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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: KLEINZAHLER, AUGUST Matches Found: 235 Kleinzahler, August Poet's Biography 235 poems available by this author 16 First Line: The creases in the schoolboy's pegged wool slacks Last Line: The circuit of every glad thing, flare %and perish %exquisitely 52 PICK-UP First Line: Luminoso e dolce Last Line: Irwin corey 86 First Line: She said. Past %kindness Last Line: With its color photos of gash %in baseball caps and knee socks A FABLE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Weasel and the ponce were having a confab Subject(s): Bad Behavior ACROSS THE LAND First Line: Green rising off the black monster earth %lolling gourds Last Line: And still not finding them %after your long, halting, indelibly sweet good-bye? AFTERNOON IN THE MIDDLE KINGDOM First Line: Duststorms from the gobi sack peking Last Line: And vast, the parks in disrepair %and the sea three hours by rail AFTERNOONS First Line: Young mitch jumps off the 7 haight in black toreadors Last Line: Still too shy to touch: %or just cold? AHASUERUS First Line: There was no hazard so we left off Last Line: We were both ourselves and otherwise. %spirit and flesh played blithely in each other's yard APRIL BEFORE GEHENNA First Line: My neighbor went down th haight for to preach ART & LIFE First Line: That's really quite a lovely figure ART & YOUTH First Line: Pliny said these lights in the grass are stars Last Line: But the heart is soon corrupted %and love's accoutrements grow fierce AS THE WORLD TURNS First Line: Darling, friends %fly off it and up the flue -- astronauts Last Line: Moving their hips %through a long, fretful hunt for the beat AT SUMMER'S END First Line: This air Last Line: Light pouring through muslin %in a strange, bare room AUBADE ON EAST 12TH STREET First Line: The skylight silvers Last Line: On a lathe of shadow and light AUG-95 First Line: Under the floorboards shadow and smoke bark Last Line: These absences take on a life themselves AUTUMN IN THE WESTERN HILLS First Line: When storms assail the summer palace Last Line: Between gusts and pellets of rain %for word from the capital AUTUMNAL SKETCH First Line: What to make of them, the professors Last Line: And before they turn back for supper %they shall have one BAY LULLABY First Line: Tuesdays are bad for sausage and flowers Last Line: You still hear them out there in the dark %mingling their calls in the rain BEFORE DAWN ON BLUFF ROAD Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Aging; Transience; Impermanence BEFORE DAWN ON BLUFF ROAD First Line: The crow's raw hectoring cry Last Line: I remember %almost nothing of my life BEFORE WINTER First Line: The bugs that swarmed up toward the sun Last Line: Or the place they rose from %might have let them go by, saying nothing BEFORE WINTER, PART II First Line: Peaches on tip of the compost, sitting pretty BEFORE WINTER, PART III First Line: Another six peaches down in the night BIG FOOT First Line: Steps %sucking, glottal %steps Last Line: With the incandescent box %in front parlors. %he does not knock BL&T WITH OLD ED HOPPER AT GIMBEL'S LUNCHEONETTE First Line: She is not fetching Last Line: But he loves the pink swivel chair %and the doughnuts under glass BOXING ON EUROPE'S MOST BEAUTIFUL BEACH First Line: A slow breeze north from africa Last Line: With unmistakable sweetness, %she did say, %hit me again BOYS' NIGHT OUT First Line: Of an evening in spring Last Line: Yard cat's freaked %and the air is cool %goes deep down %new BRUCE RICHARD'S TRIP DOWN First Line: So I buy a pig in a poke and sign on Last Line: And that's when I phoned you, cousin BY THE TAGUS First Line: With fond jean in the pastelaria at closing Last Line: Dragging its spur through the harbour night %then gone %in a suturing breeze CANADA GEESE IN NEW JERSEY First Line: Headed north %on the sodded-over trolley track Last Line: Azalea blossoms stir %like so many tiny nightgowns CASE IN POINT First Line: Because he's lost the way to his pulse Last Line: And yet, should it declare itself %with such force as to penetrate even this, %he averts his eyes an CAT IN LATE AUTUMN First Line: Minou sleeps all day Last Line: Without you even noticing CAUTIONARY LINES FOR A THRIFTLESS LADY First Line: For what? %a basket of naplesd wool mice, granny junk Last Line: Nothing up against you then. %you fall. %only. %toward an idea. %any idea CHRISTMAS EVE ON HAIGHT STREET First Line: It's always the same guy with the christ haircut Last Line: Children dancing till they fell %breughel bodied under a tie-dyed dome CHRISTMAS IN CHINATOWN Poem Text First Line: They're off doing what they do Subject(s): Chinatown. New York City; Christmas; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS IN CHINATOWN First Line: They're off doing what they do Last Line: Surely, one day very soon CHRYSALIS First Line: Some big rain in the night Last Line: Who go on pumping %even as we toss %in the wild COCONUT OIL First Line: Cool wind, a wind %in advance of milder fronts Last Line: In order to buy %a nice piece of fish and some soap CONVERSATION First Line: This then was the conversation Last Line: On a stand %an objet d'art CRUNCHING NUMBERS First Line: Assault plasma star launch Last Line: Phantoms in flames %azan DAMSELFLY First Line: A petal of jasmine caught up Last Line: After a quick, surprise rain DEAD CANARY First Line: Behold the dead canary on saturn Last Line: Or it's sluiced to the gutter by rain DEJECTION BETWEEN FOOT AND BROW First Line: Mr moo heard stuff' round the trough Last Line: Or some dry hill %out west. %it's years now DIABLO: A RECIPE First Line: Caro mio, the hot must dwell among the dark Last Line: But like the small blue flame in the darkened room DISAPPOINTMENT Poem Text First Line: A faint smell of urine Subject(s): Disappointment DISAPPOINTMENT First Line: A faint smell of urine Last Line: Well, well, well, %look what we have here DISCLOSURES First Line: You're figuring it out, one Last Line: Appetite, decay, %growl and suck DISPATCH First Line: Be still %say nothing Last Line: This is only the end of a long day in june %the picknickers head home, feverish and drunk DOG STOLTZ First Line: The dog stoltz pushed his paw pads into my neck Last Line: I am between places. I will yearn for stoltz, but no DREAM JUICE First Line: Peg, bolt the door quick Last Line: Try dr. Sam %o balls, it's veteran's day EARTHQUAKE WEATHER First Line: She's talking to herself Last Line: And make you breathe %wrong EAST OF THE LIBRARY, ACROSS FROM THE ODD FELLOWS BUILDING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: That bummy smell you meet Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life EAST OF THE LIBRARY, ACROSS FROM THE ODD FELLOWS BUILDING First Line: That bummy smell you meet Last Line: Or the elderly couple from zurich %leafing coolly through their guidebook Subject(s): Cities EBENEZER CALIFORNICUS First Line: Don't make me go out eat goose Last Line: Love %baby teapot ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE First Line: Ship %I wrote on the empty blackboard Subject(s): English As A Second Language EPISTLE XIV Poem Text First Line: You ask, aristippus, and I tell you Subject(s): Aristippus (435-366 B.c.); Poetry & Poets EPISTLE XIV First Line: You ask, aristippus, and I tell you Last Line: The weather here stinks, and neither of these girls is %for you EQUINOCTIAL LINES First Line: My seventh autumn in the western mountains Last Line: It seems whenever I am drunk in autumn %I can dream of nothing but life at the capital EVENING, OUT OF TOWN First Line: Falling, falling %until breath wanders out of itself, transforms and is lost Last Line: Presage so many things %but no intrusion, only some memory unhoused EVENINT, IN A-MINOR First Line: Methane is coming off them Last Line: Plenty of crayfish, lots bananas. %and %segovia, %segovia playing fernando sor FABLE First Line: Weasel and the ponce were having a confab Last Line: Felt the heat of its burning eyes FEBRUARY IDYLL First Line: Groundhog stuck out his nose Last Line: And tokyo rose. %brother, %you dead FEBRUARY ON THE PALISADES, SELS. FESTIVAL First Line: A b-52 bomber from out near sacramento Last Line: Trusty as the gears and cogs of ancient clocks, %the innards all exposed %and turning FLOCK OF BLACKBIRDS First Line: The flock of blackbirds in advance of the storm Last Line: A tiny rush of displaced air FLYNN'S END First Line: Flynn fell off the cable car Last Line: In his bed at laguna honda FOR ANN, WHOSE STUDIO BURNT TO THE