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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADVICE TO TRAVELERS, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: All this life you were cold
Last Line: You will grow light enough %to vanish
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


ADVICE TO TRAVELERS II, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you wake, leave furtively
Last Line: Be suspicious of the songs of sparrows %for there are no sparrows
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


AFTER THE WAR: 1. DROWNING, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I loved you in ways you
Last Line: I wish I had let you kill me
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


AFTER THE WAR: 2. THE LATE SHOW, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Memory crawls from every muscle in my body
Last Line: On the plane coming home
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


AFTER THE WAR: 3. THE POLITICS OF COMPASSION, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My youth and your hard destiny
Last Line: Medicine taken again and again
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


AFTER THE WAR: 4. FUNERAL RITES, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My fingers are like sticks and I don't mind
Last Line: That year I was with you, that year I burned
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BASILICA OF OUR LADY OF GOOD HEALTH, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They shaped you from tzintzingue paste, rich yellow corn
Last Line: The one shaped like a heart %I want a miracle for every part of my body
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BIRTHDAY, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The jobs you cannot or will not keep
Last Line: That I will always be younger than you
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: A LITTLE FIRE, A WILD FIELD, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was a child, we could often see
Last Line: Like light diffused through air %as thick as water
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: FIRST NIGHT, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world beyond the page is yellow, the day is blue
Last Line: Who will soon walk away from myself
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: FRIDAY: POOR TOM THAT EATS THE SWIMMING.., by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Boy children are all around you
Last Line: He is younger than the youngest child you know
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: MONDAY: FALSE OF HEART, LIGHT OF EAR, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lines we cast, dust that stings our eyes, hooks in
Last Line: Stop right where you are
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: NEXT DAY, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stale, the hard loaf of our day
Last Line: The days when stone could talk?
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: OCEAN, AFTERNOON, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sleep now in the parched sea of childhood
Last Line: But skin with no love of breaking
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: SATURDAY, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My heart grows scales
Last Line: I am dreaming %someone else's dream
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: SECOND DAY, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bird whistles. You could not call that singing
Last Line: And yellow green, in the dirty marketplace
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BOULEVARD OF HEROES, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day you took me up there, they marched
Last Line: Fooling yourself. This is the safest life I know
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BOUND CHILDREN, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You, little blank slate
Last Line: At play with forlorn pleasure
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


CEMETERY AUTUMN: 1, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This september, lovebugs over east texas
Last Line: And another's reddish hair
Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery:
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


CEMETERY AUTUMN: 2, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even this late in the evening, nettie's crypt
Last Line: No small stone here to mark the story
Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery:
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


CEMETERY AUTUMN: 3, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: That autumn, twilight at the blake graves
Last Line: The one white angel looked away
Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery:
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


CEMETERY AUTUMN: 4, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A century-old tree dwarfs %mausoleum, angel, crypt
Last Line: It is not love, %but heat only heat
Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery:
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


CEMETERY AUTUMN: PRELUDE: THREE WIVES' SONNET, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wives did not survive. Over their graves
Last Line: But the wives did not survive
Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery: Prelude: Three Wives Sonne
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


CHILD'S GEOGRAPHY, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After we had language you
Last Line: Of memory where we float and cannot find %a place to land
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


CHILDREN'S CORNER, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The game is pretend. The dark cape of superman
Last Line: Starved by a happy childhood, our sad legacy
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


CHILDREN'S CRUSADE, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The parade begins its black paper circuit
Last Line: Taste of salt and sting your soft mouth
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 1. THE PATH TO THE MEADOW, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We walk through the shadow
Last Line: We will not come here again
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 10. THE UNDATED DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am drifting down from a blue, blue sky
Last Line: And nothing will rouse me %from such calm water
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 2. CONFESSION, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Listen, doctor, I tell you
Last Line: Foreign eyes that might have %held him here
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 3. THE CHILD'S BODY DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You said look, but I would not look
Last Line: And it is flesh %you no longer have to own
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 4. AIR, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There were the heirlooms %to consider
Last Line: A faint whisper when I stepped %from the train in vienna
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 5. THREE DRESSES DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the closet, there are three
Last Line: Rustles in its muslin bag
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 6. DANCES DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She ties the corsage to her wrist
Last Line: Of the vague colors of august
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 7. THE STORY OF MARRIAGE, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you marry me, though it's you
Last Line: It is not a matter of choice
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 8. MERMAID DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We followed her %her white lace dress
Last Line: Her fins a scratch %across my forehead
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 9. MEMORY, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: If he had been good to me
Last Line: And then I would be free, %free and light as air
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DOOR OF THE DEVIL, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: At puerto del diablo, the boys
Last Line: The white streets of the city
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


EL SALVADOR DEL MUNDO, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's full moon here. Saturn and jupiter
Last Line: Easing its way into the stone hand of god
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


FLOOD, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We drive the car into the next morning
Last Line: On its line, a place of motion, nothing more
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


GRAND HOTEL, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In those days everything was forbidden
Last Line: Fearful only of the wild cries of ravens?
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


HANDS OF TAINO: 1. ADMIRAL, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Laid out on vellum, the past
Last Line: God and the crown. Both want too much
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


HANDS OF THE TAINO: 2. GOVERNOR, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: At guanahani, they swam to the caravel
Last Line: They have the faces of christian angels
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


HEART, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I found your letter after a long month
Last Line: Runs on hunger, a solid muscle %over its four empty, fragile chambers
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


HUNGER, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: What could I say to you that day
Last Line: As the plane banks the white-clouds over lake michigan
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


ISLAND OF LOST LUGGAGE, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: What breeze whispers when you step onto
Last Line: Pick up your suitcase and go
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


