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Subject: GULF WAR (1991) Matches Found: 67 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 363 DAYS SHORT, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: My hands stained vermilion, I walk through the student union Last Line: That held the brush that painted a naked woman Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) BETRAYAL, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Bra unhooked from the front Last Line: Cover the earth again Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) BIG PARADE, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Outside another gray day Last Line: To gouge out the eyes of those who can see Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) BILLION SCUDS BURSTING OVER ARLES, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Now that you have returned Last Line: And the town are the peaceful %things of spring Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) BREAKOUT, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: You must have sawed off your own nightmares Last Line: To be your accomplice Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) BURNING CITIES OF DESIRE, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: You crawl into bed with your husband Last Line: Your naked breasts in my hands Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) CHANCE MEETING, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: By chance, we meet in the mall, outside the k-mart Last Line: It is just like being inside you Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) CHILDREN OF EROS & DUST, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: It is almost as if we were children Last Line: Play out our lives in his chalk-covered light Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) CHINA DOLLS, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: My cock a discarded butt, I roll a big one on my thigh Last Line: You have told me the only time you are not a whore %is when I am f -- you Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) COLLATERAL DAMAGE, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Even though it is spring you wear long sleeves Last Line: Delight as if you were a saigon whore Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) COMMUNION, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Bra unhooked from the front Last Line: I can almost believe in sin Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) CORPSMAN UP, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: You enter the loft late at night Last Line: A pressure bandage %on your heart Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) CREATURES OF PROMETHEUS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fill the air with their Last Line: It nothing will survive Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) CRUCIFIXION IN THE DESERT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are bones inside Last Line: It will never stop never Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) DALI: SMART BOMB IN ANTHROPOMORPHIC ECHO, by AL ROCHELAU Poem Source First Line: During the bagdad assault Last Line: And hardly a whisper Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) DAWN ON THE SIXTH DAY, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Bra unhooked from the front Last Line: Gasping for breath %just like us Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) DESERT STORM, by VOLKER BRAUN Poem Source First Line: Saddam hussein the troublesome supplier Last Line: The phantom armies of the new one's armageddon Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) DREAM OF THE RED BRUSH, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I know li po dipped his brush Last Line: Of ten thousand women Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) DUST OF THE WORLD, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I draw you in dark ink as you lie naked Last Line: And last time since we bagan this affair Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) EXIT WOUND, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Dripping wet and loving Last Line: Like an exit wound %through my heart Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) FAMILY DINNER, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I smell lilacs in the loft. Perhaps they Last Line: At the table, napalming %a fleeing army Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) FLY, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Born between two panes of glass Last Line: God's grand design for us Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) GULF WAR AND CHILD: A CURSE, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: He is sleeping, his fingers curled Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Operation Desert Storm (1991) GULF WAR FROM YAKIMA, by JIM BODEEN Poem Source First Line: Just suppose, doc Last Line: Wednesday you're going to ask me %about seizures. We'll talk%about the little explosions %going off Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) HELLHOUNDS, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: After making love, you sit naked at my table Last Line: From the aged cage of my body Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) HOLY WATER, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: You lie down on your back, bending both legs Last Line: Again, you have saved my life Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) HOMECOMING, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: After we make love perhaps Last Line: Burying their dead Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) HONORABLE MANHOOD, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: You come to me at ten in the evening Last Line: Yelling in his burning blue eyes Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) IN CALIFORNIA DURING THE GULF WAR, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the blight-killed eucalypts, among Subject(s): California; Gulf War (1991); Operation Desert Storm (1991) IN CALIFORNIA DURING THE GULF WAR, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the blight-killed eucalypts, among Last Line: Were not doves, there was no rainbow. And when it was claimed %the war had ended, it had not ended Subject(s): California; Gulf War (1991) IN OUR TIME, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Under the desert is a bunker Last Line: After the first nuclear war Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) IN THE LIGHT FROM BURNING SKULLS, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Hating darkness, I turn on all the lights Last Line: Of the tank crews your husband is killing Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) LATE SPRING, AFTER THE GULF WAR, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Cesium drips from the horse chestnut trees Last Line: Is infected with republican lies Subject(s): Death; Graves; Gulf War (1991); Politics MANTIS, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Do not let me die, ever,' I whisper Last Line: Like that mantis devouring the face of a bee Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) NEWS REPORT, SEPTEMBER 1991 U.S. BURIED IRAQI SOLDIERS ALIVE IN GULF, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What you saw was a / bunch of trenches with Variant Title(s): News Report, Sept 1991 U.s. Buried Iraqi Soldiers Alive Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Operation