GROUND IN THE BIG FUTON FACTORY First Line: A cinder in the left fielder's eye, then a tear Last Line: Swirling awhile then heading off to sea FOUR WORTHIES, SELS. FOURTH OF JULY First Line: Mountain blue on the powerline Last Line: Friend at friend, %each more and more coming to resemble his father FRIDAY MORNING IN THE HAIGHT First Line: The gray man at the door Last Line: And he is singing %quando quando quando %through eternity FROM FDR DRIVE THE CHILDREN OF WHITMAN GAZE UP First Line: Lavender smoke from the con ed stacks Last Line: And thou, %dreamily seeking your exit FURTHER TOYS Poem Text First Line: The janitor washing the blackboard Last Line: Ripples across the sky overhead / brilliant afternoon Variant Title(s): Toys Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature GANGSTER JONES' ANALGESIC AND ANTI-GRAVITATIONAL DEVICE First Line: You see, it's a total environment fits like a shoe Last Line: You can forget of change your mind like a coked-up %dolly on rollerskates %but this little baby won' GARDENIA First Line: Corinna in may pushed a rusty nail Last Line: Then wash herself again %that warm spring night in the fragrant room GHOSTS Last Line: Who loved %them %helplessly %in life GLASS OF CLARET ON A DIFFICULT MORNING First Line: The snipsnap worm has made eggs Last Line: Close to shore %and steer clear of the locals GLOSSOLALIA ALL THE WAY TO BUFFALO First Line: Poppy is in the storm cellar, cleaning Last Line: He used to own a bar in buffalo GOING First Line: The old people are dying Last Line: Taking their bows %or history GOOD SOUND AT LAKE FORK First Line: I hear the dead lodgepole creak Last Line: And get sentimental, %ever the suckers for burning facades GRAY LIGHT IN MAY First Line: The soft gray light between rains Last Line: A stranger to my own heart GREEN RIVER CEMETERY: SPRINGS First Line: Strange to be among them in the noon sun Last Line: The fried image and random splice, %wild parabolas, butchery GREEN SEES THINGS IN WAVES Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin GREEN SEES THINGS IN WAVES First Line: Green first thing each day sees waves Last Line: Can't find the knob to turn off the show HACK First Line: Pigman dispatches us across the city Last Line: Free now of the story's landscape %dissolving into night HAMBURGER First Line: They come to resemble buddhas Last Line: A lemon tree in every yard HEEBIE-JEEBIES First Line: Now he's daruma, now he's swifty Last Line: He'd grabbed some money from a beggar's cup %or got nabbed with his thumb in the pie HEREAFTER First Line: At the gates to the hereafter Last Line: When my minder asks brightly, %-how about another coke? HIGH TEA IN THE TROPICS First Line: The moon on the bay is so big it's naughty Last Line: While we're in catapult range of heaven %let's do the circle%once slowly %then dip HIS NEIGHBOR, HER MUSIC First Line: The hermaphrodite with ginger hair Last Line: After how many parties tuesday %night HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC: CHAPTER 26 First Line: ...Chestnuts in blossom, you know Last Line: Who stare back at them impassively %from behind our screen HOLLYHOCKS IN THE FOG First Line: Every evening smoke blows in from the sea Last Line: What are those? I asked a friend %my first summer. %now I wait for them HOT NIGHT ON EAST 4TH First Line: A shriek hits the membrane Last Line: Again blows, again with spite %again %till no more horn %none INCIDENT IN CHINATOWN First Line: Warmed by tea, sedate in a corner seat Last Line: Then, just as suddenly, the wind gives out %and the waiter grins, impatient for my order INDIAN SUMMER NIGHT: THE HAIGHT First Line: The 43 bus at carl&cole Last Line: The last voice before the lights went out, %thank you. Good night INLAND PASSAGE First Line: Your sadnesses reign unbroken Last Line: With an unreal acuity. %it was on a day like that %I left INTERIOR DECORATOR ON SUNDAY First Line: Those strange and translucent scampi in latern hats Last Line: And now voices approach: they are spheres, %textured Subject(s): Interior Design And Decorators INVITATION First Line: Ah, but anthea, these shallows Last Line: While we undress and swim far out %to the cool black eye of our histories JUMP TUNE First Line: Wake, wake %oxalis, wild little buttercups hurt Last Line: Weedy and