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Subject: NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS
Matches Found: 17

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ATOMIC PANTOUM, by PETER MEINKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a chain reaction
Last Line: Blind to the end %split up like nuclei %we sing to jesus %ina chain reaction
Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents


CHERNOBYL, by GRACE BUTCHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: At our table a world away
Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents


CHERNOBYL, by SUSAN KELLY-DEWITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am not a scientist
Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents


CHERNOBYL, by JOHN SOLENSTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meltdown %the fumbled logos
Last Line: The whitening; the whiteness-%the terror of the irreversible flux
Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents


COLORLESS CLOUD VISITS US FROM CHERNOBYL, by JEFFREY SKINNER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents


INTERNATIONAL METEROLOGICAL COMMITTEE REPORTS, by SUZANNE GARDINIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pripyat river flows on, we assure you
Last Line: Chernobyl chernobyl chernobyl
Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents


LET THREE DAYS PASS, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the one released from feeling
Last Line: Showering every two hours and scrubbing their hair.
Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents; Popular Culture - United States; Television; Chernobyl; Three Mile Island; Tv


LUGUBRIOUS RISINGS, by TOM MCFADDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the airplane banks and curves
Last Line: Over a trio of lububrious risings: %the deathcamp of three mile island
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Nazis; Nuclear Accidents


NEARING CHERNOBYL, by KATHERINE E. YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside a village we stop by the road
Last Line: In a ukrainian forest. I carry the dust %of the universe on my shoes
Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents; Russia


NUCLEAR ACCIDENT AT SL 1, IDAHO FALLS, 1961, by JUDITH VOLLMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father remembers a nurse
Last Line: She knows what she is doing. %she knows what she has to do
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Nuclear Accidents; Nurses


SCIENTIFIC-TECHNOLOGICAL PARADIGM, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the first a-bomb test,'
Last Line: After a shit and a coffee break
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Bombs; Missiles; Nuclear Accidents; Science


SMALL RAIN; MAY 1986: AFTER CHERNOBYL, by CHRISTINE EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: For weeks the wind strained from the east
Last Line: And listening to our futures being fed
Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents


TAR, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first morning of three mile island: those first disquieting
Last Line: Scribbled with obscenities and hearts.
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear Accidents; Nuclear Freeze; Chernobyl; Three Mile Island


THREE MILE ISLAND, by AGNES NASMITH JOHNSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our daughter plucks her guitar
Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents


THREE MILE ISLAND, by MOLLY MCGRANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tricked on lines and a hook caught my voice
Last Line: As our excuses thin as our yarns
Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents


THREE MILE ISLAND, by MAUREEN OWEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't drink the beer that's brewed in pennsylvania
Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents; Radiation And Radiation Sickness


THREE MILE ISLAND SUITE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two in the diner
Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents; Nuclear War