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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DANCE OF WOODEN SHOES, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother's in geta shoes
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


A LONG WAY OUTSIDE YELLOWSTONE, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the tracks in cheyenne, behind the biggest billboard
Last Line: Wondering if hers is among them. Or perhaps not
Subject(s): Denver, Colorado; Sacramento, California; Wyoming; Yellowstone National Park


A POEM FROM THE EDGE OF AMERICA, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are ways of finding things, like stumbling on them
Last Line: Although it might by why
Subject(s): Nature; Wyoming


CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Miss yamada knew if a girl was tall and thin, or short and
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Miss yamada knew if a girl was tall and thin, or short and
Last Line: Sting. These chrysanthemums stolen, crossing an ocean to %return them
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


COYOTE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We spotted him scouting antelope along bison basin road
Last Line: Until the curve of his ribs began to cool beneath my fingers
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


DANCE OF WOODEN SHOES, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother's in geta shoes
Last Line: Shaped welts on yellow ivory
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


FISH WIFE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sting of the hook in my lip
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


FISH WIFE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sting of the hook in my lip
Last Line: And gleaming coils of fine, silk twine
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF SALT RIVER, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imagine this view seen from the slope
Last Line: From here: this tilt of north %in your life
Subject(s): Farm Life; Wyoming


FUTILITY, by ALPAY ULKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The highway is going to hell in northern wyoming
Last Line: The big dipper hangs on its peg %over an empty rain barrel
Subject(s): Poverty; Prairies; Wyoming


GERTRUDE OF WYOMING; OR, THE PENNSYLVANIAN COTTAGE, SELS., by THOMAS CAMPBELL            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania


GERTRUDE OF WYOMING; OR, THE PENNSYLVANIAN COTTAGE: 1, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On susquehanna's side, fair wyoming
Last Line: Was outalissi hailed, with bark and plumage bright.
Variant Title(s): Description Of Wyoming
Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania


GERTRUDE OF WYOMING; OR, THE PENNSYLVANIAN COTTAGE: 2, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A valley from the river shore withdrawn
Last Line: In all that slept beneath her soft voluptuous ray.
Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania


GERTRUDE OF WYOMING; OR, THE PENNSYLVANIAN COTTAGE: 3, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O love! In such a wilderness as this
Last Line: The death-song of an indian chief!
Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania


HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 1. KIMIKO OZAWA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oka-san keeps stuffing rags under
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 1. KIMIKO OZAWA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oka-san keeps stuffing rags under
Last Line: To keep from blowing away
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 10. MINORU SAITO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I shaved my head and became
Last Line: That made me say no
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 2. JIMMY YAMAMOTO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Papa says we must tell the hospital
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 2. JIMMY YAMAMOTO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Papa says we must tell the hospital
Last Line: I see the man-in-the-moon
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 3. MASA NAKAHARA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am thinking about the temple
Last Line: Serial number in its ear
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 4. CHESTER KOREMATSU, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fish are heavier than coal
Last Line: Between flames and water
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 4. CHESTER KOREMATSU, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fish are heavier than coal
Last Line: Between flames and water
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 5. LILY IWASAKI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Minoru, it's been over a month
Last Line: Full of rage and cunning
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 6. SAM TOYAMA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother held up a wrinkled fashion
Last Line: Kicking me in the face inside her
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 7. NINA INOUE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since the shoe ration, I can't play
Last Line: I learned what it means to be kind
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 8. YOSHIO MIYAKE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It sours my incense, disturbs the sleep
Last Line: Will suddenly wake, eyes spitting blood
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 9. CHIKAKO OKANO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know tweezing away dead skin
Last Line: The scars I leave behind
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


HIROSHIMA MAIDEN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother recognized / my feet and claimed me
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


HIROSHIMA MAIDEN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother recognized %my feet and claimed me
Last Line: Richly embroidered %by unfamiliar hands
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


KAKITSUBATA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to the place of eight bridges
Last Line: The song of sparrows will always tell you otherwise
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming; Dreams


