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Subject: WASHINGTON (STATE)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` INDEX, A MOUNTAIN; PART OF THE CASCADE RANGE, WASHINGTON STATE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Early one day a mountain uprose, all cased in silver
Last Line: Serve as god's tombstone. Have no green mercy on us.
Subject(s): Cascade Range; Fingers; Lumber & Lumbering; Travel; Washington (state); Women; Women's Rights; Woodsmen; Journeys; Trips; Feminism


INITIAL CONDITIONS, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The way the sun will slant
Last Line: As you breathe, let your chest sag to feel bone
Subject(s): Books; History; Restaurants; United States; Washington (state); Reading; Historians; Cafes; Diners; America


RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most people from idaho are crazed rednecks
Last Line: Lives to curse your blessed plaster bleeding heart.
Subject(s): Christianity; Discontent; Idaho; Insanity; Montana; Washington (state); West (u.s.); Women; Women's Rights; Dissatisfaction; Madness; Mental Illness; Southwest; Pacific States; Feminism


WASHINGTON, by VIRGINIA KEATING ORTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think if I should die
Last Line: Once more to washington.
Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; Washington (state); Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


WHITE CENTER, by RICHARD HUGO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Town or poem, I don't care how it looks
Last Line: And why do I feel no shame kicking the loose gravel home
Subject(s): Cities; Washington (state)