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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: WILNER, ELEANOR Matches Found: 191 Wilner, Eleanor Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand 191 poems available by this author ... ZERO AT THE BONE'; FOR MARIANNE BORUCH First Line: I've never seen a field on fire, a field A DOGGEREL Poem Text First Line: Quel dommage, no more Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A POEM OF EXILE; FOR NELL ALTIZER Poem Text First Line: The boat is always going by, set afloat Last Line: Alone along the looming foreign shore. Subject(s): Boats; Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; Seashore; Travel; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips A PRIVATE SPACE; FOR STEPHANIE SUGIOKA Poem Text First Line: This is the space where Last Line: Beyond suspicion. Subject(s): Privacy ABSTRACTION Poem Text First Line: They came that morning, in gowns of pale green and white Last Line: Unprovisioned and naked, had fled. Subject(s): Escapes; Forests; News; Secrets; Soldiers; Fugitives; Woods ADMONITION Poem Text First Line: You are / their sister. Nevertheless Last Line: Pure and deadly. Subject(s): Poisons And Poisoning; Sisters AFTER THE AFTERLIFE First Line: Let there be no apotheosis, let none Last Line: But this-and let forever be %the word forever lost AFTER THE SNOW QUEEN LOST HER CHARM First Line: It seemed important once, the halls of snow Last Line: The oldest gods %sharpening their knives AFTERWARDS First Line: We are back now -- standing, dazed in the mud Last Line: Waiting in the mud, swine at the palace gate ALL THE WIDE GRIN OF HIM Poem Text First Line: Is hovering in the air, there, in the highest Last Line: Soft, unsuspecting, milk rimming its grin. Subject(s): Animals; Bombs; Cats; Smiles; Teeth; Toothaches AMBITION Poem Text First Line: I didn't always think penelope Last Line: Drunken war. Subject(s): Ambition; Courage; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Valor; Bravery; Odysseus AMELIA Poem Text First Line: We had lived centuries apart. The imperial Last Line: Of sky and scudding clouds. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AMERICAN ATLAS First Line: This morning the mountains were moving again Last Line: An empty glass to the empty air AMERICAN PAINTING, WITH RAIN Poem Text First Line: The gates have closed to the rotted park Last Line: Greeting the rain. Subject(s): Art & Artists; England; Paintings And Painters; Rain; Thunder; English ANABASIS OF KORE First Line: Mother, she said rising APPLE WAS A NORTHERN INVENTION First Line: When she ate the pomegranate Last Line: To see what was before her, and behind ARS POETICA Poem Text First Line: They wanted from us Last Line: Is our continual surprise. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Despair; Poetry & Poets AS SOFT AND AS PINK AS A NURSERY Poem Text First Line: This is the good child Subject(s): Babies ATGET'S GARDENS Poem Text First Line: Was it always a dream then? Last Line: Water, in the eyes of the poet Subject(s): Emptiness; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness ATTIC LIGHT Poem Text First Line: The light moved with a kind of languor Subject(s): Attics; Time ATTIC LIGHT First Line: The light moved with a kind of languor Last Line: Raised against the black, insensate sky AUTUMN OF THE POETS First Line: The way the first freeze AVTIO, CASSANDRA First Line: Like you, we know how the story ends Last Line: And look: the olives ripen, the lizards stretch Variant Title(s): Changing Side BAILING OUT-A POEM FOR THE 1970S Poem Text First Line: The landings had gone wrong; white silk Last Line: I can't help you, help me. Variant Title(s): Bailing Out -- A Poem For The 1970s Subject(s): Accidents; Air; Storms BAT CAVE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The cave looked much like any other Last Line: Encrusted with shit. Variant Title(s): Return To Bali Subject(s): Caves; Caverns BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU REMEMBER Poem Text Subject(s): Vatican Palace; Statues; Memory BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU REMEMBER First Line: Can you see them now-the statues? Last Line: And young trees grow thick again on the slopes BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Poem Text First Line: Her fur new-licked, the whitetail fawn Last Line: As they depart, and curse them. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty And The Beast; Cruelty; Zoos BEING AS I WAS, HOW COULD I HELP Poem Text First Line: It was the noise that drew me first Last Line: I would give it again. Subject(s): Animals; Forgiveness; Hunger; Tigers; Wolves; Clemency CANDIED Poem Text First Line: In eden it was never winter, the ground Last Line: Its sticky, sticky rivers. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden CLASSICAL PROPORTIONS OF THE HEART; FOR FONTAINE Poem Text First Line: Everyone here knows how it ends, in the stone Last Line: With ease. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Oedipus; Plays & Playwrights; Tragedy CLOSING CEREMONIES FOR THE BICENTENNIAL (AFTER VIETNAM) First Line: It was a long fall, that particular Last Line: Outside of our reach, unwinding. Subject(s): Death; Leaves; Snow; Winter; Dead, The CODA, OVERTURE Poem Text First Line: She stepped out of the framing circle of the dark Last Line: Of hoofs trampling the wind. Subject(s): History; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Statues; Stones; Historians; Granite; Rocks COLLOQUY WITH MEDEA First Line: Some day, medea CONVERSATION WITH A JAPANESE STUDENT Poem Text First Line: That lovely climbing vine, so fresh Last Line: And tears. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Japan; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Nagasaki, Japan; Nuclear War; Paintings & Painters; Women; Japanese; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb CUNEIFORM: MEDITATION ON A LINE First Line: It begins with a story, familiar, deciphered Last Line: What must follow, and from which we descend DAPHNE PLANET AS URN Poem Text First Line: Fall-out from there: a silver DEMOLITION First Line: Once, cool in silk whose rich hem slid Last Line: Of sunlight on the water, the shadows %of our reaching hands DESERT PARABLE Poem Text First Line: Miles above them, miles below Last Line: Than night Subject(s): Canyons; Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Heat DINNER PARTY Poem Text First Line: The fire is lit in the hearth, and flickers Last Line: Lifts his cup, and calls for more wine. Subject(s): Conversation; Dinners & Dining; Fire; Guests; Tableware; Visiting; Cutlery; Forks; Plates DISTANCES First Line: The lit interior of the dollhouse rooms Last Line: That never stop eating at its sides DON'T LOOK SO SCARED! YOU'RE ALIVE Poem Text First Line: Who speaks? Now that the muses Subject(s): Radio; Truth DON'T LOOK SO SCARED. YOU'RE ALIVE! First Line: Who speaks? Now that the muses Last Line: But her feet find the ledge ELEGY FOR A WRITER Poem Text First Line: We met where people like us meet Last Line: And get it right. Subject(s): Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Love; Writing & Writers; Writer's Conferences And Workshops EMANATIONS, OFF-PLANET Poem Text First Line: The rings of saturn singing, Subject(s): Saturn (planet) EMIGRATION Poem Text First Line: There are always, in each of us Last Line: The reach of fantasy, or fiction. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration ENCOUNTER IN A LOCAL PUB Poem Text First Line: As he looked up from his glass, its quickly melting ice Subject(s): Goats; Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: Young then Last Line: Tongue; these painted eyes. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology EVERYTHING IS STARTING First Line: The snow is filthy now; it has been Last Line: The sole narrators, upstarts of the dawn EX LIBRIS Poem Text First Line: By the stream, where the ground is soft Last Line: No title, no name. Subject(s): Cold; Earth; Seasons; Snow; Winter; World FACING INTO IT; FOR LARRY LEVIS Poem Text First Line: So it is here, then, after so long, and after all Last Line: And winter in straw. Subject(s): Autumn; Desolation; Disasters; October; Seasons; Storms; Fall FEARS ABOUT THE MOON First Line: The silk strands tangle in the hands Last Line: Lip, drags, as on an unseen line of silk, %the vast and listless tides FETISH First Line: Fetish is defined by Last Line: The odds, and sings FIELD OF VISION Poem Text First Line: And if the bee, half-drunk Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping FIELD OF VISION First Line: And if the bee, half-drunk Last Line: Afraid to look, afraid to look away? FIGURE/GROUND First Line: Because it was a mystery, because there was Last Line: The figure who opens the ground Variant Title(s): Figur FILLING IN THE BLANKS; FOR CONSTANCE MERRITT First Line: Blank verse, as good as marlowe's mighty line Last Line: Overhead, the circling, screaming birds. Subject(s): Birds; Crossword Puzzles; Games; Messengers; Writing & Writers; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements FOR A POET OF NATURE Poem Text First Line: Opinions we only deemed to hold, to hoe Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Nature FOSSIL POET: A POST-PASTORAL First Line: It was long after his time on earth Last Line: I pushed off, spread my wings, and flew FOUND IN THE FREE LIBRARY Poem Text First Line: And we were made afraid, and being afraid Subject(s): Politics & Government; War FOUND IN THE FREE LIBRARY First Line: And we were made afraid, and being afraid Last Line: (but here the document is torn) Subject(s): Politics; War FREED FROM ANOTHER CONTEXT Poem Text First Line: Here, the foreground of the other Last Line: The other side. Subject(s): Birds; Eyes; Owls; Sight; Vision; Wings GAIJIN LAMENT First Line: Nothing moves inside, only the breeze GHAZAL ON WHAT'S TO LOSE, OR NOT First Line: Risk it? What, after all, have you got to lose? Last Line: For eleanor is not a lot to lose GIRL WITH BEES IN HER HAIR First Line: Came in an envelope with no return address Last Line: Fear among us, and the bees swarm GOING THE ROUNDS First Line: The doctor goes her rounds again GUARDIAN Poem Text First Line: The heroes and the heroines of the day, in gray suits Subject(s): Nature HE WAS THE WHITEST WHITE MAN I HAD EVER MET First Line: Gaunt, english parson in his mien HER BODY IS PRIVATE Poem Text First Line: In spite of all Last Line: Has the shield, and the last word. Subject(s): Privacy HIGH NOON AT LOS ALAMOS Poem Text First Line: To turn a stone / with its white squirming Last Line: For the silence Subject(s): Fire; Heat; Noon; Solitude; Sun; Loneliness HOMAGE TO THE RIVER First Line: The mind moves away HUNTING MANUAL Poem Text First Line: The unicorn is an easy prey: its horn Last Line: In the dark. Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Unicorns; Hunters INFECTION IN THE EAR First Line: Under the quiet that is not calm INTERVIEW First Line: Q: who are your influences? Last Line: Whatever we name, we exceed INTO THE DISTANCE WHERE ALL THINGS REVERSE AND TOUCH First Line: She passed her head against the screen IPHIGENIA, SETTING RHE RECORD STRAIGHT Poem Text First Line: The towers waited, shimmering just Last Line: And sacrificed for wind. Subject(s): Mythology; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy IT'S NOT COLD HERE Poem Text First Line: Somewhere the flags are frozen Last Line: For the pure abandoned joy of sliding down. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Home; Refugees; Rest JOB'S WIFE, A TWENTIETH-CENTURY CASTING SCRIPT First Line: Job's wife, bereft, without Last Line: And it was not of god they spoke. Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Torture; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JUDGMENT Poem Text First Line: When they removed the bandages Last Line: On them -- for what they couldn't say -- they wept. Subject(s): Blindness; Cold; Eyes; Judgments; Solitude; Visually Handicapped; Loneliness JUST-SO STORY First Line: It is very quiet on the moon. A cat squarls Last Line: Of moon into their hole KNOWING THE ENEMY Poem Text First Line: The sun strikes the whale's back Last Line: As st. Sebastian, bristling harpoons. Subject(s): Enemies LABYRINTH Poem Text First Line: You've lost the clue -- somewhere Last Line: The long climb down. Subject(s): Animals; Monsters; Stones; Granite; Rocks