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Subject: WOMEN IMMIGRANTS - UNITED STATES Matches Found: 64 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 8 HOPE ROAD, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: This is not my story Last Line: On its hinges, milk left to curdle %in the pitcher on the table Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States APPLE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Father %watching you peel the fruit Last Line: Eating the white meat %with the serpent Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States APSARA, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: To carry the dead Last Line: Each time you traverse the sea Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States AWAKENING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: My mother is pinned to the clothesline Last Line: All these years they have lain silent Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States CALYPSO, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Dese days, I doh even bada combing out mi locks Last Line: Well, dat the only romance I goin give de time a day Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States CHOICE MADE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: At night I feel the ocean Last Line: Nothing but bad luck will follow %all the days of your life Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DARKLING I LISTEN, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: If I could write the truth Last Line: And moulting; the silence %of cannibal grass and trees Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DAUGHTER, LEFT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: In dreams my mother returns Last Line: Go down to the sea %and fish for your true face Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DEBT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: All day she scrubs the house Last Line: This too is not enough Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DOVE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Imagine if you could have either cherry or stove Last Line: Of falling rain, a lover's hand grazing your neck Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States ENOUGH, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Every morning he brings coconut water Last Line: He coos, offering me the seeds %of his fettered fruit Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States EVOLUTION OF USEFUL THINGS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Consider a hammer %striking a nail Last Line: Hanging at odd angles %like broken limbs Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States EXCHANGE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The first sound was his guitar Last Line: Than live in the vast, unbridled sea Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FEAST TO CELEBRATE HIS MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: When I woke, I could hear them bleating Last Line: To her voices still echoing %yu hear me? Hear me gal? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FIRST RITES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: At the top of the mountain Last Line: Think it is the face of god Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FISHERMAN'S WIFE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Each day I will make you Last Line: Like salome's last veil come undone Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Seashore; Women Immigrants - United States FOR YOU SWEETHEART, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I'll forget I have a name Last Line: Knowing you love %to watch flowers bloom Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FRUIT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Spaghetti sliding %down our kitchen walls Last Line: To paint a smiling face upon Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States I HAVE LOST THE ADDRESS OF MY COUNTRY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I have lost the address of my country Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States; Islam I PROMISE YOU THIS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Water finds its own level Last Line: The hint of water %already filling their cribs Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States IN MY OTHER LIFE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I was born with a stone in my hand Last Line: I was a goat on a hillside %sure of the path Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States IN THE GARDEN OF BANANA AND COCONUT TREES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Before the woman's hips Last Line: Clapping hands, bells jingling %on her ankles Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States ISLA, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In los angeles I grew up watching the three stooges, Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States; Cuba; Mothers; Popular Culture - United States JACK MANDOORA ME NO CHOOSE NONE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: It begins when the mother Last Line: Chopping steadily %into the silent woods Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States JAMAICA, 1978, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: It was always about the coconut tree Last Line: Yu haffa aks yuself: is who this tree go a shade from sun? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States JAMAICA, OCTOBER 18, 1972, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You tell me about the rickety truck Last Line: The water between us becoming a river Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States LOSING FOOTING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Did your father's breathing become the rasping Last Line: As you lifted your palms to the light? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States LULLABY, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Your hands resting %against my scalp Last Line: Wind blowing in %colder than your kiss Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MAY-81, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I was leaving my ninth year Last Line: With hair of coiling flames %each turned away his face Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MEETING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: In school, I kept my papers neat Last Line: And I did %god help me, I did Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MISS SALLY'S WISDOM, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Chiniman say yu put purse pon ground Last Line: Up against yu chest. But remember, %wanty wanty no getty getty Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States MOTHER, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: What were the angels' demands? Last Line: One by one, pulled from sleeping hands Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MOTHER LOVE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I know what she knew Last Line: Moon still in its place. The water on the table Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PERFECT HEART, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I am alone in the garden, separated Last Line: I would have cut away the crescent moon Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PERSEPHONE SETS THE RECOED STRAIGHT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are all the rage these days Last Line: Who wouldn't exchange %one hell for another? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PLEASANT HILL, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: This is the house you don't want to remember Last Line: Of the child waiting to be hushed Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States POEM WHERE MY MOTHER AND FATHER ARE ABSENT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: My sisters and I %on the winding path Last Line: The empty porch swing %creaking in the wind Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States POPPIES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: In the corner of a room Last Line: But expecting %snow Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States REMAINS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I left the knife in the sink Last Line: Dearest. All I left for you to find Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SEA RETURNS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Mother, mother, I hear the sound at the door Last Line: Daughta? Daughta? Daughta? Og gawd. She caan swim Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SEED, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I am a child of the sun, balancing Last Line: The husk and the heart %of the fruit Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SIREN ISLES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Stranger %this is not your home Last Line: I am a fish no desire %will allow you to reach Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SIRENS' DEFENSE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: When we sing Last Line: Steering them %into these rocks Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SOMETHING LIKE FLYING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You point them out to me Last Line: Another coming up to take the lead Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SPELL, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: A hag is riding my back Last Line: But the moon turns to stone Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SUNSET ON THE WHARF, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: John crows fill the red sky. Coming in Last Line: Grains disintegrating under the dying light of the sun Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States TALISMAN, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You leave the house in its stillness Last Line: The iridescent husk spill %from your hands Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States TANGLEHAIR'S DREAM, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Your voice, like rain %blowing across the fields Last Line: Wolves bay in the distance. %the owl cries into the dawn Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States TANGLEHAIR'S MOTHER, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are the sound of scissors %that will not let me sleep Last Line: I am the fox, the wolf, the hawk Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States TRAGEDY OF THE MERMAID, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Is not that she must leave her home Last Line: She must not feel an ocean %falling from her eyes Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States TWO SLIDES: 1. THE ASPARA ADDRESSES THE FISHERMAN, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: There is no boat Last Line: This catch will be the one %to harvest your soul Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States TWO SLIDES: 2. THE FISHERMAN RESPONDS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are the silver light Last Line: I am the water %filling your gills Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States VERY IDEA OF 2 LEGS, by MARY MOLINARY Poem Source First Line: The lower %part of the body, an idea pressed thin Last Line: Singular and blue-dyed: a desire. An excretion of worms. %glimmering Subject(s): Beauty; Factories; Labor And Laborers; Legs; Women Immigrants - United States WAR, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: Relentless mars, indulging insane wrath Last Line: Unleashed the lusts of men, and called it—war! Subject(s): Child Molesting; Cruelty; Death; Insanity; War; Women Immigrants - United States; Child Abuse; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness WARNING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I am the shoal you cannot cross Last Line: To which your mother warned you %not to listen Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT I SAVED, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You %drinking milo Last Line: Your tongue unable to form an r as you called my name Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT I'M TELLING YOU, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: My father played music. He played a guitar and sang. My father Last Line: Four or five as a recoed somewhere in a studio in jamaica started to spin Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT LIES BENEATH, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The woman inside turns flour to dumplings Last Line: Kept at bay by a few pieces of wood Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: When god closes a door, there are no windows Last Line: Even careful chickens get caught by the hawk Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT THE ORACLE SAID, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You will leave your home Last Line: The sea will never take you back Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT THE STORIES TEACH, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The man playing the flute Last Line: Beneath the caramel glaze Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Seashore; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT WE FORGET, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: He died the same month Last Line: The tingling of her skin bein healed Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHEN I THINK OF YOU, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are still diving into the sea Last Line: A stream of darkness in your wake Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States YOU NO SEND. ME NO COME, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The first night back and rain falls Last Line: What assures them they will come down? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States |
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