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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: WUNDERLICH, MARK Matches Found: 86 Wunderlich, Mark Poet's Biography 86 poems available by this author A HUSBAND'S PRAYER Poem Text First Line: You, author of all wonders, Subject(s): Prayer ALL THAT, STAMMERING Poem Text First Line: In the orchard at the edge of the ragged pines, the apples come Last Line: The singing stopped Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians ALL THAT, STAMMERING First Line: In the orchard at the edge of the ragged pines, the apples come Last Line: Through the fence. The singing stopped, did I say that? The singing stopped Subject(s): Homosexuality AMARYLLIS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You've seen a cat consume a hummingbird, seen Last Line: "no contrivance, no gasp, / no dream Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology AMARYLLIS First Line: You've seen a cat consume a hummingbird, seen Last Line: Where there is no head Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality ANCHORAGE First Line: I think you would like this seaside town-it makes me dream of whales. Last Line: That move through them. Just motion, and union, and light. Subject(s): Homosexuality ARGUMENT First Line: The city glitters in its crown of hills Last Line: You will ever stroke the hair back from my face AUBADE Poem Text First Line: Again I've been searching for omens flimsy as they are, and the cat Last Line: Pretend I'll tell you when it fails to come home Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians AUBADE First Line: Again I've been searching for omens flimsy as they are, and the cat Last Line: Not to notice. Pretend I'll tell you when he fails to come home Subject(s): Homosexuality BRUISE OF THIS First Line: The night I woke to find the sheets wet from you, Last Line: And those things I could do that might cushion it. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness CEASE, THE HEART IS WITH ME Poem Text First Line: Today I've felt it, like bees humming, wanted the mean Last Line: A young man's spilled semen, arrows piercing flesh Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians CEASE, THE HEART IS WITH ME First Line: Today I've felt it, like bees humming, wanted the mean Last Line: A young man's spilled semen, arrows piercing flesh Subject(s): Homosexuality CHAPEL OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL Poem Text First Line: C. Calls to tell me mercury is in retrograde, so watch out. Just last night Last Line: Perfect thing left there for me Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians CHAPEL OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL First Line: C. Calls to tell me mercury is in retrograde, so watch out. Just last night Last Line: Perfect thing left there just for me Subject(s): Homosexuality CONTINENT'S EDGE Poem Text First Line: The surf washed up its rows of green Last Line: Draws back an undone shirt Subject(s): Transvestism CONTINENT'S EDGE First Line: The surf washed up its rows of green Last Line: Sometimes gentle, sometimes hard, the way a hand %draws back an undone shirt Subject(s): Homosexuality COYOTE, WITH MANGE Poem Text First Line: Oh, unreadable one, why Subject(s): Coyotes DIFFICULT BODY Poem Text Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Death - Animals DIFFICULT BODY First Line: A story: there was a cow in the road, struck by a semi Last Line: I will leave less than this behind me Subject(s): Homosexuality; Religion; Spirituality DREAM: INTRUDER First Line: A storm boiled the ocean Last Line: Or that the draft that tarnished the room %blew from the other side ERROR First Line: He stands on the corner waiting for the light, it seems Last Line: A place where anything might happen FOURTEEN THINGS WE'RE ALLOWED TO BRING TO THE UNDERWORLD First Line: Did you get the photo I sent? The horse? I would take her with me Last Line: Pushes by, and you there watching it Subject(s): Homosexuality FROM A VACANT HOUSE Poem Text First Line: It's hard to want a thing you know will hurt another, Last Line: I will open my mouth to your opening mouth Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians FROM A VACANT HOUSE First Line: It's hard to want a thing you know will hurt another, Last Line: I will open my mouth to your opening mouth. Subject(s): Homosexuality GIVEN IN PERSON ONLY Poem Text First Line: Tompkins square park's a mess of shopping carts Last Line: Some common flame, or the one Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Tompkins Square Park, New York Cit GIVEN IN PERSON ONLY First Line: Tompkins square park's a mess of shopping carts Last Line: To dust and skeletons. I'm just beginning Subject(s): Homosexuality HEAVEN-LETTER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You, looking down upon us from your canopy of air, to you Subject(s): Blessings; Home HOW I WAS TOLD AND NOT TOLD First Line: There was the milky sun washing out the sky Last Line: And loose stiches of black %bastes up the night sky Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness HUNT First Line: The doe hanging stiff in the farmyard Last Line: Swallowing this particular taste for it Subject(s): Homosexuality IN A WORLD DIVIDED IN HALF First Line: Through the wet night, the foghorn Last Line: Through the black, in solitude, to descend IN THE WINTER OF THIS CLIMATE Poem Text First Line: When I dream it is of sheep Last Line: Do you hear it? do you hear what I’m trying to say? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians IN THE WINTER OF THIS CLIMATE First Line: When I dream it is of sheep Last Line: Do you hear it? Do you hear what I'm trying to say? Subject(s): Homosexuality LAMB First Line: Inside the sheep's hot center, lambs tangle Last Line: Even though I call them to the gleaming hook LETTER WRITTEN TO A VERSE BY KAREN CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: The sky had been clear all day -- so clear with a high wind, and Last Line: Despite its magnitude and weighty decision, it's a moveable thiing Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians LETTER WRITTEN TO A VERSE BY KAREN CARPENTER First Line: The sky had been clear all day -- so clear with a high wind, and Last Line: I'd never see it, and that meant nothing to me. Despite its magni- %tude and weighty decision, it's Subject(s): Homosexuality MARE First Line: It's a miracle %the steam draught from her nostrils Last Line: Or pity, and make there %a place to live Subject(s): Homosexuality NO PLACE LIKE HOME First Line: On the kansas highway I see children being useful, driving cars. Twelve or Last Line: Perfect angles, and signs proclaiming unbearable roadside attractions Subject(s): Homosexuality ON OPENING First Line: Look at it, the season's shifting Last Line: A spidery black spot clings to pink Subject(s): Homosexuality ONE EXPLANATION OF BEAUTY First Line: Everywhere the material world is speaking to me Last Line: Picking through wet grass, toward a looming grove Subject(s): Homosexuality PALE NOTION First Line: I'm learning about pairing down Last Line: And the rumpled workers %all gone home Subject(s): Homosexuality PEONIES Poem Text First Line: In the yard, peonies burst their white hearts Last Line: An infant, an infinity, a crisis, an end Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Peonies PEONIES First Line: In the yard, peonies burst their white hearts Last Line: An infant, an infinity, a crisis, an end Subject(s): Homosexuality POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY CAVAFY First Line: Brian, work now as well as you can Last Line: While an arizona of lost hours burst in a ring of fire PREDICTIONS ABOUT A BLACK CAR Poem Text First Line: Four boys have been arrested for killing geese. This is how it happened Last Line: Was quiet, in need of no other Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Geese PREDICTIONS ABOUT A BLACK CAR First Line: Four boys have been arrested for killing geese. This is how it happened Last Line: Weren't here, and I'm sorry for that; my heart was quiet, in need of no other Subject(s): Homosexuality PREDICTIONS ABOUT A BLACK CAT Poem Text First Line: Four boys have been arrested for killing geese. This is how it Subject(s): Death - Animals; Automobile Accidents; Storms QUICKENING First Line: Each evening I pause Last Line: I know I will leave you more than once SEEN First Line: In your field of vision, there is a place where no image is fixed Last Line: When limbs were shaken by your copper wind SHOT; 1929 First Line: The woman and man ride together in a car Last Line: The knocking of the heart Subject(s): Homosexuality SHOT; 1932 First Line: The space a person once occupied, the vacancy vibrant, space wanting to Last Line: Thickening, the clap and echo, the gun's chilled report, an answer Subject(s): Homosexuality SHOT; 1993 First Line: In the photo I have, all three kneel Last Line: Shrill sound like a voice, fractured second a lifetime, a shot Subject(s): Homosexuality SHOT; DULUTH 1929 First Line: In her lap, the woman holds a gun Last Line: That had once been filled Subject(s): Homosexuality SIMPLIFY YOUR COMBINATION THERAPY First Line: Two men embrace on the billboard, their faces Last Line: They are your future, short-lived and american STAR MAP First Line: I live in california hollow in my heart where eucalyptus undulate Last Line: Glasses they'll empty, and empty STONE ARABIA Poem Text First Line: The horses bisect the field Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SUTURE First Line: Someday I will leave this town and not look back Last Line: But how to get there from here? Subject(s): Homosexuality SWANS First Line: Listen. The tundra swans have come back Last Line: And the marsh freezing, I know today is not the day TACK First Line: Bridle and martingale, %the crupper's strap and buckle Last Line: Skin covers muscle, %matter is the mind TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF Poem Text First Line: On the runway at the roxy, the drag queen Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Gays & Lesbians; Popular Culture - United States; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF First Line: On the runway at the roxy, the drag queen Last Line: For what we still had to lose. Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Homosexuality; Popular Culture - United States TAMED First Line: That summer I broke a gelding. For a year I taught him to are Last Line: Catch him by the reins. It wasn't discouraging. I knew I deserved it THE ANCHORAGE Poem Text First Line: I think you would like this seaside town-it makes me dream of whales. Last Line: That move through them. Just motion, and union, and light Subject(s): Seashore; Childhood Memories; Christianity THE BRUISE OF THIS Poem Text First Line: The night I woke to find the sheets wet from you, Last Line: And those things I could do that might cushion it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Illness THE CORN BABY Poem Text First Line: They brought it. It was brought Subject(s): Corn THE DREAM Poem Text First Line: Dna chains spirals upward Last Line: My body through / like a bone Subject(s): Sickness THE DREAM Poem Text First Line: Dna chains spiral upward Subject(s): Illness THE TRICK Poem Text First Line: I made love with a man -- hugely muscled, lean -- the body Last Line: The heaving back, the beard, the teeth at the throat Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians THIRST First Line: In the painting above your bed a woman pauses Last Line: You ask for a glass of ice, for water turned cold hardened water Subject(s): Homosexuality THIS HEAT, THESE HUMAN FORMS Poem Text First Line: Two years ago, while crossing the street, a group of boys came Last Line: It is difficult enough without your body in the world Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Suicide; Human Behavior; Childhood Memories; Horses THIS HEAT, THESE HUMAN FORMS First Line: Two years ago, while crossing the street, a group of boys came Last Line: It is difficult enough without your body in the world Subject(s): Homosexuality THROUGH AN OPENING DOOR First Line: On fourteenth street, the vendors push Last Line: And says, baby, you just give yourself away Subject(s): Homosexuality TO SLEEP IN A NEW CITY First Line: This is medicine's hollow miracle -- that we have come to trust it Last Line: Assures me the world does not pause for us Subject(s): Homosexuality TOWN, GONE First Line: He touched the back of his neck Last Line: I was what they left behind in the fire TRICK First Line: I made love with a man -- hugely muscled, lean -- the body Last Line: The heaving back, the beard, the teeth at the throat Subject(s): Homosexuality UNMADE BED First Line: You remember the billboard of the unmade bed on lafayette and fourth? It's Last Line: Alone, when a print of me in the bed is laundered and pinned on a line, is gone Subject(s): Homosexuality VULPECULAR DREAM #1 First Line: Your lower half was a fox Last Line: On the red plane of your tongue WATER SNAKE First Line: My grandmother fed it bits of ground meat Last Line: And rose up to receive the gift of flesh %arcing toward it through the air WAUMANDEE Poem Text First Line: A man with binoculars Subject(s): Deer WHITE First Line: Among the birches %ears scooped the rustle Last Line: Snow troubling the picture %as any whiteness will WINTER BEACH First Line: Come now, lie next to me on this bed Last Line: That promising, that submerged WINTER OF HEAVEN, WINTER OF ASH; ELEGY First Line: Of the delicate pocket of his collarbone Last Line: As the receiver is hung %on its rest Subject(s): Homosexuality WINTER OF HEAVEN, WINTER OF ASH; IN BROOKLYN First Line: When I try to concentrate, I see only details Last Line: There are too many sounds I would miss Subject(s): Homosexuality WINTER OF HEAVEN, WINTER OF ASH; THE DREAM First Line: Dna spirals upward Last Line: Like a bone silver Subject(s): Homosexuality WINTER OF HEAVEN, WINTER OF ASH; THE VISIT HOME Poem Text First Line: It is not yet light in wisconsin Last Line: While hope goes out silent onto the ice Subject(s): Homecoming; Wisconsin WINTER OF HEAVEN, WINTER OF ASH; THE VISIT HOME First Line: It is not yet light in wisconsin Last Line: There is the smell of tobacco smoke, frankincense, cooking grease %of hope gone out, of ice Subject(s): Homosexuality WINTER STUDY Poem Text First Line: Two days of snow, then ice Subject(s): Winter; Deer |
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