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Subject: DISEASE Matches Found: 540 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "THE DISEASES OF BATH, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If to the pump room in the morn we go Last Line: "then looking back, I curse cthat jakes obscene, / whence I come sullied out who entered clean" Subject(s): Disease;plague 14-OCT-87, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: 4 a.M. %and I am Last Line: In light %gold Subject(s): Aids (disease); Health; Sickness; Strangers 40, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Oh boy oh boy four years to go before Last Line: If we sail at all hey 40's kid stuff Subject(s): Aging; Aids (disease); Middle Age; Sickness 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS, by HENRI COLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Opening a vein he called my radial Last Line: Rubbed my arm, which, once, pricked, had tingled, then bruised Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS, by HENRI COLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Opening a vein he called my radial Last Line: Rubbed my arm, which, once pricked, had tingled then bruised Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness 6-AUG-89, by JULIE COOPER FRATRIK Poem Source First Line: It is possible %that this day has not begun Last Line: Overhead, the sky is clear. %the doctors tell him he will not live long Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness 80'S MIRACLE DIET, by MELVIN DIXON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yours free without the asking Last Line: Before and after and passed away Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness A BEARD FOR A BLUE PANTRY, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bluebeard displayed his wives Subject(s): Marriage; Cancer (disease); Beards; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BOAT IS A LEVER, by RALPH BURNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After my student went to the doctor to Subject(s): Cancer (disease) A HALF-LIFE, by HENRI COLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no sun today Last Line: Even the gulls above the silver ferry Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness A MOTOR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy, wet, guttural Last Line: Now and later. Subject(s): Air; Aviation & Aviators; Blake, William (1757-1827); Cancer (disease); Airplanes; Air Pilots A PLAGUE FOR KIT MARLOWE; IN MEMORY OF DEREK JARMAN, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't trust beauty anymore, when will I stop Subject(s): Aids (disease); Dramatists; Gays & Lesbians; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Sickness; Illness AFTER THE DISEASE CONCEPT, by MICHAEL KLEIN Poem Source First Line: To say your prayer for being alive Last Line: What we see to keep, we keep Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AFTER THE FUNERALS, by FELICE PICANO Poem Source First Line: After the funerals, the questions arise Last Line: Spilling rhythm, even out sweat was silver Subject(s): Aids (disease); Men; Sickness AFTER THE VANISHING, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: I didn't know what the movie was about Last Line: Nipple, mouth, we make love %in the uncaged air Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness AFTER YOU, by JERL O. SURRATT Poem Source First Line: Sounds of the jungle Last Line: As I fully expected them to, but %from your hands only Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AFTER YOU DIED, by RICHARD MCCANN Poem Source First Line: I had a body again. And I could recall Last Line: Who'd need [or, been] to ask the world for a thing? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness AGAINST ELEGIES, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: James has cancer. Catherine has cancer Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness AGAINST ELEGIES, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: James has cancer. Catherine has cancer Last Line: And I, in no one's stories, as we are Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AGE 5, BORN WITH AIDS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In jaime's picture of the world, a heart Last Line: Of art, except the names we give ourselves Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness AGE 5, BORN WITH AIDS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In jaime's picture of the world, a heart Last Line: Of art, except the names we give ourselves Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AIDA, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've never met the guy next door. I know Last Line: Of sharing candlelight – it falls, it falls Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness AIDA, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've never met the guy next door. I know Last Line: Of sharing candlelight -- it falls, it falls Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AIDS, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: We are stretched to meet a new dimension %of love Last Line: As we learn it again, as we bring it alive: %love. Love. Love. Love Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AIDS LIST, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: At breakfast, the aids list Last Line: As lust, as if it were insurance %for what we think we need to know Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AIDS PATIENT, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE Poem Source First Line: A boy could rattle a stick Last Line: His chest a parachute %drifting down with no rider %to rot on the sea Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AIDS THRILLER, by MIRIAM A. COHEN Poem Source First Line: Now a heart which can't warm Last Line: Reality %a fable Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, by MICHAEL KLEIN Poem Source First Line: In the liberal new york newspaper there are ads Last Line: What lyric is this? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AIDS-RELATED COMPLEX, by CHESTER WEINERMAN Poem Source First Line: I have an earache Last Line: We may rockaby through, possible survivors, %recalling it wasn't as bad as it is Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ALETHEIA, by F. J. BERGMANN Poem Source First Line: It's the opposite of amnesia, losing your memory Last Line: I turn my back and mutter no please go away get lost I refuse Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease; Amnesia; Health; Memory ALMOST TO JESUS, by MICHAEL BURKARD Poem Source First Line: Almost to jesus %the voices began Last Line: Be help. Like a scene %young, old, anyone's Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ALTHEA, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby lasted one whole year Last Line: Whatever is on its breath Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ALZHEIMER, by CYNTHIA SOBSEY Poem Source First Line: The words vanish one at a time like grown children Last Line: And the door is somewhere I cannot find Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease ALZHEIMER'S, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He stands at the door, a crazy old man Last Line: Standing here in the doorway, %welcoming him in Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease ALZHEIMER'S, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chairs move by themselves, and books Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease; Memory ALZHEIMER'S, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chairs move by themselves, and books Last Line: It's rumored no longer to exist Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease; Memory ALZHEIMER'S (1), by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The conversation seems more like an assault Last Line: Eternity nipping at their heels, with nothing to say Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease ALZHEIMER'S (2), by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her husband is out in the hallway calling for help Last Line: He's packed his bags. And now no one lives there Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease; Marriage; Memory ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; FOR KENNETH MILLAR (ROSS MACDONALD), by DONALD DAVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is said that he laughs at himself Last Line: Those days won't come again Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease; Macdonald, Ross (1915-1983) ALZHEIMER'S PATIENT, by SUE SANIEL ELKIND Poem Source First Line: This man %for whom music was a life force Last Line: An aged baby no lullaby can soothe %and even death doesn't want Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease ALZHEIMER'S: THE HUSBAND, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He'd been a clod, he knew, yes, always aiming toward his vision of the Last Line: That would be belittling-it was just the next necessity he saw himself as %being called to Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease ALZHEIMER'S: THE WIFE, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She answers the bothersome telephone, takes the message Last Line: There, furtively watching, crying Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease ALZHEIMERS, by PAUL PETRIE Poem Source First Line: Under her face %some stranger has set up house Last Line: Dreams, prayers, childish longings %that will not be met Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease ALZHEIMERS, by CLEMEWELL YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Lost in the valley of my brain Last Line: Both of us knowing the real %end of flowers Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease AND WHO WILL LOOK UPON OUR TESTIMONY, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On an unsuspecting wednesday in october 1347 Subject(s): Aids (disease); Persecution; Plague; Sickness; Illness AND WHO WILL LOOK UPON OUR TESTIMONY, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On an unsuspecting wednesday in october 1347 Last Line: Who will die in its own time %with its own wondering tales of woe Subject(s): Aids (disease); Persecution; Plague; Sickness ANGEL, by ANDREW ELLIOTT Poem Source First Line: I think to make love to a nurse would be perfect Last Line: Loving everything that happens under her skin Subject(s): Disease; Erotic Love; Love ANNA BULLEN, ACT 1: SHORT CURSE, by JOHN BANKS (17TH CENTURY-) Poem Text First Line: Be curst the time of bullen's fatal birth Last Line: And bury them in pits as deep as graves. Subject(s): Curses; Disease; Graves; Leprosy; Small Pox; Tombs; Tombstones; Lepers ANNIVERSARY, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she walked by Last Line: He likes to comb her hair. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Love; Slavery; Stillbirth; Serfs; Death - Childbirth ANSWER IS IN THE GARDEN, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted proof of god's hunger, but no sacrifice Last Line: Suit he wore in life fits me well, too well, like a charm Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness APPLAUSE; FOR PAUL MONETTE, by CAROL ANNE MUSKE Poem Source First Line: Not the glittering shudder in the ear, the high whine of the wasp Last Line: On the seventh day, as he sat back, as he rested Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness APRIL 18, 1990, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friend has cervical cancer Last Line: That taste like beautiful pollution Subject(s): Aids (disease) ARTIST'S LIFE, by FELICE PICANO Poem Source First Line: Because he'd always considered himself an artist Last Line: The blank waiting photoplate of his life Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AS FROM A QUIVER OF ARROWS, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do we do with the body, do we Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness AS FROM A QUIVER OF ARROWS, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do we do with the body, do we Last Line: Swim? What will I do now, with my hands? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness ASCENSION, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: Suddenly, at the climax of making Last Line: And we took our rightful place on this earth Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness ASSISTANCES, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Paris, london, los angeles - %men seated restlessly in a room Last Line: Balancing between patience and complaint, %until you softly call their name Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AT A QUEEN'S FUNERAL, by ARNIE KANTROWITZ Poem Source First Line: Well, she's gone, and Last Line: It looks like a perfect time for us to go Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AT LAST, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always fall in love with tired %women Last Line: Now nothing's %the same Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AT THE BEACH, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking at the photograph is somehow not Last Line: On darrell’s brown shoulder Subject(s): Aids (disease) AT THE CANCER CLINIC, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is being helped toward the open door Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Hospitals ATLANTIS: 1. FAITH, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been having these / awful dreams, each a little different Last Line: I didn’t know who I was trying to protect Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 1. FAITH, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been having these %awful dreams, each a little different Last Line: I didn't know who I was trying to protect Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ATLANTIS: 2. REPRIEVE, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I woke in the night / and thought, it was a dream Last Line: It was only a dream Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 2. REPRIEVE, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I woke in the night %and thought, it was a dream Last Line: Nothing's wrong now, %it was only a dream Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ATLANTIS: 3. MICHAEL'S DREAM, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Michael writes to tell me his dream Last Line: What something is in order to hold it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 3. MICHAEL'S DREAM, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Michael writes to tell me his dream Last Line: What something is in order to hold it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ATLANTIS: 4. ATLANTIS, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought your illness a kind of solvent Last Line: Drenched, unchanged Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 4. ATLANTIS, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought your illness a kind of solvent Last Line: Drenched, unchanged Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ATLANTIS: 5. COASTAL, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold april and the neighbor girl Last Line: Stubborn girl. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 5. COASTAL, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold april and the neighbor girl Last Line: She cradles the wild form. %stubborn girl Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ATLANTIS: 6. NEW DOG, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jimmy and tony / can't keep dino Last Line: The animal, the new Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 6. NEW DOG, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jimmy and tony %can't keep dino Last Line: The animal, the new Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BABY RANDOM, by BELLE WARING Poem Full Text First Line: Baby random tries a nosedive, kamikaze Subject(s): Aids (disease); Labor & Laborers; Nurses; Sickness; Work; Workers; Illness BABY RANDOM, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: Baby random tries a nosedive, kamikaze Last Line: Bad dreams. Some days I avoid my reflection in store %windows. I just don't want anyone to loot at m Subject(s): Aids (disease); Labor And Laborers; Nurses; Sickness BACCHAE ON THE DOCKS AT TENTH STREET, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: In a drizzle in the middle of a week of rain Last Line: Who, soaked by a sudden downpour, run for the tip of christopher %without a thought to thank the god Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BAD WORD, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: The next door neighbor has bought one of those above-ground pools Last Line: For the back yard; it is what he wants his love to mean Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Family Life; Grief; Love; Neighbors BARTON SPRINGS, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh life, how I loved your cold spring mornings of putting my stuff in Last Line: There just might be time to catch up on praise Subject(s): Springs (water); Swimming And Swimmers; Cancer (disease) BEAUTY, by DONNA MASINI Poem Source First Line: The optometrist hands me a polaroid of my eye Last Line: And one of my eyes would begin that long turning %inward as I came to see what I'd refused Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BEAUTY KILLS, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In virginia %I stalled a while watching a bay horse Last Line: Or what makes him what he is Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BEE-EATER, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The killer bees -- aficanized -- have reached san diego Last Line: Oh bees my bees, come take me Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BEFORE I DIE (FOR JEANINE LAMBERT), by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to ride once more on Last Line: Me and hold my hand Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Paris, France; Subways BEGGING THE QUESTION, by DARYL HINE Poem Source First Line: Fatal, to put an end before the means Last Line: The unanswerable questiosn that it begs Variant Title(s): Petitio Princip Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BESS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ours are the streets where bess first met her Last Line: Again, and the streets opened, and she wished all well Subject(s): Cancer (disease) BILL'S STORY, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my sister came back from africa Last Line: Shut up, mother, I said, and annie died Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness BILL'S STORY, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my sister came back from africa Last Line: It was to reach her, if I heard her calling. %shut up, mother, I said, and annie died Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BIOPSY, by ROBERT C. PATTERSON Poem Source First Line: You remembered that it wasn't like Last Line: Like a thought before sleep Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Memory; Sickness BIRDS OF SORROW, by RON SCHREIBER Poem Source First Line: Have almost all migrated Last Line: In our hair Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BLACK VALENTINES, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: I don't know how my mother got my father Last Line: That rocking takes me under in sleep Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness BLOOD POSITIVE: 1: THE CHILDREN WONDER, by MELVIN DIXON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What did you do when the thighs of our brothers Last Line: Don't move %your memory or your life Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BLOOD POSITIVE: 2: THE DEAD SPEAK, by MELVIN DIXON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leave us alone Last Line: Now take what you need and get out Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BLOOD TEST, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: As the needle goes into my arm Last Line: The only life we have now Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness BLUE SOCKS, by DEBORAH STEIN Poem Source First Line: All the socks I bought for mother to bring on my visits, tan soft cotton Last Line: Cremated in her blue socks, I wear all the socks except her blue ones Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Memory; Mothers BROTHERS GRIEF, by PAUL MARIAH Poem Source First Line: Men in opera Last Line: Of our body politic Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BRUISE OF THIS, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night I woke to find the sheets wet from you, Last Line: And those things I could do that might cushion it. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness BUCKLEY, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Favors castration or failing that a small Last Line: Name and number and I will dance on you Subject(s): Aids (disease); Buckley, William (b. 1925); Homosexuality; Sickness BURDEN, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: There is a kind of joy found only at the end of waiting Last Line: Until the next time, it is more than enough, more than enough Subject(s): Anxiety; Disease; Fear BUYING STOCK, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know you won't mind if I ask you to put this on. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Birth Control; Contraception BY FAITH NOT SIGHT, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot get / out of ourselves Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness BY FAITH NOT SIGHT, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot get %out of ourselves Last Line: Now that he's dead %where can I live? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness BY FIRE OR BY WATER, by KAREN BRODINE Poem Source First Line: Dreams this terrible week Subject(s): Cancer (disease) CANCER CELLS, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I saw a picture of the cancer cells Last Line: I think leonardo would have in his distinterest %enjoyed them precisely with a sharp pencil Subject(s): Cancer (disease) CANCER WINTER, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Syllables shaped around the darkening day's Variant Title(s): "syllables Shaped Around The Darkening Day's""; Subject(s): Cancer (disease) CANCER WINTER, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Syllables shaped around the darkening day's Last Line: I woke up, still alive. Does that mean 'cured'? Variant Title(s): Syllables Shaped Around The Darkening Day' Subject(s): Cancer (disease) CANCER'S A FUNNY THING, by JOHN BURDON SANDERSON HALDANE Poem Source First Line: I wish I had the voice of homer Last Line: So let us patients do our bit %to help the surgeons make us fit Subject(s): Cancer (disease) CANCEROUS, by R. M. RYAN Poem Source First Line: My first wife worked in a laboratory Last Line: Must go on somewhere, killing as she lives Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Marriage CANCERS (NOT NECESSARILY A LOVE POEM), by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cancers are a serious condition...Attacking internal organs Last Line: Believe then...My doctor never saw you...And doesn't %believe %...In the zodiac Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Sickness CARDINAL, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For a week of mornings, the cardinal came Last Line: The mirror of themselves and begin, here, now Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Cardinals (birds); Death; Grief CARE AND TREATMENT OF PAIN, by DAVID BERGMAN Poem Source First Line: I came to learn what the well can learn Last Line: Walked out through the cool manhattan rain Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness CARNATIONS, by HENRI COLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the pool he writes Last Line: Wails on the horizon Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness CARPE DIEM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you say this happiness Last Line: Merry, -- for my poor heart's sake. Subject(s): Disease; Happiness; Hearts; Joy; Delight CEMETERY REEF; GRAND CAYMAN ISLAND, by ELIZABETH SPIRES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Walking down the beach, I took your arm Last Line: Remember you with the kind that always die Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Grand Cayman Island, West Indies CERTAIN LIGHT, by MARIE HOWE Poem Source First Line: He had taken the right pills the night before Last Line: And joe said, handsome Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 1. THE GHOST OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aisha got it from her husband dex Last Line: My voice will drown you, like an undertow Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 12. LAST ACT, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not epidemiology, not love Last Line: My heart restored that wasn't ever safe Subject(s): Aids (disease); Death; Sickness CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 3. MONOGAMY RESPONDS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've lived with him for thirteen years. I cringe Last Line: I wonder, bracing for the next attack Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 9. THE FAILURE OF EMPATHY ON CENTER STREET, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On center street, one finds all: the art Last Line: Your heart is human. Never let it close Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Streets CHASE, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: I don't remember where he was taking us Last Line: Went limp, as if he'd never seen %a woman before Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness COLD SUMMER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not as bad as yours, fante Subject(s): Cancer (disease) COMMANDS OF LOVE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tragedy of a face in pain Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness COMMANDS OF LOVE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tragedy of a face in pain Last Line: Something to get, something to be done Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness COMPLAINT OF THE LAD WITH HEART-DISEASE, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've heart-disease Last Line: Mamma, are you calling? Subject(s): Disease; Hearts; Physicians; Doctors CONSULTING THE BOK OF CHANGES: RADIATION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning you will cup Last Line: If you do, you will cry forever Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Cancer, Breast; Grief; Self-pity; Women CONTEMPORARY CULTURE AND THE LETTER K, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First inroads were made in our 19-aughts Last Line: Into that placeless place, its nearest image a cloudless %sky at dusk, just before the slow ascent o Subject(s): Aids (disease); K (letter Of Alphabet); Sickness COSTA DEL PARVENU, by PETER READING Poem Source Last Line: Plenty of melanomas Subject(s): Disease D.O.A., by TIM DLUGOS Poem Source First Line: You knew who I was %when I walked in the door Last Line: Like any, like no other. Not so bad %for the dead Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness DAVID LEMIEUX, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first boyfriend is dead of aids. The one Last Line: To reconnect to the ground. We were the ones Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness DAVID LEMIEUX, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first boyfriend is dead of aids. The one Last Line: To reconnect to the ground. We were the ones Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness DAYS OF 1994: ALEXANDRIANS, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lunch: as we close the twentieth century, Subject(s): Aging; Transience; Cancer (disease); Food & Eating; Impermanence DEATH SHOW, by JAMES TURCOTTE Poem Source First Line: Real loneliness is having everything, but never being held or em Last Line: His feet, trying to do the dog paddle. Others around him are trying %to eat the money Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness DESERT, by MICHAEL CADNUM Poem Source First Line: When we laugh in the desert Last Line: And see the world %that lasts is nothing Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness DIAGNOSIS; E.M.H., 1944-1988, by DAVID CRAIG AUSTIN Poem Source First Line: Friend, yes, the winter following Last Line: Goodbyes, the valedictions of a compass %fixed and tracing at once Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness DIFFERENT, by FRANKIE KELLER Poem Source First Line: I may have a disease Last Line: I'm supposed to be different Subject(s): Aids (disease); Children; Sickness DISEASES, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Polio rf Last Line: Influenza p Subject(s): Disease; Sickness DISTANT MOON, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Admitted to the hospital again Last Line: Of concentration. In a mirror shines %the distant moon Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness DOCTOR TYPE, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lives thirteen floors above and runs a practice Last Line: The wound that aches at dusk, by dawn %will be gone Subject(s): Aids (disease); Physicians; Sickness DOLPHINS, by RICHARD HARTEIS Poem Source First Line: Who hasn't at some point succumbed Last Line: Boy drowned at sea Subject(s): Aids (disease); Dolphins; Environment; Homosexuality; Sea Monsters; Sickness DREAM OF NIGHTINGALES, by DAVID BERGMAN Poem Source First Line: The friday before your funeral I taught Last Line: As you believed he'd be - pure and beckoning? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness DRIVING BACK FROM NEW HAVEN, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tim looks at his watch, reaches into his Last Line: I resent that we do not know how to die Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness DUENDE, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: One swollen evening, %warm rain flooded the gutters Last Line: The world around us suddenly %so young Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ED DYING, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Hate is an old man fucking, arduous Last Line: Reason a man might sit and weep: missing ed Subject(s): Aids (disease); Hate; Sickness EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In mexico, I met myself one day Last Line: In mexico, they sing so exquisitely Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ELEGY FOR JOHN, MY STUDENT DEAD OF AIDS, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my office, where you sat years ago and talked Last Line: Saying, at last, who you were--exactly %and to anyone who would listen Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ELEGY FOR THE AIDS VIRUS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How difficult it is to say goodbye Subject(s): Aids (disease) ELEGY TO THE PULLEY OF SUPERIOR OBLIQUE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The three girls in a donkey cart Last Line: Of death is instant, contrived. Subject(s): Death; Disease; Girls; Lament; Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii - Atrocities; Dead, The END, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: I have hear of the man %whispering into his dying Last Line: The dying back across, holding on, listening Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness ENTICING LANE, by CHRISTOPHER HEWITT Poem Source First Line: If I should be told Last Line: Bombardment, the maelstrom of appointments %which constitutes a life Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness EPITAPH ON A LADY, WHO HAD LABOURED UNDER A CANCER, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, these dear remains contain'd a mind Last Line: His debt to worth, to excellence, and you! Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; God; Religion; Women; Dead, The; Theology EULOGY, by CAROL ANNE MUSKE Poem Source First Line: The man in the black suit delivers a eulogy Last Line: Some of us flinch, some do not Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness EVANGENE BAKER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pore afflicted evangene Last Line: Will smooth down her wings tomorry! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Disease; Forests; Dead, The; Woods EXTENDED CARE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Katherine wears her hat Subject(s): Disease; Illness; Disability FAITH-FALLING, by DEBORAH LEA DIGGES Poem Source First Line: Yes! My son has learned to fall by increments each day Last Line: And he was waiting. And he held me. On earth you can say good-bye Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FALLING SKY; IN MEMORY OF CHESTER WEINERMAN, by MELVIN DIXON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This lonely hour in autumn, this thick november sky Last Line: Come on, catch it. You can do it. Catch it' Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FAREWELL TO SAMSON, by WILLIAM DERGE Poem Source First Line: For how many dreams %did the cancer come to you Last Line: And then you both were dead Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Memory FEVER, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: All morning I look at the upside-down Last Line: Glowing bright as new plants above me Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness FIRST AIDS CASE IN SELINSGROVE, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: First, he said, he stepped Last Line: Who swims toward them %with a kind of love Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FIRST ANNIVERSARY, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: On our first anniversary, after %we'd drunk one bottle of champagne Last Line: Of the city inside you, standing on the ledge Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness FIRST MARRIAGE, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made it cross country Subject(s): Marriage; Divorce; Cancer (disease); Reconciliation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FIRST SEX, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: When we found your father's playboy Last Line: In the dark and entered manhood Subject(s): Aids (disease); Children; Fathers; Homosexuality; Love; Sex; Sickness FOG TROPES, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A sheet of water turned over Last Line: Unknowning all, whose pain has just begun Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Fathers And Daughters; Sickness FOR DAVID, by FRANKIE PAINO Poem Source First Line: On the way to see a friend Last Line: Even the love, however brief, of a stranger Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FOR JED, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It wastes us all, jed, you Last Line: Stays immune forever Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FOR MATTHEW WARD, 1951-90, by RICHARD HOWARD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the doorway, on a soho street Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness FOR MATTHEW WARD, 1951-90, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the doorway, on a soho street Last Line: That is all I have of you and all %a love deserves Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FOR MY THIRD COUSIN RAY JOHN, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: I poured salt on slugs when I was a kid Last Line: And I will carry you into the dark dark finish Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FOR RICHARD, by EVE ENSLER Poem Source First Line: Your tears will come Last Line: Solidly round %like buddha Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FOR SOPHIE, BALD IN CHURCH, by JILL PELAEZ BAUMGAERTNER Poem Source First Line: The other on whom cancer Last Line: Head - naked as an infant %still curling into its mother Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Religion FOR THE MEETING OF THE NATIONAL SANITARY ASSOCIAITON, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What makes the healing art divine? Last Line: The shield is nobler than the spear! Subject(s): Disease; Science; Scientists FOR THREE DAYS, by MARIE HOWE Poem Source First Line: For three days now I've been trying to think of another word for gratitude Last Line: When the compassionate fist of god opened and crushed her with gratitude ... Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FOREIGN ELEMENT, by GREG JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: And so briefly we detained him in the hall Last Line: Its message we don't dare to understand Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FREDDIE'S ELEGY, by DANIEL M. NESTER Poem Source First Line: Tracing your life since I was 13 Last Line: I see much less than you deserved: %no one knowing, some concerned Subject(s): Aids (disease); Mercury, Freddie (1946-1991); Sickness FROM THE ARTICHOKE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD NAMESAKE OF FIDEL: 1, by MICHELLE CLIFF Poem Source First Line: Vito said that without Last Line: Let us now praise famous queers Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FROM THE ARTICHOKE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD NAMESAKE OF FIDEL: 2, by MICHELLE CLIFF Poem Source First Line: Last night I danced salsa till 1 a.M. Last Line: Everything is close to the ground Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FROM THE ARTICHOKE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD NAMESAKE OF FIDEL: 3, by MICHELLE CLIFF Poem Source First Line: But last night! %last night, my dear Last Line: Platinum and sweet Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FROM THE ARTICHOKE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD NAMESAKE OF FIDEL: 4, by MICHELLE CLIFF Poem Source First Line: A slender boy-bodied farmworker Last Line: And smiles with his head bowed Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FROM THE ARTICHOKE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD NAMESAKE OF FIDEL: 5, by MICHELLE CLIFF Poem Source First Line: The morning you died Last Line: From the beak of a bird Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FROM THE ARTICHOKE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD NAMESAKE OF FIDEL: 6, by MICHELLE CLIFF Poem Source First Line: Vito and I decided when it's all over Last Line: Every queer I've ever known loved the stars Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FROM THE DEVOTIONS: 1, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if somewhere, away, a dorr had slammed shut Last Line: I can't. I could not save you Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness FROM THE DEVOTIONS: 1, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if somewhere, away, a dorr had slammed shut Last Line: I can't, I could not save you? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FROM THE DEVOTIONS: 2, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not, despite what you believed, that Last Line: We were walking, that we are walking upon them Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness FROM THE DEVOTIONS: 2, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not, despite what you believed, that Last Line: We were walking that we were talking %upon them Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FROM THE DEVOTIONS: 3, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night, again, / a wind that failed to bring storm Last Line: Then we rise; are astounded Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness FROM THE DEVOTIONS: 3, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night, again, %a wind that failed to bring storm Last Line: Struck down. Then we rise; are astounded Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FROZEN STIFF, by BRAD GOOCH Poem Source First Line: It's not that I'm wallowing Last Line: Grow and grow %the more it stays the same Subject(s): Aids (disease); Memory; Sickness FUTURE SEASONS, by DAVID MATIAS Poem Source First Line: The rubber tourniquet tightens by the time Last Line: So full beyond this world Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FUTURE TEXT PANEL, by TORY DENT Poem Source First Line: A fire going is the only sound Last Line: I must wear in my exodus like houdini's chains Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness G-9, by TIM DLUGOS Poem Source First Line: I'm at a double wake Last Line: Where I'm supposed to be, %in just the right place Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness GARDEN, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: I will not say a divine hand has sown these spores Last Line: Secret door that opens onto the light Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Gardens And Gardening; Pain GEISTESKRANKHEIT', by DAVID RAY Poem Source Last Line: Will remain ambiguous throughout the centuries Subject(s): Disease; Ghosts; Supernatural GIFT, by NANCY NAOMI CARLSON Poem Source First Line: The light leaves early these days Last Line: Yet as slow to resolve as my thimbled need Subject(s): Aids (disease); Death; Sewing; Sickness GIFT, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: I do not like to remember Last Line: Held out so lovingly to the other Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness GIFTS, by DAVID CRAIG AUSTIN Poem Source First Line: Most of my friends and all of my past Last Line: Blessed the gifts we receive Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness GLASS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of it with wonder now Last Line: On the table, these last mouthfuls Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers; Glasses (tumblers); Love GLORY HOLES FOR LARRY, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not only young guys dying of aids Last Line: To the joys of gay sex Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Aids (disease); Old Age; Friendship GONDOLAS, by HENRI COLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It has been so long since he left his country Last Line: Pummelling columbus's three little ships, %trying and trying to be lifted by it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness GOOD TIMING, by CAROL L. EBBECKE Poem Source First Line: Fran, you lay belly up in a bed Last Line: Will hold us all night, and good timing %only touches but some Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness GROSSE FUGE, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This october morning, %soft lavender bursts above the plymouth Last Line: There is no resolution in the fugue Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HABITS OF EATING: THE HABITS OF EATING, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: Rabies. Bubonic plague. Now aids Last Line: Retracted, the brain's circuitry %connected, and, if not boiled, %set loose by those who coulse eat Subject(s): Disease HALF-LIFE, by HENRI COLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no sun today Last Line: Theirs is a world of joy trancing %even the gulls above the silver ferry Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HARD LOVE, by ANDREA O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: In the not quiet moon glow Last Line: And for all the hard love we hold inside %for the other woman Subject(s): Breasts; Cancer (disease); Death; Love; Sisters; Women HARDEST, by RON SCHREIBER Poem Source First Line: That's what I've been saying Last Line: Engulfed in cold Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HEARTBEATS, by MELVIN DIXON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Work out. Ten laps Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness HEARTBEATS, by MELVIN DIXON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Work out. Ten laps Last Line: Sweet heart. Don't stop. %breathe in. Breathe out Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HER LONG ILLNESS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daybreak until nightfall, Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Kenyon, Jane (1947-1995); Marital Love HER MY BODY, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dog licks my hand as I worry Last Line: By this thought you are welcome / to keep it Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Cancer (disease) HERE, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Everything extraneous has burned away Last Line: Of telling the hill I'm here oh I'm here Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HIS ANGER, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: When I can't sleep, I think of his anger. %lying side by side, two Last Line: Yet it will have worth. It will be %with me, always Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness HIV RESEARCH PROJECT, by JEROD SANTEK Poem Source First Line: She tells me it's a simple procedure Last Line: Simple: do not do what you have always done Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HMMMM, by JOEL ZIZIK Poem Source First Line: When jay died, after a whole day of groaning Last Line: Deep in the bowl of the song Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HOLIDAY SEASON AT THE WHITE HOUSE, by JUDY MEIKSIN Poem Source First Line: If I were president Last Line: Every night, then invite venus envy %to sing once again Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HOMELESS, by BEATRIX GATES Poem Source First Line: Morning sun outside d'agostino's,a young man bends Last Line: His body in his hands Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HOSPICE, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Frayed cables bear perilously the antiquated lift Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness HOSPICE, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Frayed cables bear perilously the antiquated lift Last Line: Are shaken with rumor of this strange good fortune Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HOW I WAS TOLD AND NOT TOLD, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was the milky sun washing out the sky Last Line: And loose stiches of black %bastes up the night sky Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness HOW SOME OF IT HAPPENED, by MARIE HOWE Poem Source First Line: My brother was afraid, all his life, of going blind, so deeply Last Line: So I can see you Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness HOW TO WATCH YOUR BROTHER DIE, by MICHAEL LASSELL Poem Source First Line: When the call comes, be calm Last Line: Warm and friendly and without challenge Subject(s): Aids (disease); Brothers; Homosexuality; Sickness I HAVE TOLD YOU YOUR HANDS ARE SALT, by JAMES PURDY Poem Source First Line: I have seen your hands asleep Last Line: Command a terrible kiss Subject(s): Aids (disease); Hands; Sickness ICE CUBE, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: On the hottest night of the summer Last Line: As you drink our pleasure down Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness IDENTIFYING THINGS, by WENDY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Is diabetes catching, he asks Last Line: It helps, it always helps when you know %what things are Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ILLUSTRIOUS PROVIDENCE OF SOLID TUMORS, by MARY JANE NEALON Poem Source First Line: On the expensive sony screen, cell clusters are zinnias Last Line: In your left earlobe with his long ring finger Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness IN HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE, by CHARLOTTE MAYERSON Poem Source First Line: Without the women of the holocaust Last Line: In the right order - %while he's still alive Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness IN MEMORIAM: D.K., by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man walking on the street Last Line: No, not again %but still Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness IN MEMORY OF ARTHUR WINSLOW: 1. DEATH FROM CANCER, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This easter, arthur winslow, less than dead Subject(s): Cancer (disease) IN MEMORY OF ARTHUR WINSLOW: 1. DEATH FROM CANCER, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This easter, arthur winslow, less than dead Last Line: Where the wide waters and their voyager are one Subject(s): Cancer (disease) IN MEMORY OF DAVID KALSTONE, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lime-and-mint mayonnaise and salsa verde Subject(s): Aids (disease); Critics & Criticism; Sickness; Illness IN MEMORY OF DAVID KALSTONE, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lime-and-mint mayonnaise and salsa verde Last Line: Within the waters of the grand canal, %and writhes and twists, wrinkles and reassembles Subject(s): Aids (disease); Critics And Criticism; Sickness IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Full Text First Line: For a week you lie beneath one sheet Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Love; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: For a week you lie beneath one sheet Last Line: The knots, your whole life %opening in the room Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness IN THE BLOOD, WINNOWING: 1, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the dumb hoof Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness IN THE BLOOD, WINNOWING: 1, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the dumb hoof Last Line: Alone can't account for Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness IN THE BLOOD, WINNOWING: 2, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it but / yours, the one hand Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness IN THE BLOOD, WINNOWING: 2, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it but %yours, the one hand Last Line: Of conclusion, %all it ever was Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness IN THE BLOOD, WINNOWING: 3, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stones do not matter Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness IN THE BLOOD, WINNOWING: 3, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stones do not matter Last Line: You are all the stones %that keep missing the glass Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness IN THE BLOOD, WINNOWING: 4, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing stops %for your admiring the hair Last Line: Where things don't wash off Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness IN THE TIME OF PLAGUE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts are crowded with death Last Line: Carrying in their faces and throughout their bodies %the news of life and death Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness IN THE WAITING ROOM, by DAVID BERGMAN Poem Source First Line: St. Gaudens would have known what would suit Last Line: So that he can teach me how to be %content when I take his place at last Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness INVENTORY, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One who lifted his rams with joy, first time across the finish Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness INVENTORY, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One who lifted his rams with joy, first time across the finish Last Line: One who wanted to live till his birthday, and did Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness J CAR, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last year I used to ride the j church line Last Line: A love he might in full reciprocate Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Death; Sickness JADE, by TORY DENT Poem Source First Line: Upon a plain of thought, a box Last Line: Until finally they collapse within themselves %and vanish into extinction Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness JAMES DEAN AS EURYDICE, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: When I met -- I dreamed of coming up from underneath Last Line: The god chasing the human Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness JENNY MARIE, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: This morning I am thinking of jenny marie, of being nine Last Line: Larkish body skyward %and off Subject(s): Breasts; Cancer (disease); Women JOSEPHINE'S GARDEN, by STEVE MARK KOWIT Poem Source First Line: First thing in the morning Last Line: The sharp edges everything has in this world Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness JOURNEY TO THE INTERIOR, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He has gone into the forest Last Line: And every road leads on within %and none leads out Subject(s): Aids (disease); Cherokee Indians; Sickness; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) KATE, by KEVIN JEFFREY CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Your best friend Last Line: He never saw any of that %in any distance Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness KINDERTOTENLIEDER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After midnight everything becomes musical Last Line: To cold fresh water, then lost heart Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness KINDERTOTENLIEDER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After midnight everything becomes musical Last Line: Of your outstretched hand, its petals %white and black and falling fingers Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness LAMENT, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your dying was a difficult enterprise Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness LAMENT, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your dying was a difficult enterprise Last Line: This difficult, tedious, painful enterprise Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness LANDING, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through the blinds, it must have been the streetlamp I saw Last Line: Tell me who that is beyond the stairwell's next turning now Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness LANGUAGE OF HEMOPHILIA, by TOM ANDREWS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blood pools in a joint Last Line: Pooled %words, this %moment's cryo- %acquittal Subject(s): Aids (disease); Hemophilia; Sickness LAST RIGHTS, by MARVIN K. WHITE Poem Source First Line: When I learned of gregory's death %I cried silently Last Line: Johnnie walker black %finally in my rightful place Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness LENTEN TUNNEL, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You kneel and retch and pray Last Line: Whatever flows, I answer, %must have found a channel Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness LEUKEMIA AS DREAM RITUAL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is night in my room Last Line: Eat the whispers, eat and drink Subject(s): Cancer (disease) LEUKEMIA AS DREAM RITUAL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is night in my room Subject(s): Cancer (disease) LODOS ON THE BOSPHORUS, by SIDNEY WADE Poem Source First Line: It's an ill-mannered wind that whangs up the strait Last Line: A glot, a tremor, an oily-thighed fat misanthropic plague Subject(s): Disease; Plague; Sickness LOVE AS AN ARGUMENT IN TIME AND LOSS, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: Was in the way patroclus touched anger to his skin %in the form of armor Last Line: Was it the ache of the past that made achilles run out %into the bloodletting? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness LOVE IN THE TIME OF AIDS, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: You are afraid Last Line: Will crash or glide across the sky %as if the sky knows what is written underneath its skin Subject(s): Aids (disease); Airplane Accidents; Danger; Health; Love - Loss Of; Sickness; Travel LOVE POEM, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Love and cancer think small Last Line: Cut me out, you could not survive Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Love; Sickness LUCK, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: Just my luck, I gave up smoking last month Last Line: And the lesion in my lung is gone Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Medicine; Physicians; Smoking LYING IN WAIT, by TOMASZ JASTRUN Poem Source First Line: The cancer ward lies in wait Last Line: Smiles and bright green eyes Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Hospitals; Waiting MAMA ROSANNA'S LAST BEAD-CLACK, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: I'm sitting on my couch saying my rosary. I haven't Last Line: To my house and burn my bedding. Lamp of god, kill me Subject(s): Aids (disease); Catholics; Sickness MAN AND WOMAN GO THROUGH THE CANCER WARD, by GOTTFRIED BENN Poem Text First Line: The man: here in these rows are wombs that have decayed Last Line: Burns out. And sap prepares to flow. Earth calls.