|
|
|
|
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BODIES Matches Found: 438 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` , by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The drop caught / in the curl behind your left ear lobe Last Line: Tip of my tongue. Subject(s): Bodies; Details; Love - Erotic; Man-woman Relationships; Shaving; Water; Zen Buddhism; Things; Male-female Relations 7 A.M., A MAN AND A WOMAN, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drive through utah. They're silent Last Line: The sun pulls back toward noon. Subject(s): Absence; Bodies; Colors; Deserts; Food & Eating; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Silence; Travel; Utah; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE SOUL AND BODY, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, who shall from this dungeon raise / a soul enslaved so many ways? Last Line: Green trees that in the forest grew. Subject(s): Bodies; Sickness; Soul; Illness A METAPHYSICIAN DREAMS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I had died and that small analyst Last Line: And found himself again where he began. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Soul; Worms; Dead, The; Nightmares A PSALM FOR EASTER, by MABEL C. MEASE Poem Text First Line: I would sweep clean this house I call myself Last Line: Always that way. Subject(s): Bodies; Easter; Holidays; Singing & Singers; The Resurrection ABOUT CHILDHOOD, by NIN ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I could never remember my childhood, and when therapists Last Line: Folded like cloth napkins in a linen drawer Subject(s): Bodies; Children; Memory ACCIDENT, BEDTIME, by MARY JANE NEALON Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time I loved your rectum Last Line: Forgetting everything, forgetting even my name Subject(s): Bodies; Love ACCOUNTING OF STOCK, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come here, little girl, come here! Last Line: They're so well adjusted for hugging your dad! Subject(s): Bodies; Children; Fathers & Daughters; Childhood ADAM, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was something like a hole in the air Last Line: Wouldn't it be a weapon against all to come Subject(s): Bodies ADAM, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was something like a hole in the air Subject(s): Bodies ADMIRATION, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can human shape so taking be Last Line: Is thus admired like a deity! Subject(s): Admiration; Bodies ADVANCE OF THE DISTINCT BODIES BEHIND THE PARTITION, THE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Under its folds, the frisson of their proximity, the ineluctable %concussion Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies AIDS EDUCATION, SEVENTH GRADE, by RUTH L. SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: The children are blooming like black flowers, Last Line: Shocking in its grace, %fishing for its life. Subject(s): Bodies; Cupid; Death; Sickness ALL TRAINS ARE GOING LOCAL, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowing down your body enough to feel Last Line: Slowing down your body enough to feel Subject(s): Bodies; Activity ALLEGORY OF WATERS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: As she neared the traffic light on I-17 Last Line: Like the spongy brain in fluid, suspended in the head, %in a body 90 percent water Subject(s): Bodies; Water AND NOTHING. THE BODY SLEPT UNDER THE BOW TWO NIGHTS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Prosthesis could be fashioned out of lime, hair, and dung. It could still crow Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies ANDROGYNY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They nestle in the hairs of your chest Last Line: Suckling her thirst at a man's breast. Subject(s): Bodies; Sex ANIMAL, by SHERRY FAIRCHOK Poem Source First Line: In the dark, through my fingertips, I learned my body Last Line: Smoothly, baldly, art had lied to me Subject(s): Bodies; Lies ANNA ANDERSON, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Schizophrenic moon, %half-lit and fat with gravity Last Line: I dance her around the room Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities ANOTHER EPISTLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pray lady harriot the time to assign Last Line: That a body may come to st james' to dine. Subject(s): Bodies; Prayer; Turkeys; Women ANY SOUL TO ANY BODY, by COSMO MONKHOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So we must part, my body, you and I Last Line: Can scarcely tell what I shall do without you. Alternate Author Name(s): Monkhouse, William Cosmo Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Soul; Dead, The APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 2, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My head by the maiden swarthy but fair Last Line: To bear heaven's dispensations. Subject(s): Bodies; Fate; Kisses; Tears; Destiny AROUND THAT WAIST, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Around that waist, scarce bigger than my neck Last Line: Kissed without mercy by a powerful bee. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Bodies AS IF A FIST OF PENNIES HAD BEEN BURIED ALONGSIDE ITS BOWL, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of their facticity, occasion of the angel's wee victory over the beast Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Sex AT LUCA SIGNORELLI'S RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how they hurry Last Line: The open flesh / and mend itself Subject(s): Bodies; Signorelli, Luca (1445-1523); Paintings & Painters BACCHUS AND ARIADNE; 2ND DEBATE BETWEEN THE BODY AND SOUL, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw their lives curl upward like a wave Last Line: I am sure it is this %I am sure Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Ariadne; Bacchus; Bodies; Mythology - Classical; Soul BALLADE: 26, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Greeting to you both in hearty wise Last Line: And hath him recommended to the cat and mouse. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Bodies; Fear; Hope; Love; Soul; Optimism BALLADE: 3, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The restful place, reviver of my smart Last Line: Wherefore with tears, my bed, I thee forsake. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Bodies; Grief; Hearts; Labor & Laborers; Pain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Work; Workers; Suffering; Misery BANGLA DESH: 1, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The festival of massacre: how make it vivid? Last Line: So beware. Because my heart is thirsting for blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Bangladesh; Blood; Bodies; Violence BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, by GILLIAN CONOLEY Poem Source First Line: That the transactions would end Last Line: And someone says, %no, this is my body Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies BECAUSE SHE HAD NO CHILDREN, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Not a month after the tumors %started hatching in her chest Last Line: To be digested, her blood washing %through another heart Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities BEEHIVE, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: I don't know how bees %remember the airy path Last Line: They are going, or who the pilot is Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities BELLY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The belly puts on a bright red wig Last Line: Something like a hiccup, something like a sob Subject(s): Bodies BEYOND LOVE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything menaces us Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Night; Romance; Sleep; Bedtime BEYOND LOVE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything menaces us Last Line: Pause of blood between this time and another without measure Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Night; Romance; Sleep BIRTH, by SULAMITH ISH-KISHOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh god who built this body round my heart Last Line: And shook me forth, a grain of mortal sand! Subject(s): Birth; Bodies; Creation; Mankind; Child Birth; Midwifery; Human Race BLACK GIRL VANISHING: DETROIT, 1970, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the truck crawled up from the river Last Line: Unable to hinder, unable to help: and still %the indifferent traffic keeps roaring past Subject(s): Bodies BLACK SERIES, SELS., by LAURIE SHECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think hands, think mouth, think eyes. Those pieces floating Last Line: When no one can hear. When touched. When scattered. When hidden. %when watched Subject(s): Bodies BLAZON, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How say you're sexy on my centerfold Last Line: The shipments of hills, lakes, clouds Subject(s): Bodies BLOCK PARTY AT THE END OF THE WORLD, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: On my second lap around the buffet, %it's hard to deny the appeal Last Line: Delivering the clear, devastating headline- %anonymous source claims: we are all still here Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities BODIES, by RITA D. COSTELLO Poem Source First Line: The way she crushed her cigarettes Last Line: Crushed into uselessness, there was nor eason left %to hold on Subject(s): Bodies BODIES, by ELIZABETH SPIRES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here, in the half-dark of the sauna Last Line: Will it be given to us to know Subject(s): Bodies; Saunas BODIES AND SOUL, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O! Happy fleshly lips that glow Last Line: And in espousal burnt away! Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Bodies; Love; Soul BODIES OF WATER, by GREG WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Yes, but the body is made of water. That's Last Line: And hundreds of miles of water. Subject(s): Bodies; Water BODIES ON THE WALL, by TOMAS HARRIS Poem Source First Line: On the limed wall through the night, they projected Last Line: In those bodies dismembered by imagination Subject(s): Bodies; Walls BODY, by KILLARNEY CLARY Poem Source First Line: The body says it can put forth. Salt. Maps rising onto skin Last Line: As I fold the grass back from the mark, brush loose topsoil the routes %repel. How dare I? Subject(s): Bodies BODY, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: How slightly earned, the body Last Line: Its plainer importunities Subject(s): Bodies; Likes And Dislikes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mankind BODY, by ALISSA LEIGH Poem Source First Line: Map of terror and pleasure Last Line: Opaque from its own breath on the glass Subject(s): Bodies; Human Behavior BODY, by JANELLE MASTERS Poem Source First Line: The little boy's body is so much Last Line: To get out of this trap. You can't leave your body Subject(s): Bodies BODY, by MABEL ELIZABETH SIMPSON Poem Text First Line: My body is only lent to me Last Line: My body is only lent to me. Subject(s): Bodies BODY ADVICE, by LANCE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: Bathe often, not always with water. Learn Last Line: Hum or swallow, smells that will not wash off Subject(s): Advice; Baths And Bathing; Bodies BODY AND SOUL, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor soul doth to the body say Last Line: Greet him from me a thousand times. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Fate; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny BODY ART, by JOHN KINSELLA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Despite the vagueness of growth, there was nothing Last Line: A teacher saying firmly: 'won't hurt, builds character.' Subject(s): Art And Artists; Bodies BODY BAG, by JAMES PATRICK MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: Here's one %who listened %to his father Last Line: He's all together, %send him home Subject(s): Bodies; Death BODY IS A SUSPECT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Its rights. It is a suspect Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Human Rights; Nudity; Sex BODY LANGUAGE, by ELISABETH RYNELL Poem Source First Line: They say Last Line: And washes itself clean %of dust Subject(s): Bodies; Love BODY MODIFICATIONS, by CATHLEEN CALBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Butterfly parts her long wings / skull and crossbones Subject(s): Bodies; Women BODY OF WATER, BODY OF FIRE, by TOM HANSEN Poem Source First Line: Water wants to get Last Line: Or show us the way Subject(s): Bodies; Fire; Water BODY TAKES OFF ITS JEANS IN THE BARN. WASHES ITS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Waist. Ladder to the loft. Barn light. Bestirred. Benastied. Crow Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies BODY'S COLLOQUY, by GARDNER MCFALL Poem Source First Line: Inspiration to mind Last Line: Servant of sight, take up your pen and write! Subject(s): Bodies; Creative Ability BODY'S CURSE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad to say there's more than one--loneliness Last Line: Question the whole crazy and quarrelsome %conglomeration, and it says touch me Subject(s): Bodies BODY'S HOPE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever lifts the body up -- muscles Last Line: And the back door beckons and the peacocks cry Subject(s): Bodies BODY'S JOURNEY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born, it's not good for much, a vehicle Last Line: Its calming stroke and a loon warbles its cry? Subject(s): Bodies BODY'S JOY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The slick kiss of an oyster slipping Last Line: A barn swallow that twists and flits, a bright %flung thing caught in the vanishing light Subject(s): Bodies BODY'S REPOSE AND DISCONTENT, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the body needs to collect Last Line: Through discontent we make it go, just so %some god someplace can watch it sparkle Subject(s): Bodies BODY'S STRENGTH, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind may not mind death. It means Last Line: And no place left to get to Subject(s): Bodies BODY'S WEIGHT, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bookcase has its books, a horse supports its rider Last Line: Or butterfly wings, and then the darkness begins Subject(s): Bodies BODY, ALIVE, NOT DEAD BUT DORMANT, LIKE A CAVE THAT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Boat, oarless, unmoored, sand pouring out of a canvas bag Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Sleep BODY, REASSEMBLED, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Traffic and people return to the marketplace Last Line: To wander the afterlife, slick in their tendons and skin Subject(s): Bodies; Bones; Future Life BODY/ART, by JON THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: When bodhidarma was asked by the chinese emperor wu Last Line: In the worlds to come Subject(s): Art And Artists; Bodies; China BONEYARD, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These people in the future won't be like us Last Line: Black stumps, blackened foundations, %flat stones with people's names cut into them Subject(s): Bodies BOOKBINDER, MARY L. REYNOLDS, 1891-1950: BODY VALISE, by GLORI SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: This knot inside me is my undoing Last Line: Keep the boxes & casings together Subject(s): Bodies; Privacy BOX OF THE HEART, by SUSAN GRIMM Poem Source First Line: I punish the body for it is my child Last Line: Between the pages of the book we read Subject(s): Bodies BRAIN, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: The brain is an organ Last Line: And (as the schools would day) its form Subject(s): Bodies; Reason BRINK, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son stands at the shore's lip Subject(s): Bodies BRINK, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son stands at the shore's lip Last Line: And won't the story be repeated until we ourselves %take the page and tear it from the book? Subject(s): Bodies BURIAL MOUND, by JOHN MILLETT Poem Source First Line: I don't know who's buried here Last Line: And cold plastic light on the morning's sleeve Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Graves CALIBAN, by MARY JO BANG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me. What I took was an arm, a hand Last Line: With something that's hidden: transform, %transfigure me Subject(s): Bodies CANTO HONDO, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For three days the goat was tied to the stoop Last Line: A long and perilous journey, and why should we %worry and feel sorry when he felt only pride? Subject(s): Bodies CAREERS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How difficult it was to look at them Last Line: Those childless women from their chosen calling Subject(s): Bodies CARIBBEAN BREAST LULLABYE, by KATE SONTAG Poem Source First Line: Take it, now, while the sun is still Last Line: Sapphirine wings, vanish before I change my mind Subject(s): Bodies; Change; Women CASPAR HAUSER SONGS: 7. TO THE BODY, by NEIL AZEVEDO Poem Source First Line: It is you they want. We have never been Last Line: Be puncture and breath, and you will like that Subject(s): Bodies; Insanity CASUALTIES: 24. A PHOTOGRAPH IN THE OBSERVER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night falls over them Last Line: Night falls over us Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Altars; Bodies; Night; Photography And Photographers CAVES, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: At the hour of sleep a woman enters her own body Last Line: Waiting like eggs to begin Subject(s): Bodies; Caves; Women CEZANNE AND THE LOVE OF COLOR, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because his wife refused to miss a dress fitting Last Line: Of color - true representatives of light and air Subject(s): Bodies; Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906) CEZANNE AND THE LOVE OF COLOR, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because his wife refused to miss a dress fitting Last Line: Of color -- true representatives of light and air Subject(s): Bodies CEZANNE AND ZOLA, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At thirteen they were known as the inseparables Last Line: “all day,” a friend said, “we heard the sound of weeping.” Subject(s): Bodies; Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Zola, Emile (1840-1902) CEZANNE AND ZOLA, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At thirteen they were known as the inseparables Last Line: All day,' a friend said, 'we heard the sound of weeping.' Subject(s): Bodies CEZANNE'S A MODERN OLYMPIA--1872, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most women frightened him, their breasts, their beauty Last Line: While before her on a pink sofa obviously at ease %rests cezanne himself unblushing and released Subject(s): Bodies CEZANNE'S AMBITION, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He hungered for the fame of bouguereau Last Line: Of blue sky stretching above it -- oh, blessed escape Subject(s): Bodies CEZANNE'S ANGER, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the building where he worked, a tangle Last Line: When he yanked open his windows and flung the ugly, %the slack or stupid canvas into the ravenous tr Subject(s): Bodies CEZANNE'S COLDNESS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another person's hand upon his arm, the threat Last Line: Some scrap of self with anger. Better to loathe them. %better to spit or they'd stick their hooks in Subject(s): Bodies CEZANNE'S DOUBTS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a hard painter to pose for. Hours stuck Last Line: At the grim and outcast creature he had become Subject(s): Bodies CEZANNE'S FAILURE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His doubt made him impossible to live with Last Line: Before his senses, saying, 'I paint with pleasure %but lack the wealth of color that animates nature Subject(s): Bodies CEZANNE'S FORTRESS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His clothing smelled, he rarely washed, often grumbling Last Line: Of the artist himself. And the critics kept taunting: %'thetriflings of a savage, the daubs of a tra Subject(s): Bodies CEZANNE'S LOVE OF POETRY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nearly friendless, with only a few years to live Last Line: Like what slips by and what one keeps painting for Subject(s): Bodies CEZANNE'S MONTAGNE SAINTE-VICTOIRE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Observing cezanne's paintings of this mountain Last Line: A slope-shouldered pile of stone, bald as a skull, %as if painting himself, painting his stony will Subject(s): Bodies CEZANNE'S OUTRAGEOUSNESS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a child,' mary cassatt said, describing Last Line: I am the only one alive who can paint a red Subject(s): Bodies; Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926); Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Paintings And Painters CEZANNE'S PORTRAITS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In cezanne's portraits of his family it seems Last Line: To put down exactly, because wasn't it also his own: %the desire to escape his enemies, to be alone? Subject(s): Bodies CEZANNE'S SECLUSION, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have begun to think,' he wrote in a late letter Last Line: Into an expression of tenderness, which he dismissed, %writing: 'a vague sense of apprehension persi Subject(s): Bodies CEZANNE'S SUCCESS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girls he followed down the street, the heartbreaks Last Line: Of mind. No jokes, no girls, no wine. The friends %stopped calling. Harsh wind at night, no loving h Subject(s): Bodies CHILDREN, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening the couples came down Last Line: Are deserted. We were their future %and we have erased them from this earth Subject(s): Bodies CHRISTMAS ANTIPHONES: 3. BEYOND CHURCH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye that weep in sleep Last Line: When that day is born. Subject(s): Bodies; Soul; Stars CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Tonight, as she writes at her desk, her mind Last Line: As her hands begin to flutter %like the severed wings of angels Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities CITY OF SEVEN HILLS, by PATRICIA MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Imagine last night, cracking blue crabs Last Line: From row upon row of chaff Subject(s): Bodies; Cities; Women CLEOPATRA, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy hung the night by the dark nile Last Line: And under it the mighty desert moved. Subject(s): Bodies; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) COMING TO A HEAD, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: The head is a finale of flesh and muscle, surge to the finish Last Line: But I can't find myself Subject(s): Bodies; Faces; Heads COMMUNION, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful regia! Your veins are the fermentations Last Line: Already forever far from