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Subject: WOMEN - CAPTIVES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER ARGUING, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lavender snow, night tilts beyond
Last Line: All the wings I've hidden in the lake
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


AFTER TWENTY-ONE YEARS, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Home is a fortress where your name
Last Line: Hands flutter, shrink a powdery farewell
Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Protestantism; Trials; Women - Captives


ALICE IN THE HALLWAY, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've got a golden key, and hands
Last Line: It's sugar on top for those flowerbeds
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


ALICE WRITES A LETTER, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear me - !
Last Line: I am no longer one of you
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


ALICE WRITES HER MEMOIRS, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Begin with taken, meaning; distance
Last Line: Of all want, my fists tight in prayer
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


ALICE, FALLING, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What edges the world has!
Last Line: I'm beyond punishment
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


ALMIGHTY FIREBALL, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I won't go shopping. I won't visit friends
Last Line: Will scatter them without care, perfumes, or rites
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Innocence; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Trials; Women - Captives


BEREAVEMENT ROOM, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've left my fingertips on fence posts
Last Line: On a shelf, lips in a jar
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


BITTER END, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bird, if you start now
Last Line: To make yellow happen
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


BRIGHT WAITING, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Birds return early, hunger
Last Line: You ribbon and tendril
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


CAPTIVE WOMAN AND THE LIGHT: 1, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The light like a feeble hostage
Last Line: Eyes, from the blindfold slashed and sullied from lonely times and prisms
Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Terror; Women; Women - Captives


CAPTIVE WOMAN AND THE LIGHT: 2, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a shadow visiting
Last Line: I learn to see myself
Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Women - Captives


CHIMNEY, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forget birds, rain in winter
Last Line: Your ruined waist
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


CRACKED ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Baby tooth, I finger
Last Line: New best friend
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


DASH, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Consider dash, to break
Last Line: The dash says %hurry up! %no, %wait
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What a dinghy I am! Oarless
Last Line: The ouch! Was mine and not the tree's
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


DEVILKIN, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dolls lock themselves in their house
Last Line: His clumsy hands curled about his head
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


DISAPPEARING GIRL, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What noise in her throat %another trick must be trapped there
Last Line: The clapping's stopped, he's had %enough, he wants her now
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


DISAPPEARING GIRL EXPLAINS, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not so dark back here: voices
Last Line: Clutching my pretty bird
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


DISAPPEARING GIRL RETURNS HOME, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's the tree I dared to drop me
Last Line: Practicing my graceful exit?
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


DISAPPEARING GIRL'S HOMEMADE MAGIC SHOW, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mirror, mirror, am I silk
Last Line: Begging as I go: silence, please
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


DISAPPEARING GIRL'S MOTHER REMEMBERS, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All knees and elbows, silly bird
Last Line: My girl, thrown and twirling?
Variant Title(s): Her Mother Remember
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


DISAPPEARING WOMAN, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mission padres, only the sailors saw me rise
Last Line: For the sake of decency, you said. %I had a language
Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Native Americans; Women - Captives


DISPLAY CASE, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am small but not precious
Last Line: Asked the glass, is this in or out?
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


ENOUGH, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Holding nothing, your stomach
Last Line: Sequin, you grow exquisite
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


FEMINISM, THE BODY, AND THE MACHINE', by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Scrap of paper, little pencil
Last Line: (do you understand now?) %this plunder
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


FEMME FATALE ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Little noose, little loop
Last Line: Rabbit hole waiting to happen?
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


FIFTH REMOVE: IN WHICH THERE IS A CHOICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O sack of cash! O prayer!
Last Line: Insatiable, I rant: my portion's too small: suffering hand to mouth
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


FIRST REMOVE: IN WHICH THERE IS AN OMEN, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The gray, the blank
Last Line: Them. I do not know their names
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


FOURTH REMOVE: IN WHICH WHAT HOLDS GIVES WAY, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm a good prisoner
Last Line: To redeem or fetch me now
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


GOTHIC ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I expect everything bottomless
Last Line: Let the shutters bang
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


GRETEL: A CASE STUDY, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm all right in a small place %as long as I can turn around
Last Line: No, not that %listen harder
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


HER SISTERS AGREE, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We called her kite, a bird of prey
Last Line: We longed to believe %were protests
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


HIS BAG OF TRICKS, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beyond the playing cards'
Last Line: He's almost got now %his white rabbit
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


INTERVIEW WITH ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How did you fall?
Last Line: Do you have any advice for the other girls? %I suppose
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


INTO CAPTIVITY, by ALEXANDER BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair maiden, with the meek blue eyes
Last Line: The longer that it doth endure.
Subject(s): Women - Captives