LANDING Poem Text First Line: It was a pure white cloud that hung there Last Line: Direction to their endless drift. Subject(s): Clouds; Mankind; Mirages; Sky; White (color); Human Race LAST SELF-PORTRAIT, AS REMBRANDT, FOR INSTANCE Poem Text First Line: The three birds had sat on the table by the tall Subject(s): Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669) LAST SELF-PORTRAIT, AS REMBRANDT, FOR INSTANCE First Line: The three birds had sat on the table by the tall Last Line: Pure pain. I blew it out LAST WORDS First Line: Cursed with words, yet still Last Line: Abomination, such %continual night LEDA'S HANDMAIDEN Poem Text First Line: I was leda's intimate, and slave Last Line: We share. Subject(s): Household Employees; Slavery; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Serfs LIKE WARMED, VAGUE STARS Poem Text First Line: Sunken objects in the tidal flat Subject(s): Stars LIKE, I REALLY LIKE THAT Poem Text First Line: Beverley said, though you could barely hear her Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Likes & Dislikes; Dramatists LOOKING BACK AT YEATS Poem Text First Line: The sun in the leaves again. Yeats stares Last Line: Through the broken ozone, burns. Subject(s): Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) LOOKING BACK AT YEATS First Line: The sun in the leaves again. Yeats stares LOVE OF WHAT IS NOT: 1. CITYSCAPE First Line: The eye is trapped in a cul-de-sac Last Line: The prick %of a pin, %this %period LOVE OF WHAT IS NOT: 2. E.T., I-U, AND THAT OLD-TIME ... First Line: Up there, on the movie screen Last Line: We were always told %was home LOVE UNCOMMANDED Poem Text First Line: Extraordinary. Our friends Last Line: When they rest upon the waters. Subject(s): Friendship; Love LYRICS FOR A VIRTUAL FOLK SONG Poem Text First Line: We had this one-trick pony, Subject(s): Ponies MAGNIFICAT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When he had suckled there, he began Subject(s): Food & Eating; Murder; Mourning; Bereavement MIDWAY THE JOURNEY OF THIS LIFE Poem Text First Line: We reach a place without a border Last Line: For the slow, unwinding spiral of our dance. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips MIDWAY THE JOURNEY OF THIS LIFE MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF ... Poem Text First Line: I have watched you crank that sun up MINIMALIST First Line: The man in the flannel shirt has come to fix Last Line: The ghost of fire in the circle of ash %in a square of midnight blue MINOR EPIC Poem Text First Line: The rock where the sword was stuck Last Line: Beneath the sovereign english rain. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Youth MIRIAM'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Death to the first-born sons, always Last Line: For the breast. Variant Title(s): It's A Boy Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery MNEMOSYNE (MEMORY) First Line: Mnemosyne rises like a geyser from the hissing Last Line: That they long remember nothing %neither wind nor wake MOON GATHERING Poem Text First Line: And they will gather by the well Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension MOON GATHERING First Line: And they will gather by the well Last Line: Until there is only the dark MOONSNAILS Poem Text First Line: The size, you said, of silver dollars Last Line: Its artless slice of life. Subject(s): Hallucinations And Illusions; Night; Snails; Bedtime MORALIZED NATURE IS LIKE A GARDEN WITHOUT FLOWERS First Line: In the garden, as the bible tells it Last Line: And fear of looking back MULTIPLE IMAGE, RETRO-GIRLHOOD '40S STYLE Poem Text Subject(s): Dionne Quintuplets MULTIPLE IMAGE, RETRO-GIRLHOOD '40S STYLE First Line: The cover of life magazine-five out of one Last Line: But then it's gone-a melt %of cloying sugar on the tongue MUSICAL CHAIRS Poem Text First Line: The chairs were set up on the hillside Subject(s): Chairs; Games; Insects; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Bugs MUSICAL CHAIRS First Line: The chairs were set up on the hillside Last Line: Left sitting on the silent hillside now? MY MOTHER'S PORTRAIT; FOR GERTRUDE SHERBY RAND 1913-1958 First Line: Those sumptuous, lacquered oils, a renaissance Last Line: Back, yisborach, v'yistabach, v'yispoar... Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Portraits NEBRASKA HYMN TO DEMETER Poem Text First Line: What we all worried most about Subject(s): Rivers; Worry NEBRASKA HYMN TO DEMETER First Line: What we all worried most about Last Line: And what runs underground is water now, %the sweet elixir of our tears Subject(s): Rivers; Worry NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR POETRY'; FOR MY STUDENTS First Line: Despite the times, the tedious self NEW MEXICO MOON First Line: Too heavy to move in the wind, the pinata Last Line: Raises his face to the heavens, and howls NIGHT FISHING IN THE SOUND Poem Text First Line: The sound is dark; you can barely hear Last Line: Safe, into the cauldron of dawn. Subject(s): Dawn; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Water; Waves; Sunrise; Ocean NO HIGH GROUND Poem Text First Line: I see a man get up Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers NO HIGH GROUND First Line: I see a man get up %from the news and go out back, and gather Last Line: What we must do. We must think up a story %to tell them. Shall I begin, or you? OF A SUN SHE CAN REMEMBER Poem Text First Line: After they had been in the woods Last Line: The golden net of meaning in the light. Subject(s): Light; Sun ON ETHNIC DEFINITIONS Poem Text First Line: In the jewish cemetery in prague Last Line: With a sigh, they'll at last lie down. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Ghosts; Judgment Day; Supernatural; Graveyards; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ON THE PLACE OF THEORY IN AN OBSOLETE POETICS First Line: This blooming, buzzing world may be ON THE ROAD TO LARRY ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE First Line: Are many monsters -- the ashes of the members Last Line: 100 poets reading for robin's Subject(s): Booksellers; Language; Literature; Pornography; Bookstores; Words; Vocabulary OPERATIONS: DESERT SHIELD, DESERT STORM Poem Text First Line: Who / are these two women, walking Last Line: America, welcome home. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Grief; Gulf War (1991); History; Sorrow; Sadness; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Historians ORPHEUS ON SAPPHO'S SHORE First Line: A memory in a dream of a dismembered man Last Line: I think someone will remember us in the time to come OUT OF THE HELLESPONT First Line: Off the map, out there Last Line: The air, its unaccustomed chill PANDORA JONES First Line: I have been tired of late, the old trunk with the rusted lock Last Line: Of the life I fled when I chanced to look inside POSTSCRIPT; TO MAXIME KUMIN Poem Text First Line: Dear max. I call you that because Last Line: "here, it hurts." Subject(s): Disasters; Kumin, Maxine; Lightning; Pain; Trees; Lightning Rods; Suffering; Misery READING THE BIBLE BACKWARDS Poem Text First Line: All around the altar, huge lianas Last Line: The spirit moved upon the face of the waters. Subject(s): Bible RECANTATION First Line: We look down at our hands, scratched Last Line: Wrapped in the deep-dyed fabric %of a father's dream RECURRENCE IN ANOTHER TONGUE: HOMAGE TO TRISTIA AND OSIP First Line: You can hear the slow methodical chewing Last Line: But not these ashes, not this air REMEDIOS VARO AS DAPHNE Poem Text First Line: Inside the rooms are tall, begin to open Last Line: And a welter / of water Subject(s): Daphne (mythology); Water; Paintings & Painters REMEDIOS VARO AS DAPHNE First Line: Inside the rooms are tall, begin to open Last Line: And a welter %of water ROAD TAKEN AT EVENING First Line: As the shape of a line or a road taken at evening Last Line: For how else can we breathe? SALUTE TO DONALD DAVIE Poem Text First Line: Imagine david, how a single Last Line: Though only for a visit. Subject(s): England; Hunting; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Waves; English; Hunters; Ocean SARAH'S CHOICE Poem Text First Line: A little late rain Last Line: "but it is written what will happen if you stay." Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; Isaac (bible); Prophecy & Prophets; Sarah (bible) SAVING THE IMAGES First Line: The screen flickers, an old film unwinds Last Line: Headlight of an oncoming train SHORT POEM ABOUT THE COSMOS First Line: Dark out there. Cold. Dust glimmers Last Line: The clatter of the dice SIDEREAL DESIRE First Line: Star struck following this latter-day aphrodite Last Line: Though not like ours or anything we knew SIR WALTER RALEGH, SOME TIME AFTER First Line: The bloody tower is full of tourists now, history Last Line: Tip their arrows with gold, %a monkey screams SO-FAUX First Line: And so it piles on Last Line: Welcoming the artificial snow SPACE OF TRUTH BLANK LIKE THE SEA First Line: Extends itself, spaced out across the retina Last Line: The spell. Words spill: so little time. So much to do SPECIES-PITY First Line: We are the saddest species that we know Last Line: Running over what has fallen in the road STILL WATERS First Line: When the sun strikes SUNSET ON THE PEMBROKESHIRE CLIFF PATH First Line: The sky poised on the point TALE THAT'S BEST FOR WINTER First Line: This morning they raised the stones THE AMERICAN SUBLIME: ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text First Line: High in the mountain pass, tucked in a crevice Last Line: Against the cold galactic night. Subject(s): Warren, Robert Penn (1905-1989) THE APPLE WAS A NORTHERN INVENTION Poem Text First Line: When she ate the pomegranate Subject(s): Apples; Pomegranates THE BIRD IN THE LAUREL'S SONG Poem Text First Line: How long have I been here? I can't recall Last Line: My wings, and nested here out of love. Subject(s): Birds; Love; Wings THE CONTINUOUS IS BROKEN, AND RESUMES Poem Text First Line: Adam made the world Last Line: Anyone is out there, listening. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Earth; Sin; World THE FOURTH DAVID: 1. DONATELLO 1430-32: 62-1/4' First Line: He stands there sleek and calm THE FOURTH DAVID: 2. MICHELANGELO 1501-4: 13'5' First Line: And now he feels the weight THE GIRL WITH BEES IN HER HAIR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Came in an envelope with no return address; Subject(s): Bees; Fear; Beekeeping THE GYRE Poem Text First Line: The world was a globe that sat on a table Subject(s): Earth; God; World THE LAST MAN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Here, in our familiar streets, the day Last Line: Little hands of silver on his brow. Variant Title(s): The Last Man; For Vivian Schatz Subject(s): Harvest; Peasantry THE LITERAL = THE ABSTRACT: A DEMONSTRATION Poem Text First Line: After all those swerving arcs in air Last Line: Of what is absolutely there. Subject(s): Birds; Feathers; Hunting; Literary Form; Wings; Hunters THE MESSENGER Poem Text First Line: The messenger runs, not carrying the news Last Line: And again, on his way? Subject(s): Feet; News; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE MUSE Poem Text First Line: There she was, for centuries, the big Last Line: The writer. Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Language; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Psychoanalysis; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary; Psychoanalysts; Psychotherapy THE ROUND FISH Poem Text First Line: With neither bones nor skin Last Line: From the one that you are making as you go. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Roads; Sea; Swimming & Swimmers; Paths; Trails; Ocean; Swimmers THE SECRET GARDEN Poem Text First Line: The way you see it first is through Last Line: Before we're through with tea. Subject(s): Flowers; Food & Eating; Gardens & Gardening; Green (color); Guests; Lilies; Secrets; Tea; Worms; Visiting THE SHOW MUST GO ON Poem Text First Line: The play had been staged as long as we could remember, Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Reality; Dramatists THE WHITE-THROATED SPARROW CAN'T COMPARE Poem Text First Line: He had made it through so many winters Subject(s): Sparrows; Air Raids THEORY AND PRACTICE IN POETRY Poem Text First Line: The idea that freezes me this time Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets THEORY AND PRACTICE IN POETRY First Line: The idea that freezes me this time Last Line: Like the world at your feet Subject(s): Art And Artists; Poetry And Poets THERE ARE SUCH MORNINGS First Line: Sometimes you wake at night THINK WHAT WE MIGHT HAVE ... Poem Text First Line: Today, pompeii - on view; the ultimate interruption THIS STRAW AND MANURE WORLD First Line: And the mare kicks at her traces, pulling the old-fashioned rig Last Line: Starting down the blossoming mall, admiring its reflection in the %monumental pool THOSE WHO COME AFTER Poem Text First Line: Will never say of us: / what wonderful myths they had Last Line: Endlessly nibbled and gnawed Subject(s): Explorers; Greece; Mythology; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Greeks THOUGHTS OF A RETIRED DIAMOND CUTTER First Line: Care, carefully chosen, even Last Line: To design? Subject(s): Diamonds; Retirement TIME OUT OF MIND First Line: It begins in the garret of a tower TRACKING Poem Text First Line: Yes, carolyn, the ocean has its depths, it mezzanine Subject(s): Sea; Ocean TRANSACTIONS IN FIELD THAT'S OVERGROWN: CALL AND RESPONSE WITH MERRITT Poem Text First Line: It is dusk in the field, uncanny, those calls TRUMMERFRAUEN (THE RUBBLE-WOMEN) First Line: In the old paintings, the ones with silken oils Last Line: Never stop: tap tap, tap tap, tap tap. Subject(s): Altars; Architecture & Architects; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Pyramids; Art Gallerys UNSTITCH THE UNIVERSE Poem Text First Line: Unwind the winding sheets, UNSTRUNG Poem Text First Line: It was a jeweled tapestry Last Line: A face so like its own. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Birds; Bones; Death; Dead, The UNTO THE NTH GENERATION First Line: All day something has led me on Last Line: Drawn into this oven of a world UP AGAINST IT Poem Text First Line: The wall was white, whitewash lime Last Line: The small leaves trembling with light. Subject(s): Dreams; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Murder; Walls; Nightmares WALLS First Line: Do you remember the city where we were born Last Line: We thought %had stood in the way WATCH THIS POEM DISAPPEAR Poem Text Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WATER LACE AND WHITE EYES Poem Text First Line: And the mist rising Last Line: In the northern dawn. Subject(s): Bones; Frost; Ice; North, The; Snow WHAT IT HINGES ON Poem Text First Line: When everything is going WHAT LOVES, TAKES AWAY Poem Text First Line: If the nose of the pig in the market of firenze Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature WHAT NARCISSUS GAVE THE LAKE Poem Text First Line: The lake loves what it sees, and what it sees Subject(s): Lakes; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Pools; Ponds WHAT NARCISSUS GAVE THE LAKE First Line: The lake loves what it sees, and what it sees Last Line: That beautiful and beauty-blinded face Subject(s): Lakes; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology) WHAT WAS LEFT OVER; FOR SUJATA BHATT Poem Text First Line: As you said, sujata, it was not Last Line: Atomized silk of its spray. Subject(s): Altars; Church Burnings; Clergy; Sacrifices; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops WHITE-THROATED SPARROW CAN'T COMPARE First Line: He had made it through so many winters Last Line: Its leaden tonnage, and its tongue WINTER CONCEPTION Poem Text First Line: Silence in the forest's heart, and snow. Subject(s): Winter WINTER CONCEPTION First Line: Silence in the forest's heart, and snow Last Line: Another bed, and time folds back %its long white sheets of snow WITHOUT REGRET Poem Text First Line: Nights, by the light of whatever would burn Last Line: Baskets of wicker, baskets of straw. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WRECK' AND 'RISE' ABOVE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Because of the first, the fear of wreck YOU, FAILED PRONOUN Poem Text First Line: Direct address to the swans: you, whose feet Last Line: On a dark ground. Eft. Splash. Gone. Subject(s): Birds; Spring; Swans; Wilderness; Wings |
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