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Subject: CATHOLICS - UNITED STATES Matches Found: 44 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMBERGRIS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Caught in the cobblestones, her heel Last Line: And the great barrier reef --%knocked, bone on bone Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States BELLES LETTRES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: She had learned %to sip tea from a glass Last Line: They'd called it a 'vestibule,' %which made her love words Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States BOOMERS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: This is the last fallout shelter poem Last Line: Clinging to half-lives, as we are now Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States CANA, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I walk the dog beside the sound Last Line: Just as the harbor waters turn to wine Subject(s): Cana, Galilee; Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States CAUTION HORSES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Hang their heads over the fence Last Line: Sweep the ground %at their feet Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States CHERRY-RIPE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Here you are again, on that shaky ladder in the south Last Line: Chose one more night without love and left me barren Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States COMPOSING ON THE COMPUTER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I've learned to love the clicking of the keyboard -- Last Line: Background noise now for every poem Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Can there be passion in a house Last Line: One calls out into the fields %the other comes Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States DEATH'S DETAILS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: She irons her mother's dress for the open casket Last Line: Into the shape of the neat collar she'll wear into the ground Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States EASTER, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was there not one, when in the upper room Last Line: Even as around them fell the greeting, 'peace'? Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Easter; Holidays; Peace; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology EPITHALAMION, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The carpenters came %who invited Last Line: That stirred her %and a black wing Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FIRST HAIR CUT, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The barber's rough bristles brushed Last Line: The fluorescent light licked %my bare neck to stone Subject(s): Barbers; Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FIRST NIGHT OF FIREFLIES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: It would be this way: twilight Last Line: With a grass nest, a punctured lid %he was coming over Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FLESH, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Your newborn neck recalls the potter's fragrant spit Last Line: Just as mad and milky dim as when we buried them Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FLOWERING CHERRY AND AUTUMN MAPLE WITH POEM SLIPS: 1, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Poems pressed into your palm with your fare receipt Last Line: Poems clipped and filed with family recipes Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FLOWERING CHERRY AND AUTUMN MAPLE WITH POEM SLIPS: 2, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Poems (the smell of mothballs, of cedar) pinned to wirehangers Last Line: Was like to feel the garment from inside Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FLU SEASON, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: We keep passing the fever between us, a monster's Last Line: While you are spiking, soaked in your own sweat Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FONTANELLE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The soul keeps pouring in before it closes Last Line: More gently here on top, %before the small skull shuts Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States HERE'S A CHRISTMAS CARD, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: With the blank look of abbot thayer's angel Last Line: And not in the bright throbbing of the stars Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States LEDA'S CHILDREN, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The swan honking of the woman Last Line: Shit she leaves behind, only to %step, once more, in my own Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States LES ONCLES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Snow on the roof but fire in the cellar' Last Line: I had learned enough of that language to ask %'but didn't you use the familiar?' Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States LITERALLY, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Abortion was merely a metaphor Last Line: I am now trying my best to ignore Subject(s): Abortion; Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States LOT'S WIFE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The last time we cast shadows %on the wall Last Line: And god, his mouth, his wet mouth, %always the taste of Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States MAN WHO TOUCHED THE TWELVE-ARMED GODDESS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I am clever,' says the man. 'the guards Last Line: Curving ram's horns, necklace of claws, tiger teeth Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States MIDWIFE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Fingers a pelvis model %thrust on a stick like sculpture Last Line: Clatters his trucks, like anybody's son Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States MY FATHER'S CORNET, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The parched leather case, flecked in the corners Last Line: To. We never learned much more Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States MY PARENTS BUY A BURIAL PLOT, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: It took her fifteen years to get him Last Line: I'll be in hell if she's been right all along Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States NOVEMBER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Here comes our last storm with thunder Last Line: And the dust that settles in the cleavage %of ripe plums? Subject(s): Autumn; Catholics - United States; Seasons; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States NUNS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: When our nun drove the idiot's head into the blackboard Last Line: Not even from thirst, or from hunger Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Nuns; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States NUTCRACKER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Not to be confused with the little wooden priapus Last Line: Secretly. I clicked her empty legs like castanets Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States PARISH, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The priests, the priests %in their loneliness imagined our lives Last Line: The men you imagine yourselves to be Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States POMEGRANATE SEASON, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: First frost-the sugar-shocked leaves Last Line: Darkness-god, I'd barter my soul for these Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States READING JAMES WRIGHT, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: If I go down all the way with you Last Line: Lank and rambling? She never %threw herself into the sea Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States; Wright, James (1927-1980) RUINED STATUES IN THE LOUVRE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Infant love left his palm print on this aphrodite's naked back Last Line: Against each other in their tombs-for the hundredth time or so %that day, you let my hand go Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Louvre, Paris; Statues; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States SPLITTING WOOD, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: It's best when you take off your shirt Last Line: Winter, this will burn between us Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TEACHER TO A MAD STUDENT: 1, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Your face is like an angel's %I've kissed it Last Line: Mundane as a supermarket, %it's my life too Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TEACHER TO A MAD STUDENT: 6, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I wish you could have heard ginsberg Last Line: But cover the fire, boy, %cover the fire Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TO BECOME AN ISLANDER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Steal a sloop from the harbor Last Line: Burn your face brown before sunset Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TO SEDNA, THE INUIT SEA GODDESS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: In the storm when your father flung Last Line: Has brought your father, and all his work, down Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TO THE CLOSE FRIEND MOST UNLIKE ME, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Sunday I thought of you-- Last Line: The little boy under the wheel of that car, for instance--alive Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States WILD GIRLS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Wild girls are all around us %and the memory of snow Last Line: Wild girls are dancing %bears groan in the forest Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States WINTER SOLSTICE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Our new pup backs into her plastic den Last Line: As she leapt straight for him into the sun Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States WOMEN AND MEN: A RETROSPECTIVE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I know they exist, I saw them -- Last Line: Bearing burdens on their backs, %walking uphill, fully clothed Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States WORKING CLASS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: How often in my presence someone's used Last Line: And he was. And they were. And we have been Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States |
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