KIM'S STORY, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: One hundred and sixteen blew up %above the andaman sea. The bomb
Last Line: With a pearl, touching up my mouth, %inventing my perfections
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Danger; Prisons And Prisoners; Terrorism; Women - Captives


LAKE BOTTOM, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Surely someone pouts there
Last Line: The grasses that rush the shore
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


LESSONS IN THE INVISIBLE, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not flame but %red in the trees and burning
Last Line: My once round mouth an echo, hardened
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


LISTENING ROOM, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snap and gleam, buck teeth
Last Line: Its dark legs, its fierce and eager grin
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


MAGICIAN AS A BOY, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good with his hands and fond
Last Line: Would want him now tender
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


MAGICIAN EXPLAINS HOW, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Think of corsages saved
Last Line: Remember her lovely neck %and where you put her
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


MESMERIST, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Enough to watch one gloved hand, white
Last Line: Which veins are roads and how far back?
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


METHOD, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I use a little brush
Last Line: At last, this plumage
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


MOCKINGBIRD PIE, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Measure the slick of their voices
Last Line: And think they're you
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


MY HEART BEATS IN WILD RAPTURE FOR YOU: COME PREPARED TO STAY FOREVER, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like explorers following a trade route
Last Line: What china blue eyes you have
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Women - Captives


NATURE EXHIBIT, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the museum of drawers
Last Line: Or want of such attention
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


ONE THING OR ANOTHER, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind the sky: another, bluer
Last Line: Scars, musical in water
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


PARTS OF A FLOWER, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A small village
Last Line: The tiny pinup sun
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


PLANETARIUM, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gibbons moon, night clicks
Last Line: My hair at last come loose
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


PRIVATE SHOWING, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I lock his hat in its tall box
Last Line: Then give to him, shining
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


RAISED IN THE DARK, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What wood can do - what curves!
Last Line: I like to think I've come this far
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


REALITY TRICK, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Keep is the room I know
Last Line: To hush! The thrill %and quiet after
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


ROSE DOLORES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moan of rose dolores, she made
Last Line: "I know whose kiss was in the wind—o jailer, set me free!"
Subject(s): Grief; Prisons & Prisoners; Women - Captives; Sorrow; Sadness


SECOND REMOVE: IN WHICH THERE IS AFFLICTION, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I study weather: %fingertip, storm
Last Line: And sometimes with nothing but frowns
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


SHEEP AND FODDER, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here's a prayer from a spry old tit
Last Line: We were better than none
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Prisons And Prisoners; Women - Captives


SHORT HISTORY OF ANXIETY, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Consider dresses: the shapes
Last Line: So, what is your particular purpose? %what is your urgent need?
Subject(s): Anxiety; Frontier And Pioneer Life; History; Women - Captives


SIXTH REMOVE: IN WHICH THERE IS CONCLUSION, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Listen, providence: %deliver me
Last Line: (are there wounds? I cannot say
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


SORCERESS, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where are my affections
Last Line: Now I'm a dull myth
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


SPOILED ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O pout! %o fuss and bother
Last Line: I do not arch or shiver
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


SUFFRAGE, 1917: IMPRISONED FOR OBSTRUCTING TRAFFIC, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I could not sleep thinking of the girl
Last Line: Cell by cell, line by line, the voiceless and the free
Subject(s): Fights; Labor Unions; Police; Prisons And Prisoners; Strikes; Women - Captives


THE WOMAN IN MY ARMS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: As the soft white down of the wild duck's wing
Last Line: As tribute to womanhood's worth.
Subject(s): Women; Women - Captives


THIRD REMOVE: IN WHICH ATTEMPTS ARE MADE, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Attic attic. %every room is a high perch
Last Line: There is no applause, no good reason
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


THOROUGHLY MODERN ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've shed my petticoats, I've unbuckled
Last Line: Girl, this defunct alice
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


TROMPE POEIL IN WINTER, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything white, the lake's cheek, turns
Last Line: Beyond the moon and past the frigid stars
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives


WATCH BOOK, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was beautiful when it was summer
Last Line: Cutting capers. It is eight o'clock. Time for bed. %that is all, is all
Subject(s): Courthouses; Guard Duty; Kidnapping; Law And Lawyers; Prisons And Prisoners; Women - Captives


WHEN I WAS AN EGGSHELL, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The garden earth too hard to dig
Last Line: And watched me eat from a bowl on the floor
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Justice; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Trials; Women - Captives


WOMAN LOCKED IN A MEMORIAL MUSEUM, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her lips remain sealed as the walled south face
Last Line: Comes finally to rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Women - Captives