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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: PALMER, MICHAEL Matches Found: 314 Palmer, Michael Poet's Biography 280 poems available by this author (OVERHEARD AT THE) MAYAKOVSKY STATION First Line: I am not that one who once spoke with you Last Line: By one who never resembled me' ...BY THE NAME OF CERAN Last Line: Blooming fields of weeds' %what letters displaced A First Line: A table erased Last Line: And what will become of us AB URBE CONDITA First Line: Call it the first distinction %the mark of a mark Last Line: The man can be seen swallowing a frog ALL THOSE WORDS WE ONCE USED FOR THINGS Last Line: With oil, pepper, salt and wild oregano ALOGON First Line: It is light and dark a book lay on the table beside the sun are moon Last Line: Dead men are playing cards AND First Line: The ship-what was her name, its name? Last Line: And the moon did not appear that night AND SIGHS AGAIN (AUTOBIOGRAPHY 15) Poem Text First Line: A sea of small killings, invisibilities, precise Subject(s): Sighs AND SIGHS AGAIN (AUTOBIOGRAPHY 15) First Line: A sea of small killings, invisibilities, precise Last Line: Skin of a retinal machine %salt sea of invisibilities Subject(s): Sighs ANNIVERSARY First Line: What was it %that code of cloud Last Line: Whose laws were secret ANODE (20 XII 94) First Line: By that fractured lion in the park Last Line: After all. Is that what you said? %begun to rain after all? ANODE (27 VIII 96-26 V 99) First Line: What shadow lights %the buddings of salt Last Line: Grammar of bone %fistfuls of dust ANODE (27 XII 94) First Line: The words she spoke in sleep Last Line: Is it made of sleep we ask %does it carry across the ice AS First Line: As if the small voices Last Line: Before all the rest AS A REAL HOUSE First Line: I said darkling and you said sparkling' Last Line: By the sound she hears %pouring from her fingers AS IF BY SAYING 'MORNING' ON JANUARY 8TH Last Line: Where the serpent lives this is is his nest AT THE TABLE WE SAY Last Line: Now it's the liar's burning house AUTOBIOGRAPHY First Line: All clocks are clouds Last Line: They are not angels. %something else AUTOBIOGRAPHY 13 First Line: The hand has numbers on it Last Line: Aloft, carrying you, jane, and you, bill, %and music will play of its own will AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2 (HELLOGOODBY); FOR A.C. First Line: The book of company which %I put down and can't pick up Last Line: They are soldering the generals %back onto their pedestals AUTOBIOGRAPHY 3 First Line: Yes, I was born on the street known as glass-as paper, scissors or rock Last Line: Last night the moon was divided precisely in half. %today a terrifying wind AUTOBIOGRAPHY 4 (IDEM) First Line: Voice: do you see that purple tint the sky has taken on? Last Line: V.: the form is fulfilled at thirty-six. %o.V.: magenta AUTOBIOGRAPHY 5 First Line: Not exactly a mark, not exactly a trace Last Line: The people come in shades of blue. %they take everything from you AUTOBIOGRAPHY 6 First Line: My name is johnny jump-up Last Line: His head rolled down the marble stairs %all this is really true AUTOBIOGRAPHY 7 First Line: You go out for a walk in the rain Last Line: But what of these shadow-flowers with yellow stems? %what of panthers in the skins of men? AUTOBIOGRAPHY 8 First Line: You must have confused me with myself Last Line: On the razor of ockham %I swear I do not AUTOBIOGRAPHY 9 First Line: The last two monuments went by very fast Last Line: Here is a well with no bottom at all %and in this well we dance BALLAD OF NECESSITIES First Line: The moon has been sheared %and so this medicine is no good Last Line: To be asked. Just leave them out, our shadows, to sing %awful words and dance BARELY ANYTHING TO SAY... Last Line: And that each of those letters has a distinctive shape. Or shade. Impossi- %ble to remember BAUDELAIRE SERIES First Line: A hundred years ago I made a book BOOK OF First Line: A book of nothing gives %him its elbow %or its fist Last Line: The rest %seemed to be metal. %you will write some salt BOOK OF THE YELLOW CASTLE Poem Text First Line: This can be seen as placing a mirror against the page Subject(s): Language Poetry BOOK OF THE YELLOW CASTLE First Line: This can be seen as placing a mirror against the page Last Line: These are scalings of a sentence Subject(s): Language Poetry BUT First Line: But the birth and death of stars? Last Line: Pages turning themselves %in the paper house? C First Line: Called poem of the end CALL First Line: If I do not watch the printer it will print a thing I %recognize not Last Line: She is practicing her figured eights CALLED POEM OF THE END Last Line: In broken sevens like this CARNIVAL, AND THE ODD LIGHT... Last Line: Words to revive them. Fire as a sign CHANGES AROUND THE BAY First Line: In this kind of weaather Last Line: We came %it's also later CITES First Line: Can lie, but %under the grey %a part seen Last Line: Prolapsed in shadow %a raised arm CITES First Line: Can lie, but Last Line: Prolapsed in shadow %a raised arm CLASSICAL STYLE First Line: It seems they never complete these things Last Line: Into the less %renamed the present COIL First Line: Sad coil of streets emitted by a scream Last Line: Or dissolved into another, %pick one COMET First Line: That year the end of winter stood under a sign Last Line: As forecast long ago by the prophets %in a circus farce CREASE First Line: Crease in the snowy field Last Line: This heap of photographs CROSSING THE HILL First Line: Queens and kings of the perilous edge Last Line: To decorate a hill DANCE OF THE BEES: SEPTEMBER First Line: As the sun's %light caught in a mirror Last Line: Avoid all suicide pacts DEAD SEASON First Line: An hour glares narrowly at five %our house burning but quiet, torsos Last Line: Others at noon intensified by purple frames %that bend DEAR LEXICON, I DIED IN YOU Last Line: I couldn't understand the rest DEAR M First Line: Look this figure half-hidden is not a book Last Line: And hurried to unlearn them DEAR M First Line: Yes it is sex and money that matters, a long canyon wind effects, water Last Line: The foreign version tells us neither more nor less DEAR M First Line: The sky today yes and no. I am writing a play about a man with a pebble Last Line: Born in the false spring of 1732. This letter is to confirm that your visit has %occurred or soon wi DEAREST READER First Line: He painted the mountain over and over again Last Line: Or the photograph of nothing but pigeons %and grackles by the shadow of a fountain DECK, SEL. First Line: Card of rags and of willows. Of the sweeper lying down before Last Line: Our grammar, outsides for insides, afters in befores DESIRE WAS A QUOTATION FROM SOMEONE Last Line: And the tribe to show you its tongue. It has only one DISCLOSURES First Line: Beneath the writing on the wall Last Line: On the reverse of this sheet DOCUMENTATION First Line: This road ends in a field of grain Last Line: And we have half forgotten each word's name %the sky moves that quickly through the frame DREAM CALLED THE HOUSE OF JEWS First Line: Many gathered many friends maybe everyone Last Line: The room is not the place or the name ECHO First Line: Which resounds. Re-sounds. Where first Last Line: And told him again ECHO First Line: The two poles. We didn't disagree %that meetings should be begun Last Line: Again and again %seemed entirely different ECHO First Line: Which in a dry season might %begin or might precede its Last Line: And monkey-flower; the key first %spoken of; wide azure borders EIGHTH SKY First Line: It is scribbled along the body Last Line: Into an alphabet in stone END OF THE ICE AGE AND ITS WITNESSES First Line: Yesterday your fever returned Last Line: Is coming to understand itself' EROLOG First Line: Asked, don't you dream, do you ever Last Line: We pointed toward space %as it is before day FACADES FOR NORMA COLE Poem Text First Line: These ornaments as we pass Subject(s): Language Poetry FACADES FOR NORMA COLE First Line: These ornaments as we pass Last Line: It came about by itself %during yesterday's storm Subject(s): Language Poetry FALSE PORTRAIT First Line: He-she bends at the mirrored waist Last Line: The water's body has stored up light FALSE PORTRAIT OF D.B. AS NICCOLO PAGANINI First Line: Those who have lived here since before Last Line: And let nations strike medals in his name FALSE PORTRAIT OF HANNA H First Line: Empty faces of %and tomorrow's alternate idea Last Line: And the rider's grey horse %before the city walls FAR AWAY NEAR First Line: As it's said in the fragments Last Line: Where the rain continues FIFTH PROSE First Line: Because I'm writing about the snow not the sentence Last Line: First a razor then a fact FIFTH SYMMETRICAL POEM First Line: The way the future uses up blood and light Last Line: We would move them %to get somewhere FIGURE First Line: Figure %the gammadion Last Line: In sagittarius the centaur %'diurnal archer FIRST FIGURE First Line: The name is spelled without letters how can this be Last Line: Quite a short pleasure. The police know all about it FIVE EASY POEMS; FOR ANNE-MARIE ALBIACH: 1 First Line: Two pictures of a rose in the dark Last Line: Hanging over it %as if