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Subject: POSTAGE STAMPS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CATERPILLAR ON THE DESK, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lifting up my coffee cup, I notice a caterpillar crawling
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Postage Stamps


EDGE LIGHT, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rock cliffs of florence, storm light of beach and sky
Last Line: An arc of edge light, sheaf of memory, %cloud line disappearing
Subject(s): Absence; Aviation And Aviators; Oregon; Postage Stamps; Travel


NOCTURNE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I take my place in the insomniac's village
Last Line: 7 a.M., the blue gums edge-lit, %almost honed, almost revealing
Subject(s): Absence; Jerusalem; Postage Stamps; Travel; Villages


NOT CANCELLED YET, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some honorary day
Subject(s): Postage Stamps


POSTAGE DUE, by JOHN M. BENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The magazine came back marked deceased and with 21 cents postage due
Last Line: Of my hands, staring out the window, my eyes focused on nothing in %particular
Subject(s): Death; Messengers; News; Postage Stamps; Postal Service


TO MY FRIEND ELIZABETH; WITH SOME POSTAGE STAMPS FOR A COLLECTION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweetest elizabeth, accept, I pray
Last Line: Thought here, smiles there; perfection lies betwixt.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): To Elizabeth Read
Subject(s): Friendship; Postage Stamps; Smiles