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Subject: EXTRATERRESTRIALS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALIEN IN AMERICA, by FRANCIS GARDNER CLOUGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have no ear to hear your alien word
Last Line: And faith! -- the heart's last-labored codicil.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clough, F. Gardner
Subject(s): Aliens; Immigrants; United States; Extraterrestrials; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America


APPEARANCES, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under a sky of stars and no moon
Last Line: As the light behind the stars.
Subject(s): Aliens; Fear; Space & Space Travel; Universe; Extraterrestrials; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


END OF THE RANGE, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep ye protein herders weep
Last Line: And the foreigners are fighting back
Subject(s): Aliens; Immigrants; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Extraterrestrials; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Native Americans - Removal


ILLEGAL ALIEN, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Socorro, you free me
Subject(s): Aliens; Extraterrestrials


IRRITABLE ALIENS, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Texas, texas jack omohundro
Last Line: Take us there, pronto
Subject(s): Aliens; Texas; Extraterrestrials


REVELATIONS; CIRCA 1948, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I made no sound, at all, like the wintering
Last Line: I watched. And made no sound...
Subject(s): Aliens; Jerusalem; Silence; World War Ii; Extraterrestrials; Second World War


SONNET: 6, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearest, I never knew such loving. There
Last Line: But still augmented, more than we've ever been
Subject(s): Aliens; Extraterrestrials


TAKEN UP, by CHARLES MARTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tired of earth, they dwindled on their hill,
Subject(s): Aliens; Extraterrestrials


THE SHADOWS AT BOXFORD, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's not the white powder cauliflower of still distant moons
Last Line: Filling with rain.
Subject(s): Aliens; Loyalty; Man-woman Relationships; Extraterrestrials; Male-female Relations


THE STRANGERS, by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: They bought her, not with irish knife
Last Line: That dwell in donegal.
Subject(s): Aliens; Birds; Strangers; Extraterrestrials


THE WHITE FIRES OF VENUS, by DENIS JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We mourn this senseless planet of regret
Last Line: Of the person one meant to become
Subject(s): Aliens; Extraterrestrials


THE X FILES, by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In search of them - the aliens we don't
Last Line: In their precision when they stole my voice
Subject(s): Aliens; Extraterrestrials