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Subject: JUNK & JUNKYARDS
Matches Found: 7

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AUTO SALVAGE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In that muddy junkyard, wrecks were stacked
Subject(s): Junk & Junkyards


CHERRYLOG ROAD, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Off highway 106
Subject(s): Adolescence; Junk & Junkyards; Love; Teen Agers


JOHNNY SPAIN'S WHITE HEIFER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first time ever I saw johnny spain was
Last Line: Of course somewhat more than a mite wild
Subject(s): Cows; Junk & Junkyards


JUNK, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An axe angles from my neighbor's ashcan
Subject(s): Decay; Junk & Junkyards; Labor & Laborers; Rot; Decadence; Work; Workers


THE DRUNK IN THE FURNACE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For a good decade
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Furnaces; Junk & Junkyards; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Kilns


THE MORAL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just junk / is what it amounts to
Subject(s): Junk & Junkyards


WHAT I'VE BELIEVED IN, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Propped on blocks, the front half of a packard car rides the hillside
Last Line: Waited years to be asked
Subject(s): Automobiles; Junk & Junkyards; Rust; Cars