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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TRADE Matches Found: 271 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` *:48, by IRIS N. SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: It was 9:08 when a coworker told me Last Line: The time: it was 8:48? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 10:45 A.M. SEPT. 11/WTC, by MARK KUHAR Poem Source First Line: Whywhy why...Whywhywhy Last Line: Whywhywhy...Whywhywhy..Whywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhy? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 12-SEP, by CORY ELLEN NADEL Poem Source First Line: We had this language down there Last Line: From the night sky, lethal %as stars Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 21ST CENTURY, by J. Y. HO Poem Source First Line: Sweltering sadness in this woeful world Last Line: Teamwork, so my shit might stop getting jacked Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 9.12.01 TWIN TOWERS, by LAURIE MCKENNA Poem Source First Line: Formal announcements %instructed people to stay put Last Line: Their %pocketbooks Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 911 WAKEUP CALL, by R. D. ARMSTRONG Poem Source First Line: The special effects merchants have been humbled Last Line: The chickens have come home to roost, baby Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) A BUSH PROBLEM, by J. A. MUIRHEAD Poem Text First Line: The price I paid for darkey? Well, I'm blowed if I can tell Last Line: An' let me know exactly what he cost. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Trade A FIG FOR TRADE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A fig for trade!' the maiden said Last Line: A fig, for trade! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Merchants; Trade A PURCHASE, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was bent and feeble Last Line: I bought a smile for dry discouraged lips. Subject(s): Kindness; Old Age; Retail Trade; Women; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers A STROKE OF SKY, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Innocence; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 A VERMONT COUNTRY STORE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our village store will always be Last Line: Made thirteen thousand 'round that store. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Country Life; Merchants; Mountain Life - Vermont; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers AFTER, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When the towers fell %a conundrum Last Line: A last day; babylon %remembered Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) AFTER THE TERROR, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: Everything has changed, though nothing has Last Line: The windows have been bolted just in case Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) AIR, by JOHN O'KEEFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A flaxen-headed cow-boy, as simple as may be Last Line: You'll forget the little plough-boy that whistled o'er the lea. Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, John Subject(s): Aging; Children; Labor & Laborers; Trade; Childhood; Work; Workers AMERICA ON TERRORISM, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: I was a child %when I first saw the pictures Last Line: Against all terrorism for forever Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) AN EXCELLENT NEW SONG ON A SEDITIOUS PAMPHLET, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brocado's, and damasks, and tabbies, and gauzes Last Line: In spight of his deanship and journeyman waters. Subject(s): Free Trade ANTIQUE JEWELER, by FREDERICK HENRY HERBERT ADLER Poem Text First Line: Within his shop he gathered silver, gold Last Line: I loved among them, as of old, held high. Subject(s): Antiques; Jewelry & Jewelers; Retail Trade; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers ARMENIAN PASTORAL, 1915, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If anoush were holding her child Last Line: Be cut from the same tongue Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) AS THEY PASS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Red shout, hair %flaming, the wind cannot stop drilling holes Last Line: The stunned air now %unbearable Subject(s): Death; News; Terrorism; Tragedy; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ASH TUESDAY, by EILEEN MALONE Poem Source First Line: I think I recognize you Last Line: Hey, I always meant to tell you: %I love you Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ASK ME NOW, by JOHN SINCLAIR Poem Source First Line: Standing at the finish line %of the boston marathon Last Line: When they founded this great nation Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) AT THE NORTH MALL, EARLY, by GARY N. ATLIN Poem Source First Line: Real estate developers, glad and strong in their wise suits Last Line: As they stoop to the floor to unlock %the storefront grates Subject(s): Morning; Retail Trade AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY ALTER EGO, SELS., by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before our banana-shaped chopper %landed at cam ranh bay Last Line: & somewhere else among those %lost planets & dead stars Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BACK THE NIGHT BEFORE, by SKIP ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: I yearn for the huge silver airliners to pull backwards Last Line: Home again, that the only fires are in the fireplaces and in the stars Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BALLAD OF SKANDAR, by PHILIP METRES Poem Source First Line: Unframed by any photograph, diminished by history Last Line: Where water flows from every spout- %or so the story goes Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BARTER, by EARLE V. EASTWOOD Poem Text First Line: A book you may buy for a shilling Last Line: Can only be bartered for pain. Subject(s): Love; Trade BE AFRAID, by JOHNNY GUNN Poem Source First Line: Doesn't look old enough to shave, this gun toting Last Line: Nothing to hide, I say, and he puts cuffs on me Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BEAVERS, by GERALD VIZENOR Poem Source First Line: Turn the sixth card over at dawn Last Line: Beaver near the end in the city Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Beavers; Fur Trade; Hunting; Native Americans - History BECAUSE, by DENNIS FRITZINGER Poem Source First Line: Because you can't see the bodies Last Line: And go to sleep. %because Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BELL TOLLS AGAIN, by GERALD NICOSIA Poem Source First Line: At the world trade center %the doormen working minimum wage Last Line: And who was also %blown away Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BETWEEN A CONTRACTOR AND HIS WIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a good day's work, two contracts made" Last Line: "I'll think of what must soon approach, / and fit myself to fit a coach" Subject(s): Labor & Laborers;marriage;trade; Weddings;husbands;wives BLACK DAHLIA, by MICHAEL THOMAS MCCLURE Poem Source First Line: The cups we drink from are the skulls of %arabs Last Line: Rise %inside %of %us %? %(grahhr) Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BLACK HAIR, by TRACI KATO-KIRIYAMA Poem Source First Line: Black hair %long %wavy %or maybe recently Last Line: Mirror %and see %that I am there Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BLESSING FOR NEW YORK, by MARJ HAHNE Poem Source First Line: God bless this magic city Last Line: Bless this %bless them %bless us Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BLESSING OF TERROR, by THEA HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: I am trying to write a blessing for today. I did think I might die today. I Last Line: One more day. I don't know how long I have left. I am blessed Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BLUE CANTON-WARE, by SARAH A. ATHEARN Poem Text First Line: The shelves above my desk Last Line: Till canton falls! