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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: bernstein, charles Matches Found: 278 Bernstein, Charles Poet's Biography 278 poems available by this author #23 First Line: Seems, finally %it's there Last Line: Or do that %of a well as 12 First Line: The swollen flotsam %lies face down %accordingly Last Line: Going back to form %a promise %always broken A DEFENSE OF POETRY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My problem with deploying a term liek Last Line: From which it stares back Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language; Words; Vocabulary A TEST OF POETRY Poem Text First Line: What do you mean by rashes of ash? Is industry Last Line: In "no end to envy", does the envy refer to admire or in the bad sense? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language; Words; Vocabulary ABSENT FATHER IN DUMBO First Line: The lullabies approach, echoing in the Last Line: Fences who'll only give half of what %it already cost ACHE OF THE ARCHIVIST First Line: In due course, in order to expose Last Line: (these are all inessential affects ACQUIESCENCE First Line: A man comes into my AFTER CAMPION First Line: It was on a summer's day Last Line: Pleasure strikes when feeling stays AGE OF CORREGGIO AND THE CARRACCI First Line: Thanks for your of already some AIR SHAFT First Line: Quick as a whip Last Line: The censorious %goon flight ALL THE TEA IN CHINA First Line: I always find new friends' Last Line: Can't you please get out the view? ALL THE WHISKEY IN HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: Not for all the whiskey in heaven Last Line: I will love you all over again Subject(s): Love ALMOST THERE First Line: The pitiless exception, so much splayed Last Line: Crater. Futz floobit scrudge %acks blent blukering AMBIENT DETONATION First Line: Certainly %alloyed with, or by Last Line: Never sets on the empire of the heart's unease AMBLYOPIA First Line: He was a moral dwarf in a body as APPROPRIATION First Line: As saying as continuousness, really a single notion, just Last Line: At it at all. Stretch it out, recount whatever 'alas' has in you APRIL First Line: Webbed space %akin to almost ash Last Line: Mars locked %in tension's promise ARE YOU BEING SARCASTIC? First Line: Feathers to caps Last Line: Of an indiscernible revelation ARTIFICE OF ABSORPTION, SELS. First Line: By absorptioni mean engrossing, engulfing Last Line: In each new %departure Subject(s): Language AS IF THE TREES BY THEIR VERY ROOTS HAD HOLD OF US First Line: Strange to remember a visit, really not so Last Line: Is, as well, a sort of postponement AT THE READING First Line: There is no clear Last Line: Outwardly, in- %sufficient, insatiable AT THE READING: 2 First Line: As if the air Last Line: Poise beyond %disclaiming motion AT THE READING: 3 First Line: The verdict %absolves Last Line: Blue beet %lollipop AUGUST First Line: Once you start Last Line: Way that's left %before you AUTONOMY IS JEOPARDY First Line: I hate artifice. All these Last Line: That cannot be dumped AZOOT D'PUUND First Line: Iz wurry ray azoot de puund in reducey ap crrrisle ehk Last Line: Ovmp. Eekingh. Istl. Agggg BALLET RUSSE First Line: Every person has feeling Last Line: I pretend to be a very nervous man BEAN FIELD First Line: Itself, with all %& cannot possibly Last Line: Together, cheek by %precisely these objects BEGINNING WITH LINES TORN FROM IRBY First Line: More or less %in the measure Last Line: Oval and without thickness %crags a matrix %slakes sound across %ultimate blinds BEYOND EMACIATION First Line: Hemmed in by oceanic verisimilitude Last Line: To swoop it up %but BLOW-ME-DOWN ETUDE First Line: Put her in her chair! Put her in her ...' BOUGHT OFF First Line: Incredible amount of illusory materiality Last Line: Swims politely in the reflector %pool BRAIN SIDE VIEW First Line: Otherwise, what? I mostly here feel, spend BROADWAY First Line: Don't throw the lance away Last Line: Will, it spells stubble & %refuse to %smack BUFFALO NIGHTS First Line: The dream devours its antipathy Last Line: Fall - delay eroding promise BULGE First Line: The reward for %love is not Last Line: No place %for dismay BUT BOXES BOTH