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Author: SANTOS, SHEROD Matches Found: 125 Santos, Sherod Poet's Biography 125 poems available by this author A FEELING AND, A FEELING OR Poem Text First Line: The window in mid-summer raised, and where A PLACE IN MAINE Poem Text Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Disappointment; Time; Family Life; Absence; Relatives; Separation; Isolation A WOMAN NAMED THUCYDIDES Poem Text First Line: Having slept in a turnout in the backseat ABANDONED RAILWAY STATION First Line: The agent's office like an abbey chancel AFTER A LONG ILLNESS Poem Text First Line: Now beneath the aspen trees moonlight blends Subject(s): Home; Death; Dead, The AFTER THE ISLAND FIGHTING First Line: Our grandfather's hat stand's AGE OF REASON First Line: Car lights like lanterns in the pre-dawn dark Last Line: Forbearance she had long ago been widowed to Subject(s): Reason AIR BASE AT CHATEAUROUX, FRANCE First Line: In the american schoolyard Last Line: Uneasy gods, a little drunk %on our shame, our power ALL SOULS Poem Text First Line: Forgive me, mother, it's october again Subject(s): Autumn; Time; Fa,ily Life; Life, Modern; Fall ALL SOULS First Line: Forgive me, mother, it's october again AN UNKNOWN MAN BEGINS WRITING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY Poem Text First Line: It occurs to me that I too could possess Subject(s): Self; Relationships ANGELUS First Line: The neighbors are burning ART OF FICTION First Line: It's the way each evening unfolds the same ARTEMON AND THE FATES First Line: It wasn't all that long ago he skulked about Last Line: Himself with a dowager's ivory parasol? Subject(s): Curiosities And Wonders; Life Change Events AT THE ALL CLEAR First Line: That early in the morning AUGURY First Line: Your pinkling, winter-white shoulders bent Last Line: By my own deliberate confusions: bare- %shouldered, burning,imperilled in the yard Subject(s): Nature BEGIN, DISTANCE Poem Text First Line: The morning stars are a torment Subject(s): Landscape BETRAYAL First Line: There were two of you in the dream, you BIRTH OF CHRIST First Line: To find heaven in a cattle stall Last Line: By an infant in a feeding trough BOOK OF BLESSINGS First Line: The reserved and slightly weary-eyed doctor in the er who Last Line: And in the book of silence, and in the book of forgetting BOOK OF HOURS First Line: Late august, and once again the frail moon's launched Last Line: The other's hand, and the poem is brought to an end BORAGE First Line: We're cleaning up after the guests have gone Last Line: Uncomplicated blue of borage, or deep water BREAKDOWN First Line: The sun scanned the river with its lidless CAFE SOCIETY First Line: Scarfed in a thin umbrellaed shade more rose Last Line: As the past now passes out of memory CALYPSO First Line: Although once I blunderingly boasted as much--and no matter Last Line: One cannot tell, while the awninged ministers yawned and ate CAROUSEL First Line: He'd just switched off the overhead light and stretched out Last Line: Wound-down notes of the deserted boardwalk carousel CHILDREN OF PARADISE First Line: At summer's end, a girl and I once CONVERSATION First Line: It's odd because, beyond that day, there's not Last Line: To the purblind terror that's come over him CORPSE First Line: Tell me, how can we possibly call this mess Last Line: To see the sun rise from its bloodshot grave COUNTRY LANDSCAPE Poem Text First Line: This involves more than just the water standing Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY LANDSCAPE First Line: This involves more than just the water standing Last Line: It's like this: dead insects blow across the floor. %they have never forgotten DAIRY COWS AT CRAWFORD FARM Poem Text First Line: Still road-weary but quite warmly stowed Subject(s): Cows DAIRY COWS OF MARIA CRISTINA CORTES First Line: Although they may be Last Line: With mud, and filled with an ancient cow- %sorrow and-wonder Subject(s): Nature DALAI LAMA Poem Text First Line: From between the pages Subject(s): Survival DALAI LAMA First Line: From between the pages Last Line: Blessed with the common sense %to survive himself DEATH First Line: Although great in passing, although suddenly enlarged DOG STAR First Line: Why not wet our lungs with wine, sirius Last Line: Scalded by the light of the midday sun DRIFTWOOD First Line: Tumbled from the backwash of a fishing boat Last Line: Is the end-all meaning of our journeying DRIVING OUT OF THE KEYS First Line: White heat, and heat waves riffling the asphalt's EASTER MANIFESTATIONS First Line: A woman who'd been watching ELEGY FOR MY SISTER Poem Text First Line: She was born sarah gossett ballenger Subject(s): Death; Brothers & Sisters ELEGY FOR MY SISTER (1) First Line: Warm toast. Night fires. Aesop and grimm Last Line: The palace of nowhere. L'hotel de dream ELEGY FOR MY SISTER (2) First Line: She was born sarah gossett ballenger Last Line: Beneath the sill: a girl's hushed voice exhorting itself in %whispers Subject(s): Sisters EMPIRE First Line: And yet how quietly it all begins ENORMOUS AQUARIUM First Line: All morning long from inside the lobby Last Line: Like some ancient and magnificent tribe Subject(s): Aquariums; Hotels EROS: AN ATTESTATION First Line: Hail-wrack and thunder, cataracts of rain, shake out Last Line: The cell of a doomed king's daughter EURYDICE Poem Text First Line: Waiting beside the window while you were brushing Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph) EVENING REFRAIN Poem Text First Line: Small bundles of rotting vines smoke beside Subject(s): Evenng FARMLAND BESIDE THE LOIRE First Line: The cold spring FERMANAGH CAVE Poem Text Subject(s): Legends GENETICS First Line: Earlier today, wandering around in the once GHOST SONNET First Line: The offshoure rains had come early to the headlands, the pools Last Line: Which I now know can neither be found nor forgotten GOODBYE First Line: The great sun has changed itself GYPSY CARNIVAL First Line: The long wooden benches were packed with men from HOMAGE TO THE IMPRESSIONIST PAINTERS First Line: Two small boys crouched beside HOMECOMING First Line: Waiting beside the window while I was brushing back Last Line: After him, as if my harbored longings drove him out of reach HYSTERIA First Line: All through lunch something's worried her IN THE HOUSE ON NORTH GATE HEIGHTS First Line: In the converted study of this sunny two-story, ramshackle house IN THE RAINY SEASON First Line: The first signs of cloudbreak INSPIRATION Poem Text First Line: Say what we will, at times it seems the rarest Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) INSPIRATION First Line: Say what we will, at times it seems the rarest Last Line: Tattooed and senseless, trembling on the stair INVITATION TO OBLIVION First Line: Why was I born? Where did I come from? Last Line: For only in oblivion is oblivion braved ISLAND First Line: Like the two-storey clapboard farmhouse Last Line: Would never again be lost on me JEFFERS COUNTRY First Line: The town, the wealthy LATRINE IN THE SUBURBS OF SMYRNA First Line: How quickly the pricey kickshaws of the rich Last Line: Gets siphoned underground in rivers of filth LOST HOUR First Line: Recalling now, as from the underside LUST First Line: These young turks with their oily hair and half- Last Line: Birds but beyond the reach of old men like me MARRIED LOVE First Line: As they sat and talked beneath the boundary trees Last Line: Were they less like themselves that what they are. MIDSUMMER First Line: Late in the day, the sun MIDWEST DUSK First Line: From far away a dog's MOMENT First Line: What I perceived is what I remember Last Line: Without feeling or significance or form MONUMENT First Line: Ten times tamerlane's storied wall of blood and severed limbs Last Line: We'd have had to kill them anyway, we'd have had to kill them all MUSEUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE, PARIS First Line: And yet nothing ever seems NEAR THE DESERT TEST SITES First Line: Unlike almost everything NEAR THE DESERT TEST SITES (PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA) Poem Text First Line: Unlike almost everything Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Testing NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF FEAR First Line: In the human brain NINETEEN FIFTY-FIVE First Line: After all the late suppers of that faraway Last Line: Would grow ludicrous before it grew dim OEDIPUS IN EXILE First Line: When the sun went down, among other things Last Line: Though between each sentence you closed your eyes %as if even they might give you away OF HALOES & SAINTLY ASPECTS Poem Text First Line: Out of a ripple in the sea grass Variant Title(s): Of His Cynthia Subject(s): Nature OF HALOES & SAINTLY ASPECTS First Line: Out of a ripple in the sea grass Last Line: Destiny undisturbed by acts %of forgiveness or contrition Variant Title(s): Of His Cynthi Subject(s): Nature ON THE LAST DAY OF THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: As usual, the guard who worked Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore PETITION First Line: Like the numbering dead, all night I wind Last Line: To be islanded in her alien arms PHOTOGRAPH OF MY FATHER First Line: The sun's suspended like a drop of amber PILOT STARS First Line: Open window; eucalyptus scent; the ever Last Line: Was suddenly storyless, boundless, and blank PORTRAIT OF A COUPLE AT CENTURY'S END First Line: Impatient for home, %the after-work traffic fanning out along Last Line: By a beeswax candle pooling beside %their dinnerware Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PORTRAIT OF