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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AUNT JEWELL AS POWWOW PRINCESS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was aghast at what I saw
Last Line: Came down as a heavy rain
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Variant Title(s): Aunt Jewell At Cahokia Mound
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


BEHIND THE HILL, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember that afternoon when we first came to the place
Last Line: Crawled out on a rock, on the other side, and lay there quiet in the sun
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


BIRCH CANOE, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Red men embraced my body's whiteness
Last Line: At home in the fish's fallen heaven
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Identity; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The '49 dawn set me high on a roaring yellow tractor
Last Line: Being ground up with it, then or now
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Variant Title(s): In Kansa
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear walt, %well, that was some weekend. Can't see why janey bell
Last Line: P.S. There's a note for janey bell enclosed. %don't open it
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We of the osage nation have come
Last Line: Gold and violet its humongous word, %vacancy, vacancy, %up to the dancing stars
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


COMMUNING BEFORE SUPERMARKETS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: -it's probably because we were always trying
Last Line: Turns into food for all %the different beings in their times
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


DANCING WITH DINOSAURS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before we came to earth, %before the birds had come
Last Line: Now they will sing and we %are dancing with them, here
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


DE GUSTIBUS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To skin a skunk, skill is needed
Last Line: But even fried few will eat it
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


DRIVING IN OKLAHOMA, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On humming rubber along this white concrete
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Recessions; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


DRIVING IN OKLAHOMA, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On humming rubber along this white concrete
Last Line: He flies so easy, when he sings
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


EL SALVADOR!, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Paralyzed children staring %into the pulitzer prizes of our televising selves
Last Line: We look into and try to comprehend
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


FORMING CHILD POEMS: SEVEN, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Near the summit, se of kinlichee
Last Line: Why I decided to leave it like that
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


FREE WHITE AND FIFTEEN, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the bullet hit, the horse keeled over dead
Last Line: We'd be at work next morning, cleaning kennels
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


GETTING ACROSS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hanging %out under the bridge
Last Line: Where he has passed his death
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


GIVEN, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This world to grow into, I know
Last Line: Glittering darkness that has no end
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


GREYHOUND COURSING TRIALS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Osage was coursing against this fawn greyhound
Last Line: Won it!' till he saw, as I turned, the ruined foot
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


INDIAN COUNTRY: THAT DARK ROMANTIC CHASM, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They came from england, sweden, france, 'america'
Last Line: A gentle earth, %with flowers %yet once more
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


JETLINER FROM ANGEL CITY, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Earthborn of white %titanium sand in magnesium shell from
Last Line: Your silver dove returning to the earth
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


LIQUID CRYSTAL THOUGHTS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Looking through windshields at sixty-three
Last Line: All venice, titian's colors and the sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Aging; Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Vision


LOOKING BEFORE AND AFTER, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the new pond-dam a trickle
Last Line: Butterfly of shadows tastes %sweet light again
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


MAKING A NAME, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The authors of this story are
Last Line: With real live indians, this time?
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


MY RIGHT HAND DON'T LEAVE ME NO MORE, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you were drunk, you could always whip joe louis
Last Line: And did not help. You died bringing in wood for the fire
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


ON THE PLANET OF BLUE-EYED CATS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some moons of jupiter are %as big as earth almost
Last Line: To move, to learn a little of %what beings mean
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


PAINT AND FEATHERS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into a star %you have cast yourself
Last Line: To where we hear you laughing
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


PARADING WITH THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apache, omaha, osage, choctaw, comanche, cherokee, oglala, micmac
Last Line: Absence of buffalo here in the %gateway to the west, st louis
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Variant Title(s): Parading With The V.f.w
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Depressions, Economic; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


PURE COUNTRY, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pick and shovel dug the privy-hole square
Last Line: And we moved the privy on out %above its new-dug hole
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


SKINS AS OLD TESTAMENT, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wonder who first slid in %to use another creature's skin
Last Line: Within the woman %came alive
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


SONG THAT WE STILL SING, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the way from oklahoma up to the sun dance
Last Line: We recognized that song. It's one %that we still sing
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


SONGS OF THE WINE-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down in the sapphire ocean
Last Line: The hummingbird's, the humpback whales, %a neutron star, a human soul?
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Hummingbirds; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


SPIRITUALITY 101: SNAKEROOT, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Used to pick the dead coneflowers
Last Line: In our suburbs is ever used for medicine
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


SPIRITUALITY 102: CAKES AND ALE, BREAD AND WINE, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cakes and ale, bread and wine
Last Line: Many thanks, and the bookstore's thataway.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE DOG, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night before my uncle carter got shot
Last Line: He would have made a perfect suburban mayor - %or maybe, manager for some liquor chain
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Uncles


SWAN'S SONG, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Garbed in silence I go on earth
Last Line: The world's wide waters, as a wayfaring soul
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


THAT LIGHTNING'S HARD TO CLIMB, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: - struck down? %good lord, we'd always be
Last Line: Now mantle where the %living tree once stood
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


TO THE MUSE, IN OKLAHOMA, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That aganippe well was nice, it hit the spot
Last Line: Drink from our bare skin: %good water %fits every mouth
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


TRINITY-RIDDLE, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I spread, descending a samite of stars
Last Line: To wear till dawn night-diamonds, till dusk the jewel of time
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


WALKING WITH FRIENDS DOWN LARIGILL AND DIBADAL, ON THE ISLE OF SKYE, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Coming down from the watershed's pools %we drank first at the source
Last Line: Back into the heart %of sunlight and falling rain
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


WAZHAZHE GRANDMOTHER, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They chose their allotted land
Last Line: To live in their first home
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Variant Title(s): They Chose Their Allotted Lan
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


WE WERE SEVEN, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: #name?
Last Line: I keep close watch on all the trees we have
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


WHERE THE MUSES HAUNT, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Atop the opera garnier in paris there's
Last Line: Went on with their gathering from the pale blue %rosemary and from thyme
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


WINNING THE DUST BOWL, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a reaching up %into the dusty leaves after
Last Line: And there are many friends of the huntington who surely do
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Food And Eating; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Survival