Desert Storm (1991) NEWS REPORT, SEPTEMBER 1991 U.S. BURIED IRAQI SOLDIERS ALIVE IN GULF, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What you saw was a %bunch of trenches with Last Line: Arms and things %sticking out.' %cost-effective Variant Title(s): News Report, Sept 1991 U.s. Buried Iraqi Soldiers Aliv Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) NIGHTHAWK, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: You tie me up with your husband's yellow ribbons Last Line: You squawked that you loved me Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) NOVEMBER EVENING, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Bra unhooked from the front Last Line: A bombing run %on baghdad Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) ON A LINE FROM VALERY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole green sky is dying. The last tree flares Last Line: The gulf war Variant Title(s): Gulf War Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Literary Form; Valery, Paul (1871-1945); War; Women; Women's Rights; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Feminism OPERATIONS: DESERT SHIELD, DESERT STORM, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who / are these two women, walking Last Line: America, welcome home. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Grief; Gulf War (1991); History; Sorrow; Sadness; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Historians ORANGE ALTAR, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: With your yellow dress Last Line: For an evening %in our reeking flesh Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) PAINTING LESSON, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: You have not painted since high school Last Line: Just like you were f -- me Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) PHOENIX, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I watch your face catch fire Last Line: Forged together %in blazing feathers Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) PRAYER SHAWL OF THIGHS, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: As one of your naked thighs presses Last Line: A prayer shawl %round my shoulders Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) RAPISTS, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Lying under me, the disneyland sweatshirt Last Line: His endless herds of bison thundering past him Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) RAPTURE, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I watch on the local news the falcons returning Last Line: His fingers great talons in your breasts Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) READY FOR LOVE, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I kiss you with the clearness dostoevsky mentioned Last Line: For their young men to return from cuba Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Love RED METAL CHAIR, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: We like it like this sometimes Last Line: Hate your husband Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) RICH HOUR, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Starlings, those blue-black and shaggy birds whose feathers seem Last Line: On air, the blue door closing above me Subject(s): Death; Gulf War (1991) SADDAM, by GREGG G. BROWN Poem Source First Line: The petty strut of a peacock without a tail Last Line: Surrender to god, whose white hand works through my %hand Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Hussein, Saddam (b. 1937) SCHWANENLIED, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: You take off your watch and the golden earrings Last Line: All life howling to a halt Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) SCORPIONS, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Moving like the scorpion fight Last Line: In that officer's barracks in dhahran Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) SMART BOMBS, by CHARLES OWEN LAWSON Poem Source First Line: This one was stupid Last Line: And the oil wells would soon again flow free as blood Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) SOFT AND ETERNAL PEACE, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: At night when you turn tricks Last Line: And the babies %in their bellies Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) SUNFLOWERS OF SULLIVAN BALLOU, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I dream you come to me at four in the morning Last Line: Ballou dies believing everything is lost Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) TAP OF DRUM FOR DRILL AND DRESS PARADE, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I picture you walking through the wrought iron gate Last Line: Desert storm sunglasses %purchased in k-mart Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) TEARS AND WAILS: AN ODE TO THE SURVIVOR, by FINTAN L. DOOLEY Poem Source First Line: Tears of my sleepless fellow, I do remember Last Line: Sure, he said, I do remember. She did promise to wait for me Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Militarism; Soldiers; Survival; War Injuries TERRITORY AHEAD, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: We lie lazily in bed Last Line: Thinking %of the territory ahead Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) THE BOMBING OF BAGDAD, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Began and did not terminate for 42 days Last Line: With the dead Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Bagdad, Iraq; Air Raids; Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Operation Desert Storm (1991) THE COALITION, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If among earth's kings lord gilgamesh should remain unreasonable Last Line: Of pharoah death, imperator death, shogun death, president death Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) THOUSANDTH AND SECOND NIGHT, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Your husband is on his way Last Line: And -- the girls %they left behind Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) VICTORY, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: You lie on your back on my orange couch and I lift Last Line: In perfect formation through screams of rapture Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) WAITING MY TURN IN THE PIT, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: After we make love, I get my life back Last Line: Out my turn in the pit Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) WHITE MASS, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: While the first snow melts Last Line: A wafer of liquid in our mouths Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) WINTER, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: With your yellow dress Last Line: Shut against my tall loft windows Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) WITH THE TASTE OF BLACKBERRIES IN HIS MOUTH, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: As the column left the shade of woods Last Line: The next day orders came for the march to bull run Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) WITH THE WORLD, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to finish Last Line: Thinking he's off-camera. Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Love; Quarrels; War; War - Home Front; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Arguments; Disagreements |
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