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Subject: SKIN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BATH, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother might have drowned me
Last Line: A moon shines in every window, wanting. %each night I hold a different woman in my arms
Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Skin


BENHAM'S DISK: 3. CHROMATOPHORE, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beside an abandoned mine
Last Line: Salt, tenderness, heat, and insubstantial light: %the skin's vocabulary
Subject(s): Biology And Biologists; Identity; Skin


BOIL, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the night the white skin
Last Line: Undoubted through the infection
Subject(s): Boils (skin Swellings)


BOIL, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the night the white skin
Last Line: Undoubted though the infection
Subject(s): Boils (skin Swellings)


BOOKBINDER, MARY L. REYNOLDS, 1891-1950: ONION SKIN & SPINE, by GLORI SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She maps his death in the unhinged streets
Last Line: The meeting %of two hands. Skin
Subject(s): Hands; Skin


DANCE OF THE SKIN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over your flesh the skin dances
Last Line: And fell it move. Just lie still
Subject(s): Love; Skin


ECZEMA, by MARYANN FRANTA    Poem Source                    
First Line: That miserable itch of the skin
Last Line: That needs to be touched
Subject(s): Eczema; Self; Skin


FOUR VIEWS OF FEVER: IV., by KAREN D. SKOLFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: She discovered the thinness of skin
Last Line: There was no coming back
Subject(s): Sickness; Skin


LIFE IN THE TWISTS, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bare freckled skin under black cloak
Last Line: "or vice versa..."
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Skin; Male-female Relations


MOLES, by IBN HAIYUN    Poem Text                    
First Line: My white, my shining girl
Last Line: My cheeks with ink was sprinkling!'
Subject(s): Mole (skin Growth)


NOISE FROM THE SEA, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her skin was the shore
Last Line: Father than she could hold
Subject(s): Sea; Skin; Women


PAGE 34, by HARRYETTE MULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: If your complexion is a mess
Subject(s): African Americans; Skin Color; Negroes; American Blacks


POEM WITH SKIN, by OCTAVIO ARMAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Share fear. Repeat with one lip what
Last Line: Open it, touch, and the world will be yours %or you
Subject(s): Bodies; Poetry And Poets; Skin


SCAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We will learn %to live together
Last Line: And I will not fall off
Subject(s): Scars; Skin; Surgery


SKIN, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Obedient daily dress
Last Line: Till the fashion changes
Subject(s): Skin; Clothing & Dress


SKIN, by ANN SPIERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through a plastic tube
Last Line: Only then are we sorry we came
Subject(s): Animals; Growth; Skin; Snakes


SKIN DIVING, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snorkel is the easiest woodwind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Skin Diving


SKIN DIVING IN THE VIRGINS, by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alfonso was his name; his sad cantina
Last Line: Another floating off, his big pouch full
Subject(s): Skin Diving


SKIN HUNGER, by NATALIE KENVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You hold me like you'd clutch
Last Line: We lie in the simmering confusion %of wasps
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Skin


SUNBURN, by LIZ ROSENBERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A friend compares it to a sunburn
Last Line: Please -- don't %dare touch me again
Subject(s): Skin; Sunbathing


THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 3. ON WASHING, by JOHN ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Against the rigours of a damp cold heaven
Last Line: To lose a husband's than a lover's heart.
Subject(s): Blood; Bodies; Health; Love; Skin


THE BATH, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother might have drowned me
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Skin; Showers & Showering


THE BOOK OF SCAPEGOATS, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Click the grief castanets.
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Social Commentaries; Skin Condition; Grandparents; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE LAWNE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wo'd I see lawn, clear as the heaven, and thin?
Last Line: The blush of cherries, when a lawn's cast over.
Subject(s): Skin


THE PROGRESS OF THE SOUL, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where once I loved my flesh
Last Line: I find it was always here
Subject(s): Skeletons; Skin; Soul


TWO COUNTRIES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Skin remembers how long the years grow
Subject(s): Gratitude; Skin


UPON A MOLE IN CELIA'S BOSOM, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That lovely spot which thou dost see
Last Line: Of the bee's honey and her sting.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Mole (skin Growth); Beekeeping; Bugs


UPON THE THEME OF LOVE: THE BODY, A FANCY, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The nerves are france, and italy, and spain
Last Line: Where life, which passes through, great danger finds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret
Subject(s): Bodies; Heads; Humanity; Life; Skin