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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 18-OCT-77, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Land flows into her eyes through the record player in her cell
Last Line: She's murdered in her cell or kills herself, which terrifies
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


A PLEA, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pretty star / stay where you are
Last Line: You fill me with delight.
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities; Second World War


AT THE NURSERY OF A LOCOMOTIVE PARTS PLANT NEAR BEIJING, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Huey newton and the other panthers stand around a sandbox
Last Line: And the children are thankful for the visit
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


AUBADE OF THE SINGER AND SABOTEUR, MARIE TRISTE, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In the twenties, I would visit dachau often with my brother
Last Line: Two of the old miracles. They were not my choices.
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Concentration Camps; Dachau, Germany; Flowers; Music & Musicians; World War Ii - Atrocities


BABY MILK PLANT, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night of desert storm I've put my daughter and love on a plane
Last Line: Pilot lying in a pool of it, as it mixes with his blood and curdles
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


BACCHAE ON THE DOCKS AT TENTH STREET, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a drizzle in the middle of a week of rain
Last Line: Who, soaked by a sudden downpour, run for the tip of christopher %without a thought to thank the god
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's mount hope in the background, but comet lake up close
Last Line: Otherworldly place where these laughing girls can't find me
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


BRULE VILLAGE, WOUNDED KNEE, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is no forest primeval: badlands, black hills, a month
Last Line: Beyond the breastworks of the cavalry, resistance of the ice is shale
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


BURIAL AT SEA, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forty knots, a bugle call - our heads bowed down in sorrow
Last Line: We sleep above the restless graves tonight %and dream the day when the dead shall rise in laughter
Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


CEAUSESCU'S POET LAUREATE, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You, paunescu, what love inspired your odes
Last Line: Which of your words can be made back into flesh again
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


COCHITI LAKE, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The desert around was as pre-cambrian sea
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


COLLABORATEURS, ST. TROPEZ, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Paraded up a boulevard of plane trees and umbrella pines
Last Line: For the sake of those who stayed silent, or resisted
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


DEAD GERMAN SS PRISON GUARD, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under the blood-clogged waters and the river weeds
Last Line: Were known and sung and loved for poetry
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


DESTROYED FLYING FORTRESS (PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN), by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the automatic eye clicks a frame
Last Line: Just where we're left to brood and wonder
Subject(s): Troy; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


DUNKER CHURCH, ANTIETAM, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: For melville, on malvern hill the elms would speak
Last Line: Greening in this page of sediments and sorrow
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


EARLY MORNING CALISTHENICS, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On daniel field, the civil war's a hundred years behind us now
Last Line: Each swell and juming jack is one cadet, alive and full and sexual
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


ELEGY TO THE PULLEY OF SUPERIOR OBLIQUE, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The three girls in a donkey cart
Last Line: Of death is instant, contrived.
Subject(s): Death; Disease; Girls; Lament; Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii - Atrocities; Dead, The


FIGHT TO THE DEATH, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across the steppes of kursk, kazakhstan, the army partisans
Last Line: Of starlings tightens, lets go, and hastens skyward
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


FIRING RANGE, ATLACATL, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beyond the boys, tin icons of the fmln, shot-gauge target practice
Last Line: At journalists or poets who limp away from here towards home
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


FOR THE DARKLING THRUSH, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This time we have to hope: green cockaigne and truck stops
Last Line: Who snaps at flies but eats the sandfleas
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


GOETHE'S OAK, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stood in a fog before the pile of shoes in an exhibition hall
Last Line: Could quiet the whey-crapped mouth of another dawn coming on
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


GREGORIOU, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My cousin does a wheelie in a muddied mustang, radish red
Last Line: And each of our ancient maids and ministers is blessing us
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


GRIEF, KERCH, 1942, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A snow-bound road, high above the world of winnowers
Last Line: On foot quite accidentally, like you and me, %and makes of this world a camera obscura
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


HEARTBREAK HOTEL, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here I sit, dumbfounded, at the old french jail in hanoi
Last Line: To you and ask will you come? When will I be free?
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


ILL-POLITICAL, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is wind across the kansas prairie. The babyface mashes stiff potato
Last Line: And disappearances, the glop of spuds now greening on his plate
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


IMPRESSION MADE IN THE GROUND AT BILLERICAY, BY..., by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like susan rothenberg's horses, the image
Last Line: Limbs the wings that take him farther, %farther than we ever want to go
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ezekiel's bones, dried to dust beyond this cusp of hill
Last Line: For the sun to rise upon another century
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


JOE LOUIS IN ITALY, 1944, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In his mouth is a wad of regulation wonder bread
Last Line: Until one war is over and another starts
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


JULY TROUBLES IN PETROGRAD, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like an oscillating wave that gathers its roll
Last Line: Which the thousands plot their coming
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