LEAN YEAR, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the west room of an old house
Last Line: I think your life will always matter
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


LEAVING THE OLD GODS, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The people who watch me hang my coat
Last Line: I can't understand your words
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Central America; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Nature


LEON, by ERNESTO CARDENAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I used to live in a big house by the church of st. Francis
Last Line: And crying %bread
Subject(s): Central America; Churchyards; Hunger


LIGHTS, by ERNESTO CARDENAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: That top-secret flight at night
Last Line: Of all that was about to come
Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Central America; Fights; Nicaragua; Revolutions


LOVE POEM, by ROQUE DALTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those who widened the panama canal
Last Line: My compariots, / my brothers
Subject(s): Central America


LOVE POEM, by ROQUE DALTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those who widened the panama canal
Last Line: My compatriots %my brothers
Subject(s): Central America


MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 1. FATHER, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tommorrow's the twentieth century. Your brothers
Last Line: What tom martin, with his forceful x, %never learned
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 2. GRANDFATHER, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your sister leaves the room whispering not true
Last Line: The laws by which they could not live
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 3. NURSE, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This room is cold as death. This room is death
Last Line: For the chance to live again
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 4. BATTLEFIELD, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: No, it's impossible to imagine, the distance between france and cleburne
Last Line: Everyone is dead, maybe everyone is dead
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 5. DESCENDENTS, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The last time we checked, one thanksgiving
Last Line: The past we own exists on stone and white paper
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


MONSTER OF CHILDHOOD, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the house of your childhood, the blue monster
Last Line: In it, the trees of childhood make a terrible sound
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


MOSQUITO KINGDOM, by ERNESTO CARDENAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The coronation ceremony was held in belize this time
Last Line: The librarians say, and it can't be xeroxed; you touch it and it turns to ashes
Subject(s): Central America; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Imperialism; Nicaragua; Vanderbilt, Cornelius (1843-1899)


NEWS FROM THE IMAGINARY FRONT, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing is the latest news of your death
Last Line: The sweet milk of death, the salt blood %of someone else's war
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


NICARAGUAN TRIPTYCH, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember two dwarfs, back there in our country home
Last Line: Under the impassivity of the firmament
Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben
Subject(s): Central America; Clowns; Laughter; Memory; Nicaragua; Youth


PARADISE, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything is ours. Everything
Last Line: Stretches, flat and without motion
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


PSALM 5, by ERNESTO CARDENAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Give ear to my words, o lord
Last Line: As with armor-plated tanks
Subject(s): Central America; Peace; Political Campaigns; Social Protest; War


SEVEN: 1. COMMUNION, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take this bowl of memory between your hands
Last Line: Keeps death away, %outside the circle of our circle
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SEVEN: 2. PLAGUE, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Death sweeps the country clean of untainted life
Last Line: They marry false angels
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SEVEN: 3. CRUSADE, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She writes: come home to the dying. Come home
Last Line: A world made sick with evil
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SEVEN: 4. FEAST, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: How cold it is in the world beyond memory
Last Line: Lick our fingers over the greasy carcass
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SEVEN: 5. A GAME OF CHESS, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Death will not answer your questions, sweet traveler
Last Line: The board will buckle, the pieces scatter %black and white
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SEVEN: 6. WITCH-BURNING, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Advice to travelers: %avoid the south for there is pestilence
Last Line: But if they are innocent, god is guilty
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SEVEN: 7. SEVEN, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: An hourglass, a sundial, a scythe, a silver bracelet. Milk, strawberries
Last Line: Where there is no sky, only horizon
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SIGNS OF LEAVING: 1. COUNTING ARMADILLOS, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beside the highway, vultures pick them down
Last Line: As the semis fly by
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SIGNS OF LEAVING: 2. MOVES, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mover wants to sleep with me
Last Line: Past medians choked with oxalis
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SIGNS OF LEAVING: 3. THE CHANGE STONE, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weren't there two cities?
Last Line: And sold stale chocolate door to door
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SIGNS OF LEAVING: 4. THE BLACK SILK JACKET, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the stiff photograph, six bone buttons
Last Line: And take it all : there is nothing for us here
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SIGNS OF LEAVING: 5. LEAVING, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I leave the photograph in the left-hand pocket
Last Line: I let them go. I let them all go
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


THOUSAND-YEAR WAR, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imagine, if you will, a people sleeping
Last Line: Will we ever speak of it?
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


TOWARD THE JURASSIC AGE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone brought them to palma
Last Line: Impossible to bury them
Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs.
Subject(s): Central America; Social Protest; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dictators


TOWARD THE JURASSIC AGE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone brought them to palma
Last Line: Impossible to bury them
Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs.
Subject(s): Central America; Social Protest; Tyranny And Tyrants; War


TRAVELERS: 1, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: How did we come here?
Last Line: Finally: shoes, jewelry, photographs
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


TRAVELERS: 2, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flimsy as the reeds that scratch her bony cheekbone, the world is a
Last Line: Essential landscape. Our hearts grew light when the burden of trying %to save ourselves lifted
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


TRAVELERS: 3, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man and a woman enter the landscape, moving clumsily
Last Line: Whispers: brother, we will find it
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


VENUS THREAD, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here is the gold coin spinning
Last Line: Who we are, what we will become?
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


VISIT OF DIPLOMACY: CENTRAL AMERICA, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wife of a visiting politician
Variant Title(s): Gautemal
Subject(s): Central America; Social Problems


WOMAN SPEAKS TO HER PAST, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lies make us up like a bed no one's slept in
Last Line: But it is you who must speak
Subject(s): Central America; Nature