rude KID CLARINET First Line: Let'er go, say colonel jack Last Line: Let'er go, say colonel jack %but he ain't been where I have LAND'S END Recitation by Author LAND'S END First Line: This air %you say, feels as if it hasn't touched land Last Line: In a strange, bare room LATE AUTUMN AFTERNOONS First Line: Red pear leaves take the light at four Last Line: The drawn shades LATE INDIAN SUMMER Poem Text First Line: The rains hold off another week Last Line: Exhausted and stunned Subject(s): Indian Summer LATE INDIAN SUMMER First Line: The rains hold off another week Last Line: The ground of dreams, and roust us from sleep %exhausted and stunned LATE WINTER MORNING ON THE PALISADES First Line: Candle in the throat of maple Last Line: Morning rinsing the shadows %pouring out day LIGHTNING BUGS First Line: A cruel word at eventide Last Line: And let us speak calmly %of money LIKE CITIES, LIKE STORMS Poem Text Last Line: A foot off the ground, / but holding Subject(s): Cities; Music & Musicians; Memory LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING First Line: Show elephants step trough the 12th avenue yards at Last Line: What's what is right at the tip of your nose %splitting cells to beat the band, taking no prisoners LINT First Line: Ill humours dwell in the upholstery of old men Last Line: When the streetlamps begin flickering off %and a full bladder hurts him awake LISTENING IN APRIL: TIME ZONES (SYDNEY, VIRGINIA, SAN FRANCISCO) First Line: Rain streams from the stucco parapets Last Line: As never to be caught or remembered LITTLE JULY SOMETHING First Line: Whose muse? The pigeon flew LOCK SHOP First Line: Frank punched steel stamps into key bows Last Line: Crazy? %-hell yes, he was crazy LONGITUDE LANE First Line: The oleander on longitude lane Last Line: The precious settee and the wild, wild daughters LOVE POEM Poem Text First Line: As long as the cat comes home Last Line: Out of notes, dying. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians LUDDITE'S MIDNIGHT RELAPSE First Line: An orange, peaked %to bad Last Line: Ought %never to break %the sea but %I LUNATIC OF LINDLEY MEADOW First Line: At nightfall, when the inquisitive elves in elf-pants Last Line: The nice warm room, the smell in the wool MARKET First Line: Out of the forests Last Line: Slatterns who miss %church %and know nothing MEAT Poem Text First Line: How much meat moves Subject(s): City & Town Life MONSTERS First Line: Lie down then with the monsters Last Line: Call out your name MORNING First Line: Sun skims the brewery roof to no Last Line: In it's turnings, nosing inland %till it dies NAPPING AFTER LUNCH First Line: On the tea-green comforter with babette Last Line: And at last long last host upon host of mummers NINE YEARS AFTER BERING First Line: The merchant tolstykh %found Last Line: They have drums %and dance %with feathers in their hair NOVEMBER IN WEST NEW YORK First Line: Roofer looks out on the street Last Line: Flipping that blade, %waiting for the headphone to ring NURSES AND COMEDIANS First Line: Student nurses all in a row OLD MOVIES Poem Text First Line: Fueled with violins, the luscious soundtrack Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema OLD MOVIES First Line: Fueled with violins, the luscious soundtrack Last Line: Opalescent air draining out of us %night rushing in Subject(s): Motion Pictures OLD SCHOOLYARD IN AUGUST First Line: The welling of cicadas in the green Last Line: Torn off by the fence in a game of salugi ON FIRST LOOKING INTO JOSEPH CORNELL'S DIARIES First Line: The sopressata fee outside of calfasso's Last Line: In my special thursday dream ON JOHNNY'S TIME First Line: When johnny goes out Last Line: And that john, he won't ever come home, %not until he's right ON THE OCCASION OF THOM GUNN'S 60TH BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: Heyho, loverboy / is that a radioactive isotope you've got Last Line: Laughing temsleves sick Variant Title(s): After Catullus Subject(s): Gunn, Thom (b. 1929) ON THE OCCASION OF THOM GUNN'S 60TH BIRTHDAY First Line: Heyho, loverboy %is that a radioactive isotope you've got Last Line: Laughing themselves sick Variant Title(s): After Catullu Subject(s): Gunn, Thom (b. 1929) ON THE WAY HOME TO JERSEY ONE NIGHT First Line: The same sad stories whip around