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Subject: WOMEN PATIENTS
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First Line: A girl's lips rehearse with silent, silent puckers
Last Line: Invented kisses. Visit. Visits unreturned
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


BERGMAN'S CANCER, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I made an effort to amuse, unrattled
Last Line: Loving dampered nonsense on piano
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


DEATH BY AESTHETICS, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is the doctor, an abstracted lover
Subject(s): Physicians; Examinations; Women Patients; Doctors


DESCENDENT, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tell her now I heard her tell her now
Last Line: Sleep I heard he covered me don't ask for more
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


ENTER INVISIBLE, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: If possible, if nurses
Last Line: By a winding scarf, rising to a crown
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


GODMOTHER'S WILL, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the family reunion, the academic
Last Line: As he did, and he was sad
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


INK AND GREEN WASH: IN THE ONCOLOGIST'S WAITING ROOM, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leather banquettes in
Last Line: For me, wait for me
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


INTERIOR WITH METAL INSTRUMENTS, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Music - after the walls were washed with irritants
Last Line: Wounds. We always soil each other
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


LITTLE APRIL, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Water broke on the woven backs of summer chairs
Last Line: Water broke on the woven backs of summer chairs
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


MAMMOGRAM, by SANDRA STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Women are not the only ones
Last Line: When we were cast for our parts
Subject(s): Women Patients


MONARCH BIRTHMARK, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eyelash kisses: 'moth goodnight.' her lashes tickle
Last Line: A secret song
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


MOTHER, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I thought I needed her - but some things happen
Last Line: Soundless, moonlight, sewn
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


OTHER GIRLS IN LETTUCE, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: These are the reminiscent lettuces
Last Line: Words are nipples still allowed
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


REFLECTIONS LOST IN THE LADIES ROOM, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Distant flushings sing; run softly; flow
Last Line: How well you look.' and flushings sing. 'I know.'
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


RIMBAUD'S CANCER, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The candy striper on her rounds
Last Line: Approaching stress and stress that perishes
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


SELECTED FOR THE MASS, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Something other than what happened was remembered
Last Line: To nothing: little miss fear. Miss flesh
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


ST. PEREGRINUS' CANCER, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: His miracles abbreviated, lives of saints
Last Line: We were alike, at last
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


STAMINA, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bed, the laminated stand
Last Line: The absences, no obstacle to calm
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


TEMPLE, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let her sleep begin with folderol
Last Line: Lights donated in the name of so-and-so
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


TO COME WITH ACCESSORIES, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inherited: the opals set in cuffs
Last Line: I am a body in ash-blonde smoke, aroused alone
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


TOUCHED RELICS, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A mother's amber necklaces and pearls
Last Line: Cover where the scars follow hers
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients


WAS IT, by JUDITH HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because of too much sun
Last Line: How regressive these desires
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients