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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BUILDER'S LESSON, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall I a habit break
Last Line: And habit builds the bridge at last!
Subject(s): Habits


AFTER A NOISY NIGHT, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The man I love enters the kitchen
Last Line: And kiss him, kiss him.
Subject(s): Coffee; Gratitude; Habits; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Morning; Prayer; Sleep; Male-female Relations


ALICE POTATO, by THOMAS ZVI WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Solanum tuberosum: %a talmudic study
Last Line: Curls into self, %must rot to resurrect
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


AMERICAN HERITAGE POTATO, by JIM BARNES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lying just under potation
Last Line: Or a choctaw who has tasted its higher essence
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


AMERICAN POETRY, by JAMES BERTOLINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A poetry sudden as rain flood
Last Line: Quaking, %invincible white
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


ARSH POTATOES', by ROBERT PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Roscoe's strictly a meat-and-potatoes man,'
Last Line: Would you commence to pass the arsh potatoes.?' I say
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


BEFORE THE HUNGER: MEGAN'S BLESSING, by MARGARET BLANCHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: What an awful dream
Last Line: Than a stew to witness %your glory
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


BELLADONNA, by DENNIS FINNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Apparently, my people begin and end in iowa
Last Line: A homely thing, mostly water and edible
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


BEST MEALS OF MY LIFE, by JOSEPH DUEMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I crack an egg
Last Line: Life of the body, %life of the mind
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


BREASTS, by MAXINE CHERNOFF    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were french, I'd write / about breasts
Subject(s): Breasts; Love - Erotic; Food Habits; Popular Culture - United States; Potatoes


BREASTS, by MAXINE CHERNOFF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were french, I'd write %about breasts
Last Line: Bogart is staring at lauren bacall's breasts %as if they might start speaking
Subject(s): Breasts; Erotic Love; Food Habits; Popular Culture - United States; Potatoes


CALIFORNIA POTATOES, by DENISE LOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: The peruvian restaurant served
Last Line: With earth, water, and air
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


CHOICE, by DONNA TRUSSELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Potatoes were a delicacy
Last Line: And the occasional %potato
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


COMMENT ON AN OBSERVATION BY ONE OF MY MASTERS, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But that's because back in the time of plato
Last Line: Choke discourse on the matter of roast beef
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


CORK EXAMINER, DECEMBER 4, 1846: MORE STARVATION, by ANNA MORTAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twas the sight of my bridey's hand, chewed
Last Line: Sweet as anything I'd ever heard
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


DIGGING, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between my finger and my thumb
Subject(s): Food Habits; Poetry & Poets; Potatoes


DIGGING, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between my finger and my thumb
Last Line: The squat pen rests. %I'll dig with it
Subject(s): Food Habits; Poetry And Poets; Potatoes


DIGGING POTATOES, by COLETTE INEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Idaho russets, late beauties of hebron
Last Line: With baco bits, butter and salt
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


DIGGING POTATOES, 1950, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Evenings we went out alone to that long field
Last Line: In the dark drinking beer like old army buddies
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


DIRTY ENGLISH POTATOES, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Steam-cleaned, so groundless you'd believe
Last Line: Unreal meals risen from sheer mist
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


DREAMING OF FRENCH FRIES BEHIND THE PROJECTS IN FAR ROCKAWAY, by DENNIS BERNSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The black bitch cat scratched the rat's jelly-brain clean
Last Line: West, do some surfing, and kick back for some eats with mom
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


DUCHESS POTATOES, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My people grew potatoes
Last Line: They were called 'duchess'
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


END OF ALL HISTORY, by KENNETH JOHN SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: That all came out jumbled in all the different heads, napoleon
Last Line: Potatoes don't pick themselves
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


FAMINE, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All over ireland, survivors held wakes
Last Line: Waited a potato too long, prayed a day too hard
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


FAMINE'S END, by JUDY LONGLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reassured when the moon's pale flesh
Last Line: Into the dark, let us nurture new vine
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


FAR MEMORY: 6. KARMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The habit is heavy
Last Line: No whole abiding / sister
Subject(s): Habits; Sisters; Women & Religion


HABITS, by CESARE PAVESE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the avenue's asphalt the moon makes a lake
Last Line: If no one's waiting, there's no point in that
Subject(s): Friendship; Habits


IF YOU'RE LOST', by S. B. SOWBEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A renowned interpreter of %the stars once said
Last Line: For life at a forgotten address.'
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


IN JANA'S GARDEN, by JOYCE CAROL OATES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, in july, in jana's weedy garden
Last Line: For all you can give
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


IN PERU, THE QUECHUANS HAVE A THOUSAND WORDS FOR POTATO, by RAY GONZALEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hold my cut finger to the ice water
Last Line: Before climbing up the mountain
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


IN PRAISE OF THE POTATO, by DAVID WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Potato, sojourner north, first sprung
Last Line: You'd drive it up, into a flower
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


INSULTED AND THE INJURED (THE SPEAKER IS A SMALL POTATO OVERLOOKED, by PETER VIERECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I, underground giant, waiting to be fried
Last Line: Rises - %(I'm sun, I fill the sky) - %and lours
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


KITCHENS, by JUDITH TATE O'BRIEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The morning I received the religious habit
Last Line: And wore them like saucers under my chin
Subject(s): Habits; Nuns


LA PAPA, by RUDOLFO ANAYA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In spanish potato is papa
Last Line: This is the way with words
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


LETTER TO A FORMER MOTHER SUPERIOR, by MARY KAY RUMMEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a drawer in the kitchen %onions kneel
Last Line: They come to claim me %these tellers of silence
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


LILA'S POTATOES, by LELAND BARDWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: They asked me to write a poem
Last Line: I'm glad it was the sun
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


LONG LIVE THE POTATO; VIVA LA PAPA!, by ANGELA DE HOYOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: ...To borrow from the song: in spain
Last Line: Simply what it is: la papa
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


LOVE LETTER, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not easy to state the change you made
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Letters; Habits; Change


MAN IN NOVOSIBIRSK, by H. L. HIX    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leaning into the handlebars
Last Line: Another man gathers mushrooms
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


MISHIPASINGHAN, LUMCHIPAMUDANA, ETC, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some days, anything is wonderful. In its
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


MISHIPASINGHAN, LUMCHIPAMUDANA, ETC, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some days, anything is wonderful. In its
Last Line: He eats it. And there's only one word
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


MOLLY O'ROURKE CLEARY EXPLAINS, by PATRICIA CLEARY MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We were aristocrats in clare
Last Line: Told irish stories, though we were %always aristocrats, I'm sure
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


OF POTATOES, by TRISH REEVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: We didn't plan our lives this way
Last Line: Still wanting to have a bit more %than the poor
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


ON HEARING THAT A POTATO COSTS $70 IN SARAJEVO, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Potato: for want of it the irish invaded boston
Last Line: Abundant in the skins of the coveted, ubiquitous, %though sometimes unafforadable potato
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


ONE MAN'S POTATO CHIP, by DIANA VON ZWECK    Poem Source                    
First Line: History repeats a work of
Last Line: She, the wild brushstroke. A visionary desire
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


ONE POTATO, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She buys a potato
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


ONE POTATO, by PAT MORA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She buys a potato
Last Line: That given time, ripen
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


OUTSIDE, by SUSAN WHITMORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wind whips red %and orange against window glass
Last Line: Flower memory, fleshy green
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


PASSACAGLIA, by LEQUITA VANCE-WATKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Potato, you thunder along
Last Line: For a baritone of years
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


PEELING POTATOES, by PHILIP MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the kitchen %everything looked worn
Last Line: Staring hard %at the old winter moon
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


PEOPLE WHO EAT IN COFFEE SHOPS, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Food Habits; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


PITCHING THE POTATOES, by MARTIN ESPADA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father was a semipro pitcher in the city
Last Line: In a snapshot from thirty years ago
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POEM, by BOB HOLMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once when I was little I knelt before an onion
Last Line: Then the onion opened and inside was a potato
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 4. LES PAPILLONS NOIRS, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A black sedan draws along the woods stopping
Last Line: "what to throw away."
Subject(s): Bodies; Daffodils; Habits; War; Women


POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 5; FOR R.P. BLACKMUR, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There are the countless, returning new england widows
Last Line: With alabaster. And suffer affliction like an insect.
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Habits; New England; Widows & Widowers


