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Subject: STEPFATHERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BIDDING FAREWELL TO MY STEPSON, by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your monastic days %at kage-an are over
Last Line: It will not last forever
Subject(s): Orphans; Stepfathers


FOOTAGE, by ELAINE ZIMMERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the mother remarried in hevitz, she took her husband to meet his stepson
Last Line: The heart pounding in another landscape, under wildflowers under bones
Subject(s): Memory; Stepfathers


HANNELE, by GERHART HAUPTMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Abide with us in mercy
Last Line: Eia popeia, to heaven above.
Subject(s): Child Psychology; Dreams; Poorhouses; Stepfathers; Nightmares; Workhouses


STEP-FATHER, by KURT J. FICKERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A hyphenated relative who stands
Subject(s): Stepfathers


STEPFATHER, by STEVEN CEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know if I ask how work is going
Subject(s): Stepfathers


STEPFATHER, by KELLY MOON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember the time
Last Line: Into the corner of my eye
Subject(s): Stepfathers


STEPFATHER, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This poem dates from a period in my
Last Line: One of the people you like
Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Stepfathers


STEPFATHER: A GIRL'S SONG, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again heavy rain drives him home
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr.
Subject(s): Family Life; Stepfathers


STEPFATHERS, by DAVID DONNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: There you were in my dream last night
Last Line: Blood all over the tiles, clutching at nothing
Subject(s): Stepfathers


SWEET, by LISA GLATT    Poem Source                    
First Line: On sundays my step-father made his baked spaghetti. It
Last Line: I lived there too, that I understood the sweetness she %needed was necessary
Subject(s): Mothers; Stepfathers


WEDNESDAY'S CHILD, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bill is visiting on spring break. As we talk on the drive home form the
Last Line: Get home in time to watch ourselves on the six o'clock news
Subject(s): Abandonment; Adoption; Boys; Child Custody; Children - Illegitimate; Orphans; Stepfathers; Stepmothers