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MARGE PIERCY

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184TH DEMONSTRATION

31ST OF MARCH

A CANDLE IN A GLASS

A KIND OF THEFT

A NEW CONSTELLATION

A STORY AS WET AS TEARS

A VALLEY WHERE I DON'T BELONG

A WORK OF ARTIFACE

ABSOLUTELY SAFE

AFTER THE CORN MOON

AFTER THE LOSS

AFTER THE WIND ABATED, HE WALKED OUT AND DIED

AFTER THE WIND ABATED, HE WALKED OUT AND DIED

ALL DAY ALL NIGHT TALK RADIO

ALL LOVERS HAVE SECRET NAMES

ALL LOVERS HAVE SECRET NAMES

ALL SYSTEMS ARE UP

ALTNEUSHUL IN THE OLD PRAGUE GHETTO

ALWAYS UNSUITABLE

ALWAYS UNSUITABLE

AMIDAH: ON OUR FEET WE SPEAK TO YOU

AMIDAH: ON OUR FEET WE SPEAK TO YOU

ANCIENT WOOD

ANOTHER COUNTRY

ANOTHER COUNTRY

ANOTHER OBITUARY

ANSWER TO ALL PROBLEMS

ANXIETY WINS A ROUND

APOLOGIES

APPLE SAUCE FOR EVE

APPLE SAUCE FOR EVE

ARGUMENT WITH MEMORY

ARIA

ARK OF CONSEQUENCE

ARLES, 7 P.M.

ART OF BLESSING THE DAY

AS THE RUNNERS CREAK

ASCENDING SCALE

AT THE CORE OF LOVING, FEAR

AT THE NEW MOON: ROSH HODESH

AT THE NEW MOON: ROSH HODESH

AT THE WELL

AT THE WELL

ATHENA IN THE FRONT LINES

ATTACK OF THE SQUASH PEOPLE

ATTACK OF THE SQUASH PEOPLE

AUGUST

AUGUST, SUBMERGING

AUNT I WANTED TO BE

AVAILABLE LIGHT

AVAILABLE LIGHT

BABOONS IN THE PERENNIAL BED

BARBIE DOLL

BARBIE DOLL

BEAUTIFUL WEEPER

BEAUTY I WOULD SUFFER FOR

BEAUTY I WOULD SUFFER FOR

BELL SONG

BELLY GOOD

BELLY GOOD

BETWEEN TWO HAMLETS

BEYTZEH: SEASON OF THE EGG

BEYTZEH: SEASON OF THE EGG

BITE INTO THE ONION

BLACK LEAVES

BLACK MOUNTAIN

BLACK MOUNTAIN

BLAH BLAH BLUES

BLIZZARD COMES

BLOOD LAKE

BOOK OF RUTH AND NAOMI

BORROWED LIVES

BOTTOM LINE

BREADCRUMBS

BREADCRUMBS

BREAKING CAMP

BRIDGEING

BROTHER-LESS FIVE: TRUTH AS A CLOUD OF MOTHS

BROTHER-LESS FOUR: LIARS' DANCE

BROTHER-LESS ONE: SUN GOD

BROTHER-LESS SEVEN: ENDLESS END

BROTHER-LESS SIX: UNCONVERSATION

BROTHER-LESS THREE: NEVER GOOD ENOUGH

BROTHER-LESS TWO: PALIMPSEST

BURIAL BY SALT

BURYING BLUES FOR JANIS [JOPLIN]

