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Searching... Author: HUDGINS, ANDREW Matches Found: 66 Hudgins, Andrew Poet's Biography 66 poems available by this author A FATHER ON THE MARSH First Line: My older boy said, 'let's make soup' Subject(s): Fathers AFTER THE WILDERNESS Poem Text First Line: When clifford wasn’t back to camp by nine Last Line: He’d wet his pants. We called it yankee tea Subject(s): Wilderness Campaign (1864) AIR VIEW OF AN INDUSTRIAL SCENE Poem Text First Line: There is a train at the ramp, unloading people Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War ALL OF US BENEATH RED COWBOY HATS Poem Text First Line: Between his smaller brothers, he Last Line: That child. I'm trying to forgive him Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Photography & Photographers AS A CHILD IN THE TEMPLE Poem Text First Line: I'm looking forward to my death,' she said Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology AT CAMP Poem Text First Line: Everyone says the deep woods are soothing Last Line: Howling for howling, the best kind of howl Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps AT CHANCELLORSVILLE: THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS Poem Text First Line: He was an indiana corporal Subject(s): Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Wilderness Campaign (1864) AUDUBON EXAMINES A BITTERN Poem Text First Line: A lady brought me a least bittern Last Line: Bedamned if I know what to make of it Subject(s): Birds BENEATH SEARCHLIGHTS Poem Text First Line: Shop windows glow like fish tanks. Even in twon Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology BEYOND MY FOOTFALL Recitation by Author BLOWFLY Poem Text First Line: Half awake, I was imagining Last Line: As we made tense, pensive love. Blowfly, blowfly Subject(s): Desire; Imagination; Fancy BLUR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Storms of perfume lift from honeysuckle, Last Line: And more than understanding I longed for joy Subject(s): Childhood Memories BURIAL DETAIL Poem Text First Line: Between each layer of tattered, broken flesh Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones BURIAL INSURANCE Poem Text First Line: It came each month from omaha Last Line: Grandmomma took her picture off the wall Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Death; Books & Reading; Dead, The CHILD ON THE MARSH Poem Text First Line: I worked the river’s slick banks, grabbling Last Line: And heard the earth’s voice under me Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives CHRIST AS A GARDENER Poem Text First Line: The boxwoods planted in the park spelled live Subject(s): Christianity; Gardens & Gardening; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology COLONEL Poem Text First Line: My father lifts the crippled airman's body Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology COME TO HARM Poem Text First Line: We were driving from one state to another, Last Line: There will be laughter Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The COMPOST: AN ODE Poem Text First Line: The beauty of the compost heap is not Subject(s): Fertilizer CONSIDER Poem Text First Line: You have considered the lilies of the field Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology CRUCIFIXION: MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA Poem Text First Line: In the hot dark they dug a hole Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology DAY JOB AND NIGHT JOB Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: After my night job, I sat in class Last Line: Lt looked the same. Like work Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers DEAD CHRIST Poem Text First Line: There seems no reason he should've died. His hands Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology DRAGONFLY Poem Text First Line: Book says 'most predacious.' book says 'fastest Subject(s): Dragonflies ECCE HOMO Poem Text First Line: Christ bends, protects his groin. Thorns gouge Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, WHO IS NOT DEAD Poem Text First Line: One day I’ll lift the telephone Last Line: And waving, shouting, welcome back Subject(s): Fathers; Death; Dead, The FIRE AND ST. FRANCIS Poem Text First Line: As he sat eating by the fire one night Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology GOSPEL VILLANELLE Poem Text First Line: Jesus will always be there. He's waiting. It's true.' Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Public Worship; Religion; Church Attendance; Theology GRAND EXPENSIVE VISTA Poem Text First Line: As we sipped and mingled, Last Line: Glass table, hunger was our guide Subject(s): Money HEAT LIGHTNING IN A TIME OF DROUGHT Poem Text First Line: My neighbor drunk, stood on his lawn and yellled Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology HIS WIFE Poem Text First Line: My wife is not afraid of dirt Last Line: She smells of mint and lemon balm Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Mariage HOW SHALL WE SING THE LORD'S SONG IN A STRANGE LAND? Poem Text First Line: We crept up, watched a black Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology JIM THE CAR Poem Text First Line: He sputters his lips with a guttural rumble Last Line: He's a 440 hemi with a glass-pack exhaust Subject(s): Automobile Drivers JULIA TUTWILER STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN Poem Text First Line: On the prison's tramped-hard alabama clay Last Line: Then race, hand in hand, for shelter, laughing Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Women; Convicts KISS GRANDMOTHERS GOOD NIGHT Recitation by Author Subject(s): Grandparents; Kissing; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers LATE SPRING IN THE NUCLEAR AGE; FOR CLARE ROSSINI Poem Text First Line: The fish hit water nymphs, breaking surface Last Line: That our deaths will not be the last. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Death; Nuclear War; Survival; Nuclear Freeze; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb LOVE LETTER FROM THE GRAVE: SIDNEY LANIER, 1881 First Line: I'm out of this. But you're still scoured by Subject(s): Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881) MADONNA OF THE POMEGRANATE Poem Text First Line: The crowd the blue triangle of the madonna Last Line: Or says goodbye because he will live forever Subject(s): Statues MARY MAGDALENE'S LEFT FOOT Poem Text First Line: I saw the picture in newsweek or time Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology MOSTLY MY NIGHTMARES ARE DULL Poem Text First Line: Mostly my nightmares are dull. On autumn nights Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology MY FATHER'S CORPSE Poem Text First Line: He lay stone still, pretended to be dead Last Line: To have the resurrected bastard back Subject(s): Fathers & Sons MY MOTHER'S HANDS Poem Text First Line: Yawning, she yanks the shuttle through the frame Last Line: Stuck motionlless and never moved Subject(s): Mothers; Family Life; Hands; Relatives NOVEMBER GARDEN: AN ELEGY Poem Text First Line: The zinnias - cut-and-come-again Last Line: To the first hard freeze. They cannot stop Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening PLAYING DEAD Poem Text Recitation First Line: Our father liked to play a game. Last Line: I’m way too young to quote ’em Subject(s): Fathers; Family Life; Death; Relatives; Dead, The PRAYER BEFORE BED Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Of course I pray for mommy's health Last Line: Let daddy bring it home Subject(s): Prayer; Fathers PRAYING DRUNK Poem Text First Line: Our father who art in heaven, I am praying drunk Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology SAINTS AND STRANGERS: 1. AT THE PIANO Poem Text First Line: One night two hunters, drunk, came in the tent Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology SAINTS AND STRANGERS: 4. LOOSE CHANGE Poem Text First Line: We'd sip our water and wait till supper came Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology SENTIMENTAL DANGERS Poem Text First Line: When out of work and fierce with self-pity Last Line: And the river smelled like a wet, unwanted dog Subject(s): Unemployment; Dogs SIDNEY LANIER IN MONTGOMERY: AUGUST 1866 Poem Text First Line: A walk abroad our sunday streets Last Line: As we do the stars an hour later Subject(s): Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881) STEPPINGSTONE Poem Text First Line: Home (from court square fountain Last Line: Grace, grace can’t contain Subject(s): Home SWORDFISH Poem Text First Line: My fingertips marveled at the silvery shimmer, Last Line: Her azure eyelids shimmering with jade Subject(s): Relationships THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI Poem Text First Line: A boy -- okay,it's me -- wears a fringed Last Line: One hand pressed hard into this crotch Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE CESTELLO ANNUNCIATION Poem Text First Line: The angel has already said, 'be not afraid' Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE CIRCUS IN THE TREES Poem Text First Line: I love to watch the gray squirrels leap Subject(s): Squirrels; Trees THE COW Poem Text First Line: I love the red cow Last Line: With her own creamy butter Subject(s): Cows THE FUNERAL SERMON Poem Text First Line: Almost droll / in its assault on magisterial Subject(s): Funerals; Fathers; Burials THE GIFT Poem Text First Line: They hung the lambs and cut t heir white throats. Blood Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE GLASS HAMMER Poem Text First Line: My mother's knickknack crystal hammer Last Line: Who hammered me – goddamn 'er Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE GREEN CHRIST Poem Text First Line: So long they almost touch Last Line: Or take me when he returns Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Trees THE IMAGINED COPPERHEAD Poem Text First Line: Without intending to hide, Last Line: And his priesthood. Subject(s): Snakes; Childhood Memories; Imagination; Serpents; Vipers; Fancy THE LIAR'S PSALM: REPENTANCE Poem Text First Line: I repent the actual. It has never got me anywhere Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE PERSISTENCE OF NATURE IN OUR LIVES Poem Text First Line: You find them in the darker woods Subject(s): Nature THE TOOTH FAIRY Poem Text First Line: Each time another tooth falls out Subject(s): Love - Complaints TOOLS: AN ODE Poem Text First Line: The cheap / screwdriver reams the cheap Last Line: Not unmagisterial, / chorale Subject(s): Tools WHAT LIGHT DESTROYS Poem Text First Line: Today I'm thinking of st. Paul -- st. Paul Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Troy; Theology |
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