that's the truth of it, the truth of the far perimeters Last Line: And everything below the insects...Meet, becoming the other HEAVEN First Line: At anghor, in cambodia, the great stone face of a god reposes Last Line: And beseeds. A god so vined, the vine itself might be the god HELLO, COLE? WE LIKE THIS NEW Last Line: Do the same, of course, remember HELLO?-OH Last Line: Ohmygod HER LITERAL ONE First Line: As for the light - it was a city light Last Line: To the difficult needs of her literal one Subject(s): Relationships HEW SWEETIE Poem Text First Line: The things we call women! Housewife, honey Subject(s): Women; Names HEY SWEETIE First Line: The things we call women! Housewife, honey Last Line: Angel and who's to say he's not right HIERARCHY, LOWERARCHY First Line: Two a.M. The dog barks in the yard, and so Last Line: #name? HISTORY First Line: The trip was arduous, but it had happened Last Line: An equal number of nuggets of salt HISTORY First Line: The deliverers back, the people would each receive a token Last Line: This necessary taste that called to their saliva HISTORY AS HORSE LIGHT Poem Text First Line: It ended at the time of hiroshima. Everything Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation HISTORY AS HORSE LIGHT First Line: It ended at the time of hiroshima. Everything Last Line: A skillet sputtering %brilliant greases, pure and imageless,down the dark Subject(s): Environment; Nature HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION First Line: In the dating bar, the potted ferns lean down Last Line: In the fern bar a hand tries a knee, as if unplanned HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY First Line: Everything was bleak then, and Last Line: They did it by hand HOW EASY IT IS First Line: A family is murdered: husband, wife Last Line: To the sides of her face, as if he's actually hurt her there HOW FAST First Line: This is how fast: you place the speed of a bullet HOW I WANT TO GO First Line: One way would be %almost without transition: water Last Line: Leaves the leg of a crab HOW SIMILE WORKS Poem Text First Line: The drizzle-slicked cobblestone alleys Subject(s): Marital Love HOW THE WORLD WORKS: AN ESSAY First Line: That's my topic. How complex, alhambran arabesques of weather Last Line: Ever had really, or ever would, work HOW WE DO IT First Line: Another day, shuffled out of the deck HUM First Line: Now: sun through the blinds HUMAN BEAUTY Poem Text Recitation First Line: If you write a poem about love Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HUMAN BEAUTY First Line: If you write a poem about love Last Line: Inside what it was a praise of HUMDINGERS KNEESLAPPERS SIDESPLITTERS & YUKS First Line: We were lost. And were on the pitted edge Last Line: The moment's sustenance we made in making that grill %a promo slogan: we serve all manna of food HUNT First Line: A sheaf of some. Some (like mrs. Browning's). I LEARN I'M 96 PERCENT WATER First Line: And stare out over the edge of this little Last Line: The body bobs in its life I REMEMBER, FROM MY CHILDHOOD, SEEING THE MINERS Last Line: There at the last of the cancer IF WE WERE HONEST Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When I tell you that cultural ritual is an artifice Subject(s): Sex IMPS Poem Text IN ONE NIGHT Recitation by Author Subject(s): Brassieres IN ONE NIGHT First Line: They're going at it, whoever 'they' are on the other side Last Line: The bra of neutrinos. The bra of the beast IN PRAISE OF THE BATHOS First Line: Immediately, the fine, rose line of sunrise is as solid as a shawl Last Line: Of our foreknowledge of death, that sets us loving madly IN THE MIDST OF INTRUSIVE RICHNESS Poem Text First Line: Buzzing the language of batteries, a batteryesque IN THE MIDST OF INTRUSIVE RICHNESS First Line: Buzzing the language of batteries, a batterytype IN THE X-RAY OF THE SARCOPHAGUS OF TA-PERO First Line: Of the twenty-second dynasty, we see the skull Last Line: Long way and still has so far to go INSIDE Poem Text First Line: What was he? Not retarded, not autistic Subject(s): Intelligence INSIDE First Line: What was he?-not 'retarded,' not 'autistic' Last Line: Would lie down together alongside the lion and lamb INSUFFICIENCY First Line: The traditional chinese tale of 'the ideal scholar' Last Line: It needs to curl around, end to end, %and enter itself? INTERMEDIARIES First Line: Angels, in most cultures Last Line: The thought of a man; a man, the thought of an angel INTIMATE PAST First Line: Sally's story: people came to her for 'trauma resolution' Last Line: She'd wake up in their arms self-baptized: new and damp and salacious INTO THAT STORY: 1 First Line: It's dawn. The ancient greek warriors strap on Last Line: This writing is my singing INTO THAT STORY: 2 First Line: Throw him into a room on the funny farm' Last Line: Language like that you don't forget INTO THAT STORY: 3 First Line: Except we do forget Last Line: To lose its definition INTO THAT STORY: 4 First Line: And even at six, I knew the neighbors' Last Line: Dinosaur: gas tank: emissions-is that it? INTO THAT STORY: 5 First Line: In someone's version of four missing days, the aliens Last Line: Into the melanin of the evening INTO THAT STORY: 6 First Line: But it wasn't a deer Last Line: The radiant heat of that belly? INTO THAT STORY: 7 First Line: A light wave. What? A kiss, a 'french kiss,' sloppy Last Line: Already, he's dissolved into that story INTO THE LIVES OF OTHER PEOPLE First Line: Half-waif, half-woman, at fourteen norma Last Line: And the planter of wandering jew was a japanese microphone Subject(s): Life; Meditation; Women INVISIBLE First Line: The parents are fucking. The parents are discussing Last Line: On which we walk through their cities Subject(s): Change; Relationships INVISIBLE WORLD First Line: This might explain ghosts, or esp: the stuff of us is worth more Last Line: Teasing it, for night after night, with the foam hem of her %flamenco dress INVOCATION First Line: There are nights when we've all wanted that Last Line: That the corresponding italian lips %will issue some word offeedback? IT HAPPENS Last Line: It was never local news IT'S TWENTY DEGREES, AND IT'S SNOWING, AND I'M IN MY First Line: Molly oodle: an unpublished novel by Last Line: My lady-seraph of infinite light. %I call her molly oodle JAN. 31ST: DEGREES OF THE SAME THING First Line: The astrophysicist said %that what we are is walking carbon-that we're Last Line: Maze of that ear with a piercing, intimate whisper JEFF OF MUTT AND JEFF LEANS ON AIR First Line: The very earlist animators Last Line: To its elbow in this world's water. He looks at his hand... %our hands; and what they do; and how im JERKS SHE HAS TO PUT UP WITH. ONE LAST Last Line: For enthusing over its can-do eponymous JODI First Line: Their major god: the giant clam Last Line: In the shape of the child who bore it all day KANSAS: STORIES First Line: The twining withes of incense-smoke at the mouth of the oracle cave Last Line: I think she'd use it to store things in, like a box KEATS' PHRASE Poem Text Subject(s): Emptiness KHIRBET SHEMA First Line: Because I lost the captions, this aerial view Last Line: It's the same light, either way, she feels lift her KNEES / DURA-EUROPOS: 2. 1982-83 First Line: When emily died -- my sister-in-law, at 34 Last Line: It feeds on, and leads to %perpetual self KNEES / DURA-EUROPOS: 3. ANYTIME First Line: Listen: another story of during a war -- so faceless Last Line: I'm keeping on praying despite my god KNEES; DURA-EUROPOS First Line: This is what's happening now: it's raining, mean Last Line: Of the same attentive maker, that will allow all this Variant Title(s): Knees / Dura-europos: 1. 255 A.d KNIFE THROUGH THE HEAD (YOUR DISTRESSES AND MINE) First Line: When nona phoned, her stomach was already little more Last Line: Room in the world of a thousand selves of the one self KNOCK ON THE DOOR Last Line: Then the cops are called LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE Poem Text First Line: The renewal project is doomed: because Subject(s): Relationships LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE First Line: The renewal project is doomed: because Last Line: From floating off into the nothing LEAVE FOOTPRINTS, HANRAHAN SAID Last Line: Big kabooshkie, hanrahan told him LET'S GO OVER IT ONCE MORE, MAC Last Line: I don't remember LET'S VISIT A TOY FACTORY! First Line: Oboy! But, although the toys are smiling Last Line: Waiting for them to enter, to start the great work %of hurting somebody LETTER First Line: At the end of a day that's rubble around me LETTER TO FRIENDS EAST AND WEST First Line: What's new? I'm still in illinois, Last Line: How could it not be true? LIBRARY Poem Text First Line: This book saved my life. Subject(s): Books & Reading LIBRARY First Line: This book saved my life Last Line: This book is going to save the world LIFE IS HAPPY First Line: I suddenly understand: I'm watching you chop away Last Line: Its dearly off-key humming LITTLE, BIG First Line: Words I'd like to get into a poem Last Line: And gently, almost powering it, the ombudsman moon %ameliorates the naked light of the sun LITTLE/BIG First Line: The basic human oomph won't change Last Line: That's moored for the whole of the night to the floating carcass of a whale LIVES OF THE -- WHA'? First Line: No punishment deterred her Last Line: Reclaiming husbands here, and husbands greeting wives LIVES OF THE ARTISTS First Line: She accomplished the incredible feat of painting Last Line: Turn. The risk. The call of accuracy. To witness LOCAL NEWS Last Line: We learn to call the news LOCAL NEWS Last Line: The shadows: gone LOCAL NEWS Last Line: My chicago view of things LOT'S WIFE First Line: You wouldn't recognize her now Last Line: She is here when we pour in our sleep LULLABY Poem Text First Line: Sleep, little beansprout LULLABYE First Line: Sleep, little beansprout Last Line: Sleep, little dillseed %don't be afraid %the moon is the sunlight %ricocheted MAGICIAN; SPACE SWASHBUCKLER FLASH Last Line: Could be counted on MALOKHIM First Line: Often the sky is divided as neat as livingroom drapes Last Line: Once the angels walked the earth; %now they aren't even in heaven MAN A KNIFE Last Line: Good night, charlene' MANLEY? YOU KNOW...IF ANYTHING HAPPENS... Last Line: Explode in his face? Who hasn't MANTRAS First Line: The neurologist: we're eloquent meat, evolved Last Line: Homunculus in its buttoned-up suit MARBLE-SIZED STONE Poem Text First Line: Does she love you? She says yes, but really Subject(s): Love; Illness MARRIAGE, AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTION First Line: A millipede-thing the size of a brahma bull is devouring Last Line: A 'watch,' they called it: two hands held a face MARRIED IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD First Line: Negative proof, as in: you believe Last Line: Like crazy at the door when she comes back Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MATCHBOX First Line: The sun is filtered down to amber webwork MATTERS First Line: What do they know, in this tumbleslat Last Line: They know it matters MAYPURES First Line: And so a lacquered, giltwork wooden globe Last Line: A little star. In this case, one whose heart burns up %in reference to nothing MEOP First Line: The scenario is: I'm six, and an invincible venusian army of robots Last Line: They froze you in light. The other you went on, dying MEOP: 1 First Line: The scenario is: I'm six, and an invincible venusian army of robots Last Line: #name? MEOP: 2 First Line: The fabled kansas flatness seems to go so far, we couldn't Last Line: From the lunar dark side. Trebla. Relyks MIKE-O, YOU'RE A CUTIE Last Line: Is brandishing a knife MINUTE MYSTERIES First Line: Every crime is perfect here in centerville Last Line: Every minute's a goddam mystery,' he grumbles MISHIPASINGHAN, LUMCHIPAMUDANA, ETC Poem Text First Line: Some days, anything is wonderful. In its Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes MISHIPASINGHAN, LUMCHIPAMUDANA, ETC First Line: Some days, anything is wonderful. In its Last Line: He eats it. And there's only one word Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes MNEMONIC DEVICES First Line: The moon, that way of remembering Last Line: Responsible for the names of the minions MOONOLOGY First Line: The shock of a contemporary seeing st. Jerome Last Line: A lake in a lake, a sky in a sky MORE TROUBLE WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: ALTERNATIVE USES First Line: It will often be found useful to carry a bottle Last Line: Hot kisses to my honey boy MORE TROUBLE WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: DIRECTIONAL First Line: The level where the bits of frizzled-out satellites orbit Last Line: Here, even this, smacks faintly of resurrection MORE TROUBLE WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: DOG, FISH, SHOES (OR BEANS) First Line: I was a shmooshled little girl,' my aunt elena says Last Line: So you see?' she'd add. 'nothing is hopeless.' MORE TROUBLE WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: IN THE BAR IN THE BAR First Line: Someone's voice, made haughtier by her rum-on-ice Last Line: Against the thick of the current - no, and no MORE TROUBLE WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: SQUASH AND STONE First Line: And so it is, with the physicists' need Last Line: As if it were a constitutional right. Give us our septon MORE TROUBLE WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: SUBSTREAM First Line: The black lagoon is turbid - is an inky egg-drop soup Last Line: They beat at their heads and tiamat rages MORE TROUBLE WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: THE LOST CONTINENT (1951) First Line: The purse-snatch in this 1568 painting of bruegel's Last Line: Eventually it was a continent MORE TROUBLE WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: TRUE First Line: Speaking of which, I'd better stop here and admit Last Line: Do not fear therefore. Love is our true north MORE TROUBLE WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: TWO WEEKS, WITH POLO CHORUS First Line: She's upstairs assembling the lounga-recliner Last Line: The term they use to measure electric current is resistance MORE TROUBLE WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: VARIOUS ULIA First Line: Did we say it out loud? Eventually Last Line: She needs to turn off the radio MORE TROUBLE WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: WHAT WE'RE USED TO First Line: Or the woman who, after the seeped stink of her death Last Line: I was supernatural MORNING PAPER First Line: Greeting me in my ophthalmologist's waiting area is Last Line: About the trees) are beyond the frame of our vision MOUTH First Line: Of course they fight. Of course Last Line: Everything follows from that MULTIVERSE First Line: As a ship, in sinking, sucks whatever flotsam Last Line: Into his labyrinth head, or her rosefoliate secrets MUSICS AND VEGETABLES First Line: On a plstic dimestore 45 rpm I'd Last Line: Song, to lushness, for lifting the roots into light MYSTERIES First Line: There are levels to a place like this, on which Last Line: Empty of its usual pile of hundred-dollar bills %although untampered-with and the lock still in plac MYTH STUDIES First Line: The custodian erases whatever simple biology Last Line: The blankness of fresh possibility NATURAL HISTORY: 1 First Line: As for the elephant, 'it is the largest of land animals' Last Line: Under truth police surveillance. %- no NATURAL HISTORY: 2 First Line: The lake's an oolong brown today Last Line: Howling it, and howling it NATURAL HISTORY: 3 First Line: Do you believe Last Line: A not unthinkable proposition NATURAL HISTORY: 4 First Line: As to painters' verisimilitude, pliny tells us Last Line: In their own late twentieth-century troubled american bed NATURAL HISTORY: 5 First Line: She's a mergers lawyer, remember Last Line: Like any confused human beings NATURAL STATE Poem Text Subject(s): Books & Reading NEED FOR PRIVATE SPACE IS HERE First Line: Enacted by max the collie repeatng a circle NEOLOGISMS First Line: Outage is recent. 'northwest sector seventeen reports' NEW GUIDELINES WILL AT LEAST SEND STUDENTS TO OUTSIDE SOURCES... First Line: I love its smell. And I hope you understand Last Line: And what all of you stuck in your stupid dying lives %call the human condition Subject(s): Automobiles; Love NEWS IS HAPPENING Last Line: Peripheral vision NIGGLING MYSTERY First Line: In my dream of newton, a great knock NILE First Line: Elijah this. The children of israel that Last Line: Our tongues on the other language NILE IN AMERICA First Line: Stylized by its stiffening overnight, a squirrel Last Line: He would rise in the light arms of morning NITROGEN CYCLE First Line: That, sir, is a vile gossip, appropriate to, and Last Line: The poor bagged up for ha'pence NO LONGER RECOGNIZE ANY TIE BETWEEN US! Last Line: Splits the scene divisively is eloquent beyond NOMENCLATURE First Line: Light's the way the zohar starts, that compendium of jewish Last Line: They had one paper satchel of clothes, and their names NOTE TO TYPESETTER: ADD MORE #? Last Line: Here in disconnected bytes NOTES FROM THE DESKTOP First Line: Another poem where rachel phones in the thick of the night Last Line: The galaxies fly from each other NOW First Line: One day he left the headband in the truck Last Line: Rained on hers, grief-lit and saline NOW First Line: Cindy? Yes. No: not quite. He has never before Last Line: Has to do; it's how he earns his salary NOW HERE Last Line: Hey! You call that closure?' she said NUMBERING AT BETHLEHEM First Line: He was, he tells his grandson, a grandson Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569) OF THE DISJUNCTIVE, I THINK OF MY GRANDPARENTS Last Line: An even more demeaning job: what OF THE DOUBLENESS First Line: (ba-lam!) 'they're coming in from close to 12 o'clock!' (by Last Line: Creature, who were two in the clear kyle everyday noon OLD PHOTO First Line: They might be a theory: good cop, bad cop ON A QUIET STREET First Line: Across the field, resolute as a rector, a stand Last Line: I'd like to think it a benison ON THE BEACH WITH THE VIKINGS First Line: He was known for his 'slow burn' shtick Last Line: Of the king, as well as the funeral ship on fire %--in one ON THE GRAVE First Line: This book. That book. I open Last Line: A flute time plays an air on %then, the air itself ONE CONTINUOUS SUBSTANCE First Line: A small boy and a slant of morning light Last Line: And the sun %kept touching you, there, and there, where I'd been ONE OF THEM SPEAKS First Line: You said they turned you into a column of light Last Line: The way we think the dead do ONE THING First Line: Now it seems a curious epoch in the history Last Line: What I've come to him for -- the one thing ONE WEEK BEFORE THE DIVORCE IS FINAL First Line: They start to laugh at something Last Line: Not received at the farthermost outposts OPPOSITION First Line: It's against that makes the music Last Line: In this poem, flying on, in a draft of its own tune OTHER WAY First Line: It rains, and everything changes Last Line: And row our house into the morning OWN RECOGNIZABLE First Line: They bound the foot -- they shriveled it like a salted persimmon Last Line: I had a dream. We were two birds on one branch, singing PACKING FOR A DIFFICULT TRIP First Line: I take my sci-fi paperback adventure Last Line: Onto the flight to chicago PAEAN TO THE CONCEPT First Line: On show tonight, the maestrochef in his puffpastry headgear PANGAEA First Line: Not that they shae any etymological root Last Line: Continents used to be a single mass under heaven PAOLO UCCELLO First Line: It's not so much an argument is taking place - the argument becomes PARALLEL First Line: That afternoon, my peripheral vision fills with a shetland pony Last Line: #name? PARNASSUS Poem Text First Line: The gods always live on a mountain, and marble PARNASSUS First Line: The gods always live on a mountain, and marble PARTHENOGENESIS First Line: Out of waking, a day is made. We Last Line: With a little embroidery %duck above the heartbeat PASS IT ON: AN ESSAY First Line: And combrich gives, as an example, a coin Last Line: Softer in our other face, our face in sleep, %our obverse PAST PRESIDENTS OF THE COUNTERS CLUB First Line: Archimedes the geometer claimed that he could calculate Last Line: For half a century PATIENTS, BLIND FROM BIRTH Last Line: And twinkle on the milky way PATOOT AND POOPIK First Line: Weal' is a good word, and especially wedded tight Last Line: You don't understand a single word I'm saying' PAYMENT PLAN First Line: Clunker. Junker. The fizzlemobile. Everybody Last Line: And coaxing juice enough for the uphills Subject(s): Automobiles; Freedom; Money PEOPLE ARE DROPPING OUT OF OUR LIVES First Line: Joplin's voice, edged like a crack Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music, Rock; Rock & Roll PEOPLE ARE DROPPING OUT OF OUR LIVES First Line: Joplin's voice, edged like a crack Last Line: Go higher, the hands go %capo up my neck Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music, Rock PERHAPS BECAUSE HER SKIRTS SO OFTEN GUSTED UP Last Line: For instance, this recep PERSISTENCE First Line: The gut-knots in the traffic-knots in the freeway-knots Last Line: She leans an ear against one unbroken string %of her long-gone music PERSONAL First Line: A rorschach 'has' meaning. It's something like a rorschach Last Line: I'm not sure I believe tht now PETE'S YAHOO NEIGHBOR First Line: The brains they sponged off the livingroom ... PHOTO OF A LOVER FROM MY JUNIOR YEAR IN COLLEGE First Line: Or the earth: one half in sun Last Line: She has one of her arms in an arm of her blouse, %and the other one wonderfully not Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers; Universities & Colleges PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE INTERIORS OF DICTATORS' HOUSES Poem Text First Line: It's as if every demon from hell with aspirations Subject(s): Desire PHYLACTERIES First Line: Someone once told my friend jessie smile Last Line: Said it too. I thought how, in this foreign land, it would do PING PONG BALLS ARE ATOMS First Line: The women's community outreach lunch Last Line: To melt back into the nutritive camaraderie of the losers PLEASURE OF THE LYRIC POEM First Line: If the byzantine/ the ottoman/ the roman Last Line: Recounted in prose, the empire wins or loses %another vastly important battle PLEASURES Poem Text First Line: The view from the dungeon's barred slit Subject(s): Pleasure POEM BEGINNING WITH A QUOTE FROM...GALACTIC ODYSSEY... First Line: And on a world that circles ultima three are beings Last Line: Though their customs differ and their gods bear different names POEM BEGINNING WITH THREE LINES BY DR. SEUSS First Line: And how fortunate you're not professor de breeze Last Line: And he picks up his pointer, and turns to his ducks POEM OF THE PRAISES First Line: My name isn't lucius; I never grew up POEM SPOKEN BY A PLAGUE AT SCENIC VIEW First Line: This one, here, that looks like a melted accordion Last Line: At the shock. You didn't know %you had it in you POEM WHOSE LAST SENTENCE IS 17 SYLLABLES AFTER A SUGGESTION Poem Text First Line: The little we need. Thoreau demoted flour in favor of lowlier Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); O'keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986); Basic Needs POEM WHOSE LAST SENTENCE IS 17 SYLLABLES AFTER A SUGGESTION First Line: The little we need. Thoreau demoted flour in favor of lowlier POEM WITH TWO LINES FROM A CATALOGUE First Line: There is no color inside the body POEMS SPOKEN BY A PLAQUE AT SCENIC VIEW First Line: This one, here, that looks like a melted accordion Last Line: At the shock. You didn't know %you had it in you Subject(s): Nature POET SPEAKS OBSERVER SPOUTS Recitation by Author POET-SPOUSE OBSERVER-THOUGHTS First Line: The saddest face I've ever seen-I mean Last Line: Run off with the undertaker POLARIZED RESPONSES First Line: Of course the gods are alive!...They're gods Last Line: Swaying to the music POWER OF WEIRDNESS First Line: It was clear that night in 1887, in the barn Last Line: Means it's from another world POWERS First Line: Whizzer, the top, phantasmo...They come back sometimes Last Line: He said it clearly, to her and to everyone, %spent, and heroic PREDICTOPOEM First Line: It wasn't the same for me either. In PREPARATIONS FOR TRAVEL First Line: That tasty paste they make Last Line: The two words for following sun %flowers. Shadows PREPOSITIONS Poem Text First Line: We are going - the motion picture theater, (direction) Subject(s): Parents; Cancer (disease); Home Health Care; Parenthood PREPOSITIONS First Line: We are going -- the moving picture theater. (direction) Last Line: Filled the blankness that we come from and we go to PRIVATE LIFE First Line: He owed dormady's for the paint job on the pickup Last Line: That had once been her mother's and now was hers PROBLEM SOLVING Poem Text First Line: From a knoll above the arno he watches its muscular washes work Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Arno River, Italy; Brothers & Sisters PROBLEM SOLVING First Line: From a knoll above the arno he watches its muscular washes work PROTECTION 'S First Line: What we called it, and that latex circle marked our wallet-leather Last Line: Know what they hadn't paid. It's a racket PROTEIN First Line: That year I dated ellen I also met her roommate Last Line: With doorposts of whey curds, aged cheese, pillars of pork %-in some ways, everybody's dream Subject(s): Relationships PUBLIC LIFE First Line: Their people believe 'the shimmeringness'--the spirit Last Line: And those poppyseed cakes laced in honey PULLING JUST A LITTLE SNOCKERED Last Line: A nondescript and strangely silent sedan QEBEHSENEUF First Line: I want this poem to be that black Last Line: And it wheels right back where it came from Subject(s): Murder QUEST FOR THE SOURCE OF THE NILE First Line: They needed to know. They came, they suffered Last Line: He was screaming. 'tell me the names of the gods!' RAISINGS First Line: There were even moments amid the emotional wreckage Last Line: Exactly where he's pointed RAMSES THE SECOND First Line: The week that tonya's marriage fell apart Last Line: The air three feet away waves like medusa's friggin' scalp.' Subject(s): Change; Pain RAREFIED First Line: Fancy-schmancy,' my father would have said Last Line: He'd give you the cheap shirt off his back RAREFIED; THE SWEATER IS MADE FROM ONLY THE FINEST SOFTEST UNDERHAIRS Poem Text First Line: Fancy-schmancy my father would have said Subject(s): Introspection; Laborers - Taiwan; Sweatshops; Sweating System READING IN First Line: And then I said the bus's wheels in fresh REAL SPEECHES First Line: Applying for the mortgage loan is inimical Last Line: Near the drive-thru lane, abidingly somewhere inside REAL WAR First Line: You overboiled chucklump of soupmeat' - good REALITY ORGANIZATION First Line: 4:30 a.M. With the woe adding up Last Line: A hardness to hold to, a firm true specific event. REALITY ORGANIZATION: 2 First Line: Zen and the art of computer management systems. Last Line: Had lysistrata. We have biofeedback and we have lysistrata. REALITY ORGANIZATION: 3 First Line: We have biofeedback. We know there are levels Last Line: The first worked stones are scored. REALITY ORGANIZATION: 4 First Line: It was nearly dawn when I found you. By then Last Line: Electronwise, wholegalaxyclusterwise, and not be wiser. RECEPTIONIST AT THE DAILY POST, ORIGINATING PAPER Last Line: In the midst of human chaos that would otherwise RECIPE First Line: Greatgrandma's bending to pluck some vegetable Last Line: That tastes of these roots RED SHIFT First Line: He loved not fish, john aubrey writes Last Line: Of cod and herring is in him REEL ESTATE Poem Text First Line: Sleep - sleep - then the kitchen trap Subject(s): Conduct Of Life REENTRY First Line: By the beehived dolls and slickum'd ducks-assed dudes Last Line: Out into the difficult dance of the world: the now, the here %the passing REENTRY First Line: By the beehived dolls and slickum'd ducks-assed dudes Last Line: Out into the difference dance of the world: the now, the here, the passing REFINEMENT First Line: We loathe the rat. At any time Last Line: Disappearing; and then disappearing: completely, %into the thin and bright aristotelian air REFUGE First Line: Doesn't need to be a physical place or even %of this world Last Line: I see him %softly start to speak. And then, %like any deer, it bolts for cover RELIQUARY First Line: Is silver lilted sibilantly around an enameled urn about the size of an old-tim Last Line: And, his hand on her knee, she closes the book REMAINS SONG First Line: The penis is gone, the penis of even tyrannosaurus rex Last Line: God were a boy-toy neighbor she'd decided to run off with REMBRANDT / PANTIES First Line: A couple is having a vitriolic lulu Last Line: To the power of x, and delicate under the slow turn %of the equally unreadable stars REMBRANDT/PANTIES First Line: A couple if having a vitriolic lulu Last Line: To the power of x and delicate under the slow turn %of the equally unreadable stars Subject(s): Marriage; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Self-criticism REPAIRWORK First Line: The whang! Of their anger back-and-forth Last Line: Into endless sky-blue cloth REPEATED SIGHTINGS First Line: Of the rock star we thought buried in his diamondwear Last Line: That bird? - you can open the norton anthology where %it's reported flown, lines earlier, into someb REPOSITORIES First Line: A terrible thing, my mother said, then shushed her mouth Last Line: Misplaced faith. A terrible thing RETURN TO THE WORLD First Line: There's darkness; then there's an opalescent web Last Line: The nova and ovary, yes are sisters. %the lungs are small bundles of sky Subject(s): Night ROCK First Line: Stars. Sheen was fifteen when she started Last Line: Its center. 'and the rays?' when I'm not me, they're me ROLLING CLOSER OVER THE LUNAR SURFACE Last Line: In their radiant and eco-holistic grandeur ROSES AND SKULLS First Line: Jee-zuss, I just got a call from the crazy old bitch Last Line: In your hands at midnight isn't enough. Now holding this oth e face ROUTE First Line: Five a.M., and headlight-eating clots of fog Last Line: And mad science enough for me S.D.G.I.E. First Line: My friend was describing the argument. He said Last Line: They might think five feet made a difference SAGA OF STUPIDITY AND WONDER First Line: The history of the world could be written Last Line: They were his constant weather: the air was 8,000 wings SAN ANTONIO, TX: THE HAPPY JAZZ BAND VERSUS VERSUS First Line: He is born in the uterus Last Line: Alligator pear %blood orange SANGUINARY: 1. MICHAEL'S First Line: With his white cap and its perfect chain Last Line: With his work, with his apron of blood on SANGUINARY: 2. PRESSED FLOWERS First Line: There came a time when understanding was taught Last Line: A touch of breeze in its branches SANGUINARY: 3. WHAT A GIRAFFE EATS First Line: High leaves Last Line: Stretched out %over generations SANGUINARY: 4. WHAT A TRIBAL UNIT IS First Line: We don't know Last Line: Washing the knife off now %somebody's father SANGUINARY: 5. DEFINE A SATELLITE First Line: On some nights I go for a walk and the moon Last Line: All of the other bodies SCAFFOLDING COLLAPSES; AND ANOTHER WEEK Last Line: She escapes. Of course-her weekly escapes SCANT First Line: ...And even from the closest-that would be Last Line: For forty-seven years, and then he wakes, and she begins dying SCAR/BEER/GLASSES Poem Text First Line: They only have an hour: they have to SCENES FROM THE NEXT LIFE First Line: This is the way I served the pharaoh, god of the two lands Last Line: I know the quieter joy of its blueprint SCHUL First Line: These are the holy scrolls Last Line: Into them, like white light SCIENCES SING A LULLABYE First Line: Physics says: go to sleep. Of course Last Line: History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down SECOND LEVEL First Line: Jose oliveira, a human, was the voice of jose garcia SECOND THOUGHTS First Line: ... And then of course the weeping: some demurely, some Last Line: That's sunlit at times %and at other times darkened Subject(s): Reason; Thought SEEING Poem Text First Line: If it was water, poseidon presided Subject(s): Coryate, Thomas (1577-1617); Travel; Journeys; Trips SENSITIVITY First Line: When my father died a time-zone away SENTIMENTAL Poem Text First Line: The light has traveled unthinkable thousands of miles to be SENTIMENTAL First Line: The light has traveled unthinkable thousands of miles to be Last Line: All these years now, every last one of my childhood's %heartwormed puppydogs found its natural voice SEQUEL TO THE SONNET FOR PLANET 10 First Line: This three-inch glazed ceramic shoe Last Line: It's once again a living vein in the planet Variant Title(s): A Kind Of Etiolog SERIEMA SONG First Line: The flamingo delouses its belly with the easy speed Last Line: It's night, its velvet covering us again %and that bird Subject(s): Love SERIEMA SONG First Line: The flamingo delouses its belly with the easy speed Last Line: It's night, its velvet covering us again %and that bird. SESTINA: AS THERE ARE SUPPORT GROUPS, THERE ARE SUPPORT WORDS Poem Text First Line: When visiting a distant (and imponderable) shire, Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SESTINA: AS THERE ARE SUPPORT GROUPS, THERE ARE SUPPORT WORDS First Line: When visiting a distant (and imponderable) shire Last Line: Of the hygrometer promises oxidation of iron SHANGRI-LA First Line: People were missing Last Line: For the last time in history SHAWABTY, USHABI, OR SHABTI FIGURES First Line: Some are lumpish terra-cotta cylinders SHAWL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Eight hours by bus, and night Subject(s): Books & Reading SHOYN FERGESSIN: 'I'VE FORGOTTEN' IN YIDDISH First Line: But now it's the yiddish itself I'm forgetting Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Yiddish SHOYN FERGESSIN: 'I'VE FORGOTTEN' IN YIDDISH First Line: But now it's the yiddish itself I'm forgetting Last Line: Anything for a minute. So that's what I said. They asked me %my name and I said I've forgotten Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Yiddish SILL RITUAL: A SURVEY First Line: Cilley had died... Mary had rejected him Last Line: In the midst of people -- and (you will smile) I never read them %without first washing my hands SINGSONG, WHATEVER IT MEANS First Line: Invisible %at first, they suddenly tilt SITTING IN THE MARGIN Poem Text First Line: A nun puckers. Her class, as if together Subject(s): Catholic Schools SIXTEENTH CENTURY, BRUSH AND INK: A HERMIT ON A RIVERBANK First Line: Is virtually all riverbank: the water is a great Last Line: - sometimes we'll hurt each other just to remember %we haven't been dissolved into it yet SLIGHTLY SHUFFLED HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION First Line: That night the snow fell as if prototype gears Last Line: And the polar caps, and the oystershell moons SNAPPED First Line: Careful,' a woman unpacking a picnic basket formulaically Last Line: Out of the underbrush, chasing lois across the amazing hills SO MUCH LIKE A RENAISSANCE FIGURE OF DEATH Last Line: Already he's a million atoms, furiously ticking SO WOULD RATHER DO THIS EVEN THAN DRINK Last Line: She never missed a beat SOME CLOTHS First Line: The color wrung out of a wrung-out cloth, a flock of city pigeons on the roof Last Line: Which rises now, a prayer shawl in the air, a wedding canopy SOME COMMON TERMS IN LATIN THAT ARE LARGER THAN OUR LIVES Poem Text First Line: Mutant-engineered bloodsucker djinns, invisibility rays Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 SOME COMMON TERMS IN LATIN THAT ARE LARGER THAN OUR LIVES First Line: Mutant-engineered bloodsucker djinns, invisibility rays Last Line: And what's beyond the sky, and beyond that, ad infinitum Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SOME DEATHS THAT HAVE RECENTLY COME TO MY ATTENTION First Line: Premature and only nineteen ounces, sonny Last Line: And, just as it does, the whole %universe slips away SOME DOORS: 1 First Line: The refrigerator door was hyperspace thick Last Line: Reached through that slick ruby slit, to the wrist. %a thousand miles. Gelid, swampy guts and the cr SOME DOORS: 2 First Line: A folklore joke goes: what door Last Line: A temptress beckons me sexily; she's leaning on a door %thathas my name engraved, and a date, and a SOME DOORS: 3 First Line: In 6th grade biology one film speeded time Last Line: It wasn't the size but exactly the shape %of a door to another world SOME LEAVES FROM THE PERMISSION TREE First Line: He drilled a hole in her head Last Line: In the air said: what a crazy whirled SOME OBSERVATIONS First Line: How many potential separate tears, locked into the body of lot's wife? Last Line: Their earthly salutations' SOME SECRET First Line: I'm looking at a painting of what's seemingly a 1950s classroom Last Line: Alive and dying and bursting again in its eyes like the stars SOME THINGS First Line: I'm tired of writing about the gods Last Line: The rising place for the dough SONG OF THE TAGS First Line: Yesterday morning, root canal. That night Last Line: And so-for a while-we understood it SONG OF TOO MUCH First Line: A polo zealot, akbar, 'the greatest Last Line: And I follow its light down the field SONG: DOUBT AND LIMITATION First Line: One of those days: the sky weighs Last Line: Of what I know and what I think I know SONNET FOR PLANET 10 First Line: My mother is dying. Nothing Last Line: But I'm weary, and I'm leaving it undone SOURCE OF CUTTLEBONE First Line: By now the canary's pocked this circle of bone to something Last Line: Having come, it seemed, out of nowhere SPACES Poem Text First Line: Beneath the dome that afternoon, she studies reproductions Subject(s): Paintings & Painters SPACES First Line: Beneath the dome that afternoon, she studies Last Line: The death of that dream, then another dream, and %another SPIES (SPIES? SPIES.) Poem Text First Line: Are everywhere. / they float Subject(s): Spies SPIES (SPIES? SPIES.) First Line: Are everywhere. %they float Last Line: Lonely version of love, I think. The air %goes cloudy ... I fell his gaze ... %who does he report to Subject(s): Spies SPLINTER GROUPS OF BREAKFAST First Line: Not even nothing existed yet Last Line: They touch, they stroke, and the universe %recalibrates itself; coheres SPRING NIGHTS First Line: Screwing is a major problem-eric manages Last Line: Cold light,' the scientist calls it SQUARE EGGS Last Line: A side of flounder STATIONED Poem Text First Line: It's the other ones, who soon enough return Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement STEEPLEJACKS First Line: Searching out her husband's grave Last Line: Construction workers up in the beams STEERAGE Poem Text First Line: By now, the sachel's leather has reclaimed its living redolence Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration STEERAGE First Line: By now, the satchel's leather has reclaimed its living redolence Last Line: Have heard a music that's not of this world STEPHEN HAWKING, WALKING First Line: I rolled myself down to the thames Subject(s): Hawking, Stephen (b. 1942) STEPHEN HAWKING, WALKING First Line: I rolled myself down to the thames Last Line: In the molecules inside my head %I've thought it completely in numbers Subject(s): Hawking, Stephen (b. 1942) STILL LIFE First Line: In vesalius, the figures -- the corpses -- are presented in front of Last Line: Out of herself, on the wall above the basket of radish and chives STILL LIFE, SYMBOLIC OF LINES First Line: It's aesthetically lovely, but pangs the mind Last Line: A still life, symbolic of lines; of lines and their erasure STOMACKES Poem Text First Line: Yes. So we must reconnect Subject(s): Food & Eating; Puritans STONEHENGE Poem Text First Line: Each morning he'd anoint the room's four corners Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness STONEHENGE First Line: Each morning he'd anoint the room's four corners Last Line: A pyramid roof, and a real smoking chimney Subject(s): Insanity STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE First Line: She's scratching her name on a weathered block of rose-granite Last Line: Into the wind that scours the stones of ancient and modern egypt STORY OF DORSETT First Line: It's 1912. A man, or really a youth - he's just eighteen Last Line: 4 a.M. He mumbles one more oy, then knocks. The woman %who'sgoing to be my grandmother opens the clu STREET TALK COMING MORE EASILY Last Line: Botched it. When I was five or six SUBSTANCE First Line: ... But the buddha of the todaiji temple is 452 tons Last Line: The angel departing from the family of tobit. Already %it's flown half out of the etching. You can't SUITCASE SONG Poem Text First Line: John=o was given a key to the apartment. The deal Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SUMERIAN VOTIVE FIGURINES First Line: Were meant to pray, unceasingly, on their owners' behalfs Last Line: Okay the, pray for my people, he tells them SUMERIAN VOTIVE GIGURINES WERE MEANT TO PRAY Last Line: Okay then, pray for my people, he tells them SUNG GRIEVOUSLY First Line: My back gives out and the thrown bolt tears through nerve Last Line: The eyes and makes the back sing grievously SURVIVAL Poem Text First Line: This is the church of giraffes Subject(s): Love; Death - Animals SWAN Poem Text Recitation First Line: Not just as individuals, but also as a couple, they Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SWAN First Line: Not just as individuals, but also as a couple, they Last Line: By the singing that it was on the verge of burning out' SYMPATHETIC MAGIC Poem Text First Line: At the loading docks, in implacable light, the potato farmers Subject(s): Sight TALE OF PIETY First Line: Quoting grandma: the hassidim say in the days of his splendour Last Line: The humus was thick, and rich, and every blossom a trumpet TALK SHOW First Line: A woman heard angels. The paper says angels Last Line: On earth as it is in heaven Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States TARPAN AND AUROCHS First Line: Eventually, you'll be called. It will be TARPAN AND AUROCHS First Line: Eventually you'll be called. It will be Last Line: The tarpan and aurochs, name them, know them eye to eye. TEE-HEES / THE CALL TO THE ARK First Line: A guy named joe who had acne and then the hardbit Last Line: -and, left behind, drowning in envy and not %understanding, we tittered, we laughed up a storm THAT AFTERNOON HE COULDN'T STOP SHAKING Last Line: And straight lines weren't important THAT FOR ALL OF THEIR TOMMY-GUN ACK-ACK-ACK Last Line: Togedder fordy years?' THAT GAP Poem Text First Line: Spiders of light, spirals of light, and claws THAT HE'D MADE IT UP. HE SAID IT Last Line: A look. One lifted the bottle THAT SHAPE First Line: The lining of the lung is involute, it rills Last Line: She was once this young THAWED First Line: On the hottest day for its date in the city's history, I fall asleep Last Line: So fierce, so otherworldly, it heals THE AMOUNTS Poem Text First Line: As if there weren't enough. As if the 4,000 shoes THE AURA Poem Text First Line: What we are and why we;re here Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race THE BITTERSWEET COMFORT OF MOTLEY DETAIL Poem Text First Line: In an open field, flat and clear for miles THE BURDEN OF MODERNITY': THE BOOK, THE GOD, THE CHILD First Line: United airlines check-in: and the line is arranged Subject(s): Books; Children; God; Reading; Childhood THE COUNTERFEIT EARTH! Poem Text First Line: It's 2157. Two adventuring spacemen rocketing home Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States THE GOLD STAR Poem Text First Line: Elaine's job on the geriatric ward included encouraging Subject(s): Mothers; Nursing Homes; Old Age; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living THE INVISIBLE WORLD Poem Text First Line: This might explain ghosts, or esp: the stuff of us is worth more Subject(s): Human Body THE LOCUST SONG Poem Text First Line: The tyranny of poets: like. O we were like THE MORE MODEST THE DEFINITION OF HEAVEN, THE OFTENER WE'RE THERE Poem Text First Line: Years later they let him go. New evidence Subject(s): Contentment THE MULTIVERSE Poem Text First Line: As a ship, in sinking, sucks whatever flotsam Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension THE NUMBERING AT BETHLEHEM Poem Text First Line: He was, he tells his grandson, a grandson Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter THE POEM OF THE LITTLE HOUSE AT THE CORNER OF MISAPPREHENSION AND MARVEL Poem Text Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE QUEST FOR THE SOURCE OF THE NILE Poem Text First Line: They needed to know. They came, they suffered Subject(s): Nile (river); Speke, John Hanning (1827-1864); Pain; Africa; Suffering; Misery THE SCIENCES SING A LULLABY Poem Text First Line: Physics says: go to sleep. Of course Subject(s): Science; Scientists THE TALK SHOW Poem Text First Line: A woman heard angels. The paper says angels Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States THE TITLE FOR A COLLECTION OF POEMS APPEARS FROM OUT OF NOWHERE Poem Text First Line: The truth is, the world is flat THE TOO LATE POEM Poem Text First Line: Nothing in the room can go back Subject(s): Progress THE WAY THE NOVEL FUNCTIONS Poem Text First Line: In the s-f story you read, then dream a person THE WELL Poem Text First Line: One hundred peaceable kingdoms, and in all of them Subject(s): Hicks, Edward (1780-1849); Paintings & Painters THE WORLD OF EXPECTATIONS Poem Text First Line: What starts with f and ends with u-c-c? Starts Subject(s): Sex THE YOKING OF THE TWO MODES Poem Text First Line: Unto us is given a billboard, its spaghetti the size THEORY OF ABSOLUTE FORMS First Line: It isn't easy to picture an infinite universe THEORY OF WIND First Line: This is how the page must feel: it doesn't THERE First Line: Back then I lived in the future: jazzing Last Line: Mail spaceship in the distance. It's so lovely %here: green woods, and fields THERMODYNAMICS/SUMER First Line: Heave-and-buckle, the furnace warbles its heat up Last Line: At least, %I'll be losing your warmth to that other world THESE LIKENESSES Poem Text First Line: All over this city, dirty red boxes on dark poles THIS AND THAT First Line: And then, you say, I whimpered in my sleep Last Line: All night, walking the dolphin, stroking it, talking it, %not letting it go under THIS CARTOGRAPHY First Line: I fell, I bled: it wasn't bad, just red Last Line: Exploded into existence in that bony dome THIS NEEDLE'S TIP First Line: That we would call infinitesimal, is Last Line: With a patient and unaccountable goodness THOREAU/WHO DIRECTED LE BOUCHER/& POPE Poem Text First Line: Hiram?/walter unh huh. You scurvy Subject(s): Communications THOUSAND EYES IN THE DARKNESS First Line: The girl is three; the boy, two. In the window Last Line: Tears to a thousand eyes in the darkness %and not just, now,these two THREAD THROUGH HISTORY Poem Text First Line: What is it, what really is it, this sacred or secular Subject(s): History; Human Conduct; Historians THREAD THROUGH HISTORY First Line: What is it, what really is it, this sacred or secular Last Line: I'll know what to do with them THREE DEGREES OF IT First Line: We're all arrived from off-planet Last Line: He controls the entire room with his tongue THREE OR FOUR STORIES THAT DO OR DON'T TOUCH First Line: I love you.' in response: 'I love you' Last Line: How easily they were everyone THUMB AND TOE First Line: We need a life, an individual life Last Line: The sacrifices we all have, and the alters TIP First Line: It's so dark now Last Line: And colder than ours. Yes he's death's, he's %eternity's, one-tenth TITLE FOR A COLLECTION OF POEMS APPEARS ... First Line: The truth is, the world is flat Last Line: At least we'd know the truth. %the truth, and other lies TO BE READ IN 500 YEARS Poem Text TO READ THE WORLD First Line: We'll hitch up the mayor to the cart Last Line: Confined (you vote for which of thee?) TO SEPARATE First Line: There's a bantamweight brawler we all pigheadedly bet Last Line: Provided for us to be otherwise - mortal, and