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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SAN FRANCISCO Matches Found: 264 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 64 PANORAMIC WAY, by CAROL MOLDAW Poem Source First Line: Like easy conversation Last Line: Three bridges and san francisco %shrugging off her damp negligee Subject(s): Cities; San Francisco ALIENS, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: We are all aliens Last Line: Next to strangers %just like you Subject(s): San Francisco ALZHEIMER'S, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I'm in the waiting room Last Line: For your new empty mind Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco AMENDS, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: Have I told you Last Line: Again I love them true Subject(s): San Francisco AMERICA LOOMED BEFORE US, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Lester hawk dumped a couple hundred Last Line: Been consumed with the hog flesh. America %loomed before us Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco AN ELEGY TO DISPEL GLOOM (ASSASSINATIONS OF MOSCONE & MILK), by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us not sit upon the ground Subject(s): Assassination; San Francisco AT THE FREIGHT YARDS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The ghost of jesse james cornholes doyle Last Line: To the heights of the haight %& beyond Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco AT THE HOUSE OF GHOSTS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I'm back after twenty years of baiting the trap of the past. This is where I Last Line: The world awaits him as it once awaited me Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco; Sports AT THE STEVENSON FOUNTAIN (PORTSMOUTH SQUARE, SAN FRANCISCO), by WALLACE IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps from out the thousands passing by Last Line: And draw contentment from a cup of tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo Subject(s): Fountains; Grief; San Francisco; Sorrow; Sadness ATLAS OF THE DIFFICULT WORLD: 5, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Catch if you can your country's moment, begin Last Line: A cell dividing without maps, sliver of ice beneath a wheel %could do the job. Faithfulness isn't th Subject(s): San Francisco AUGUST HAS ALWAYS BEEN BLACK FOR US, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: We are born every month Last Line: Black %for us Subject(s): San Francisco BECAUSE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Because I have a choker of trading post beads Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco BLACK CROW DREAMS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Dear chief seattle: %I was wondering if you ever ran into Last Line: Or have we simply forgotten %how-the-christ to fly Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco BLACK IS THIS NIGHT OF LOVE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I hope we make it home Last Line: It is warm and you are wakan Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco BLACK LIT CLASS AND ELLISON'S INVISIBLE MAN, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: Raye said, zero is an abstract Last Line: Learning mathematics %seeking god Subject(s): San Francisco BLAME IT ON THE DOG, HE'S DEAD, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Waiting in the vet's office Last Line: The slate clean of the checked days %of four thirsty years Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco BLOODWINE EPIGRAMS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In the smoothing of warm and ageless sand Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco BOYS CRUISE SEATTLE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Ennut! %look, jake Last Line: Pull over. Let's %check them out %for nail holes Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco BUCKSKIN VORTEX, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: A radio orge twists Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco BURDENS OF THE DAY, NOV. 12, 1936, by DUANE BIG EAGLE Poem Source First Line: On the day they opened the san francisco-oakland bay bridge Last Line: Are the strands that weave the world together Subject(s): History; San Francisco 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 CEREMONIES OF THE DAMNED, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Sweetheart Last Line: We live in is truly the land of the free Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco CHICKEN BLUES, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Outside his room the rain Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco CHINATOWN BLUES, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting for the streetcar in san francisco Last Line: A second ballroom appears. / empty Subject(s): Chinatown, San Francisco; Shopping; Streets; Tourists; Travel; Avenues; Journeys; Trips CHINATOWN BLUES, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting for the streetcar in san francisco Last Line: A second balloon appears, %empty Subject(s): Chinatown, San Francisco; Shopping; Streets; Tourists; Travel CITY GAMES OF LIFE AND DEATH; WALKING THE MISSION DISTRICT, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: I can why indians come here Last Line: They changed their ways Subject(s): San Francisco COLOSSAL AMERICAN COPULATION, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: They say there's a promise Last Line: That dusty road, but I don't see it Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco COMING HOME, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: San francisco airport Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Home; San Francisco CONCEPCION DE ARGUELLO; PRESIDIO DE SAN FRANCISCO, 1800, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking seaward, o'er the sand-hills stands the fortress, / old and quaint Last Line: "closer yet her nun's attire. ""senor, pardon, she died too!" Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Variant Title(s): Concha Subject(s): San Francisco 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 CONTEST FORMAT, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: Slammed words rush into the mike Last Line: Slammed words rush into the mike Subject(s): San Francisco COUCH FANTASY, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In the mandolin air of pistons Last Line: And any submarines had yet to sail Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco COYOTE NIGHT, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: A flat tire ten miles Last Line: It drives pretty good %on three tires Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco COYOTE SONG, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: A light powdered snow glistens in the brown Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco COYOTE'S CIRCLE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In south dakota and heading Last Line: And love and forgotten memories Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco CUBA SONG, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: They say we are lost guanhatabey Last Line: How we knit our songs and wove our dances and called our home %cuba cuba cuba Subject(s): San Francisco CULTURAL DYSLEXIA, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Dispossessed of dispomania Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco DANDELION, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In grease-bubbling heat Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco DARK LOVE, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: Sleep visions of him Last Line: And feel the child grow Subject(s): San Francisco DAWN, by CORA MIRANDA BAGGERLY OLDER Poem Text First Line: Dawn in san francisco Last Line: Of wizardry send a sign! Subject(s): Dawn; San Francisco; Sunrise DEAD COWS AT AGAI PAH, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Baiting the trap of the past Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco DEAD REZ LAND DREAM, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The rez land we wanted was thick Last Line: Walt whitman, what's the difference Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco DIFFERENT STROKES BAR, SAN FRANCISCO, by FORREST HAMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe I knew it wouldn't last long, that the joys of us Last Line: Your new and hungry body, you taken away with it Subject(s): Bodies; Dancing And Dancers; San Francisco DRUNK WITH MERLE SINGING, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I was drunk with merle singing in the background Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco DUST WORLD, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Whirlwinds of hot autumn dust Last Line: Parade is beginning Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco EAGLE WOMAN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Dark, beaked blots circle my eyes inside Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco EARTH BONE CONNECTED TO THE SPIRIT BONE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: When america died, I was passed out Last Line: It becomes the only word %in our world Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco ELEGY FOR ONE OF US, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Some say that we are all brothers under the skin Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco ELEGY TO DISPEL GLOOM (ASSASSINATIONS OF MOSCONE & MILK), by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us not sit upon the ground Last Line: Such men as these do rise above %our worst imaginings Subject(s): Assassination; San Francisco EPIPHANY: OXYMORON, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In redneck god-fearing gordon, nebraska Last Line: Of our bankable plight Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco EPITAPHS FOR SOME IDIOTS I HAVE BEEN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The stud. I have travelled like a truck Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco ERROR IN TIME, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: I have been wrong about time Last Line: That god-like entity %which we call time Subject(s): San Francisco EVENING, by EDWARD POLLOCK Poem Text First Line: The air is chill, and the day grows late Last Line: While the clouds come in through the golden gate. Subject(s): Evening; San Francisco; Sunset; Twilight FABLE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: When antelope first saw men Last Line: In vomit and rotting meat Subject(s): Fables; San Francisco FALLON RODEO LONG TIME AGO, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The bonfire laughed upward Subject(s): Native Americans; Rodeos; San Francisco FAREWELL TO SYNTHESIS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Schooled namers of names Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FEVER JOURNAL, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Bates, bates, god damn robert bates Last Line: Bates, I don't know if I'm %living or dead Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FEVER VORTEX #666, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: When I thought I was dying Last Line: On that nazi dwarf.' Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FIELD, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Crows land like horses neighs Last Line: Rain quiet as wings %on her back Subject(s): Angels; Animals; Death; Fields; San Francisco; Vietnam FIREFLY AND STAR, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source Last Line: We shining human Subject(s): San Francisco FIRST AND LAST A.A. MEETING, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I doze tumescently in rasping dakota corn Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FIRST CAR REMAINS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Behind the faded government shack Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FIRST OF THE MONTH, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Undeodorized and radiant in rags Last Line: Of my drunken race %cashing their welfare checks Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FIRST PERSON SINGULAR, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: I find my use of 'I' in poems enters and recedes in waves that Last Line: I am asking it of you Subject(s): San Francisco FIRST WATER WORLD, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Uncle, how once a round rock Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FOR MY LAKOTA WOMAN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Early that winter we had fresh tomatoes Last Line: The americans had written for us Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FOR WONDER BREAD DANNY QUAYLE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The candy goblins squeak young songs Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FOR YOU, THESE FLOWERS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Caught in slow motion for several years Last Line: And be suffocated by flowers Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FRANCISCA DILIGENTE; MAY TO AUGUST, 1906, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: No more 'indifferent to fate Last Line: In watchings round the golden gate. Subject(s): Ingratitude; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Ungratefulness FRANCISCA DOLOROSA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Fore-doomed the horror of the age to bear Last Line: A resurrexit in a requiem chant. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Dead, The FRANCISCA GLORIOSA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A crown on her head and triumphant, francisca shall / mount to her seat Last Line: "then the world shall unite with her children to hail her, ""francisca the blest!" Subject(s): Disasters; Lightning; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Lightning Rods FRANCISCA MADRE; NEW YEAR, 1907, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: What cheer, francisco madre, what of cheer Last Line: There's a cheer, francisca madre, there is cheer. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Happiness; Holidays; Memory; New Year; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Joy; Delight FRANCISCA REINA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A stricken queen, but still a queen of queens Last Line: "with orisons unto the rising sun." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Drought; Sacrifices; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke FRANCISCA REINA: INTRODUCTION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: The horror which surpassed all telling Last Line: Lord god! Help us forget. Subject(s): San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906) FRANCISCA'S THANKSGIVING, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: When the hordes of barbarian persians Last Line: And the triumphs the future shall hold. Subject(s): Holidays; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Thanksgiving; Turkey FRANKENSTEIN OF THE PLAINS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: She's wearing tight wranglers Last Line: Like a frankenstein of the plains Subject(s): Native Americans; Prairies; San Francisco; Women FROM RUSSIAN HILL, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night, and the hill to me Last Line: Above, of stars a sea! Subject(s): San Francisco FULLBLOOD GIRL ON A BLUE HORSE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I don't know Last Line: And I might shoot me %some rednecks today Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco GETTING A SECOND OPINION, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I've just bought you a new winter coat Last Line: But the great spirit is too Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: The wind's moods & resolutions %erase tendrils Last Line: The idea %of the person who walks %on it %instants Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam GOOD MORNING AMERICA, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Last week on good morning america Last Line: America is swimming in the electric drool %of self-inflicted dementia Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco GRAFFITI DIALOGUE IN A NEBRASKA BORDERTOWN LAUNDROMAT, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Chester crow suckes a peache. And he injoys it to.' Last Line: C. Crow suckes a white peache to.' Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco GRAVITY, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Spring & timbre %of my own rhythms wild in grief Last Line: A grainy strangeness takes %& I in the crowds %cross the street Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam GROTTO VINH HA LONG (BAY OF THE LANDING DRAGON) TONKIN GULF, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: The rower gaunt as his oar Last Line: Stalagmite meeting stalactites coincidences %taking forever to form Variant Title(s): Grott Subject(s): Boats; San Francisco; Vietnam; Water HEMINGWAY SYNDROME, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Inside the bleached board shack Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco HER WAKE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Dead awake at four in the morning Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco HIGH PLAINS WEATHER REPORT, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I'm getting colder Last Line: Screaming yeeeee-haaaaa Variant Title(s): High Plains Weather Report: Elements Of Madness In The Ai Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco HIKING ON THE COAST RANGE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skirl of the kingfisher was never Subject(s): Labor Unions; Murder; San Francisco; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts HIKING ON THE COAST RANGE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skirl of the kingfisher was never Last Line: There is no %other source than this Subject(s): Labor Unions; Murder; San Francisco; Strikes HOW US HALFBREEDS ARE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Tears upon the dry sponge of heart Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco HOW VERDELL AND DOCTOR ZHIVAGO DISASSEMBLED THE SOVIET UNION, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Last year, before cruising to the warehouse Last Line: Of the soviet union that spring Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco HOW WE WENT OUT, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: She wore five skirts, he wore two hats Last Line: A yellow angel, but disguised. Subject(s): Disasters; Dreams; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Nightmares HUNGER, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Chocolate breeze of calle mina: %oaxaca village of scorpions Last Line: The shadows %nor the dire air Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam I FLEW INTO DENVER APRIL, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco I GROW MY POEMS, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source Last Line: My laughter %my fear Subject(s): San Francisco I SEE AN INDIAN GIRL I USED TO KNOW NEAR LARIMER STREET IN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The sly goddess darkness Last Line: Adn still talked to his brothers and sisters Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco IDEA OF SAN FRANCISCO, by JIM GUSTAFSON Poem Source First Line: Pretty white city. Precious white city Subject(s): San Francisco IN A COUNTRY OF WAREHOUSES, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: I dreamed %I was a stranger Last Line: These %made them %furious Subject(s): Dreams; San Francisco; Strangers; Travel IN ANSWER, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: Gypsy they whisper as sallow curse Last Line: My feet and my heart embrace Subject(s): San Francisco IN GOLDEN GATE PARK THAT DAY, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Except a certain awful look %of terrible depression Subject(s): San Francisco IN MEMORIAM, RAY THOMPSON (1943-1990), by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the streets, / of begging hands and windblown cardboard Last Line: Never-ending memory of his ascendings Subject(s): San Francisco; Homeless; Poetry & Poets IN SAN FRANCISCO, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Here sit we mid the sun-down seas Last Line: And who shall shut it in the face of man? Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): San Francisco IN SAN FRANCISCO'S CHINATOWN, by ALICE MARIE GRAVES Poem Text First Line: From all that typifies the western world Last Line: Are far-land temple bells that softly ring. Subject(s): Chinatown, San Francisco INDIAN CEMETERY; LOVELOCK, NEVADA, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I'm at that place I grew up to leave Last Line: I will bury my old pain in her Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco INDIAN COLLEGE BLUES, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Friday's all-staff meeting dissolves Last Line: Of our indian race %until the meeting so mercifully ends Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco INVITATION; FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO MY BROTHER, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear welcomer, I think you must agree Last Line: Until we talk ourselves to bed Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Guests; San Francisco IT HAS COME TO THIS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Three days a week I imprison you Last Line: The snakiest lonesome blues on earth Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco IT IS NOT CLEAR, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: This mongrel dog scurries under lamplight Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco JULY RITUAL, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: Firecrackers gunshots quiet Last Line: Firecrackers gunshots quiet Subject(s): San Francisco JUPITER'S HORSES; OR, THE MODERN LOCOMOTIVE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: How often at night I have stood on the hill Last Line: "old jupiter's horses are coming to drink." Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Locomotives; San Francisco Earthquake & Fire (1906) LAKE, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Not in cramped houses %with censorious walls Last Line: You gather from its incandescence %your world Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam 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 LAST SONG OF THE DOVE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: During the second week of jets Last Line: Six weeks later it was all but forgotten Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco LETTERS, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: She has become like her mother %her insides blooming Last Line: The house too having read %them is preserved Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam LIE OF THE COMMON LANGUAGE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Yes, the boos said Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco LISTENING TO THE DOORS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Listening to the doors, radio blasting Last Line: They were dreaming of a good used car %like maya's parents' paneled ford wagon Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco LONG BIEN BRIDGE, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Seeing the long bien bridge %on a pastel Last Line: The minute it comes you want %to escape Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam LOOKING FOR JUDAS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Weathered gray, the wooden walls Last Line: Or something like that Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco LOS CHAYULES, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: At dusk above the lake gray tenuous clouds come by Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco LOVE STRIKES, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In golden gate park Last Line: That's what she said. %that's what she said Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco MARIO SAVIO, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Here in america, as I stand Last Line: And mario savio is dead Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco MEDICINE SONG, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Because all my alzheimer's books Last Line: I cannot or will not now say Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco MEMENTO MORI, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: West of the missouri Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco MESSIAH, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: When I shadow box Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco MOTHER CHURCH, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With four feet planted on four standpoints Last Line: Take comfort from the mystery %of enraptured sacrifice Subject(s): Churches; St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco MUTED WAR DRUMS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: A brown woman %with bleached hair Last Line: Of their empty heart %like muted war drums Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco NEAR EIGHTEENTH STREET, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Them home boys at it again Last Line: Brainshot your sweet daughter dead Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco NEW VIET NAM, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Sweat of bolts & nails %muscle like steel & metal Last Line: Then past the cemetery a mountain of crosses %which doesn't stop rising Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam NIGHT OF THE COMET, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: For weeks the people %watched the comet Last Line: They were never seen again Subject(s): Comets; Native Americans; San Francisco NORTH BEACH ALBA, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Walking half-drunk in a strange pad Subject(s): San Francisco NOTE TO A YOUNG REZ ARTIST, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Hey, I thought they were eagles circling Last Line: This mother called earth Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco ODE TO COIT TOWER, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O anti-verdurous phallic were't not for your pouring height Last Line: Sprinting