asleep while writing this FIVE EASY POEMS; FOR ANNE-MARIE ALBIACH: 2 Poem Text First Line: Two pictures of a rose in the dark Subject(s): Flowers; Photography & Photographers; Roses FIVE EASY POEMS; FOR ANNE-MARIE ALBIACH: 2 First Line: Two pictures of a rose in the dark Last Line: Back toward the whir %and the whistling of things Subject(s): Flowers; Photography And Photographers; Roses FIVE EASY POEMS; FOR ANNE-MARIE ALBIACH: 3 First Line: It is as it was in the film Last Line: The camera shuttles nervously %eddies of dust rise up Subject(s): Motion Pictures FIVE EASY POEMS; FOR ANNE-MARIE ALBIACH: 4 (MEZZA VOICE) Poem Text First Line: Does he incline his head to become calligraphy Last Line: Of the odeum? Subject(s): Voices FIVE EASY POEMS; FOR ANNE-MARIE ALBIACH: 4 (MEZZA VOICE) First Line: Does he incline his head to become calligraphy Last Line: What is the space %of the odeum? Subject(s): Voices FIVE EASY POEMS; FOR ANNE-MARIE ALBIACH: 5 First Line: All poems %are esay poems Last Line: The easiest poems %of all Subject(s): Poetry And Poets FLOWER OF CAPITAL First Line: The flower of capital is small and white large and grey-green in a storm its Last Line: As for example: one-two-three? And can it curve into closure from %there to here? FONTANA DOM First Line: Somewhere before the gate Last Line: In silence on the windows FOR L.Z. First Line: A reasonable ear %in music. Bottom Last Line: As the bridge came down %following the song FOR PAOLO AND ANDY Last Line: Warm today in a field of crows FOR VOICE First Line: A little faithful to the dream mirror Last Line: As if asleep %eye precedes ear FOURTH SYMMETRICAL POEM First Line: A book with lines through the words cannot be read Last Line: In one sense to be done FRACTAL SONG First Line: I do not know where I will be in july %sam said or said sam Last Line: Clouds are not spheres we know %now, and mountains not cones FRENCH FOR APRIL FOOL'S First Line: I will name it anything I will name you this Last Line: What should we do in the coming white days FROM C First Line: Paper universe of primes FROM THE ANTHOLOGY (W'S DREAM) First Line: A book full of dark pictures Last Line: Or creation's mists HE STOPPED PART WAY ACROSS THE FIELD TO Last Line: Is not the sun secretly dying %during the night HEADLESS MAN WALKS, LIVES Last Line: A bark sets out on the honeycomb's flow %we called it le depart HERE THE IMAGE OF A CHILD ON A HILL Last Line: Then ego scriptor gets blotted out HERON IS RIDING Last Line: The animals surround him HOLY TUESDAY First Line: Bright with haze, %the duke came Last Line: Moon through the first quarter HUNDRED YEARS AGO I MADE A BOOK Last Line: Yes I just dreamed another dream and nobody was in it I AM AN ARCHITECT IN VIENNA Last Line: My tears are for the person I miss, the down on her lip I DO NOT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I do not know english Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary I DO NOT First Line: I do not know english Last Line: I do not know english Subject(s): Language I HAVE ANSWERS TO ALL... Last Line: Tears, tiny bubbles of spit. It is a head from another century, the last %one or the next I KILLED A BEE ON THE STREET OF SCISSORS Last Line: Then you were not a photograph I WAS TALKING TO THE BARONESS First Line: I was talking to the baroness in the green room Last Line: The scene as always is tropical IDEAS AREN'T WORTH ANYTHING Last Line: Your eyes are tired so keep them closed %once an image broke an arm IDEM 1 First Line: Let's see, how could you describe this to a listener? How can I describe Last Line: Now I remember-the play has begun! IDEM 2 First Line: Rebeginning and beginnings is what she told me or what she showed me Last Line: And a sound like water IDEM 3 First Line: Tree and book and book and tree and book. Music we refuse to forget. A Last Line: Morning thinking he had heard a scream IDEM 4 First Line: Look I have been had entered a room large or small had entered have Last Line: Her palm no image no city no images to come IF NOT, NOT First Line: They tell each other stories Last Line: Pond, stagnant in the shadow %of smoke. The late flowers IN AN X First Line: I describe this as if it were before me it is not before me Last Line: Not %wake IN C First Line: Pared and lettered to an edge Last Line: Our nils a century's redress IN THE EMPIRE OF LIGHT Last Line: Chalk-marks show them where to stand ITS FORM First Line: Its form, at tables by fours Last Line: By eyes, and seeing twice KN' First Line: We made a week of eight days Last Line: Run your fingers down the page LEFT UNFINISHED SIXTEEN TIMES First Line: I is