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Subject: STARFISH
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` POEM (THE STARFISH ONE), by BILL KNOTT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each evening the sea casts starfish up on the beach
Last Line: Caressing her with my low fire
Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Geraud; Knott, William
Variant Title(s): Prosepoe
Subject(s): Starfish


STARFISH, by SHIRLEY HOROWITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Starfish, sea star
Last Line: Tug-of-war games %with oyster mothers %who always lose. You %are a survivor, %destroyer of pearls
Subject(s): Starfish


STARFISH, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the sea rocks, / in the stone pockets
Subject(s): Starfish


STARFISH, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the sea rocks, %in the stone pockets
Last Line: Like by little to love %our only world
Subject(s): Starfish


STARFISH, by ERIC ORMSBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stellar sea crawler, maw
Last Line: You taste what has fallen
Subject(s): Starfish


STARFISH, by GARY YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The splintered timbers of the pier
Last Line: And what we allow ourselves to make of them %it is always night. There are always stars
Subject(s): Starfish


STARFISH, by FREDRICK ZYDEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I found this crisp
Last Line: How thirsty %she must have been
Subject(s): Starfish