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Subject: NORTHWEST, PACIFIC
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABANDONED WACONDA RAILROAD STATION, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: No roof left at all, stone walls
Last Line: To buy a one-way ticket to portland
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


ADMIRING THE VIEW, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hummingbirds live in the thicket
Last Line: Adjusting their great wings
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


AMMO SHIP, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mostly we hauled asphalt
Last Line: And they were scared too
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


BUTCHERING RABBITS, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: To kill one with a single blow takes force
Last Line: Her rabbit stew is incomparable
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


CATHEDRAL, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The decree was issued. A cathedral was to be built
Last Line: Ingenuity of those ancient people
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


CHANGING THE ALTERNATOR BELT ON YOUR 504, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: To do this the radiator
Last Line: Brother, drive on
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yellow and orange, so heavy with rain
Last Line: This thing and that
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


COMMUTING, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Firs on the hillside
Last Line: To figure out something
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


CUTTING THE GRASS, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the power mower quits
Last Line: For dessert that night we had chocolate pudding
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


DANIEL BOONE'S LAST LOOK WESTWARD, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm only four-score years, my sons, and a few
Last Line: Before they hew that northwest into the world.
Subject(s): Boone, Daniel (1734-1820); Explorers; Northwest, Pacific; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


DISMANTLING, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Smack in the public eye
Last Line: And you're there
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


FALLING OFF THE ROOF, I MISS THE FALLS CITY FOURTH OF JULY PARADE AND, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: X-rays negative, I limp across the parking lot
Last Line: Came in second in the sack race
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


HONOLULU, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was all new to me!
Last Line: Elaborate patterns of blue %and red
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


HOW IT WILL BE, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heavy rains. The river swollen
Last Line: The third was a janitor
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


IN THE MEANTIME, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spiritual efforts may come to nothing
Last Line: Keeps the wood alive
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, WAKING FROM A DREAM OF MY CHILDREN, I GO, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Troubles erupt - like a skin rash
Last Line: For the rest of your life'?
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


INVITATION, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Friends, if you'll stop by sometime
Last Line: One of the kids must be having a dream
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


JOB NO. 75-14, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Drive stakes, shoot grades
Last Line: Or a person in laughter or pain.'
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


JOURNEYMAN'S WAGES, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: To the waters of the willamette I come
Last Line: Why couldn't this be a cathedral?
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


LAST EVENING, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Night and the furthest distance; and the sword
Last Line: The stiff black shako with the white death's-head
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


LOOKING FOR PARTS, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leaning on the counter of the local
Last Line: Running like a charm
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


MAN STUDYING A MAP, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a picture I have
Last Line: All he needs: tobacco, couch, a crackling fire %and the map
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


ME AND MALONEY, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Job's nearly over
Last Line: I am maloney's right-hand man: %when he laughs I laugh too
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


MOTHS, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the pump house where I go
Last Line: What it is that is being said
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


OREGON THREE TIMES, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first time was on a freight train
Last Line: It was our own country
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


OUT OF MY HEAD, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have a head, a noble %little skull
Last Line: I carry my head in my hands
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


PANAMA CANAL, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: My neighbor, an out of work welder
Last Line: Inside, vacuuming
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


POEM WRITTEN IN THE PARKING LOT OF A SEVEN-ELEVEN, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: No breeze to ruffle the maple leaves
Last Line: On their way out of town
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


PRACTICING ARCHERY, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mist in the firs. Moss on the oaks
Last Line: But I still do
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


PUTTING IN FOOTINGS, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jake is the superintendent on this job
Last Line: Slowly shaking their heads
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


RAILROAD CROSSING, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just turned twenty
Last Line: Waiting for a train to pass
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


RAISING THE GRAIN, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lot is vacant %except for me
Last Line: Can always find work
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


READING THE GOSPELS IN THE LEE HOTEL, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Panorama land' the tourist folders
Last Line: Toward the stainless steel coffee urn
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


REGARDING THE ECLIPSE, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chances are I'll never tell
Last Line: In the shadow cast by this earth on the moon
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


REMODELING THE HOUSE, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The next step was
Last Line: Driving the nails home
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


SLAB ON GRADE, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: At dawn the concrete trucks
Last Line: On a thursday in august %by men on their knees
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


SNOWDROPS, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: In february my children pick snowdrops
Last Line: Floating on clear water
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


SUNDAY DRIVE, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The highway out of salem
Last Line: Oak leaves touched with rust
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


THE NOR'WEST COURIER, by JOHN EDWARD LOGAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Up, my dogs, merrily
Last Line: Must buffet the foe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dane, Barry
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Northwest, Pacific


THE SEEDING, by LUCY A. CURRAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is my song for you, of the great northwest in the seed-time
Last Line: This is my song for you, who are fed by their bounty.
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific; Seeds


THROUGH THE HAZE, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old stories, poems, the dictionary
Last Line: That words will clarify my life
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


TUNED IN, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The news is between 94 and 92
Last Line: What's happening, everywhere
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


TWO CHINESE POETS, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mei yaochen extolled the 'even and bland.'
Last Line: I cannot understand one out of ten!
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


UNLACING THE BOOTS, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unlacing my boots, I ease my feet into moccasins
Last Line: Will take the chill off my bones
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


WELCOME; DEDICATED TO THE SAENGERBUND OF THE NORTHWEST, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, o brothers, joy and cheer!
Last Line: Forward, with god, for fatherland!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific; Patriotism; United States; America


WHAT WE ARE DOING, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: What we are doing is hard to explain
Last Line: The afternoon will be a scorcher
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


WHY WE ARE AFRAID, by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: My family is bored. We have everything
Last Line: Next to the sink in the bottom drawer
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


WILLAMETTE RIVER, MARION ST. BRIDGE: PIER 5, GENERAL DETAILS', by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun slams into us
Last Line: I keep on signaling anyway
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific


YANG WANLI (1127-1206), by CLEMENS STARCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yang wanli was much praised
Last Line: Whether jade mountain falls over or not?
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific