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Subject: MOOSE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the fine cataracts of falling mountain water
Last Line: While dressed in ice skates and the long green gown.
Subject(s): Heaven; Loss; Moose; Skeletons; Paradise


A TRUE STORY OF GOD, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Henry thoreau is lost in the maine woods
Last Line: Snapping from the flames like gunfire.
Subject(s): Cruelty; Forests; Maine (state); Moose; Nature; Order; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Woods


AFTER THE FALL, by BRUCE WOODS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A coolin moose is more than dead
Subject(s): Hunting; Moose; Hunters


JOHNNIE'S FIRST MOOSE, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: De cloud is hide de moon, but dere's plaintee light above
Last Line: An' steady, johnnie, steady -- kip your head down low.
Subject(s): Hunting; Moose; Hunters


MAN AN' MOOSE, by ROBERT ADAMSON (1832-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wee moosie, I ha'e catch't ye noo
Last Line: It's best to mak' the best o't.
Subject(s): Moose


MOOSE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From narrow provinces %of fish and bread and tea
Last Line: Then there's a dim %smell of moose, an acrid %smell of gasoline
Subject(s): Moose


MOOSE IS AN ACQUIRED TASTE, by DOROTHY BRUMMEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've never seen %two moose convene
Last Line: The question is, %why would they want to?
Subject(s): Moose; Survival


THE AFTERLIFE OF MOOSE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the moose is obsessed, relentlessly
Last Line: As for the afterlife, I’ll take his chances
Subject(s): Moose


THE MOOSE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From narrow provinces / of fish and bread and tea
Subject(s): Moose


THE MOOSE, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The arctic moose drinks at the tundra's edge
Subject(s): Moose; Arctic


TWO MOOSE, by JOHN KOOISTRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wake up late, eleven, already light
Last Line: Across the hillside %and into the next day
Subject(s): Hunting; Moose; Morning