the director of three letters and the dead director Last Line: Insist 'I cannot remember.' who is it will admit to this LENS Poem Text First Line: I failed to draw a map and you followed it perfectly Subject(s): Language Poetry LENS First Line: I failed to draw a map and you followed it perfectly Last Line: A few steps should be enough Subject(s): Language Poetry LENS First Line: You are identical with a wooden match Last Line: Did we listen to part song through a lens LEONARDO IMPROVISATIONS: 1 First Line: Can the %two be Last Line: The two %be drawn %apart LEONARDO IMPROVISATIONS: 2 First Line: What of the words reversed Last Line: Appear as more than real %reflected there LEONARDO IMPROVISATIONS: 3 First Line: First write of all water Last Line: Book of the earth split in half LEONARDO IMPROVISATIONS: 4 First Line: The measure of the actual body Last Line: On the plane of the imaginary page LEONARDO IMPROVISATIONS: 5 First Line: Curl of leaf and wave Last Line: As much what has disappeared %as what remains LETTERS TO ZANZOTTO: LETTER 1 First Line: Wasn't it done then undone by Last Line: Said what to them %and to us as them LETTERS TO ZANZOTTO: LETTER 2 First Line: Belowabove: hum of the possible-to-say Last Line: Of an alphabet underground LETTERS TO ZANZOTTO: LETTER 3 First Line: Our errors at zero: milk for mist, grin Last Line: In this tongue which will pass LETTERS TO ZANZOTTO: LETTER 4 First Line: Almost or more than or almost alive Last Line: A snow more red than white LETTERS TO ZANZOTTO: LETTER 5 First Line: Desired, the snow falls upward Last Line: Figment and testament as one LETTERS TO ZANZOTTO: LETTER 6 First Line: Dear z %so we accused mimesis, accused Last Line: And the circle of shadow LETTERS TO ZANZOTTO: LETTER 7 First Line: But the buried walls and our mouths of fragments Last Line: Put on your latest gear LETTERS TO ZANZOTTO: LETTER 8 First Line: So a's finally, alephs and arcades Last Line: For that earth and that smoke LIBRARY IS BURNING First Line: The library is burning floor by floor Last Line: It felt the most precise Subject(s): Language Poetry LIES OF THE POEM First Line: We welcomed the breeze Last Line: And where expectation plays no part MAN UNDERGOES PAIN SITTING AT A PIANO Last Line: Such thoughts destroy music %and this at least is good MARCH '93' First Line: As what's-his-name says in 109, movement three Last Line: For a while. It's enough MARIA'S GIFT First Line: Noir for example, negro, as in any case Last Line: To prove winter among double stars MEADOW First Line: Resembling a meadow Last Line: Whose readers are unable to read MEI-MEI, HERE IS THE TABLE Last Line: Chin's hardness %'forehead filled with dust' MEN WITHOUT ARMS THEIR HEADS IN A BOX Last Line: The beginning of the story from the end METAPHYSICIAN OF PRAGUE (AUTOBIOGRAPHY 11) First Line: The metaphysician of prague whom %I will call quod, short for quodlibet Last Line: And quod whiter than white, whiter than %the page? Do you remember the page? MULTIPLES First Line: Well the hearts are-is- %where you find 'em Last Line: Causing us to walk %somewhat differently %than before MUSIC BY DAVID HUME First Line: You are there because it surrounds you %it has the appearance of air Last Line: The eyes shuttling helplessly %by the morning of the fifty-fourth day MUSIC REWRITTEN First Line: Yes and no then yes and no Last Line: Which is the wrong name in any case MUSICA FICTA First Line: This I will never tell. I slept under a thing. It was a feather. Then the Last Line: A city made of sand made of glass. Or a measured distance for which the %octave stands NIGHT SKY First Line: A chair grows from the floor %now that the age Last Line: The rows of passengers content %with the absence of movement NINTH SYMMETRICAL POEM First Line: It's november the thirty-third Last Line: Mirrored we reflect such things %as they've seen NO PAGE (UNTURNED) First Line: From the speaker's place of speech there's nothing Last Line: Last year's performance, refusing to become speakers themselves NOTES FOR ECHO LAKE: 1 First Line: He says this red as dust, a literal self among selves and picks the coffee %up Last Line: Where only recently had occurred the abandonment of signs NOTES FOR ECHO LAKE: 10 First Line: He would live against sentences %trees here broad of leaf the several speakers Last Line: He would live inside the well NOTES FOR ECHO LAKE: 11 First Line: An eye remembers history by the pages of the house in flames, rolls forward Last Line: Tences they form should not exist. Poems will sometimes overcome them, %or else stones NOTES FOR ECHO LAKE: 12 First Line: These poles don't