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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CALIFORNIA Matches Found: 474 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 22-NOV-88, by ISHMAEL REED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In california %the day looks as though it's seen a ghost Last Line: Fox trot at the inaugural %ball Subject(s): California A CALIFORNIA CHRISTMAS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold where beauty walks with peace! Last Line: Between this land and paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): California; Christmas; Life; Nativity, The A CALIFORNIA IDYL, by ERNEST MCGAFFEY Poem Text First Line: A road-runner dodged through the chaparral Last Line: And dashed his beak through the rattlesnake. Subject(s): California; Roadrunners; Geococcyx Californianus A CALIFORNIA SONG, by CLARENCE THOMAS URMY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come to you with a gift in my hand Last Line: The scent of the fields where the poppies grow. Subject(s): California; Flowers; Poppies A CALIFORNIAN'S DREAMS, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thunder-storm of the olden days Last Line: With the youth and life and love they held? Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): California; Storms; Landscape A GOLDEN DREAM, by KATHRYN ROESER DUNLAP Poem Text First Line: The sun came out of the east Last Line: And found a place in the west. Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Frontier & Pioneer Life; West (u.s.); Gold Rush; Forty-niners; Southwest; Pacific States A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED, by CHARLES SAMUEL GREENE Poem Text First Line: What moved me most, dear friend, that happy day Last Line: The brooding presence of the paraclete. Subject(s): Graves; San Fernando, California; Tombs; Tombstones A LONG WAY OUTSIDE YELLOWSTONE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the tracks in cheyenne, behind the biggest billboard Last Line: Wondering if hers is among them. Or perhaps not Subject(s): Denver, Colorado; Sacramento, California; Wyoming; Yellowstone National Park A MENDOCINO MEMORY, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in my lonely, eager youth I rode Last Line: Bearing the pines hewn out of oregon. Subject(s): Mendocino, California; Travel; Journeys; Trips A PECK OF GOLD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Dust always blowing about the town Last Line: We all must eat our peck of gold.' Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Dust; Gold Rush; Forty-niners A SONG AT THE WINEPRESSES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the end of the grape Subject(s): Nature; Santa Barbara, California A STRANGE NEW COTTAGE IN BERKELEY, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All afternoon cutting bramble blackberries off a tottering brown fence Subject(s): Home; Berkeley, California A WEDDING-DAY GALLOP (EARLY CALIFORNIA), by IRENE HARDY Poem Text First Line: Gallop with me, love, away and away Last Line: Together, together, and always to be. Subject(s): California; Home; Horseback Riding; Love; Marriage; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips AFTER READING SABINES, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At fifty, the excitement recedes Last Line: And we're gone Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California AFTER WEIDENFELLER GOES, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's goin' to be blamed lonesome after Last Line: We'll sit around an' say it's jest 'cause weidenfeller's gone. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): California; Idaho AKHMATOVA, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Poet, still pool Last Line: In the depths of your embrace %silence Subject(s): Bolinas, California ALONE WITH THE OLD FARMER'S WIFE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: By the doorway I hear him Last Line: To hold %each blossom Subject(s): California; Cities ALONG THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT, ALONG THE SANTA FE TRAIL, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): California AMERICA, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: A father Last Line: To tears at the gentleness %of men Subject(s): Bolinas, California AN HOUR OF IDLENESS; IN THE SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS, by MARION CUMMINGS Poem Text First Line: To lie here prone, wholly at rest Last Line: (I know the lore of fairies) on fern seed. Subject(s): Nature; Santa Cruz Mountains, California AS A CHILD I USED TO WANDER, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source Last Line: Though I don't go to the track I don't even play cards Subject(s): Bolinas, California AS FOR FIGHTS, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: As for fights, I've had only a few Last Line: Since then -- nothing, though I think of it every so often Subject(s): Bolinas, California ASIAN ZODIAC, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Love in the twelfth sign Last Line: So surely %past our possibility Subject(s): California; Cities AT THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, by RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): California Institute Of Technology; Knowledge; Learning AUGUST IN MILL VALLEY, by ELEANOR PRESTON WATKINS Poem Text First Line: The brook is singing a slumber song Last Line: But rose-haws and august are glowing red in the sun! Subject(s): Mill Valley, California AUTUMN IN CALIFORNIA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn in california is a mild Subject(s): California; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) AUTUMN IN CALIFORNIA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn in california is a mild Last Line: Loud, wiry, and tremulous Subject(s): California; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) AUTUMN IN CARMEL, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now with a sigh november comes to the brooding Subject(s): Autumn; Carmel, California; Seasons AVATAR, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The imperceptible Last Line: And there you are Subject(s): California; Magic; Names BACHELOR'S UNWRITTEN LETTER TO JAPAN, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: The old man feels lucky tonight Last Line: Through the dark to his home Subject(s): California; Cities BALLAD OF THE GOLD COUNTRY, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the hill the gold sand burned Last Line: "upon another day!" Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold; Vines & Vineyards; Gold Rush; Forty-niners BEACH BALL, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My body lived briefly in the pupils of a dog Last Line: His pointy ears falling down in sadness Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California BECAUSE THE RHYTHM OF THE BALLAD DEPENDS ON THE BASS, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: More than ever I hear a slow bass line Last Line: After all is only a man Subject(s): California; Cities BEFORE BRUCE LEE THERE WAS TOSHIRO MIFUNE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Toshiro, you were so much more to me Last Line: In your every step -- no one came close Subject(s): California; Cities BEFORE TAMALPAIS, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over tamalpais the sun / sinks, his daily journey done Last Line: And be happy while we may. Subject(s): California BELLY BREATHS, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: The belly of the world Last Line: Breath close %to the core Subject(s): California; Cities BERENDA SLOUGH, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth and water without form Subject(s): Berenda Slough, California BERKELEY DOGS, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dogs look human in their volvos Last Line: In their mouths, sniffing for the future [or, sniffing for the future of cut grass on a warm summer Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California BIG TREES IN MARIPOSA, by ELIZABETH ANDERSON COOK Poem Text First Line: I stood with awe in silence on the ground Last Line: But these majestic giants still live on! Subject(s): Mariposa County, California; Trees BLACK DANDY, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: He collects hats Last Line: Can hear his voice, his wolf bites, the %grinding of his teeth. The applause Subject(s): African Americans; California; Entertainers BLOWING GRASS, by SARAH BIXBY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In narrow nuuanu Last Line: That rise and find no rest. Subject(s): California; Grass BOLINAS, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: The eucalyptus leaf Last Line: One more part %of the mosaic Subject(s): Bolinas, California BONE FLUTE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: First there were flutes & drums Last Line: From one low quiver rising Subject(s): California; Cities BORDER TALLIES: STILL CLIMBING GOLD MOUNTAIN, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: It's a little known fact Last Line: 1.2 billion sets of teeth to shine Subject(s): California; Cities BY A SMALL RIVER, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: A man chooses to build his house Last Line: The rain and long after Subject(s): California; Cities BY BUS TO FRESNO, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wakened at a filling station Last Line: Rushing toward us sooner than we know Subject(s): Bus Terminals; California BY THE CROSS OF MONTEREY, by RICHARD EDWARD WHITE Poem Text First Line: Good junipero, the padre Last Line: With the waters of thy bay! Variant Title(s): Discovery Of San Francisco Bay;waiting For The Galleon Subject(s): San Francisco Bay, California; Serra, Junipero (1713-1784); West (u.s.) - Exploration CALIFORNIA, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was it the sigh and shiver of the leaves? Last Line: And bay and sky were bright with sudden stars! Subject(s): California CALIFORNIA, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blue, blue, april blue Last Line: Gold, gold, gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Blue (color); California; Colors; Gold CALIFORNIA, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I've seen the world, I've traveled far Last Line: My heart doth yield to thee. Subject(s): California; Cities; Home; Roads; Travel; Urban Life; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips CALIFORNIA, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: The girls ride through the nights on delicate bicycles Last Line: Into a gratuitous juice for the sun Subject(s): California; Girls CALIFORNIA, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirits, for all they think they can Last Line: In a bewildering foreign land. Subject(s): California CALIFORNIA, by ROSARIUS LEONARDI Poem Source First Line: In california %our children live Last Line: More than dying people who smoke %grass Subject(s): California CALIFORNIA, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Land of gold! Thy sisters greet thee Last Line: Folds her jewels to her heart. Subject(s): California CALIFORNIA, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My last night in california Last Line: Of that fortress where lips of ice have sinned Subject(s): California; Music, Rock; Rock & Roll CALIFORNIA, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My last night in california Last Line: The world holds many dreams at least %one of them holds you Subject(s): California; Music, Rock CALIFORNIA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How art thou conquered, tamed in all the pride Last Line: Replace thine ancient ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): California CALIFORNIA CITY LANDSCAPE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a mountain-side the real estate agents Last Line: How long it might last, how young it might be. Subject(s): California; Houses CALIFORNIA COAST, by DORIS CALDWELL Poem Text First Line: Not in small painted towns whose color rips Last Line: And lost wings circling near a ghost-white star. Subject(s): California; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore CALIFORNIA DISSONANCE, by JAMES RORTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a peewee bird that cries Last Line: Which helps to make the country grow. Subject(s): Birds; California CALIFORNIA GHOST TOWN, by FRAN HARAWAY Poem Source First Line: Buildings blackened, boards warped, pushed askew Last Line: Yet, dusty streets show prints of tennis shoes! Subject(s): California; Ghost Towns CALIFORNIA MISSIONS, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: They're tall and sturdy Last Line: To every word %their silence tells Subject(s): California; Missionaries And Missions CALIFORNIA OF THE SOUTH, by GRACE ELLERY CHANNING-STETSON Poem Text First Line: The land is a garden of glamour, where passes Last Line: Ere her youth shall have dimmed its immortal grace. Subject(s): California; Nature CALIFORNIA OF THE SOUTH, by GRACE ELLERY (CHANNING) STETSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The land is a garden of glamour, where passes Last Line: Ere her youth shall have dimmed its immortal grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Channing, Grace Ellery Subject(s): California CALIFORNIA PLUSH, by FRANK BIDART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He only thing I miss about los angeles Subject(s): Cities And Towns; Los Angeles, California CALIFORNIA SORROW: CLAREMONT RAGA, by MARY KINZIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Languorous landscape Last Line: Comes closer / and more near Subject(s): Jazz; California CALIFORNIA WINTER, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is not winter: where is the crisp air Last Line: As a new purpose in the wiser soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): California; Winter CALIFORNIA'S CHRISTMAS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are large as lilies! Morn Last Line: I would not seek another. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): California; Christmas; Nativity, The CALIFORNIA'S HYMN, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Before us lie the seas which bring the east unto the west Last Line: As the future goes marching on. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; California; Patriotism; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Journeys; Trips CALIFORNIA'S RESURRECTION, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain! The rain! The generous rain! Last Line: Behold what witness like to this? Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): California; Rain CALIFORNIA, SELS., by JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE Alternate Author Name(s): Yellow Bird Subject(s): California CALIFORNIA; FOR ADRIENNE RICH, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To come again into the place of revolutionary Last Line: Which were themselves. Subject(s): California; Change; Poetry & Poets CALIFORNIANA, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS Poem Source First Line: Getting acclimated, I find %requires a stoic state of mind Last Line: They're shivering still in new rochelle Subject(s): California CALIFORNIANS, by THEODORE SPENCER Poem Source First Line: Beautiful and blond they come, the californians Last Line: And a hateful wish to be empty and talk like you Subject(s): California; Hate CALIFRONIA COLOR, by MARTHA W. LITTLE Poem Text First Line: Black the smoke of lassen's fire Last Line: The spectrum of our sunburst state. Subject(s): California CALLIGRAPHER, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: He stoops on the sandy ground Last Line: And never went back Subject(s): California; Cities CAMBIDGE 1971, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: We came back to cambridge with a little baby Last Line: Taking a daily trip into harvard square Subject(s): Bolinas, California CARMEL HIGHLANDS, by JANET LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Below the gardens and the darkening pines Last Line: An ancient speech, hushed in tremendous ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Carmel, California CARMEL POINT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The extraordinary patience of things! Last Line: As the rock and ocean that we were made from Subject(s): Carmel, California; Nature; Patience CARMEL POINT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The extraordinary patience of things! Last Line: As the rock and ocean that we were made from Subject(s): Carmel, California; Nature; Patience CARMEL POINT, by MARGARET P. MACSWEENEY Poem Source First Line: I watched a sea anemone Subject(s): Carmel, California CARRISO GORGE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIELD Poem Text First Line: Eastward the wise men sought to find a pass Last Line: And spun his steel along carriso gorge. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Ben Subject(s): Carrizo Gorge, California; Mountain Passes CHANSON D'OUTRE TOMBE, by PHILIP WHALEN Poem Source First Line: They said we was nowhere Last Line: Wrecking your white expensive world Subject(s): California, Pennsylvania; Nuclear Waste CHAPLIN'S SMILE, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Chaplin's smile at the end Last Line: We had dreamed Subject(s): Bolinas, California CHILD, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source Last Line: Is a mind %apart Subject(s): Bolinas, California CHRISTENING, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: From our bed we take time Last Line: Body embracing its own Subject(s): California; Cities CODE OF WHITE BREAD, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My stepfather said, it's dog-eat-dog Last Line: It was dog-eat-dog Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California COLOR, by ESTHER YARNELL Poem Text First Line: The sun is a golden bowl Last Line: Waves of color bathe the earth. Subject(s): California; Colors CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 10. BIRDIES SING AND EVERYTHING, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Friends, one of the facts Last Line: Doth glint. Or smiling jump off same Subject(s): Diving And Divers; Food And Eating; Marine Animals; Restaurants; San Francisco Bay, California CORN SEED, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: This angle of moon Last Line: Then we greet each other, this old woman and me, %while we listen to %all the movement in my house Subject(s): California; Cities CREAM'S SONG, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Little baby, lying peaceful, in her daddy's folded arms Last Line: The world's got its own motion -- it'll take you for quite a ride Subject(s): Bolinas, California CRIMES OF THE DAY CLARIFIED, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The severed forearm stands like a sapling in the river's mud Last Line: The eggs they break drool blood in a batter of lopsided cakes Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California DAISY, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: The sun is shining Last Line: As our greatest leader, a daisy Subject(s): Bolinas, California DAWN AND DUSK - SAN DIEGO, by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933) Poem Text First Line: Quick as the waking laughter of a child Last Line: Against the night's dark breast. Subject(s): Dawn; Dusk; San Diego, California; Sunrise DAWN AT SAN DIEGO, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My city sits amid her palms Last Line: Sweet dawn, and two sweet doves were there. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): San Diego, California DAY AND NIGHT, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Like a drop Last Line: The one apart %the night Subject(s): Bolinas, California DECLARATION, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: In my mother's house Last Line: With its birds %birds Subject(s): Bolinas, California DING REPAIR, by PETER GIZZI Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There are too many skateboards here, too many waves Subject(s): California; Conduct Of Life; Surfing DIRT, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The philosopher says, the soil is man's intelligence Last Line: Lifted and falling from my hoe Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California DOCENT AT THE CITY MORGUE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is mr. Powell, his mustache twitching Last Line: Later, the bravest mourners will kiss them closed Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California DOG WHO WALKED WITH GOD, by MICHAEL J. ROSEN Poem Source First Line: Water, they say, was everywhere Last Line: Everything grown %and still growing Subject(s): California; Creation; Kato Indians; Legends, Native American; Native Americans DOLL SHOP ON RODEO DRIVE, by VIRGINIA WEBB JULAVITS Poem Source First Line: Dylan thomas, the bulbous Subject(s): Beverly Hills, California; Dolls; Retail Trade; Toys DOME, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: My whole life Last Line: At the same time %eternity Subject(s): Bolinas, California DOMESTIC SCENE, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: A child plays in a room Last Line: He smiles and nods and says 'yes' Subject(s): Bolinas, California DREAM, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I dreamed I found out Last Line: And the world was a perfect situation Subject(s): Bolinas, California DREAMING OF FIRE ON THE NIGHT IT RAINED, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I am trapped in a house owned by strangers with white skin. I do not Last Line: Watering the dry, dry wood. For now it is all I can do Subject(s): California; Cities DREAMS ON THE WALL, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Dreams on the wall I saw Last Line: What as wrong with that nurse Subject(s): Bolinas, California DRY GRASS & OLD COLOR OF THE FENCE & SMOOTH HILLS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The women are at home in this california town Subject(s): Women; California; Family Life DUKE ELLINGTON AT DISNEYLAND, by AL DANIELSEN Poem Source First Line: When a mother approached with pad and pencil and told him Last Line: Duke ellington paid to survive, as fans %rushed off, pocketing autographs, to pirates and boat rides Subject(s): Autographs; Disneyland, California; Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke") EARLY MORNING IN MIDTOWN, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: You can't get me Last Line: No, you can't get me Subject(s): California; Cities EGRET: BOLINAS LAGOON, 1986, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Morning. Soap-shaving of a moon Last Line: And makes of his leave-taking %a metaphor Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Classmates; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: DAYBREAK, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In this moment when the light starts up Last Line: And nothing will heal %under the rain's broken fingers Subject(s): Dawn; Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FIELD, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind sprays pale dirt into my mouth Last Line: A soil that sprouts nothing %for any of us Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Farm Life; Minorities - United States; San Joaquin Valley, California; U.s. - Race Relations ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FOG, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you go to your window Last Line: There should be no reason to believe %I lived Subject(s): Farm Life; Fog; San Joaquin Valley, California ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: RAIN, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When autumn rains flatten sycamore leaves Last Line: The skin of my belly will tighten like a belt %and there will be no reason for pockets Subject(s): Farm Life; Rain; San Joaquin Valley, California ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: STARS, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At dusk the first stars appear Last Line: And an orange moon rises %to lead them, like a shepherd, toward dawn Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Stars ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: SUN, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In june the sun is a bonnet of light Last Line: In a most of blond locusts, %returning to the valley Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Sun ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dry wind over the valley Last Line: And I take on another life Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND (2), by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you got up this morning the sun Last Line: Was moving under your skin and already far %from the small hives of your lungs Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind EPIGRAMME, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hast ever seen man Last Line: I turn up this nugget. Subject(s): California Gold Discoveries ERASERS, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Erasers. The smell of them. The look Last Line: Couldn't wrestle. I was a serious kid Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Erasers EUGENIO MONTALE IN CALIFORNIA, by ANDREI CODRESCU Poem Source First Line: And here where a new life Last Line: Your words, like the scales on a dying fish, %flash into sunset Subject(s): California; Montale, Eugenio (1896-1981) EVEN AFTER SHE LEAVES, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Light has been carried into this house Last Line: To the same dark soil Subject(s): California; Cities EVENING ON THE LAWN, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sat on the lawn watching the half-hearted moon rise Last Line: And strike our childhood houses %with lightning Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California EVERYTHING IS GOING ABOUT ITS BUSINESS, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: The plums are ripening Last Line: People are getting in accidents, dying, and being saved Subject(s): Bolinas, California EVERYTHING'S A FAKE, by FANNY HOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Coyote scruff in canyons off mulholland drive. Fragrance of sage and rosemary, now Last Line: But a symptom nonetheless Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentary; California EVERYTHING'S A FAKE, by FANNY HOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Coyote scruff in canyons off mulholland drive. Fragrance of sage Subject(s): California EVERYTHING'S A FAKE, by FANNY HOWE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Coyote scruff in canyons off mulholland drive. Fragrance of sage Last Line: There, a mild one, but a symptom nonetheless Subject(s): California EXILE, by THEODORE MAYNARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the season swiftly turns Subject(s): California; England FAILED TRIBUTE TO THE STONEMASON OF TOR HOUSE, ROBINSON JEFFERS, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We traveled down to see your house Subject(s): Disappointment; Carmel, California; Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962) FATHER'S STORY, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Each night the boy cries. The next morning a tiny white stone Last Line: One stone our name Subject(s): California; Cities FIELD I STAND BEFORE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I spent so many years crouching Last Line: In this wet, sore skin Subject(s): California; Cities FINDING THE CENTER, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Charles and I had played there all along Last Line: Of the state %of %california Subject(s): California; Farm Life; Geography; Labor And Laborers FIRST ACROSS THE SANDS, by JOHN RUSSELL MCCARTHY Poem Text First Line: Juan bautista de anza Last Line: And stands in california. Subject(s): Anza, Juan Bautista De (1736-1788); California; Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers FIRST TIME I TRIED TO HAVE SEX, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source Last Line: The natural flow of breath Subject(s): Bolinas, California FISH, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I enter %to know the sound Last Line: But is hardly spoken %out loud Subject(s): California; Cities FIST-FIGHT, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: You have a fist-fight Last Line: Stop, okay? Subject(s): Bolinas, California FIVE NIGHTS OF RAIN, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Open-throated, %wanting more Last Line: Hear me, so %relentless the rain Subject(s): California; Cities FLORENTINO DIAZ, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Has already figured out Last Line: A greeting nobody else could see Subject(s): California; Cities FLUFFY'S POOLSIDE CRIME, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Marvin, penny-pincher, seller of red velour to mexicans Last Line: Turds floated on water, even in a rich man's pool Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California FLYING ABOVE CALIFORNIA, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spread beneath me it lies - lean upland Last Line: That accuracy of the beaches, %is part of the ultimate richness Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): California FOR ARMENAK SAROYAN, MY GRANDFATHER, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: At thirty-six, the story goes Last Line: I can forgive you Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Grandparents FOR BORIS PASTERNAK, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Your spirit informs a new air, a new Last Line: You have made it rarer to me Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Pasternak, Boris (1890-1960) FOR GAILYN, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: You are the beginning and he end of Last Line: Turning the soft earth Subject(s): Bolinas, California FOR GAILYN, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I have loved you Last Line: For - yet I saw Subject(s): Bolinas, California FOR JAN AS THE END DRAWS NEAR, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We never believed in safety Last Line: The present is this poem, o my dear. Subject(s): Aging; California; Friendship; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism FOR JIM CARROLL, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: They've discovered a particle Last Line: You're meant to be there Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Carroll, Jim (b. 1951); Poetry And Poets FOR LEWIS MACADAMS, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I can always count on you and phoebe Last Line: Keep that in mind, will you Subject(s): Bolinas, California FOR PAUL BLACKBURN, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: The other night Last Line: I could finally, as in the beginning, admire %your craft, yes but for song Subject(s): Blackburn, Paul (1925-1971); Bolinas, California; Poetry And Poets FOR RICHARD BRAUTIGAN, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Your writing reminds me Last Line: Beaming proudly Subject(s): Bolinas, California FOR TOM CLARK, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Big city boys come out Last Line: And getting better and better all the time Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Clark, Tom; Poetry And Poets FOR VOZNESENSKY, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I dig you Last Line: Walking through our lives Subject(s): Bolinas, California FORT ORD, CALIFORNIA, 1953: 1. CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR, by HENRY CARLILE Poem Source First Line: Through dust deepened by others Last Line: Protested to the dust. For what? %there will be other wars, he said Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; War FOUR HAIKU (AFTER TALKING WITH DAVID), by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: It begins here -- %young men vanish in the night Last Line: It commands no one Subject(s): California; Cities FOUR POEMS: 1. POEM, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: The mountain is only a while from here Last Line: My father and mother one in me Subject(s): Bolinas, California FOUR POEMS: 2. FOR MY DAUGHTER STRAWBERRY, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: At nine, your integrity Last Line: As unique as anything that makes you laugh Subject(s): Bolinas, California FOUR POEMS: 3. FOR GAILYN, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: You do your paintings Last Line: Now that it's night outside Subject(s): Bolinas, California FOUR POEMS: 4. ABOUT POETRY, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: There's nothing to it Last Line: I'd forgotten it could just be, nothing Subject(s): Bolinas, California FREEWAY, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: An infected vein %carrying filth to and from the city Last Line: To enclose the view %and muffle the screams Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Berkeley, California; Cities FRESNO, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Fresno, california's eighth largest city, is the financial headquarters Last Line: Watered by want, the spirit thrives Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; California; Ethnic Groups - United States FRIENDLY PERSUASION, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: The body and the mind Last Line: And almost immediately they have a child Subject(s): Bolinas, California FRIENDSHIP, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Friendship makes its aims Last Line: Or uphold -- to stitch the world fast %with affection Subject(s): Bolinas, California FULL MOON ODE, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: A full moon tonight Last Line: Than it will in a little while Subject(s): Bolinas, California GAILYN'S BOUQUET, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Gailyn picked a bouquet Last Line: Just like her, I thought Subject(s): Bolinas, California GENIUS LOCI, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make it / the place Subject(s): Oakland, California; City & Town Life; Life Choices GETTING MY CAR REPAIRED, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I take the city of san rafael Last Line: As the morning light rose outside Subject(s): Bolinas, California GEYSERS, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle as breathing Last Line: I am raw meat %I am a god Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Geysers; Sonoma County, California GIL MENDEZ AND THE METAPHYSICS OF A BLIMP, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why would anyone-lost child, thief Last Line: Of autumn leaves fluttering back into the trees Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California GOLD RUSH: 1848/1996, by ALANE ROLLINGS Poem Source First Line: The motorcycle cop was performing rodeo stunts Last Line: Never knew what might go gold Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries GOLDFISH BOWL BY MATISSE, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I hear the cars Last Line: Between the real and its reflections Subject(s): Bolinas, California GOOD BUY IN BEVERLY HILLS, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My realtor friend says, the house is haunted Last Line: Everything except talent and a place inside them for a soul Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California GOOD MORNING! WAKE UP SACRAMENTO!, by JACK BERNIER Poem Source First Line: Stock brokers are always Last Line: Make this a great day for residents Subject(s): Brokers; Sacramento, California GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I don't want to write the great american novel Last Line: Himself would be lost to me forever, and I would be lonely Subject(s): Bolinas, California GREEN BRAE: STAGE FOR SAN QUENTIN, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: I came here every spring to play Last Line: But all I see is a prison wall. Subject(s): San Quentin Prison, California GREETING, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: The boy with yellow hair Last Line: Pleased as he calls out, 'tonto.' Subject(s): California; Cities GRINDING COFFEE, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Grinding coffee was my favorite pastime Last Line: I smoothed it with my finger, contented Subject(s): Bolinas, California GROWING UP IN HOLLYWOOD, 1939-1957, by STEPHEN BEAL Poem Source First Line: I am not happy in the west Last Line: Now how is that for irony Subject(s): Hollywood, California; Motion Pictures HABITAT: TIME AND PLACE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is out by the stand of windbreak-trees, under Last Line: It keeps me down to size Subject(s): Birds; California; Fields; Herbs; Nature HAVEN