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Subject: JEWISH FAMILIES Matches Found: 142 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CANDLE IN A GLASS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you died, it was time to light the first Subject(s): Jewish Families AFTER THE WIND ABATED, HE WALKED OUT AND DIED, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little green snake trapped Last Line: And the long cold between the stars Subject(s): Jewish Families AFTER THE WIND ABATED, HE WALKED OUT AND DIED, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little green snake trapped Last Line: And the long cold between the stars Subject(s): Jewish Families ALL LOVERS HAVE SECRET NAMES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day I forget to write Subject(s): Jewish Families ALL LOVERS HAVE SECRET NAMES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day I forget to write Last Line: Is simply, finally %love Subject(s): Jewish Families ALTNEUSHUL IN THE OLD PRAGUE GHETTO, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Craggy lines stoop against a crowded sky Last Line: Here you slam against fact and then rejoice Subject(s): Jewish Families AMIDAH: ON OUR FEET WE SPEAK TO YOU, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rise to speak / a web of bodies aligned like notes of music Subject(s): Jewish Families AMIDAH: ON OUR FEET WE SPEAK TO YOU, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rise to speak %a web of bodies aligned like notes of music Last Line: Praise the light that shines before us, through us, after us, amein Subject(s): Jewish Families APPLE SAUCE FOR EVE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those old daddies cursed you and us in you Subject(s): Jewish Families APPLE SAUCE FOR EVE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those old daddies cursed you and us in you Last Line: The seeds were freedom and the flowering of choice Subject(s): Jewish Families ARK OF CONSEQUENCE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The classic rainbow shows as an arc Last Line: With the dead moon for company and warning Subject(s): Jewish Families ART OF BLESSING THE DAY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the blessing for rain after drought Last Line: Can't bless it, get ready to make it new Subject(s): Jewish Families AT THE NEW MOON: ROSH HODESH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a two day holiday, the most sacred stretches Last Line: We look dead, making a new season shine Subject(s): Jewish Families AT THE WELL, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I'm blind now and age Subject(s): Jewish Families AT THE WELL, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I'm blind now and age Last Line: Why has the sun gone out %why is it dark? Subject(s): Jewish Families AUNT I WANTED TO BE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My aunt ruth was the youngest girl Last Line: And are still fighting to conquer Subject(s): Jewish Families AVAILABLE LIGHT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ripe and runny as perfect brie, at this age Subject(s): Jewish Families AVAILABLE LIGHT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ripe and runny as perfect brie, at this age Last Line: That I can ever live to name and speak Subject(s): Jewish Families BELLY GOOD, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A heap of wheat, says the song of songs Subject(s): Jewish Families BELLY GOOD, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A heap of wheat, says the song of songs Last Line: We hand you down like a prize feather quilt. %you are our female shame and sunburst strength Subject(s): Jewish Families BEYTZEH: SEASON OF THE EGG, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the season of the egg Last Line: To do and stronger light Subject(s): Jewish Families; Eggs BEYTZEH: SEASON OF THE EGG, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the season of the egg Last Line: Every day there is more work %to do and stronger light Subject(s): Jewish Families BLACK MOUNTAIN, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On montagne noire creeping everywhere under the / beech trees Subject(s): Jewish Families BLACK MOUNTAIN, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On montagne noire creeping everywhere under the %beech trees Last Line: Like warm precious lumps of amber in my mind Subject(s): Jewish Families BOOK OF RUTH AND NAOMI, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you pick up the tanakh and read Last Line: Stronger than hunger, who walked together %the road of shards, hands joined Subject(s): Jewish Families BREADCRUMBS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some time on rosh hashanah I go Subject(s): Jewish Families BREADCRUMBS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some time on rosh hashanah I go Last Line: He will broil my sins for supper Subject(s): Jewish Families CANDLE IN A GLASS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you died, it was time to light the first Last Line: A little winter no spring can melt Subject(s): Jewish Families CHAROSET, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet and sticky Last Line: Tonight in the mind Subject(s): Jewish Families; Passover; Food & Eating; Ceremonies & Rituals CHAROSET, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet and sticky Last Line: Tonight in the mind Subject(s): Jewish Families CHAZERET: LETTUCE IN REBELLION, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bland almost as water Last Line: Waving your own new flag Subject(s): Jewish Families; Food & Eating CHAZERET: LETTUCE IN REBELLION, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bland almost as water Last Line: Waving your own new flag Subject(s): Jewish Families CHUPPAH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chuppah stands on four poles Last Line: In the stearing heat of our time Subject(s): Jewish Families COMING UP ON SEPTEMBER, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White butterflies, with