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Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

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Chapter 31 -- Poems for Subterranean Sailors<br />

And our anthology <strong>of</strong> underground river poetry -- some by title, others by usage -- just keeps<br />

going. Here are a few more, sans comments.<br />

Rosemarie<br />

Johnstone<br />

Jane<br />

Reichhold<br />

Phillis<br />

Levin<br />

Margaret<br />

Holley<br />

B.P.<br />

Shillaber<br />

Constance<br />

Henriette<br />

Urdang<br />

Grace<br />

Butcher<br />

Theodore<br />

Roethke<br />

James<br />

Galvin<br />

Muriel<br />

Rukeyser<br />

Muriel<br />

Rukeyser<br />

"An <strong>Underground</strong><br />

River in West<br />

Hollywood" (2001)<br />

"Waves/Above the<br />

<strong>Underground</strong> River"<br />

(1990)<br />

"A Meeting <strong>of</strong><br />

Friends" (1988)<br />

"The Gallery <strong>of</strong> Owls"<br />

(1993)<br />

If I were not such a lazy scholar disinclined to supplement<br />

Assigned <strong>of</strong> this hill startling emerald green<br />

Waves<br />

Above the underground river<br />

Sand dunes<br />

Plain as the lighted face<br />

Pilled with love radiating<br />

Although their hair is turning gray<br />

And love is a stream changing course underground.<br />

The river running underground<br />

Who am I then?<br />

Three snowy owls.<br />

Firelight on walls<br />

"A Song," (1853) The thirsty mart feels through its heart<br />

The mighty current quiver,<br />

Through streets and lanes, in iron veins,<br />

A subterranean river.<br />

"The River" (1990) Even here we have driven the river underground<br />

Like a blind man on an unfamiliar street<br />

Tapping his path between strangers<br />

"Sunbathing" (1967) The sun carves<br />

my body into caves<br />

where bird song moves<br />

like an underground stream.<br />

"The Cycle" (1965) Dark water, underground<br />

Under a river's source<br />

Under primeval stone<br />

"Leap Year" (2003) When the river goes underground<br />

It isn't lying<br />

Home is where the heart gives out<br />

And we arouse the grass<br />

"Letter to the Front"<br />

(1994)<br />

"Women and Poets<br />

See Truth Arrive"<br />

(2004)<br />

Lyn Lifshin "That July" (1997) Something under skin<br />

<strong>Underground</strong> streams<br />

But where, we may ask is Carl Sandburg?<br />

Women and poets see the truth arrive<br />

The blind inventor finds the underground river<br />

Then its is acted out<br />

The blind inventor finds the underground river<br />

The answer doesn't lie in this chapter because, alas, we've yet to find a Sandburg poem about<br />

underground rivers. But that's not to say that he didn't write about them. To appreciate his<br />

contribution, we must wait until Chapter 46, the chapter about dowsing.<br />

"The Braes <strong>of</strong> Balquhidder" by the Scottish "Weaver Poet," Robert Tannahill (1774-1810),<br />

contemporary to Robert Burns, is the basis for the ballad "Wild Mountain Thyme," with its familiar<br />

chorus "Will Ye Go Lassie, Go."<br />

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