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Subject: LIFEGUARDS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AUGUST MORNING, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun beats the water to hammered aluminum
Last Line: Of ancient urns come to us dancing, hand the invisible line along
Subject(s): Drowning; Lifeguards; Saint Kilda (scotland); Survival


EXCAVATION, by C. KUBASTA    Poem Source                    
First Line: At church camp, the summer before high school, the lifeguard
Last Line: His hands on my back again
Subject(s): Lifeguards


JUNIOR LIFESAVING, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Class, I say, this is %the front head release
Last Line: I tell you what I know: %go down to save
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Learning; Lifeguards; Survival; Swimming; Teaching And Teachers; Water


JUNIOR LIFESAVING, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was a high school math teacher, during the winter
Last Line: Geometry and algebra, 4th period, he was mr. Bliss
Subject(s): Adolescence; Lifeguards


LIFE'S WORK, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mouth chewed but I was doing laps
Last Line: King of the eels and the eel's wife
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Diving And Divers; Labor And Laborers; Lifeguards; Swimming


LIFEGUARD, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a stable of boats I lie still
Last Line: And hold in my arms a child %of water, water, water
Subject(s): Lifeguards; Sports


LIFEGUARD: 1, by JACK DRISCOLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: She knows men like drowning
Last Line: Is reaching down to kiss them %with her last held breath
Subject(s): Lifeguards


LIFEGUARD: 2, by JACK DRISCOLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Underwater, she remembers her father
Last Line: As she waded the deserted aisles, his eye bloodshot, %his white shirt soaked in the late afternoon
Subject(s): Lifeguards


LIFEGUARD: 3, by JACK DRISCOLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even in winter %they listen for the silver whistle
Last Line: When she wakes %tasting the last scream %of every man she has ever saved
Subject(s): Lifeguards


LIFEJACKETS, by PAMELA GEMIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tied into their chilly embrace
Last Line: Those jackets %that never dried through
Subject(s): Drowning; Lakes; Lifeguards; Water


THE CASE OF EDGAR ABBOTT AND PHILIP RIDD, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was edgar alvin abbott, who had
Last Line: "leaping bravely to her rescue, cried: ""I'ii save you!"" and he did."
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Lifeguards; Seashore; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore; Swimmers


THE LIFEGUARD, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a stable of boats I lie still
Subject(s): Lifeguards; Sports


THEM, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: That summer they had cars, soft roofs crumpling
Last Line: Have it, we could reach right down into their %bodies and steal it back
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Lifeguards; Sex; Teenagers; Virginity; Women