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Subject: HOLLINS COLLEGE, VIRGINIA
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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