TWO PARTINGS First Line: Face it!' this said with such urgency Last Line: At the sound of car tires on the gravel drive RED ADVANCING Poem Text First Line: Out beyond the last grim hamlet's gaze, Subject(s): Mondrian, Piet (1872-1944) RETURN TO THE ISLANDS First Line: As the twin engines throttle up Last Line: And re-entering the interior %where the sea-sounds live, and the mind %into darkness plunges its wei RIMBAUD First Line: My dog-collared spirit delirium's damned Last Line: Hunting the hound-spirit of some future god RUMOR First Line: It's been said I no longer chase young boys Last Line: And a herd of green deer in the plashy air SIRENS IN BAD WEATHER First Line: Wet streets are undisturbed by that chronic SOUND LIKE RAIN First Line: Twice tonight I awakened to the soughing sound Last Line: Of water sluicing down the gutters and away STILL LIFE WITH MINNOWS Poem Text First Line: The river, while it Subject(s): Nature STILL LIFE WITH MINNOWS First Line: The river, while it Last Line: And sees it just that way, the min- %nows still blindly bump- %ing at the glass Subject(s): Nature STORM SEASON First Line: I can't make sense of these offshore winds Last Line: Leaches a guttering sunlight through SUNDAY VISIT TO KOALINGA'S First Line: Being, I suppose, too young SUPPLICATION First Line: When I finally found her alone in her room Last Line: To consign my wish to a never-never land TABLEAU First Line: We'd been happy enought Last Line: Was true, municipal, and at that hour %within out reaches TAHOE NOCTURNE First Line: Do you have the poems of han-shan in your house Last Line: Do you recognize me, air, where once I wandered TALKING CURE First Line: Eyes shut. Lapsed time. The 2 a.M. Aquarium light Last Line: Years ago wasn't actually love of a finer kind %than I've known since, or am ever likely to know aga THE AGE OF REASON Poem Text First Line: Car lights like lanterns in the pre-dawn dark Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE AIR BASE AT CHATEAUROUX Poem Text First Line: In the american schoolyard Subject(s): Youth THE BREAKDOWN Poem Text First Line: The sun scanned the river with its lidless Subject(s): Homecoming THE COMING OF FALL Poem Text First Line: Like a wedge of cranes Subject(s): Autumn; Fall THE DREAM OF NOTHING Poem Text First Line: All morning snow has heaped up Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids THE ENORMOUS AQUARIUM Poem Text First Line: All morning long from inside the lobby Subject(s): Aquariums; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE EVENING LIGHT ALONG THE SOUND Poem Text First Line: As if the sky could no longer hold its color Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight THE HARVEST SEASON Poem Text First Line: Last night I dreamt us back to our first home Subject(s): Home; Relationships THE UNSLEEPNG GENIUS OF MISFORTUNE Poem Text First Line: If ever there was a story Subject(s): Insomnia; Man-woman Relationships; Sleeplessness; Male-female Relations THREE FRAGMENTS Poem Text First Line: Orion is rising, and the air Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO PRIAPUS First Line: It's to you, great god of gardens, that potamon Last Line: The rocked-in sluice and irrigate the beds TWO POEMS: 1 First Line: Early morning, a woman sits up in bed Last Line: Undisturbed, and so manages once more %to turn a loss into the semblance of a loss TWO POEMS: 2 First Line: Weeks, maybe months, have passed and just Last Line: In the trees. Salt wetness and bright stars UNSHELTERING GROUND First Line: First child, born out of breech Last Line: As he closed and closed %his first around %that emptiness in which %we are abandoned and blessed UNSLEEPING GENIUS OF MISFORTUNE First Line: If ever there was a story VALLEY IN THE SHADOW OF NORTH HOLLYWOOD First Line: As if cued to the first peach prayer-call of sunrise Last Line: And for one brief moment turns everything gold VIEW FROM THE HOTEL LOBBY Poem Text First Line: Bleary by noon, the whitewashed Subject(s): City & Town Life; Landscape WAITING FOR THE STORM Poem Text First Line: The morning sun struck, like flint, the banked Subject(s): Boats; Storms WAITING TO BE RESTATIONED First Line: Small bundles of rotting vines smoked beside Variant Title(s): Evening Refrai WEDNESDAYS First Line: With a purely ordinary splendor one could Last Line: And the battered, abandoned, still hopeful heart %is restored to its place in the suburbs WHELK First Line: Turned up by our son's WING DIKE AT LOW WATER First Line: The corps of engineers bulldozed it out WOMAN AT THE HOTEL DE DREAM First Line: Like someone returning to a place she'd WORK Poem Text First Line: Pushing off on her back out Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WORK First Line: Pushing off on her back out |
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