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Subject: KEY WEST, FLORIDA Matches Found: 53 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ASHE STREET, MARCH, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Sudden rain shone the dark yard Last Line: Not because of what we do, so much, %as what we are Subject(s): Key West, Florida ASHE STREET, NOVEMBER, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Alone here, a first saturday Last Line: And the way we begin again Subject(s): Key West, Florida AT BARRACUDA KEYS, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Another morning flaps %its blue awning Last Line: Into the hot dish of the wave Subject(s): Key West, Florida AUDIT AT KEY WEST, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You could put silver dollars on my eyes Last Line: Thumbing my clogged skull at the sons of bitches Subject(s): Key West, Florida AUDIT AT KEY WEST, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You could put silver dollars on my eyes Last Line: A bomb of lit fuses sputtering day Subject(s): Key West, Florida AUGUST, KEY WEST AT THE TIME OF THE CUBAN LANDINGS, 1994, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: The boats pass through our dreams Last Line: The passageways are open. %see it, do not refuse Subject(s): Key West, Florida BIRTH, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: It wasn't fun, I heard Last Line: Beneath the osprey's cry %is your own? Subject(s): Key West, Florida CAPE SABLE, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: The last place in florida Last Line: Frail kept secret, %south-point, finality Subject(s): Key West, Florida CLOSERIE DES LILAS, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Young waiters stand six deep Last Line: Success with honor, what the old guy %wanted, sure enough Subject(s): Key West, Florida COBBLE ISLAND, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Minimal, sea rinsed Last Line: In anklets of warm gold Subject(s): Key West, Florida DIFFERENCE, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: She wants: skin, the taste of it Last Line: She wants the gift of tongues Subject(s): Key West, Florida DREAM OF THE FATHERS ON YELLOW PAPER, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Last night we spoke of out fathers Last Line: That loose us now %and let us live Subject(s): Key West, Florida EVERGLADES NIGHT, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Castor, pollux, mars - %a straight fall into black water Last Line: Moths at the pane want entry Subject(s): Key West, Florida EVERYTHING IN THIS AREA IS SUBJECT TO CONSTANT CHANGE., by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Cities grow at the sea's edge like milk teeth Last Line: Everything in this area is subject to constant change Subject(s): Key West, Florida EXISTENTIALIST TENNIS, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Sartre to serve, %on the other court, camus Last Line: Two rackets and a net (which may be %transcended). Concentrate. %prepare to sweat Subject(s): Key West, Florida FISHING, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: When the killing's like this Last Line: This hand of mine can kill Subject(s): Key West, Florida FOR MY DAUGHTER. KEY WEST CEMETERY, EASTER, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: It's a good place to be at easter Last Line: I pray, the joy of knowing %such a day Subject(s): Key West, Florida FOR MY MOTHER, WHEN SICK, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: The house is so quiet Last Line: We speak of it: that huge event %uniting, dividing, ours Subject(s): Key West, Florida GOLDEN LIGHT, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: If you want your house to rise Last Line: Come up on the other side %of the world's face Subject(s): Key West, Florida HANDS, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: You know that men find women's callused hands Last Line: Diagonally spliced. It's easy. %look, no hands Subject(s): Key West, Florida HEMINGWAY HOUSE IN KEY WEST, by PHILIP SCHULTZ Poem Source First Line: My father left me a book of hemingway's stories Subject(s): Key West, Florida IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sang beyond the genius of the sea Last Line: In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds Subject(s): Key West, Florida; Order; Perception; Sea; Singing And Singers IN THE EGYPTIAN ROOMS, THE LOUVRE, PARIS: 1. THE TREASURER'S LAST JOUR, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Those lips. The basalt smile Last Line: On a rampage %in teenage mockery? Subject(s): Key West, Florida IN THE EGYPTIAN ROOMS, THE LOUVRE, PARIS: 2. THE GIFT OF THE EGYPTIAN, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Stay with me %and everything you see Last Line: The bird is mine! Subject(s): Key West, Florida IN THE VAN GOGH ROOM. HAY, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: You can see where she lies against him Last Line: In his exhaustion %or when a shadow falls Subject(s): Key West, Florida INTELLIGENCE, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Your red kite flies out Last Line: As it sends us bobbing towards the sun Subject(s): Key West, Florida KEY