seem to light our way Last Line: We saw, objects much like those everyone had known NOTES FOR ECHO LAKE: 2 First Line: He would assume a seeing into the word, whoever was there to look Last Line: We have never been happy here have never been happier NOTES FOR ECHO LAKE: 3 First Line: Words that come in smoke and go Last Line: In the poem he learns to turn and turn, and prose seems always a sentence long NOTES FOR ECHO LAKE: 4 First Line: Who did he talk to %did she trust what she saw Last Line: Who taught you not to speak %whose is the voice that empties NOTES FOR ECHO LAKE: 5 First Line: The tree's green explains what a light means, an idea, the bomb or donald Last Line: Drank from an actual glass of beer. An outstretched arm offers me its hand NOTES FOR ECHO LAKE: 6 First Line: A tree's streaming imitates light. Water gathers light behind the arm. The Last Line: Coffee is sent. Here dancing is done in fear across rooftops NOTES FOR ECHO LAKE: 7 First Line: So this was the story is a story gibbous moon 1:10 am he falls toward the Last Line: Blue as of a letter red as of a name written backward NOTES FOR ECHO LAKE: 8 First Line: Abragrammatica %he she will or did Last Line: There is this end and what resembles it %there is a certain distance NOTES FOR ECHO LAKE: 9 Last Line: Was lying in am lying on I is I am it surrounds NOVEMBER TALKS First Line: Certain faces seem to be ours %pieces of april broken from the main part Last Line: Here, so many missing %who might have been here NOWNESS AND NOWNESS SINGS THE CROW Last Line: We are alive we are covering our eyes %tell the spires O YOU IN THAT LITTLE BARK Last Line: The signature obviously forged OF First Line: Of this photograph no one has taken Last Line: This photograph no one has seen %offers itself in evidence OF THIS CLOTH DOLL WHICH (SARAH'S FOURTH) Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Of this cloth doll which Subject(s): Dolls; Toys OF THIS CLOTH DOLL WHICH (SARAH'S FOURTH) First Line: Of this cloth doll which Last Line: To out of the whale's mouth Subject(s): Dolls; Toys ON THE WAY TO LANGUAGE Poem Text First Line: The answer was / the sun, the question Subject(s): Language Poetry ON THE WAY TO LANGUAGE First Line: The answer was %the sun, the question Last Line: Crossed by the bridge %of frequent sighs Subject(s): Language Poetry OPENING IS READ BY THE TONGUE Last Line: Of flies gathered %at lips and eyes ORDER OF ISLANDS HERE Last Line: Whenever we find it %missing OWNERLESS HOUSES First Line: Traffic light-wooden box, slat walls, a sofa Last Line: Above, white chair of fragile plastic-bush %building, veranda PAINTED CUP First Line: This was not experience %but life itself and the hills Last Line: That to speech are as distant, %or dissonant, matter PAPER UNIVERSE OF PRIMES Last Line: ('moths') %are figured there PICTURE (AUTOBIOGRAPHY 18) First Line: If 'on a stair' %and gazing through glass Last Line: Now say the word 'fault' %then stare at this mark POEM First Line: We will not go out to hear the 'mysterious and private' Last Line: Sounds because of this storm POEM IN TWO PARTS First Line: And I arrived there with closed eyes Last Line: The accelerator and off came his head POEMS WITHIN A MATRIX FOR WAR: 1. H First Line: We sat on the cliff-head Last Line: Gaia the bag lady %in sadness below POEMS WITHIN A MATRIX FOR WAR: 2. CONSTRUCTION OF THE MUSEUM First Line: In the hole we found beside the road Last Line: What a noise the words make %writing themselves POEMS WITHIN A MATRIX FOR WAR: 3. (APRIL '91) First Line: La narrativa says you must paint a flower Last Line: Studio at night %everything in place POEMS WITHIN A MATRIX FOR WAR: 4. H First Line: Yet the after is still a storm Last Line: Present which cannot be found POEMS WITHIN A MATRIX FOR WAR: 5. WHEEL First Line: You can say the broken word but cannot speak Last Line: Which would open either way POEMS WITHIN A MATRIX FOR WAR: 6. 24 LOGICS IN MEMORY OF LEE HICKMAN First Line: The bend in the river followed us for days Last Line: Enough at last to close our eyes POEMS WITHIN A MATRIX FOR WAR: 7. 