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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: ST. JOHN, PRIMUS Matches Found: 48 St. John, Primus Poet's Biography 48 poems available by this author 25 EXPOSURES Poem Text First Line: What makes our pictures Last Line: Then endures silence. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Slavery; Serfs A METAPHYSICAL JOURNEY; FROM POSTCARDS Poem Text First Line: Dear folks / enclosed, is the ordinary river Last Line: "there is no abstract art; you must start with something." Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs A POEM TO MY NOTEBOOK, ACROSS WINTER First Line: The flock of birds takes shape Last Line: I hope Subject(s): Birds; Slavery; Serfs A STORY Poem Text First Line: Her sorrow was the size Last Line: And things changed. Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs AFTER THAT Poem Text First Line: Every story has its lean meat Last Line: I've kissed her fright. Subject(s): Rape; Revenge; Slavery; Women - Abused; Serfs; Wife Beating AFTER THE TRUCKERS' RESTURANT First Line: Men look at curves in the dark Last Line: She can hear it (sleeping). Subject(s): Slavery; Trucks & Trucking; Serfs ALL THE WAY HOME Poem Text First Line: The lamps hung like a lynching Last Line: All the way home. Subject(s): Home; Slavery; Solitude; Serfs; Loneliness AMBIGUITIES Poem Text First Line: I call it dress Last Line: I want to go dancing. Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs AMERICAN ROOTS: MORAL ASSOCIATIONS Poem Text First Line: Kinship / is emabarrassing the wind Last Line: And it's your world, brother. Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs ANNIVERSARY Poem Text First Line: When she walked by Last Line: He likes to comb her hair. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Love; Slavery; Stillbirth; Serfs; Death - Childbirth ARS POETICA Poem Text First Line: At the edge of the forest Last Line: For the sake of this poem. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Slavery; Serfs BEDDING DOWN Poem Text First Line: The redness of the apples Last Line: And spend the night. Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs BENIGN NEGLECT/WEST POINT, MISSISSIPPI, 1970 Poem Text First Line: Suppose you were dreaming about your family Last Line: Good-bye, johnny. Subject(s): Death; Murder; Slavery; Dead, The; Serfs CARNIVAL Poem Text First Line: The sun's return is magical Last Line: Trying to become one with the gods. Subject(s): Carnivals; Slavery; Sun; Serfs CONSTELLATIONS Poem Text First Line: Nighttime / fore I go to bed Last Line: Grandma ole. Subject(s): Grandparents; Slavery; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Serfs DANCING WITH WOLVES Poem Text First Line: We've become the place Last Line: As lonely as we hunted the buffalo away. Subject(s): Modern Man; Slavery; Serfs DREAMER Poem Text First Line: There are few probabilities through Last Line: That it jogs Subject(s): Dreams; Sea Voyages; Slavery; Faith; Christianity; Social Commentaries ELEPHANT ROCK Poem Text First Line: We take place in what we believe Last Line: Jesus saves Subject(s): Slavery; Social Problems; United States; Serfs; America FOR THESE CONDITIONS THERE IS NO ABORTION First Line: They say the tongue is only praxis Last Line: Not hangers and quinine and soda. Subject(s): Abortion; Slavery; Social Problems; Women - Abused; Serfs; Wife Beating HE IMAGINED THE GORGEOUS PATTERN OF THE NEW SKIN AND SETTLED FOR AMERI Poem Text First Line: The quiet which is my wife endures Last Line: Into the sunset of our bleeding children. Subject(s): Death; Slavery; Social Problems; Dead, The; Serfs I THINK I WILL MAKE THE MAN THIN Poem Text Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors I WAS TO BECOME A BAJAN Poem Text INDEED Poem Text First Line: I married a girl in the summer who slept on the beach Last Line: To silence, to you. It is a good one. Subject(s): Change; Marriage; Slavery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serfs IRONING Poem Text First Line: I opened my history book one day Last Line: I wouldn't be here. Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs LABORER Poem Text First Line: I work for what I get Last Line: To her children. Subject(s): Black (color); Discontent; Labor & Laborers; Slavery; Dissatisfaction; Work; Workers; Serfs LISTS Poem Text First Line: Anger, the water boiling Last Line: Smiles, ancient forms of justice Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs LOOKING AT A BUS STOP First Line: Water is just a five-letter word Last Line: That autumn hurts. Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Slavery; Trees; Serfs LYNCHING AND BURNING Poem Text First Line: Men lean toward the wood Last Line: People lived there. Now we live there... Subject(s): Children; Ku Klux Klan; Lynching; Parents; Slavery; Childhood; Parenthood; Serfs LYRIC 12 Poem Text First Line: I believe in myself slowly Last Line: It takes my wonder. Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs LYRIC 13 Poem Text First Line: With emotion / the wind holds out its empty hands Last Line: Was I really awake when I saw this. Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs LYRIC 14 First Line: You take this earth we live on Last Line: What have you learned to say to each other? Subject(s): Lust; Slavery; Women; Serfs OUR LADY OF CONGRESS Poem Text First Line: The opposition likes dry poems Last Line: But the luck we have left. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Slavery; Words; Vocabulary; Serfs PEARLE'S POEM Poem Text First Line: She sits in the marketplace Last Line: Part fire. Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs READING A STORY TO MY CHILD Poem Text First Line: This is a small boy Last Line: In a ragged coat. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Parents; Slavery; Childhood; Parenthood; Serfs SOUTHERN COMFORT: A GENTLEMAN First Line: Evenings / the sky turns blood Last Line: Or lost. Subject(s): Farm Life; Slavery; Agriculture; Farmers; Serfs STRIKE ONE, STRIKE TWO: A SAVAGE SONG First Line: I am as safe as I can Last Line: Put it here. Subject(s): Male Chauvinism; Slavery; Serfs STUDYING Poem Text First Line: American lit. Is beside you Last Line: And what you are Subject(s): Self; Knowledge SUNDAY Poem Text First Line: Today, / the sea has its own religion Last Line: Love starts over and over again. Subject(s): Slavery; Swimming & Swimmers; Serfs; Swimmers SURVIVAL Poem Text First Line: Where is my father? Last Line: All by himself. Subject(s): Blacks; Fathers; Slavery; Serfs TALK Poem Text First Line: He hand on me back Last Line: Nobody but you. Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs THAT DAY Poem Text THE CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: I look at my hands Last Line: Until our bodies fall off. Subject(s): Hands; Labor & Laborers; Slavery; Work; Workers; Serfs THE MORNING STAR Poem Text First Line: Rumors open up Last Line: I vote for mr. Anderson. Subject(s): Morning Star; Newspapers; Slavery; Journalism; Journalists; Serfs THE VIOLENCE OF PRONOUN Poem Text First Line: Loving came her way Last Line: "that makes us vicious." Subject(s): Marriage; Racism; Slavery; Social Problems; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Serfs TWO VOICES FROM HESTER STREET (1904) First Line: This morning / in the warm air Last Line: Abraham Subject(s): Love - Marital; Slavery; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Serfs TYSON'S CORNER Poem Text First Line: We were as tough as our glasses Last Line: We made a promise. Subject(s): Blood; Slavery; Serfs WATER CAN ONLY WRAP ME BUT LIFE MUST HOLD ME Poem Text First Line: A black man, from oklahoma Last Line: Love and exposure have become a poem. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Slavery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serfs WE CAME TO KNOW EACH OTHER Poem Text |
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