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Subject: KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI Matches Found: 47 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ACT OF LOVE, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I smell fresh bread - %yeast, I think you said - Last Line: The multitude, feed the soul, %bring back the dead Subject(s): Bread; Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri ALMOST HUNTING SEASON, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Mud brown labrador eyes %two from the yellow one Last Line: It's not legal %but they don't understand Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Hunting; Kansas City, Missouri AN ACT OF LOVE, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I smell fresh bread - / yeast, I think you said - Subject(s): Bread; Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri ANATOMY OF THEATER AT PADUA, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU Poem Source First Line: As there's no malice in science, there's nothing Last Line: Into a well where someone has fallen in Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri ARS POETICA, by WYATT TOWNLEY Poem Source First Line: What's the farthest sound you hear Last Line: Just you who listens. %and who sees Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri BEACHES, by ELIZABETH GOLDRING Poem Source First Line: The man with a wave for his tongue Last Line: On she dreams %sleeping with horses Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri BEAR EMERGES, by DENISE LOW Poem Source First Line: The sky shudders with first Last Line: We are alive, again we are all alive Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri BIRD POINT, by DENISE LOW Poem Source First Line: My fingertips recognize Last Line: I hear songs %and wings %rush %away Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri BIRTHDAY POEM, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: This morning, the sunrise is a brilliant song Last Line: Each morning we pray to restore hozho, hozho, hozho, hozho Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri CIVIL WAR BUFF, by RUSH RANKIN Poem Source First Line: A woman pressed my thin body against the wall Last Line: In the evening, in bed, in a constant shower of light Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri COOKING WITH DAISY, by ROBERT STEWART Poem Source First Line: When daisy works in the kitchen, part of her goes with the white beans Last Line: Her in. That certain something lingers at her nose Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri DANCE BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON, by SHARON EIKER Poem Source First Line: My dark heart is heavy Last Line: While she keeps a-rockin' Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri DECLINING, by PHILIP MILLER Poem Source First Line: Saying no has become our habit Last Line: But cannot decline to go Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri DESIRE FOR SOMETHING HOT, by STANLEY EUGENE BANKS Poem Source First Line: I want to pour myself Last Line: Cause I'll blaze and sizzle, %sizzle and burn Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri DISREGARD, by TRISH REEVES Poem Source First Line: I have these terrible lapses Last Line: As grooved wood, my dear frame %with two eyes Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri DUMB SHOW, by PHILIP MILLER Poem Source First Line: All afternoon we sit Last Line: Yellow-eyed and bobbing, strutting Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri ELECTRONICS OF BLINDNESS, by ELIZABETH GOLDRING Poem Source First Line: Electric octave drops to blue tone Last Line: Violet eagles rise, %tracked on both my eyes Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri FAT PEOPLE AT THE AMUSEMENT PARK, by RAWDON TOMLINSON Poem Source First Line: They are laughing like the rest of us Last Line: Into a scream of weightlessness Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri FIELD DAY, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The red-tailed hawk on the meadow by Last Line: Can snare the senses, stir a woman's %envy, a man's unswerving thirst Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri; Puerto Ricans - New York City FIRECRACKER TENT, by TRISH REEVES Poem Source First Line: But how many people have said Last Line: We might as well smile Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri FLESH IS AIR, TOO, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU Poem Source First Line: Along a canal I glance in a dim doorway Last Line: Of down settling in dawn's thin doorway Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri FOR A SPRING BURIAL, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: Mostly it is in the skies Last Line: That grows from earth new-opened Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri FOUND ON A SLIP OF PAPER IN A CRACK IN THE WALL, by BARBARA LOOTS Poem Source First Line: In prison I had two books Last Line: Lost on a terrible sea Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri HAIR ATTITUDE, by STANLEY EUGENE BANKS Poem Source First Line: Sisters flow and roll %with extra control Last Line: Just don't touch, baby, %just don't touch.' Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri HANDS, by RAWDON TOMLINSON Poem Source First Line: Head stuffed, ears %stopped, eyes Last Line: Of nothing. %hold out your hands Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri HANDS, by MARYFRANCES WAGNER Poem Source First Line: Of a thousand hands Last Line: Dangled at his sides Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri IN THE GULF STREAM, by DONNA TRUSSELL Poem Source First Line: He finds her %standing alone Last Line: And some dim idea %of the sea Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri JOHN HOLLANDER'S LECTURE, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: His words float over my head Last Line: And questions %I won't ask Subject(s): Hollander, John; Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri LEXHIBITIONIST, by MICHAEL BURNS Poem Source First Line: When fog had cleared and sun Last Line: Nothing, good-old-boy Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri MILAGRO, by ANN SLEGMAN Poem Source First Line: After the bus collision, you came Last Line: That is your face Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM: KANSAS CITY, by VICTOR CONTOSKI Poem Source First Line: Limestone %concrete and steel Last Line: And 'country gardens' on the piano Subject(s): Kansas City, Missouri; Rooms OTHER THAN TIME, by ROBERT STEWART Poem Source First Line: The blizzard seems like a plate too full of rice. So when I think of Last Line: Inside. That message beaming out is the memory of a bowl held up %near your face Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri PAIN FUGUE, by RAWDON TOMLINSON Poem Source First Line: I wake in the middle of night with enchiladas Last Line: Though it never holds the tide of hard labor, nightmare, decay Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri PARIS, PALO ALTO, PARIS, by DONNA TRUSSELL Poem Source First Line: I live next door Last Line: Stars burn the sky Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri PHOTOS, by MARYFRANCES WAGNER Poem Source First Line: When becky shows me a picture of her Last Line: Can't get a story through anyone's eyes Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri PORTRAITS OF THE WIVES, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: Think of the summer you drove with the family Last Line: The west above the murderous dirt of history Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri RECOLLECTION, by JIM MCCRARY Poem Source First Line: There is a fall in this air Last Line: That could be all folks Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri REVERSING A DECISION, by WYATT TOWNLEY Poem Source First Line: So loud the wail of cicadas Last Line: That you would return Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri RICE, by PATRICIA CLEARY MILLER Poem Source First Line: I bend over, pick the rice, rice is good Last Line: Stars rise like jewels Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri RUE DES HALLES, by RODERICK TOWNLEY Poem Source First Line: It is a see-through day, parisian sun Last Line: To see her white neck, and arms long and bare Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri SEPARATIONS, by BARBARA LOOTS Poem Source First Line: Relentless rain, that ambient metaphor Last Line: Fly the energy of unfulfilled desire Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri SIGHTING ELVIS AT SAFEWAY, by ANN SLEGMAN Poem Source First Line: I first noticed your glance - slow Last Line: Of the media howling at your skid marks Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri TEMENOS, by MICHAEL BURNS Poem Source First Line: Last night the dream Last Line: In a cold sweat to survive Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri TRUTH, by H. L. HIX Poem Source First Line: Do you sometimes lie when it would be easier to tell the truth? Last Line: In fact I have my doubts that you exist at all, or have existed, or ever will Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri TURTLE SHAPES, by PATRICIA CLEARY MILLER Poem Source First Line: Turtle circle, %limbs head wave shake Last Line: Big as my retina %firefly sky art Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri WITH THE MASTER ON THE ROAD TO THE BLACK HILLS, by DAN JAFFE Poem Source First Line: As I drive across dekota the master speaks to me Last Line: Remember, too: look to the master and leap free Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri YET ANOTHER GOD IN MEXICO, by RUSH RANKIN Poem Source First Line: Large boats turned over to dry Last Line: Had concealed his wings Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri |
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