'OR ANYTHING RESEMBLING IT' First Line: The hills like burnt pages Last Line: To those who say we are burning the pages PORTRAIT NOW BEFORE THEN First Line: That is a, that is anna speaking. That is a, that is no one speaking and it's Last Line: Coming to the age I am PRE-PETRARCHAN SONNET First Line: Someone identical with dante %sits beside a stone. Enough Last Line: Here and there it was very light and dark PRELUDE First Line: The limit of the song is this Last Line: Why the delay PROJECT OF LINEAR INQUIRY First Line: Let a be taken as... Last Line: Before us, nothing to fear PROMISES OF GLASS (AUTOBIOGRAPHY 17) First Line: Will be will have been Last Line: This new pen hardly works at all %grace notes and ghost notes bouncing off the walls PROSE 22 First Line: Plan of the city of o. The great square Last Line: Larger and less perfect box PROSE 31: THE LOGIC OF CONTRADICTIONS First Line: A logical principle is said to be an empty Last Line: Conceals another anacoluthon PROSE 9 First Line: Prose 9 is about the space between the Last Line: Leaving a mountain PROSE FOR THE WORLD'S BODY First Line: Perhaps there is danger; perhaps Last Line: Moth at the windowpane, a %pulse. It is no one PURPLES OF BARLEY First Line: And all of the time you are seeing these things she Last Line: Loudly but with authority Q First Line: Quod reflects %upon the amulet Last Line: Lost among them %attempts to hum QUAX THE HARD LUCK PILOT First Line: This light must be coming from somewhere Last Line: I ellerkamp his projectionist QUESTIONS OF CROWS First Line: There is dust. Are we %to love the dust? There Last Line: Are we to love the %dust? Make tents of shadows? REASONED REPLY TO GILBERT RYLE First Line: Sound becomes difficult Last Line: Unless the window itself %is broken RECURSUS First Line: The voice, because of its austerity, will often cause dust to rise Last Line: We think to say in some language RED YELLOW BLUE First Line: Now that you know all the words Last Line: If you choose, as choose you must %all along, %a song SAID THE SPEAKER Last Line: To be cut %as a tongue or a knot SAID THE SPEAKER Last Line: Curled like leaves %black as tongues SAO PAULO SIGHS (AUTOBIOGRAPHY 14) First Line: Our sighs in sao paulo Last Line: From sulfur Subject(s): Sao Paulo, Brazil; Sighs SB First Line: So a seed or syllable pitched into the well Last Line: Measured step by step SCALE First Line: The red vowels, how they spill Last Line: Or will they huddle out of sight %in confusion and fear SECOND NIGHT SONG (AUTOBIOGRAPHY 16) First Line: Nail we saw %edging along a sentence Last Line: Arkadii are you counting %the shards of shattered glass SECRET REMAINS IN THE BOOK Last Line: Nights that like the book are lost SEVEN FORBIDDEN WORDS Poem Text First Line: Who peered from the invisible world Subject(s): Language Poetry SEVEN FORBIDDEN WORDS First Line: Who peered from the invisible world Last Line: And the inhabitants welcomed them Subject(s): Language Poetry SEVEN LINES OF EQUAL LENGTH First Line: He describes a city that apparently never was Last Line: Lies open on the reading stand %'the sun is well above the horizon' SHE SAYS, YOU ARE THE NEGATIVE SHE SAYS, YOU ARE THE NEGATIVE- Last Line: Far less than a second will have passed SIGN First Line: Are you asleep m. Valdemar Last Line: Everything of smoke was ours SIX HERMETIC SONGS First Line: How did we measure Last Line: Lotus and hawk %palette plus ink-pot SIX ILLUSTRATIONS: 1. LITTLE FIRES First Line: From the balcony we see a town we see a lake we see walkers along the shore Last Line: To the figure asleep and the watching child SIX ILLUSTRATIONS: 2. CARLUCCIO Last Line: From the singing mouth the thread plays out SIX ILLUSTRATIONS: 3. ATLANTIC WINDOW First Line: They are lovers aligned by blue Last Line: And flares on the surface of the lake SIX ILLUSTRATIONS: 4. THE QUESTION First Line: Do you not know yet Last Line: How lightly they rest SIX ILLUSTRATIONS: 5. SCENE INCLUDING First Line: The house arrives then the house arrives Last Line: Then form a bridge with no one on it SIX ILLUSTRATIONS: 6. THE QUESTION First Line: Sometimes they will murder each other %then go to sleep Last Line: There is a reason for this %which they will forget SMALL NIGHT SONG FOR JACQUES ROUBAUD First Line: In the night of glass Last Line: Glass of night SO First Line: So the promise of happiness? Last Line: Beyond the night itself SO THE DARK FIGURE First Line: So the dark figure falls Last Line: Upon and taken %into this painting SO WE TRAVELED Last Line: And whispered the coming of snow %though far too softly to be heard SO WITH HIS DAUGHTER ANTIGONE Last Line: Has come to resemble not exactly a mountain SONG OF THE ROUND MAN First Line: The round and sad-eyed man puffed cigars as if Last Line: And we'll puff cigars from noon till night %as if we were alive SONNET: NOW I SEE THEM First Line: Now I see them sitting me before a mirror Last Line: For a face, and dark lines for arms SOON First Line: Soon the present will arrive Last Line: Or will they huddle out of sight %in confusion and fear SOUVENIR OF JAPAN First Line: There are shadow figures for a new world Last