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Subject: MONTANA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CAPRICE, by IDA STERNFELS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My lady fleecer
Last Line: "and hold high carnival."
Subject(s): Montana; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


DEATH OF A WOBBLY IN MONTANA, 1917, by NAOMI WALLACE    Poem Source                    
First Line: He hears the crows surge outside the small jail
Last Line: Me, forgive me and the young man says no
Subject(s): Death; Montana; Prisons And Prisoners


DEGREES OF GRAY IN PHILIPSBURG, by RICHARD HUGO    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You might come here sunday on a whim
Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Montana; Work; Workers


DEGREES OF GRAY IN PHILIPSBURG, by RICHARD HUGO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You might come here sunday on a whim
Last Line: Is slender and her red hair lights the wall
Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers; Montana


DRIVING MONTANA, by KRIS ARO MCLEOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Roll on highway, I'm goin' somewhere
Last Line: My shirt sleeves flap. %freedom spins
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Montana


ELEGY FOR A TRAPPER, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eighteen below in plains, montana
Last Line: Frozen upright on a stump.
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Montana; Mourning; Trapping & Trappers; Bereavement; Traps; Snares; Trappers


EXALTATION, by HILDA WHILT ARCHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I climbed the glad hills near our friendly old town
Last Line: That I found 'mongst the silent ones, over the hill.
Subject(s): Montana; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HARD EASTER, NORTHWEST MONTANA, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shadows from the spruce woods slouch down the hill
Last Line: Open underground.
Subject(s): Death; Montana; Mountains; Ranch Life; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HOMEBUYER, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was so glad to be living in my own house again
Last Line: And knows the value of a dependable truck.
Subject(s): Country Life; Home; Montana


HOT AFTERNOONS HAVE BEEN IN MONTANA, by ELI SIEGEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Quiet and green was the grass of the field
Last Line: Giving world.
Subject(s): Montana; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


HURRAH FOR THE STOCK, by PAUL ZARZYSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: In roundup, montana %toothless rodeo cowboys with bowed legs
Last Line: Is it any wonder %cattle boo the national anthem?
Subject(s): Montana; Rodeos


JULY IN MONTANA, by LILLA BOGERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Green sanctuaries in the hills
Last Line: Gay coronets for all!
Subject(s): Montana; Summer


LADY IN KICKING HORSE RESERVOIR, by RICHARD HUGO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not my hands but green across you now
Last Line: And their tongues are teasing oil from whales
Subject(s): Drowning; Montana; Native Americans - Reservations


LAST NICKEL RANCH: PLAINS, MONTANA, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the living room of the trailer, the father of the woman
Last Line: Into the pines.
Subject(s): Montana; Prayer; Ranch Life


LAST SUPPER IN MONTANA, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father-in-law begins the feast
Last Line: Kept flying through the leaves.
Subject(s): Divorce; Fathers-in-law; Food & Eating; Montana; Prayer


MISSOULA IN A DUSTY LIGHT, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking home through the tall
Last Line: Along the street.
Subject(s): Montana


MONTANA ECLOGUE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the fall drive, the last
Last Line: One flake at a time teaches %grace, even to stone
Subject(s): Montana


ON THE TIP OF THE TONGUE', by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the tip of the tongue
Last Line: Territories of our skin
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Montana; Rivers; Travel


PAPER ROUTE, NORTHWEST MONTANA, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Halfway home to the warm trailer, I stopped on a ledge
Last Line: A stunned, white wolf.
Subject(s): Montana; Solitude; Wolves; Loneliness


REVIVAL OF PATSY MONTANA, by STEPHEN ROBERT GIBSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's like things I remember seeing in seattle the lights
Last Line: Then they'll begin to play
Subject(s): Memory; Montana


RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most people from idaho are crazed rednecks
Last Line: Lives to curse your blessed plaster bleeding heart.
Subject(s): Christianity; Discontent; Idaho; Insanity; Montana; Washington (state); West (u.s.); Women; Women's Rights; Dissatisfaction; Madness; Mental Illness; Southwest; Pacific States; Feminism


THE LADY IN KICKING HORSE RESERVOIR, by RICHARD HUGO    Poem Full Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not my hands but green across you now
Subject(s): Drowning; Montana; Native Americans - Reservations


THE PENTECOSTAL, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A few miles north of thompson falls
Last Line: Their twelve-year-old witness, their runaway daughter.
Subject(s): Family Life; Hallucinations & Illusions; Montana; Relatives


UP FROM THE WRECK CONJURING MONTANA SONNET, by STEPHEN DAVENPORT    Poem Source                    
First Line: No more diving into the wreck. From this point on
Last Line: The open fields in us that resist narrative
Subject(s): Montana