Last Line: Taking the last soiled scraps of it in ON TOP OF THE HILL: MONTCLAIR First Line: The air is sweeter on top of the hill Last Line: In the cool of the hour before dark OUTING First Line: If I pull out the jack Last Line: Door and lookie %see OUTSIDE THE RESTAURANT First Line: My lady pulled my sleeve Last Line: Dark as a witch %so long, beautiful PAGEANT: RUE DE RIVOLI First Line: The dark man in the crepe booth Last Line: As the breeze picks up and the clouds move in %from the west PARK First Line: Jimmy the lush Last Line: Till there's final shriek %and then silence PEACHS IN NOVEMBER First Line: Peaches redden Last Line: And the boughs slowly raise themselves up PIECES OF SUMMER First Line: Under the tailings and slag Last Line: First toward the voice %then go me PINNED First Line: The ways water finds to undo Last Line: And take you back down, %tied insolubly to their wills POEM First Line: She's flipping like a marlin Last Line: Arched toward some lodestar %and she's released POEM BEGINNING WITH FRAGMENT FROM BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER First Line: A rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings Last Line: The pavane, that was supposed to be dead POETICS First Line: I have loved the air outside shop-rite liquor Last Line: Appearing, disappearing %among streetlights and unsuccessful neon POPPIES IN THE WIND First Line: The honeybee %painting himself his delight inside her Last Line: At may's meridian %drying like chicks in the air PORCELAIN INK-BOAT First Line: The dragon and phoenix are swept along with the clouds Last Line: That dwells in the instant before it hits ground PRODIGAL ON HOME COURT First Line: Crickets give me the willies Last Line: So clean and cool %I could be aloat on a lake REAL HAIR First Line: How come all youze got fairy hair Last Line: Shame, %shame on a nice fella like you RED SAUCE, WHISKEY AND SNOW: STILL LIFE ON TWO MOVING PANELS First Line: Ingots of cinnabar and gold Last Line: A big jet passing by low, hidden in cloud RELAXING IN CALIFORNIA First Line: They are coming out, emptying Last Line: And t.V. Sets go pock pong %under the clear crisp sickle moon RENO First Line: Along the truckee Last Line: Drift wraithlike past the hotel pools RENO: HARD-BOILED First Line: The r.V.S. Parked in the comstock lot radiated heat Last Line: On an evening that now seemed a lifetime away REZONED First Line: Ten mighty condos suck Last Line: A branch cracking %set off a hubbub of frightened starlings ROOMS First Line: In the sleep that finally gives rest Last Line: By the shouts of childen going to school RUBBLE: 1. First Line: The big claw takes its angle Last Line: A scatback's moves flickering in amber RUBBLE: 2 First Line: After the big shake chimney rubble Last Line: That same fierce look in his eyes SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK Poem Text First Line: A red band of light stretches across the west Subject(s): Air Travel; Cities; Urban Life SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK First Line: A red band of light stretches across the west Last Line: As if these were ruins, as if we were ghosts Subject(s): Air Travel; Cities SAPPHICS IN TRAFFIC First Line: Festinating rhythm's bothered her axis Last Line: See her body drawn toward your violin's straining %yearning in concert SAUSAGE-MASTER OF MINSK First Line: I was sausage-master of minsk Last Line: Drawn, remote, my hair mussed, %interlaced with fine, pubescent yarn SELF-PORTRAIT First Line: It was a lost dream, a bridges and heights Last Line: I might as well have been captain cook in the marquesas SEPTEMBER: JOHNSON COUNTY, IOWA First Line: The hills press down Last Line: Simply kept on heading west SHOOTING First Line: The sun is high Last Line: Tha ball is a planet %and you make it go SHOW BUSINESS First Line: That was a book I think you Last Line: Or let go numb %somewhat more smoth charming and mean SILVER GELATIN First Line: He was watching, looking down at the park Last Line: A broken-off piece of chinese ideogram moving across the page SINCE YOU DIDN'T PHONE First Line: What I had wanted was to be chaste Last Line: We never would have dreamt of %going SKETCH OF GAIL TURNBULL ON A VISIT FROM EDINBURGH First Line: It's in the manner your head turned Last Line: Into the lee of you SMALL LAMENT First Line: Mafaleeta coulo %vongule %ti ketta Last Line: My sweet, sweet boy SNOW IN NORTH JERSEY First Line: Snow is falling along the boulevard Last Line: To a chapter titled social realism SODA WATER WITH A BOYHOOD FRIEND First Line: He is in the canals behind your forehead Last Line: And beamed off satellite %to multitudes of kindled selves SOMEONE NAMED GUTIERREZ: A DREAM, A WESTERN First Line: Outside the cantina Last Line: That's when the shooting began SONG First Line: You keep poking at it Last Line: Oh, hohohoho %not no more SONG First Line: You see it's watts SONG #1 First Line: No one said %jiggle stuck syllables till the sow Last Line: Put in another slug %and I'll tell you what else %no one said %boo SONG #2 First Line: There are among the silences Last Line: Than brick %or speak of nothing at all SONG #3 First Line: Death for the quip Last Line: Strange winds %that prophesy last things SONG #4 First Line: Flora %I write the name you never used Last Line: Acid sweet %another spring sifts through SPLEEN First Line: The night ottawa brought down the budget Last Line: It was a budget without surprises. %the dead were dead. The rest of us on call SPRING TRANCES First Line: Two snails have found the inside of a granny goose Last Line: That he slowly turns on in the scented dark STAYING HOME FROM WORK First Line: That is a mower from the city Last Line: So minor a key were it music %if fabric %would come apart in your hands STORM OVER HACKENSACK First Line: This angry bruise about to burst Last Line: This is the god's perpetual light: %clarity %jeopardy %change SUMMER'S END First Line: Seven miled throught tangled bush and on Last Line: Flynn shouts to the sun %and the shout resounds %semper ho ho! SUNDAY IN NOVEMBER First Line: And who were they all in your sleep last night Last Line: Come morning. Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Nightmares SUNDAY IN SEPTEMBER First Line: O I dunno ma walk around town I guess Last Line: In ritual tropisms of talk or the game- %a diorama the new museum paid too much for SUNDAY MORNING First Line: How oddly content, these dogs of the homeless Last Line: A bit like old bones, urine, soup SUNDAY NOCTURNE First Line: Red pulse the big jet's lights Last Line: Profound good news %to a steak joint in moonachie SUNDAY, ACROSS THE TASMAN First Line: Big weather is moving over the headlands Last Line: With discount-mattress and hair-transplant ads SUNDOWN AT FLETCHER'S FIELD First Line: Ruder light was taken by sail Last Line: The shirts and the dogs, %with the burnish of corelli's horns SUNSET IN CHINATOWN First Line: The massive cable turns on its spool, pulling Last Line: When the plangent notes take shape in the air, %aligning their souls with heaven and earth SUPERSTITIONS First Line: Trout bones are taboo to dogs Last Line: If a frog comes into your house %move Subject(s): Superstition TANKA-TOYS: A MEMOIR First Line: The planet may have tilted, if only a hint Last Line: Like an outboard coughing up lake TELL ME WHOSE LIPS Last Line: And grow another layer %when there is no air at all TENDERLION: AN ETYMOLOGY First Line: Electric here is closer to the skin Last Line: Pieces falling %that enzymes may burn. %and then the smell THE DAMSELFLY Poem Text First Line: A petal of jasmine caught up Subject(s): Damselflies THE DOG STOLTZ Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The dog stoltz pushed his paw pads into my neck Subject(s): Dogs; Poetry & Poets THE HEREAFTER Poem Text First Line: At the gates to the hereafter Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE INTERIOR DECORATOR ON SUNDAY Poem Text First Line: Those strange and translucent scampi in latern hats Subject(s): Interior Design & Decorators THE PARK Recitation by Author THE STRANGE HOURS TRAVELERS KEEP Poem Text First Line: The markets never rest Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TARTAR SWEPT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The tartar swept across the plain Subject(s): War; Tatars; Tartars THEY OFTTIMES CHOOSE First Line: They ofttimes choose to pause naked at the door Last Line: To keep me in thrall with their sweet neglect TO A FRIEND First Line: Let them tell you how the months will turn Last Line: Our spririts %and brings