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Trade BOXCARS, NINES AND ELEVENS, by TODD EASTON MILLS Poem Source First Line: A numbered event, the numbering Last Line: Nines, elevens, and atomic boxcars Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BRITANNIA, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As on the sea-beat shore britannia sat Last Line: But the rough cadence of the dashing wave. Subject(s): Free Trade; Great Britain - Foreign Relations BURKA WOMEN, by GERALD R. WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Imprisoned behind adobe ruins Last Line: In public, walk to work %& our daughters to school' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) CAPTURE OF THE ESSEX; FREE TRADE - SAILORS' RIGHTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Some two years since, the gallant ship %'the essex' known in fame, sirs Last Line: Her crown, wealth, empire, all must waste! %and sink, in endless ruin! Subject(s): Essex (ship); Free Trade; Navy - United States; War Of 1812 CAREER CASHIER, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: I used to live next to this run-down grocery where the motto was: 'cleaner Last Line: Drawer was open, filled with mums Subject(s): Grocers; Mourning; Murder; Retail Trade CATHOLIC BISHOPS APPROVE BUSH'S WAR, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Lest I merge %with mountains that surely will fall Last Line: Not large, nor mine to choose)- %lest I Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) CAVES, WAR, AND PEOPLE, by SHEPHERD BLISS Poem Source First Line: At ease,' %the young lieutenant barks at our rifle squad Last Line: How could anyone experience desire in such a hellhole? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) CENTRAL PARK, CAROUSEL, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: June already, it's your birth month, Last Line: If I die leave the balcony open! Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Merry-go-rounds; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 CHANEL LIPSTICK, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daddy always said this many Last Line: Photo lipsticked like this Subject(s): Cosmetics; Passports; Retail Trade; Shopping; Travel; Vacation CLERK'S DREAM, by HERBERT SCOTT Poem Source First Line: I'm going to save Last Line: To give them less %fortunate Subject(s): Retail Trade COASTWISE, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ships that trade foreign, to london they Last Line: To ships trading foreign that pass on their way. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Trade COCKTAILS CELEBRATING VIETNAMIZATION, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: It's a wingdinger. We got spies Last Line: Too hard, like one of those concrete %jockeys who's lost his ride Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) COME REST WITH ME, O LORD!, by ALLEN COHEN Poem Source Last Line: Onto the verdant fields %of transcendent history Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) COUREURS DE BOIS, by DOUGLAS VALENTINE LEPAN Poem Source First Line: Thinking of you, I think of the coureurs de bois Last Line: I watch you vanish in a wood of heroes, %wild hamlet with the features of horatio Subject(s): Fur Trade CUPBOARD / SHRINE, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I have %an image of mind Last Line: Honey and vinegar %on the shelf below Subject(s): Cupboards; Retail Trade DAY AFTER THE CLEANUP ENDED, by JR. RADOMIR LUZA Poem Source First Line: The trees bent %in a sort of anguished manner Last Line: The kind ten lifetimes cannot hide Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DEAD HAVE STOPPED RUNNING, by MATTHEW MASON Poem Source First Line: They walk %through the air, now Last Line: Surprising us when they exit %on the floor where we live Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DIE TODAY?, by GAIL FORD Poem Source First Line: If I knew we would die today Last Line: The rising %falling %sea Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DIGGING POTATERS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of course, you'll pick the dustiest day Last Line: And dream of saratoga chips. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Potatoes; Trade; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers DILEMMA, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: It is once again time to think of what we wish Last Line: And let song rise often from this site Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DIMINISHING RETURNS, by CHARLOTTE MCCAFFREY Poem Source First Line: In the fall of 2001, %it seemed that sky and earth Last Line: The families %with urns %of dirt Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DIRGE, by GARY MEX GLAZNER Poem Source First Line: There is always some right wing-nut with his hand on the kill button Last Line: Madness our only %music Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DOLL SHOP ON RODEO DRIVE, by VIRGINIA WEBB JULAVITS Poem Source First Line: Dylan thomas, the bulbous Subject(s): Beverly Hills, California; Dolls; Retail Trade; Toys DOUBLE DRAM OF FALLING, by SAM HAMOD Poem Source First Line: And so we slept, %always an ocean or two Last Line: That now makes up our lives Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DREAM OF THE CITY SHOPWOMAN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twere sweet to have a comrade here Last Line: Their one life's time! Subject(s): Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers DRUG STORE, by JOHN VAN ALSTYN WEAVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon me, lady, but I wanta ast you Last Line: If I ever get it... Subject(s): Ambition; Medicine; Retail Trade; Drugs, Prescription; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers EASY SERMON, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sermons are easy Last Line: When the highest powers fall Subject(s): Sermons; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 ENTERING THE SOUTH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have put on my mother's coat Last Line: Heavy and dark and alive Subject(s): African Americans; Animal Rights; Fur Trade; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Furs; South (u.s.) ENTERING THE SOUTH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have put on my mother's coat Last Line: Heavy and dark and alive Subject(s): African Americans; Animal Rights; Fur Trade; Southern States EQUATION, by STEVE MARK KOWIT Poem Source First Line: Horrific towers of flame over manhattan like nothing Last Line: Of course, %as the mangled dead aren't our own Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ESSAY: THE HANGING PARADOGS SLIP, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an octave between us Last Line: To this you, you take it Subject(s): Cities; Essays; Retail Trade; Urban Life; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers EVEN NOW, by LEZA LOWITZ Poem Source First Line: Into my witches' brew, communal cauldron Last Line: Making of this meal a universe, %even now, %called 'home' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) EXCERPTS FROM SEPTEMBER 11,2001, by JEFF PONIEWAZ Poem Source First Line: I praise the firemen: truly as heroic as the antique gods Last Line: Shalom salaam! Salaam shalom!' %ah! Om! Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FALL, by MICHAEL CIRELLI Poem Source First Line: The flags were only able %to climb half way up their poles that day Last Line: I'd grab the oxygen mask %and inhale Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FALLEN TOWER-SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, by ALLEN COHEN Poem Source First Line: Images indelibly burned %into the silver coated mind Last Line: Between the present %and our children's future Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FATHER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You spent fifty-five years Subject(s): Fathers; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers FATHER, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You spent fifty-five years Last Line: We laughed till we cried Subject(s): Fathers; Retail Trade FOR THE NEW YEAR 1791, by HENRY JAMES PYE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from the bosom of the mine Last Line: Unbought by scenes of woe, and undefil'd with blood. Subject(s): Explorers; French Revolution (1789); Holidays; New Year; Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Seashore; Trade; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Beach; Coast; Shore FOURTH OF JULY, by STEVE DALACHINSKY Poem Source First Line: We are on a friend's balcony Last Line: In a flock %of angels' %eyes Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FRAG, THE MIDNIGHT BLOOM, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: El tee informs private buddha he will inspect Last Line: Find out which of you is the chicken? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FREE TRADE AND SAILORS' RIGHTS!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ho! All ye brave tars of columbia Last Line: Free trade is the right we content for, %this right we still will maintain Subject(s): Enterprise (ship); Free Trade; Navy - United States; Sailors And Sailing; War Of 1812 FROM THE FAIR LAVINIAN SHORE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Though you are threescore years old. Subject(s): Gold; Markets; Retail Trade; Salespersons; Supermarkets; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Selling FROM THE TOWERS, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Insanity is not a want of reason. Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 FRONT ROW SEAT IN HEAVEN, by ALLAN DAVIS WINANS Poem Source First Line: The world trade center buried %in rubble Last Line: A front row seat %in heaven Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FULL FLIGHT, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I’m in a plane that will not be flown into a building Last Line: We’ve begun our descent, and then I sense the falling Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Airplanes; Air Pilots; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 FUR KING, by SAMUEL MATHEWSON BAYLIS Poem Source First Line: My kingdom by the frozen sea Subject(s): Fur Trade; Sports; Winter GATE 6A, by JUDITH TERZI Poem Source First Line: The danse macabre begins at dawn Last Line: By electronic wands of fairy god scanners %at the threshold of paranoia Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) GRAVEYARD SHIFT, 22ND & TUCSON BOULEVARD, by PEGGY SHUMAKER Poem Source First Line: Most nights, I liked the place Last Line: Then down %and down %and down Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Retail Trade GROUND ZERO, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What's after or before Last Line: All turned to dust Subject(s): Politics & Government; War; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 GROUND ZERO, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's after or before Last Line: All the sad battles lost or won, %all turned to dust Subject(s): Politics; War; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: IN THE GIFT SHOP AT THE LUNATIC ASYLUM, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always on sale, the figurines Last Line: I dare not say what! Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Retail Trade; Tourists HELD CAPTIVE, by ALBERT JAMES YOUNG Poem Source First Line: You come in on it early 5:48 pdt when Last Line: Out from under all your arab american friends Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Al Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HELLO, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hello %I'm looking into a mirror Last Line: You alone %are god Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HER POET-BROTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! What ef little childerns all Last Line: Wuz big as parunts is! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Retail Trade; Childhood; Parenthood; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers HIGH HAUNTS, by TISH EASTMAN Poem Source First Line: There are countless tales of structurally displaced spirits Last Line: Shadow moments repeating fiercely where only falcons fly? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HISTORY OF THE AIRPLANE, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And the wright brothers said they thought they had invented Last Line: "fill the air Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 HISTORY OF THE AIRPLANE, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the wright brothers said they thought they had invented Last Line: Fill the air %everywhere Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HOLY SMOKE, by IRA COHEN Poem Source First Line: Taking tuesday back %or removing the black figure Last Line: P.S. The money goes through switzerland Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HOME, by CARLOS MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Twenty three years later and I'm walking down twenty eighth and Last Line: And how the water spouting from fire boats rose and rose Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HOW DO I EXPLAIN THE HORROR?, by DIEGO DAVALOS Poem Source Last Line: Them in drum songs enveloped in your %prayers Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HOW TO SURVIVE AN ELECTRICAL STORM, by SUSAN BIRKELAND Poem Source First Line: Electrical storms tire the blood- %nightly news Last Line: And then again, %the water loves itself Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HUDSON RIVER ANTHOLOGY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ran a store Last Line: He's serving thirty years. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Business; Labor & Laborers; Money; Retail Trade; Wages; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Work; Workers; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Salaries I DON'T KNOW, by MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN Poem Source First Line: When I hear the whistle for work Last Line: He do something I %don't know Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) I SEE AGAIN, by GAIL FORD Poem Source First Line: The sixty-year-old man %forty-eight hours tired Last Line: I drink him drink him in Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IF BIN LADEN READ DR. SEUSS, by MARK KUHAR Poem Source First Line: So then, bin laden, is this Last Line: My friend, his name is sam I am Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IN AS MUCH AS IT IS ALWAYS ALREADY TAKING PLACE, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Outside, smoke mushrooms with the ghosts of sarajevo Last Line: Alvalanche. Inferno. Nations buckling %with its roar Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons; Fire; Tragedy; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IN PRIZE, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A ship was built in glasgow, and oh, she Last Line: (but it's true, my johnnie bowline, true!) Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Trade IN RUBBLE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right after the bomb, even before the ceiling Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 IN THE AGE OF GRASSHOPPERS, by JANINE POMMY VEGA Poem Source First Line: A grasshoppers with a roomy apartment building Last Line: Because we let them, because they can Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IN THE GALLERY, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here neither nymph nor naiad ever bathed Last Line: Please smile on us, who made this place your grove Subject(s): Religion; Retail Trade IN THE LAND OF HONEY AND DANGER, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: Yeah, danger lurks Last Line: Need money %nothing too small %god bless!' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IN THE NORTH, by ALISSA LEIGH Poem Source First Line: Winter came and went, spreading %its sober gospel: earth the color Last Line: Is rubbing its face raw. In trees %birds sing a song full of silence Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) INTERIOR OF BEESWAX CHAMBER, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Stickled nectars seized in Last Line: Blossoms. The wind's %picking up Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons; Fire; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) INTO THE ARMS OF ANGELS, by TIMOTHY MICHAEL RHODES Poem Source First Line: From the terror of fire, %darkness and broken glass Last Line: Her arms reaching %for one final embrace Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) INVITATION TO GROUND ZERO, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the smouldering ruin now go down: Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 IRENE, by JOHN MARTIN SMITH Poem Text First Line: Life's charmed, restricted avenue Last Line: From such a kind and loving soul. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Figurines; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers IT MUST NOT HAPPEN, by SHARON OLINKA Poem Source First Line: My days like water. I clip the toenails Last Line: No more mass burials %by a harbor Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ITALIAN QUATRAIN: HAIRDRESSING, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There on the littered streets she sits, and chats with Last Line: Plucks vermin from its curls; and sells her oranges to me. Me. Subject(s): Italy; Retail Trade; Italians; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers JERUSALEM DURING A SUICIDE BOMBING, by JULIA VINOGRAD Poem Source First Line: Jerusalem strolled thru an outdoor market Last Line: Jerusalem's naked feet leave the scene of love, %nothing changes Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) JESUS POEM, by SUSAN BIRKELAND Poem Source First Line: If I'd been trapped in one of those towers Last Line: (from where we stand ) %intolerably bright Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) JIHAD, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A contrail's white scimitar unsheathes Last Line: His wisdom watches for each sacrifice Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D. Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) JOHN COMPANY'S SHIPS, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John company's ships, they sailed the seas Last Line: John company's ships of the days of old. Subject(s): Imperialism; Nostalgia; Ships & Shipping; Trade JUDGED WORTH EVACUATING, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Vertical war, north of my early childhood Last Line: A hammer of impatiens flowers got him Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) KABUL 2002 (FROM DISLOCATIONS), by BRONWYN WINTER Poem Source First Line: Kabul seizes your eyes your throat Last Line: Peshawar is a gentler and safer place Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) KNUCKS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In abraham lincoln's city Last Line: This is abraham lincoln's home town. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Secondhand Trade LAST SONG FOR THE MEND-IT SHOP, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today some buildings were blown up Last Line: It tasted like. Subject(s): Bakeries & Bakers; Buildings & Builders; Landmarks; Retail Trade; Singing & Singers; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Songs LAST THOUGHTS 9/11 VOICES, by OPAL PALMER ADISA Poem Source First Line: All memories %are piled on the pyre Last Line: Claims you %live without regrets Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) LEARNING NOT TO CRY, by JACQUELYN MALONE Poem Source First Line: Smart tears, fleeing down her cheeks' Last Line: The channels-click click- %the chamber mapped and loaded Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) LET THERE BE INFINITY, by DEBRA GRACE KHATTAB Poem Source First Line: Sept. 11 I was scared shitless Last Line: And I want infinity to become the universal count %just infinity Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) LITTLE RAMSHACKLE SHACK, by ABD AL-HAYY MOORE Poem Source First Line: A little ramshackle shack on a hill Last Line: And the silence or the sound that follows it %is also part of it Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) MAGICIAN IN MOURNING, by DONNA SUZANNE KERR Poem Source First Line: The first day of november Last Line: How we have defiled %such gifts Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) MALL OF THE AMERICAS, by RICHARD EPSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The mall of the americas is closed Last Line: Of baser stones all through the night, but now %the mall of the americas is closed Subject(s): Retail Trade MEETING OF THE POET AND THE PRESIDENT, by COLEMAN BRYAN BARKS Poem Source First Line: There is a passage in specimen days, august 12, 1863; here Last Line: The wit of their tails flicking blackflies Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) MERCHANT ADVENTURERS (WITH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO SIMEON STRUNSKY), by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Merchant adventurers sending their galleys Last Line: Merchant adventurers still! Subject(s): Merchants; Trade MORNING RUSH HOUR, 9/28/01, by PATRICIA KELLY Poem Source First Line: The toddler cries 'I want mommy, I want mommy' Last Line: Of our stricken city, this looming grief %of the ages Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) MY DEAR AFFLUENT READER, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome to the pecanland mall. Sadly, the pecan grove had to be dozed to Last Line: Ready or not. 0 exceptions. %don't ask Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Change; Nature; Progress; Retail Trade MY MOTHER IS PREPARED, by IONNA-VERONIKA WARWICK Poem Source First Line: She comes for a weekend %with bulging bags Last Line: Anything, she whispered %to me in polish, saying good-bye Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) MY WIFE SAYS DON'T WRITE ABOUT SEPTEMBER 11TH, by RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE Poem Source First Line: For three months, I have collected facts (elvis presley got a c in eighth Last Line: Sounds like static, a tv left on after every station's signed off Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NANJING, DECEMBER, 1937, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: Thousands tethered like cattle, herded like sheep Last Line: And then it was the women's turn Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NASEEM, by JUANITA TORRENCE-THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Mommy, I'm scared Last Line: I prayed, my sweet. I prayed Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEW YORK MEMORIAL, by MEREDITH KAREN LASKOW Poem Source First Line: My world has become a moving collage Last Line: And writing a poem for every life lost Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEW YORK POEM, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: I sit in the dark, not brooding Last Line: I'll kiss the sword that kills me if I must Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS FEEDS: 1. LAST RITES, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: My ears are full %the building screeches Last Line: I'm going to die Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS FEEDS: 2. RAY'S HOWL, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: My niece she was so young Last Line: Kill them kill them %kill you all Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS FEEDS: 3. 911, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: 911 911 %nana is san francisco weeping Last Line: Needing to build again %911 %911 %911 Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS FEEDS: 4. AFTERMATH, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: Checking in %I am safe Last Line: Built on love %and memory Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS OF NOVEMBER 1,2001, by JOHN MINCZESKI Poem Source First Line: The news is some maple leaves are still clinging Last Line: Was bearable. For once I went through life %uncomplaining Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWSPAPER, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They manufacture newsprint with a grain Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 NEWSPAPER, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They manufacture newsprint with a grain Last Line: To place by the master's breakfast-the skin of days Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NIGHTHAWKS, by JOHN+(1) LOGAN Poem Source First Line: A thick man with his back to us squats at the counter Last Line: Approach each other, almost touch Subject(s): Night; Retail Trade NITRATES, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All alone I went a-walking by the london docks one day Last Line: But it called the days departed and my boyhood back to me! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Trade NO SUCH THING AS A PRECISION BOMB, by PAUL GANDHI JOSEPH DOSH Poem Source First Line: September 12th %the day after Last Line: We just grew a little more aware of how violent we %have become Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOCTURNES: 3, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: The gods are fighting to stay awake Last Line: And white light, transfixing the northeast, is discord Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Buildings And Builders; New York City; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOTE TO TONY TOWLE (AFTER WS), by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: One must have breakfasted often on automobile primer Last Line: Rather than attribute, towards the brush with open sea Subject(s): Business; Tourists; Trade; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOTES ON OSAMA SPOTTINGS, by Q. R. HAND Poem Source First Line: Osama spotted like %victims of rocky mountain %tick fevers Last Line: All over like %the spanish flu Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOTES TOWARD A POEM OF REVOLUTION, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did we in all honesty expect? Last Line: Do they hate me Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 NOTES TOWARD A POEM OF REVOLUTION, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did we in all honesty expect? Last Line: Strike & move on Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOTHING IS THE SAME THE DAY AFTER, by ANN MARIE SAMSON Poem Source First Line: The gathering %they are gathering in the blackness Last Line: The eyes of allah %the eyes of god Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ODE TO THE BROWN PAPER BAG, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's be more specific Subject(s): Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers ODE TO THE INHABITANT OF A WELL-KNOWN DIRTY SHOP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Who but has seen (if he can see at all) Last Line: Clear from thy house accumulated dirt, %new-paint the front and wear a cleaner shirt? Subject(s): London; Retail Trade OFF THE AIR, by MATTHEW MASON Poem Source First Line: My first love was an am radio dj Last Line: On this gorgeous night of a blossoming autumn, %this final broadcast of summer Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON A ROADSIDE IN OHIO, by MARK KUHAR Poem Source First Line: The sign on interstate 271, right there Last Line: On the tripping tempest of these frightened times Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON BEING TRANSPARENT, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: If they raise a picture Last Line: Of its short but sacred flight Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, by CARL STILWELL Poem Source First Line: I am with you, walt whitman Last Line: For more human sacrificial blood- %we the people Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON LEXINGTON AVENUE, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: A tapestry hung on stone Last Line: As all the clocks restart Subject(s): Flowers; Retail Trade ON REPORTS OF THREATS AGAINST ARAB-AMERICANS, by NEELI CHERKOVSKI Poem Source First Line: News kiosk owner from %palestine, rabbi's son out of Last Line: Emptiness at the heart %of what we face tomorrow Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON T.V., by MARIAH ERLICK Poem Source First Line: Tuesday was the worst day of my life Last Line: I'm here. %I'm talking Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER SEPTEMBER 2001, by CATHY BARBER Poem Source First Line: I am am american, eyes drooping heavily Last Line: I am afraid for we are going to war Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON THE FALL OF THE WORLD TRADE TOWERS, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source First Line: When hate crimes last in a bombscare loomed Last Line: Long day. The families wait Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ONCE BY HANFORD REACH, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: I cupped an explored milkweed pod Last Line: Dark seeds of death-light Subject(s): Death; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ONE CAN MAKE FISTS, by JOE-ANNE MCLAUGHLIN Poem Source First Line: And fistfuls: one, two, three, even four Last Line: Though no president had proclaimed %we are at war Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ONE DAY LAST WEEK, by C. B. FOLLETTE Poem Source First Line: The end of the world %rained from the sky Last Line: Empty, unclaimed %and at the airports Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ONWORK, LUCK, ROOTS, DEATH AND OTHER DEBTS, by EUGENE RUGGLES Poem Source First Line: Don't give up on your blessings, %before they finish Last Line: The pacific takes both of them into its shadow Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) OPEN THE SHOE-STORE DOOR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Two shoehorns on a shoelace Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Retail Trade; Shoes OPENING UP, by GEORGE+(2) ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: Each morning, before the bells begin ringing, I unlock my classroom door Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Booksellers; Retail Trade OZARK ODES: BAIT