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Subject: NURSING (INFANTS)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EMINENT VICTORIANS, by REBECCA WOLFF    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Half a day is dead already--
Subject(s): Babies; Breast Feeding; Infants; Nursing (infants)


GREEDY BABY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Greedy baby / sucking the sweet tit
Subject(s): Babies; Breast Feeding; Infants; Nursing (infants)


INSTEAD OF AN ANIMAL, by LESLIE SCALAPINO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seeing as I was willng to give up my seat for the person who said
Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Love - Erotic; Human Behavior; Nursing (infants); Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


LUMPECTOMY EVE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All night I dream of lips
Last Line: If you do not?
Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Breasts; Breast Cancer; Nursing (infants)


MOTHER'S CURSE; FOR DIANE DI PRIMA, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of my pen: curses ride down
Last Line: To meet the faces of women who take the words out of my mind.
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Breast Feeding; Family Life; Life; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nursing (infants); Relatives


NIGHT FEEDING, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deeper than sleep but not so deep as death
Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Nursing (infants)


PASTORAL, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It happened so fast. Fenya was in the straight
Last Line: The vigil of astonishment.
Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Nursing (infants); Dead, The


STUPID MEDITATION ON PEACE, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Insomniac monkey-mind ponders the dove,
Subject(s): Sex Role; Monkeys; Peace; Breast Feeding; Relationships; Nursing (infants)


THE PAMPERING OF LEORA, by THYLIAS MOSS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Therefore, no more recounting of dreams, a routine thing
Subject(s): Youth; Babies; Breast Feeding; Infants; Nursing (infants)