us to unnatural fatigue TRANTER IN AMERICA Recitation by Author Subject(s): Tranter, John (b. 1943); New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TREE First Line: Pinch a branch to see if it's quick Last Line: Because it would not die %the axman came TROLLEY First Line: The trolley runs out to the sea Last Line: The mile-long circus where no one pays %and runs out to the sea TUESDAY MORNING First Line: I like you! Last Line: Tearful, erect %into the cool gray early morning TUNNEL OF LOVE First Line: In a place of trampled peanuts Last Line: How happy we are %with the flimsy horrors %alone %moving slowly TWO CANADIAN LANDSCAPES First Line: And so diana visited a tavern called diana Last Line: In a strange city %spring UTTAR PRADESH Poem Text First Line: You were dozing over uttar pradesh Subject(s): Air Travel UTTAR PRADESH First Line: You were dozing over uttar pradesh Last Line: Ah, yes, and a most memorable hasenpfeffer Subject(s): Air Travel VALENTINE First Line: Tired already or just confused Last Line: And might drown if I speak VALENTINE OUT OF SEASON First Line: Way back, littlekumquat, bold petunia Last Line: While yet the lunging parts %of us splash and collide down the amazing flume VANCOUVER First Line: Downstairs, sal, of sal's paradise club Last Line: He gazez out to the shimmering downtown spit. %he likes how tobacco and saltsea mix in his nose VARIATIONS ON HALF OF A LINE BY MALLARME First Line: Helas, the flesh is sad and money Last Line: Spoor no money no place %our refuge %rain and flesh sad flesh VIKINGS OF THE AIR First Line: Our skycraft rides too low to clear the heights Last Line: Drives east toward the sea and our wives %are sure to moisten as our craft comes into sight VISITS First Line: You were speaking of your brother that night Last Line: The shapes they make of the sky VULTURE UNDER THE PALISADES First Line: The park road is closed in winter Last Line: Then back to the river and spreads its wings WARM NIGHT IN FEBRUARY First Line: It smells of summer out Last Line: But we are left there brokenn, %pour voices everywhere scattered WATCHING DOGWOOD BLOSSOMS FALL IN A PARKING LOT OFF ROUTE 46 Poem Text First Line: Dogwood blossoms drift down at evening Subject(s): Dogwood WATCHING DOGWOOD BLOSSOMS FALL IN A PARKING LOT OFF ROUTE 46 First Line: Dogwood blossoms drift down at evening Last Line: And slowly cut along it WATCHING YOUNG COUPLES WITH AN OLD GIRLFRIEND ON SUNDAY MORNING First Line: How mild these young men seem to me now Last Line: We still, we still refuse to name WEST First Line: An apocalyptic crack spreads like thunder Last Line: That compounds and accelerates, on and on WHAT IT TAKES First Line: He stared for hours Last Line: Fennel, lobelia shadow&flies %however many times it takes WHAT THE SCIENCE OF THE ANCIENTS TOLD First Line: The ancient cathayans made of this one science an art Last Line: Great joy would follow, that along with matchless health WHERE THE SOULS GO First Line: No telling where: down the hill Last Line: Our helicopter are shooting at fieldworkers. %the mets are down 3-1 in the 6th WHO STOLE THE HORSES FROM THE INDIANS? Last Line: He just smiles sadly, %and says hardly anything at all WIND AND PINE First Line: He kept to the pine Last Line: As the two startled bucks %met %by our scent WIND IN MARCH First Line: Tower of texas is spurred for defense Last Line: Against the length of you, %breathing softly WINTER BALL Poem Text First Line: The squat man under the hoop Last Line: With dark coming on and the cold Subject(s): Basketball WINTER BALL First Line: The squat man under the hoop Last Line: With dark coming on and the cold Subject(s): Sports WINTER BRANCHES OR A NET OF CAPILLARIES, VEINS WITH JASMINE IN BLOOM First Line: Her spirit wouldn't stray this far Last Line: A breath along the nerves' boundry. %summers were hard on her anyhow WORK First Line: The sweep-up man stinks of cologne WORKOUT, WITH NIB First Line: Incise %the sheath of silky air Last Line: Get in, %pay the bill, %get out YE OLDEN BARGE First Line: As plot rounded the corner Last Line: In the grand curve, %every inch a storm of bites YEAR OF THE KEY First Line: 23.5 seconds %for the knurled carbide blade Last Line: This is where you live |
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