Line: The patterns in such a space %would repeat and repeat SPEECH (ACROSS TIME) First Line: If, instead of whispering Last Line: A' a as in 'far STANZA First Line: A ringing in your left ear....' Last Line: Does distance cause the call %do nights spin STONE First Line: What of that wolfhound at full stride? Last Line: What of that wolfhound at your back? STUDY First Line: In a darkened room they Last Line: It is unclear whether they %believe what they are saying SUBJECT (AUTOBIOGRAPHY 12 ) First Line: It is not true that I (the subject) is Last Line: A stone suspended in air %and on it an ancient city SUN Poem Text Recitation First Line: Write this. We have burned all their villages Subject(s): Language; Sun; Words; Vocabulary SUN (1), SELS. Subject(s): Language SUN (2) First Line: Write this. We have burned all their villages Last Line: Known as these letters -- humid, sunless. The writing occurs on their walls Subject(s): Language SYMMETRICAL POEM First Line: There is interest in being able to feel what you see Last Line: Look up you may think to tell them %but the words will fail to come out SYMMETRICAL POEM: THEY WERE AFRAID OF DEATH First Line: He would live against sentences Last Line: Careful to avoid the shore TENTH SYMMETRICAL POEM First Line: A dream in imperfect alexandrines Last Line: Who are waiting to be translated %do not THE First Line: The red vowels, how they spill Last Line: And us outside %by other worlds THE LIBRARY IS BURNING Poem Text First Line: The library is burning floor by floor Subject(s): Language Poetry THEE THOU ON LOOKING OUT Last Line: On looking out from this house THEORY OF THE FLOWER First Line: I will read a few of these to see if they exist Last Line: From which we fall toward a window THERE ARE PIECES OF THE LAKE Last Line: These fragments of a face %now weighing %upon %you THERE IS MUCH THAT IS PRECISE Last Line: Between us, two of this %and three of that THIRD SYMMETRICAL POEM First Line: Were you listening and Last Line: Of the painting of the face THIS First Line: This perfect half-moon Last Line: And a child this day swept out to sea THIS IS DIFFICULT BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE: COFFEE Last Line: Will be walking in circles next to the water THIS TIME First Line: Once I fell in the ocean when Last Line: This time it was me THROUGH TIME First Line: You are in for another surprise too Last Line: Suspended at eye-level %waiting for the life to start TO LEARN WHAT TO SAY TO UNLEARN Last Line: If I knew it it's what I thought %it was TO ROBERT E. SYMMES 1933 FOR A GIFT OF RESEMBLANCES First Line: His arm slept. Dream-wounded and a former Last Line: Each is missing part of his name %and each longs to be drawn a face TOMB OF BAUDELAIRE First Line: At the end of the bridge is a state of prison. Then Last Line: To wear? And how about the motel bill TOWER First Line: Awake way into the night Last Line: Titled my life as a futurist UNDER THE PERSEIDS First Line: Even as it passes Last Line: Tremor as the body opens %always perishing UNTITLED Last Line: Only certain %distances to serve %in place of a title UNTITLED First Line: The altered body %in parts or particles Last Line: Wet it becomes a brick %to play with then discard UNTITLED (FAR AWAY NEAR) First Line: Still early still late Last Line: Yet let it not reach the ear UNTITLED (FEBRUARY '92) First Line: Sleep said: the unpronounceable shadows Last Line: It's invisible ink which blots them out UNTITLED (FEBRUARY 2000) First Line: The naked woman at the window Last Line: As for today, leap year day %the window was empty UNTITLED (MAY '99) First Line: The dance of the three-legged man Last Line: One last dance three-legged man UNTITLED (SEPTEMBER '92) First Line: Or maybe this Last Line: As if by intent VIEW FROM AN APARTMENT First Line: The word 'dream' is technical and means nothing Last Line: You must stay awake until this ends VILLAGE OF REASON First Line: This is a glove Last Line: This is a poppy, %this an epilogue VITRUVIAN FIGURE BY JUAN GRIS First Line: Begins with a line from donne Last Line: The limits of the ring VOICE AND ADDRESS First Line: You are the owner of one complete thought Last Line: Arriving in competing waves %from the ruins of that place WE WILL CALL TODAY Last Line: We floated %and it could be said that we floated WELL First Line: How to make love with %a watch on your wrist Last Line: Spelled without letters %it dreams of itself WHITE NOTEBOOK First Line: But we have painted over the chalky folds Last Line: We shared one shadow. %in the heat she tasted of salt WHO IS TO SAY Last Line: Across the river in the