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Subject: DOMESTIC RELATIONS
Matches Found: 11

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BEATING, by NATALIE KENVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father knows only that
Last Line: And in a great solitude
Subject(s): Children; Domestic Relations; Marriage; Parents; Violence


CROW COME FROM, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: No one will listen
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Family Life; Nature; Psychoanalysis


DOMESTIC LIFE: 1. TODAY, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Open yourself up: today
Last Line: Except cold inside.
Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Emptiness; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


DOMESTIC LIFE: 3. BEFORE DAWN, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your wife left before you woke
Last Line: Burns less brightly.
Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


DOMESTIC LIFE: 4. THE WATERFALL, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Failing to hold on to things
Last Line: All his furniture.
Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Men; Waterfalls


DOMESTIC LIFE: 5. FALL CLEANING, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning, the almost weightless bodies
Last Line: And out into the autumn woods.
Subject(s): Domestic Relations


FROM THEN TO NOW, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've been thinking of your father
Last Line: And make him give her back
Subject(s): Children; Domestic Relations; Fathers


STRIKING BEAUTY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tom, struck by her face, took and married a wife
Last Line: He should ever be struck by her fist as well!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Marriage; Violence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE WORST OF TIMES, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two men agree to swap wives
Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


WHEN MY DOMESTIC STUNT-DOUBLE STOPPED SHOWING UP, by STACEY FRUITS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I auditioned for the part of mafia princess
Last Line: Bobbing brightly, face down, on the surface
Subject(s): Domestic Relations; New York City


WORST OF TIMES, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two men agree to swap wives
Last Line: These pains in the asses
Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Love - Complaints; Marriage