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| Searching... Author: HACKER, MARILYN Matches Found: 191 Hacker, Marilyn Poet's Biography 191 poems available by this author 1974 First Line: I'm pregnant,' I wrote to her in delight Subject(s): Homosexuality 26-DEC First Line: Across the street, the widow weighs the storm Last Line: Her grandmother's chandelier tinkles behind %her, seasick, swaying like a pendulum A CHAPLET FOR JUDITH LANDRY Poem Text First Line: Dear judith: in sincerest gratitude Subject(s): Friendship; Hospitality A MAN WITH SONS Poem Text First Line: You come back with a heaped-shopping basket Subject(s): Fathers & Sons ABSENT FRIEND First Line: Perched on a high stool, the auburn sybil Last Line: There. Or another where, but I am wrong AFTER ASSUMPTION First Line: Yesterday, closed shops Last Line: North over the coastal hills; %fog shrouds the mountains AGAIN, THE RIVER First Line: Early summer in what I hope is 'midlife' Last Line: Toward other moorings AGAINST ELEGIES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: James has cancer. Catherine has cancer Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness AGAINST ELEGIES First Line: James has cancer. Catherine has cancer Last Line: And I, in no one's stories, as we are Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AGAINST SILENCE First Line: Because you are %my only daughter's only grandmother Last Line: What it will be, or even what it was ALBA NEAR IMPRUNETA First Line: They wake to january light Last Line: Their half-empty %pint of good brandy ALMOST AUBADE First Line: The little hours: two lovers herd upstairs Last Line: Lie in my arms until the kids get up Subject(s): Family Life ALTO SOLO First Line: Dear one, it's a while since you turned the lights out Last Line: There the river goes with its bundled cargo: %unanswered letters AN ALEXANDRITE PENDANT FOR MY MOTHER Poem Text First Line: I am not in my country, and my home ANYONE First Line: There was never a prelapsarian childhood Last Line: There was nothing to interest historians in her letters APRIL INTERVAL First Line: Wherever I surface I reinvent Last Line: As long as I'm still sound, and it's still sunny APRIL INTERVAL I Poem Text First Line: Wherever I surface I reinvent APRIL INTERVAL III Poem Text First Line: Around my shelves of books and bibclots APRIL INTERVAL IV Poem Text First Line: There was no spring in saratoga springs Subject(s): Rain AT NOON, AN ORDERLY WHEELED ME UPSTAIRS First Line: At noon, an orderly wheeled me upstairs Last Line: The hand that held the cup next was my daughter's. AUBADE II First Line: Sometimes, when you're asleep, I want to do Last Line: You wake up, and you bring it down like rain AUGUST JOURNAL First Line: How does it feel, in this ephemeral flesh Last Line: Eight different sets of windows opposite BALLAD OF LADIES LOST AND FOUND Poem Text First Line: Where are the women who, entre deux guerres Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Anthony, Susan Brownell (1820-1906); Blues (music); Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899); Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle (1873-1954); De La Cruz, Juana Ines (1648-1695); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961); Eleanor Of A BALLAD OF LADIES LOST AND FOUND First Line: Where are the women who, entre deux guerres Last Line: And truncated a woman's chronicle, %and plain old margaret fuller died as well Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Anthony, Susan Brownell (1820-1906); Blues (music); Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899); Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle (1873-1954); De La Cruz, Juana Ines (1648-1695); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961); Eleanor Of A BLACK BOAT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If you were there when I woke BROCELIANDE First Line: Yes, there is a vault in the ruined castle Last Line: Here, beneath viridian skies, a window glistens at midnight BURNHAM BEECHES Poem Text First Line: At two am, chain-smoking in your car Subject(s): Relationships CANCER WINTER Poem Text First Line: Syllables shaped around the darkening day's Variant Title(s): "syllables Shaped Around The Darkening Day's""; Subject(s): Cancer (disease) CANCER WINTER First Line: Syllables shaped