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Subject: WISCONSIN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DILLINGER IN WISCONSIN: 1., by ROBERT PETERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He drives north, 300 miles
Last Line: Then he misses billie who is in jail. %they are already on his trail
Subject(s): Dillinger, John (1902-1934); Wisconsin


DILLINGER IN WISCONSIN: 2., by ROBERT PETERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: J. Edgar hoover flails the roadside
Last Line: No guns, horns, or whistles. %he has survived, in these pristine woods
Subject(s): Dillinger, John (1902-1934); Wisconsin


DILLINGER IN WISCONSIN: 3., by ROBERT PETERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He looks at who he was, before he dies-
Last Line: Off playing poker with the boys %or smooching at the picture show
Subject(s): Dillinger, John (1902-1934); Wisconsin


DILLINGER IN WISCONSIN: 4., by ROBERT PETERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He stops beside the road
Last Line: Hot copper moves over his lips. %he strokes his groin, harder! Harder!
Subject(s): Dillinger, John (1902-1934); Wisconsin


FINDING TOKEN CREEK, by ROBERT ALEXANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before the yahara enters lake mendota, it widens out and flows through
Last Line: Surface. While the wind blows uncommonly from the cloudless northeast
Subject(s): Brooks; Canoes And Canoeing; Rivers; Travel; United States; Wisconsin


MRS. THELMA EKSTROM HOMESTEADER, WISCONSIN, 1877, by ROBERT COOPERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When lars cleared the land
Last Line: Beneath its angel wings of branches
Subject(s): Nature; Wisconsin


PREGNANCY, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside the pomegranate is the blue sky
Subject(s): Wisconsin; Paris, France; Animals; City & Town Life; Country Life


THE KETTLE MORAINES, by CECILE HOUGHTON STURY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The kettle moraines - our own scottish hills
Last Line: Telling these forests their dreams and their hopes.
Subject(s): Kettle Moraines, Wisconsin


UNTITLED, by PAUL L. ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Must there always be remorse %with october
Last Line: Even remorse dissolves into a door
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wisconsin


WINTER OF HEAVEN, WINTER OF ASH; THE VISIT HOME, by MARK WUNDERLICH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not yet light in wisconsin
Last Line: While hope goes out silent onto the ice
Subject(s): Homecoming; Wisconsin


WISCONSIN, by CORA BLAKESLEE BEEBE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The scotsman rightly sings
Last Line: And that is home to me.
Subject(s): Pride; Wisconsin; Self-esteem; Self-respect


WISCONSIN IN FEB-B-RR-UARY, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: B-rr, b-rr, b-rr, b-rr
Last Line: Enough of feb-b-rr-uary!
Subject(s): Winter; Wisconsin