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Subject: SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA Matches Found: 45 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER READING SABINES, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At fifty, the excitement recedes Last Line: And we're gone Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California BEACH BALL, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My body lived briefly in the pupils of a dog Last Line: His pointy ears falling down in sadness Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California BERKELEY DOGS, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dogs look human in their volvos Last Line: In their mouths, sniffing for the future [or, sniffing for the future of cut grass on a warm summer Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California CODE OF WHITE BREAD, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My stepfather said, it's dog-eat-dog Last Line: It was dog-eat-dog Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California CRIMES OF THE DAY CLARIFIED, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The severed forearm stands like a sapling in the river's mud Last Line: The eggs they break drool blood in a batter of lopsided cakes Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California DIRT, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The philosopher says, the soil is man's intelligence Last Line: Lifted and falling from my hoe Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California DOCENT AT THE CITY MORGUE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is mr. Powell, his mustache twitching Last Line: Later, the bravest mourners will kiss them closed Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: DAYBREAK, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In this moment when the light starts up Last Line: And nothing will heal %under the rain's broken fingers Subject(s): Dawn; Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FIELD, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind sprays pale dirt into my mouth Last Line: A soil that sprouts nothing %for any of us Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Farm Life; Minorities - United States; San Joaquin Valley, California; U.s. - Race Relations ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FOG, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you go to your window Last Line: There should be no reason to believe %I lived Subject(s): Farm Life; Fog; San Joaquin Valley, California ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: RAIN, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When autumn rains flatten sycamore leaves Last Line: The skin of my belly will tighten like a belt %and there will be no reason for pockets Subject(s): Farm Life; Rain; San Joaquin Valley, California ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: STARS, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At dusk the first stars appear Last Line: And an orange moon rises %to lead them, like a shepherd, toward dawn Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Stars ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: SUN, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In june the sun is a bonnet of light Last Line: In a most of blond locusts, %returning to the valley Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Sun ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dry wind over the valley Last Line: And I take on another life Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND (2), by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you got up this morning the sun Last Line: Was moving under your skin and already far %from the small hives of your lungs Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind EVENING ON THE LAWN, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sat on the lawn watching the half-hearted moon rise Last Line: And strike our childhood houses %with lightning Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California FLUFFY'S POOLSIDE CRIME, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Marvin, penny-pincher, seller of red velour to mexicans Last Line: Turds floated on water, even in a rich man's pool Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California GIL MENDEZ AND THE METAPHYSICS OF A BLIMP, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why would anyone-lost child, thief Last Line: Of autumn leaves fluttering back into the trees Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California GOOD BUY IN BEVERLY HILLS, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My realtor friend says, the house is haunted Last Line: Everything except talent and a place inside them for a soul Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California HUNGER FOR ART, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I died, my work went into my mother's attic Last Line: He swallowed that button: art is the last thing %left to eat Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California JUNIOR HIGH REUNION, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The best-looking women married five times Last Line: My poor tongue swollen from the salt of her working years Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California LOST LOVE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The girl we all loved married a meat packer in hayward Last Line: The husband of the girl we all loved couldn't pick up the check Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California MINIMUM WAGE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one called but a cat Last Line: With the eraser of a chewed pencil [or, I never got a single step closer] Subject(s): Animals; Cats; San Joaquin Valley, California; Unemployment MORTGAGE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man lay with a plum in his throat. His left hand Last Line: With a pen in one hand, a thirty-year mortgage in the other Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California NO SMOKING, PLEASE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cigar smoke can't come into the famous-actor's house Last Line: The dog, and, alas, the cigar with no lips to give the plot away [or, with no lips to keep it alive] Subject(s): Motion Pictures; San Joaquin Valley, California; Smoking OLD MAN'S BELIEF, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The skateboarder with blackheads ran into a wall Last Line: That explode, like faith, before they reach untouchable heaven Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California ONE DAY IN MAY, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With one window of the labor bus gone Last Line: To the lovely morsels of high tea Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California PALM READER'S MISTAKES, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The palm reader viewed a child's death Last Line: Before the rifles came off the wall Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California PHYSICAL FOR THE FIFTY-FIVE-AND-OVER RETIREMENT COMMUNITY, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You're in great shape, said the nurse, %and I asked, what part? Last Line: Of an old man with shrubbery hanging his nose Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California PITCHING CHARITY TO THE FORTUNE 500, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That don't sell! The gray wig yelled Last Line: By its leafy ears Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California RAISIN FACTORY, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of nightfall was the chain Last Line: Lucky little bastards going somewhere sweet Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California SAN JOAQUIN, by WILLIAM EVERSON Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Antoninus, Brother Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California SKETCH FOR A LAW ENFORCEMENT MINISERIES, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The police found an arm and foot in a zipped-up gym bag Last Line: Falling and the bodies long gone Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California SOMETIMES IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO GET BURIED, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only an hour ago fog washed over a dusty lincoln Last Line: As he slumped over from the trembling %of idling bulldozers Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California STOCK MARKET, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I bet my wad on rubber bands Last Line: I was the dying territory a bird's begging eye [or, I was the shiny territory in the eye of a thing Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California STRAY DOG'S LESSON, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pile of autumn leaves smoked but didn't catch fire Last Line: Someone flatfooted, someone between earth and sky Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California STREET SCENE ON THE FULTON MALL, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cabdriver watched me from across the street Last Line: Of the american buffalo [or, between buildings, the best years long gone] Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California STUBBORN THURSDAY, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While the moon stirred the trees, not a single leaf let go Last Line: Of years lowering the sacks under our desperate eyes Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FIELD, by GARY SOTO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The wind sprays pale dirt into my mouth Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Farm Life; Minorities - United States; San Joaquin Valley, California; United States - Race Relations; Agriculture; Farmers THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: SUN, by GARY SOTO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In june the sun is a bonnet of light Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Sun; Agriculture; Farmers THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND, by GARY SOTO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A dry wind over the valley Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind; Agriculture; Farmers THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND (2), by GARY SOTO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you got up this morning the sun Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind WANTING TO GO BACK HOME, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The parakeet meets me at the back door Last Line: Wet from years of rain Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California WHEN I WAS NINE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No river flowed through the city. Our school was scarred Last Line: Where no river flowed from there to the sky Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California WITH NATURE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The goats chewed in sunlight Last Line: And its juices long gone Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California |
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