toward the gauzy eradication of swindleresque ink Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): San Francisco ON CONTINUING TO STRUGGLE, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: I don't want to write a memorial poem Last Line: Working on seeing mumia free Subject(s): San Francisco ON MASKS, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: I find it hard to breathe Last Line: Sealing the mouth %of my heart Subject(s): San Francisco ON SPEAKING OF LONELY, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: I am daughter to lonely %lover Last Line: Of its dry, silent touch Subject(s): San Francisco ONE OF THE GRIM REAPER'S DISGUISES, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Death does not speak %to me with meaty breath Last Line: If they're not death %I don't know what is Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco OZONE AVENUE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These days I love to dream Last Line: Flicking volcanic ash off a cigarette. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; San Francisco; Separation; Isolation PABST BLUE RIBBON AT WOUNDED KNEE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Between the sensual Variant Title(s): Drinking Beer At Wounded Kne Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco; Wounded Knee, Battle Of (1890) PACIFIC HIGHWAY: 1967, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Adrian's tears in the sand Last Line: Those pink midnight years Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco PEACE NEGOTIATIONS, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: What would our world be Last Line: As a blessing %instead of a curse Subject(s): San Francisco PETROGLYPHS OF SERENA, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In yellowbird's store, the tart tinge Last Line: In the snug, smug darkness %of lust Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco PINE RIDGE LULLABY, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In my mind's frayed corral Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco PLATOON, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The camouflaged f .. Faces Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco POETRY TEACHER, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: Lately I am too full of lessons Last Line: Between becoming and dissolving Subject(s): San Francisco POLITICAL POEM, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: What makes a poem revolutionary Last Line: When you thought it dead Subject(s): San Francisco PRACTICING DEATH SONGS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: My woman leaves to visit her brothers Last Line: That is why I am practicing death songs Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco PRESIDIO HILL, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sabre and cross on this historic crown Last Line: On old presidio hill. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature - Religious Aspects; San Francisco; Hills; Downs (great Britain) PRIVACY, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: Privacy in thought or deed Last Line: And the darkness of your laugh Subject(s): San Francisco PROPHYLAXIS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The slate afternoon rain ends Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco PSEUDO SHAMAN'S CLICHE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I sit in lotus position Last Line: And not talk to flowers Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco QUEEN OF HEARTS, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: I harvest hearts Last Line: Engraved my initials deeply %inside the rim Subject(s): San Francisco RAVINE, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: As they come Last Line: You point %to your head Subject(s): Bodies; Guns; San Francisco; Sleep; Vietnam RECLAIMING AN OLD DEBT, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Our discussion of pleasures Last Line: No salt of tears and no eurydice, so dear, %dear lady, can I have back my heart? Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco RECURRING NIGHTMARE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Outside the gates of even breath Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco RED LOVE POEM, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: It is the abstraction of words that continues to confound me Last Line: Vermillion %sangria %red Subject(s): San Francisco REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In '67 the loony moon ripened Last Line: To sneak into rockwell's %fluffy post portraits Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco RESERVATION SITUATION, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Once I would have cried Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco RHETORIC LEADS TO CLICHE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The young white ranchers with chew drippings Last Line: And we don't know why Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco RUDIMENTARY LESSON IN AMERICAN INDIAN JOURNALISM, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: It was a bitter moonless night Last Line: Oh jesus, we are noble red men Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco SACRED CIRCLE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Numanah, grandfather, grant me the grace Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco SAN FRAN TOPS LIST FOR BITCHINESS, by WESLEY DAY Poem Source First Line: Unfortunately, petty envy %jealousy Last Line: & windowsills %& on our shoes Subject(s): Jealousy; San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, by JANIE ELLEN LUELLING BYRNES Poem Source First Line: The morning stirs as the sun's first beam Last Line: Veiling the end of a perfect day. %sing ho, my heart, sing ho! Subject(s): San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who now dare longer trust thy mother land? Last Line: Mother, what hast thou done, what hast thou done! Subject(s): San Francisco Earthquake & Fire (1906) SAN FRANCISCO, by MONICA LAMY Poem Source First Line: Pastel colored houses climb down hills Last Line: Then through the night I hear %police sirens, car horns %thetalking, and walking feet Subject(s): San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such darkness as when jesus died! Last Line: The fairest sight beneath the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906) SAN FRANCISCO, by ROBERT MILLS Poem Source First Line: Around the rim Subject(s): San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, by WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My