OF THE SWALLOWS, by LILLIAN PARCEL Poem Text First Line: The padres walk again the trodden ground Last Line: The padre souls will bless the swallow band. Subject(s): San Juan Capistrano, California; Swallows HEADWATERS, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Headwaters %of the sacramento Last Line: Headwaters %spirits %rise Subject(s): Sacramento, California; Travel HIGHWAY 66, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is the absolute road to Last Line: Is going to be 100 percent okay Subject(s): California; Roads HILLS OF CALIFORNIA, by CYRUS CASWELL JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: I can hear the padres chanting in the early golden air Last Line: On the hills of california in the morning. Subject(s): California; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) HOLLYWOOD, by DON BLANDING Poem Source First Line: Hollywood ... Hollywood Last Line: Perhaps you're a goddess that bears a bright beacon Subject(s): Hollywood, California; Motion Pictures HOLLYWOOD, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's 1937 on the sound-stage Last Line: Has been settled %for over fifty years Variant Title(s): Hollywoo Subject(s): Hollywood, California HOLLYWOOD, by JOSEPH W. NUGENT Poem Source First Line: Movies show the warrior falling Subject(s): Hollywood, California; Motion Pictures HOLLYWOOD BOWL, by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD Poem Text First Line: An interlude. The clamor hushed with breathless cry Last Line: Then shatter into soundless rhythms of the night. Subject(s): Hollywood Bowl, California HOLLYWOOD NOCTURNE, by JANE BOWER Poem Text First Line: The tired boulevard Last Line: So young -- is old. Subject(s): Hollywood, California HOUSE, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: The house is like a parent Last Line: His mind, my mind, the house, and the sky Subject(s): Bolinas, California HOW TO BE AN AMERICAN POET, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: The secret of poetry is to start simple Last Line: The american poet must save the actual earth of his own %voice Subject(s): Bolinas, California HUNGER FOR ART, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I died, my work went into my mother's attic Last Line: He swallowed that button: art is the last thing %left to eat Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California I NEVER HEAR MYSELF SLEEPING, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Never know what triggers Last Line: My tiny jagged grin Subject(s): California; Cities I PLAYED LITTLE LEAGUE, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source Last Line: And sat watching, I hit a home run Subject(s): Bolinas, California I'M THE MISSISSIPPI, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I'm the mississippi. Nothing Last Line: I embrace it, and it becomes me, the mississippi Subject(s): Bolinas, California ICELAND, by DORIANNE LAUX Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl's bathroom is titled in pink Subject(s): Berkeley, California; Girls; Women ICELAND, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl's bathroom is titled in pink Last Line: The withered scraps, like petals, into the sink Subject(s): Berkeley, California; Girls; Women IMMACULATE ROOM, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I wake up in an immaculate room Last Line: I see the blood and scream for my mother Subject(s): Bolinas, California IN A ROOM NAMED SHIMMER, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: The woman folds underwear Last Line: And longing more insistent Subject(s): California; Cities IN AMERICA YELLOW IS STILL AN INSULT, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I want to know why cowards are called yellow Last Line: And know the legacy of insult Subject(s): California; Cities IN CALIFORNIA, by DONALD DAVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Chemicals ripen the citrus Subject(s): California IN CALIFORNIA, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can pen of mine describe thee, beauteous land Last Line: Now would I rest, and give my days to peace! Subject(s): California IN CALIFORNIA, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I am, troubling the dream coast Subject(s): California IN CALIFORNIA, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I am, troubling the dream coast Subject(s): California IN CALIFORNIA DURING THE GULF WAR, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the blight-killed eucalypts, among Subject(s): California; Gulf War (1991); Operation Desert Storm (1991) IN CALIFORNIA DURING THE GULF WAR, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the blight-killed eucalypts, among Last Line: Were not doves, there was no rainbow. And when it was claimed %the war had ended, it had not ended Subject(s): California; Gulf War (1991) IN CALIFORNIA: MORNING, EVENING, LATE JANUARY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale, then enkindled Subject(s): California; Labor & Laborers; Nature; Work; Workers IN CARMEL BAY, by MADGE CLOVER Poem Text First Line: In carmel bay the fleeting day Last Line: She steps into the night. Subject(s): Carmel Bay, California; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean IN CENTRAL EUROPE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: When you cross through the grass in central europe, you see Last Line: When the bamboo grows, %when the bamboo reaches the sipapuni%when each ring reaches the sipapuni %th Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Europe; Forests; Grass; Roads; Travel IN GREECE, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: As %the %kids Last Line: Dancing %dancing %dancing Subject(s): Bolinas, California IN MONTECITO, by RANDALL JARRELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a fashionable suburb of santa barbara Subject(s): California IN MONTECITO, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a fashionable suburb of santa barbara Last Line: And greenie has gone into the greater monecito %that surrounds montecito like the echo of a scream Subject(s): California IN MY OWN LANGUAGE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We can't cut this timber Last Line: Only as I learn to speak it Subject(s): Language; Santa Cruz Mountains, California IN PRAISE OF CALIFORNIA WINES, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid these clear and windy hills Last Line: In sunlight vanish quite away Subject(s): California; Wine IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the cocoa and cactus are neighbors Last Line: And under my fig and my vine. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): California IN TEHACHAPI, by DAVID STARR JORDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold is the wind upon the mountain side Last Line: Thy face, teháchapi! Subject(s): Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Tehachapi, California; Male-female Relations IN THE YARD FACING THE OCEAN: A ROOTS COMPOSITION, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Below the surface of the sea a place full of jawless and boneless Last Line: Are leaving in the morning Subject(s): California; Seashore; Swimming; Water; Waves IT WAS OVERLAND THE RED, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you're askin' my opinion, well, said overland the red Last Line: "... In concludin' ... We'll stand up and drink again." Subject(s): California; Toasts IT'S A SMALL SMALL WORLD; THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSITY ACCORDING TO ..., by SUSAN SONDE Poem Source First Line: Is everywhere at once Last Line: The fairy tale our lives had come to be Subject(s): Disneyland, California; Earth; Size And Shape JOHN CHARLES FREMONT, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pathfinder - and path-clincher! Last Line: And benton found the man! Subject(s): California; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); West (u.s.) - Exploration JOHN LENNON, 1940-1980, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I wish I could see into Last Line: When it said %john lennon Subject(s): Bolinas, California JOHN SUTTER, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was the patriarch of the shining land Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Sutter, John (1803-1880); Failure; Gold Rush; Forty-niners JOURNEY SOUTH, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: How have you been, %my beautiful friend Last Line: Bless us, %eucalyptus Subject(s): California; Immigrants; Travel; United States JOURNEY'S END, SANTA BARBARA, by CAROL LEE SANCHEZ Poem Source First Line: Any point on a circle Last Line: That's what %she sd) Subject(s): Santa Barbara, California JUDGE A MAN BY HIS ENEMIES, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source Last Line: They're almost the same, in the end Subject(s): Bolinas, California JUNIOR HIGH REUNION, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The best-looking women married five times Last Line: My poor tongue swollen from the salt of her working years Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California JUST CALIFORNIA, by JOHN STEVEN MCGROARTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt the seas and the deserts Last Line: The middle of the world. Subject(s): California; Creation; God; Nature - Religious Aspects KEATS IN CALIFORNIA, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wisterai has come and gone, the plum trees Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); California KUMQUAT SEED DANCER, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Last night I saw Last Line: My own face %recognized in gesture Subject(s): California; Cities LA JOLLA, 1943-1993, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Here in the cove at la jolla Last Line: Being carried over a threshold Subject(s): La Jolla, California; Love - Marital; Parents; Romance LAS CASAS, by MICHAEL HOFMANN Poem Source First Line: I leaned round the corner in a gold rush town Last Line: A percussive crash, a surprisingly durable cloud. Jubilation, and no eyes raised Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries LAST MERMOTHER, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to fish in san francisco bay Last Line: A crust of sand still thickening on the edge %of its quiet bones Subject(s): Mothers; San Francisco Bay, California LENIN'S SEQUOIA, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In car-infested california Last Line: There's no sequoia? %yes, there is! Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei Subject(s): California; Sequoia Trees LESSONS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Always start with the male children Last Line: And shoes for their feet Subject(s): California; Cities LEXICON, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Try not to be insulted Last Line: Don't expect them to ask us our real names. %don't even try Subject(s): California; Cities LIFE IS A DREAM, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source Last Line: To be us instead. We are alive and dead Subject(s): Bolinas, California LIFE IS NO ARRIVAL, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Life is no arrival. The day goes Last Line: These lines are written on the run Subject(s): Bolinas, California LINES FOR MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I put the food on my sister's plate Last Line: The life of a poet is beautiful Subject(s): Bolinas, California LIVING DEAD, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: The living dead walk among us Last Line: Of death's presence deep inside your body Subject(s): Bolinas, California LONG WAY FROM HERE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Two boys sleep %by the trunk of a banyan tree Last Line: Fall asleep in each other's arms, %lightheaded and full Subject(s): California; Cities LOST COAST, CALIFORNIA, by STEPHANIE BROWN Poem Source First Line: These people left. They disappeared from our shores, down south Last Line: We drove all the way up, but we went all the way back Subject(s): California; Seashore LOST LOVE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The girl we all loved married a meat packer in hayward Last Line: The husband of the girl we all loved couldn't pick up the check Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California LOVE, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: The beauty of a summer evening Last Line: And no more one another than love Subject(s): Bolinas, California LOVE POEM, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I wake up in the morning Last Line: With you beside me Subject(s): Bolinas, California LOVE'S BOUNTY, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I looked through my love's eye Last Line: And catch your eyes Subject(s): Bolinas, California LUNAR ECLIPSE: HALE-BOPP OVER PALO ALTO, by MARY QUADE Poem Source First Line: We are not surprised to see the moon decay Last Line: Where the earth shifts, where damage is usually irreparable Subject(s): California; Eclipses MADNESS, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I used to believe that nobody was really crazy Last Line: But I believe the power of good is of greater force, in the %end Subject(s): Bolinas, California MARBLEHEAD, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: The first time I walked into the bookstore Last Line: Drove us through the deserted streets at top speed to the %hospital Subject(s): Bolinas, California MARIN HEADLANDS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grief as we know it Last Line: Bugless and treeless and airless and waterless and sunless. Subject(s): California; Conversation; Knowledge MARLON BRANDO, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: My mother knew marlon brando Last Line: In the movie magazines Subject(s): Bolinas, California MARRIAGE, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Marriage knits our lives Last Line: So transparently alive Subject(s): Bolinas, California MARTHA GOETZ, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Martha goetz was a friend of my mother's Last Line: And was unable to give lucy or me much of herself Subject(s): Bolinas, California MEDITATION AT LAGUNITAS, by ROBERT HASS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the new thinking is about loss Subject(s): California; Deconstructionism; Language; Longing; Words; Vocabulary MEDITATION AT LAGUNITAS, by ROBERT HASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the new thinking is about loss Last Line: Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, %saying blacberry, blackberry, blackbrry Subject(s): California; Deconstructionism; Language; Longing MENDOCINO, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could lose myself in great bursts of work Last Line: Something reusable like leftovers, %bouillabaisse perhaps Subject(s): Maps; Mendocino, California; Travel METAPHOR OF GRASS IN CALIFORNIA, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seeds of certain grasses that once grew Last Line: As such men fall, these fell, but silently Subject(s): Literary Form; California; Grass MIND IS A MEDIUM, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source Last Line: Of itself in the cosmos Subject(s): Bolinas, California MINIMUM WAGE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one called but a cat Last Line: With the eraser of a chewed pencil [or, I never got a single step closer] Subject(s): Animals; Cats; San Joaquin Valley, California; Unemployment MONO LAKE, by JACOB ZEITLIN Poem Text First Line: The black lines of hills chant a slow threnody Last Line: And all the days dark days. Alternate Author Name(s): Zeitlin, Jake Subject(s): Mono Lake, California MONTALVO, by JOHN E. RICHARDS Poem Text First Line: Within the patio I sit; a paroquet Last Line: And lo! The terrestrial paradise is here! Subject(s): Montalvo, California MORTGAGE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man lay with a plum in his throat. His left hand Last Line: With a pen in one hand, a thirty-year mortgage in the other Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California MOTHER'S DAY POEM TO MYSELF, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Your cord took ten days to fall off Last Line: Finally feel the cut Subject(s): California; Cities MOUNT TAMALPAIS, by ELLA STERLING MIGHELS Poem Text First Line: Home of the elements - where battling bands Last Line: Behold the scar is not! Alternate Author Name(s): Esmeralda, Aurora Subject(s): Tamalpais, Mount (california) MOVIES WHEN I WAS A KID, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source Last Line: Behind the rocks I saw first when I was a kid Subject(s): Bolinas, California MR. STUMOLA, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Stumola was my gym teacher when I was in the first Last Line: So long ago in my child's-time that the gesture was almost %empty Subject(s): Bolinas, California MUCHAS GRACIAS, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Just about everyone in california Last Line: Being in love with the wrong man, %muchas mucha-kucha Subject(s): California; Cities MY AUNT COSETTE, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: My aunt cosette is a saint Last Line: Before she was ten Subject(s): Bolinas, California MY FATHER OWNED A GUN ONCE, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source Last Line: A house in pacific palisades for mom, lucy and me Subject(s): Bolinas, California MY FATHER WRITING, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: My father sits at his desk Last Line: And whose relatives, like himself, are all crazy Subject(s): Bolinas, California MY FATHER'S FLIGHT, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: My father wrote circles around Last Line: That it's the singer not he song Subject(s): Bolinas, California MY FIRST ACID TRIP, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: My first acid trip happened one summer night Last Line: No matter what happened Subject(s): Bolinas, California MY FRIENDS, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: My friends, don't fear Last Line: And they fill him with love to go on living Subject(s): Bolinas, California MY GRANDMOTHER, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: My grandmother lives on park avenue now Last Line: She had it too hard at first, it's too soft now Subject(s): Bolinas, California MY MOTHER AND MY FATHER, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: My mother has it in her Last Line: I remember my mother's mother was almost as young %as my mother Subject(s): Bolinas, California MY MOTHER AND NEW YORK, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: My mother has new york in her blood Last Line: I heard about it later from my mother Subject(s): Bolinas, California MY NEIGHBORHOOD: PACIFIC PALISADS IN THE FIFTIES, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Jay danley would lie around all day on his folks' lawn Last Line: Screaming at george, kathy & gail: oh, fuck you! Fuck all of you Subject(s): Bolinas, California MY SISTERS, THE OYSTERS, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK Poem Source First Line: I feel like the striped pacific bonito that can't stop swimming Last Line: Cantilevered into the cliffs of monterey Subject(s): California; Cities; Oysters; Pacific Ocean; Sea NEW AMERICAN MUSE, by ROBERT SCHAEFFER PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Is blonde and lives in california Subject(s): Blondes; California; Free Will And Determinism NIGHT, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: The night is so Last Line: As the stars themselves Subject(s): Bolinas, California NIGHT FLIGHT, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: My mother, a sorceress, demonstrated Last Line: My daughter is crying again Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Mothers NIGHT-TIME, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: My wife is reading, my daughter's asleep Last Line: Comforting, the end of another day Subject(s): Bolinas, California NO PAROLE TODAY, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: A shadow of smoke passed Last Line: A thousand men uncapped themselves behind barbed wire and smoke Subject(s): California; Justice; Native Americans; Prisons And Prisoners; Racism; Riots NO SMOKING, PLEASE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cigar smoke can't come into the famous-actor's house Last Line: The dog, and, alas, the cigar with no lips to give the plot away [or, with no lips to keep it alive] Subject(s): Motion Pictures; San Joaquin Valley, California; Smoking NOCTURNE: IN CALIFORNIA, by JAMES RORTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cold hills of california by night Last Line: Lovely and vagrant, virginal and shy. Subject(s): California NOON AT MONTEREY, by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933) Poem Text First Line: A sail upon the blue, a little mist Last Line: My love! Subject(s): Monterey, California; Noon NORTH OF SANTA MONICA, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's midnight in a drizzling fog Last Line: As the jay peers out through thorns, %and the lines of white surf whisper in Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): California NOTES FROM CENTRAL CALIFORNIA; SANTA BARBARA, by CAROL LEE SANCHEZ Poem Source First Line: We missed the parade that night Last Line: Renamed, replaced %re-invented on the spot Subject(s): Santa Barbara, California NOW THE STARLIT MOONLESS SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: After they have had their coffee Subject(s): California; Love; Paris, France; Spring O MY GENERATION, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source Last Line: And the cat is also hungry Subject(s): Bolinas, California ODE TO MICHAEL J. BRODEY, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: When you were writing checks to strangers Last Line: Brought a shovel in off the street and sold it for art Subject(s): Bolinas, California ODE TO POWER, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Power comes on strong Last Line: Don't let it overpower you, use it Subject(s): Bolinas, California ODE TO THE UNIVERSE, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Let me know intimately Last Line: To be aware of your life Subject(s): Bolinas, California OH TO BE IN LONDON, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source Last Line: Of honesty in its way Subject(s): Bolinas, California OLD MAN'S BELIEF, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The skateboarder with blackheads ran into a wall Last Line: That explode, like faith, before they reach untouchable heaven Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California OLD ROOSTER'S SOLILOQUY, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: My son began singing one morning at daybreak Last Line: Now I'm somewhere else inside his startled eyes Subject(s): Bolinas, California ON BEING A POET, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Being a poet has meant something special to me Last Line: They let me know I should sit down and write Subject(s): Bolinas, California ON HEARING THE CLIMATE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PRAISED, by ETHEL MARY DAVIS Poem Text First Line: There are some places where Last Line: And my delight is an unknown tomorrow. Subject(s): California; Deserts; Food & Eating ON LEAVING CALIFORNIA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fair young land, the youngest, fairest far Last Line: Restored again in thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): California ONCE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: The moon and my body Last Line: Their longing into the bleeding ground Subject(s): California; Cities ONE DAY IN MAY, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With one window of the labor bus gone Last Line: To the lovely morsels of high tea Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California ONE NIGHT, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: One night when I was nine or ten Last Line: And he was playing mozart Subject(s): Bolinas, California ORCHID, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: So stark %in the way it opens itself Last Line: The place where it bleeds Subject(s): California; Cities OROVILLE HIGH, CALIFORNIA, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: I can't believe I'm eating a cheeseburg Last Line: Not even their own Subject(s): California; Education; High School Students; Teaching And Teachers OUT OF NECESSITY, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Waking up alone %has become my new year's Last Line: I've just seen angels Subject(s): California; Cities PAGE, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I make myself still Last Line: The page, all one %so still Subject(s): Bolinas, California PAGEANT; LOS GATOS, JUNE, 1925, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1880-1966) Poem Text First Line: On whitewashed walls falls shadow blue and cool Last Line: Ramona creeping through the mustard bloom! Alternate Author Name(s): Norris, Kathleen Thompson Subject(s): California PALM READER'S MISTAKES, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The palm reader viewed a child's death Last Line: Before the rifles came off the wall Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California PARABLE, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I let my hair down Last Line: And then I took off my head Subject(s): Bolinas, California PARTCH STATIONS: 7. HE WANDERETH AS A HOBO, by JANET HOLMES Poem Source First Line: Getting a ride in california: could take days Last Line: He hones his theories, he dreams his new works, %unhindered. And moves along Subject(s): California; Hitchhikers PASTORALE, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: It takes nerve Last Line: Your closest neighbor has five kids Subject(s): Bolinas, California PHOTOGRAPHING ROCKS AT AGATE BEACH, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: How these tiny things speak to me Last Line: Touched by a father in the wind Subject(s): Bolinas, California PHYSICAL FOR THE FIFTY-FIVE-AND-OVER RETIREMENT COMMUNITY, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You're in great shape, said the nurse, %and I asked, what part? Last Line: Of an old man with shrubbery hanging his nose Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California PITCHING CHARITY TO THE FORTUNE 500, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That don't sell! The gray wig yelled Last Line: By its leafy ears Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California PLACES: 2. FULL MOON (SANTA BARBARA), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I listened, there was not a sound to hear Last Line: Tracing in crystal the slow way he came. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Moon; Pacific Ocean; Santa Barbara, California POEM, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I have lived to read pasternak Last Line: Miracles of our time together Subject(s): Bolinas, California POEM, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: To walk with death Last Line: And its raggedy ann Subject(s): Bolinas, California POEM, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I don't want to be a seer Last Line: Differently each time Subject(s): Bolinas, California POEM, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: We are all made up of others Last Line: We move, and it all moves Subject(s): Bolinas, California POEM, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: What makes my little son try Last Line: And I kiss his ear and smell it Subject(s): Bolinas, California POEM WRITTEN DOWN IN THE DARK, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I lie in bed Last Line: Ready for sleep Subject(s): Bolinas, California POINT LOMA BREEZES, by YETTA KAY STODDARD Poem Text First Line: Our south breeze is an actress, who skips with Last Line: Jazzing shamelessly. Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Wind POINT LOMA SONNETS: 1. ON LOMA, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: I have grown old on loma, I have seen Last Line: My days have gone and go upon strewn foam. Subject(s): Point Loma, California POINT LOMA SONNETS: 10. CABRILLO, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Unbroken stillness where our canyons wind Last Line: Victoria and high san salvador. Subject(s): Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez (d. 1543); Point Loma, California POINT LOMA SONNETS: 11. VIZCAINO, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Cabrillo's visit to our loma hill Last Line: The feet of lordly white men here again! Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Vizcaino, Sebastian (1550-1616) POINT LOMA SONNETS: 12. SUNRISE, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: There where you lie now are you quite content Last Line: With orange poppies, callas, wormwood, rue? Subject(s): Point Loma, California POINT LOMA SONNETS: 2. BENNINGTON, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Today I climbed to bennington and stayed Last Line: Of songs at battle's close . . . Long quietudes. Subject(s): Point Loma, California POINT LOMA SONNETS: 3. EL VELO DEL SOL, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Two larks are lilting rain thoughts. Like long threads Last Line: And swirl in wisps of dream about your feet. Subject(s): Point Loma, California POINT LOMA SONNETS: 4. SILENCES, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: There are long silences where lost winds blow Last Line: Blown to the sea; and as familiar. Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Silence POINT LOMA SONNETS: 5. GRAY, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Our days of gray on loma by the sea Last Line: A rock of time's chiaroscure mists have mossed. Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Time POINT LOMA SONNETS: 6. BLUE, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Sometimes when afternoon has written peace Last Line: A pool of lupins bluer than her eyes. Subject(s): Blue (color); Point Loma, California POINT LOMA SONNETS: 7. RAIN, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: It rained tonight and down gray loma's slopes Last Line: Awakes tonight and sings and lives again. Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Rain POINT LOMA SONNETS: 8. ISLE LOMA, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Long lay this loma isle; from age to age Last Line: A lovely thought that time had put aside. Subject(s): Point Loma, California POINT LOMA SONNETS: 9. OLD TRAILS, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Up from the lonely days that dawned remote Last Line: Across to mountain, sea, sky, city . . . Leap. Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Time POSTMASTER-GENERAL WILL HAYS ENTERS INTO HOLLYWOOD, by STODDARD KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hays came first, with a guard of marines Last Line: "we are saved, will hays, we are saved!" Subject(s): Hollywood, California; Parades PRAYER, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Oh, though I Last Line: The moon %identity Subject(s): Bolinas, California PURCHASE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once you've bought into the suspension of disbelief Last Line: To buy a thing you don't want Subject(s): California; Pacific Ocean; Poetry And Poets; Tourists; Travel PURPLE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late afternoon; see what I can see Last Line: These boundaries were always Subject(s): California; Mountains; Nature; Tourists; Travel QUICK POEM, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: My daughter is alive Last Line: In the same time Subject(s): Bolinas, California RAISIN FACTORY, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of nightfall was the chain Last Line: Lucky little bastards going somewhere sweet Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California RECOLLECTIONS OF MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair lady, no one have I ever known Last Line: Of the north-east trades, we near the line. Subject(s): California REPORT FROM CALIFORNIA, by LOIS MOYLES Poem Source First Line: In california, %ankle-high animals occupy the tablelands Last Line: To what shall we apply them? To nothing for long, %for truly they are soothed with drifting Subject(s): California ROCK SONG, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Leon russell's got a lot of muscle Last Line: In a whole new land Subject(s): Bolinas, California RUMPELSTILTSKIN, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Straw into gold - what's technology's Last Line: Whose riddle, whose child, whose gold? Subject(s): Anthropology; California - Gold Discoveries; Native Americans; Rumpelstiltskin RUN, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I enter again %through this sleeve Last Line: Here, close to the water's edge Subject(s): California; Cities SALTON SEA, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIELD Poem Text First Line: O glittering, heartless, fearful sea Last Line: Have forced a gate to paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Ben Subject(s): Lakes; Salton Sea, California; Pools; Ponds SAN DIEGO, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be said of the sun-born pueblo? Last Line: The footfalls of nations are heard on her sands. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): San Diego, California SAN DIEGO, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: In the college san fernando, in the state of mejico Last Line: ^1^ the yucca, or spanish bayonet. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Missions & Missionaries; Sailing & Sailors; San Diego, California; Soldiers; Declaration Day SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 1. INSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TREE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful women in smoky blue culottes Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; San Diego, California; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Women; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 1. INSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TREE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful women in smoky blue culottes Last Line: Smell of saltwater swimming in the room Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; San Diego, California; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Women SAN FRANCISCO BAY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Grandest bay! Upon whose bosom navies of all the world Last Line: Blesséd gate, where millions find the golden boon of liberty! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; San Francisco Bay, California; Travel; Journeys; Trips SAN GABRIEL, by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: San gabriel! / I stand and wonder at thy walls Last Line: I own thy sweet and mystic spell. Subject(s): California; San Gabriel Mission SAN JOAQUIN, by WILLIAM EVERSON Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Antoninus, Brother Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, by ALICE CECILIA COOPER Poem Text First Line: Through broken arches moonbeams softly shine Last Line: Awake in us dear memories of god's peace. Subject(s): Catholics; San Juan Capistrano, California; Roman Catholics; Catholicism SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Onward from 'las flores' rancho, following the shore- / line steeps Last Line: Flash the ruins as old faces gleam with thoughts of long ago. Subject(s): Missions & Missionaries; San Juan Capistrano, California SANTA BARBARA, by FRANCIS FISHER BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the mountains and the sea Last Line: And summer rules the radiant year. Subject(s): Santa Barbara, California SANTA BARBARA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Here the soft sweet airs distilling seem a necromancer's / balm Last Line: As our spirits blindly stumble through earth's doubts toward heavenly ray. Subject(s): Missions & Missionaries; Santa Barbara, California SANTA BARBARA BEACH, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now while the sunset offers Last Line: "shall feed my wells with tears." Subject(s): Santa Barbara, California; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore SAUSALITO TRASH PRAYER, by LEW WELCH Poem Source First Line: Sausalito, %little willow Last Line: And curse the men who have misued you Subject(s): Sausalito, California SAWING THE WOOD, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source Last Line: Is inside sewing Subject(s): Bolinas, California SEPARATION, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Tonight I didn't expect that familiar pain Last Line: And I know I am part of the betrayal Subject(s): California; Cities SHAO'S BOOK, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Shao's book holds the mind Last Line: Be yourself reading him Subject(s): Bolinas, California SHAPE OF ONE MAN'S BREATHING: SAXOPHONE MAN, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: A woman who can't stop Last Line: As we improvise together -- %stretching the riff Subject(s): California; Cities SHAPE OF THE STAR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, you know, he started out as a Last Line: Hollywood %what it %is Subject(s): Hollywood, California SHASTA, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The canyon is deep shade beneath Last Line: Conceives himself divinity. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Mount Shasta, California SIERRAN MEMORIES, by ANNA CATHERINE MARKHAM Poem Text First Line: Sometimes, o california, far away Last Line: And toil was romance in that fortunate air. Subject(s): California; Memory SKETCH FOR A LAW ENFORCEMENT MINISERIES, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The police found an arm and foot in a zipped-up gym bag Last Line: Falling and the bodies long gone Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California SMALL TOWN, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I am a patriot Last Line: All die, and inhabit %the sun Subject(s): Bolinas, California SNOW IN CALIFORNIA, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: My daughter's enterprising little spirit Last Line: But lingers over, having never before held snow Subject(s): Bolinas, California SOMEONE IS TRYING TO WARN YOU, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: And the whole world is talking about the japanese Last Line: You still haven't won the war Subject(s): California; Cities SOMETHING, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: My father collects rocks Last Line: He must know something Subject(s): Bolinas, California SOMETIMES IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO GET BURIED, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only an hour ago fog washed over a dusty lincoln Last Line: As he slumped over from the trembling %of idling bulldozers Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California SON WITH BLUE SHAVEN HEAD, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: The woman who stands Last Line: Never too far from the river Subject(s): California; Cities SONG AT THE WINEPRESSES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the end of the grape Last Line: The archangel, and tobit %and the faithful dog Subject(s): Nature; Santa Barbara, California SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A california song Last Line: To build a grander future. Subject(s): California; Sequoia Trees; Redwoods SONG TO CALIFORNIA, by CARL JOHN BOSTELMANN Poem Source First Line: Hear me! %I have had alkali on my boots Subject(s): California SONNET, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I sing the subtle beauty of man Last Line: And what follows capture with quick and loving glance Subject(s): Bolinas, California SONNET, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I remember the evenings I played as a boy Last Line: Is the empty, almost different world before dark Subject(s): Bolinas, California SONNET, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: As I watch my daughters' faces climb through time Last Line: Of no one at all that makes life great Subject(s): Bolinas, California SONNET, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: The unutterable sadness of our lives Last Line: Which it was in a way -- like today, like tonight Subject(s): Bolinas, California SONNET (IN SCORPIO), by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Death makes life divine Last Line: Eternal death makes life divine Subject(s): Bolinas, California SONNET TO CALIFORNIA, by O. E. ENFIELD Poem Text First Line: Two thousand miles we went, through farming land Last Line: You're wonderful and gracious as a host. Subject(s): California SPRING, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: The beauty of a tree Last Line: Of its own %delicate fortitude Subject(s): Bolinas, California SPRING IN CARMEL, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er carmel fields in the springtime the sea-gulls follow the plow Last Line: And name of her far away. Subject(s): Carmel, California SPRING MEAL, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I sit at the table Last Line: To see what the heart remembers Subject(s): California; Cities SPRING SONG, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: In spring you get a feeling as if the body is deeply Last Line: To notice you differently, and love you, you notice, her %father Subject(s): Bolinas, California STOCK MARKET, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I bet my wad on rubber bands Last Line: I was the dying territory a bird's begging eye [or, I was the shiny territory in the eye of a thing Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California STORM, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: It's been raining for hours Last Line: Growing in the dark Subject(s): California; Cities STRAY DOG'S LESSON, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pile of autumn leaves smoked but didn't catch fire Last Line: Someone flatfooted, someone between earth and sky Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California STREET SCENE ON THE FULTON MALL, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cabdriver watched me from across the street Last Line: Of the american buffalo [or, between buildings, the best years long gone] Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California STUBBORN THURSDAY, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While the moon stirred the trees, not a single leaf let go Last Line: Of years lowering the sacks under our desperate eyes Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California SUMMER I WAS TEN, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Kay kendall was my mother's best friend Last Line: That night she had appendicitis Subject(s): Bolinas, California SUMMER'S END, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: It was the end of a summer Last Line: And rubbed his hand on his pants Subject(s): Bolinas, California SUMMONS, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: We say we aren't the believers Last Line: Right out of our dreams Subject(s): California; Cities SUNSET AT CORONADO, by ETHELEAN TYSON GAW Poem Text First Line: A trireme of el dorado is plunging down the blue Last Line: The transmuted glory-fires of california gold. Subject(s): California; Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUTTER'S FORT, SACRAMENTO, by LUCIUS HARWOOD FOOTE Poem Text First Line: I stood by the old fort's crumbling wall Last Line: Dust and ashes and nothing more! Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Sutter's Fort, California; Gold Rush; Forty-niners TAMALPAIS, SELECTION, by CHARLES WARREN STODDARD Poem Text First Line: The hollow moon, and up between Last Line: With dusty purple of the grape. Subject(s): Tamalpais, Mount (california) TEN MILLION FLAMES OF LOS ANGELES, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I've always been afraid of death by fire Last Line: Angelita, do not run from the flame.' Subject(s): California; Cities THE BELLS OF SAN GABRIEL, by CHARLES WARREN STODDARD Poem Text First Line: Thine was the corn and the wine Last Line: Of gabriel, the archangel. Subject(s): Bells; California; Missions & Missionaries THE BELLS OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, by CHARLES AUGUSTUS KEELER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ave maria purissima! Hear! Last Line: Our throats are cracked and they seldom sing. Subject(s): Bells; San Juan Capistrano, California THE CALIFORNIA ESCHSCHOLTZIA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: The orange hue of the rainbow Last Line: In a tent of the cloth of gold. Subject(s): California; Courts & Courtiers; Gold THE DAYS OF '49, by CHARLEY RHODES Poem Text First Line: Here you see old tom moore Last Line: In the days of '49. Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold Rush; Forty-niners THE DAYS OF FORTY-NINE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "you are looking [or, we are gazing] on old tom moore" Last Line: "refrain -- but my heart is filled, etc" Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold Rush;forty-niners THE DEPARTURE OF THE PILOT (DANIEL C. GILMAN), by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slender spars and snowy wings Last Line: "comrades on the glorious sea." Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): California, University Of; Gilman, Daniel Coit (1831-1908) THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FIELD, by GARY SOTO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The wind sprays pale dirt into my mouth Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Farm Life; Minorities - United States; San Joaquin Valley, California; United States - Race Relations; Agriculture; Farmers THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: SUN, by GARY SOTO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In june the sun is a bonnet of light Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Sun; Agriculture; Farmers THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND, by GARY SOTO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A dry wind over the valley Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind; Agriculture; Farmers THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND (2), by GARY SOTO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you got up this morning the sun Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind THE FIGHT OF PASO DEL MAR, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gusty and raw was the morning, a fog hung over the seas Last Line: From the fight of the paso del mar. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): California THE GOLD THAT GREW BY SHASTA TOWN, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From shasta town to redding town Last Line: By pleasant, sunlit shasta town. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold Rush; Forty-niners THE GOLD-SEEKERS, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw these dreamers of dreams go by Last Line: Though the gold of the dice has been lost. Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold Rush; Forty-niners THE KING'S HIGHWAY; EL CAMINO REAL, by JOHN STEVEN MCGROARTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All in the golden weather, forth let us ride today Last Line: With the breath of god about us on the king's highway. Subject(s): California; Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails THE LAST MERMOTHER, by ANNIE FINCH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to fish in san francisco bay Subject(s): Mothers; San Francisco Bay, California THE LAST RODEO, by LILLIAN CAROLINE CANFIELD Poem Text First Line: Fools! I have heard the beat of the last rodeo Last Line: On the white dust roads that writhe in the sacramento. Subject(s): California; Rodeos THE LOVING SHEPHERDESS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little one-room schoolhousc among the redwoods Last Line: Of the solemn Subject(s): Pregnancy; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; California; Death; Dead, The THE MEN OF FORTY-NINE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those brave old bricks of forty-nine! Last Line: Who made a pathway with their dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold Rush; Forty-niners THE OJAI VALLEY, by VINE MCCASLAND Poem Text First Line: Here massive, roofless mountains brood in peace Last Line: For this one hour we have spent in heaven. Subject(s): Ojai Valley, California THE ONSET; A CALIFORNIA BEACH, by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wet sands were grey-blue that afternoon Last Line: Love can defy. Alternate Author Name(s): Scollard, Clinton, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; California; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE PINE FOREST OF MONTEREY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What point of time, unchronicled, and dim Last Line: Will make sad answer to the listening sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Monterey, California; Pine Trees; Trees THE PIONEER, by HENRY MEADE BLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a sigh for the unknown land fevering his Last Line: To build the state and lift the law for light. Subject(s): California; Pioneers THE PURCHASE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once you've bought into the suspension of disbelief Last Line: To buy a thing you don't want Subject(s): California; Pacific Ocean; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE RAINY SEASON IN CALIFORNIA, by JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE Poem Text First Line: The rains have come, the winds are shrill Last Line: My soul enchanted soareth free. Alternate Author Name(s): Yellow Bird Subject(s): California; Rain THE REALMS OF GOLD, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the palms of san diego Last Line: A song that had out-soared death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Gold; Poetry & Poets; San Diego, California; Dead, The; Nightmares THE SHAPE OF THE STAR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, you know, he started out as a Last Line: What it / is Subject(s): Hollywood, California THE WAITING NOTE; DEDICATED TO PRESIDENT SUSAN MILLS OF MILLS COLLEGE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: In the full celestial chorus Last Line: Lay their worship at his feet. Subject(s): God; Mills College, California; Religion; Worship; Theology THE YUKON'S SONG OF THE GOLD, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Lo! We are the waters that come from afar Last Line: The cañons of unsought gold. Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold; Hunting; Treasures; Yukon Territory; Gold Rush; Forty-niners; Hunters THERE ARE ANIMALS IN THIS AREA, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source Last Line: Right outside our door Subject(s): Bolinas, California THESE ARE THE DAYS, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source Last Line: Just enough to see it coming Subject(s): Bolinas, California THINKING OF THE LOST WORLD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This spoonful of chocolate tapioca Last Line: Nothing: nothing for which there's no reward Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Los Angeles, California THIRTEEN, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I was thirteen, filled with an impossible will Last Line: I shot two rolls, slowly. And I went to school Subject(s): Bolinas, California THIS SHAME CALLED JOY, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Hand squeezed, %thick with a pulp which clings Last Line: The tenacity of my desire Subject(s): California; Cities THREE PERSPECTIVES OF SAN FRANCISCO: FROM SAUSALITO, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Is san francisco at noon Last Line: Of a sprawling, white hospital Subject(s): Sausalito, California; Tourists; Travel THREE PSYCHIATRISTS, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I went to three psychiatrists Last Line: So he remained relatively quiet all that time, waiting Subject(s): Bolinas, California TO GET TO FRESNO, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: To get to fresno, %you need to turn left Last Line: Welcome back, fresno. %welcome back home.' Subject(s): California; Geography; Maps; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration TO GET TO THE CHILD, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I have to set just one free man Last Line: I inflict now, all by myself Subject(s): California; Cities TO MOUNT SHASTA, by JOHN MARTIN DEAN Poem Text First Line: We trailed the sacramento toward the north Last Line: For me, I've seen you in the moonlight white! Subject(s): Mount Shasta, California TO TALK ABOUT A RIVER, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I remember a time before speaking Last Line: A river that never knew we left it Subject(s): California; Cities TO THE PIONEERS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How swift this sand, gold-laden, runs! Last Line: Sierra's snow-topt battle tents. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Pioneers; Gold Rush; Forty-niners TO WOMEN WHO SLEEP ALONE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: My mother doesn't understand a world with no man in it Last Line: A woman opening to the sound of rain Subject(s): California; Cities TONIGHT, WALT WHITMAN, THE PACIFIC, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Tonight, soul mate, I summon you out of the pacific Last Line: Singing your angelic song Subject(s): Anniversaries; California; Pacific Ocean; Seashore; Singing And Singers; Travel TOR HOUSE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you should look for this place after a handful Last Line: With the mad wings and the day moon Subject(s): Carmel, California TOWN NEEDS A MAGAZINE, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source Last Line: And in a week we bring out a proud beauty Subject(s): Bolinas, California TOYONS IN A BERKELEY GARDEN, by MAME NESBIT HAYNES Poem Text First Line: O toyons, growing by the garden wall Last Line: Of a friend, I greet you! Subject(s): Berkeley, California; Gardens & Gardening; Holly TRANSPARENT MAN, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: You were transparent Last Line: And so you shot clear of your career %transparent Subject(s): Bolinas, California TRANSUBSTANTIATION, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Across santa barbara harbor, masts lean like white Last Line: Shaft of straggly feathers, here and there, shed Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Harbors; Santa Barbara, California; Travel TROUBADOUR, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I sing my song solidly in time Last Line: The birds are a'twitter every single day Subject(s): Bolinas, California TWO FROM THE MONTEREY HOTEL: 1. LET'S RAISE A GLASS OF PORT TO THE OLD, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Didn't know much about the old guy Last Line: Weighing as much as two full golf bags Subject(s): Hotels; Monterey, California; Old Age; Rooms TWO FROM THE MONTEREY HOTEL: 2. PORTRAIT OF A DESK CLERK, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: She takes as long as a kabuki actor making up Last Line: And descends to her estate Subject(s): Monterey, California; Paintings And Painters; Portraits UP IN THE LOFT, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Sitting in the sleeping loft Last Line: While the eucalyptus trees wave across the meadow Subject(s): Bolinas, California VALE, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her gaunt sierras edged with fire or snow Last Line: Of waves upon her coast. Subject(s): California VALLEY OF SAN GABRIEL, by ANNE ZUKER Poem Text First Line: Full tide of summer, through the waxing year Last Line: Into mutation on the knees of death? Subject(s): San Gabriel Valley, California VIZCAINO, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here at cape vizcaino in mendocino Last Line: Take care. See you soon Subject(s): Mendocino, California; Tourists; Travel; Vizcaino, Sebastian (1550-1616) WALKING DOWN MARKET STREET, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: You see Last Line: Down the street Subject(s): Bolinas, California WALKING DOWN THE ROAD, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a clear night in live oak you can see Last Line: Flashing their angry tears, here in live oak Subject(s): California; Mexico WANTING TO GO BACK HOME, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The parakeet meets me at the back door Last Line: Wet from years of rain Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California WE ARE HUNGRY, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: We are hungry for shakespeare Last Line: We are hungry for everything Subject(s): Bolinas, California WELL: IMAGINE A MOUNTAIN WHOSE NAME IS HEART, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: At the throat of the mountain Last Line: Interned at heart mountain, wyoming Subject(s): California; Cities WEST COAST SOUNDS ?اض 1956, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: San fran, hipster land Last Line: For mexico. / me too Subject(s): Jazz; Poetry And Poetry; California WHAT A SWEET THING, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: What a sweet thing a child is Last Line: As sweet as new-mown grass Subject(s): Bolinas, California WHAT MORE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: First we allow %the taking of children Last Line: What more can be taken Subject(s): California; Cities WHEN I WAS EIGHT IN BEVERLY HILLS, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: I stole a machine gun water-pistol out of the drugstore Last Line: Buried it, quickly Subject(s): Bolinas, California WHEN I WAS NINE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No river flowed through the city. Our school was scarred Last Line: Where no river flowed from there to the sky Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California WHEN THE HEART MELTS, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source Last Line: Through the body Subject(s): Bolinas, California WHERE THE SKY AND GROUND ARE WHITE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I press my lips together slightly Last Line: Too furious to ignore Subject(s): California; Cities WHO HAVE BEEN SAD EVEN BEFORE THEY COULD LEARN, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Where do they come from Last Line: Can last a girl her entire life Subject(s): California; Cities WIND RIVER, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: It is just a matter of relocation Last Line: Of 1985, near the wind river reservation, wyoming Subject(s): California; Cities WINDY MORNING (CATALINE ISLAND, 1913), by ODELL SHEPARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn with a jubilant shout Last Line: High up against the sun. Subject(s): Catalina Island, California; Wind WINTER MIDNIGHT, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Can I let the winter go without a poem Last Line: Like snow falling, like snow falling, like snow falling Subject(s): Bolinas, California WITH A CALLIGRAPHER, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: He writes every morning with a fat ink brush. His fingers slicing Last Line: All the power in his hands, which he holds onto with his life Subject(s): California; Cities WITH NATURE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The goats chewed in sunlight Last Line: And its juices long gone Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California WITNESS, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: The first time I looked up Last Line: Know how much I was loved Subject(s): California; Cities WOMAN NAMED MATSU/PINE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I wait here before our children Last Line: Fire in the dawn's %stillest hour Subject(s): California; Cities WOMAN WHO FORGOT, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Sometimes a woman must go Last Line: She had never left it behind Subject(s): California; Cities YESTERDAY, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: Yesterday we went into sausalito to have lunch with Last Line: Of the matter, since that's what comes through to me Subject(s): Bolinas, California YOU, by CLAIRE STUDER-GOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have the mane Last Line: Across the worlds. Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Claire Subject(s): California; Colorado (state); Earth; Nature; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips YOUR BIRTHDAY IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A broken moon on the cold water Subject(s): Birthdays; California; Death; Memory; Mountains; Past; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) YOUR BIRTHDAY IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A broken moon on the cold water Last Line: But you have been dead for thirty years Subject(s): Birthdays; California; Death; Memory; Mountains; Past |
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