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Subject: SINGLE PARENTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTERNOON BLUES AND AN ACCIDENTAL LIFE, by JAMES CERVANTES    Poem Source                    
First Line: An accidental life came through the window
Last Line: That forgot where they'd been walking
Subject(s): Escapes; Music And Musicians; Single Parents


BITS OF INFORMATION, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While her minuscule fledglings, each slightly
Last Line: Will cross the gulf of mexico, living on stored up fat.
Subject(s): Single Parents; Parents Without Partners


LIGHT THAT CAME TO LUCILLE CLIFTON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: You might as well answer the door, my child, %the truth is furiously knocking.'
Subject(s): Abandonment; Reality; Single Parents


ORIGINS: MY LIFE IN MOVING PICTURES, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I'm a leaf I'm a leaf if you're a
Last Line: Of the birds?
Subject(s): Life; Single Parents; Parents Without Partners


PORTRAIT OF THE FAMILY WITHOUT A FATHER, by KEN VICTOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: In memory of leah shapiro
Last Line: Let the women practice constancy. We're always visitors
Subject(s): Memory; Portraits; Single Parents


RED AZALEAS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A wife I have never held in my arms
Last Line: And know why I am happy.
Subject(s): Azaleas; Flowers; Single Parents; Widows & Widowers; Parents Without Partners


SOMEWHERE, by ES'KIA MPHAHLELE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somewhere a mother sobs
Last Line: Somewhere a mother will rejoice
Subject(s): Human Rights; Oppression; Single Parents


WHAT MAKES ME INVISIBLE, by JENNIFER M. PIERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sit on the hard chair at the mayflower coffee shop, my feet dangling
Last Line: A madame alexandre doll,' my fifth
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Mothers And Daughters; Single Parents; Toys