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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HOLLINS COLLEGE, VIRGINIA Matches Found: 30 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CANOES, by HOWARD NELSON Poem Source First Line: The canoes slept upside down on the wooden racks Last Line: And she is beautiful, and merciful %lying out naked under the canoes' dark arcs Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia CHAPLIN, by JAMIE YATES Poem Source First Line: More than most who flicked past in scratches Last Line: And wherever you walked thereafter %--stars fell from your trousers Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia COSMONAUTS RETURN TO EARTH SAFELY, by MATTIE QUESENBERRY SMITH Poem Source First Line: Starry-eyed cosmonaut, catapulted through Last Line: He falls through her space, his hot halo %kicking flames behind into cold dark Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia DAPHNE'S BLUES, by ELIZABETH S. MORGAN Poem Source First Line: Didn't you hear him daddy Last Line: Now you've got your river and your tree %yeah, daddy, you both got your laurel tree Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia DREAM OF SINKHOLES: WINTER PARK, by IRV BROUGHTON Poem Source First Line: Certainly, fairbanks was %predisposed, or disposed Last Line: Time risen-- %like the polite dead-- %to meet him Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia ENRICHETTA IS SINGING, by MARK SABA Poem Source Last Line: And wait for night to click %but wait a bit longer today %while enrichetta sings Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia EVE OUT OF SEASON, by LISA RESS Poem Source First Line: What roses remain stretch tangle and issue Last Line: Each moment the one when I knew you %naked, knew my lust, knew you as beautiful Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia FEAR OF HIGH PLACES, by MARNIE PRANGE Poem Source First Line: Imagine the japanese tourist Last Line: Softening his fear, calling it %their own Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia FENCE AND MAPLE, by MATTHEW J. SPIRENG Poem Source First Line: It begins %with a curling over, as if the wire Last Line: Now, but deeper in the tree, drawn nearer %the heart Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia FIRST BIRTHDAY, by KAREN OSBORN Poem Source First Line: Like bags of light, my child's birthday balloons Last Line: I'll tug at its ribbon, reach %high as I have to for the luminous sphere Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia FIRST-TIME LONELY GUY?, by CYNTHIA ROSE Poem Source First Line: The hero of this film is a big guy Last Line: But no present. Terror trapped in this poster %for something patently %not as promoted Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia GIRL HIDING UNDER THE BED AND A GIRL HIDING IN THE CLOSET, by EDWARD WESTON Poem Source First Line: Girls are hiding everywhere you bend to look Last Line: Nightly stashed at the knock on the door: %midnight! Police! Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia INTERCEPTING A SOLAR ECLIPSE, by KATHRYN ETTERS LOVATT Poem Source First Line: She traced the blindness back to then Last Line: Hold on, she thinks, wait, %it'll come to me any second Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia MOZART AND KAMA, by MICHAEL PETTIT Poem Source First Line: Big flowers red as the plush Last Line: And then and then and then %we begin dancing, dancing for love? Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia NAKED LADIES, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jean-jacques wanted: a cottage on the swiss shore Last Line: Who wanted to stand up? Who felt like walking? Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia NAKED LADIES, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jean-jacques wanted: a cottage on the swiss shore Last Line: Who wanted to stand up? Who felt like walking? Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia NATURAL BRIDGE COLLAPSES, by ROBERT WADE BESS Poem Source First Line: At the visitor's center Last Line: The sequined effigy %of elvis shudders %imperceptibly Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia NIGHT SEARCH FOR LOST DOG, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not yet midnight, but late, and in through the window Last Line: It was good, after all, to be in, mystified though I was, and sad Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia NIGHTWORK, by HAINES SPRUNT Poem Source First Line: Supper's over, cleared from the porch Last Line: She fills her apron heavy, accepting each %when the light goes, by touch Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia OSWALD FELL, INTO A COMMA AND DIED, by ROBERT WADE BESS Poem Source First Line: Our keen young scholar fires one fingertip Last Line: Boredom as oswolad tumbles, and the flow %of words clots into puddles on the page Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia RACCOON, by S. LAUDERDALE WHITE Poem Source First Line: From beauty, the knowledge Last Line: Sleek as the frozen fur of the animal-- %and his eyes are open, confiding Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia REMYTHOLOGIZING THE FISHER KING, by MELISSA SITES Poem Source First Line: In a cold march, fishermen Last Line: Overhead a kingfisher perches %on a telephone wire, gray and loud Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia SMALL YOU CONTROL, by JEANNE LEBOW Poem Source First Line: I pull my fortune from its cookie Last Line: The small you control %the large you are in Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia SONG FOR BILLIE HOLIDAY, SONG FOR THE RAIN, by MARY SANSOM Poem Source First Line: The daughters of men are the seeds of death Last Line: A bird of mirrors, drumming %this joy is all I can bear Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia SUE'S POEM, by CHARLES MOLESWORTH Poem Source First Line: War news leaks from the media Last Line: Governs and even leads us far beyond any tally, back %simplyto the fact of the world and all the peo Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia SUMMER NIGHT WITH STORM CLOUD, by PHILIP WELCH Poem Source First Line: The wind is rising now, bending trees Last Line: Listening for the tumblers in the lock, %the soft oiled clicking, %the falling into place Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia TRAIN FROM BUDAPEST, 1944, by JULIE REED Poem Source First Line: Grandmother, when you go Last Line: On the pines. Onward, onward, %to the dark center Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia WARMING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone thought to take Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia WARMING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone thought to take Last Line: Into hallowed ground, touching %the roots of living things Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia WAY, by BURN THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Woods ring the center where I may get a better gait Last Line: The woman knocked from her wheelchair, %her hipbone vibrate against tile Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia |
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