galleon of adventure Last Line: Would take me to her breast. Subject(s): San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, by R. E. SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Funny how I felt Last Line: Words can recall %but %that is all Subject(s): San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In this western city, under cloud cover Last Line: And he stops in a store %to bring me, sick in bed, a giant %locomotive to take me there Subject(s): San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, by IRENE SUTTON Poem Text First Line: City of gulls and peopled hills, and piers Last Line: Holding strange sunlight where no woman stands. Subject(s): San Francisco 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 FRANCISCO BAY LANDSCAPE, by JOANIE MACKOWSKI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The calm bay overlaps its grays and greens Last Line: One sees a little of any landscape Subject(s): Landscape; San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO HARBOR, by NANCY BUCKLEY Poem Text First Line: Tall ships, majestically fair Last Line: Are harbored safe at home. Subject(s): Harbors; San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO NIGHT WINDOWS, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So hangs the hour like fruit fullblown and sweet, Subject(s): San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO STREETS, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've had my eye on you Last Line: Look after them Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Homosexuality; San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO UNDER FOG, by GLADYS ADELINA LEWIS Poem Text First Line: City of my dreams, like pearl the dew Last Line: The city of my dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewys, Georges Subject(s): City & Town Life; San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, FROM THE SEA, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Serene, indifferent of fate Last Line: Lie unrecorded and forgot. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO: 1 (APRIL, 1906), by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who more shall trust thee, nature; who so dare Last Line: Thine own, yet ours — mother, what hast thou done? Subject(s): Disasters; Nature; San Francisco Earthquake & Fire (1906) SAN FRANCISCO: 1969, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The heartless city by the bay is Last Line: Love %had %died Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO: 2 (OCTOBER, 1909), by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shadows and vanities, blind to the light Last Line: Proved empress of the western garden, now. Subject(s): San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO; APRIL 18, 1906, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In olden days, a child, I trod thy sands Last Line: Lost city of my love and my desire. Subject(s): Desire; Love; San Francisco SANCTUARY, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Sure, this is a stink town sometimes Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco SAND, FLIES, AND FISH, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: I take a glass of the expiring sun, sipping it Last Line: Born, where he died. It was probably best that %he didn't see anything else but this sun Subject(s): Cambodia; Death; Fishing And Fishermen; Life; San Francisco; Sea; Vietnam SAVAGE BLOOD THIRST, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The morning had taniga breath Last Line: And took three aspirins %and crawled back to bed Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco SCENIC, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O when in san francisco do Last Line: And, in its center, alcatraz Subject(s): San Francisco SCENIC, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O when in san francisco do Last Line: An unmarred prospect of the bay %and, in its center, alcatraz Subject(s): San Francisco SHALL WE GATHER AT THE RIVER, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Everything comes full circle Last Line: And in everlasting love Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco SHE SPEAKS, HE LISTENS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Raving, coming down hard Last Line: & floating toward love street %to find her connection Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco SIGN POST, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: Colored water %quarter water Last Line: White water %drown Subject(s): San Francisco SILENCE OF FORM, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: The wind has little to do with this city, or this time Last Line: In the sand carried by the burning silent wind Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam SOME OF WHAT WE HAVE FORGOTTEN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: There is so much we have forgotten Last Line: It is a sign of rain when horses %chase and kick each other Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 1, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moving over the hills, crossing the irrigation Subject(s): San Francisco; Music & Mujsicians SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 10. BUT SO AS BY FIRE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness of trees Subject(s): San Francisco SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 2. A MORALITY PLAY: PREFACE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying full length Subject(s): San Francisco SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 3. ‘AND THEIR WINTER AND NIGHT IN DISGUISE’, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea and a crescent strip of beach Subject(s): San Francisco SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 4. ANNIVERSARY POEM, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): San Francisco SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 5. THE TRANSLUCENT MECHANICS, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Combed thru the piers the wind Subject(s): San Francisco SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 6., by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): San Francisco SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 7., by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: O withering seas Subject(s): San Francisco SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 8. THE TASTE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Old ships are preserved Subject(s): San Francisco SOME SAN FRANCISCO POEMS: 9. THE IMPOSSIBLE POEM, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing the peak of tamalpais the loose Subject(s): San Francisco SOMETHING ABOUT BEING AN INDIAN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: There's something about being an indian Last Line: A place we call the fire water world Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; San Francisco; U.s. - Race Relations SONG OF THE CICADAS, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Knowing hunger %the fool doesn't starve %plans fall apart Last Line: Stammering our tongues %knowing hunger Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam SONNENKINDER, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Having been sober for two years, I feel it Last Line: I can never drink whiskey again Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco SONNETS OF SEVEN CITIES: SAN FRANCISCO, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High-colored, sparkling, very much alive Last Line: Her syncopating feet dance on again! Subject(s): San Francisco SONNY'S PURPLE HEART, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Man, if you're dead, why are you leading Last Line: We filed you under dry desert dirt Subject(s): Native Americans; Popular Culture - United States; San Francisco SOUNDING SA DEC, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Shock of body against shock of land and sea Last Line: In a syncopated instant %tangos before me Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam SOUTH DAKOTA WOMAN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco SPIRIT-DEER DEEP IN PINE FORESTS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The bad parts of the city are self-infected Last Line: A spirit-deer %fucking deep %in pine forests Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco STAR QUILT, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Yes, that is the same star quilt Last Line: Damn, I'm sure that is the same star quilt Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco STAR QUILT IN A PAWNSHOP, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: That sure looks like the same star quilt Last Line: Never mind. Forget it Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco STREETS OF PEARL AND GOLD, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within, walls white as canvas stretched to stain Last Line: As I try to keep us, here upon this page. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Netherlands; Poetry & Poets; San Francisco; Villages; Wharves; Women; Women's Rights; Holland; Dutch People; Piers; Feminism SWEETS FOR THE DANCING BEARS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: My night's wind scheme of public words Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco TASTE, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Of a sonata adrift %your blanket the moon the sun Last Line: Love was something you invested %drawing your shadows on rock Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam TENDERED LOVE, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: I give this to you Last Line: Yours %together %catch Subject(s): San Francisco TERRORISM DEFINED, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: I was a child Last Line: Against all terrorism for forever Subject(s): San Francisco THANKSGIVING AT PINE RIDGE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Weened from laden brown dugs Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco THANKSGIVING FEAST, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: On turkey day you flew Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco THAT GREAT WINGLESS BIRD, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I was thrashing on the couch Last Line: Yes, hoping for beauty, %that great wingless bird Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; San Francisco; U.s. - Race Relations THE ANGELUS; HEARD AT THE MISSION DOLORES IN SAN FRANCISCO, 1868, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bells of the past, whose long-forgotten music Last Line: The sun sinks from the hill! Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Bells; San Francisco THE CIGOA, by VIRGINIA RUSS Poem Text First Line: This drab shell cast upon the final shore Last Line: That mind might envisage a complete sphere. Subject(s): Amundsen, Roald (1872-1928); Disasters; San Francisco; Shipwrecks THE CITY THAT WILL NOT REPENT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing the heights of berkeley Last Line: Dance, tho' he smite you dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): San Francisco THE GOLDEN GATE, by WILLIAM HENRY RHODES Poem Text First Line: Old thebes could boast of her gates of brass Last Line: Its corner-stone a planet! Alternate Author Name(s): Caxton Subject(s): Golden Gate Strait, San Francisco 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 REASON WHY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Up and down the face of telegraph hill Last Line: And mayhap would have changed the end. Subject(s): Disasters; Gray (color); San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Grey (color) THE SIMPLE LIFE - IN CLUBS; APRIL 1906, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: From various junketings with fate Last Line: To break the record of the thirst. Subject(s): Clubs (associations); San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke THE SIMPLE LIFE - IN TENTS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Ten thousand khaki tents or more Last Line: For living proves a coarse burlesque. Subject(s): Camping; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Tents; Camps; Summer Camps THE SIMPLE LIFE - ON SIDEWALKS; APRIL 1906, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A lady, dainty, young, and fair Last Line: Was worth the burdens it disguised. Subject(s): Firefighters; Heat; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke THE STATUE OF ST. FRANCIS, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: They were putting up the statue Subject(s): San Francisco THINGS HUMAN, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: He collects human teeth and bones %nails and hair Last Line: Packets of stars %desiccated waiting for water Subject(s): Mankind; San Francisco; Vietnam THIS ENDS WITH A FROZEN PENIS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Once we could talk like long-lost friends Last Line: And I take your hand and do as you ask Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco THIS IS NO MOVIE OF NOBLE SAVAGES, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Born of trees %whose timeless atoms Last Line: Unless of course %they're my