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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: Scalapino, leslie Matches Found: 40 Scalapino, Leslie Poet's Biography 40 poems available by this author A SEQUENCE Poem Text First Line: She heard the sounds of a couple having intercourse and then getting up they Last Line: Came, with a feeling of delay and retarding rather than out of nervousness Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Sex CROWD AND NOT EVENING OR LIGHT DEFOE, SELS. First Line: One time, she sees the couple in the bmw floating up the street Last Line: It's seeing how they hadn't thought of something, before DEFOE, SELS. First Line: It is the garden beneath her compartment. The man has come there Last Line: A wing fans by them in front of them on the street and go by DELAY SERIES, SELS. First Line: So the man -- as gentle -- for Last Line: Course an irrelevant point FIN DE SIECLE, 20TH/A PLAY First Line: Went into a camp Last Line: And is the land FLOATING SERIES, SELS. First Line: The women - not in FLUSH First Line: Living or having lived Last Line: Delicate - not to be so %- and only in that FROM ORION First Line: In the boat out so that the mass of water is heaving up and Last Line: He's breathing the stain %which had come from him to her and is not in her %there's a blue sky throu FROM; NEW TIME First Line: Why would they dismiss it because it's not the same? Last Line: The rise is the floating people FRONT MATTER, DEAD SOULS, SELS. HERE A PLAY DONE BY DANCERS First Line: Born %young HMMMM (TEN EXCERPTS FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHT-PART SEQUENCE - 8) First Line: Haven't I said that part of having intercourse Subject(s): Sex HMMMM (TEN EXCERPTS FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHT-PART SEQUENCE - 8) First Line: Haven't I said that part of having intercourse Last Line: And in falsetto (we might even say mawkishly), %the woman's mouth makes a sound like the word mama Subject(s): Sex HMMMM (TEN EXCERPTS FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHT-PART SEQUENCE - 9) Poem Text First Line: How can I help myself, as one woman said to me about wanting Variant Title(s): Considering How Exaggerated Music Is Subject(s): Sex HMMMM (TEN EXCERPTS FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHT-PART SEQUENCE - 9) First Line: How can I help myself, as one woman said to me about wanting Last Line: To concentrate on the man's trunk instead of his face, which in this case, %is so impassive. Serious Variant Title(s): Considering How Exaggerated Music I Subject(s): Sex HMMMM (TEN EXCERPTS FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHT-PART SEQUENCE-10) First Line: So I decided watching an old woman like her, who could rise Last Line: Of hair standing out from her forehead and only the muscles %of her haunches appearing to move HMMMM (TEN EXCERPTS FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHT-PART SEQUENCE-13) First Line: A woman who had been dressed by someone, in the same way Last Line: A woman who had been dressed by someone, in the same way that %an oyster will cover the irritant in HMMMM (TEN EXCERPTS FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHT-PART SEQUENCE-14) First Line: Seeing the scenery %satisfied this morning because I saw Last Line: And I knew no matter how careful one is, %pebbles and grains will be modified put in a human form HMMMM (TEN EXCERPTS FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHT-PART SEQUENCE-15) First Line: As rimbaud, said, I thought today sitting in the library Last Line: And leaned forward simply to expel some phlegm. Then quickly%I took a glance around before I wiped m HMMMM (TEN EXCERPTS FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHT-PART SEQUENCE-19) First Line: How was I to know that the woman, seated next to me on the Last Line: From the length of time that she held on to my arm %before releasing me) I wish that I could make yo HMMMM (TEN EXCERPTS FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHT-PART SEQUENCE-21) First Line: About the night on which a man said he would spend 100 Last Line: Feeling (thru-out it) of rising slowly, and of floating along side %particular spots in the city. By Variant Title(s): Epilogue: Anemon HMMMM (TEN EXCERPTS FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHT-PART SEQUENCE-22) First Line: Having her under me', the man said, 'in bed, remembering Last Line: Drew me in, literally, stirring against my legs, and holding me too, %as I parted her labia, and fin HMMMM (TEN EXCERPTS FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHT-PART SEQUENCE-24) First Line: One woman (I heard about this sevral years later) said Last Line: We put our heads into the windows of a car which was passing, and, %putting our arms around the neck INSTEAD OF AN ANIMAL Poem Text First Line: Seeing as I was willng to give up my seat for the person who said Last Line: People will imagine a cat flaring up like that under their noses Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Love - Erotic; Human Behavior; Nursing (infants); Conduct Of Life; Human Nature INSTEAD OF AN ANIMAL First Line: Seeing as I was willing to give up my seat for the person who said Last Line: People will imagine a cat flaring up like that under their noses IT'S GO IN QUIET ILLUMINED GRASS LAND, SELS First Line: Silver half freezing in day %elation the %outside Last Line: It's 'between' 'sky' (sky)-at all daily evening times JUMPING-JACK FLASH First Line: A young woman with LATER SECTION OF THE PEARL First Line: Going up to the door and ringing it and saying I was told to say something NEW TIME, SELS. OR, A PLAY First Line: The - elderly - taken - from - their PEARL, SELS. First Line: Woman wading on long yellow grass Last Line: So they get to joy RETURN OF PAINTING, THE PEARL, AND ORION, SELS. First Line: The lightened white air. Wheeling oneself forward on a cart, a Last Line: By the one or the people in their behavior %it's completely irrelevant ROLL, SELS. First Line: Limping - a woman who's fallen into a hole SEQUENCE First Line: She heard the sounds of a couple having intercourse TANGO, SELS First Line: Is subjunctive-the man starving lying dying in Last Line: One's motion ahead-is only one now-nights rose THAT THEY WERE AT THE BEACH First Line: She heard the sounds of a couple having intercourse and then getting Last Line: With a feeling of delay and retarding-rather than out of nervousness THAT THEY WERE AT THE BEACH - AEOLOTROPHIC SERIES Poem Text First Line: Playing ball - so it's like paradise, not because it's in the past, we're Subject(s): Sex THAT THEY WERE AT THE BEACH - AEOLOTROPHIC SERIES First Line: Playing ball - so it's like paradise, not because it's in the past, we're Subject(s): Sex WAY First Line: To have |
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