BOATS, GROWING TIREDER AS THE DAY AMASSES First Line: Indelibly repercussive: shadowed Last Line: Fold. Contain this charm, permit %what clutches spore BUTCHER BOYS First Line: There's a science in threes Last Line: --just don't %twine my buttons: I've %got slack to %incinerate BY CUFF First Line: Flew, then flew CATABOLISM First Line: It's too bright out I Last Line: But the light freezes CIRCUMSTRAINT First Line: Syrupy sunrise melts into tuna Last Line: The incident encounters it effect, %the CLAIRE-IN-THE-BUILDING First Line: There is not a man alive who does not Last Line: Drift & plunge. The streets are %icy with incipience COMMON STOCK First Line: Trades that are injurious to climate COMRADERIE TURNS TO RIVALRY Last Line: A young woman's horror of leprosy plagues her CONSIDERATION First Line: Feelings that grant promises Last Line: Gift at born reserved for tred %or lapped of CRITIC'S CHAIR First Line: I do not ask for thought Last Line: That's one tune to hum CUMULATIVE ERASURE First Line: The whetness of a smell Last Line: Uncannily as %canary, whose winds ascend %the sheerness of the fall CUSTOM BLINDS First Line: I belittle myself by insisting on Last Line: Charred charms of scopophilic ardour DAMAGE CONTROL First Line: Is wasted away, the fields Last Line: In the course of %dire sufficiency %is DEAR MR. FANELLI, Poem Text First Line: I saw your picture Last Line: Think about it, mr. / fanelli DEAR MR. FANELLI, First Line: I saw your picture %in the 79th street Last Line: Think about it, mr. %fanelli DEATH IS THE COOL NIGHT Recitation by Author DECEMBER First Line: Finally, the legs are shortchanged Last Line: Make haze and stumbled spires DEFENCE OF POETRY First Line: My problem with deploying a term liek nonelen Last Line: From which it stares back DISTANCE LEARNING First Line: Caught at where the %peripalpitations Last Line: Brokered at such %mumbling tirades DODGEM First Line: The naturally enfolded Last Line: Needless, hunches %eyes, brows... %patches sky DOG IS DEAD First Line: A friend of mine named rudy loop Last Line: But I must have my lunch DON'T BE SO SURE First Line: My cup is my cap Last Line: Get me a drink DUNVEGAN First Line: Duplication actuates uneven salubrious, wire Last Line: Clear eyed to determine exhaustion early DYSRAPHISM First Line: Did a wind come just as you got up or were ECHO OFF (USE OTHER ENTRANCE) First Line: Are we there yet? Everything Last Line: The tear atop the tapestry ECOLOGY OF FREON First Line: The turns, these burns Last Line: With graduating curbs EDLIN First Line: This was what I knew Last Line: And bear with promise fragrant cant ELECTRIC First Line: I can hear them now Last Line: Head you hide in the softness of the mattress in the %folds of the sheets ELEPHANT APPEARS Last Line: So in what sense...?' EMMA First Line: Wait %for I Last Line: Go down EMMA'S NURSERY RIMES First Line: Glow worm! %glow worm! Last Line: Then go back to the beach again EMOTIONS OF NORMAL PEOPLE First Line: With high epectations, you plug Last Line: In any case, sarcasm %is evidence of a sadistic trend in one's %personality ENTITLEMENT First Line: Galoshes moan that the tree has EVERY LAKE HAS A HOUSE Last Line: & every house has a lake EXPLICIT VERSION NUMBER REQUIRED Recitation by Author EXTERNAL MARKET CONSTRAINTS First Line: No advance is known in the mines Last Line: Tempt and splint again FACULTY POLITICS First Line: My weight becomes something that neither holds me down Last Line: Rial bedrock, a long puff & pick up & keep it off & FEAR AND TRESPASS First Line: The physical inadequacy of his kiss didn't really matter. He had FEAR OF FLIPPING First Line: Presently, peasants are heard yodelling in the distance FEVER OF CASE First Line: Slowly has this leveled up a certain feel Last Line: From release of kind, break edge FLOTSAM IN MY JETSAM First Line: There's flotsam in my jetsam Last Line: I'd still want to stay in bed FOR --- First Line: Touch. Obviously %what else, meaning Last Line: Contemplation of %what, with FOREFRIGHT First Line: Mind is a tangled web that seems Last Line: Castling compassion's wan echo FOREIGN BODY SENSATION First Line: Such hills as hive me waste away FORENSIC GASTRONOMY First Line: The internal logic Last Line: Of limitless %circumstance FREUD'S BUTCHER First Line: Many folks are in a snit FROM LINES OF SWINBURNE First Line: As a voice in a vision that's vanished FUGITIVE DESPERATION First Line: So slow, these booms Last Line: Funny pumpernickel %pardon GERTRUDE AND LUDWIG'S BOGUS ADVENTURE Poem Text First Line: As billy goes higher all the balloons Last Line: On this side of the tune Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary GERTRUDE AND LUDWIG'S BOGUS ADVENTURE First Line: As billy goes higher all the balloons Last Line: On this side of the tune GET REAL' First Line: It doesn't have to be pretty it just Last Line: Sluice beats - no delay, synaesthetic'ly HARBOR OF ILLUSION First Line: At midnight's scrawl, the fog has lost its bone HARD COPY First Line: To be tutored by the rain & still care for darkness Last Line: On guard, let others take the fall - she also serves %who wades HARD FEELINGS First Line: Say it like you mean it.' not Last Line: Beyond belief: delirious sojourn HAVE PEN, WILL TRAVEL First Line: It's not my %business to describe Last Line: That nether that refuses measure HINGE PICTURE First Line: Grasp of me) %eyes legs arms hands fingers Last Line: Night-sky bird's world HITCH WORLD First Line: This is the first redress: a place on which HOTEL EMPIRE First Line: Everyone looks & someone else & they keep striking me Last Line: Start. It was 9, 10, 11 & already HOW I PAINTED CERTAIN OF MY PICTURES First Line: You say I'm like a jewish mother but the kid Last Line: I'll %just put down my %pen. %exeunt. %curtain. %action! HOW TO DISAPPEAR First Line: I don't know much about art, but I AND THE I'LL CALL WHEN I GET THERE First Line: Pendulum sting to mood altercation. Next Last Line: Might offer you, that you might know, provision IDIOPATHIC PATHOGENESIS First Line: Time is the grainy thing that cordons Last Line: The road to which remove's absolved IF THERE WERE A GOD SHE WOULDN'T EXPECT US TO BELIEVE IN HER First Line: Inconsiderate replication Last Line: The undertow of %breath's decant IN A RESTLESS WORLD LIKE THIS IS Poem Text First Line: Not long ago, or maybe I dreamt it Last Line: Have to go on before the way back has / become totally indivisible INAPPROPRIATE TOUCHING First Line: The fabric does not hold Last Line: Bedlam once in time INEVITABLE FLOW OF MATERIAL THINGS THROUGH PORES OF YEARS First Line: Bleached %to the point of Last Line: Into the piggletty higgletty %jig INTERNAL LOSS CONTROL First Line: The tires are balding, exhaust is rust Last Line: Is never worn, out the door with %pools of hope IRON RING AND THE ECSTASY First Line: I never met a man I liked Last Line: Still where there's fashion hope remains %hope that does not hide IS LIKE A Last Line: I mean its tremendous %its a very IT'S UP UP Last Line: Slow speed & heavy reason' %to my lot, %fell KIFF-KIFF First Line: I climb %out of the window Last Line: Wanting what %rarely digest KIWI BIRD IN THE KIWI TREE First Line: I want no paradise only to be KLUPZY GIRL First Line: Poetry is like a swoon, with this difference Last Line: Fog commends in discourse LACHRYMOSE ENCAUSTIC/ABRASIVE TEAR First Line: Press this quickly Last Line: That tarnish stain and toggle stare LAND AND ITS PEOPLE First Line: Endemic complacency Last Line: Chords, divided %decay LAST PURITAN First Line: The view was nothing to him LAUREL'S EYES Recitation by Author Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LIFT OFF First Line: Hh/ ie,s obvrsxr;atjrn dugh seineopcv I iibalfmgmmw Last Line: Oe6)yanapply, 1000,ndam llle?Wsrrrrrrrrr LIFTJAR AGATE First Line: 1. 'I hate that you blame me for Last Line: 19. Version when yearnings link in thrall LIKE DECLARATIONS IN A HYMIE CEMETERY First Line: Whether oriented or returned to LIKE THE DAYS THAT FADE AWAY, REFERENCE OF THE MONTHS Last Line: Inmost piety, beam remotest marks %exaction's circumflex LIKE THIS First Line: Sandblasts median procurement till Last Line: The simulation in which I am borne LIKENING THEN Last Line: Bridge, it struts. Our 'all' is empty. Turn over / a flat %opaqueness LIVE ACTS First Line: Impossible outside you want always the other LO DISFRUTO First Line: One a problem with a fragment sitting. Wave I stare as well Last Line: To call it gravity is one spoken equally cleft of count LOBBY First Line: Sit down, while Last Line: There is less of LONG TRAILS OF CARS RETURNING FROM THE BEACH First Line: I saw the power Last Line: Peter allowing %the cameras LOOSE SHOES First Line: That's the trouble around here Last Line: To breathe a little more freely LOW REGRETS First Line: Oh rain me down from your darks that contain me Last Line: I should have wasted my life MALL AT NIGHT First Line: There is no shade in the forest Last Line: Yet closer to, by far, than dusk's approaching glare MAO TSE TUNG WORE KHAKIS First Line: Who would have thought paul mccartney would be Last Line: The people most of the time, but you can't MARCH First Line: Like towers make amends, these times Last Line: Single purpose, lost in thoughts' conundrums' %renewed verges MAY First Line: A dream vanishes Last Line: Stumbling upon its %own reward MEMORIES: 1. GRANDFATHERS First Line: The farm never seemed the same after gramps died Last Line: When, oh when, we were tiny lads MEMORIES: 2. HERITAGE First Line: Don't you steal that flag, my mama had qualms Last Line: In the tumbleweed MEMORIES: 3. TOUGH LOVE First Line: My dad and I were very close Last Line: To love just like we men MEMORIES: 4. SISTERS First Line: William kennedy smith Last Line: Who do they ask, we guys no doubt MICMAC MALL (SUNSET AT INVERNESS) First Line: The winter of MISTY First Line: Slide of a glance Last Line: Windowcase of next %week's resurrection MS. OTIS REGRETS First Line: Can all you may. Slow th' ineluctable ruffle you Last Line: Ready or not %here I plunge MY CUT-OFF HEAD Last Line: For my sudden head %departed MY/MY/MY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My pillow / my shirt Last Line: My gumdrops / my word NEW ANGELS/TRANSIENT FAILURES , SELS First Line: Walter benjamin: %in the context of poetic density Last Line: H: %returning, forming into itself, coming home NEW YEAR'S First Line: The film glides catatonically Last Line: Underneath a twin glare NICKEY, TURN OFF THE LIGHTS' First Line: Such flagrance, such intermittent Last Line: Unstrung, abhorring motion, sedimenting %thrall NINA'S PARTY AT JUDY'S GYM First Line: Funny how these days lounge and flit NO TIEING UP First Line: Signs afflict %arboretum absolute Last Line: Who is no %savior NOT BADS ONCE YOU'RE IN First Line: Is hard. The felt tip of the ensuing Last Line: Tear the heart from mourning sockets NUDGE First Line: Whatever was with Last Line: (as as been told) %spacious breathing OF A SORT Last Line: Edifice %it is: unseen %that sounds OF COURSE Last Line: Okay %new mexico %is %vacant OF TIME AND THE LINE Poem Text First Line: George burns likes to insist that he always / takes the straight lines Last Line: An angle but only one lime to make a margarita Subject(s): Language Poetry; Popular Culture - United States OF TIME AND THE LINE First Line: George burns likes to insist that he always %takes the straight lines Last Line: An angle but only one lime to make a margarita Subject(s): Language Poetry; Popular Culture - United States ONLY UTOPIA IS IN A NOW First Line: It wasn't long before those without any names in the story arrived ONLY WORLD WE'VE GOT' First Line: Anything on its side is placed, like Last Line: See something to say or/listen to'. %imagine the extent ORDER OF A ROOM OUT OF THIS INSIDE' First Line: All that on a fall that sweats in it upon layers of, and if Last Line: Threatens, heavens, among, plan and pipe, sleep, slip OUTRIGGER First Line: There is some goggling and conversation coming from the box Last Line: Its gash, evince its crepe Subject(s): Language Poetry PAFNUCIO SANTO AND THE AMERICAN FRIEND First Line: Anywhere: large, booming & cultured mustaches PALINODE First Line: The boy skates in the meadow but all the Last Line: Reduplication of expectation PALUKAVILLE First Line: Listen. I can feel it. Specifically and intentionally. It does Last Line: The tune my ear fashions. Slowly. Let me pronounce it for you PARSING: 2 First Line: The reach, the middle, endless, drift, sway, hold, belie Last Line: Charged with a static that binds, %as the head is pressed PERSON IS NOT AN ENTITY SYMBOLIC BUT THE DIVINE INCARNATE First Line: Rats are placed in gallon beakers of PHOTO OPPORTUNITY First Line: Water %wets %impecuniously Last Line: Impecuniously %wets %water PINKY SWEAR First Line: Such mortal slurp to strain this sprawl went droopy Last Line: Such swivel cups the sail of tusked whooper PLAUSIBLY DENIABLE LINK First Line: What's this amber crescent, mustard sprain? Last Line: A light supper on the deck of the PLAYING WITH A FULL DECK First Line: Else everyone leaving leave to say Last Line: Complacency's wirey mold POEM Poem Text First Line: Here. Forget. Last Line: A bulk of person / ascending,' 'embodied.' Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POEM First Line: A soul is an imaginary thing we bestow on what we love Last Line: Hip to this befogged hospitality POEM First Line: Here. Forget. %there are simply tones Last Line: A bulk of person %ascending,' 'embodied.' POMPEII Poem Text First Line: The rich men, they know about suffering Last Line: So poems such as this could be born Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POWER WALKING First Line: Did I say something or not? The Last Line: Wail through the blight, puncture %the moron's kite PREHENSIBLE PRIVILEGE First Line: This road goes as far as Last Line: Just use the oscillating fan, that'll %do the trick PROSTHESIS First Line: The foreman's salt ambassadors my liveried state: yes I QUESTIONNAIRE Poem Text First Line: Directions: for each pair of sentences, circle the letter, a or b, that best Last Line: Art is at heart not political because it can change only consciousness and not events Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language; Words; Vocabulary RAILROAD STREET First Line: There are days Last Line: Defray subsequent %increase READING RED: 1. READING RED First Line: Only event Last Line: Green with %(no idea READING RED: 10 First Line: Where the fold should be Last Line: There is no fold READING RED: 11. NO MAN'S LAND (CALL AND RESPONSE) First Line: Now that I'm %old as I am Last Line: You can't paint %what you can't feel READING RED: 12. BROKEN TOKEN First Line: Hush Last Line: Slips sealed READING RED: 13. DEAR. HERE First Line: If a tree could %talk you would Last Line: Its bark only its %bite READING RED: 14. LOOPY First Line: A %pine %is Last Line: Curve %that %isn't %deterred READING RED: 15 First Line: Color is not about the object Last Line: Not outside but inside READING RED: 16. KEY LIME HIDE First Line: It's about playing a game Last Line: The line pertains %to neither %either, ether READING RED: 17 First Line: White along edge %bark of tree Last Line: Ground father to %figuration READING RED: 18. THE KNEES HAVE IT First Line: I had a double meter Last Line: To bleat the denting out READING RED: 19. DUOPHONE First Line: East is hung & south Last Line: North's west passagelessness READING RED: 2. ROAD SHOW First Line: Face on face Last Line: Not what's inside %but what's READING RED: 20. THIS SIDE UP First Line: Flues cross %memory's encyclopedic Last Line: The body, %the READING RED: 21. ZONE First Line: No circle %no shape Last Line: The sun is but a morning star' READING RED: 22. DON'T TOUCH First Line: Shadow cast on black Last Line: Cleave, dart, splinter READING RED: 23 First Line: Can't hold what resists Last Line: Dear or don't %agents of READING RED: 24. AGAINST ITSELF First Line: Like a cut in skin Last Line: Into the frost %the paintbrush is the forest of society READING RED: 25. STRONGEST ATTEMPT First Line: The work could make Last Line: To destroy itself READING RED: 3. FOUR FOOT SIX First Line: Dear blue, %dear orange Last Line: Layers of treats, %rips READING RED: 5. DEAR/DUEL First Line: Delirium would stand for Last Line: The girls next door %the boy who falls %beside oneself in a same way READING RED: 6 First Line: There is no level Last Line: In the middle ground READING RED: 7. DOUBLE & OUT First Line: Remove the ground %triple the crack Last Line: Flush then drained %absorption's knack READING RED: 8. SIDE BY SIDE First Line: The shadow falls Last Line: The space between %(don't ever leave) READING RED: 9. BLUE BLUE (OFF THE MARK) First Line: I'd like to talk to you about the mistakes Last Line: We don't have to RENUMBERATION First Line: Premises grant feelings