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Subject: BOUNDARIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BORDER BLUES, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All along the border the winds blow
Last Line: Of life our shadows are large still %in history's fierce afterglow
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Boundaries


BORDERS, by VICKI GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: What is the opposite of mirror
Last Line: Where does my flesh end, %yours begin, she asks
Subject(s): Boundaries


BRIEF HISTORY OF BORDER CROSSINGS, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Inevitable that it should happen
Last Line: I am, or am willing to become
Subject(s): Boundaries; Travel


CARTOGRAPHY, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out on the border a howl goes up, skinning the cold air
Last Line: It's real, it doesn't exist, it's on all the black maps
Subject(s): Boundaries; Maps; Wings; Borders


DEFINITION, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As clouds lie in the west
Last Line: In your deep firmament.
Subject(s): Boundaries; Heaven; Sky; Borders; Paradise


DEFINITION OF THE FRONTIERS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First there is the wind but not like the familiar wind but long and without lapses
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Nature; War; Boundaries; Borders


MY BOUNDARY STONES ARE THE SUN, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And falls into a pond where cattle perish ed their heads
Subject(s): Boundaries


ON THE BORDER, by RON RASH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today it's still hard country
Last Line: Halfway across and they drowned %in a river called eden
Subject(s): Boundaries


QUI'AMIYAT DIKAKAH, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have seen you far below
Last Line: Until I am the first to die
Subject(s): Birds; Boundaries; Falcons; Tourists; Travel


THE BORDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the dreamers of old coronado
Last Line: And a people with sun in their veins.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Boundaries; Colorado (state); Cowboys; Geography; Prairies; Borders; Plains


THE RESCUE ON THE MEXICAN BORDER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now to the lord almighty
Last Line: We lift our hearts in praise!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Boundaries; God; Religion; Borders; Theology


THE THRESHOLD, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I threaded endless aisles
Last Line: The portal to the lord.
Subject(s): Boundaries; Borders


TRIBE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tribe, an insufficient velvet, borders
Last Line: The water is a guillotine. I am the food of great masses
Subject(s): Boundaries; Cities; Nations


VERSAILLES, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The borders of the countries on the earth's crust
Last Line: At the williest hour. You are slovenian, therefore sad
Subject(s): Boundaries; Earth; Travel; Versailles, Frances


WOMB, by GABRIEL FERRATER    Poem Source                    
First Line: She's been here several hours now
Last Line: The boundaries of my land
Subject(s): Boundaries; Women


WORLDS FROM WATER, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always. %loon, her red eye a dart in darkness
Last Line: What in 1492 was found %was also lost
Subject(s): Boundaries; Geology; Water