KAGERA FALLS, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Follow the white nile up seven cataracts, up the nyabarongo river
Last Line: And picture to tie your shoe, as if it had nothing to do with you
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


MARCH TO CALUMNY, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Throckmorton's troops are already out of it -- even the segregated
Last Line: So the chances of capturing her smile are next to nothing
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


MEMORIZING CHAUCER, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: October leaves were falling
Last Line: I run for a corner, %shivering from head to foot
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


ON HEARING GEESE FLY OVER MANHATTAN, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Something close to chaos
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


ON NORTH BROTHER ISLAND, HALF-CRAZED SURVIVORS OF THE WRECK, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beaux-art bas-relief in tompkins park commemorates the burning
Last Line: Here, then rise, to where they can try to find some peace
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


PARK SUICIDES, VIENNA, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A clock has stopped at quarter to nine this morning
Last Line: The shrill of a magpie by the river can be heard
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


PHILOTHEOU, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The singing rocks are ravished by the currents of the gulf
Last Line: Through other storms like this one I come in from now
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


PHOTOGRAPHER PHOTOGRAPHING A DEAD HORSE, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I do not share your faith in the moral power of exacting
Last Line: So alas, he tries to rescue his brain %through irony, by pushing the camera's button
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


PLACE IN THE SUN OF THE SON OF HENRY CLAY, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This burnt plate is place in the sun of the son of henry clay
Last Line: Rest in peace now, in the arms of an absent howling mother
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


PORTRAIT OF AN ITALIAN SOLDIER, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Giuseppe ugesi, prisoner at milowitz
Last Line: For all of us who wait for him to speak
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


REISE IN DIE VERGANGENHEIT, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eyes agog in a gas mask, wrapped in burlap sacks
Last Line: Of mortar, to find a flower still in bloom
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


RIPRENDE LA VITA, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: For all the world, this is a man indifferent to all I do
Last Line: And help stray silent black sheep from the fold
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


SANTO DOMINGO, KILOMETRO OCHO, REPUBLICA DOMINICANA, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Off the butt of a standard-issue rifle: the rose-blue swollen eye
Last Line: For rum and coke, rare bright birds, and cane to suck on
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


SCULPTURES BY DIMITRI HADZI, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This metal blooms in the dark of rome's / day light. Of how many deaths
Last Line: Their brightness is dark with it
Subject(s): Italy; Massacres; World War Ii - Atrocities; Italians


SCULPTURES BY DIMITRI HADZI, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This metal blooms in the dark of rome's %day light. Of how many deaths
Last Line: Their brightness is dark with it
Subject(s): Italy; Massacres; World War Ii - Atrocities


SHADOWS, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the foothills, you can see traffic on nagasaki bay
Last Line: Who linger offshore, waiting for us to brim the tide
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


SIMONOPETRA, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Epiphany today. Three quarters moon over neponset bay
Last Line: Waits for me; waves pull back and blink at the gathering black
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


SOWJETUNION, 1941, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Close as we are, what can we suppose of the midnight sky
Last Line: Ox-bow of a river, when the men %can't rise and return to their homes
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


STALINGRAD, REVISITED, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Winterreise, storm and snow. U.S. Troops in bosnia tonight
Last Line: By my bed and cried, wailing the city stalingrad, revisited
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


STALKING DRAGONFLIES ON MT. WASHUSETT, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We hunt them
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


TENT CITY, HOMELESS SHELTER, HOOVERVILLES, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Corlears hook. Terns and cormorants stotter along the fuel dock
Last Line: In starched white sheets on army cots and grope towards sleep
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


THREE PIKE STREET, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: End of century, february thaw, horse stalls of a delancey cul-de-sac
Last Line: Rose grunts and pees in sawdust, turns to her curds and whey
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


TREES, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: We marvel how the elms can grow
Last Line: When dawn breaks cool and still.
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities; Second World War


TULE LAKE LAVA BEDS, THE MODOC WARS, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time is motion, energy, stress, and speed, divided by the sun's
Last Line: As the desert music wavers, unmetered and unspoke
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


VOLLEYBALL, MANZANAR, SIERRAS, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here's a still life set in apple orchards on the plains of uz
Last Line: The earth to overlap a reeling and burgeoned moon
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


WAR OF THE WORLDS, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: After my shift at the foundling hospital, the moon is down
Last Line: Shards of evil caught in the blinking retinas of every single child
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


WATER, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This could be samothrace, 1440 b.C.E. This could be thebes
Last Line: I sacrifice the origin of all ideals on earth to give this girl a drink
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


WHERE LITTLE POND MEETS THE OCEAN, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out early, in search of the last light
Last Line: In smiling, her way to say %oh yes, this is where I want to be
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities


WILLIAMS DREAMLAND THEATER, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I passed through harlem sundays only as a child
Last Line: With all the news from akron, memphis, and thermopylae
Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities