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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: WHEELER, SUSAN Matches Found: 87 Wheeler, Susan Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue 87 poems available by this author 105 MULBERRY First Line: Here is the picture of the japanese snacks 13TH ANNIVERSARY First Line: A hummingbird flies through Last Line: Slanting in predictable orbit A FILIAL REPUBLIC Poem Text First Line: And out on the plaza, there were more people Subject(s): City & Town Life ARBITER OF DESIRE & THE WREATH First Line: Happenstance becomes intended, like grass Last Line: This badgering, a sheath for action BELLE First Line: Sad, that porking verb. I went down Last Line: Then the fear a far cry from complete.) %come gently, wash those hiboys here CHARITY MUST ABIDE CALL FOR ANCIENT OCCUPATION Poem Text First Line: Red barn, still house, shimmering heat CHARITY MUST ABIDE CALL FOR ANCIENT OCCUPATION First Line: Red barn, still house, shimmering heat Last Line: Staff, and thermos, crazed. Deafening heat DEBTOR IN THE CONVEX MIRROR First Line: He counts it out. By now from abroad there are shillings and real Last Line: Its dinanderie in order and its linens boiled and hung DOUBLED INDEMNITY First Line: Late twentieth century, lower fifth avenue Last Line: Spurting in the pendant day EACH'S COT AN ALTAR THEN First Line: From the service of self %alone Last Line: Seek a proper return for our labor EVENING IN First Line: The sky falls all night, it is nothing new Last Line: She turns the engine over again and again in the cold driveway EXOTIC First Line: My husband's body was colonizing Last Line: That, and collect shells, a pinker, %a bigger, a more intact FARMERS, FALLING DOWN Poem Text First Line: In the distance there are several trees Last Line: Sympathy the unruly sky parts now into flocks Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARMERS, FALLING DOWN First Line: In the distance there are several trees Last Line: It mattered. One trembles so to think of it you hold her. %sympathies the unruly sky parts now into Subject(s): Farm Life FIERCEST First Line: Above the stunted virgin pines the jagged Last Line: You are shivering. %a sod root tips into your boot %and tugs FILIAL REPUBLIC First Line: And out on the plaza, there were more people Last Line: In the apartment above you, and the tenant is pacing FORECAST FOR A PRACTICAL SOLUTION First Line: The man carries several watercolors across the street Last Line: He is shivering. %a firefly batters his shoulder and whirrs again away FORGETTING THE LIBERTY First Line: Something's going down. Check out page Last Line: The burden of allegiance, the cup HAIR ON YOUR CHEST First Line: What the green shoot becomes in shooting Last Line: I cannot not witness now HAND-ME-DOWNS: THE MOVIES Poem Text First Line: Power schmauer. The trees glinting their crystal boughs beyond the breakfront Last Line: The sparkling allure of the wager and the winning streak? On your mark, go Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema HAND-ME-DOWNS: THE MOVIES First Line: Power schmauer. The trees glinting their crystal boughs beyond the breakfront Last Line: The sparkling allure of the wager and the winning streak? On your mark, go Subject(s): Motion Pictures HE OR SHE THAT'S GOT THE LIMB, THAT HOLDS ME OUT ON IT First Line: The girls are drifting in their ponytails Last Line: Of the sunset. The youngest starts the song HOMAGE First Line: Near the hopital stephane audran waits in a Last Line: There! Two french twists, swinging through trees HUMANS First Line: It's the old thought, isn't it?- %how coffee goes on being offered Last Line: Lift of the chin that asks if %there's a table by the window I WAS JUST FROSTED Poem Text First Line: Thanks, ray, this is just what the doctor ordered. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine IN SKY First Line: The girl is waiting in the room to be discovered Last Line: The girl, blushing: o did you see me there? Did you? INDEPENDENCE DAY, CHICAGO First Line: The oblisk pier, buoyed by the floats Last Line: The dozen constellary sheets of light INSTRUCTIONS First Line: Imagine you %beneath the flue Last Line: Whose hubris pales %before they fail INSTRUCTIONS TO THE RAIN First Line: Five nights too late %they find her friend in his boat Last Line: Come again some other day JUST VANILLA Poem Text Subject(s): Spendthrifts KNOWLEDGE, SAY First Line: That forever describing experience Last Line: And his hat flyint out across the used casr lot-- %the way that I have ever known. But for the. Ligh KRYCEK: THE CONFESSION Poem Text First Line: On an upper story, someone is dying Last Line: To each lector at the lectionary Subject(s): Confessions; Lectures; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking KRYCEK: THE CONFESSION First Line: On an upper story, someone is dying Last Line: To each lector at the lectionary Subject(s): Confessions; Lectures LASTING INFLUENCE First Line: This is the repugnant part, where now Last Line: Dawning bridge of a fallacious jump, a cowboy is %coming after you, calmly askew, promising breath LET'S TALK ABOUT IT AGAIN, PLEASE First Line: The gangs run the length of the market LIVING WITH APPEARANCES First Line: On the lake the flecked boats weave Last Line: Several clouds collide upon the point, %and then several colleagues leave MAN WITH THE GREEN CARD First Line: Tenderness becomes its own reflex, like the cradled MEETING AGAIN, AFTER HEINE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The moon rose like a blooming flower Last Line: And I nodded fast in the fast nightfall Subject(s): Night; Bedtime MEETING AGAIN, AFTER HEINE First Line: The moon rose like a blooming flower Last Line: And I nodded fast in the fast nightfall Subject(s): Night MOSE: 1660 First Line: Mose looks up as the gray-and purple-uniformed Last Line: Mose closes his eyes MOSE: 1726 First Line: He names his days in descending order Last Line: With now and circle back to explanations MOVIE SET ON THE HORIZON GLOWS Last Line: O u that turned and saw. Turned stone NO MO FAITH IN THE STEPSA SALVATION First Line: What with quick hands you raced to open here Last Line: The sex that floundered, the sex that carried on. %mom bent her head in shame. You were always game O.K First Line: And then you come brandishing a shoddy nationalism Last Line: Lazar will open the car door, offer you a ride ORDINATION First Line: Some of it is ennobling, the dying Last Line: Cracken this he did, did cracken how, %and the men do softly sleep OVER ONCE AND OVER AGAIN First Line: Dear krsna ex: %in reply to your last letter, the skin does not recall. The Last Line: Yours, sincerely, %gerry mander PASTORAL CARE First Line: I couldn't mention him, sorry, father Last Line: (it weren't nostalgia, it happening. It only if it no.) %andshe lost more than sneakers in the park POEM Poem Text First Line: Green is the false nettle Subject(s): Desire PORTRAIT STUDIES: AUGUST 23 First Line: Unexplained: andy capp is passed Last Line: Bug enwrapped in him, rapt dear PORTRAIT STUDIES: JULY 2 First Line: Late liquid light, and a swelled pool of it Last Line: Goes, until exhaustion lays him down PORTRAIT STUDIES: JULY 20 First Line: I take the phone. What man is this? Last Line: The outsize sacrifice of his nod, %his burden of my relief PORTRAIT STUDIES: JUNE 10 First Line: The inside of you red and raw Last Line: Please warm me, now, again PORTRAIT STUDIES: JUNE 15 First Line: What spot? What shirt? No, this-this is Last Line: You would wash away the secret formula?? PORTRAIT STUDIES: JUNE 22 First Line: Steamed. Harboring a grievous grudge Last Line: Around themselves? Helpful! Bull-scoff PORTRAIT STUDIES: JUNE 3 First Line: The place in which they were gathered Last Line: Sloffing and sluffing a path to me PORTRAIT STUDIES: MAY 24 First Line: A shake erupts, a self-guffaw Last Line: He slept through the headline rant PRIVILEGE OF FEET First Line: Superb wandering this PRODUCE, PRODUCE First Line: The thinnest meal on the slightest isle Last Line: The food that keeps them from the noose %will crave on, too. Produce, produce PROMISE OF STEUBEN First Line: I wish I had a packard every time you stopped Last Line: The boy swats the light. He's sparking. He's right Subject(s): Boys RITE TWO First Line: Up late. The sleep has stopped Last Line: Let me there go. Amen ROANOKE AND WAMPUMPEAG Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Child, entering ye olde trading post, takes the pegs upon the walls Subject(s): Country Stores RUINOUS DISBELIEF First Line: Sands, similitude, what's the difference RUN ON A WAREHOUSE First Line: What he had said came back to him Last Line: Just a hutch, just a hutch SAME CATASTROPHE First Line: Turn, she said. Turn right Last Line: Knife, and rub the small surface soon glass SHANKED ON THE RED BED Poem Text First Line: The perch was on the roof, and the puck was in the air. SHANKED ON THE RED BED First Line: The perch was on the roof, and the puck was in the air Last Line: To rip around your heady heart looking there for more SHE'S A PILL Poem Text First Line: Oh, dangling long sleeves in the mercurochrome. Subject(s): Bad Behavior SHORT SHRIFT Poem Text First Line: I was at and about everything, nodding through the mall lot Subject(s): Change; Relationships SHORT SHRIFT First Line: I was at and about everything, nodding through the mall lot Last Line: Thank you, I prefer to stand' Subject(s): Change; Relationships SONG FOR THE SPIRIT OF NATALIE GOING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Small bundle of bones, small bundle of fingers, of plumpness, of heart Last Line: In the wobbling hours of what has refuged, your future in me Subject(s): Mediums; Spiritualists SONG FOR THE SPIRIT OF NATALIE GOING First Line: Small bundle of bones, small bundle of fingers, of plumpness, of heart Last Line: In the wobbling hours of what refuged here, your future in me Subject(s): Mediums SOUL THAT WAS SISTER CARRIE'S First Line: Before he went into the arena, he stooped over the wooden Last Line: The cave in his chest, clear as a c print, %gleamed in the wax of the page SPRING: CERTAINTIES First Line: Seeds for next year's onions Last Line: Are rushed to us by light %that travels at its own speed, %and without portfolio STRANGE CITY First Line: In the tenth month of their eleventh year Last Line: No. Nothing could happen. There was no choice THAT BEEN TO ME MY LIVES LIGHT AND SAVIOUR Poem Text First Line: Purse be full again, or else must I die. This is the wish THE GREEN STAMP BOOK Poem Text First Line: Child in the thick of yearning. Doll carted and pushed Subject(s): Supermarkets; Children; Childhood THE SCAR Poem Text First Line: So long gone had I been Subject(s): Homecoming THE SPLIT, SELECTION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Times there were when we Subject(s): Love - Erotic THEIR FUTURES DRIFT LIKE ASH ACROSS THE CITY First Line: Young women sturdy as pine trees Last Line: Of reaching arms, fingers spread %like the ribs of the tightrope %walker's umbrella THIC First Line: Manman got a special s'rop't cures the lonelies Last Line: I on the tree stump, I missing all TO DEIFY First Line: With the plaid of a cotton flounce as it TO MY HUSBAND WHO DIED First Line: I caught you so often Last Line: Is your voice. Escaped %into salt water that looks %like nothing at all WAIT! First Line: There are too many people in my lobby Last Line: Who are vinegar on his tongue WE TWO KINGS First Line: It's hard to stay away Last Line: Around you, what's left but grace? WHAT MEMORY REVEALS Poem Text First Line: Angels, pulled into light - provoking the air, fall Last Line: Each open mouth awing in the light / on columbus avenue Subject(s): Memory WHAT MEMORY REVEALS First Line: Angels, pulled into light - provoking the air, fall Subject(s): Memory YOU TAKE ME TO YOUR HOMETOWN First Line: You never said this shortcut was ten tracks wide Last Line: Those seasons picked up over the prairie |
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