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Subject: ALIENS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALIEN, by DEBORAH GORLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Transfused, she was rushed by space. Outside came in
Last Line: Was an envelope addressed to the current occupant
Subject(s): Aliens


ALIEN CORN, by PAMELA HARRISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silent, except the hot slap of tires
Last Line: Rusty gears startled by a rising wind
Subject(s): Aliens; Corn


ALIEN IN AMERICA, by FRANCIS GARDNER CLOUGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have no ear to hear your alien word
Last Line: And faith! -- the heart's last-labored codicil.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clough, F. Gardner
Subject(s): Aliens; Immigrants; United States; Extraterrestrials; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America


APPEARANCES, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under a sky of stars and no moon
Last Line: As the light behind the stars.
Subject(s): Aliens; Fear; Space & Space Travel; Universe; Extraterrestrials; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


END OF THE RANGE, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep ye protein herders weep
Last Line: And the foreigners are fighting back
Subject(s): Aliens; Immigrants; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Extraterrestrials; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Native Americans - Removal


EXTRATERRESTRIALS, by LUCIA MARIA PERILLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: We let the white line drag us down, out of california
Last Line: From far off, I hear children shriek in mongrel tongues ... %half the takers, half the taken
Subject(s): Aliens


EXTRATERRESTRIALS DISCOVER EARTH, by NEILL MEGAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mirage in silks, serenely fair
Last Line: Mirage in silks, serenely fair; %none but gods can be living here
Subject(s): Aliens


ILLEGAL ALIEN, by PAT MORA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Socorro, you free me
Subject(s): Aliens; Extraterrestrials


IRRITABLE ALIENS, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Texas, texas jack omohundro
Last Line: Take us there, pronto
Subject(s): Aliens; Texas; Extraterrestrials


LOVE, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let's say a space alien
Last Line: I am something %you don't want to know about
Subject(s): Aliens; Love; Mankind


REVELATIONS; CIRCA 1948, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I made no sound, at all, like the wintering
Last Line: I watched. And made no sound...
Subject(s): Aliens; Jerusalem; Silence; World War Ii; Extraterrestrials; Second World War


SONNET: 6, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearest, I never knew such loving. There
Last Line: But still augmented, more than we've ever been
Subject(s): Aliens; Extraterrestrials


SPACE ALIEN NEWSPAPER FOUND AT UFO SITE', by JEAN NORDHAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's good to know we're not alone
Last Line: Antennaed heads tipped back in contemplation
Subject(s): Aliens


TAKEN UP, by CHARLES MARTIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tired of earth, they dwindled on their hill,
Subject(s): Aliens; Extraterrestrials


THE SHADOWS AT BOXFORD, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's not the white powder cauliflower of still distant moons
Last Line: Filling with rain.
Subject(s): Aliens; Loyalty; Man-woman Relationships; Extraterrestrials; Male-female Relations


THE STRANGERS, by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: They bought her, not with irish knife
Last Line: That dwell in donegal.
Subject(s): Aliens; Birds; Strangers; Extraterrestrials


THE WHITE FIRES OF VENUS, by DENIS JOHNSON    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We mourn this senseless planet of regret
Last Line: Of the person one meant to become
Subject(s): Aliens; Extraterrestrials


THE X FILES, by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In search of them - the aliens we don't
Last Line: In their precision when they stole my voice
Subject(s): Aliens; Extraterrestrials


THIRTY AND FIVE BOOKS, by MYUNG MI KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Never having been here when the sun rose
Last Line: All harmonics sound
Subject(s): Aliens; Ethnic Groups - United States; Korea; Labor And Laborers; Navigation; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


WAITING FOR THE ALIENS, by DELISA MULKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The aliens are supposed to land in mexico city today, june 5, 1995
Last Line: Yelling drop that zero, girlfriend, and get yourself a hero
Subject(s): Aliens


X FILES, by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In search of them - the aliens we don't
Last Line: Were all erased but they were clinical %in their precision when they stole my voice
Subject(s): Aliens