REPERFUSION First Line: I am slumbered Last Line: Ignition, under corrective entry REPUBLIC OF REALITY First Line: Suffice it to suppose %that across the street Last Line: Fools obey it first RESIDUAL RUBBERNECKING First Line: Press the key you wish to define Last Line: Abandoned to insistence RESISTANCE First Line: We are now so used to saying Last Line: Way, disturbing inner problems REVEAL CODES First Line: It is often said the the bladder is an unreliable Last Line: Falls, whether or not we get up. %or else-- %wake me for meals REVOLUTIONARY POEM First Line: Take this %split (splint Last Line: Murky dormer %as in RIDDLE OF THE FAT FACED MAN First Line: None guards the moor where stands RIOT AT 111 STATION First Line: If I lose my temper you're totalled RIVULETS OF THE DEAD JEW First Line: Fill my plate with boudin noir Last Line: & ahurtling we will go ROMANCE First Line: I always assume performers are trying to make a cheap buck' ROSE THE CLICK FOR 23 First Line: An' listen, okay, key central elbow sez crime's key tent ROSELAND First Line: You need some way of Last Line: Or some set of %if you face it RUDDER OF INEXORABILITY First Line: Second into especially, like then off to announce, lingered SAD BOY'S SAD BOY Poem Text First Line: I ruin my hats and all the mat slides glad Last Line: I jump I run you up inside my truck Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) SAFE METHODS OF BUSINESS First Line: The sleepy impertinence of winsome actuarials SALUTE First Line: Nothing, this cum, verging verse Last Line: The blank soul of our toil SEARCHLESS WARRANT First Line: Germinal denotation inculcates missing resemblance SELF-HELP Poem Text First Line: Home team suffers string of losses.' time to change loyalties Last Line: Self-help. Other drowns SENSES OF RESPONSIBILITY Poem Text First Line: Of all these, pieces from which this Last Line: As a chiseled voice rose above it almost filling the room Subject(s): Language Poetry SENSES OF RESPONSIBILITY First Line: Of all these, pieces from which this Last Line: Desire projected & recast, to unmake the borders of logic Subject(s): Language Poetry SENTENCES MY FATHER USED Poem Text First Line: Casts across otherwise unavailable fields Last Line: Anyway granules, leopards, folding chairs Subject(s): Language Poetry SENTENCES MY FATHER USED First Line: Casts across otherwise unavailable fields Subject(s): Language Poetry SENTENCES: 1 First Line: It's an automatic thing. It doesn't require any Last Line: It's like the light SEPTEMBER First Line: Colors fix %and patch Last Line: Lateness %expansive unswayed SHAKED BUT NOT MIXED First Line: The mumblers have the air of verse Last Line: Make a picture of rime SHAKER SHOW First Line: Now that is a chair Last Line: I wouldn't want to sit in SHEDS OF OUR WEBS First Line: Floating on completely vested time, alacrity Last Line: All, which heave at having had Subject(s): Language Poetry SHELL First Line: Slumber, slightly %disturbed by Last Line: In: scrapes, %buckles, walls SIGN UNDER TEST First Line: On an evening in june, alone with anxious mediations, read Last Line: Save the last chance for me SIMPLY First Line: Nothing can contain the empty state that richochets SLOWED REASON First Line: Poetry is sediment SOAPY WATER First Line: Yu've got to be patient sometimes - sounds like an Last Line: Bury that knife, & in the morning we can eat meat again SOCIAL PORK First Line: What a flimsy excuse for denial Last Line: In a regime of ice SOLIDARITY IS THE NAME WE GIVE TO WHAT WE CANNOT HOLD First Line: I am a nude formalist poet, a sprung Last Line: Writ large in disappearing ink SOME NIGHTS First Line: Courtesy stares %an indifferent promise Last Line: Unminded goes to seed SOUL UNDER First Line: Wall,' as Last Line: Consequence %delighted under SPACE AND POETRY Last Line: You'd say 'that's %up an image, not upon SPECIAL PLEADING First Line: Somewhere she was certain, but the sensation was tenuous ST. MCC First Line: Graphemic %hinges %discourse Last Line: Am (visit, subdue, impulse) %h...L...R...Ty STELE FOR LOST TIME First Line: Solo for %melancholia %as the angel of history Last Line: From my arms %into my capacious %insomniac forgetting STIGMA First Line: Big things. Certain tone talking to Last Line: Simply casts brimmed instigation STOVE'S OUT First Line: There is an emptiness that fills Last Line: Unseating a chiffon shock Subject(s): Language Poetry STUMPS First Line: I'm glad what they done to you Last Line: Cruel lull amidst sling of sortie STUNMENT First Line: The bud does not Last Line: Intending a dissolving %object SUNSET SAIL First Line: Blessed are the narrow who slide Last Line: Hardly heard vibrations, potable %allegiance subsumed in the tube SUNSICKNESS First Line: Blame it on resembling, as if it would SURFACE REFLECTANCE First Line: Your job, right at this moment, is to get busy on SWELLED BY CERTAINTY First Line: There are times Last Line: Gust - gush - gulp TAKE THEN, THESE Last Line: Clot, congeal %sans propre, sans intent TAPS First Line: Sometimes I feel grim Last Line: & turn around, & none to go! TASTE IS WHAT COUNTS First Line: Obviously hover hanging on as times is like an icon or Last Line: Press of confusion. I in boundary, the very hum of it TEAM BIAS First Line: Fun, you got TECHNIQUES OF THE OBSERVED First Line: It's a beautiful boat Last Line: You know your're there TENSE First Line: No priority other than the vanished Last Line: Bus to ail's landing TEST OF POETRY First Line: What do you mean by rashes of ash? Is industry Last Line: In no end to envy, does the envy refer to admire or in the bad sense THANK YOU FOR SAYING THANK YOU Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: This is a totally / accessible poem Last Line: It says. It's / real Subject(s): Self; Poetry & Poets; Gratitude THE SHEDS OF OUR WEBS Poem Text First Line: Floating on completely vested time, alacrity Last Line: All, which heave at having had Subject(s): Language Poetry THELONIOUS MONK AND THE PERFORMANCE OF POETRY First Line: What is the status of performance Last Line: An essentially political gesture TO WHICH I NEVER WANTED Last Line: Topology, no ingredient %takes from TODAY'S NOT OPPOSITE DAY Poem Text First Line: Can't say can't not Last Line: It's not time to sleep but it feels like night Subject(s): Change; Conversation; Poetry & Poets TODAY'S NOT OPPOSITE DAY First Line: Can't say can't not Last Line: I'm just a nobody making my way Subject(s): Change; Conversation; Poetry And Poets TOTAL BODY CLEARANCE First Line: The order of immaculate nomenclature TRILL First Line: My voice %which lest lost Last Line: Edges, succeeding %thong TWO STONES WITH ONE BIRD Poem Text First Line: Re- / demption Last Line: For- / ever Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary TYPE First Line: Egregious to %a %fault Last Line: Grey water %laps recede %gusts UMBRE First Line: I sit in a pitch pane panelled kitchen-living Last Line: Was no road approach, but infants is all fishboats UNDER THE PINK TENT First Line: Focus %& the light under the shade Last Line: Ruinous ridges, rumpled %privileges UP HIGH DOWN LOW TOO SLOW First Line: Values like the butter on the table melting Last Line: Quarter for a roll of tens, a dollar %for the slides USE NO FLUKES First Line: Close to stand VANISHING OF APORIA First Line: Slowly as advent %fixed as the mad Last Line: When only invention %keep the VERDI AND POSTMODERNISM First Line: She walks in beauty like the swans VOYAGE OF LIFE First Line: Resistance marries faith, not faith persistence WADING FOR WHAT First Line: Figment %only blinds Last Line: (our) %peripatetic %dissolutions WAIT First Line: This is the way to start a sentence about startling a sentence. Here is Last Line: Among the frolicsome pompadors WHOSE HE KIDDING First Line: What is irony?' said the jesting pilot Last Line: But I know the quiet is %killing me WHOSE LANGUAGE First Line: Who's on first? The dust descends as Last Line: My face turns to glass, at last WHY I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN First Line: One holds these promises (holds YEARS AS SWATCHES First Line: Voice seems YOU Poem Text First Line: Time wounds all heals, spills through Last Line: Hide's felicity depends Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU First Line: Time wounds all heals, spills through Last Line: Hide's felicity depend Subject(s): Language Poetry |
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