— Subject(s): Cancer (disease) MAN WHO BEAT UP HOMOSEXUALS REPORTED TO HAVE AIDS VIRUS, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the new york times: your health editor Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Aids (disease); New York Times (newspaper); Sickness; Illness MAN WHO BEAT UP HOMOSEXUALS REPORTED TO HAVE AIDS VIRUS, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the new york times: your health editor Last Line: The nurse has just come in with another %delicious concoction. The social-worker %awaits... (name wi Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Aids (disease); New York Times (newspaper); Sickness MAN WITH THE NIGHT SWEATS, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake up cold, I who Last Line: As if hands were enough %to hold an avalanche off Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness MANIFESTO, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Unsolicited adam s diagnosed 9/85 Last Line: Bear it we who are losing our reason Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness MARCHES, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun just up on the century's earliest equinox Last Line: What march may be like in maybe the year 2000 Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness MASSAGE, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: As I lay naked on the table Last Line: Sent my torment back to god Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness MASSEUSE (1), by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The friends of the dead lie on my table Last Line: I do what I can %with their breath and my hands Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness MAYBE THE JAY, by ROBIN BEHN Poem Source First Line: Maybe the jay resting on the eve right now Last Line: Sharp as love's l, filled with sufficient %belief to kill the symptoms Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness MEDICAL SCIENCE, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father's heart is on television Last Line: That my father's heart is a miracle, that it has already %been dead and recalled twice Subject(s): Disease MEMOIR; FOR J.J. MITCHELL, DEAD OF AIDS 4/26/86, by HONOR MOORE Poem Source First Line: I first remember you in paris, blaze Last Line: Beautiful men, one after another Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness MEMORIAL, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a man. And here, a girl. They live Subject(s): Cancer (disease) MEMORIAL, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a man. And here, a girl. They live Last Line: No hospital beds, but a lifting of metal wings Subject(s): Cancer (disease) MEMORY UNSETTLED, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your pain still hangs in air Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness MEMORY UNSETTLED, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your pain still hangs in air Last Line: Though you were sick enough, %and had your own fears too Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness MERCY, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the harbor breaths of smoke Last Line: A wrinkle on the water. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Grief; Mythology - Classical; Seashore; Sickness; Women's Rights; Sorrow; Sadness; Beach; Coast; Shore; Illness; Feminism METAPHORS FOR THE BODY IN EXTREMIS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: First I think of it as a factory Last Line: That's coming, it won't change this, this Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness MISS GEE, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me tell you a little story Last Line: And a couple of oxford groupers %carefull dissected her knee Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Spinsters MISSING, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I watch the progress of the plague Last Line: Back to the play of constant give and change Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness MY FATHER DYING: 1984, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: He hums [or, burns] with prostate cancer Last Line: Igniting everywhere karmaic fires.' Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Fathers; Labor And Laborers MY FATHER'S TUMOR, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: It comes to me out of nowhere, always an image Last Line: And to kill him Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers; Love MY MOTHER ASKS IF MEN MAKE LOVE FACE TO FACE, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: I want to tell her I remember Last Line: As we lie in the world, just like the others Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness MY QUARREL WITH LANGUAGE POETRY, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Dulsville, as in the after-hours Last Line: And we went out and ate them Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Friendship; Language Poetry MYXOMATOSIS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caught in the centre of a soundless field Subject(s): Animals; Disease; Rabbits; Hares MYXOMATOSIS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caught in the centre of a soundless field Last Line: You may have thought things would come right again %if you could only keep quite still and wait Subject(s): Animals; Disease; Rabbits MYXOMATOSIS, by GALE WARNER Poem Source First Line: She would not go back to familiar Last Line: She waited for me %to go Subject(s): Disease NAMING THE ELEMENTS; FOR THE NAMES PROJECT, SAN FRANCISCO, by MICHAEL KLEIN Poem Source First Line: The names of the dead Last Line: I am thinking of names %for the air Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NERVES, by MARK RUDMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm not really nervous since john warned me about toxic shock Last Line: Turned his cheek away from my lips %when I went to kiss him Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NEW FOOD, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: One day we wake and you don't Last Line: A man who knows the end Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: A, by JAMES TURCOTTE Poem Source First Line: I'm sorry I've been slower than anticipated in getting back to you on Last Line: These. I admire the way he put them together! %- david stanford, penguin books Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: B, by JAMES TURCOTTE Poem Source First Line: A good story begins with a problem Last Line: Journals, printing them on my computer, even binding some of them %with old shirts and cardboard. Wh Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: C, by JAMES TURCOTTE Poem Source First Line: I want to be immortal, that my singular perspective will be remem Last Line: Will rest here too. My life work. A star among stars in some seasonal %sky Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: D, by JAMES TURCOTTE Poem Source First Line: Things change, but as of today I remain - in a netherworld that Last Line: Yeah, but you'll never see that,' another friend reassures me Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: D, by JAMES TURCOTTE Poem Source First Line: I'm prepared for july. The pounding waves call from some future Last Line: What to think? That I've created a mental block. A problem. Or the %grain of sand inside a pearl. So Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NIGHT OF 1990, by RICHARD MCCANN Poem Source First Line: What I could not accept was how much space Last Line: Why do you keep forgetting to breathe? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness NIGHT OF WALLY'S SERVICE, WALLY SAID, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most people will reflect back to you Last Line: Most people wanted me to come back %but not mark Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NIGHTS OF 1964-1966: THE OLD RELIABLE, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White decorators interested in art Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness NIGHTS OF 1964-1966: THE OLD RELIABLE, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White decorators interested in art Last Line: And so did I, and my three friends are dead Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness NIGHTSWEATS, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: When I hear the guttural throatcall Last Line: Lifting your mouth above water, %crying as you sleep Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness NO MORE KISSING - AIDS EVERYWHERE, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He says it to the young couple Last Line: Kissing their way towards heaven until they die Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness NO MORE KISSING - AIDS EVERYWHERE, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He says it to the young couple Last Line: Kissing their way towards heaven till they die Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness OBITUARY, by MONICA OCHTRUP Poem Source First Line: Clement hurd died. Alzheimer's disease. It was in this morning's paper Last Line: We tried it over and over and it never worked. Not once Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease OFF TO THE COUNTRY OF CANCER, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It comes on. Subject(s): Cancer (disease) ON HEARING THE TESTIMONY OF THOSE REVIVED AFTER CARDIAC ARREST, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wrenched back to life Subject(s): Heart Disease ON THE AIDS/HOSPICE WARD, by BERET E. STRONG Poem Source First Line: In bed 17 a man is half missing Last Line: On lips, throat, tongue, leaving him %little -- hands, eyes,pencil and pad Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ONE BY ONE, by MELVIN DIXON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The children in the life Last Line: Until there's no one left to count Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ONE OF THE ROOMING-HOUSES OF HEAVEN, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamed of bobby again Last Line: I can't remember now a single thing he said Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ONE THOUSAND SATURDAYS, by DEBORAH STEIN Poem Source First Line: By early adolescence, I was deposited more and more at grandma's. I Last Line: Budding bosom and discovered it would hurt Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Grandparents; Pain ORTHODOXIES 14, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: A pederast's boy under thumb was giving birth to him Last Line: Was it genuine backstitch, the coxcomb on his head saint trembles in rags Subject(s): Blood; Death; Disease OUTSIDE THE LANDMARK TAVERN: 2AM, by ANTHONY GAYLE Poem Source First Line: I hear music in the background Last Line: Or the kind that throw you out after 2am Subject(s): Aids (disease); Bars And Bartenders; Death; Sickness PAPER CRANES - BLACK, by JAMES KEEGAN Poem Source First Line: Kids dying of cancer in japan kill Last Line: This black trickster, longevity's symbol Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Cranes (birds); Japan PARACHUTE, by TIM DLUGOS Poem Source First Line: The bergman image of a game Last Line: To bail out, no bright %parachute beside my bed Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness PARIS FALLING: MY FATHER, DEAD OF ALZHEIMER'S, by GORDON GRANT Poem Source First Line: He. %he became. %he became he out of all the thousands Last Line: Christ, breathe your white distances %through him so the melting stops Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease; Death; Fathers PARKINSON'S DISEASE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: While spoon-feeding him with one hand Subject(s): Parkinson's Disease PARKINSON'S DISEASE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While spoon-feeding him with one hand Last Line: For him to pass from this paradise into the next Subject(s): Parkinson's Disease PASSING THE TIME DURING CHEMOTHERAPY, by JANE M. MCCLELLAN Poem Source First Line: We could almost be taken Last Line: And then, unplugged, we turn %toward home Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Conversation; Sickness; Time; Women PATHOLOGIST DICTATES, by MARY JANE NEALON Poem Source First Line: On the phone to the morgue Last Line: A timid and still unsure singing Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness PESCHANKA, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: I read about the man who stood Last Line: In the photograph was taken and %beaten and left to die Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness PETRARCH; THE PINES, FIRE ISLAND - 1988, by WALTER HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: Years shaped like the tree trunks Last Line: Bunched up, hidden, dark Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness PHONE SEX, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I am so lonely the phone %will do Last Line: To speak and I unable %to forget Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness PINDARIC ODE: TO DR. SCARBOROUGH, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long, alas! Has our mad nation been Last Line: When all's done, life is an incurable disease. Subject(s): Disease; Physicians; Doctors PITTSBURGH, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And my beautiful daughter Last Line: Pain, in the love of daughter and father. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Children; Grief; Love; Parents; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood PITYRIASIS ROSEA, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We say the blood rose, meaning it came to the surface Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness PITYRIASIS ROSEA, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We say the blood rose, meaning it came to the surface Last Line: Passed on, scattered, or poured back into the earth Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness PLAGUE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the world has become a pestilence Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness PLAGUE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the world has become a pestilence Last Line: As they are still there, we hope, and we are coming Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness PLAGUE FOR KIT MARLOWE; IN MEMORY OF DEREK JARMAN, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't trust beauty anymore, when will I stop Last Line: I'd call a song. This happens every time I try to say good-bye Subject(s): Aids (disease); Dramatists; Homosexuality; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays And Playwrights; Sickness PNEUMOCYSTIS, by JOEL ZIZIK Poem Source First Line: You had to tell your parents %each part of france and what they grew there Last Line: Your hair felt like it started from deep bones Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness POEM FOR A POEM, by TORY DENT Poem Source First Line: And the snow fell lightly in cambridge Last Line: Everything I write simply the dissemination of you, %replicating in my body. O my molecule Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness POEM TO BEGIN THE SECOND DECADE OF AIDS, by BOYER RICKEL Poem Source First Line: The dog, alive, lucy, my light, sleeps Last Line: Simply drape across a reclining form Subject(s): Aids (disease); Animals; Dogs; Sickness POEMS FOR BUDDY, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that same beginning winter Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness POEMS FOR BUDDY, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that same beginning winter Last Line: With our own %open eyes Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness POSITIVE, by MICHAEL KLEIN Poem Source First Line: So now you know how blood tricks life Last Line: Open, kevin, enough for the two of us to enter Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness PREPOSITIONS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are going - the motion picture theater, (direction) Subject(s): Parents; Cancer (disease); Home Health Care; Parenthood PROGNOSIS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why should a breast that never fed Last Line: Against the rule, are taking their toll Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Breasts; Disease; Medicine PROMISE, by MARIE HOWE Poem Source First Line: In the dream I had when he came back not sick Last Line: In a crowded room, something important, and can't Subject(s): Aids (disease); Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Sickness PROPHYLACTIC, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: You tear the cellophane, %look down at me, pour Last Line: Fills the sack with those %thousand seeds of death Variant Title(s): Prophylactic Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness RAIN FALLS ON HER GLYPTIC EYELIDS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The breaking bones of your wrist and knee Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Mathematics REASSURANCE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About ten days or so Last Line: And, yes, how like my mind %to make itself secure Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness RECOVERY, by RON SCHREIBER First Line: Your arms & legs are shrunken Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness RECOVERY, by RON SCHREIBER Poem Source First Line: Your arms & legs are shrunken Last Line: Bright, gaudy red flower, full %in the sun, as wide as an arm Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness RED RIBBON FOR JANE, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: The chinese evergreen that jane gave me Last Line: Grows the message of the red ribbon Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Friendship; Healing; Sickness RED SUSPENDERS, BOXES OF CIGARS, by JOSEPH HANSEN Poem Source First Line: I'm wrong and know I'm wrong but can't help think Last Line: I couldn't spare you. Phone me any time Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness REMEMBERING THE MAN WHO MOLESTED ME, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: His mouth opens and closes like a hinged Last Line: You may now have this child Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness RETROVIR, by TIM DLUGOS Poem Source First Line: Turn %back oh man Last Line: Of grass and fountain separates %to blue and white Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness REVIEW, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't the worst movie %I've seen about aids Last Line: It was your face, & I wept Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness RIVER BLINDNESS (ONCHOCERCIASIS), by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, a female buffalo gnat of the genus simulium bites you Subject(s): Disease; Gnats RIVER BLINDNESS (ONCHOCERCIASIS), by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, a female buffalo gnat of the genus simulium bites you Last Line: Baby flies dying, dying %in their eyes, %blinding them Subject(s): Disease; Gnats RUSH TO ENDING, by KEVIN JEFFREY CLARKE Poem Source First Line: A cold fire sings in us Last Line: The darker, truer address of all its music Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SACRAMENTS, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: Along lower broadway where we walk Last Line: Transformation is what even the sea desires Variant Title(s): Sacraments: Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness SACRAMENTS: 2, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: Out the window snow is falling, dawn over 13th street Last Line: From her husband's face, the sound of rosary, %the weakness of language Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness SACRAMENTS: 3, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: In church, the men in black make their bodies Last Line: Rise between us, to call out love to this man Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness SACRAMENTS: 4, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: Body of holiness, body of light, arms in the shape of the cross Last Line: This temple of pure life, I say mass on his chest Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness SACRAMENTS: 5, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow Last Line: We lived in the valley, built a home in the shadow Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness SACRAMENTS: 6, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: When christ met the punk rocker on the road Last Line: And the boy's tongue hung black from his red mouth Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness SACRAMENTS: 7, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: All along the beach suburban houses burn Last Line: When I open my eyes all our places are gone and I stand alone Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness SACRED ANUS, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: You are putting your finger on the place %never spoken Last Line: That is not fucking me but is the music %my body's a string for Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness SANDOR VADAY, WITH HODGKIN'S DISEASE, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: This wreath of herbs Last Line: Making room for death Subject(s): Disease; Medicine; Sickness SCENE OF THE CRIME, by DAVID GROFF Poem Source First Line: Going home near dawn from the last great party Last Line: He wonders if they were lovers. Did the lovers burn? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness SECOND LAW, by STEPHEN SANDY Poem Source First Line: Beside the bed I watch Last Line: Knowing, letting him, letting him, %go Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SEEING THINGS, by KIM BRIDGFORD Poem Source First Line: My father-in-law is going blind %because of his cancer Last Line: Back on his pillow, telling us a joke %he finds so funny he can't help crying Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers-in-law SELF-PORTRAIT, COLLAGE, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A scrap of used envelope Last Line: A love of order, %if only the order of art Subject(s): Aids (disease); Pittman, Gael (1953-1990); Sickness SEVENTH FLOOR: CANCER WARD, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are the elect in this inverse hell Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Hospitals SFO/HIV/JFK, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew his job was more than cleaning up Last Line: Feeding myself in some airport snack bar, %smell of a stranger's sex on my fingers Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SHE WIPES OUT TIME, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers; Alzheimer's Disease SHORT JOURNEY: FOUR MONTHS AFTER DIAGNOSIS, by MARY JANE NEALON Poem Source First Line: After many tests we have a name Last Line: With the narrow %gold band Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SICKNESS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we were never stretched in bed, with sickness Last Line: "neighbors are!" Subject(s): Disease; Fever; Health Resorts; Sickness; Spas; Illness SKIN, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: When you come out of the bathroom Last Line: The danger we so easily could share Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness SKIN CANCER, by JACK BERNIER Poem Source First Line: Skin cancer is in the news again Last Line: And it isn't listed under specific agents %in biological and chemical warfare Subject(s): Cancer (disease) SKIN CANCER, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Balmy overcast nights of late september Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore SKIN CANCER, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Balmy overcast nights of late september Last Line: For home that feels no different from health Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Seashore SO WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: On the train to d.C., a priest sat beside me, and outside phillie Last Line: All I wanted was to hear them, please %calling each other Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SOME THINGS SHOULDN'T BE WRITTEN, by DAVID MATIAS Poem Source First Line: During my battle with mycobacterium avium intracellulare Last Line: And over the metal roof, flung to god knows where Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SONG FOR MY LOVER: 13. TOWARDS CURING AIDS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slap on latex gloves before I put Last Line: I leave him pleadinmg. Too much to do Variant Title(s): Towards Curing Aids Subject(s): Surgery; Aids (disease); Death; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors SONG: 96, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been a lover Last Line: Though ye misjudge these last. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Disease; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 1, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reading ends in melancholy Last Line: Farewell all, if friendship ceases. Subject(s): Books; Disease; Friendship; Melancholy; Reading; Dejection SPANISH OF OUR OUT-LOUD DREAMS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You took your father %from the bronx hospital Last Line: The vigil of your shimmering gaze Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers; Hispanic Americans SPHINCTER, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hope my good old asshole holds out Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness SPHINCTER, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hope my good old asshole holds out Last Line: Hope the old hole stays young %till death, relax Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HENRY PHIPPS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was the sunday school superintendent Last Line: Moved me on with a push. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Money SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 1. AIDS, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: You know the cause of death but not my name Last Line: Knowing whose time is up and whose is down Subject(s): Aids (disease); Death; Sickness SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 3. CANCER, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: Sometimes a word infects and then inflames Last Line: Down the polluted streams and out of town Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Sickness STATE OF THE UNION: 20. AN EPIDEMIC WITHOUT A NAME, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another one gone Last Line: Fear beats the drum Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Disease; Epidemics STILL ALIVE, by RON SCHREIBER Poem Source First Line: He slept through the night Last Line: Tell him so Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness STILL LIFE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not soon forget Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness STILL LIFE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not soon forget Last Line: The tube his mouth enclosed %in an astonished o Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness STILL LIFE: IN THE EPIDEMIC, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light / old leaf spine Last Line: Green, blue Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness STILL LIFE: IN THE EPIDEMIC, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light %old leaf spine Last Line: Chew me, gingerly, like chewing ice, %eat me. My america. Eat me Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness STONE AT THE BOTTOM, by MANUEL ULACIA Poem Source First Line: As my father's breathing Last Line: The stone, falling, %has hit bottom Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers STREET NAMES, by ALIKI BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: I read all the names of the streets as we drove to visit him Last Line: And see them populated with no one I now love Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Family Life; Mothers; Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 1. THE LETTER, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere the windows give up nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 1. THE LETTER, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere the windows give up nothing Last Line: And consume so they become the only world Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 2. HOLY CITY, CITY OF NIGHT, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is that general rule which tells Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 2. HOLY CITY, CITY OF NIGHT, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What is that general rule which tells Last Line: Spread stunned before me. These hands Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 3. COMBAT ZONE/WAR STORIES, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The district's been demolished, sown with salt Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 3. COMBAT ZONE/WAR STORIES, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The district's been demolished, sown with salt Last Line: So we can make a street, so we can make a neighborhood Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 4. JAIL, FLAMES -- JERSEY 1971, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The psychic's globe whirls its winds: demons Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 4. JAIL, FLAMES -- JERSEY 1971, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The psychic's globe whirls its winds: demons Last Line: At me & wanted to be me. And I didn't care Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 5. ADDRESS, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hello death angel, old familiar, old nemesis Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 5. ADDRESS, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hello death angel, old familiar, old nemesis Last Line: Death I am tired of you Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 6. DARTMOUTH WOMEN'S PRISON, 1992, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Emily, delirium's your province Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 6. DARTMOUTH WOMEN'S PRISON, 1992, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Emily, delirium's your province Last Line: Of voices winged over water, becoming %water, & gone Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUITE FOR EMILY: 7. A STYLE OF PRAYER, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a prayer that goes lord I am powerless Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness SUITE FOR EMILY: 7. A STYLE OF PRAYER, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a prayer that goes lord I am powerless Last Line: Each fugitive moment the heaven we choose to make Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUMMER AT THE JARDIN D'HIVER, by RICHARD MCCANN Poem Source First Line: We paid six francs to see dionaea muscipula [or, droseraceae], dead flies Last Line: Than a glass dome over %extravagant forced blooms? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness SUNG FROM A HOSPICE, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Still craving a robust Last Line: Was tested %my living soul %struck like a tower bell, %once,twice, %four times in a single season Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness SUTER'S CLAIM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say! You feller! You Last Line: And I'm his disease! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Disease; Dead, The SYNDROME, by ROBERT LOUTHAN Poem Source First Line: When we're done with this embrace Last Line: Go up and tell god I want you rocked in his lap, %and when he does it fuck his brains out Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TALKING TO JIM, by WALTA BORAWSKI Poem Source First Line: So nothing is left of your agony Last Line: Said in the living room. No one %was reaching for the camera Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TEARS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All spring the grim machines ground out the verdict Last Line: Don't cry in an open wound,' news headlines blazoned. %'ai ds-related virus found in tears!' Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TENDER LETTER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: C'etait a paris. She was jeanine, young, pretty and Last Line: Maitresse. In three months she was dead of cancer Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Paris, France; Pentastichs TERMINAL, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eight years' difference in age seems now Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness TERMINAL, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eight years' difference in age seems now Last Line: I think of oedipus, old, led by a boy Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness THAT THING, by MARVIN K. WHITE Poem Source First Line: He still singing in the choir %he still loving men Last Line: He still sometimes real still Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness THE AGE OF AIDS, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our postman, jim was always after me Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Postal Service; Aids (disease); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE BARD'S WISH, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O! Were I laid / in the greenwood shade Last Line: That render life but a long disease! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Disease THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BILL, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The subcommittee submits: Subject(s): United States - Congress; Minerals; Disease; Labor & Laborers; Legislation; Work; Workers THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE CORNFIELD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Error, disease, snow, sudden weather. Subject(s): Corn; Disease; Death; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DISEASE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a lung disease. Silicate dust makes it. Subject(s): Lungs; Disease THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DISEASE: THE AFTER-EFFECTS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the life of a congressman. Subject(s): United States - Congress; Minerals; Disease; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE BRUISE OF THIS, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night I woke to find the sheets wet from you, Last Line: And those things I could do that might cushion it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Illness THE CANCER CELLS, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I saw a picture of the cancer cells Subject(s): Cancer (disease) THE CANCER MATCH, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, you've sent both Subject(s): Cancer (disease) THE CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 1. THE GHOST OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aisha got it from her husband dex Last Line: My voice will drown you in its undertow Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 12. LAST ACT, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not epidemiology, not love Last Line: My heart restored that wasn't ever safe Subject(s): Aids (disease); Death; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness THE DADDY STRAIN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two friends over a chinese lunch Last Line: Can hatch any bird but flightless bromides. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Comfort; Death; Fear; Dead, The THE DISTANT MOON, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Admitted to the hospital again Last Line: The distant moon Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE FIRST MORNING OF CANCER, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first morning of cancer he awoke Subject(s): Cancer (disease) THE FOUR HUMOURS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We wondered if the rumors got to her Subject(s): Physicians; Sickness; Anger; Melancholy; Cancer (disease); Doctors; Illness; Dejection THE FUNERAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It felt like the zero in brook ice Last Line: The cancer ate her like horse piss eats deep snow. Subject(s): Aunts; Cancer (disease); Farm Life; Funerals; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers; Burials THE GLASS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of it with wonder now Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers; Glasses (tumblers); Love THE GLASS ESSAY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream Last Line: It walked out of the light Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Psychiatry; Mothers & Daughters; Fathers; Home Life; Women's Rights; Solitude; Alzheimer's Disease; Dreams; Anger; Love – Nature Of; Love – Loss Of; Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Man-woman Relationships THE GLUTTON, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fat, pamper'd porus, eating for renown Last Line: No fashion's dupe, no powerful passion's slave. Subject(s): Disease; Food & Eating; Gluttony; Pleasure; Simplicity THE GRANDMOTHERS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He thought, this is the way they all are Last Line: The long, long night they must swim through Subject(s): Grandparents; Cancer (disease); Family Life; Mortality THE INCURABLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis, you boast of perfect health in vain Last Line: I tell thee, 'tis incurable -- 'tis age. Subject(s): Aging; Disease; Laughter THE MAN WITH THE NIGHT SWEATS, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake up cold, I who Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE MISSING, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I watch the progress of the plague Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE MOON OF MIND AGAINST THE WOODEN LOUVER, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The visitors in room 8509 Last Line: Fence from our despair, our rage, our bitter greedy fear. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Fear; Healing; Hospitals; Mythology - Classical; Sickness; Women's Rights; Cures; Illness; Feminism THE NIGHT OF WALLY'S SERVICE, WALLY SAID, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most people will reflect back to you Last Line: Most people wanted me to come back, / but not mark Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE OLD YEAR'S BLESSING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am fading from you Last Line: While he crowns my past. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Disease; Future; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Past; Temptation; Joy; Delight THE REASSURANCE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About ten days or so Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE RECITAL, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sits there, staring into the keyboard-- Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Cancer (disease); Death; Dead, The THE REVENANT, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a spirit now. After that death Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Dead, The THE SACRIFICE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When judas writes the history of solitude Last Line: Death fought; before giving in Subject(s): Guilt; Cancer (disease); Suicide; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE SCREAM, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aids is germ warfare against homosexuals Last Line: Germ warfare against humanity Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Aids (disease) THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: HIAWATHA'S LAMENTATION, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In those days the evil spirits Last Line: All the sacred art of healing. Subject(s): Disease; Lament THE SPANISH OF OUR OUT-LOUD DREAMS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poet's Biography First Line: You took your father / from the bronx hospital Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers; Hispanic Americans; Latinos THE SUGAR-CANE: ADVICE TO SLAVE-OWNERS, by JAMES GRAINGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Must thou from afric reinforce thy gang? Last Line: From each some blood, as age and sex require. Subject(s): Africa; Disease; Slavery; Strength; Serfs THE TALK; FOR MY FATHER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many years we've circled round this date Last Line: And talk at last, though all our talk's too late. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers & Sons; Fear; Procrastination; Talk THE VALLEY OF DEATH (4-25-86), by RON SCHREIBER First Line: John didn't die, he hasn't Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE WORKING BULLOCK'S REPRIEVE, by FRANCIS HODGSON NIXON Poem Text First Line: I'm a poor old working bullock Last Line: To 'scape the driver's blow! Subject(s): Animals; Cruelty; Disease; Escapes; Horses; Pain; Trucks & Trucking; Fugitives; Suffering; Misery THEY SPRAWL ROUND THE POOL, by PETER READING Poem Source Last Line: By malign corvids Subject(s): Disease THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 3. WOLVES, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Today my father saw wolves on the french river Last Line: At each vista the moon hangs just for him Subject(s): Fathers; Nursing Homes; Old Age; Parents; Parkinson's Disease THINKING ABOUT BILL, DEAD OF AIDS, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We did not know the first thing about Last Line: We didn't know what look would hurt you least Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness THIRD PERSON NEUTER, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is god mad? Was christ Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THIRD PERSON NEUTER, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is god mad? Was christ Last Line: I'm made of it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness THIS IS THE DOUBLE BED WHERE SHE'D BEEN BORN, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And then entered straightaway into heaven Subject(s): Aids (disease); Beds; Sickness THIS KNOWING, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: When I look down at my lover's %penis-the fur stole Last Line: Of the one who takes you there, %singing, this marriage Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness THIS MORNING'S LECTURE IS OF IONIZED, by J. M. REGAN Poem Source Last Line: They are the megadead - oh dysthymic! %oh vector! This nobleepidemic! Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness THIS SUMMER, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting in the chair that is somewhere Subject(s): Cancer (disease) THOUGHT, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of job when her friend died and another Subject(s): Cancer (disease) THOUGHT, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of job when her friend died and another Last Line: And with the other pushed me out Subject(s): Cancer (disease) THREE MEN SPEAK TO ME: 1. TONY, by FELICE PICANO Poem Source First Line: That summer we rode giant white frisbees Last Line: Needed six days - never knew what hit me Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness THREE MEN SPEAK TO ME: 2. DAVID, by FELICE PICANO Poem Source First Line: They would stand outside the shop on bleecker Last Line: I should have gone to live in france in sixty- %eight, like I'd planned to Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness THREE MEN SPEAK TO ME: 3. SHELDON, by FELICE PICANO Poem Source First Line: Writing a will was the difficult part Last Line: The aisles at southeby's, attended every %auction: it was all I ever loved Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TIARA, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peter died in a paper tiara cut Last Line: But ask for it? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness TIARA, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peter died in a paper tiara cut Last Line: What could any of us ever do %but ask for it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TO DR EMPIRIC, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When men a dangerous disease did 'scape Last Line: From my disease's danger -- and from thee! Subject(s): Disease; Physicians; Doctors TO GB FROM TUSCANY, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Always wondering what's left besides us Last Line: Even when the days grow short. Such light Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TO JOSEPH, by ELIZABETH SULLAM Poem Source First Line: Latex drips over new york skyscrapers Last Line: Classic hand, the sky releases a rain of old coins Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TO LIVE THIS CLOSE TO DEER, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: Deer shy to the woods at daybreak Last Line: So fresh they're still filling with ground water Subject(s): Death; Disease; Plague TO THE DEAD OWNER OF A GYM, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will remember well %the elegant decision Last Line: An absence with its cutting line, %alas, %lacks class Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TO THE MEMORY OF DAVID KALSTONE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's the letter I wrote Last Line: That's my work in life Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness TO THE MEMORY OF DAVID KALSTONE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's the letter I wrote Last Line: And the ghost letter, underneath -- %that's my work in life Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TOBACCO, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tobacco is a harmful weed, the learned Last Line: Means an early tomb. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fire; Health; Lungs; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TONY: ENDING THE LIFE, by JAMES G. MERRILL Poem Source First Line: Across the sea at alexandria Last Line: Just you head, nodding off in window-glass Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TOUCHED, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold december nights I'd go Last Line: Each healing we begin. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Cold; Death; Healing; Mythology - Classical; Sickness; Touch (sense); Women's Rights; Dead, The; Cures; Illness; Feminism TOURETTE'S, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: The curse // he cannot cut Last Line: Jismed jazz // language the stick %//his head the rattled cage Subject(s): Disease; Sickness; Speech TRACKS, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: After we'd made love all %night, and morning like a gauze Last Line: Through the forest I keep following you back to Subject(s): Aids (disease); Forests; Homosexuality; Hunting; Love; Relationships; Sex; Sickness TRYING TO FLEE A DARK BEDROOM, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: We could %have death, turning on Last Line: Failing to Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TUNNEL, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come now, if ever. / when it is raining this gentle Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Illness TUNNEL, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come now, if ever. %when it is raining this gentle Last Line: The wounds are to be %left open Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness TURTLE, SWAN, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the road to our house Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness TURTLE, SWAN, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the road to our house Last Line: Of polished tortoise - I do not want you ever to die Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness TV ROOM AT THE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red-and-green leathered-helmeted Last Line: With micowaved popcorn %blooming like a huge %cauliflower from its tin Subject(s): Cancer (disease) TWO FOR SOPHIE DOG: 2. FOR MY SISTER, SANDRA HANKINS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: We returned from cancer's kingdom Last Line: Has lapped up sophie dog Subject(s): Animals; Cancer (disease); Death; Death - Animals; Dogs TWO POEMS FOR DAVID KALSTONE: 1. INVESTITURE AT CECCONI'S, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caro, that dream (after the diagnosis) Last Line: Miles away, sick, fearful - have yet arranged this %heartstopping present Variant Title(s): Investiture At Cecconi' Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TWO POEMS FOR DAVID KALSTONE: 2. FAREWELL PERFORMANCE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art. It cures affliction. As lights go down and Variant Title(s): Farewell Performance Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness TWO POEMS FOR DAVID KALSTONE: 2. FAREWELL PERFORMANCE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art. It cures affliction. As lights go down and Last Line: Seen where it led you Variant Title(s): Farewell Performanc Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness UN CHANT D'AMOUR', by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even before you - / at the movies Last Line: Of a busy village street Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Wojnarowocicz, David (1954-1992); Illness UN CHANT D'AMOUR', by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even before you - %at the movies Last Line: To our collective %disintegration Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Wojnarowocicz, David (1954-1992) UNHAPPY RETURNS, by DARYL HINE Poem Source First Line: With all the sinister abruptness of Last Line: And, yesterday, a minatory, faint %voice, 'it's nemesis - remember me' Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness USEFUL MACHINE, by RON MOHRING Poem Source First Line: Programmed to operate without commands, this amazing unit Last Line: What does this make me? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness VALLEY OF DEATH (4-25-86), by RON SCHREIBER Poem Source First Line: John didn't die, he hasn't Last Line: His brain will work %or it won't Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness VETERAN, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even before the fear of blackmail and police Last Line: And put sex away, probably forever Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Aids (disease); Erotic Love; Sickness VINDICTIVENESS OF RELIGION, by WILLIAM DICKEY Poem Source First Line: His tummy a Last Line: Stilling the %living waters Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WAITING, by DONALD W. WOODS Poem Source First Line: My feet mark the passage of time Last Line: Learn against the buzzer %and wait for the time to come Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WAITING TO DIE, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Takes longer now: whole pharmacies of pain Last Line: All your waiting done. So go in bloom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WALK ON THE WATER, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Chafed ocean, a chadored moon Last Line: Song without skin to hold. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Healing; Mythology - Classical; Peace; Sea; Sickness; Women's Rights; Cures; Ocean; Illness; Feminism WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water is moving again in the lakes of central america Subject(s): Allergies; Disease; Earth; Nature; Pollution; Sickness; Water; World; Illness WASTE NOT, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're using every bit of your death Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness WASTE NOT, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're using every bit of your death Last Line: I'm wading in the swift river, balancing on stones Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WATCHING DESTRY RIDES AGAIN, by JEROD SANTEK Poem Source First Line: Yesterday you got the call %that charlie died in new york Last Line: I remember you waking, %how I claimed you as my own Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WATCHING THE SOLAR ECLIPSE WITH AIDS PATIENTS, by MARY JANE NEALON Poem Source First Line: To save our retinas, we slip your x-rays Last Line: Across his knees, tulips for all of us in his arms Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WE ARE STRONG, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Was this a test? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Grief; Loss; Sickness WE ARE THE BLIGHTED, by CHANDLER SHAW Poem Text First Line: We are the blighted, the sick, the tortured of body and soul Last Line: Living spirit of god. Subject(s): Death; Disease; Healing; Dead, The; Cures WEDNESDAY I.D. CLINIC, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your words are ones the patients said themselves Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness WEDNESDAY I.D. CLINIC, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your words are ones the patients said themselves Last Line: Later. You could keep it to yourself. You won't Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WEDNESDAY MORNING, by MELVIN DIXON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Morning blood on my pillow Last Line: Upstairs inside me is dying %not the first death Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WEIGHT, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Outside the hospital one afternoon Last Line: Would simply crush him as it rolled back down Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WHAT HELL IS; MARCH 1985, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your father sits inside Last Line: In hell, which has / an easy chair Subject(s): Aids (disease); Hell; Sickness; Illness WHAT HELL IS; MARCH 1985, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your father sits inside Last Line: In hell, which has %an easy chair Subject(s): Aids (disease); Hell; Sickness WHAT STOPS ME SOMETIMES DOCTOR, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source Last Line: I'm nothing but %junk Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness WHAT THE INTERN SAW, by PHILLIS LEVIN Poem Source First Line: He saw a face swollen beyond ugliness Last Line: It isn't far. %people live there Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WHAT THE LIVING DO, by MARIE HOWE Poem Source First Line: Johnny, the kitchen sink has been clogged for days, some utensil probably... Last Line: I am living. I remember you Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WHEN THE DUST SETTLED THE DOW ...', by CHUCK WACHTEL Poem Source First Line: One clear source of distress Last Line: Funds for aids research.' Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Stock Exchange WHERE YOUTH GROWS PALE, AND SPECTRE-THIN, AND DIES, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: In the photograph %the dying man begins Last Line: And bone, the fact %of the light, the myths Variant Title(s): Where Youth Grows Pale And Spectre-thin, And Die Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness WHITE BALLOON, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: The air is gravid with life Last Line: Grieving in each other's arms, %the ease with which we love Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WHOLE LIVES MISSING, by MICHAEL KLEIN Poem Source First Line: The strongest august sun Last Line: From sun to blood. To sun Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WILLI, HOME; IN MEMORY, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, just before sleep, this: a bright Last Line: Brave. Tall. Home. Deep. Blue Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness WILLI, HOME; IN MEMORY, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, just before sleep, this: a bright Last Line: Brave. Tall. Home. Deep. Blue Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WILLIAM'S TALE: THE KING OF AIDS, by MAGGIE VALENTINE Poem Source First Line: When they start the morphine drip, jon drifts Last Line: Like a divine right Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness WOKIKSUYE, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: Like a horse's tail Last Line: I knew him well Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Memory X, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The boatpond, broken off, looks back at the sky Subject(s): Aids (disease) X-RAY, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: Strangely my mother's sad eyes Subject(s): Disease; X-rays X: FOR PATRICK HENISSE, DEAD OF AIDS, IN MEMORY (1), by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boatpond, broken off, looks back at the sky Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness X: FOR PATRICK HENISSE, DEAD OF AIDS, IN MEMORY (1), by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boatpond, broken off, looks back at the sky Last Line: On your bedspread at the edge of the ocean Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness X: FOR PATRICK HENISSE, DEAD OF AIDS, IN MEMORY (2), by JEAN VALENTINE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earthblue eye of the boatpond smiled at the sky Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness X: FOR PATRICK HENISSE, DEAD OF AIDS, IN MEMORY (2), by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earthblue eye of the boatpond smiled at the sky Last Line: On your bedspread at the edge of the ocean Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness YEAR OF THE RAT, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: For days sirens hurl winding shrieks Last Line: They dance the dance they dance Subject(s): Disease; Fever; Hospitals; Native Americans - Reservations; Plague; Public Health; Rats YOU AND I, HOWEVER, by MARIA MCLEOD Poem Source First Line: Last night you whispered, I have cancer Last Line: Of an ancient indian tribe whose name %died with them Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Relationships YOUR BATH, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: I open the door and see you Last Line: In my faithless arms Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness YOUR BLACK SKIN MY WHITENESS, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: As if each of us held purity in an open palm Last Line: Snow revealed along the edge %of our fingertips and vanishing Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness YOUR FEET, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: When we climbed the black stone Last Line: Settled in for the duration Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Love; Sickness YOUR LIFE, by RON SCHREIBER First Line: Right now it's all I care about Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness YOUR LIFE, by RON SCHREIBER Poem Source First Line: Right now it's all I care about Last Line: Health or at least its shimmering %surface. Right now Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness YOUR SIGHTLESS DAYS, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I remember clearly deciding not to see Last Line: The summer rog see how you saw us through Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness |
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