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Subject: TONGUES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BABYSITTING, ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In gambell, where the natives speak
Last Line: Nowhere else can we go, so we sit %with love, and look after our own'
Subject(s): Native Americans - Languages; Nome, Alaska; Tongues


CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE, by WILL ALEXANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag
Last Line: Which a beacon mesmerically burns with the stars of a translucent imminence
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues


DITTO MARCEL DUCHAMP? DITTO DITTO GERTRUDE STEIN?, by JOAN RETALLACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: What or who killed the dinosaurs?
Last Line: Is it too late to remember memory's not enough?
Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946); Tongues


G'L'A'N'C'E'S, by JOAN RETALLACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: How to creep up on discover disclose distance in a connec
Last Line: Light glanced off
Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Tongues; Voices


GLYPHS, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: & the code / public record stopped midsentence
Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Tongues; Words; Vocabulary; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


GLYPHS, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: & the code %public record stopped midsentence
Last Line: They were bled %who reads them now? %idzat %artist
Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Poetry And Poets; Tongues


HA'INA IA MAI ANA KA PUANA: 1. A CONTEMPORARY EXPLANATION OF THE TERM, by CAROLYN LEI-LANILAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: His 'lani' in leilani was gesture
Last Line: The blue eyes had arrived and 'the possibilities were endless
Subject(s): Hawaii; Native Americans - Languages; Tongues; Tourists; Travel


IN WINTER, DON'T EVER, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To someone cold
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Tongues; Winter


LACRIMARE, LACRIMATUS, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strum / a ton / a rung
Subject(s): Crying; Latin Language; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Tongues; War; Women


LACRIMARE, LACRIMATUS, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strum %a ton %a rung
Last Line: I wonder what dido understood
Subject(s): Crying; Latin Language; Poetry And Poets; Tears; Tongues; War; Women


LANGUAGE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your tongue like a barefoot walk
Last Line: Becomes for a moment %moss, %water, %stone
Subject(s): Language; Love; Romance; Tongues


LANGUAGE OF ENDANGERMENT, by VICTORIA LENA MANYARROWS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Threatens us no more
Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Language; Tongues; Writing And Writers


LEEK STREET, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In bruges, was a cul-de-sac so narrow
Last Line: Float out over the canals.
Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Children; Future Life; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Love; Muskrats; Pain; Redemption; Salvation; Tongues; Torture; Violence; Youth; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Judaism; Suffering; Misery


LOST LANGUAGE, by ELAINE EQUI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How and where shall we begin to
Last Line: Looking out at the sea
Subject(s): Books; Language; Speech; Tongues; Writing And Writers


LOVING YOU IN FLEMISH, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me love you in my tongue tonight
Last Line: Verget awe noam en al de rest . . .
Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Food & Eating; Language; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Metaphor; Ostend, Belgium; Prostitution; Tongues; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter;


O HADA CIBERNETICA: 17, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: On emerging from the womb your shinbone
Last Line: Won't blurt out a single word
Subject(s): Language; Tongues


SLAVE OF SONG, by ROBERT H. STOWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Any little lad will say
Last Line: "sour, salt, or sweet."
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Tongues


THE CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE, by WILL ALEXANDER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues


THE CHOW, A DOG OF ANCIENT ORIGIN, HAS A BLUE-BLACK TONGUE, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet we accept her kisses, affectionate as air
Last Line: Glances off the black- / lined mouth, the dogtooth violet
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Dogs; Tongues


THE TONGUE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the boneless tongue, so small and weak"
Last Line: "the sacred writer crowns the whole, / 'who keeps his tongue doth keep his soul!'"
Subject(s): Hebrew Language;jews;tongues; Judaism


TO DIDO, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With dumb belongings there can be
Last Line: They learned what they are. How more can I make them yours?
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Language; Reason; Tongues


TO TASTE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It should really have its own set of legs
Last Line: And only come out at night
Subject(s): Tongues


TONGUES, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To mortify the spirit I once attended
Last Line: The stuttering leaves on the insensible pavement.
Subject(s): Class Struggle; French Language; Tongues