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Subject: BAYOUS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BAYOU, by CHARLES EDWARD EATON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It must be subtle, deep, and very close
Last Line: As though we shared a ravishment so rare %two boats are passing in the fine canals
Subject(s): Bayous


BAYOU, by MARY KARR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I heap your corpse with flowers
Last Line: Tug, the shining line like a cord %strung through me, plucked and singing
Subject(s): Bayous; Corpses


BAYOU AFTERNOON, by AMY CLAMPITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the imprecise, the murk
Last Line: Still brimming, still uncodified
Subject(s): Bayous


BAYOU BALLAD, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, have you heard
Last Line: Of cajun zydeco? Ahieeeeeeeeee
Subject(s): Bayous; Creoles; Louisiana


BAYOU GRACE, by STEVEN LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is there because you are: %a parishioner's island, afloat
Last Line: It will be there when your arms hurt, %when your ribs sting%when you fall from grace %to grace %it I
Subject(s): Bayous


THE BAYOU, by EDITH TATUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: All night I hear deep water flowing
Last Line: Unbroken, since you went away.
Subject(s): Bayous