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Subject: ATTICS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ATTIC, by RAYMOND CARVER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her brain is an attic where things
Last Line: The sad face of someone who has been locked up %and forgotten about
Subject(s): Attics


ATTIC, by HENRI COULETTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have ascended to this paradise
Last Line: Too far to be enchanted by the rain. %we are alone, alone with what we are
Subject(s): Attics


ATTIC, by MATT DENNISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In his workshop my landlord tells me
Last Line: I hear his indignant voice above me %as he fills the poison trays, %as he wins, %as I work
Subject(s): Attics


ATTIC, by ROSE FYLEMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The attic window's in the ceiling
Subject(s): Attics


ATTIC, by KEYLA GONZLAEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the trunk, in the attic
Subject(s): Attics


ATTIC, by BRIAN SWANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: These rooftops imitate information as their intervals fight against the night
Last Line: Buttocks of sunbathers. %the ghost is within
Subject(s): Attics


ATTIC, by LEWIS PUTNAM TURCO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Things, the work of dust and summer flies, upstairs over the
Subject(s): Attics


ATTIC LIGHT, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The light moved with a kind of languor
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Attics; Time


IN THE ATTIC, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a half hour toward dusk when flies
Subject(s): Attics


IN THE ATTIC, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a half hour toward dusk when flies
Last Line: And the chin sank then onto palms above %numbed elbows propped on rotting sills
Subject(s): Attics


IN THE ATTIC, by DAVID VOGEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Naked %our dead hang
Last Line: Attends them relentlessly- %prescribes a long rest
Subject(s): Attics


IN THE ATTIC, by DAVID VOGEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our dead hang in the attic, naked, one on top of the other
Subject(s): Attics


IN THE ATTIC OF MY DREAMS, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I imagine an attic
Last Line: Into my ears their stories and songs
Subject(s): Attics; Dreams; Ancestors & Ancestry


OUR MOON'S AN ATTIC USED FOR STORAGE SPACE, by DAWSON POWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our moon's an attic used as storage space
Last Line: From lunar shores when dawn's mist curtains burn.
Subject(s): Attics; History; Moon; Historians


SECOND ANSWER, by SABRINA MARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The attic hides in the attic
Last Line: All I can say is that I'be been to the cellar and come back%with a jar of bruised quiet humming
Subject(s): Attics; Heads


THE ATTIC AND ITS NAILS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's hard up there. You dig in a box for whatever the moment
Last Line: Too occupied to remember what sent you up into the dark.
Subject(s): Attics; Change; Memory; Past


THE HEROINES, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heroines lived with their husbands'
Last Line: And drowned in the attic.
Subject(s): Attics; Heroism; Women; Heroes; Heroines


THE OLD ATTIC ROOM, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the roof the rain is falling
Last Line: Safe, securely safe we felt.
Subject(s): Attics


TO MY GOOD MASTER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In fancy, always, at thy desk, thrown
Last Line: My listening heart and all the love of it!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Attics; Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading


UPSTAIRS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I too have a garret of old playthings
Last Line: I too have a garret of old playthings.
Subject(s): Attics; Toys