WEST, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here has my salient faith annealed me Last Line: Where gold has not been sold and conscience tinned Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Key West, Florida KEY WEST, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I feel sad, I thank god I don't have tiny lizards crawling under my Last Line: The shivering of this airplane's unpredictable wing Subject(s): Air Travel; Key West, Florida KEY WEST BEACH SCENE, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: I like rain, she says Last Line: A vowel, gull-shadow, america Subject(s): Key West, Florida KEY WEST: LOOKING FOR HEMINGWAY, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: On mallory docks Last Line: In a voice you cannot hear %into that terrible %that clear emptiness %where you were Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961); Key West, Florida MANDOLIN, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Morning rain %slows from its onslaught Last Line: In sudden rainstorms wasn't so empty Subject(s): Key West, Florida MANGO DAYS, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: My friend says they raped her mango tree Last Line: The god-forbidden necessary %flavour of what is Subject(s): Key West, Florida MEMORIAL DAY, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Flags on the street, of course Last Line: Not my country, %not my flag Subject(s): Key West, Florida NO NAME, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: My skin's dry %white dust Last Line: I am suddenly %the current - %wet, slick, fast Subject(s): Key West, Florida NORTHWARD, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the high unclouded sun Last Line: In dalliance deck the bridal bower. Subject(s): American Civil War; Key West, Florida; United States - History OF GONERS AT KEY WEST, by FRANK RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Brown and lazy blondes Subject(s): Blondes; Key West, Florida PINK HIBISCUS, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: If I am then invited to the republic of conscience Last Line: And giving it its name. Hibiscus Subject(s): Key West, Florida SATELLITE PHONE TO BOAT 38, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: A dark star %turns half its face to light Last Line: On the vast atlantic %I take you in Subject(s): Key West, Florida SEA RACE, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: A sail beats up the wind Last Line: For this one, thanks be Subject(s): Key West, Florida SMILE, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: I know what she's smiling about Last Line: Watch me, don't move Subject(s): Key West, Florida SPEAKING SO LOUDLY, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: We came home last night Last Line: And a small rattle upon the street Subject(s): Key West, Florida STORM, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Something's coming. Whoo-whoo, whoo-whoo Last Line: And the clean rain entering the cracks Subject(s): Key West, Florida SWANAGE BEACH, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Hot cod flakes fingered from Last Line: I tell her, honey, just a view Subject(s): Key West, Florida SWEEPNG AND SALVAGE, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: I know it now Last Line: And the reachable stars Subject(s): Key West, Florida TEN THOUSAND ISLANDS, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Coon key, gullivan bay, gullivan key Last Line: Moon-shadows fall at our feet %like dropped clothes Subject(s): Key West, Florida THANKSGIVING, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Head for the moon, the captain said Last Line: On the beautiful routes of the west, thanksgiving Subject(s): Key West, Florida THE IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She sang beyond the genius of the sea Last Line: In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds Subject(s): Key West, Florida; Order; Perception; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean; Songs TUESDAY AT THE BATHS, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: The torn sheet smells of singeing Last Line: At the blue ceiling, blue wall Subject(s): Key West, Florida UNDISCOVERY OF AMERICA, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: On the sand a squinting little man Last Line: Song he finds the music of his veins Subject(s): Cuba; Key West, Florida; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration VALENTINE, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Full moon. I'm sick Last Line: They tell me. Bread, not a stone Subject(s): Key West, Florida WINDOW AT KEY WEST, by HONOR MOORE Poem Source First Line: Waking in silence and, through tilted blinds Last Line: Brilliant now, they seem to tremble and ring out Subject(s): Key West, Florida; Morning WRITER'S HOUSE, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: A winter resident, %moneyed snowbird Last Line: The writer, the real one Subject(s): Key West, Florida YEAR'S END NAVIGATIONS, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Just off the marquesas, after dawn Last Line: Still out of sight of land Subject(s): Key West, Florida |
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