POTATO, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The potato reminds one of an alert desert stone. And it belongs
Last Line: Would be a lot of plat...'
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POTATO, by JANE KENYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In haste one evening while making dinner
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POTATO, by JANE KENYON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In haste one evening while making dinner
Last Line: Hand-me-down clothes on the line
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POTATO, by ROCHELLE RATNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The potato is on the dishrack
Last Line: Some stay there longer than others
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POTATO, by RODERICK TOWNLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before the frisk of snow
Last Line: Until it wasn't anymore
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POTATO, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An underground grower, blind and a common brown
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POTATO, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An underground grower, blind and a common brown
Last Line: Awkward and milky and beautiful only to hunger
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POTATO CELLAR, by MEG HUBER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stretched out on a roof
Last Line: To soften the floor %beneath our backs
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POTATO CONFLICTS: 1. UNSUNG SPUD FIGHTS AXIS POWERS, by WALTER BARGEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the captured photo alum, attic-dusted and insect-infested
Last Line: The graf zeppelin, dumping ballast on his bespeckled face
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POTATO CONFLICTS: 2. CANNON FODDER, by WALTER BARGEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All that's needed is three or four feet of plastic pipe
Last Line: Current and turning to catfish fodder
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POTATO CONFLICTS: 3. GARDEN CASUALTIES, by WALTER BARGEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Green spring and I'm racing through intersections
Last Line: Blind as a root, dumb as a tuber
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POTATO ESCAPE, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was fifteen I stood
Last Line: To all the future world?
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POTATO GARDEN, by JEANETTE REDENIUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember watching benjie
Last Line: From the compost %last summer
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POTATOES, by DAVID DONNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: This poem is about the strength and sadness of potatoes
Last Line: In the cellars of poor farmers all over america %the potatoes sit quietly on top of each other growi
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POTATOES, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Neglected for days, for weeks
Last Line: Have started to turn, growing shorter
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POTATOES, by ROBERT PETERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You eat whatever you can
Last Line: White tubers to keep one sane
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POTATOES, by DAISY RHAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The man I love cooks me potatoes
Last Line: Still this taste I would always know - %korea, china, peru
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POTATOES CORIANDER, by ELISE PASCHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Harbored inside a much-thumbed joy of cooking
Last Line: Yield: two servings...Plus souvenirs of john!
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


POTATOES OF THE FIELD, by THOMAS MICHAEL MCDADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Boone understands %how tough it would be
Last Line: A tale that gives boone hope %and a shiver
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


PRINCESS, by ELIZABETH GOLDRING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't stare at me
Last Line: I'm happy not to see
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


REPETITION, by KAY RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trying to walk
Subject(s): Walking; Habits


RISKS, by MALCOLM GLASS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You know the risks when you wok
Last Line: Of potatoes descend %to bury you
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


ROAST POTATOES, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the wholesale produce market
Variant Title(s): Roasting Potatoes
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


ROAST POTATOES, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the wholesale produce market
Last Line: Lacking, and for the young, %unknown to memory
Variant Title(s): Roasting Potatoe
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


ROOTS: TO MY DAUGHTER, by VIRGINIA RINALDY TERRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You told me you were growing potatoes
Last Line: As if planting themselves
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


RUTS, by NELLIE E. WARREN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Did you ever in the springtime
Last Line: And face the whole world with a grin.
Subject(s): Habits


SCRAPS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a habit I have nurtured
Last Line: Feeling you are only scraps.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Habits; Poetry & Poets


SEEING A BASKET OF LOBELIA THE COLOR OF A BATHROBE, by MOLLY PEACOCK            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At that time I read a book about a girl prone
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


SEEING A BASKET OF LOBELIA THE COLOR OF A BATHROBE, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At that time I read a book about a girl prone
Last Line: The tears stored in roots brought out for food
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


SEX AND THE SINGLE SPUD, by ANN SLEGMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hot. Steaming hot
Last Line: Than when I am romancing the spud
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


SIMPLE THING, by LEATHA KENDRICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Standing at my stove, potatoes to be mashed
Last Line: Is all she'll hear me say
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


SKIBBEREEN THE FAMINE PIT, by JOHN KNOEPFLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was only that the poor
Last Line: They had the deep eyes
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


SKINNING, by DAN QUISENBERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: They say the peel is where you get
Last Line: Carving and say %'you eat em'
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


SPUDS, by BRIAN DALDORPH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now if'n yous go on a motor trip
Last Line: An' make it home on potheen
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


SUSTENANCE, by JASON SANTALUCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It should have been enough that we were poor
Last Line: It was a kind of purity, I said, and believed it
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


SWIMMING LESSON, by WYATT TOWNLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Go under. %put your whole head in
Last Line: Your whole life %into it
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


THAT THE SCIENCE OF CARTOGRAPHY IS LIMITED, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And not simply by the fact that this shading of
Subject(s): Food Habits; Ireland - Famine; Maps; Potatoes


THAT THE SCIENCE OF CARTOGRAPHY IS LIMITED, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: #name?
Last Line: And finds no horizon %will not be there
Subject(s): Food Habits; Ireland - Famine; Maps; Potatoes


THE CELLAR, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want my father to stop sending me down there
Last Line: Yet another cry for mercy.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Antwerp, Belgium; Betrayal; Cellars; Duty; Fathers & Daughters; Food Habits; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Penance; Potatoes; Shame; Survival; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Basements; Shoah; Judaism


THE DUCHESS POTATOES, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My people grew potatoes
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


THE LOSING HABIT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When you get the losing habit, it is hard, so
Last Line: When that losing habit lingers grimly by your side!
Subject(s): Baseball; Habits; Sports


THE MACHINATIONS OF THE MIND, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The car crash we passed when I was five
Last Line: What spins and claws in our rearview mirrors.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Habits; Housekeeping; Memory; Order; Reason; Selectivity; Violence; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE WRONG MAN, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where wild-heaped rubble o'erpeers the pit-mouth black
Last Line: A be t'roight mon for yo' an' no mistake.'
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Habits; Human Behavior; Social Problems; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Dead, The; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THINK-ABOUTS, by DAISY MAUD BELLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was very little, and had been put
Last Line: "into garlands, and the flowers answer all my ""think-abouts."
Subject(s): Flowers; Habits; Thought; Thinking


THIS MORNING, GOD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four a.M. Snow on the roof like a stone slab
Last Line: The incessant beating in my chest for two now.
Subject(s): Coffee; Dawn; Habits; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Memory; Morning; Past; Prayer; Silence; Solitude; Sunrise; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness


THIS SPUD'S FOR YOU, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of solanum tuberosum, that vagrant vegetable
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


THIS SPUD'S FOR YOU, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of solanum tuberosum, that vagrant vegetable
Last Line: We can lift our voices. All together now
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


TODAY THE GRANDPA DUG POTATOES, by OPAL WHITELY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today the grandpa dug potatoes in the field
Last Line: The star gleams on their leaves
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


TONIGHT, by REGINA DECORMIER-SHEKERJIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stand in the kitchen scrubbing
Last Line: And slam the lid down on potatoes
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


TONIGHT I THANK THE POTATO, by ROBERT STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bare hands wash
Last Line: Holds us by the thumb
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


TOURISTS, POTATOES, AND GENOCIDE, by RUSH RANKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A former girlfriend praises my new place
Last Line: For some tiny trace of what happened
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


TWO: INHALE AND RAISE THE ARMS. BEND BACKWARD, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: You, I accuse. %you, michael moon
Last Line: Mend yourself, %come forth
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


UNNATURAL APPETITES, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: When van gogh was painting his stars
Last Line: Still, you never get the dirt out of the starved kid. %and the blue sky arches forever, painfully pr
Subject(s): Appetite; Food And Eating; Food Habits; Paintings And Painters; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


VAN GOGH'S THE POTATO EATERS, by PETER COOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not ever to sit down, a part of one another
Last Line: Ruddy at the unspoken, ravening
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


VARIATIONS ON THE EDIBLE TUBER, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thing I hate most is eating potatoes
Last Line: Condition however extreme %this new feeling
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes


WIDOWER, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She took such good care of him
Last Line: Of the miracles. She knew all along
Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes