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Author: SHINDER, JASON Matches Found: 74 Shinder, Jason Poet's Biography 74 poems available by this author ABOUT A MAN First Line: To touch a woman was nothing %and less than nothing Last Line: From nothing nothing could be taken ALONE FOR THE FIFTH DAY Poem Text First Line: When I look at the ocean for a long time, the blue Subject(s): Sea; Loneliness; Ocean AMONG MEN First Line: Even at the moment %of kissing a girl %because Last Line: Why don't you %just get laid? %my father said ANOTHER MAN First Line: I am afraid to look %at the beauty %in a man's face Last Line: To bow my head %and kiss my sad, %skinny belly ARROW BREAKNG APART Poem Text First Line: While lovers sleep, I dig my nails into the earth Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ARS CINEMATICA First Line: The present is an awful mist Last Line: The people out there who've loved us AT SUNSET Poem Text First Line: Your death must be loved this much. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness BECAUSE ONE IS ALWAYS LEAVING First Line: Especially %in the afternoon, %when my nieces Last Line: Not an insect %stirring %in the still grasses and ferns BEGINNING OF LOVE First Line: I go to my love %the way I go to the ocean. %I lie down Last Line: On the floor %in the shape %of an hourglass BORDEAUX First Line: I was on my knees, pulling grapes, filling my basket Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Bordeaux, France CRIME Poem Text First Line: Look another way Subject(s): Desire; Truth CROWD STANDS FOR ONE PERSON First Line: Here's a corny card I found in an old shop Last Line: When the loves of the past walk from the fire DOPPELGANGER First Line: At the end %of the highest balcony Last Line: To jump, but we don't Subject(s): Doppelgangers END First Line: Always I am afraid Last Line: Become two men talking spanish? END OF LOVE First Line: When I go to sleep, %I'm afraid %to take off Last Line: Asleep. It is trying %to tell me something ESPECIALLY IN THE EVENING First Line: Night falls %and on its way %it takes its time Last Line: That we can't see %as long %as we're in it? ESPECIALLY IN THE LATE AFTERNOON First Line: The warm air makes us %different %from the way Last Line: In the arms of someone %who wasn't lost %from the start? ETERNITY Poem Text First Line: A poem written three thousand years ago Subject(s): Poetry & Poems; Imagination; Time; Fancy EXCEPT WHEN YOU ENTER First Line: I notice my old love %walking with someone %and I gesture Last Line: Where she remembers %nothing %but how I saved her FATHER AND SON First Line: I was joking %(there was always %that) Last Line: The water. %fuck you, I said, %and stood still FEAR First Line: I waited for love %the way my dog waited %for someone Last Line: And the house I grew up in %was burning FOR LATER First Line: As it turns out, %I don't know %if I'll remember Last Line: Not to keep %but to hold %long enough to change FORTY YEARS GONE ONE NIGHT First Line: It wasn't so bad %being on the wrong side Last Line: Made love more %and made it dark for a purpose FRED OTT'S SNEEZE, 1891 First Line: The hand-turning wheel of light moves the man Last Line: The great light within the marble heart %of the century shines through his teeth FROM MAGRITTE'S NOTEBOOKS First Line: I found myself alone in the middle of the night and discovered my Last Line: Cradle. The world presented itself in the guise of a chest FURNITURE OF MY OWN NEGLECT First Line: The sheets %you gave me %should have been changed Last Line: In my sneakers, %broken before I was born FUTURE First Line: Right now, somewhere, you are forgetting me Last Line: What was it I was that should be remembered? GETTING LAID First Line: What did I know of the way to share Last Line: Without thinking of betrayal. Yet she was on my hand GOOD NIGHT IRENE First Line: It's the last hour, %the very last hour. %and all the windows Last Line: When they are laid out just so, irene GROWING UP First Line: The trouble with me %is I don't know %if my penis Last Line: Why don't you %save your money, he said HOW I AM Poem Text First Line: When I talk to my friends I pretend I am standing on the wings Subject(s): Friendship; Illness INTO AN OCCASION FOR CELEBRATION First Line: I'm afraid if I come Last Line: Is this okay? It's so much better %when I don't ask INVISIBLE BRIDE First Line: Is your face the wind that blows so hard %I have to shout? Well Last Line: Jason, get up, I thought it was you INVISIBLE GROOM First Line: To feel the intimacy %of my friends %is a good thing Last Line: Their not-touching %has become the one thing %I lie down with JACKSONVILLE, VERMONT Poem Text First Line: Because I am not married, I have the skin of an orange Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People LIVING MIRROR First Line: After the storm %the telephone poles, upright Last Line: Clear, purple-edged LOVE IS THE FATHER OF ALL BEGINNINGS Poem Text First Line: I go to a woman Subject(s): Love; Women LOVE IS THE FATHER OF ALL BEGINNINGS First Line: I go to a woman Last Line: In the shape of an hourglass Subject(s): Love; Women MADNESS