around the darkening day's Last Line: I woke up, still alive. Does that mean 'cured'? Variant Title(s): Syllables Shaped Around The Darkening Day' Subject(s): Cancer (disease) CANZONE Poem Text First Line: Consider the three functions of the tongue Subject(s): Pleasure; Taste (sense) CANZONE First Line: Consider the three functions of the tongue Last Line: Whoever wants to give %only one meaning to that, has untutored taste Subject(s): Pleasure; Taste (sense) CELLES First Line: We liked its name: those ones, feminine plural Last Line: Like us, feminine, plural, transient CHANSON DE L'ENFANT PRODIGUE Poem Text First Line: The child of wonder looks in bed Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHANSON DE LA MAL AIMEE First Line: December fog condensed above the seine Last Line: At midnight was a privilege of mine %across that river or another one CHILIASTIC SAPPHICS First Line: Sunday afternoon at the end of summer Last Line: Cried in french and arabic at the market %early this morning CLEIS Recitation by Author Subject(s): Daughters CODA Poem Text First Line: Maybe it was jet lag, maybe not, Subject(s): Divorce; Conduct Of Life CODA, SELS. First Line: Did you love well what very soon you left? Last Line: Of honey from the seasons of your tongue Variant Title(s): Did You Love Well What Very Soon You Left CONVERATION IN THE PARK First Line: Do people look at me and know I'm gay?' CORONA First Line: You're flying back, weighed with half COUNTRY & WESTERN First Line: She will never know I cried for her Last Line: The beer...I doused the light. I cried for her COUNTRY & WESTERN 2 First Line: It looks like we are the last unmarried Last Line: Smoke while we watch the stars, and talk about food CREPUSCULE WITH MURIEL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Instead of a cup of tea, instead of a milk- Subject(s): Rukeyser, Muriel (1913-1980); Strokes (illness) CREPUSCULE WITH MURIEL First Line: Instead of a cup of tea, instead of a milk Last Line: Rouged by the fluvial light of six o'clock CULTURAL EXCHANGES First Line: When augusta, the teenaged impleada Last Line: Night? Like the americans, she explained DAY BOOK, SELS. DAYS OF 1944: THREE FRIENDS First Line: It wasn't safe to stay in saint-brieuc Last Line: The fire took, while you lived, I played, at war DAYS OF 1965 First Line: Leaf-mulch, wood-smoke odor of lapsang souchong Last Line: As a smoky memory, while a kitchen %resonates mozart DAYS OF 1987 First Line: We were coming down from the monastery DAYS OF 1992 First Line: I spent the morning waxing the furniture Last Line: Letting the cries of the street subsume us DAYS OF 1994: ALEXANDRIANS Poem Text First Line: Lunch: as we close the twentieth century, Subject(s): Aging; Transience; Cancer (disease); Food & Eating; Impermanence DAYS OF 1999 First Line: One unexceptional bright afternoon %in august, coming from the rose garden Last Line: Blurts the repeated questions of the rain DEAR JOOL, I MISS YOU IN SAINT-SATURNIN First Line: You mocked me that hot day at carcassonne Last Line: But is for solitudes shared in the blue %vat of meridional air: for you DESESPERANTO First Line: The dream's forfeit was a night in jail Last Line: Of the dream's forfeit. One night in jail? DESPERANTO Poem Text First Line: The dream's forfeit was a night in jail Subject(s): Roth, Joseph (1894-1939); Exiles DINNER WITH ELIZABETH First Line: The iron doors opened on a gallery Last Line: Whose leasehold names me resident for two DIRECTIONS First Line: You knew the right title for all these years Last Line: You know the right direction all these years DUSK: JULY Poem Text First Line: Late afternoon rain of a postponed summer Subject(s): Literary Form; Love DUSK: JULY First Line: Late afternoon rain of a postponed summer Last Line: But we're alive now Subject(s): Literary Form EIGHT DAYS IN APRIL Poem Text First Line: I broke a glass, got bloodstains on the sheet Subject(s): Literary Form EIGHT DAYS IN APRIL First Line: I broke a glass, got bloodstains on the sheet Subject(s): Literary Form ELEGY Poem Text First Line: Crying from exile, I Last Line: Alone, you are dead Subject(s): Jazz; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music & Musicians ELEGY First Line: Crying from exile, I Last Line: Alone, you are dead Subject(s): Jazz; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music And Musicians ELEGY FOR A SOLDIER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The city where I knew you was swift Subject(s): Jordan, June (1936-2002) ELEGY FOR A SOLDIER First Line: The city where I knew you was swift Last Line: Audre lorde, neruda, amichai, senghor, %and you, june jordan Subject(s): Jordan, June (1936-2002) ELEKTRA ON THIRD AVENUE First Line: At six, when april chills our hands and feet ELEVENS First Line: James a. Wright, my difficult older brother Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Male-female Relations; Feminism ELEVENS First Line: James a. Wright, my difficult older brother Last Line: You are the fog of language on manhattan %where it's descending Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980) ELYSIAN FIELDS Poem Text First Line: Champs elysees of broadway' says the awning Last Line: Under the awning frmo behind the glass Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners ELYSIAN FIELDS First Line: Champs elysees of broadway' says the awning Last Line: Under the awning from behind the glass Subject(s): Restaurants ESSAY ON DEPARTURE Poem Text First Line: And when you leave, and no one's left behind Subject(s): Farewell; Parting ESSAY ON DEPARTURE First Line: And when you leave, and no one's left behind Last Line: The place you were, the moment that you leave FABLE First Line: A fox, a badger, any provident creature Last Line: A wild duck's molting wings flapped in distress %between departure and the tls FAREWELL TO THE FINLAND WOMAN First Line: Two thousand orphans, real ones and children of Last Line: Womanhood, though they lose breasts and borders FEELING AND FORM First Line: Dear san: everybody doesn't write poetry Last Line: These lines, and yours, convergent, made, unlike; %that likelihood draws words I write poetry FIFTEEN TO EIGHTEEN First Line: I'd almost know, the nights I snuck in late Subject(s): Homosexuality FIRST, I WANT TO MAKE YOU COME IN MY HAND Poem Text FIRST, I WANT TO MAKE YOU COME IN MY HAND Last Line: Where I need you. I want you to make me come Subject(s): Erotic Love FOR JEAN MIGRENNE First Line: Mauve into purple, bent on foam-green stems Last Line: Across the road that feeds the autoroute FOR K.J., BETWEEN ANNIVERSARIES First Line: I'll call you, my time, midday on saturday Last Line: Where you are with me when you're elsewhere, %lover and friend, in the ways we've chosen FOR K.J., LEAVING AND COMING BACK Poem Text First Line: August first: it was a year ago Subject(s): Relationships; Separation FOR L. J., LEAVING AND COMING BACK First Line: August first: it was a year ago Last Line: Owned certainty; perpetual suprise FOR THE 6TH OF APRIL First Line: Eden is %pots and tubs on the terrace Last Line: Work their way up and spring comes FOUND IN TRANSLATION [FOR CLAIRE MALROUX] Poem Text First Line: On a beechwood sideboard there sat in state Last Line: Music, carved wood, a blue ceramic tile Subject(s): Children; Music Box; Translating & Interpreting; Childhood FROM ORIENT POINT Poem Text Recitation First Line: The art of living isn't hard to muster Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FROM ORIENT POINT First Line: The art of living isn't hard to muster Last Line: Art; go on living: that's not hard to muster GERDA IN THE EYRIE Poem Text First Line: I almost love you. I've wanted to be you Subject(s): Love GHAZAL ON HALF A LINE BY ADRIENNE RICH First Line: In a familiar town, she waits for certain letters Last Line: At night, after she draws the curtains? Letters GOING AWAY FROM THE RIVER First Line: Midsummer's eve: rain slants into docked barges Last Line: I can still get there, leave there, overland GOING BACK TO THE RIVER First Line: Dusk, iridescent gasoline floats on the Last Line: Meet me and walk with me to the river GRAFFITI FROM THE GARE SAINT-MANQUE First Line: Outside the vineyard is a caravan HANG-GLIDER'S DAUGHTER First Line: My forty-year-old father learned to fly Last Line: Then it was me flying, feet still %on the road. We're here, on top of the hill Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters I WOKE UP, AND THE SURGEON SAID, YOU'RE CURED. First Line: I woke up, and the surgeon said, you're cured. Last Line: To noon, when I would be wheeled back upstairs. INTRODUCTORY LINES First Line: Rushing to press, it still would seem evasion Last Line: P.S. There are no haiku; that's a mercy INVOCATION First Line: This is for elsa, also known as liz Last Line: Which we prefer to the alternative IVA'S PANTOUM Poem Text First Line: We pace each other for a long time. Subject(s): Women; Relationships JEAN-MICHEL GALIBETT, EPICIER A SAINT-JEAN-DE-FOS First Line: Reconstitute a sense to make of absence Last Line: As the wind unwound the streamers in his yard LA BOUGEOTTE First Line: It's not the name of the next town Last Line: Not even two of them are on the highway LA FONTAINE DE VAUCLUSE First Line: Azure striation swirls beyond the stones Last Line: Fully hoist cold handsful from a crevice where %azure striation swirls beyond the stones LANGUEDOCIENNE First Line: This morning the wind came, shaking the quince tree Last Line: Nectarines under the poplar, wind in the quince tree LAST APRIL INTERVAL First Line: Eight o'clock, nine o'clock Last Line: Here to keep renegade %souls occupied LATE AUGUST First Line: The weather is changing. The mountainous temperate cli Last Line: What we'd need for a couple of days? All our conversations %touch on departure LATE AUGUST LETTER First Line: Dear eavan, %just yesterday afternoon Last Line: We might scale if I were there, %or you nearby, dear eavan LE TRAVAIL RAJEUNIT First Line: Lace cushions were considered by a tall Last Line: Too; then she joined the queue for eggs LES SERPILLIERES First Line: To my upstairs writing-table, to hers downstairs Last Line: Hung them on the line outside to dry LETTER FROM GOOSE CREEK: APRIL First Line: We're both in greenville, but a state apart Last Line: That change is: that one thing changes everything LETTER TO MUNNSVILLE N.Y. FROM THE RUE DE TURENNE First Line: Hayden, my snow-field Last Line: To come back up the four flights %and unlock the door LINES DECLIMING A TRANSATLANTIC DINNER INVITATION First Line: Regretfully, I proffer my excuses LINES DECLINING A TRANSATLANTIC DINNER INVITATION Poem Text First Line: Regretfully, I proffer my excuses LITERARY INITIATION C. 1960 First Line: Expansively to his bar-entourage Last Line: --'he's a genius, but he's a transvestite!' LITTLE UNSENT LETTER FROM L'HERAULT First Line: The heat-inversion on your late-july LONG ISLAND RAILROAD First Line: Brown-skinned manhattan students take the train Last Line: They bag their beer at pennsylvania station Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); New York City; Railroads LOVE, DEATH AND THE CHANGING OF THE SEASONS, SELS. First Line: First, I want to make you come in my hand MARKET DAY First Line: Today is the jour de marche Last Line: Now it's here, filled with things that I need: %today is the jour de marche MIGRAINE SONNETS First Line: It's a long way from the bedroom to the kitchen Last Line: It's a long way from the bedroom to the kitchen MORNING NEWS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread Subject(s): Politics & Government; War MORNING NEWS First Line: Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread Last Line: Time lessons with the signs for house, book, bread? Subject(s): Politics; War MOTHER 2 First Line: No one is 'woman' to another Last Line: Dwelling brown loquacious daughter, %corporeal exemplar of %her thirst for what she would not love? MUSES First Line: Don't think I haven't noticed you Last Line: To you tear up the rest of the house, I %will not be convinced %by your onyx %identical eyes MYTHOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Penelope as a garcon manque Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MYTHOLOGY First Line: Penelope as a garcon manque Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States NEARLY A VALEDICTION First Line: You happened to me. I was happened to Last Line: You were the epic in the episode. %you were the year poised on the equinox NEARLY A VALEDICTORIAN Poem Text First Line: You happened to me. I was happened to Subject(s): Love; Separation NIGHTS OF 1962: THE RIVER MERCHANT'S WIFE First Line: Emigree from the bronx, a married child Last Line: Enough to hit whelan's for ham and eggs NIGHTS OF 1964-1966: THE OLD RELIABLE Poem Text First Line: White decorators interested in art Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness NIGHTS OF 1964-1966: THE OLD RELIABLE First Line: White decorators interested