in-laws Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco THIS IS THE REZ, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source Last Line: Love impossible. Love still possible Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco THIS IS THE TIME OF GRASSHOPPERS AND ALL THAT I SEE IS DYING, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Colleen, %this is the time of grasshoppers Last Line: And all that I see is dying except for my sparkling love for you Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco THREE PERSPECTIVES OF SAN FRANCISCO: FROM ALCATRAZ, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: San francisco at noon Last Line: Surrounding her white flesh Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Paintings And Painters; San Francisco; Tourists; Travel THREE PERSPECTIVES OF SAN FRANCISCO: FROM OAKLAND, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Is san francisco at noon Last Line: On crates of doves.' Subject(s): Hotels; San Francisco; Tourists; Travel THREE SONGS: HITCHING INTO FRISCO, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Truck put me off on fell Last Line: And everywhere to go Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Hitchhikers; San Francisco TIME IS THE FIRE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Dead leaves on the trees in spring Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco TO BILL IN MINNESOTA, MINNESOTA, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Don't say I don't know, I said to her Last Line: The s.O.B. Squeezed all love out of my heart Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco TO BOMB, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: As the terrorists who taught the terrorists Last Line: To be defeated through one's own actions Subject(s): San Francisco TO JIM IN SAWYER, MINNESOTA, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Check out the dead cedars in the enclosed photo Last Line: And looking like hell to break out Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco TO SAN FRANCISCO, by S. J. ALEXANDER Poem Text First Line: If we dreamed that we loved her aforetime Last Line: Leash at her feet. Subject(s): San Francisco Earthquake & Fire (1906) TO SAN FRANCISCO, by SAMUEL JOHN ALEXANDER Poem Text First Line: If we dreamed that we loved her aforetime, 'twas the ghost of a dream Last Line: And the east and the west at her bidding shall lie in a leash at her feet. Subject(s): San Francisco TRAIN, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: The train snakes sai gon-south %groping to his seat Last Line: From his blow %all over her back red embroidery %notice her eyes Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam TRAJECTORY, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: In this art %you may liken me to a line Last Line: Of the poem %that has never been written Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam TREES, RUSH LIMBAUGH, & THE FAILED EXORCISM OF MAYA WU'S GHOST, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Apr-99 Last Line: Joyride of life & on mad, mad %love and destruction Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco TWILIGHT, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: She drags her gangrened foot two miles back %over the loam pass Last Line: I rise to walk in the wilderness %of the monkeys' rant Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam TWO PRAYERS FOR THE SIOUX: 1., by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: On a bitter december night the granite shadows Last Line: I pray for those brains. %grandfather, I pray for those brains Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco TWO PRAYERS FOR THE SIOUX: 2., by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Beneath mt. Rushmore's heightened air Last Line: I will pray that the sioux become sober %and quit murdering themselves, their great nation Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco UNTITLED ANCESTRY, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: I a mongrel %a crossbreed Last Line: Claiming space on the rainbow Subject(s): San Francisco URBAN INDIAN SUITE: 1, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In the empty and angular desert air Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco URBAN INDIAN SUITE: 2, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The heat rash, the hazy lines Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco URBAN INDIAN SUITE: 3, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Mounting years and endless beers Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco URBAN INDIAN SUITE: 4, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The reservation of my mind Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco WAKINYAN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Puppy luppy, our super sleek black lab Last Line: Pain is easier to deal with than spirits Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco WALKER RIVER NIGHT IS A MOIST DREAM, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco WANBLI GLESKA WIN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Eagle woman: %wanbli gleska win Last Line: Between your sioux thighs Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco WAREHOUSE CHRONICLE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: All morning I've stacked cartons of lipstick Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco WARRIOR SONG, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Inside the awakening dynamo Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco WE WERE EACH ALONE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source Last Line: Carrying a photograph of your eyes Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; San Francisco; Solitude WHITE BREAD BLUES, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I guess only an indian woman could Last Line: But my prayer was never %answered thank god Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco WHITE CLAY, NEBRASKA, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: These gray words slog in spring snow Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco WITHOUT WORDS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Farewell from this well is impossible Last Line: And with no words of pride for our past Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco WRITING WORKSHOPS WITH THE HOMELESS, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: Steve writes %'I want to write Last Line: Oh, did I mention %brown sugar for the filling? Subject(s): San Francisco |
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