lost, %and created in halfness Subject(s): Absence TO WHERE First Line: It's a key all right, the 7th on my ring by my Last Line: Extinction eased out of its natural turning TOAST First Line: I find one on the riverbank, as light first rises TOO LATE POEM First Line: Nothing in the room can go back Last Line: The fate that had already happened TOO MUCH First Line: A friend says inevitably when circumstances tickles his wonderment bone TOO MUCH USE First Line: Eat mexican-an advertising pencil from madre elena's Last Line: Mad mother showed up with the first don't sharpened off? TORTES First Line: Everybody knows there's something for which he deserves his Last Line: Do you hear! For a moment, he really does believe that's %why they knock at his door, the stupid jew TOTEM First Line: We call it 'empty air' but Last Line: Then mate. Its path is printed into randomness itself. %now it's here; now it's vanished TOWARD CONGRUENCY First Line: Betweeness %the cat's the horse's Last Line: Again in the home of what it means %to be human Subject(s): Love TRAILS OF FIRE AND SPIRITS First Line: In his comic books' chimeric air, a doorslam Last Line: Through trails of damaging fire and spirit bringers TRANSPLANTING: 1. SWEET WILLIAM First Line: Hours pass Last Line: That fact her computer ('omniscia,' as she calls it) %could never download for her TRANSPLANTING: 2. SLOW SCROLL First Line: Broughams, barouches, curricles Last Line: We and keats will always know in common Subject(s): Computers TRANSPLANTING: 3. THE INTERMARRIAGE First Line: Midnight. Jessie Last Line: Along with it, as completely %as if in suttee Subject(s): Marriage TRANSPLANTING: 4. HOT LINKS First Line: And at 36, ada, countess of levelace, will die Last Line: Savior of her husband, this sweet william Subject(s): Computers; Evolution TRAVEL NOTES: FINISH First Line: On 27 february 1014, shortly after midday Last Line: With her awkward, glossy finish TRAVEL NOTES: INTRODUCTORY SECTION First Line: This sad first line presents somebody Last Line: In the ripening weight of experience TRAVEL NOTES: INTRODUCTORY SECTION: 1 First Line: A new day's march, the tins of biscuit gone Last Line: Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.' TRAVEL NOTES: INTRODUCTORY SECTION: 2 First Line: When his eyes can focus, my brother-in-law is lost Last Line: The face can be an odometer TRAVEL NOTES: INTRODUCTORY SECTION: 3 First Line: And he will describe for you these numerous wonders Last Line: Goin nowhere %fast TROUBLE, WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: 'OF COURSE THEY'RE STRANGERS ...' First Line: I'll tell you about 'the major' three doors south of here Last Line: And vultures will prick my bones clean!' TROUBLE, WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: AGAINST First Line: In the medieval village, 'decisions respecting plowing Last Line: And smack their silly heads against the trees Subject(s): Farm Life TROUBLE, WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: ANCESTORED-BACK ... First Line: If only somebody would drill with a finger-long rig down Last Line: Emphatic we can be. How long they've been at it TROUBLE, WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: COMPLETE WITH STARRY NIGHT ... First Line: Morgan's father will be mailed to her Last Line: I'm lifting a beer %for bob potts TROUBLE, WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: IMPS First Line: Fire isn't allowed, for the sake of the books Last Line: That he was being hunted like prey by hounds from the moon TROUBLE, WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: IN First Line: The text: %& then the author's Last Line: Ray that he's discovered, this mystery force, this x TROUBLE, WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: THE NUMBER OF UTTERLY ALIEN ... First Line: He likes to be touched - it must be Last Line: It's all a billion planets TROUBLE, WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: THERE, TOO First Line: I'm not the dapper man in the lambswool overcoat Last Line: And I'm there, too TRY AS HE MIGHT, HIS POEM REENACTS THE PLAY OF SOMEONE First Line: Kah-bam! A florid, orangey dinosaur Last Line: We learn to call living TWO DOMAINS First Line: A heavy, violent sky Last Line: And so it goes - the great length of what we know, %into what we don't know TWO PARTS OF THE DAY ARE, First Line: First: I'm driving home when boomer cuts me off Last Line: At whatever of this world might read me Subject(s): Love TYPICAL PRUDENCE OF LINE AND ABSTEMIOUS SHADING Last Line: Of his ray, zam! Your memory, mysteriously kaput U First Line: The convoluted brain-gray paint is haze, on paint UNDERGRAIN/MY FATHER First Line: This is what the ancient egyptian artists knew, who Last Line: Alive, air alive with its promise UNITS Poem Text First Line: This is the pain you could fit in a tea ball. Subject(s): Illness UNTITLED First Line: - it was, in its way %a pieta Last Line: Cradles in the milkiest arms of the universe US/CLAUDIA/TALLEYRAND First Line: The hyperreactive yammer of the neighbor's car alarm Last Line: The droppings of those few june birds VACATION: CALIFORNIA COAST Poem Text First Line: Maybe it's because we're all born into this world Last Line: Splitting, and wedding, and breaking, and healing Subject(s): Divorce; Healing; Seashore; Water; Cures; Beach; Coast; Shore VESSELS First Line: In caracas, venezuela, in 1800, one can listen Last Line: And the air in her wake is electric VESTIGIAL Poem Text First Line: Yes: that fingery faction of a rabbit's commodious VESTIGIAL First Line: Yes: that fingery fraction of a rabbit's commodious VESTIGIAL: APPENDIX, COCCYX, PINEAL EYE First Line: Yes: that fingery fraction of a rabbit's commodious Last Line: A pair of muscley nubbins itching the living flesh. VESTIGIAL: BIG BANG First Line: Ooohing over stonehenge-over skew-silhouetted Last Line: Wings, no. More like the fossils of wings. VESTIGIAL: THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN DEE First Line: Not that an omelet of ostrich eggs intensifies Last Line: Trace of a time when stature matched faith and accomplishment. VIGIL Poem Text First Line: A flower/then the flower Subject(s): Mothers; Illness; Flowers VIGIL First Line: A flowers. Then the flower VOCABULARY First Line: When was the last time something ensued Last Line: Wouldn't the kindling be enough wouldn't any single %twig of this world recite all of our names Subject(s): Language; Reason; Rhyme VOICES: 1. PAGED First Line: The dead will speak through anything Last Line: Pass by a stone and the summer air is %humming around it. You're being paged VOICES: 2. NUTS First Line: Not this one, this junk...This one!' Last Line: Figuring out the details on the other side %of the greatest darkness. 'some pen collectors are reall VOICES: 3. GHOST-MOUTH-HOME First Line: The bowls are scored in a ritual design Last Line: Into their poetry-writing class the teacher %back from the city started this year VOICES: 4. PRIMITIVE ENGINE First Line: All afternoon and half into dusk, a man and a woman have hur Last Line: Strokes it, as if charging a primitive engine, the more the old man %fills the room then clears his VOICES: 5. WHEN THE WORD IS WHISPERED First Line: An amateur rockhound's cracking a basket's likeliest Last Line: Saying (maybe not in these words, but saying) this is the gold one, %this is the chosen one, this is VOLUNTEERED TO TAKE OVER LAST-MINUTE SCRIPTING OF THE STRIP Last Line: Thought hanrahan with a wry look, writing her saying it WAITING First Line: They came that night--the goatsnout ones, and rateye ones Last Line: Isn't purity. The boy knows: inexperience %is another word for waiting WAITING THAW First Line: This is the day the winter's Last Line: Day's in the day this is WAKING ALONE IN A RENTED ROOM .. DESPAIRING TILL PHONE RINGS First Line: The ceiling collects %in a single bulb. It burns Last Line: And there the resemblance ends WALTZERS First Line: Fire and water. Cat and rat. Snake and duckthing Last Line: Each one was so caught by his own nature WASHINGTON'S OVENS, ADAMSES' LETTERS Poem Text First Line: There are stories in which the food is so here Subject(s): Food & Eating; American Revolution WASHINGTON'S OVENS, ADAMSES' LETTERS First Line: There are stories in which the food is so here Last Line: We're there as they lie down to share their sustenance WATCH First Line: There's a pleiosaur at the dallas-ft. Worth airport Last Line: Story full of repairwork WATER PIE; TONIGHT, 12/11/72 First Line: Tonight the air's too dry, the vents Last Line: His warm waves of stink on the cold wind Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WATERS First Line: The graduate students who studied with me Last Line: Ah! Joo are an aquarium!' WAY THE NOVEL FUNCTIONS First Line: In the s-f story you read then dream, a person is Last Line: Invisible legs and its feelers, the day on your chest WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE First Line: August night. The hot wind where the air's like soup, the air at your WE CALL IT BIRTH, BUT IT'S ALSO AS IF Last Line: Kick like a dog in sleep WE'RE JUST ABOUT TO OBSERVE THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE Poem Text First Line: He says in the kitchen. Everywhere else Subject(s): Universe WE'RE JUST ABOUT TO OBSERVE THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE First Line: He says in the kitchen. Everywhere else WEAVE Poem Text First Line: Say he's a runner, his borzoi torso wiffles Subject(s): Human Body; Childhood Memories WELCOME RELIEF FROM SERIOUS WORK First Line: The english are so nice! One night Last Line: Has become the metest exercise WERE THOSE GUYS? THE CIA? THE FBI? Last Line: Faintly glowing. He passed out again WHAT DOESN'T HAPPEN First Line: A russet touch of late day, when the sun's ... WHAT PHOTOGRAPHS ARE First Line: Here, in this one, cha-cha--everybody called him cha-cha Last Line: In these photographs, doing for them what ashes did %for the earlier dead at pompeii WHAT THE DIVA TOLD ME First Line: That was the year I had trouble breathing Last Line: To go home and practice scales WHAT THE POEM IS ACTUALLY ABOUT: 1. AN EPISTOLARY HISTORY First Line: Woman writing a letter (gerard terborch) about 1654 Last Line: Interior with a young woman reading a letter (pieter de hooch) no date given WHAT THE POEM IS ACTUALLY ABOUT: 1. AN EPISTOLARY HISTORY... WHAT THE POEM IS ACTUALLY ABOUT: 2. SWEARING TO LIGHT First Line: There are clues -- there are a few clues Last Line: While in another room of the world, some reviewer strumbles through darkness WHAT THE POEM IS ACTUALLY ABOUT: 3. LAST NIGHT IN BED First Line: Full anger fills our half-sleep Last Line: On these and these alone alone WHAT THE POEM IS ACTUALLY ABOUT: 3. LAST NIGHT IN BED First Line: Full anger fills our half-sleep Last Line: With his eye and attention placidly fixed on thse and these alone WHAT THE POEM IS ACTUALLY ABOUT: 4. AS LONG AS I'M QUOTING First Line: Here's a postcard (june 9, 1916) Last Line: For my life, and for the lives of my friends WHAT THE POEM IS ACTUALLY ABOUT: 5. THE SHE HERE First Line: I jerked the door closed Last Line: And disappeared into the august night, %butter on a griddle WHEN WILD BEASTS CHARGE Poem Text First Line: And in march of 1863, the men of their company mutiny Subject(s): Mutiny; Baker, Sir Samuel (1821-1893); Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) WHERE THE COLUMNISTS DOWNED A ROUND OR THREE Last Line: You don't like ladies? %vera goode WHILE VERA GOODE, ACE LADY REPORTER Last Line: She escapes of course. Another week WHO HASN'T LOOKED UP AT A PARKING GARAGE Last Line: Who hasn't WHOLE SUMMER First Line: She said this. I said that. And so Last Line: And that whole summer approached it WHY / SLINKY MARIE'S / NOR / & WHY First Line: Bag lady.' I suppose that's what we called her Last Line: I wanted dual citizenship. %and so these wre my papers WHY SAINTS HAVE TO BE DEAD First Line: Because time is like distance WILL THE REAL SHAKESPEARE PLEASE STAND UP? First Line: The bar is called the duck blind and is decorated with decoy Last Line: What's the president saying up there? - the soundproofed ovens %of dachau? The vows to the aztec and WINDOW First Line: So I entered her body Last Line: Staying his hand WINDOW SEAT First Line: At which time I close my roger fry, successfully WINDOW ZEN First Line: These lace drapes make the late light Last Line: The way it's broken a thousand times or more %by the lace, but without being broken WINDS First Line: These are the nights when I think of the housemaid Last Line: While working, listening hard to the cry in the wood %and the cloth and the plate and the night wind WINGS Poem Text First Line: I always wondered why they called them wings Last Line: People a bird is a rehearsal Subject(s): Wings; Flight WINGS First Line: I always wondered why they called them wings Subject(s): Wings WISH FOR COPPER NAILS First Line: Nobody really argues over which video to rent Last Line: In weathering the long journey WOMAN BATHING IN A STREAM, 1654 First Line: That same year, she was summoned Last Line: A faint faint schema of fire and wings WON'T LET GO First Line: This afternoon I'm obliged to attend a birthday party Last Line: And somewhere there was a tree with one black leaf for everybody Subject(s): Change; Parties WORDS 'AGAIN' AND 'GROOVY' First Line: The mucked-up snow from yesterday is frozen Last Line: --'groove-y,' which is desirable WORLD ABOVE SUFFERING First Line: When my grandfather louie came here, from chicago Last Line: Poland! Princesses! Palaces!' WORLD OF EXPECTATIONS First Line: What starts with f and ends with u-c-c? Starts Last Line: And it came %long, red and clamorous. Firetruck Subject(s): Sex WORLD TRADE CENTER First Line: Miss cherry harvest of 1954 is savvily bing-bedecked Last Line: Miss us? Miss us. Miss you WORLDS Poem Text First Line: 1120's not the only year eirik gnupson Subject(s): Vikings; Earth; World WOULD YOU KNOW A SNOOK, OR A LARGE-EYED WHIFF, FROM A GOGGLE First Line: Add it to the list. Add moazagotl Last Line: Stand for what we don't know, what's locked %darkly from us under foehn, or any, conditions WRESTLING WITH EACH OTHER First Line: When the president declares the war over Last Line: The reminding, almost the arguing now, of the rain Y'CALL SOMEPLACE PARADISE, KISS IT GOODBYE Poem Text First Line: In this faded fifteenth-century expulsion, everything Subject(s): Childhood Memories Y'CALL SOMEPLACE PARADISE, KISS IT GOODBYE First Line: In this faded fifteenth-century expulsion, everything Last Line: #name? YIELD First Line: This is how it usually happens: somebody dies Last Line: Ordinary beauty. You could cry YOKING OF THE TWO MODES First Line: Unto us is given a billboard, its spaghetti the size Last Line: We want to see god. We are given the egg in its fecal %tiara YOU HUM Poem Text First Line: My parents sleep with a flashlight Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives YOU MIGHT NOTICE BLOOD IN YOUR URINE FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS/AND SCENES FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Recitation by Author ZENBU First Line: A spring day, and its cream-gray sky. We linger Last Line: And inside, at the story's most naked %god spoke ZENITH First Line: Was the brand name, and that radio made Last Line: That's here, persistent, %although the station that beamed it is long off the air ZERO: TERROR / LULLABY Poem Text First Line: If an electron were the size of a four-door car, etc. Subject(s): Physics ZERO: TERROR/LULLABYE First Line: If an electron were the size of a four-door car,' etc Last Line: They shaped without even one word ZILLA First Line: It's twilight in the streets of the tabletop tokly, and Last Line: The monster inside her begin to test the locks of its resting place ZORAN PERISIC'S First Line: Zoptic front-projection system' is what [THE IMPORTANCE OF ARTISTS' BIOGRAPHIES] Poem Text First Line: The days go by, and then more days go by Subject(s): Art & Artists [UNTITLED] Poem Text First Line: = Subject(s): Death; Dead, The |
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