dark WHO IS TO SAY Last Line: Across the river in the dark WITHOUT MUSIC First Line: Small sun against the lower edge licking us Last Line: This poem is called rebuilding the house WORD IS COMING UP ON THE SCREEN... Last Line: Your english I do not speak. A word is coming up on the screen WORDS SAY, MISSPELL AND MISSPELL YOUR NAME Last Line: Full of broken tones %silences we mean to cross one day WRITER'S DREAM (THE WAGON) First Line: Out of the city's Last Line: Commanded this of me %for spring WRITER'S DREAM (UNTITLED) First Line: Untitled %and at night Last Line: In place of a title YES IN A CIRCLE Last Line: But in a sealed and measured space %called here and now for now YOU SAY Last Line: Whatever happened then will not happen again %please move my arm YOU SAY YOU, ISLAND IN THIS PAGE Last Line: Relax and watch yourself pass %look at the thread YOU, ISLAND IN THIS PAGE Last Line: Evening to eyelid %thread to thread Palmer. Michael Poet's Biography 34 poems available by this author AS A REAL HOUSE Poem Text First Line: I said darkling and you said sparkling Subject(s): Houses; Imagination; Fancy AS IF BY SAYING “MORNING” ON JANUARY 8TH Poem Text AUTOBIOGRAPHY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: All clocks are clouds. Subject(s): Life; Self AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2 (HELLOGOODBY) Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The book of company which Subject(s): Life; Relationships; Time AUTOBIOGRAPHY 3 Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Self; Aging; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity COMPANY OF MOTHS Poem Text First Line: We thought it could all be found in the book of poor text Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary DEAREST READER Poem Text First Line: He painted the mountain over and over again Subject(s): Art & Artists DISCLOSURES Poem Text First Line: Beneath the writing on the wall Subject(s): Writing & Writers EIGHTH SKY Poem Text Recitation First Line: It is scribbled along the body Subject(s): Alphabets; Poetry & Poets FALSE PORTRAIT OF D.B. AS NICCOLÒ PAGANINI Poem Text First Line: Those who have lived here since before Subject(s): Paganini, Niccolo (1782-1840) H Poem Text First Line: Yet the after is still a storm Subject(s): Time; Poetry & Poets HE STOPPED PART WAY ACROSS THE FIELD TO Poem Text IDEM 1 Poem Text Subject(s): Desire; Writing & Writers IF NOT, NOT Poem Text First Line: They tell each other stories, IN THE EMPIRE OF LIGHT Poem Text LETTER 7 Poem Text First Line: But the buried walls and our mouths of fragments Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary NOTES FOR ECHO LAKE 1 Poem Text Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary NOTES FOR ECHO LAKE 4 Poem Text First Line: Who did he talk to Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary O YOU IN THAT LITTLE BARK Poem Text Subject(s): Paintings & Painters PRELUDE Poem Text First Line: The limit of the song is this Subject(s): Life PROSE 22 Poem Text First Line: Plan of the city of o. The great square Subject(s): City & Town Life PROSE 31 Poem Text First Line: A logical principle is said to be an empty Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Language; Words; Vocabulary RECURSUS Poem Text First Line: The voice, because of its austerity, will often cause dust to rise. Subject(s): Voices; Language; Words; Vocabulary SONG OF THE ROUND MEN Poem Text First Line: The round and sad-eyed man puffed cigars as if Subject(s): Grief; Identity; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET Poem Text First Line: Now I see them sitting me before a mirror Subject(s): Fathers; Numbers STONE Poem Text First Line: What of the wolfhound at full stride? THE ORDER OF ISLANDS HERE Poem Text THE PROJECT OF LINEAR INQUIRY Poem Text First Line: [let a be taken as . . .] Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE REPUBLIC OF DREAMS Poem Text First Line: She lay so still that Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares TO LEARN WHAT TO SAY TO UNLEARN Poem Text TOMB OF BAUDELAIRE Poem Text First Line: At the end of the bridge is a state of prison. Then Subject(s): Poetry Readings; Poetry & Poets TWENTY-FOUR LOGICS IN MEMORY OF LEE HICKMAN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The bend in the river followed us for days Subject(s): Time; Life; Poetry & Poets WHEEL Poem Text First Line: You can say the broken word but cannot speak Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WHO IS TO SAY Poem Text Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary |
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