BUTT OF WINTER

CANDLE IN A GLASS

CARROT

CAST OFF

CAST SKINS

CAT'S SONG

CATS LIKE ANGELS

CATS LIKE ANGELS

CATS OF GREECE

CHAIN OF BEING: SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

CHAROSET

CHAROSET

CHAZERET: LETTUCE IN REBELLION

CHAZERET: LETTUCE IN REBELLION

CHOICES

CHOICES

CHRYSANTHEMUM SEASON

CHUPPAH

CLINIC HALLLWAY

CLOCK IN THE CLOSET

COLD AND MARRIED WAR

COLD HEAD, COLD START

COLORS PASSING THROUGH US

COMING UP ON SEPTEMBER

COMING UP ON SEPTEMBER

COMMON LIVING DIRT

CONCERNING THE MATHEMATICIAN

CORE MEMORY

COUNCILS

COUSIN, COUSINE

CRABS

CROW BABIES

CROWS

CUT

CYCLIST

DAILY LIFE OF THE WORKER BEE

DANCE OF THE TREES

DAUGHTER OF THE AFRICAN EVOLUTION

DAY IN THE LIFE

DEAD WATERS

DEALING WITH THE PIECES

DEATH OF A DOE ON CHEQUESSET NECK

DECK THAT POUTS

DEER COUCHANT

DESCENT OF ORPHEE

DETROIT MEANS STRAIT

DETROIT, SUMMER CAMP

DEVELOPMENT

DIANA INACCESSIBLE

DIGGING IN

DIMINISHING ADDITION

DIRTY POEM

DIRTY POEM

DISINTEGRATION

DISLOCATION

DISMISSAL

DISTANCE MAKES THINGS SMALLER

DO NOT ERECT THE WALL BEFORE YOURSELVES

DOE

DOG DAYS DOGGED RAG

DOG STREET NUMBER

DOMESTIC DANGER

DOWN THE ROAD, DOWN THE ROAD

DREAM OF WHITE AND RED POPPIES

DREAMING THE FROG'S SLEEP

DUET THAT TRAILS OFF

EAT FRUIT

EAT FRUIT

EDGES OF EMPTINESS

ELEGY IN ROCK, FOR AUDRE LORDE

EMBRYOS: 1. WEE

EMBRYOS: 2. WHEY

END OF DAYS

EX IN THE SUPERMARKET

EXACTLY HOW I PURSUE YOU

FADING BETRAYAL

FAMILIARITY'S CURSE

FATHERS AND SONS

FATHERS AND SONS

FEBRUARY GROUND

FECUND COMPLAIN THEY ARE NOT HONORED

FEELING QUITE TEMPORARY

FEW ASHES FOR SUNDAY MORNING

FINEST PORCELAIN

FIRST DAY OUT OF BED

FIRST SOWN

FIRST TIME

FISHERMAN'S CATALOGUE: A FOUND POEM

FLAT ON MY BACK

FLEA MARKET IN AUGUST

FLYING JEW

FOR A BALLERINA WHO DIED OF ANOREXIA

FOR EACH AGE, ITS AMULET

FOR EACH AGE, ITS AMULET

FOR JERIANN'S HANDS

FOR MARS AND HER CHILDREN RETURNING IN MARCH

FOR MOURNING

FOR SHE IS A TREE OF LIFE

FOR SHE IS A TREE OF LIFE

FOR STRONG WOMEN

FOR THE YOUNG WHO WANT TO

FOR THE YOUNG WHO WANT TO

FOR TWO WOMEN SHOT TO DEATH IN BOOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS

FOX GRAPES

FOX IN THE MORNING

FRIEND

FROG SONG

FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH

GARDEN OF WORDS

GASMAN INVITES THE SKYSCRAPERS TO DANCE

GETTING IT BACK

GIFTS THAT KEEP ON GIVING

GIRL IN WHITE

GIRLWATCHING: 1

GIRLWATCHING: 2

GOING IN

GOING INTO TOWN IN THE STORM

GRACIOUS GOODNESS

GRACIOUS GOODNESS

GREAT HORNED OWL

GREY FLANNEL SEXUAL HARASSMENT SUIT

GROWING UP HAUNTED

GROWING UP HAUNTED

HALF VULTURE, HALF EAGLE

HALLOW EVE WITH SPACES FOR GHOSTS

HARD TIME

HARE IN WINTER

HAVDALAH

HAVDALAH

HEAD OF THE YEAR

HEART'S CLOCK

HEEL SHOULD NOT BE AN INSULT

HELLO UP THERE

HER BODY INSCRIBES

HOMAGE TO LUCILLE, DR. LORD-HEINSTEIN

HOMO FABER: THE SHELL GAME

HOT, HOTTER

HOUSE BUILT OF BREATH

HOUSE BUILT OF BREATH

HOUSING PROJECT AT DRANCY

HOW DIVINE IS FORGIVING

HOW THE FULL MOON WAKES YOU

HOW YOU STARE

HOW YOU STARE

HUNGER MOON

I AWAKE FEATHERED

I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN POOR AT FLIRTING

I SAW HER DANCING

I SEE THE SIGN AND TREMBLE

I WILL NOT BE YOUR SICKNESS

I WOKE WITH THE ROOM COLD

IF I HAD BEEN CALLED SABRINA OR ANN, SHE SAID

IF THEY COME IN THE NIGHT

IF WE CAN'T FIND IT, WE MAKE IT

IMAGING

IMPLICATIONS OF ONE PLUS ONE

IMPLICATIONS OF ONE PLUS ONE

IN JUNE ALL THINGS WAKE FULLY

IN JUNE, THE YOUNG DEER ARE ALMOST TAME

IN PRAISE OF JOE

IN THE ATTIC OF DREAMS

IN THE ATTIC OF MY DREAMS

IN THE DARK ALL CATS FLY

IN THE DEPARTMENT STORE

IN THE GRIP OF THE SOLSTICE

IN THE GRIP OF THE SOLSTICE

IN THE MEN'S ROOM(S)

IN WAIT

IN WHICH SHE BEGS (LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE) THAT LOVE MAY LAST

INFLUENCE COMING INTO PLAY: THE SEVEN OF PENTACLES

INSIDE CHANCE

INSOMNIA

INTENSE

INTERIOR WITH SUN

INTERSPECIES

IT AIN'T HEAVY, IT'S MY PURSE

IT ARRIVES SUDDENLY AND CARRIES US OFF AS USUAL

IT ARRIVES SUDDENLY AND CARRIES US OFF AS USUAL

IT DOESN'T SUFFICE

JOY ROAD AND LIVERNOIS

JUNE 21 AT 9:30

KADDISH

KADDISH

KARPAS

KARPAS

KARPAS AND SALT WATER

KID ON HER WAY

KNEELING AT THE PIPES

KNEELING HERE, I FEEL GOOD

LA DOLCE FAR NIENTE

LANDED FISH

LAPSED

LAST DAY OF EXILE WINDS UPWARD

LAST SCENE IN THE FIRST ACT

LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS

LEANING EXPERIENCE

LEARNING TO READ

LEARNING TO READ

LEAVES INSTEAD OF RICE

LET US GATHER AT THE RIVER

LEVEL

LIARS' DICE

LIKE LITTLE FIRECRACKERS IN THE BRAIN

LINE OF DANCERS THROUGH TIME

LINES DRAWN

LIPSKY ON NINTH AVENUE

LISTENING TO A SPEECH

LITTER

LITTLE ACTS OF LOVE

LITTLE MONUMENT

LITTLE PISCHNA REVISITED

LONG NIGHT OF THE INCOMPLETE

LONGEST NIGHT IS LONG DRAWN

LOOKING AT QUILTS

LOOKING AT QUILTS

LOST

LOVE LIKE A TICKING BOMB

LOVE OF LETTUCE

LOVING THE CRONE

LOW PERSPECTIVE

LOW ROAD

MAGGID

MAGGID

MAN WITH TOO MANY WOMEN IN HIS LIFE

MARCH COMES IN ON CLEFT HOOVES

MAROR

MAROR

MARRIAGE IN WINTER

MARRIED WALK IN A HOT PLACE

MATERNAL INSTINCT AT WORK

MATZOH

MATZOH

MEAN

MEANINGFUL EXCHANGE

MEDITATION BEFORE READING TORAH

MEDITATION BEFORE READING TORAH

MIRACLE

MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE

MOON OF THE MOTHER TURTLE

MOONBURN

MORE THAN ENOUGH

MORE THAT WINTER ENDS THAN SPRING BEGINS

MORNING ATHLETES

MORNING ATHLETES

MORNING LOVE SONG

MORNINGS IN VARIOUS YEARS

MOTOWN, ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY

MOVES ON THE CEILING

MUSIC WARS

MY BOA

MY HEROINES

MY MOTHER GIVES ME HER RECIPE

MY MOTHER GIVES ME HER RECIPE

MY MOTHER'S BODY

MY MOTHER'S BODY

MY MOTHER'S NOVEL

MY MOTHER'S NOVEL

MY RICH UNCLE, WHOM I ONLY MET THREE TIMES

MY RICH UNCLE, WHOM I ONLY MET THREE TIMES

NAILING UP THE MEZUZAH

NAILING UP THE MEZUZAH

NEGATIVE ION DANCE

NEVER-NEVER

NEW ROCK ISLAND LINE

NEW YEAR OF THE TREES

NEWLY SHARPENED WIND

NIGHT FIGHT

NIGHT OF THE BEAR AND POLAR LIGHT

NISHMAT

NISHMAT

NOCTURNE

NOON OF THE SUNBATHER

NORTHERN LIGHTS OF THE SKULL

NOTHING MORE WILL HAPPEN

NOW ALL AT ONCE IT IS COLDER

NOW THAT I AM FREE

O!

OCTOBER ECLIPSE

OF THE PATIENCE CALLED FORTH BY TRANSITION

OFF SEASON RENTAL

OH, VEBLEN, THIS IS MUCH BETTER

OLD MOON CRADLING THE NEW MOON

OLD SHOES

ON CASTLE HILL

ON GUARD

ON GUARD

ON SHABBAT SHE DANCES IN THE CANDLE FLAMES

ON SHABBAT SHE DANCES IN THE CANDLE FLAMES

ON THE ROAD IN MIDDLE AGE

ONCE-IN-A LIFETIME WAREHOUSE SALE

ONE BIRD, IF THERE IS ONLY ONE, DIES IN THE NIGHT

ONE BIRD, IF THERE IS ONLY ONE, DIES IN THE NIGHT

ONE REASON I LIKE OPERA

OPEN TO THE SKY

OUT OF SIGHT

OUT OF THE RUBBISH

OUT OF THE RUBBISH

PAIN CAME BACK LIKE SOMETHING SHARP IN MY EYE

PEACEABLE KINGDOM

PEELED AFTER FLU

PENETRATING COLD

PERFECT WEATHER

PERPETUAL MIGRATION

PERSIMMON PUDDING

PHOTOGRAPH OF MY MOTHER SITTING ON THE STEPS

POP-SICLE

POP-SICLE

POSSESSION

POSTCARD FROM THE GARDEN

PRACTICING WITH THE WINDOWS OPEN

PRICE BEGINS TO MOUNT

PRICE OF THE BODY

PROMOTION

PROXIMITY FUSES

PUTTING THE GARDENS TO SLEEP

PUTTING THE GOOD THINGS AWAY

PUTTING THE GOOD THINGS AWAY

PUZZLE

QUARREL IN THE BERRY PATCH

QUICK AND QUIET ONE

RABBI'S GRANDDAUGHTER AND THE CHRISTMAS TREE

RAIN FALLS ON IOANNNINA

RAINY 4TH

RAISIN PUMPERNICKEL

RAM'S HORN SOUNDING

RAPE POEM

RAPE POEM

REAL HEARTH

RECONCILED

REFLECTIONS ON A MIRROR

REPORT OF 14TH SUBCOMMITTE ON CONVENING A DISCUSSION GROUP

REPORT OF THE FOURTEENTH SUBCOMMITTEE ON CONVENING

RESHAPING EACH OTHER

RETREAT

RETURN TO LIFE

RETURNING TO THE CEMETERY IN THE OLD PRAGUE GHETTO

RETURNING TO THE CEMETERY IN THE OLD PRAGUE GHETTO

ROOT CANAL

RUNNING TOWARD R

RUNT VIGOR

S. DEAD

SABBATH OF MUTUAL RESPECT

SALT IN THE AFTERNOON

SALT WATER

SALT WATER

SEASON OF BREAKAGE: 1.

SEASON OF BREAKAGE: 2.

SECRETARY CHANT

SEDUCTION OF ANTICIPATED PAIN

SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON AT FOUR O'CLOCK

SEXUAL SELECTION AMONG BIRDS

SHABBAT MOMENT

SHABBAT MOMENT

SHAD BLOW

SHADOWS OF THE BURNING

SHAME

SHUTTLE

SIGN

SIMPLE-SONG

SIMPLE-SONG

SIMPLIFICATION

SINS OF OMISSION

SITTING LIKE A TURTLE

SIX UNDERRATED PLEASURES

SKY CHANGES

SKYSCRAPERS OF THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT DANCE WITH GASMAN

SLIDES FROM OUR RECENT EUROPEAN TRIP

SMALLEY BAR

SNOWFLAKES, MY MOTHER CALLED THEM

SNOWFLAKES, MY MOTHER CALLED THEM

SOFTLY DURING THE NIGHT

SOME THINGS RETURN IN SPRING

SOMEPLACE ELSE

SOMETHING SO SHARP

SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO

SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO

SOMETIMES WHILE I AM CHANTING'

SOMETIMES WHILE I AM CHANTING'

SONG OF THE NUDGE

SPINNING MY WHEELS

STORY WET AS TEARS

SUBTLE COMMANDS OF THE EARTH

SUMMER MOURNING

SUN-DAY POACHER

SUNDAY AFTERNOON

SWEAR IT

SYZYGY

TARGETS

TASHLICH

TASHLICH

TASK NEVER COMPLETED

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

THE ALTNEUSHUL IN THE OLD PRAGUE GHETTO

THE ARIA

THE ARK OF CONSEQUENCE

THE ART OF BLESSING THE DAY

THE BOOK OF RUTH AND NAOMI

THE CAT'S SONG

THE CHUPPAH

THE DAY MY MOTHER DIED

THE FAITHLESS

THE FLYING JEW

THE FRIEND

THE FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH

THE GARDENER'S LITANY

THE GLAMOUR OF IT

THE GOOD OLD DAYS AT HOME SWEET HOME

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE INCONVENIENT

THE HEAD OF THE YEAR

THE HOUSING PROJECT AT DRANCY

THE HUNGER MOON

THE INFLUENCE COMING INTO PLAY: THE SEVEN OF PENTACLES

THE INSIDE CHANCE

THE LISTMAKER

THE MEANINGFUL EXCHANGE

THE NEIGHBOR

THE NEW YEAR OF THE TREES

THE PROMOTION

THE RAM'S HORN SOUNDING

THE REAL HEARTH

THE SECRETARY CHANT

THE SKYSCRAPERS OF THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT DANCE WITH GASMAN

THE TAO OF TOUCH

THE TASK NEVER COMPLETED

THE THIEF

THE WINE

THE WORLD IN THE YEAR 2000

THIEF

THING-SONG

THINKING OF HOMER AT TWILIGHT

THIS PROWLING ZOO

THOUSANDS OF MORNING MOTHS

THREE A.M. FEEDING

THREE MONTHS EXILE

TO BE OF USE

TO BE OF USE

TO HAVE WITHOUT HOLDING

TO HAVE WITHOUT HOLDING

TOAD DREAMS

TOAD DREAMS

TOO LONG DEAD

TOO LONG DEAD

TOO SOON TO BE TRUE

TOWARD A SUDDEN SILENCE

TRACKS

TRANSFIXED ON THE BANK

TRAVELING DREAM

TRAVELING DREAM

TROPHY

TRUE PATRIOT

TRUE ROMANCE

TRUTH ACCORDING TO LUDD

TRYING OUR METAL

TWITCH IN TIME

UNBUTTONING

UNBUTTONING

UNCLENCH YOURSELF

UNDERWATER BREATHING

UP AND OUT

UP AND OUT

UP AND OUT, SELS.

V'AHAVTA

V'AHAVTA

VALLEY WHERE I DON'T BELONG

VEGETABLE LOVE

VIL FOR THE LAYMAN

VISITATION

VISITING A DEAD MAN ON A SUMMER DAY

VISITING A DEAD MAN ON A SUMMER DAY

VISITORS WITH TOO MUCH BAGGAGE

VOICE OF THE GRACKLE

WAKING WITH MY EARS RINGING

WALKING IN WANING LIGHT

WARM PLACE BECOMES A COLD PLACE

WE DON'T HAVE MUCH TO SAY TO EACH OTHER

WE SPEAK OF SEEING THE HERON, AS IF THERE WERE ONLY ONE

WELLFLEET SHABBAT

WELLFLEET SHABBAT

WET

WHALE WE ARE

WHAT ARE BIG GIRLS MADE OF

WHAT ARE BIG GIRLS MADE OF?

WHAT CROSSES OVER

WHAT SHE CRAVED

WHAT SHE CRAVED

WHAT'S THAT SMELL IN THE KITCHEN

WHAT'S THAT SMELL IN THE KITCHEN

WHEN TOO MUCH IS BARELY ENOUGH

WHERE DREAMS COME FROM

WHERE IS MY HALF-USED TUBE OF TOM'S FENNEL TOOTHPASTE TONIGHT?

WHO MIGHT HAVE BEEN FRIENDS

WHY I BOUGHT THE STUPID PALM TREE DISH

WHY THE SOUP TASTES LIKE THE DAILY NEWS

WICKED STEPMOTHER

WIND CHANGES AROUND

WINDOW OF THE WOMAN BURNING

WINE

WINTER PROMISES

WOMAN IN A SHOE

WOMAN IN A SHOE

WOMAN IN THE

WOMAN IN THE BUSHES

WORD PROBLEM

WORK OF ARTIFACE

WORLD COMES BACK LIKE AN OLD CAT

WORLD FROM BELOW

WORLD UNBANDAGED

WORLDS WITHOUT END

WRITING BAG

WRONG MONDAY

YAHRTZEIT

YEARNING TO REPOSSESS THE BODY

YELLOW LIGHT

YELLOW, RED, BLUE

YOU ASK WHY SOMETIMES I SAY STOP

YOU ASK WHY SOMETIMES I SAY STOP

YOUR EYES RECALL OLD FANTASIES

YOUR FATHER'S FOURTH HEART ATTACK

YOUR FATHER'S FOURTH HEART ATTACK

YOUR STANDARD MID LIFE CRISIS

ZEROAH: LAMB SHANK

ZEROAH: LAMB SHANK



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