single Subject(s): Jewish Families COMING UP ON SEPTEMBER, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White butterflies, with single Last Line: Tomatoes, we harvest the fruit of our lives Subject(s): Jewish Families EAT FRUIT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keep your legs crossed, mother said. Drinking Subject(s): Jewish Families EAT FRUIT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keep your legs crossed, mother said. Drinking Last Line: Airports and four cities and grown old in wisdom Subject(s): Jewish Families FATHERS AND SONS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abraham laboring for dominion and increase Last Line: He made a short heartfelt speech %and dedication Subject(s): Jewish Families FLYING JEW, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never met my uncle dave Last Line: Ever knew of him was mother screaming Subject(s): Jewish Families FOR EACH AGE, ITS AMULET, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each illness has its demon, burning you with Last Line: Taped and stolen from every living person Subject(s): Charms (magic); Spies; Jewish Families FOR EACH AGE, ITS AMULET, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each illness has its demon, burning you with Last Line: Taped and stolen from every living person Subject(s): Jewish Families FOR SHE IS A TREE OF LIFE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cramped living room of my childhood Subject(s): Jewish Families FOR SHE IS A TREE OF LIFE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cramped living room of my childhood Last Line: Weep hot acid and the earth chafes into dust Subject(s): Jewish Families FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The christian right, islamic jihad Last Line: To them, whose torah is splattered %in letters of blood Subject(s): Jewish Families GROWING UP HAUNTED, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I enter through the hatch of memory Subject(s): Jewish Families GROWING UP HAUNTED, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I enter through the hatch of memory Last Line: As real now as words can make it Subject(s): Jewish Families HAVDALAH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun slides from the sky Subject(s): Jewish Families HAVDALAH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun slides from the sky Subject(s): Jewish Families HEAD OF THE YEAR, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is dark tonight, a new Last Line: That will wax in new goodness Subject(s): Jewish Families HOUSE BUILT OF BREATH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words plain as pancakes syruped with endearment Subject(s): Jewish Families HOUSE BUILT OF BREATH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words plain as pancakes syruped with endearment Last Line: And then in words. And then in food Subject(s): Jewish Families HOUSING PROJECT AT DRANCY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trains without signs flee through paris Last Line: And enter the bones of children Subject(s): Jewish Families HUNGER MOON, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow is frozen moonlight on the marshes Last Line: To survive the death marches of winters past? Subject(s): Jewish Families IN THE GRIP OF THE SOLSTICE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feels like a train roaring into night Subject(s): Jewish Families IN THE GRIP OF THE SOLSTICE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feels like a train roaring into night Last Line: To touch it, only flesh still %welcoming to flesh Subject(s): Jewish Families JEWISH LULLABY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Husha, o husha Last Line: Will envy my son. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Jewish Families; Mothers & Sons KADDISH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look around us, search above us, below, behind Subject(s): Jewish Families KADDISH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look around us, search above us, below, behind Last Line: Everywhere, blessed and holy is peace, let's say amein Subject(s): Jewish Families KARPAS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am one of those weird people Subject(s): Jewish Families KARPAS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am one of those weird people Last Line: Of days growing longer like hair Subject(s): Jewish Families KARPAS AND SALT WATER, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that the gardeners say it goes Subject(s): Jewish Families LEARNING TO READ, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother would not teach me to read Subject(s): Jewish Families LEARNING TO READ, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother would not teach me to read Last Line: I have never (yet) arrived Subject(s): Jewish Families MAGGID, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The courage to let go of the door, the handle Subject(s): Jewish Families; Jews - Women MAGGID, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The courage to let go of the door, the handle Last Line: Who became other by saving themselves Subject(s): Jewish Families; Jews - Women MAROR, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bitter cud / biting into the bitter, that bites back Subject(s): Jewish Families MAROR, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bitter cud %biting into the bitter, that bites back Last Line: Is the first taste of freedom Subject(s): Jewish Families MARRIAGE IN WINTER, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we need is to focus sharply Last Line: We have dreamed but never seen Subject(s): Jewish Families MATZOH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flat you are as a door mat Subject(s): Jewish Families MATZOH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flat you are as a door mat Last Line: In the mouth you %promise, home Subject(s): Jewish Families MEDITATION BEFORE READING TORAH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are the people of the word Subject(s): Jewish Families MEDITATION BEFORE READING TORAH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are the people of the word Last Line: So does light enter us, and we shine Subject(s): Jewish Families MONSIEUR MOREAU, by MARILYN KALLET Poem Source First Line: Monsieur moreau must be dead by now Last Line: On the belle avenue du parc montsouris Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Beginnings; Jewish Families; Paris, France MY MOTHER'S BODY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dark socket of the year Subject(s): Jewish Families MY MOTHER'S BODY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dark socket of the year Last Line: Did not dare in your life you dare in mine Subject(s): Jewish Families MY RICH UNCLE, WHOM I ONLY MET THREE TIMES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were never invited to his house Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Jewish Families; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MY RICH UNCLE, WHOM I ONLY MET THREE TIMES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were never invited to his house Last Line: His last trick was to vanish himself forever Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Jewish Families; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations NAILING UP THE MEZUZAH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A friend from greece Subject(s): Jewish Families NAILING UP THE MEZUZAH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A friend from greece Last Line: Malach ha-moves, angel of death %pass over, pass on Subject(s): Jewish Families NEW YEAR OF THE TREES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the new year of the trees, but here Last Line: Over them on february's cold table I spread %a feast. Wings rustle like summer leaves Subject(s): Jewish Families NISHMAT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the night slides under with the last dimming star Subject(s): Jewish Families NISHMAT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the night slides under with the last dimming star Last Line: And we can out of that stillness rise and praise Subject(s): Jewish Families NONE OF IT, by JANET KAPLAN Poem Text First Line: God lists who'll live who'll die Subject(s): Grandparents; Jewish Families; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers ON SHABBAT SHE DANCES IN THE CANDLE FLAMES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How we danced then, you can't imagine Subject(s): Jewish Families ON SHABBAT SHE DANCES IN THE CANDLE FLAMES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How we danced then, you can't imagine Last Line: And when you wake, you imagine me Subject(s): Jewish Families ONE BIRD, IF THERE IS ONLY ONE, DIES IN THE NIGHT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dropped my spoon into my yogurt Last Line: Warm us through a lethal night's freeze Subject(s): Jewish Families OUT OF THE RUBBISH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among my mother's things I found Subject(s): Jewish Families OUT OF THE RUBBISH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among my mother's things I found Last Line: Where no one could see Subject(s): Jewish Families PUTTING THE GOOD THINGS AWAY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the drawer were folded fine Subject(s): Jewish Families PUTTING THE GOOD THINGS AWAY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the drawer were folded fine Last Line: No day of hers was ever good enough Subject(s): Jewish Families RABBI'S GRANDDAUGHTER AND THE CHRISTMAS TREE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, the rabbi's granddaughter, wanted christmas Last Line: Only red, gold and blue shining for me Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Jewish Families; Jews RAM'S HORN SOUNDING, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Giant porcupine, I walk a rope braided Last Line: And scaled folk born from the ancient warm sea Subject(s): Jewish Families REAL HEARTH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's heat up the night to a boil Last Line: As the hours jump off the cliff Subject(s): Jewish Families RETURNING TO THE CEMETERY IN THE OLD PRAGUE GHETTO, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like bad teeth jammed crooked in a mouth Subject(s): Jewish Families RETURNING TO THE CEMETERY IN THE OLD PRAGUE GHETTO, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like bad teeth jammed crooked in a mouth Last Line: Nights afterward, stone and bone Subject(s): Jewish Families SALT WATER, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a bowl of tears on the table Last Line: The salt of regret and the salt of effort Subject(s): Jewish Families; Salt SALT WATER, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a bowl of tears on the table Last Line: The salt of regret and the salt of effort Subject(s): Jewish Families SECRETARY CHANT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hips are a desk Last Line: Because I wonce %was a woman Subject(s): Jewish Families SHABBAT MOMENT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A scarf trailing / over the lilac sunset Subject(s): Jewish Families SHABBAT MOMENT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A scarf trailing %over the lilac sunset Last Line: Drinking the darkness Subject(s): Jewish Families SNOWFLAKES, MY MOTHER CALLED THEM, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Stood, made of skill and absence Subject(s): Jewish Families SUMMER MOURNING, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One summer morning the light pools heavy Last Line: Of what is, is the bone rotting from within Subject(s): Jewish Families SUNDAY SCHOOL, by ARIELLE GREENBERG Poem Source First Line: No, hebrew school kids, after-school kids, sunday school kids, you don't Last Line: No ashes, no roses, just a pine box and stones, the worms to come and %eat through to your souls Subject(s): Books; Children; Jewish Families; Schools TASHLICH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go to the ocean and throw the crumbs in Last Line: The stain of betrayal from the new year Subject(s): Jewish Families TASK NEVER COMPLETED, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No task is ever completed Last Line: Rough improvisation, but a start Subject(s): Jewish Families THE ARK OF CONSEQUENCE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The classic rainbow shows as an arc Subject(s): Jewish Families THE ART OF BLESSING THE DAY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the blessing for rain after drought Subject(s): Jewish Families THE BOOK OF RUTH AND NAOMI, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you pick up the tanakh and read Subject(s): Jewish Families THE CHUPPAH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chuppah stands on four poles Subject(s): Jewish Families THE FLYING JEW, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never met my uncle dave Subject(s): Jewish Families THE FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The christian right, islamic jihad Subject(s): Jewish Families THE HEAD OF THE YEAR, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is dark tonight, a new Subject(s): Jewish Families THE HOUSING PROJECT AT DRANCY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trains without signs flee through paris Subject(s): Jewish Families THE HUNGER MOON, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow is frozen moonlight on the marshes Subject(s): Jewish Families THE NEW YEAR OF THE TREES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the new year of the trees, but here Subject(s): Jewish Families THE RAM'S HORN SOUNDING, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Giant porcupine, I walk a rope braided Subject(s): Jewish Families THE REAL HEARTH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's heat up the night to a boil Subject(s): Jewish Families THE SECRETARY CHANT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hips are a desk Subject(s): Jewish Families THE TASK NEVER COMPLETED, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No task is ever completed Subject(s): Jewish Families THE THIEF, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dina sent me a postcard Subject(s): Jewish Families THEIR LAST GIFTS; FOR MY FATHER, JOSEPH LAPIDUS (1899-1990), by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Her last gift to him Last Line: Such a short time to hurt %such a long time to be immortal Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Jewish Families; Mourning; Psychoanalysis; Relationships THIEF, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dina sent me a postcard Last Line: As I freed %those captured coins Subject(s): Jewish Families TO BE OF USE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The people I love the best Subject(s): Jewish Families; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers TO BE OF USE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The people I love the best Last Line: The pitcher cries for water to carry %and a person for work that is real Subject(s): Jewish Families UNBUTTONING, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The buttons lie jumbled in a tin Last Line: Left by vanished flesh Subject(s): Jewish Families UP AND OUT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We occupy neighborhoods like roominghouses Subject(s): Jewish Families UP AND OUT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We occupy neighborhoods like roominghouses Last Line: In heaven as on earth the dishes must be done Subject(s): Jewish Families V'AHAVTA, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So you shall love what is holy Subject(s): Jewish Families V'AHAVTA, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So you shall love what is holy Last Line: Let us remember to find what is holy %within and without Subject(s): Jewish Families WELLFLEET SHABBAT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hawk eye of the sun slowly shuts Subject(s): Jewish Families WELLFLEET SHABBAT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hawk eye of the sun slowly shuts Last Line: Down the fresh clean night Subject(s): Jewish Families WHAT SHE CRAVED, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother sugared grapefruit; / my father salted it Subject(s): Jewish Families; Mothers; Sugar WHAT SHE CRAVED, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother sugared grapefruit; %my father salted it Last Line: Ticking through running down days Subject(s): Jewish Families; Mothers; Sugar WICKED STEPMOTHER, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The good and loving mother dies Last Line: Just before the end of time Subject(s): Jewish Families WINE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red is the body's own deep song Last Line: That is the wine of life Subject(s): Jewish Families WOMAN IN A SHOE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old woman who lived Subject(s): Jewish Families WOMAN IN A SHOE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old woman who lived Last Line: And you see living garbage Subject(s): Jewish Families YAHRTZEIT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything I have written about Last Line: And you stab straight for my heart %and it stops Subject(s): Jewish Families YOUR FATHER'S FOURTH HEART ATTACK, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The phone cord is the umbilicus Subject(s): Jewish Families YOUR FATHER'S FOURTH HEART ATTACK, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The phone cord is the umbilicus Last Line: While he calls till hoarseness, for himself Subject(s): Jewish Families ZEROAH: LAMB SHANK, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It grosses out many of my friends Subject(s): Jewish Families ZEROAH: LAMB SHANK, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It grosses out many of my friends Last Line: Meat that thinks and sings Subject(s): Jewish Families |
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