in art Last Line: And so did I, and my three friends are dead Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NIGHTS OF 1964€”1966: THE OLD RELIABLE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: White decorators interested in art, Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships OCTOBER First Line: There is memory, and there's the haze Last Line: For a breath of paradox, you are in the present ODD AND EVEN NUMBERS OF THE STREET First Line: The odd and even numbers of the street Last Line: Became another form of gallows humor. ON THE STAIRWAY First Line: My fourth-floor neighbor, mme. Uyttebroeck Last Line: #name? ONE MORE CAR POEM FOR JULIE First Line: I need transmission fluid for the brain Last Line: Even the r-cinq won't start in the rain: %we need transmission fluid for the brain ORDINARY WOMEN I First Line: I am the woman you see in bloomingdales's %ruffling the rack of children's Last Line: I am the woman you will see blooming %up from our terror, with women: me, you ORDINARY WOMEN II First Line: Mrs. Velez of the tenants' association %zig-zags her top-heavy shopping cart Last Line: Not looking across the street, or down the street, %not looking at the sidewalk or the sky PARAGRAPH FOR HAYDEN First Line: Quadruple bypass: yes, he had it Last Line: Stay in the present tense. Stay in the present tense PARAGRAPHS FROM A DAY-BOOK; FOR HAYDEN CARRUTH, SELS. QUAI DE VALMY First Line: The 3eme becomes the 10eme and 11eme Last Line: With a january afternoon's brief clarity QUEENSWAY First Line: A generosity of strawberries RIPOSTE First Line: Dear tom, / when my next volume (granted: slender) Subject(s): Disch, Tom (b. 1940); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism RIPOSTE First Line: Dear tom, %when my next volume (granted: slender) Last Line: And you might find an artists' colony %a perfectly respectable resort Subject(s): Disch, Tom (b. 1940); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights RITES FOR COUSIN VIT First Line: Carried her unprotesting out the door Last Line: In parks or alleys, comes happly on the verge %of happiness, haply hysterics. Is. RONDEAU First Line: Why did ray leave her pipe tobacco ...?' RONDEAU AFTER A TRANSATLANTIC TELEPHONE CALL First Line: Love, it was good to talk to you tonight RUE DE BRETAGNE First Line: That afternoon in the rue de bretagne Last Line: Remembering those lines of aragon RUNAWAYS CAFE II Poem Text First Line: For once, I hardly noticed what I ate Subject(s): Desire RUNAWAYS CAFE: 1 First Line: For once, I hardly noticed what I ate Last Line: For me, I might dare more if someone were RUNAWAYS CAFE: 2 First Line: For once, I hardly noticed what I ate Last Line: At least I didn't get white sauce down my front RUNE OF THE FINLLAND WOMAN First Line: She could bind the world's winds in a single strand Last Line: She could bind the world's winds in a single strand SATURDAY NIGHT BILE First Line: Multiple %relationships? I like waking up Last Line: Twelve potential animosities, %saturday night bile SELF First Line: I did it %differently Last Line: Dialogue on the beautiful: quin- %tessentially human Subject(s): Love SEPARATE LIVES First Line: The last time I talked to you in my head Last Line: The last time I talked to you in my head SONNET First Line: Love drives its rackety blue caravan Last Line: Ing at the edge. Predictably, it's cold. SONNET ENDING WITH A FILM SUBTITLE Poem Text Subject(s): Irony SONNET ENDING WITH A FILM SUBTITLE Subject(s): Irony SONNET FOR IVA First Line: The bathroom tiles are very pink and new Last Line: This day. I cringe on the warm pink tiles of %a strange house. We cry on both sides of the door SONNET ON A LINE FROM VENUS KHOURY-GHATA First Line: She recognized the seasons by their texture Last Line: What equilibrium they can recover SQUARE DU TEMPLE: ANOTHER AUGUST First Line: Two long-legged black girls jump double-dutch Last Line: When will the moment be enough again? SQUARES AND COURTYARDS First Line: Across the place du marche ste-catherine Last Line: Thinking: she can, if anybody could STREET SCENES: 1 First Line: Wool scarf and leather Last Line: A real storm--will my salmon begonia %breathe, or be battered? STREET SCENES: 3 First Line: Dusted with flour, pine-gold, the wand of bread Last Line: #name? STREET SCENES: 4 First Line: Seven-thirty and lightly the rain continues Last Line: Where else when the satcheled children file back to class STREET SCENES: 5 First Line: The german tour bus Last Line: Should they have been born? SYRIA RENGA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Driving a flatbed Subject(s): Syria TAKING NOTICE: 1. First Line: My child wants dolls, a tutu, that girls' world made Last Line: The neighbor's tireless radio sings lies %through the thin wall behind my desk and bed TAKING NOTICE: 10. First Line: The grizzled doorman lets the doctors' wives Last Line: At our boot-toes blue-jeaned women slow-dance %to a rhythmic alto plaint of ruined romance TAKING NOTICE: 11 First Line: In the public theater lobby, I wait for marie Last Line: I flush above the belt and throb below TAKING NOTICE: 12. First Line: You're high on work, bouncing words off the ceiling Last Line: Drenched feast whose mute wit is a mutual %silence honed in our rapt mouths to a sign TAKING NOTICE: 13. First Line: No better lost than any other woman Last Line: The unhealed woman hearing her own voice damn %her to the nightmares of the brooding girl TAKING NOTICE: 14 First Line: And I shout at iva, whine at you. Easily Last Line: To a nude child, who's forgiven me - I think TAKING NOTICE: 2. First Line: Morning: the phone jangles me from words: you Last Line: At eight when I put iva on the bus, %stalling through iced slush between frost-rimed cars TAKING NOTICE: 25 First Line: We work, play, don't cross-reference calendars Last Line: Accept the hard gift of your different sight? TAKING NOTICE: 3. First Line: When that jackbooted choreography Last Line: Skin, if I lost myself in you id'd be %no better lost than any other woman TAKING NOTICE: 4. First Line: She twists scraps of her hair in unshelled snails Last Line: Body, flaccid, gaunt in a greyed nightgown, %something more culpable for us then 'men.' TAKING NOTICE: 5. First Line: I never will be only a lesbian.' Last Line: Rhetoric, this. You talk about your friend. %I hold you, wanting whatever I want TAKING NOTICE: 6. First Line: Angry, I speak, and pass the hurt to you Last Line: (you say) the light is the same night and day, %but it feels like night at night anyway TAKING NOTICE: 7. First Line: If we talk, we're too tired to make love; if we Last Line: North, indulging some rich weave of weeks where %we'd work, play, not cross-reference calendars THE HANG-GLIDER'S DAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: My forty-year-old father learned to fly Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THEN First Line: I was due home at seven, and you were Last Line: Flights toward twilight traffic in chelsea THIRD SNOWFALL Poem Text First Line: Another storm, another blizzard Subject(s): Snow THREE SONNETS FOR IVA First Line: He tips his boy baby's hand in an icy Subject(s): Homosexuality TORCH First Line: Pillar of sequins in a saturday Last Line: And a walk-out. She also stared young TROISIEME SANS ASCENSEUR First Line: A square of sunlight on the study wall Last Line: Tall north window, framing the winter sun TURENNE / FRANCS-BOURGEOIS First Line: A winter tuesday morning: people shopped Last Line: Across the street from them began to cry TWO CITIES First Line: The streetlights bent Last Line: At a fresh table while the floor was cleaned UNDER THE ARC DE TRIOMPHE: OCTOBER 17 Poem Text First Line: The french clocks struck two-thirty, and above UNTITLED Poem Text First Line: You did say, need me less and I'll want you more. Subject(s): Beauty UNTITLED Poem Text Subject(s): Lesbians; Beauty UNWRAPPED ICON, TOO POTENT TO TOUCH First Line: An unwrapped icon, too potent to touch Last Line: An unwrapped icon, too potent to touch VENDANGES First Line: The spiral of a story in an ear Last Line: What can you do but tell someone the story? WAGERS First Line: I bet you don't wear shoulder pads in bed Last Line: I bet you don't wear shoulderpads in bed WEDNESDAY I.D. CLINIC Poem Text First Line: Your words are ones the patients said themselves Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness WEDNESDAY I.D. CLINIC First Line: Your words are ones the patients said themselves Last Line: Later. You could keep it to yourself. You won't Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness |
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