SHOP, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Total sales today: 3 doz. Minnows, 1/2 doz. Crawdaddies, 4 lead lures Last Line: Loaf of light bread, pack of raleighs, 3 bags of barbecued pork skins Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Retail Trade PALMS AND HANDS, by HUGH SEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Larry shrugged, %jerked up his palms Last Line: Of the shock wave %of the fire storm Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) PEACE INVOCATION AFTER 9/11/2002, by TERESA G. LEE Poem Source First Line: Peace did you shudder %when two airplanes Last Line: A amar nuestras diferencias Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) PEACE STUDIES AT THE RHODE ISLAND AVENUE BARBERSHOP, by KENNETH CARROLL Poem Source First Line: No flags fly in this shop Last Line: Like clumps of black hair %blown by a wayward western wind Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) POUR UN JEUNE CHALAMOUN QUI SE VEND DANS LA RUE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Powerful white teeth Last Line: Give my soul, just to take the money and not give my soul Subject(s): Capitalism; Money; Peasantry; Trade PROTEST, by EUNICE CREAGER Poem Text First Line: I saw a girl one summer day Last Line: "while over her a lash; ""three mouths to feed." Subject(s): Girls; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers SACRAMENT, by EVA YAA ASANTEWAA Poem Source First Line: Is it jihad? Is it crusade? Ashes to ashes Last Line: I try to wash that man right out of my hair %and send him on his way Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SALE OF THE 'COIN MUSARD.', by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Tobaccos, wines, liqueurs, grocery 'fancy foods' in sooth, bookshop Last Line: Rigid as a pole. Subject(s): Retail Trade; Salespersons; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Selling SALEM HILL HYMN SING, by MICHAEL SCHNEIDER Poem Source First Line: A screaming comes across the sky Last Line: Is me, and all the books are about revenge Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SAVAGE JETS SWORD THE SKY HUNGRY BOMBS TORTURE THE EARTH, by S. A. GRIFFIN Poem Source First Line: As for myself %I choose not to believe in war Last Line: I am easy this way Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SAVAGES (TO KHAMA, SEBELE AND BATHOEN), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As stags that o'er some moonlit pasture range Last Line: Mortality shall die? Subject(s): Native Americans; Trade; Wandering & Wanderers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SECOND HAND DEALER, by SUE BRANNAN WALKER Poem Source First Line: Like the salvation army %death deals in second-hand Last Line: Aging toward the moment %my turn comes to wear his shoes Subject(s): Salvation Army; Secondhand Trade SECOND-HAND SHOP, by MIRANDA PANARETOU CAMBANIS Poem Source First Line: How this time has passed, my love Subject(s): Secondhand Trade SELLING A COW IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoa! Whitey; morning, neighbor bell Last Line: They're passing not to come again. Subject(s): Animals; Cows; Farm Life; Trade; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers SHANKSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, OCTOBER 21,2001, by KENNETH POBO Poem Source First Line: At our somerest motel, gary Last Line: They can't drive away as we do Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SHE SMILES ON THE TV SCREEN, by KAREN KARPOWICH Poem Source First Line: Looking like all those tough girls I knew in school Last Line: Working his beads, she said %till there was silence Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SHOE SALESMAN, by DANIEL BACHHUBER Poem Source First Line: He is like a psychic medium calling down shoes from the other world Last Line: Nonbeing into the flesh, and I say, 'yes I will yes I will yes.' Subject(s): Retail Trade; Salespersons; Shoes SHOE SHOP, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: I shut the door on the racket Last Line: When I step back out in the street %the city looks flimsy as a movie set Subject(s): Retail Trade; Shoes SHOP AND FREEDOM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Though with the north we sympathize Last Line: "free trade, or sable brothers free? / oh, will we choose the latter" Subject(s): American Civil War;free Trade;great Britain - Foreign Relations;u.s. - History SHOPPING TRIP, by MIRIAM GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: I try on clothes with you and fifty other women in a mirrored room Last Line: And though I can't make love to you, I could make a turkey with her %watching Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Fashion; Retail Trade; Shopping; Vision SIMPLE POEM FOR A DIFFICULT TIME, by JEFF KASS Poem Source First Line: I carry my daughter of six weeks Last Line: The thing her father once told her %being good matters Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SIR, IF YOU ARE, SIR, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Sir, if you are, sir -- the unnameable flame Last Line: Of naming and divining the unnameable flame Subject(s): Chemical Warfare; Environment; Nuclear Waste; Trade SIX MONTHS AFTER, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: This is what it means Last Line: Some say the debris %also speaks Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SKYSCRAPER APOCALYPSE, by UNKNOWN+12 Poem Source First Line: Two months before the terrorist attack Last Line: As the sunrise engulfs the world %in the light of another day Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SMALL SACRIFICES, by GERALD R. WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Patriotism is the last resort of scoundrels' Last Line: So americans can continue life as usual, %go on another shopping spree Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SMALL TREASURES, by PAULA NEMEROFF WEISS Poem Source First Line: It rests in the hollow of her throat Last Line: Her hand returns to the pendant %covers it lovingly Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SOLILOQUY ON AN EMPTY PURSE, by MARY JONES Poem Text First Line: Alas, my purse! How lean and low! Last Line: And gently rhyming rats to death. Subject(s): Retail Trade; Wealth; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Riches; Fortunes SOME COMMON TERMS IN LATIN THAT ARE LARGER THAN OUR LIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutant-engineered bloodsucker djinns, invisibility rays Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 SOME COMMON TERMS IN LATIN THAT ARE LARGER THAN OUR LIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutant-engineered bloodsucker djinns, invisibility rays Last Line: And what's beyond the sky, and beyond that, ad infinitum Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SOMEONE SAYS THEY LOOKED LIKE CARTWHEELING BIRDS, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The quietest moments some %one will say are the worst Last Line: Red as if nothing %could stop them Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: While a thousand fine projects are planned every day Last Line: Contrive that the poor may have something to eat Subject(s): Cities;england;free Trade;markets;poverty; Urban Life;english;supermarkets SOUTH TOWER, 96TH FLOOR, CORNER OFFICE, by F. JOHN SHARP Poem Source First Line: Fresh air seduces me Last Line: I hope I have the courage %to choose to fly Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SPIRITS OF THE MALL, by BARON WORMSER Poem Source First Line: The ghosts of south florida gather at Last Line: Only in the human way - so fickle, so unaware Subject(s): Children; Miller, Arthur (b. 1915); Retail Trade STATE OF THE UNION: 16. NEW CURRENCY, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gold has rolled into a pit Last Line: Will the young ever find it? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Gold; Money; Trade STORE, by ELIZABETH MACKLIN Poem Source First Line: A shop like a boat - red tchotchkes! - and look Last Line: To leave there having, though not having bought Subject(s): Retail Trade STRANGERS, by LUCILLE DAY Poem Source First Line: I didn't know the man in black pants Last Line: Searching for something %irretrievable, precious, still there Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) STRAWBERRIES IN MEXICO, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At 14th street and first avenue Last Line: It's just a very blue sky I'm looking at Subject(s): Books; Madison Avenue, New York; Retail Trade; Reading; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers STRIP MALL, by JOHN GREY Poem Source First Line: It's another strip mall Last Line: In that bankrupt card shop Subject(s): Retail Trade SUMMER SHIRT SALE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer shirt sale of a downtown haberdasher is glorified Last Line: Challenge to the ghost who walks on paydays. Subject(s): Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers SURVIVING, by PAT PHILLIPS WEST Poem Source First Line: Special days-graduations, holidays, birthdays, anniversaries Last Line: To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SWEET CURE, by GARDNER MCFALL Poem Source First Line: A man, with a dozen small pieces of paper Last Line: To the wall and fallen into night's dreams Subject(s): Medicine; Retail Trade SWEET MEAT HAS SOUR SAUCE; OR, THE SLAVE-TRADER IN THE DUMPS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A trader I am to the african shore Last Line: Which nobody can deny. Subject(s): Africa; African Americans; Slavery; Trade; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs TERMINALS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A railroad station at the city's heart Last Line: Romance to every wharf at which they swing. Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Trade; Travel; Journeys; Trips THANKSGIVING EVE, 2001, by F. JOHN SHARP Poem Source First Line: Today %I sort ruin Last Line: I can't imagine where I will begin Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) THAT TUESDAY NIGHT, by GEORGE HELD Poem Source First Line: That tuesday night, after the towers Last Line: Could ever make me %safe again Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) THE BROWN BEAVER, by FLOSSIE DEANE CRAIG Poem Text First Line: Oh, man, I think I know just why it is you sigh Last Line: That many a brave and daring man has died for less! Subject(s): Animals; Beavers; Fur Trade; Furs THE COTTAGER'S COMPLAINT, ON .. ENCLOSING SUTTON-COLDFIELD, by JOHN FREETH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweetly did the moments glide Last Line: Who murders my content. Alternate Author Name(s): Free, John Subject(s): Business; Markets; Retail Trade; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Supermarkets; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers THE FINE PACIFIC ISLANDS; HEARD IN A PUBLIC HOUSE AT ROTHERHITHE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jolly english yellowboy Last Line: With the dollars of peru! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Peru; Trade; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE FLEECE: BOOK 2, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now of the severed lock begin the song Last Line: Who toil and wealth exchange for sloth and pride. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Clothing & Dress; Hunting; Labor & Laborers; Sheep; Trade; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Hunters; Work; Workers THE FLEECE: BOOK 3, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proceed, arcadian muse; resume the pipe Last Line: Lo, from the simple fleece, how much proceeds. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Trade; Weaving & Weavers; Work; Workers THE FLEECE: BOOK 4, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, with our wooly treasures amply stored Last Line: Or as air's vital fluid o'er the globe. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Merchants; Trade; Travel; Weaving & Weavers; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips THE FOUR DEARS, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sugar, dear tea, and dear corn Last Line: Shall still rob the dear british nation. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Free Trade; Labor & Laborers; Politics & Government; Trade; Work; Workers THE FUR COAT, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked out in my coat of pride Last Line: And sneezed a while; and scratched myself. Subject(s): Fur Trade; Pride; Furs; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE HERB SHOP, by GEORGIA DAY SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: I know a charming little shop Last Line: And breathe its faint perfume. Subject(s): Herbs; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers THE LITTLE FRUIT-SHOP, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: The little broadway fruit-shop bursts and glows Last Line: Lo, a swart faun-god mid his votive fruit. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Fruit; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers THE MAORI'S WOOL, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The maoris are a mighty race - the finest ever known Last Line: Is searching vainly for the chief from rooti-iti-au. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Trade; War THE PRICE OF WOMEN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every woman, you say, has her price Last Line: And asked for my life? Subject(s): Trade; Women THE PURCHASE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small and red and goggling with anxious eyes Last Line: —slinking and licking my fingers and ready to cry. Subject(s): Money; Poverty; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers THE QUILL WORKER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plains, plains, and the prairie land which the sunlight floods and fills Last Line: Will broider his buckskin mantle with the quills of the porcupine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Beauty; Native Americans; Prairies; Trade; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Plains THE RECOMPENSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made a garden first for man Last Line: My adam praise me night and morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Children; God; Home; Mothers; Parents; Trade; Women; Childhood; Parenthood THE SEAMSTRESS, by HENRI BARBUSSE Poem Text First Line: A glimmer of daylight through the rain Last Line: In invisible song. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Retail Trade; Seamstresses; Sewing; Work; Workers; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers THE TARIFF, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rather, my people, let thy youths parade Subject(s): Trade; Country Life THE TWIN TOWERS ARCANE, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such mourning as we Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 THE WINDOW, AT THE MOMENT OF FLAME, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And all this while I have been playing with toys Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 THERE IS SILENCE, by CRAIG MOORE Poem Source Last Line: Through it, to the sun beyond the angry hellish plumes Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) THREE EGRETS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Seen from this unprotected openness, that summer morning Last Line: For something more %than what must simply be remembered Subject(s): Grief; Mortality; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) THRIFT SHOP LADIES, by JENNIFER M. PIERSON Poem Source First Line: They carry their long, heavy bosoms inside old sweaters and wear Last Line: At three o'clock the lights go out and they go their separate ways Subject(s): Business; Clothing And Dress; Retail Trade; Shopping TIME AND PLACE: 11/11/01, by NEIL NAKADATE Poem Source First Line: At almost 88 my father finds the times Last Line: On any of these maps' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TIME CHANGE, by CHARLES PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: Thoughts between after midnight and before dawn Last Line: Our world and peoples nearer harmony Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TIME TO DIE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, by KAREN ELIZABETH HARLAN Poem Source First Line: He called to say he was stuck at work Last Line: I'm sorry, I have to take time to die Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TO MAURICE HEWLETT, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hewlett! As ship to ship Last Line: The which to mitigate are lent the vine, the muse. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Hewlett, Maurice H. (1861-1923); Trade TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A TRADE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a little stinking shop, hardly seven feet square Last Line: "with my wife now. She's a regular bad 'un!" Subject(s): London; Markets; Trade; Supermarkets TOWERS DOWN, by CLIVE MATSON Poem Source First Line: I am crying. %I am putting on a black shirt Last Line: It is not enough Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TRANSPOSITION, by AGNES MOORE FRYBERGER Poem Text First Line: I forget his name; but, oh, his smile Last Line: And put the cobbler in the music store? Subject(s): Human Behavior; Retail Trade; Shoes; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers TROPHY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fur coats mean slaughter now Last Line: Needing the coat to love %me so something would Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Fur Trade TWILIGHT BY THE MALL, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight creeps across yon gilded roof Last Line: Defiant, private note must pass away. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers TWIN, by HALEH HATAMI Poem Source First Line: In double-pained dread, I wait my turn. Doubly afraid Last Line: To one unfailing response. La ilaha illa allah, there is no god but %god Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TWIN TOWERS ARCANE, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such mourning as we Last Line: Hanging in mid-air Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) UNDER HEAVEN, by DIANE S. MEHTA Poem Source First Line: Time to rearrange heaven %or what goes under it Last Line: Every settlement sprawls %sideways, deserts are soul-shaped Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) UNDER THE CLOUD, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: We ran in all directions Last Line: And the radiance behind it Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) UNHARMED, by ROBYN SARAH Poem Source First Line: War has a long wake. Waves of two long wars Last Line: We are the writing that stayed dry, %and cannot read itself Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) VIEW FROM THE WOODS, by JACK BARRACK Poem Source First Line: Two shopping carts, runaways turned feral Last Line: Among neon signs in macaw-painted cold Subject(s): Leaves; October; Retail Trade VOLUNTEER, by KAREN KARPOWICH Poem Source First Line: The fires at ground zero stopped burning today Last Line: The folding chairs we sit on %have such hard backs Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WAR, by SCOTT WANNBERG Poem Source First Line: The war had its grandchildren over for the afternoon Last Line: Nobody should look that young. %nobody Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WEAVERS, by GERALD R. WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Afghan refugee %children hunch over looms Last Line: Plotting against freedom %& themselves Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE AGE OF AQUARIUS? APRIL 23, 2002, by ALLEN COHEN Poem Source First Line: Yet another birthday %to acknowledge the passage of time Last Line: We must take the leap from empire to love Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WHEN MY BROTHER AND I BUILT AND FLEW THE FIRST MAN-CARRYING..., by JACK FOLEY Poem Source First Line: How to name this horror %what language Last Line: Who died %and, dying, %live Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WHEN THE TOWERS FELL, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From our high window we saw the towers Last Line: Each life, put out, lies down within us Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 WHO BLEW UP AMERICA, by AMIRI BARAKA Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): United States; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001; America WHO WERE YOU?, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On september 11, a man and a woman jumped from one of the burning Last Line: And has not %landed yet Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WILL BOLAND & I WALK DOWN THE BEACH, by STEVE MARK KOWIT Poem Source First Line: Seething over this filthy war that every chest-thumping Last Line: The last of the light of this world setting behind them Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WINTER ELEGY (1998-99), by ALISSA LEIGH Poem Source First Line: A year of omens and predictions Last Line: The violinist's bow, thin antigone, %was tearing out its hair in a frenzy Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WINTER SOLSTICE--2001, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Sunder %and give, only towering shadows of buildings Last Line: Into trebles %of flame Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Memory; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WORDS, LIKE SURVIVORS, by TOM GUARNERA Poem Source First Line: It's like the pearl harbor, some people say Last Line: I only believe the tears Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WORLD HISTORY, by CARL DENNIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Better believe ten thousand angels Last Line: Are waiting to serve him supper and hear the news Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WORLD TRADE CENTER, by JULIA VINOGRAD Poem Source First Line: I am an old woman in a black dress Last Line: Dying soldiers kneel to me %and I smile Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WTC BOOM BOX: THE SUBWAY JOKE UNSOUNDED, by EUGENIA MACER-STORY Poem Source First Line: The room is empty except for the drums Last Line: Subway jokes unsounded in the midnight storm Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) Y2K, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutation of bells. Chapels vanishing in fog Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 Y2K, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutation of bells. Chapels vanishing in fog Last Line: Long time night, the usual. So forth and so on Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) YOU ARE TOO HUMAN, by MIKI KASHTAN Poem Source First Line: You are sitting in the cockpit Last Line: What is the right thing to do? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) |
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