FREQUENTLY DISCOVERS ITSELF IN LOVE Poem Text First Line: In august the salt-spray of the sea-town Variant Title(s): Madness Frequently Discovers Itself Subject(s): Insanity; Summer; Madness; Mental Illness MADNESS FREQUENTLY DISCOVERS ITSELF IN LOVE First Line: In august the salt-spray of the sea-town Last Line: Do not move me. I buy some tea and cookies, %talk to no one Variant Title(s): Madness Frequently Discovers Itsel Subject(s): Insanity; Summer MAN DRESSING First Line: When I am dressing %I sit a long time %looking at my shirts Last Line: I am %the only one %who could have found it MAN DYING First Line: I had no idea that in the middle of my life Last Line: And I say, this, this way MAN ON BED First Line: When irene lay %under the sheets, %late morning Last Line: And then I'd know %what it was %and wake her? MAN UNDRESSING First Line: The dye in the hair will go on for a while Last Line: And I'll lean my shoulder into your shoulder %into whatever comes MASTURBATION First Line: I saw a woman coming near %and thought, this is the center of my life Last Line: Against the screen door of my father's house MIDDLE AGE Poem Text First Line: Many of my friends are alone Subject(s): Single People; Middle Age; Bachelors; Unmarried People MORNING First Line: There are stones on the beach Last Line: To see what kind of day it is MY FATHER'S HOUSE First Line: My father worked %behind a counter %of meats Last Line: I only appeared %to be among women. %I was already his MY MOTHER'S HOUSE First Line: My mother sat %by the window %waiting Last Line: How are you? %she asked. %I don't know, he said NIGHT, NOW First Line: At the end %of the evening, %when you would come Last Line: I'd wake and wonder %whose problem am I, %whose son? OCEAN Poem Text First Line: Goodbye again. Say there is a little song in my head Subject(s): Sea; Loneliness; Death; Ocean; Dead, The OF NO CHANGE, AND WORSE, CHANGE First Line: Irene asks %for money. %I come up Last Line: Her belly hanging out %above her panties ON COLORIZATION First Line: If god could he'd make fields Last Line: Not even with a son ONE DAY I WILL DIE First Line: How proud I am %to be the center %of a tragedy Last Line: Thank you. %what more could I, %a dying man, want? ONE DAY I WILL LOVE First Line: It will be late %the stars %will help me Last Line: No animals %on the front steps ONE SECRET THAT HAS CARRIED First Line: Irene loves a man %who is afraid of sex: she's attended Last Line: Would say it was somebody else's Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social PART OF THE BODY First Line: It's not that her blouse %isn't opening Last Line: At a time, %the fear the fear and the fear PAST First Line: All the waves want to come in at once Last Line: What is the past if I can change? PRAYER First Line: After jack paces in circles, head down, decides to say Last Line: After bobbie is drawn so close to murder it holds her before she speaks Subject(s): Cities PRESENCE OF SOMEONE First Line: Where %have you been? %she whispered Last Line: Of a vault %the wind suddenly lifted THE GOOD SON Poem Text First Line: If god had come to me and said, Subject(s): Forgiveness; Mothers & Sons; Death; Clemency; Dead, The THE ONE SECRET THAT HAS CARRIED Poem Text First Line: Irene loves a man / who is afraid of sex: she's attended Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts THE PARTY Poem Text Subject(s): Parties; Friendships; Relationships; Farewell; Parting THE VISIT Poem Text First Line: My only mother, who lost sixty pounds, tried to stand up in the bathroom Subject(s): Mothers; Illness VERSION OF THE FUTURE First Line: Irene is sick %of having to work as a proofreader Last Line: No. %but every time %I say yes WAITRESS Poem Text First Line: There is a table in the back where she opens Last Line: Not to keep it, but holdit long enough to change Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners WAITRESS First Line: There is a table in the back where she opens Last Line: Not to keep it, but to hold it long enough to change Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants WATER THAT MOVES THE RIVER ALONG First Line: In the middle of my life %a little girl %runs toward me Last Line: The curious gathering %in a circle %I'm in the middle of WHAT GETS IN THE WAY OF LOVE IS LOVE First Line: Irene was on her knees %filling her mouth %with my penis Last Line: I was almost her son, %my eyes looking back %with the barest of color WHAT KIND OF DARK IT IS First Line: When she wants %to make love %I find myself Last Line: The face I am looking into WHAT KIND OF DAY IT IS First Line: Birds turning their wings %but look again %they are gone Last Line: Set the big blue boat %on the water WOMAN UNDRESSING First Line: Sometimes I will stand up and leave Last Line: A glint of light lying down in a field WOMAN'S COMPANY First Line: My desire %was this terrible thing %inside of me Last Line: To see if the ghosts %of anyone I knew %were watching YOU First Line: Stand close, %inhale my breath. %you're my shadow Last Line: You've known, %let's invite them all %to dinner |
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