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Subject: BUS TERMINALS
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First Line: Oh, to circle back from whence we come
Last Line: Open, just as it now buzzes shut
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Relationships


ALBANY BUS STATION, by RUTH STONE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The same fat man with the fluorescent vest
Last Line: Pulls in to take me home to brandon.
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips


AT THE GREYHOUND BUS STATION, by FRANCIS CLEARY WITTMEIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: She surely did nothing %to deserve
Last Line: She surely did nothing %to deserve
Subject(s): African Americans; Bus Terminals; Women


BUS TERMINAL, by JUDY JUANITA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The missy children drop them off/in compact cars
Last Line: Teaching me how to read/and to read well %so I'd never have this to fall back on
Subject(s): Bus Terminals


BY BUS TO FRESNO, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wakened at a filling station
Last Line: Rushing toward us sooner than we know
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; California


CLAUDETTE COLVIN GOES TO WORK, by RITA DOVE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Menial twilight sweeps the storefronts along lexington
Last Line: Whenever sleep comes down on me
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


CLAUDETTE COLVIN GOES TO WORK, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Menial twilight sweeps the storefronts along lexington
Last Line: Whenever sleep comes down on me
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Parks, Rosa (b. 1913); Racism


FACTS, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bus station in princeton, new jersey
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Princeton, New Jersey


FACTS, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bus station in princeton, new jersey
Last Line: I haven't the heart for it. Not even in you rolls
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Princeton, New Jersey


FREEDOM RIDE, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As if, after high street
Last Line: But where you sit is where you'll be %when the fire hits
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Parks, Rosa (b. 1913)


GOING GREYHOUND, by TANIA RUNYAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You sit by a woman holding a sack of frid chicken
Last Line: On the way to her old, hungry son
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Mothers And Sons; Travel


IN THE BAGGAGE ROOM AT GREYHOUND, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the depths of the greyhound terminal
Subject(s): Bus Terminals


IN THE BAGGAGE ROOM AT GREYHOUND, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the depths of the greyhound terminal
Last Line: Hurt my knee and scraped my hand and built my pectoral muscles nig as a vagina
Subject(s): Bus Terminals


LATE NIGHT BUS TO SILVER SPRING, by SUNIL FREEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Any closer and I'd be nuzzling her breasts
Last Line: Half-blush-then look away
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Commuters; Night


LOOKING AT A BUS STOP, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Water is just a five-letter word
Last Line: That autumn hurts.
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Slavery; Trees; Serfs


MY SAVIOR IN THE FORM OF A BUS, by BETH GYLYS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do you believe in jesus christ our lord?
Last Line: Rescuing me from questions I'd ignored
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Religion


NOTES ON THE STEPS OF THE DAN DIEGO BUS DEPOT, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the street
Last Line: But I need a few surprises badly
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Piercy, Marge (1936-1982)


POEM LIKE A TREE OR A BUS, by JOHN ALEX LATTA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here in the disgathering of general attention
Last Line: Limb' 'remaining' 'on' 'that' 'tree'
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Poetry And Poets; Trees


PORTRAIT OF A POET WITH A CONSOLE TV IN HAND, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I bought that tv at john's tv
Last Line: That it must have to do with an odd madness
Subject(s): Television; Bus Terminals


TO BUS NO. 12, by CLAIRE STUDER-GOLL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bus no. 12 / take my nostalgia
Last Line: My lover!
Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Claire
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Bus Terminals; Markets; Travel; Supermarkets; Journeys; Trips


WINDSHIELD WIPERS, by IOANNA CARLSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bus uses up the road
Last Line: This wetness no obstacle, %this road no map
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Rain; Roads