bethlehem! Subject(s): Blood; Bodies; Eucharist; Mothers CONFESSION, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nazi within me thinks it's time to take charge Subject(s): Bodies CONFESSION, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nazi within me thinks it's time to take charge Last Line: Not noisy. No singing, no dancing, no carrying on Subject(s): Bodies CORIOLANUS: THE BELLY AND THE MEMBERS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a time when all the body's members Last Line: And leave me but the bran Subject(s): Bodies COVERING OF THE BODY, by ANDREA MOORHEAD Poem Source First Line: Following the slow curve of the day, the sinuous folds of air Last Line: Lowing the curve of the day, the sudden ellipsis that trips us as we %bend back our hearts Subject(s): Bodies; Day CRACK IN THE WORLD, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I see the crack in the world Last Line: Walking on the periphery of the world. Subject(s): Birth; Bodies; Mothers; Women; Child Birth; Midwifery CROCKER TOWNSHIP PHYSIOLOGY, by ROBERT TREMMEL Poem Source First Line: Early morning. Candlelight Last Line: Odorous galaxies %burning deep within bone Subject(s): Bodies; Physiology CROWS, FROZEN IN THE SNOW, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Follow 61 south, past selinsgrove Last Line: There is another storm to get things moving Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities CURSE, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: What does it take Last Line: An immense peruvian river, %dark as a wineclot Subject(s): Bodies; Sex; Women DAILIES & RUSHES, by SUSAN KINSOLVING Poem Source First Line: As a stunted woman (you might say Last Line: Falling into flames, I cry 'why? Why not?' Subject(s): Bodies; Women DANCE TO BAAL, by FELIX KOWALEWSKI Poem Text First Line: With lithe young body sheathed in cloth-of-gold Last Line: To greet her lord in virgin arrogance! Subject(s): Bodies; Dancing & Dancers; Gold; Idols; Statues DAY THE WORLD ENDS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day on which the world ends will Last Line: The ring, drags down the already forsaken shade Subject(s): Bodies DE PROFUNDIS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence hast thou gone Last Line: Alma victrix! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Rome, Italy; Soul; Vision; World DECRYPTING THE MESSAGE, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It came to me in the bathroom Last Line: Reclaim the topn / and stand tall Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Bodies; Self; Hair DEDIKATION: 2, by EGITO GONCALVES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I find a web of streets and byways in your flesh Last Line: And then - your crazy laugh/ and the big towel Subject(s): Bodies; Relationships DELICIOUS MONSTROSITY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the flat side of white plastic spatulas Last Line: A little dance as he swiftly departs, licking %drops of blackberry jam from his unshaven lips Subject(s): Bodies DESIRE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman in my class wrote that she is sick Subject(s): Bodies DESIRE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman in my class wrote that she is sick Last Line: In the cell block, steel bolts sliding shut Subject(s): Bodies DIALOGUE BETWEEN BODY AND SOUL, by DIANA O'HEHIR Poem Source First Line: In the ancient egyptian original, soul had the lines glorifying life Last Line: Good is the destiny, good the destruction Variant Title(s): Dialogue Between Body And Soul: Body Answer Subject(s): Bodies; Soul DIALYSIS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: When my stomach floods %like a basement, and breath Last Line: Something picasso would paint, %water pushed through a wave Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities DIFFERENT STROKES BAR, SAN FRANCISCO, by FORREST HAMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe I knew it wouldn't last long, that the joys of us Last Line: Your new and hungry body, you taken away with it Subject(s): Bodies; Dancing And Dancers; San Francisco DINNER PARTY, by LAURA MINOR Poem Source First Line: I left my contacts marinating in the shot glass above the toilet Last Line: Spelling feed me on the good tablecloth Subject(s): Bodies; Eyes DIRE: 14. MENTANA: SECOND ANNIVERSARY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the dead body of hope, the spotless lamb Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Hope; Nations; Dead, The; Optimism DISTANCE, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: Sometimes you want to take distance Last Line: Touches another, or the dark circle %where two people start a fire Subject(s): Bodies; Nature DOMESDAY BOOK: FINDING OF THE BODY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elenor murray, daughter of henry murray Last Line: And know her better, knowing merival. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Fate; Hunting; Life; Dead, The; Destiny; Hunters DOROTHY, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes hold black whips Last Line: Under the flame. Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Eyes; Hair; Hands DOUBLE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arriving home late one night, a man Last Line: He dreams of fighting, he dreams of trucks %roaring their motors throughout the long night Subject(s): Bodies DUSTY APPLES IN A DUSTY KITCHEN. FERNS BRUSHING THEIR, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Through the haulm. Swinging its plums freely. Awhistling Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Lust; Sex ECHOES, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With her tight black leotard a second skin Last Line: She turns and casts her eye, she finds hereself %answering back, lovingly and full of desire Subject(s): Bodies EDWARD AT MAGGIE'S SALOON, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: He's got little soldiers in the eyes Last Line: Full of darkness, in which %his adam's apple leaps Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities ESSAY: AN AMATEUR OF HUMAN ICHTHYOLOGY: HAIRSHIRT WOVEN IN #S, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear person from a practicable point of view Last Line: At the human-to-be-made: an alphabet collar of hairs, woven in white Subject(s): Bodies; Creation; Mankind; Human Race ESSAY: I SAID TO MY LEG: BE STILL, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said to my head: be kingly! Last Line: Of color? The 14 bands of the globe? Subject(s): Bodies; Essays; Legs EXPANSION SLOTS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ground lies muddy and dark down here Last Line: His own death in moscow at the age of sixty-one-- %my friends, I wish you all long lives Subject(s): Bodies EXPULSION, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: The brief upholstery of bone and muscle Last Line: Each alone in its dark tent Subject(s): Bodies; Bones EYELIDS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shy defiers of the existential world Last Line: This is the world to love. There is no other Subject(s): Bodies EYELIDS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shy defiers of the existential world Last Line: This is the world to love. There is no other Subject(s): Bodies FACES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whose are these faces I keep seeing Last Line: So much with us though free of time and space Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Bodies; Childhood Memories; Faces FALLING IN LOVE AFTER FORTY, by RUTH L. SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Yes to the dark, uneven body of each tree Last Line: Lowering its head to lap at our champagne Subject(s): Bodies; Cupid; Death; Sickness FAREWELL TO THE MAIDEN, by KATE DANIELS Poem Source First Line: If the body's a text Last Line: Simply by following a life Subject(s): Bodies; Farewell FARTS, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Presumptuous, misbehaved stigmas Last Line: Comes a gaunt nimbus %of blue flame Subject(s): Bodies; Gas FEET, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brave, the beaten, the shameful ones Last Line: Contortion just right, imagining the audience's %final roar,the curtain descending on its chains Subject(s): Bodies FINGERNAILS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little excavators, postage stamps Last Line: While the silence answers with more silence %and a beetle shoves a pebble up a hill Subject(s): Bodies FIRST DEBATE BETWEEN THE BODY AND SOUL, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The august wind is shambling down the street Last Line: The withered leaves %of our sensations Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Bodies; Soul FLASH III, SELS., by HERBERTO HELDER Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I know the body is an austere Last Line: The wind: %the sound where all begins - the sound Subject(s): Bodies; Sound FOLK TALES, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes looking over your shoulder Last Line: Lie unkissed in their beds, and all through %the city the lights are blinking out Subject(s): Bodies FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER CLOSED SET OF WORDS. I JUST WANT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Yet going door-to-door Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Aging; Bodies FOR THE GOOD COUNSEL NUN, WHO LEFT HER BRAIN TO SCIENCE, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: When the alzheimer's came to call, %when it entered her Last Line: Doing as the nun was trained; turning away %from the reflection in the glass Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities FOR THOSE GROWING OLD, by WINIFRED ADAMS BURR Poem Text First Line: O you who through inexorable years Last Line: That when the body dies, is beauty born! Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Bodies; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness FOUR SONNETS: 4, by LINDLEY WILLIAMS HUBBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now there has come to pass the thing I feared Last Line: Dizzy and sick until the fit has passed. Alternate Author Name(s): Hayasi Shuseki Subject(s): Bodies FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MOURNER'S CONSOLED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead, is he? What's that further than a word Last Line: This then is all your death. Subject(s): Bodies; Consolation; Death; Mourning; Soul; Dead, The; Bereavement FREEDOM, NEVADA, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: A stitch of mountains trims the horizon Last Line: Their wings flag this town. One, crime. One, drought Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities FREIGHT CARS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once, taking a train into chicago Subject(s): Bodies; Railroads; Railways; Trains FREIGHT CARS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, taking a train into chicago Last Line: Come back, call home, we need you Subject(s): Bodies; Railroads FROM THE PERSIAN (2), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are like the moon except Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Love; Nature; Nudity; Women; Nakedness FROM THE PERSIAN (2), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are like the moon except Last Line: Most splendid naked, at night Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Love; Nature; Nudity; Women FROSTED ELFIN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a child, I could look down Subject(s): Bodies FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY, by CATHERINE MOSS Poem Source First Line: Muscle fascia palm life line Last Line: That forget how %to lie still Subject(s): Bodies FURTHER WORK, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Think of the brain Last Line: To the living room, %kitchen, bedroom, bath Subject(s): Bodies; Houses; Reason FUTURE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next day, next week, next year Last Line: And just before it all becomes clear-- %safe at last, we shout, but is nobody there? Subject(s): Bodies GENITALS FIT FATALISM, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Reality decomposes a person's parts Last Line: In the territory of the continuous Subject(s): Bodies; Reproductive System; Self-consciousness GIFT, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: This is what %I will call you: extra Last Line: Everything %that drains %from you %is gold Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities GIFT OF THE BOOK, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lights go off Last Line: Stunned %by the hunger Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Admiration; Bodies; Desire; Night GLARINGLY INSIGNIFICANTLY PREDOMINANTLY FLAT FEARS. GO PUT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Is useless, vitiate it, slay it here. Now Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies GLUTATHIONE CYCLE, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: That night he tossed on his bed, dreamed Last Line: In the mosaic of the body, but I shine Subject(s): Bodies; Dna; Physics GODSPEED!, by JANE BELFIELD Poem Text First Line: Body o' mine - and must I lay thee low? Last Line: "godspeed!" Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Farewell; Soul; Dead, The; Parting HABEAS CORPUS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have the body, blood and bone Last Line: Blood biding the worm and his time Subject(s): Bodies HEART, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its hinges rustless, / restless; opening / and shutting on trust Last Line: To hive our dust! Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Love; Trust HEART TRANSPLANTS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Tonight, I'm thinking of the men Last Line: A pushing out and falling away, %I love you. I am dead Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities HEMISPHERES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in the body you draw near Last Line: Only your mortality. Subject(s): Bodies; Relationships; Spiritual Life HER BODY IN THE LANDSCAPE, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: First it was cursive --, Last Line: Through the bare limbs of trees. Subject(s): Bodies; Murder; Secrets HER BODY INSCRIBES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her body inscribes an arc like a fine metal Last Line: By eaters of large expensive dinners Subject(s): Bodies HERE THAT SAD BODY LIES WITH ITS RUBYMEATED VESTIBULE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Staple it to the armadillo Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Sex HIGH DIVE, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Something in the sun-blurred %paper-faces below Last Line: It is terrible, %it is not so bad Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities HIS BODY, by KILLARNEY CLARY Poem Source First Line: His body is a pendulum, the bob of it. Knot of his arms in leather cord Last Line: Revolves around his shadow, until heat is dislodged and my reach, %atomized Subject(s): Bodies HOLE OF HOLES: WORLD IN THE WORLD OF THE OS, AN ODE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Insubduable opening, lightsource, it opens. This changes everything Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies HOSPITAL WAITING ROOM, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bald, yellow skinned, with only four Last Line: Whether to be lifted up with great rejoicing %or cast down as litter on a barber's floor Subject(s): Bodies HOUSE OF CLAY, by BYRON HERBERT REECE Poem Text First Line: This house of clay I call my body stands Last Line: And quietly draw the blinds and bolt the door. Subject(s): Bodies HOW COULD YOU EVER BE FINE?, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt last night I heard someone speak your name Last Line: People on hard streets dragged to inevitable ends. Subject(s): Bodies; Memory HOW COULD YOU EVER BE FINE?, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt last night I heard someone speak your name Last Line: On whom does it shine now, whom does it welcome? %people on hard streets dragged to inevitable ends Subject(s): Bodies HOW GIRL WAS TOO RECKLESS OF GRAMMAR, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Matilda maud mackenzie frankly hadn't any chin Last Line: Speech is silver and it never should be free! Subject(s): Bodies; Grammar; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HOW IT WAS AT THE END, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The box was set in a hole in the ground Last Line: From the trees to that nothingness called eternity Subject(s): Bodies; Death HOW IT WAS AT THE END, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The box was set in a hole in the ground Last Line: From the trees to that nothingness called eternal Subject(s): Bodies HOW YOU ARE LINKED, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are days when you wake and your body Last Line: The treasure, the curiosity you have passionately %tried to decipher for all the years of your life Subject(s): Bodies HUSK, by KEVIN STEIN Poem Source First Line: It's testament to faith to say I'm not surprised Last Line: But the soul within the husk of us this body is Subject(s): Bodies; Self HYMEN AND DEATH, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sixteen, d'ye say? Nay then 'tis time Last Line: Secure that death will set them loose.' Subject(s): Bodies; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Reproductive System; Women; Youth; Male-female Relations; Sex Organs; Genitalia I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: THE BRIGHTER FLESH, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the center of human Last Line: Between dark between cities Subject(s): Bodies; Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Shadows; Work; Workers; Human Race I HESITATED, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before entering the body factory. I had heard Last Line: Everything the moments, the senses could fleece Subject(s): Bodies; Desire I LOVE YOUR CRAZY BONE, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Even your odds and ends Last Line: Rising and setting inside your shoes %wherever you go Subject(s): Admiration; Bodies; Love I TRAVEL YOUR BODY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I travel your body, like the world Last Line: My glances cover you like ivy Subject(s): Bodies; Pentastichs IMMIGRATION OF THE BODYSNATCHERS, by GEORGE BRADLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They arrived and were so beautiful, it was sad Last Line: And animal glitter of one another's eyes Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies IN A ROW, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mailman handing me a letter Last Line: I paid for that one, that one belongs to me Subject(s): Bodies IN BOLD RELIEF, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: These full independences, these bodies, are children, old and young persons Last Line: That new hotel, that sharp mercury, that heartless kid Subject(s): Bodies IN CONSTRAINTS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: I relish talk about the transcendent imagination Last Line: But still with us within us Subject(s): Bodies; Metaphor IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Don't do it!' I begged her. But she was determined Last Line: Shining, silvery depths Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Grief; Suicide IN PRAISE OF MY PROSTATE, by ROBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: My internist said you are unnaturally large Last Line: For now, the zebras and unicorns will wait Subject(s): Bodies; Men IN THE BEGINNING, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Long before shark fin, the juncture of bone Last Line: Our splitable hearts, our pittance of knowing Subject(s): Bodies; Creation; Mankind IN THE BODY'S OWN WORDS, IT CANNOT LIVE LIKE A VEGETABLE IN, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Urged, but it chooses to celebrate its firing with a smoke Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies IN THE LOCKER ROOM, by PAULA GOLDMAN Poem Source First Line: Undressing I look down, see my belly and hate myself. Don't other Last Line: Over her sparse pubic hair or was that my mother? Where am I in this %picture? Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Bodies; Pictures; Women IN THE OLD DAYS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We didn't have this and we didn't have that Last Line: In such bodies in those days Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Erotic Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Past INAPPROPRIATE GESTURES, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A butcher glances through a bank window and sees Last Line: Ties to the train tracks of tomorrow's locomotive Subject(s): Bodies INFRARED MEDITATION, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Body and memory, poles linked in rapid succession Last Line: Body and memory, what survives your spirited sleep. Subject(s): Bodies; Memory INSPECT US, by EDITH DANIELL Poem Text First Line: Out of the clothes that cover me Last Line: I am the captain of my form. Subject(s): Bodies; Clothing & Dress INTO THIN AIR, by JOYCE SUTPHEN Poem Source First Line: The expense of spirit is, in fact, what Last Line: (beating mind!) of how it will be to fade %into thin air! What expense of spirit! Subject(s): Bodies; Spiritual Life INVASIONS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The abrupt presentiment of illness Last Line: Waking in a house you thought was yours forever Subject(s): Bodies; Sickness; Family Life; Aging INVASIONS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The abrupt presentiment of illness Last Line: Remember that time? A parade of bright mornings, %waking in a house you thought was yours forever Subject(s): Bodies INVOCATION, by DEENA POSY METZGER Poem Source First Line: Some of us have spent our lifetimes Last Line: And somes of us set fires Subject(s): Bodies IT BEGINS IN THE BODY, by TRICIA NAGY Poem Source First Line: Morning and: silence, silence Last Line: The heart, and the one that moves away Subject(s): Bodies; Morning IT HAPPENS LIKE THIS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: One morning, you wake early %to a fluttering in your chest Last Line: How you are beginning to love this world Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities IT WAS A DEFINITE RUPTURE IN THE ZONE IN WHICH THEY, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Hobbled body get to the other shore Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies IT WAS SO LIFELIKE IT WAS UNCANNY, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Were nothing compared to the beat of this wing Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THERE'S A SKELETON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Girl getting out of her red car Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Nature; Skeletons ITS CARELESS POSTURE, ITS LONG TRUNK, ITS HOWLING OS, FOR SO, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Any wool, what on earth could be keeping it Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Love; Love - Complaints JANUS, by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the body we know Last Line: In every seed rising to death Subject(s): Bodies; Life JOHN DILLINGER'S DICK, by ROBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Some say it's pickled Last Line: Could they reveal all %their awesome capability Subject(s): Bodies; Men; Reproductive System JUST BEFORE I FLY OUT OF MYSELF, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Meant to be faithful to us Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Nature; Unfaithfulness KIWI, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: The stubby brown fur of your outside Last Line: Succulence of fruit, a planet Subject(s): Bodies; Fruit; Men LANDSCAPE OF THE INTERIOR, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Within our body lives a multitude of forms Last Line: Rattle in the throat's narrow passageway Subject(s): Bodies; Health; Mankind; Organ Donors; Physiology LANGUAGE OF DREAMS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Gibberish or the curved truth of stones? Last Line: Into the sooting voice of stars, stars, stars Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities LAST REVELATION, by WINIFRED ADAMS BURR Poem Text First Line: Within this strange tenebrous shell Last Line: And deep-sequestered soul of him. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The LAST YEAR THE SNAKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But not her flesh Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Bodies; Girls; Nature; Snakes LATE SHIFT (2), by MELODY GOETZ Poem Source First Line: Imagine the body as a restingplace for the soul-no, a covering, the soul needs Last Line: Yellow; branches wet & black & thin september morning, and I want to walk %& walk & walk Subject(s): Bodies; Soul; Walking LAUGHTER, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a pair of hands can stretch a rubber band Last Line: Black shapes grouped in winter trees, %trying to snatch something of their lives back Subject(s): Bodies LEARNING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Love sniffs and claws like a young rat Last Line: And the instructive mud. Subject(s): Bodies; Explorers; Love; Women LENIN'S BATH, by DANA LEVIN Poem Source First Line: The assistants lift him gently Last Line: Condense with his breath, and the flies lie hungry %in the snow Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Bodies LIKE PEACHES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Change speak sway Last Line: Of perfect nexus - save the epicarp - collect the juices %we orchard Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Fruit; Peaches LINES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dhammapada it is written Last Line: Pride, deceit, decay and death Subject(s): Bodies; Pentastichs LOCKER ROOM CONVERSATION, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are some men my husband never sees Last Line: A couple of friends.-what did you think of that guy? / -what guy, they said Subject(s): Bodies; Men; Nudity; Nakedness LOCKER ROOM CONVERSATION, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are some men my husband never sees Last Line: A couple of friends. - what did you think of that guy? %- what guy, they said Subject(s): Bodies; Men; Nudity LONG STORY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There must have been a moment after the expulsion Last Line: And tack a few meager phrases onto the end Subject(s): Bodies LOOKING FOR HER BODY, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: From across the Last Line: In the twilight looking for her body Subject(s): Bodies; Disappeared Persons LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 28, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is early this year Last Line: Moon, night smells like your body Subject(s): Bodies; Nature; Spring LOVE WAS RISING BETWEEN US, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source Last Line: And finding each other distant Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Love - Complaints; Romance LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 40, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet darling, beloved by me solely Last Line: One soul and body we'll be. Subject(s): Bodies; Love; Soul MADRIGAL, by NICOLAS GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: Your womb is smarter than your head Last Line: Swimming in the zambesi of your eyes Subject(s): Bodies MAP OF SIX STATES: ILLNOIS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: There's no sound chicago %hasn't thought of: it has planes Last Line: And a city the past %would build between us Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MAP OF SIX STATES: INDIANA, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Pocket in the midwestern pants. Lake Last Line: Indiana, we love you. Now go away Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MAP OF SIX STATES: IOWA, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Missouri's headstone. %weather's back room Last Line: All of this is sealed in her. %dusk presses into her face, vermilion Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MAP OF SIX STATES: MINNESOTA, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Its little chimney punching %into canada-sky, this house Last Line: A hand's length above our reach Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MAP OF SIX STATES: OHIO, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: In cleveland, they measure time %by how long it takes wind to blow Last Line: To collect our rented boat Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MAP OF SIX STATES: PENNSYLVANIA, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Four-sided sea, where wide %sky and clouds mean Last Line: Heavy knife signaling on the cutting board %now now now now Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MARCH MORNING, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It could never fly--the heart in its cage Last Line: Of muscle, while the heart heaves us upward, %with lips pursed to kiss the glistening air? Subject(s): Bodies MASSEUSE, by SUSAN TERRIS Poem Source First Line: Her fingers pressing the muscles of my head Last Line: Since I feel loved, all willfulness is held in suspension Subject(s): Bodies MIDNIGHT SUPPER, by RUTH L. SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Because nothing else can be done, Last Line: Waiting clammily in its little foam tray, and began %to pull it apart. Subject(s): Bodies; Cupid; Death; Sickness MOMENTS THE BODY RISES, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heaped powder hushed %grainy seas drift Last Line: Into the cold, blue %bonfires of air Subject(s): Bodies; Love; Relationships MOON WITH BELLS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Atheist moon, she rings bells %for nobody. Twelve strict notes Last Line: Full of self-importance and terribly busy Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MORNING NEWS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Searching for bugs, rolling in the grass Last Line: Their bright chatter as wisps of fog shift %like tattered cloth and soon the foghorns blow Subject(s): Bodies MORPHINE, by TAMA BALDWIN Poem Source First Line: Body in the isolette Last Line: They are always %occupied Subject(s): Bodies; Clouds; White (color) MOTHERS AND HUSBANDS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes we had a half wit among us Last Line: Her body kindly, smiling-I would one day find in my husband Subject(s): Bodies; Marriage; Mothers MOUTH TO MOUTH, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Like trying to blow a feather %from the bottom of a hat Last Line: So they both hovered above the rim %to the deep-hatted other world Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MUCH LESS THE BODY IN PANTIES, THE THINNEST ISSUE OF PISS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Present but for the insistence of vowel points Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Lingerie MUHAMMAD ALI, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: In my gloves there is a place %for two small gods to live Last Line: My right hand seeks forgiveness %for my left hand's rage Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MULIER, by SOLANGE STRONG Poem Text First Line: A woman's body is but magdalene's Last Line: The penny always lurks between her lips. Subject(s): Bodies; Women MUSIC ONE LOOKS BACK ON, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In early autumn, there's a concerto Last Line: And geese, geese flying south out of winter Subject(s): Bodies MY BODY, by MICHAEL HETTICH Poem Source First Line: The first time I met her she was swimming out and couldn't hear me Last Line: Boardwalk fo just one song. They asked if I would sing their song Subject(s): Bodies; Funerals; Parents; Soul MY FATHER'S NIPPLES, by ANDREA ENGLAND Poem Source First Line: The first dry shave Last Line: Careening back into myself Subject(s): Bodies; Fathers; Memory MY GLASS, MY FLOUR, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I drain this white body, froth for your glory Last Line: Our farewell flew away. I am your fragrance. Your neck. Subject(s): Bodies MY GRANDMOTHER'S FALSE TEETH, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: When she pulled them from her mouth Last Line: There was nothing to be afraid of Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MY MOTHER AT SECRETARIAL SCHOOL, 1967, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Now is the time for all young mothers %to jump to the aid of their children Last Line: Slide of a u or j, and the I, %with its own address, %orphaned and unafraid Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities NAMING OF THINGS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: We name the world to console ourselves Last Line: List the ways of longing, spell out our loneliness %in the nominal world Subject(s): Bodies; Consolation; Soul NAMING PARTS, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A body has been discussed between them Last Line: Someone is cared for who is past caring. Somewhere Subject(s): Bodies; Love – Complaints NEAR THE MISSISSIPPI, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: August stretches into fall. Clouds spread Last Line: And you, in a crude garment of skin, are not Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities NEWS ITEM: MAN RECEIVES FIRST HAND TRANSPLANT, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Even before surgery, the patient decided Last Line: The patient into the hallway, leaving the o.R. %dark and empty as a cave Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities NINE BLACK POPPIES FOR CHAC, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The junta was jubilant around the mortised fountain Last Line: Irrigating pink in the eternal spring rains. Subject(s): Bodies; Faith; Murder; Poppies; War; Belief; Creed NO IMAGES, by WARING CURNEY Poem Text First Line: She does not know / her own beauty, Last Line: And dish water gives back no images. Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Dancing & Dancers; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity NO MAP, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How close the clouds press this october first Last Line: Showing the dark places and how to escape them? Subject(s): Bodies NON-VERBAL AUTISTIC MAN, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Arrows in the carpet mark where his feet go Last Line: Arrows in the carpet mark what his feet know %from the kitchen to the bedroom window Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities NOSCE TEIPSUM: WHICH IS A PROUD, AND YET A WRETCHED THING, by JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626) Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I know my body's of so frail a kind Last Line: Which is a proud, and yet a wretched thing. Variant Title(s): A Proud And Yet A Wretched Thing Subject(s): Bodies; Self NOSES, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little emissary to tomorrow Last Line: Between these sweet upside down heart shapes? Subject(s): Bodies NOTE TO JOHN FROM A GROVE NEAR SALISBURY, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: August brings a fever of moths Last Line: Drawing in and turning loose the air Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities NOVEMBER HUNTERS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Winter fields are blank, cleared of all humanity Last Line: Let go, then fill a chest with feathers Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities NOW ON TO GHAZAL GULCH, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When did you last see your criteria?' Last Line: "souls free of the body" Subject(s): Bodies; Soul O HADA CIBERNETICA: 14, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: Oh nourishing capsule, yet of dust Last Line: In that nutritious pill of dust Subject(s): Bodies; Relationships OF SPIRITS AND SPINES, by KATHY COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Bending double could impair perspective Last Line: To clink like keys in the rusty lock of her bondage Subject(s): Bible; Bodies ON SHADOWS, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: It was september, it was where shadows gnaw the branches Last Line: How can one hold on to it, without degrading it Subject(s): Bodies; Old Age ON THE EVE OF THEIR MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The body would open its legs like a book Last Line: Though never in the wake of its flensing Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Variant Title(s): On The Eve Of Our Mutually Assured Destructio Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Bodies; Nuclear War; Sex ON THE MORN OF, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The body would shut its eyes like blinds Last Line: Except in the wake, the wake of Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies ON THE ROAD, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The fascination of flesh,' the stranger said, 'lies in the fact Last Line: Beauty is a glimpse on the road to putrefaction.' Subject(s): Bodies; Decay; Temptation ONE WENT SO FAR AS TO SEND AWAY FOR ANOTHER BODY, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Perturbation in the system of the body left akitchen gnawing on its hinges Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies ONE-LEGGED MAN, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: In the bath tub he feels it, or its weight Last Line: Gangrene without knowing what it meant Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities ORACLE AT DELPHI, by ELENI Z. AUERBACH Poem Source First Line: I keep writing about bones as if Last Line: The stones are full of buzzing %in this heat Subject(s): Bodies; Bones ORIGINS OF ASSEMBLAGE AND BIONIC PARTS, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: Say it right. It starts with Last Line: Are state-of-the-so-called-art Subject(s): Bodies OZARK ODES: LAKE RETURN, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe you have to be from there to hear it sing Last Line: I lower my gaze against your clitoral light Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies PAIN WITHOUT WALLS: PROGRESSIVE PAIN: EFFACEMENT OF WALLS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Move out now: let's move: every body let's go: every: body: gone: %leaving such a hole Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Pain PANTIED ONE SAID NOTHING, NOT EVEN ITS OWN NEWLY, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Second's thought about its own rotted body Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Native Americans PARTITION SEPARATES IT FROM OTHER BODIES: A CALM IS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Is: golden: of the blind: they are: kings Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Calm; Love PARTS OF THE BODY, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Legs ss Last Line: Head p Subject(s): Bodies PERSPIRATION, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poor dear / looked dreadfully bored Last Line: Cambric kerchief? Subject(s): Bodies; Life; Perspiration; Soul; Sweat PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA, by ANNE RIDLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The body is not fallen like the soul Last Line: Not humbled by his human birth Subject(s): Bodies; Paintings And Painters; Piero Della Francesca (1420-1492) PITCH OF THE BODY UNBENT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The frisson of their proximity, the ineluctable concussion Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Variant Title(s): Advance Of The Distinct Bodies Behind The Partition, Th Subject(s): Bodies PLAYING YORICK, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Dying? That's a matter of wardrobe Last Line: As a foreshadowing, a sample %of what's to come, an hors d'oeuvre Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities POEM WITH SKIN, by OCTAVIO ARMAND Poem Source First Line: Share fear. Repeat with one lip what Last Line: Open it, touch, and the world will be yours %or you Subject(s): Bodies; Poetry And Poets; Skin POET DONATES HER BODY TO SCIENCE, by CHRISTINA DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Come in, this skin is for you Last Line: Door to oblivion. Let the dark in- %divisible out Subject(s): Bodies; Science POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 4. LES PAPILLONS NOIRS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A black sedan draws along the woods stopping Last Line: "what to throw away." Subject(s): Bodies; Daffodils; Habits; War; Women PROOF, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The body's fear is to be forcibly overthrown Last Line: Pain corroborates the world. His body's %taste between his teeth proved he was alive Subject(s): Bodies PROVINCES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where the old trees reign with their forward dark Last Line: Walking up and down the aisles, not putting a thing in its basket Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies PROVISION FOR THE HIGHER OZONE BODY, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A beaker of yeast Subject(s): Bodies; Reason; Spiritual Life; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals PROVISION FOR THE HIGHER OZONE BODY, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A beaker of yeast Last Line: At the pitch of the transmuted ozone body Subject(s): Bodies; Reason; Spiritual Life RAVINE, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: As they come Last Line: You point %to your head Subject(s): Bodies; Guns; San Francisco; Sleep; Vietnam RECEIVERS OF THE WORLD'S ATTENTION, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the shoes that show the breaking point Last Line: A new black pump with the heel snapped off Subject(s): Bodies RELEASE, by AUGUSTA WRAY Poem Text First Line: In the dark and tranquil stillness of the night Last Line: When sleep, or death, gives them their liberty. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The REPETITIVE HEART: 9, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy bear who goes with me Last Line: Amid the hundred millions of his kind, %the scrimmage of appetite everywhere Variant Title(s): The Heavy Bea Subject(s): Animals; Bodies; Mortality RESPITE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mighty conflict, which we call existence Last Line: Grant us a respite in the grave between. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Bodies; Life; Sea; Soul; Ocean RETURN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The body of her eyes Last Line: That brings you the sea. Subject(s): Bodies; Eyes; Sea; Ocean RHYME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isn't it good she asked (as Subject(s): Bodies; Love; Passion RHYME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isn't it good she asked (as Last Line: Our bodies love each other too? Subject(s): Bodies; Love; Passion RIFFS AND RECIPROCITIES REDUX: BODIES, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The good zoo of them, the names we could name them if we dared Last Line: Taphs, I'd want mine to read: it rattled its cage. It wouldn't be appeased Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Bodies RIGHT LIVELIHOOD, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: We're all said and done, our forms hardened, our anatomy indisputable Last Line: Oceans open up like giant pocketbooks, mother air tucks us in Subject(s): Bodies; Mankind ROCKY, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Rocky and mickey argue with a door between them Last Line: Bag hearts keep boxing in their little rings Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities ROMANCE, by BRIAN MOONEY Poem Source First Line: In bed, with a beer can about to spill Last Line: On their way to something awful, I'm sure Subject(s): Bodies ROMANIAN POET, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Because she was not born into english, and because Last Line: Calling the night into her small room Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities ROOTLESS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He must have been born with greased feet Last Line: Where he has come from and what lies ahead Subject(s): Bodies ROOTLESS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He must have been born with greased feet Last Line: Where he has come from and what lies ahead Subject(s): Bodies SEMELE RECYCLED, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After you left me forever Last Line: Its birth and rebirth and decay. Subject(s): Bodies; Reunions; Semele (mythology); Women; Women's Rights; Feminism SET OF DENTURES, A SMOKESTACK, A KNOLL, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Outdoors in august, laboring all day in his garden, he's shirtless Last Line: Which were born with nothing we cannot bear Subject(s): Bodies; Men; Old Age SHAVING, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is really the most minuscule thing Last Line: Floating, and then they're gone of course Subject(s): Bodies SHE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The body has its own story -- she said -- oh yes? -- I said Last Line: The body wins Subject(s): Bodies; Conversation SHE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The body has its own story -- she said -- oh yes? -- I said Last Line: Vis-a-vis -- the end middle beginning -- and the body argues hers -- yes -- she said but -- let's fa Subject(s): Bodies; Conversation SHI'UR KOMA: THE MEASURE OF THE BODY, by ISHMAEL BEN ELISHA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the measure of the stature spoken in the book of measure Subject(s): Bodies; Mysticism - Judaism SHRILL, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like an abandoned car, engine gone Last Line: A writer, and her father, a rabbi--kind people %for whom her cry goes on undiminished Subject(s): Bodies SIDEWALK CHALK FIGURES, by JOEL FRIEDERICH Poem Source First Line: Sophie and olivia scrawled in abundant Last Line: Reach back through to complete a face Subject(s): Bodies SIMPLE RULES OF COMMON SENSE, by MAY RICHSTONE Poem Source First Line: When we're wise enough to follow them Last Line: Our body finds ways of spanking us Subject(s): Bodies; Reason SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES 8TH GRADE: THE FAMILY JEWELS, by DAVID CITINO Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning he put man's parts Subject(s): Bodies; Christianity; Passion SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES 8TH GRADE: THE FAMILY JEWELS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning he put man's parts Last Line: And profane, the family jewels Subject(s): Bodies; Christianity; Passion SIX WEEKS BEFORE YOU DIED, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: In new mexico, %we walk into a canyon of horses Last Line: In the sand, altering the shape of the dust %in the decaying air Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities SKELETON, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That human pyramid those circus Last Line: Cranks up and the lions, like a whiff of ruin, %dismember the complacency with their roars Subject(s): Bodies SLIPPING AWAY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It could be like one of those dreams Last Line: And across it is printed whose name? Subject(s): Bodies SOME BODIES ARE LIKE FLOWERS, by LUIS CERNUDA Poem Source Last Line: Are not worth a willing love Subject(s): Bodies; Emotions; Hearts; Life SONG ABOUT MAN, by EDVARD KOCBEK Poem Source First Line: Incapable of being, except in our body, collected, girded, suffering force Last Line: And joy, oblivion and the gift, within them man, unique Subject(s): Bodies; Mankind SPECIALIST, by BEN WILENSKY Poem Source First Line: The blond haired boy is a specialist, a body bagger Last Line: And crawls inside his body bag Subject(s): Bodies; Death SPITE, by CHARLES OWEN LAWSON Poem Source First Line: That morning when I woke up Last Line: And you can cut off your nose with your hands. %that's a fact Subject(s): Bodies; Noses; Poetry And Poets SPLEEN, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, much maligned one, meager hunkerer Last Line: The one, our burden, and the other, our dream Subject(s): Bodies STILL LIFE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Astride the boney jointed ridge Last Line: The whole dry world's gaping misery Subject(s): Bodies; Breasts; Women STREET INSTRUCTIONS: AT THE CROTCH, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While walking toward housewife wielding baby Last Line: "let it all move. Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Bodies; Sex SUMMARY TREATMENT, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They lopped off the limb Last Line: Had long taken over his body Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Bodies; Organ Donors SUMMER EVENINGS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I finish my wine, I think of my friends Last Line: The solitary journey made by each of us, %rushing streams, broad rivers, unknown seas Subject(s): Bodies SUPPORT, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Been having trouble with Last Line: My bowen redhawk 45. %gets me by Subject(s): Bodies SURPRISE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a man with a trowel can smear wet concrete Last Line: And with what further disguises and gray %substitutions will the years malign my bones? Subject(s): Bodies SUSANNAH TO THE ELDER, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Eyes that pierced my nakedness Last Line: Crush the juice from one Subject(s): Bodies; Nudity; Old Age; Relationships; Youth SWAY, by ELIZABETH KIRSCHNER Poem Source First Line: Salamanders drift Last Line: In soft surprise %love aches and latitude Subject(s): Bodies; Lizards SWEAT, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lacrimae [or lachrymae] of the body, for whom do you weep? Last Line: Dark circles stain its clothes beneath the armpits Subject(s): Bodies; Perspiration SWEATER, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: In november, when the family of tumors %decided it would stay in the chest Last Line: Catheter wormed through the collar, %and drained the river of his voice Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities SWEET WILLIAMS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: All day they purple. %all day the sweetness Last Line: The world silently burning, %what we've come to live for? Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities TARIM REPENTS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul once was pagan Last Line: That I may not forget. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The TENEMENT BODY, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air swells - pure burn; the windows sweat Subject(s): Bodies; Fire TENEMENT BODY, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air swells - pure burn; the windows sweat Last Line: A thrill of combustion, its wings awash in ash Subject(s): Bodies; Fire THAT HAPPY MOMENT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In that happy moment when loving bodies tire Last Line: Loving bodies %scavenged and ate each other. Subject(s): Bodies; Devil; Night; Sex THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 3. ON WASHING, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Against the rigours of a damp cold heaven Last Line: To lose a husband's than a lover's heart. Subject(s): Blood; Bodies; Health; Love; Skin THE BODY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I had dreamed and dreamed what woman's beauty was Last Line: Over age that darkens, and griefs that destroy? Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Flowers; Roses; Women THE BODY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The body is the soules poor house, or home Last Line: Whose ribs the laths are, & whose flesh the loame. Subject(s): Bodies THE BODY, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Body, whence come mind and soul? Last Line: Flood-gate of the race: and shores of my sea of spirit. Subject(s): Bodies THE BODY BREAKING, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been wiping the clear lens Last Line: That I know of Subject(s): Bodies THE BODY'S HOPE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever lifts the body up -- muscles Last Line: But eagerness to plunge into the next second Subject(s): Bodies THE BODY'S JOURNEY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born, it's not good for much, a vehicle Last Line: Its calming stroke and a loon warbles its cry? Subject(s): Bodies THE BODY'S JOY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The slick kiss of an oyster slipping Last Line: Flung thing caught in ther vanishing light Subject(s): Bodies THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#1): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man can balance a glass of water on his head without trembling Subject(s): Bodies; Corpses; Death; Cadavers; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#15): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND RIGOR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think it's funny, the dead man being stiff? Last Line: You think it's hilarious, comedy upstanding, crackers to make sense of? Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Humorists; Dead, The THE BRIDGE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dawn light these white girders Last Line: Return to yourself. Subject(s): Bodies; Bridges; Death; Dead, The THE BRUISED HEEL, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the heat, as they float over earth, of infectious / stars Last Line: His infinite way is, his joy in the way so strong! Subject(s): Bodies; Health THE DEBATE OF THE BODY AND THE SOUL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "it chanced, as on a winter's night, / I drowsing lay, ere dawn of day" Last Line: "that he serve with perfect heart / father, son, and spirit!" Subject(s): Bodies;soul THE DISPUTE OF THE HEART AND BODY OF FRANCOIS VILLON, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who is this I hear? Lo, this is I, thine heart Last Line: I say no more. -- I care not though thou cease. -- Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Villon, Francois (1431-1463) THE ECSTASY [EXTASIE], by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where, like a pillow on a bed Last Line: Small change, when we're to bodies gone. Subject(s): Bodies; Love; Soul THE FLAMINGO, by LEWIS GAYLORD CLARK Poem Text First Line: Oh! Tell me have you ever seen a red, long-leg'd flamingo? Last Line: A water bird, a gawky bird, a sing'lar bird, by jingo! Subject(s): Bodies; Flamingos; Voices THE GROOMING, by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the branches of the elm Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Bodies; Cleanliness; Soul; Showers & Showering THE HUMAN FROM DIVINE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The human contours are so easily lost Last Line: To trace in chaos the contours of your beloved form! Subject(s): Bodies; Love; Soul THE IMAGE IN LAVA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou thing of years departed! Last Line: It must, it must be so! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Archeology; Bodies; Women THE INDIAN QUEEN: SONG OF AERIAL SPIRITS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor mortals that are clog'd with earth below Last Line: They slide to us and air. Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; World; Songs THE LINES OF HER WARY BODY..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lines of her wary body lure the eye Last Line: Till love clear cool of passion and of hate! Subject(s): Bodies; Storms; Thought; Thinking THE LOST BATTLE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not over yet -- the fight Last Line: Courage, it is not over yet. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Names; Night; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 28, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is early this year Subject(s): Bodies; Nature; Spring THE LOVER HAVING DREAMED OF ENJOYING HIS LOVE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unstable dream, according to the place Last Line: Such mocks of dreams they turn to deadly pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 79;sonnet: 27 Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Pain; Dead, The; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery THE PERSON, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sacred limbs Last Line: Shall themes become, and organs of thy praise. Subject(s): Bodies THE PLAN IS THE BODY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bodies THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 142, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People think the body's their root Last Line: You'll make bodhisattvas sick Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Bodies; Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Reason; Buddha; Buddhists; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PRECISION, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is modesty in nature. In the small Last Line: With skill from one to the next, singing Subject(s): Bodies; Modesty; Love THE PROOF, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The body's fear is to be forcibly overthrown Last Line: Taste between his teeth proved he was alive Subject(s): Bodies THE RIVER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt both pleasure and a shiver Last Line: We'd found by plunging into the wild river. Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Pleasure; Rivers; Swimming & Swimmers; Male-female Relations; Swimmers THE SONG OF SONGS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair woman's body is a song Last Line: Be thinner than befitting. Subject(s): Bodies; Nature; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs THE SONNETS OF ISHTAR: 4, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For me, the eldest and the loveliest god Last Line: Leaving his outworn body for my food. Subject(s): Bodies; Flowers; Soul; Women THE SOUL TO THE BODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old mate, who long hast friended me Last Line: I may behold thee face to face! Subject(s): Bodies; Friendship; Peace; Singing & Singers; Soul; Tears; Time; Songs THE STUPID OLD BODY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not pay too much attention to the stupid old body Last Line: Which alone after all is death. Subject(s): Bodies; Religion; Theology THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 10, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the westborne snow shall come a memory Subject(s): Bodies; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Sex; Male-female Relations THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 14, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You alone, / a white robe over your naked body Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Dreams; Past; Nightmares THEN DIG. CURL ITSELF UP AT THE APPROACH OF WHEELS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: This mention, the accidental %eden of its words Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Erotic Love THIN COMMAND, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The cut in the aged finger heals Last Line: When the injury is the soul. Subject(s): Bodies; Pain; Suffering; Misery THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 10, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the westborne snow shall come a memory Last Line: Spring's flesh in my hands Subject(s): Bodies; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Sex THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 14, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You alone, %a white robe over your naked body Last Line: Through the dreams of twenty years Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Dreams; Past THOUGHTS AT THIRTY-THOUSAND FEET, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The penny holds out its little promise Last Line: Like a locked door against the earth %to keep the whole mess from exploding Subject(s): Bodies THREE DOCTORS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Each morning they surround my chart Last Line: They stepped cautiously to the hall Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities TO C. P., by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her spirit's loveliness was such Last Line: That now are grey with tears for me. Subject(s): Bodies; Eyes; Tears TO H. H., by LUCILE ENLOW Poem Text First Line: Your soul bears the same resemblance to a healthy soul Last Line: Chained to a starved soul, beautiful and dead. Subject(s): Bodies; Soul TO HER BODY, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Regardful presence! Whose fix'd majesty Last Line: Itself like thee would rest, like thee would move. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Bodies TO MY LADY, by THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHERIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twine, lanken fingers, lily-lithe Last Line: Then -- kiss me, lady grisoline! Alternate Author Name(s): Anstey, F. Subject(s): Bodies; Kisses; Women TO THE BODY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you are far away Last Line: Knowledge of being loved Subject(s): Bodies TO THE PUPPET, WIND, by GORDON JOWERS Poem Text First Line: Blow, blow, I defy you, wind Last Line: From going where my fancy wishes. Subject(s): Bodies; Freedom; Puppets; Wind; Liberty; Marionettes TONGUE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it you who have destroyed me, sweetness Last Line: Still ascendent, embracing the compromise %that elevates death as the inevitable draw Subject(s): Bodies TORTURE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing has changed Last Line: While the body is and is and is 5and has no place to go Subject(s): Bodies; Capital Punishment; Pain TOTING IT UP, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He bought one pair of boots, then another Last Line: In the distance, that brightly disappearing speck Subject(s): Bodies TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AS A WOMAN OF A MAN, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Democracy! Last Line: I will conceive by thee, democracy. Subject(s): Bodies; Democracy; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE BODY AND THE BOOK, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chambers are all in order; all the doors stand open Last Line: Then come thou forth to where I wait for thee. Subject(s): Bodies; Books; Reading TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE BODY WITHIN THE BODY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When life like a ghastly panorama stretches before the eye of the spirit Last Line: And the source of all the light in the universe. Subject(s): Bodies; Religion; Soul; Spirituality; Theology TRAFFIC, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was driving to pick up my daughter from day care Last Line: And I would thrust my fingers into the grass %and hang there, arching my back and quick of breath Subject(s): Bodies; City Traffic TWO COMAS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: In a small room, just beyond the sleep-house Last Line: They sleep with the dark juice %of never waking on their tongues Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities TWO JOURNEYS, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: A short step from birth to death Last Line: The grain of innocence. Subject(s): Aging; Bodies; Life TWO PANELS: AS WHEN, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As when, flesh upon flesh, we tried to make our bodies Last Line: Where the eyes were, where the eyes on the skin of the snake were Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Love UNHOLY SONNET, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I need an image for the soul and choose Last Line: Choose something else entirely if I could Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 3 Subject(s): Bodies UPON HIS JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will ye heare, what I can say Last Line: The other parts will richly please. Subject(s): Bodies UPON THE THEME OF LOVE: THE BODY, A FANCY, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nerves are france, and italy, and spain Last Line: Where life, which passes through, great danger finds. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Bodies; Heads; Humanity; Life; Skin UTOPIAN MELODIES, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a stone has a sense of its hardness Subject(s): Bodies UTOPIAN MELODIES, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a stone has a sense of its hardness Subject(s): Bodies VASES OF WOMBS, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: For a long time, %I've thought about this body of mine Last Line: I'm melted into earth and planted as a garden Subject(s): Bodies; Man-woman Relationships; Women VELOCITY, by EMILY FRAGOS Poem Source First Line: I once outran my own body Last Line: Detached in the vanishing light Subject(s): Bodies WAL-MART SESTINA, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Saturday mornings, they drive to wal-mart, usually Last Line: A radio, or a filing cabinet where later she will alphabetize %his poems Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities WALKING FIELDS AT NIGHT SOUTH OF HAMPTON, IOWA, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: The last of the year's wheat is drought-bruised and bolted Last Line: I say, if there never were stars I would %not miss them Subject(s): Bodies; Fields; Iowa; Physical Disabilities; Walking WALLS TO PUT UP, WALLS TO TAKE DOWN, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old madhouse in santiago stood tucked back Last Line: Leaving just the city, its constant jittery motion Subject(s): Bodies WALTER MONDALE AT MCDONALD'S, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: He seems to hover above the strict geometry of tiles Last Line: The styrofoam lid, the box was empty Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities WE HAVE BODIES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To make palpable the bitter Last Line: Beautiful and bitter Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies WHAT CAN I SAY ABOUT HANDS?, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: That they are there, dangling Last Line: Them home, and the mind %thanks them with feeling Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities WHAT LIGHT?, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I know my body well Last Line: What light shall smile my spirit forth? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Bodies; Mankind; Human Race WHAT WE BELIEVED ABOUT THE BODY, by SHANNON BORG Poem Source First Line: Let us begin with bones, how none should be boiled Last Line: Let us begin to think the heart like any other muscle Subject(s): Bodies; Reason WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT EARLIER, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve murderers are eating their dinners Last Line: The ones you should have thought about earlier. %ring ding goes the doorbell. Welcome to crazy times Subject(s): Bodies WHEN I WAS ALIVE ..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was alive--only glimpses Last Line: Of my skin and stepped out? Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Soul WHERE BODIES GAIN A SOUL ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It needs a spark or two of gold before Last Line: And bodies gain a soul and find a man! Subject(s): Bodies; Soul WHERE WE GO, by OLGA ABELLA Poem Source First Line: When I pass people Last Line: Belly-up like fish abandoned in the air Subject(s): Bodies WHILST THE ONE BODY REFERRED TO ITS WOUND AS IT ANOTHER, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: At least not in mixed company Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Sickness WHY I FORGIVE MY YOUNGER SELF HER TRANSGRESSIONS, by RUTH L. SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Maybe it's the time I spend in high school classrooms Last Line: Saying here, now: this time, this place. Subject(s): Bodies; Cupid; Death; Sickness WINTER FARM, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: In the first half-sleep past the equinox Last Line: Or the confession a river makes across stones Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities WRIST, by ANNIE LEE Poem Source First Line: Your wrist speaks to me Last Line: To sleep at the nape of my neck Subject(s): Bodies; High School Students; Love; Seduction; Teenagers YOUR FURY, by JANICE GOULD Poem Source First Line: With what fury %you beat against me Last Line: Against my hot %and frightened body Subject(s): Bodies; Sexual Harassment YOUR LOVE TURNED MY BODY, by DORIS LYNCH Poem Source Last Line: With smoke. With bear. With the black arms of crows Subject(s): Bodies; Love YOUTH AND NIGHT, by WILBUR UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the shining stars Last Line: Of this strange shadowed world. Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Night; Peace; Youth; Bedtime ZINNIAS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Every spring their orange %arrows appear not far Last Line: North, and these flowers will resume %giving their fire away Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities |
|