KAKITSUBATA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to the place of eight bridges
Last Line: The song of sparrows will always tell %you otherwise
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


METEOROLOGY, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The heart is such a big awkward girl
Last Line: Even the best days
Subject(s): Evil; Gasoline; Good; Weather; Windows; Wyoming


MITTEN SPRINGS: 1. BENNY'S PLACE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We made camp %by the springs
Last Line: Flung from the snow
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


MITTEN SPRINGS: 2. ANTELOPE HUNTING, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stirring up grouse
Last Line: Of dust and hoofbeats
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


MITTEN SPRINGS: 3. GUTTING, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sawing the ribcage %was hard work
Last Line: The spicy sage taste %run through me
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


NINGYO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She took me everywhere
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


NINGYO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She took me everywhere
Last Line: Opening the sky
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


ODE TO SHUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gleaming arc / of knife
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


ODE TO SHUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gleaming arc %of knife
Last Line: A white moon
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


OYURUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We danced hopscotch squares
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


OYURUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We danced hopscotch squares
Last Line: I am your sister
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


PEACH GIRL, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Apprehended by snow
Last Line: And you will spit it out
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


PEARLS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother eats seaweed and plum pickles
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


PEARLS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother eats seaweed and plum pickles
Last Line: It hurts. And the more it hurts, %the bigger the pearl
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


PEONY LANTERN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not forget me
Last Line: Her own limbs, one by one
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


PEONY LOVER, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A thinnest sliver of moon, and caterpillars
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


PEONY LOVER, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A thinnest sliver of moon, and caterpillars
Last Line: Of peony petals crumpling in my fists
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


PURSUING A CAREER: 2. WORD PROCESSING, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Intern(m)e(n)t
Subject(s): Computers; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Professions


SNOW COUNTRY, by DAVE ETTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only %a little %yellow
Last Line: Wyoming %from the train %yesterday
Subject(s): Snow; Wyoming


SONGS FOR AN APPROACHING RAINY SEASON, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today the tomatoes will blush
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


SONGS FOR AN APPROACHING RAINY SEASON, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today the tomatoes will blush
Last Line: And pry each of my petals loose
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


SQUID, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Purplish pink, their bodies were mottled with black dots, like
Last Line: Water, and when I held them up to my nose they smelled like %another country
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


STAR FESTIVAL: 1. SUMIDA RIVER, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rice-paper lanterns bob
Last Line: The sides of the boats %in judgment
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


STAR FESTIVAL: 2. ORIHIME'S SONG, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I came from mulberry trees
Last Line: To have you inside me again
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


STAR FESTIVAL: 3. A THOUSAND CRANES, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I go to the bamboo grove
Last Line: I am selfish
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


THE STATE OF WYOMING, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps a childhood magic-writing tablet
Last Line: To the shadow of an antelope stare.
Subject(s): History; Imagination; Wyoming; Historians; Fancy


THE WOMAN WHO LOVES INSECTS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you stand outside my gate
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


THE WYOMING MASSACRE, by URIAH TERRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Kind heaven, assist the trembling muse
Last Line: Of cruel tyranny.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Massacres; Native Americans; Wyoming, Pennyslvania; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THEY HAVEN'T HEARD THE WEST IS OVER, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So that no one should forget, and no one be forgotten -- isn't that
Last Line: Arms to the north, and the road from here keeps going, as if it were going somewhere
Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Disappeared Persons; Funerals; Mountains; Trees; Wyoming; Dead, The; Missing Persons; Burials; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


UTOYASUKATA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart's a black bird
Last Line: And you'll say yasukata
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


WESTERN CIVILIZATION, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That woman still lives at her ranch
Last Line: That just now shaded your eyes
Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Stars; Wyoming


WINTER WOODS WITHOUT SNOW, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rain here leaves everything dark
Last Line: And nostrils: skin keeps remembrance %like a rind
Subject(s): Forests; Winter; Wyoming


WOMAN WHO LOVES INSECTS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you stand outside my gate
Last Line: My honeybee. %my centipede
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


WYOMING, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou com'st, in beauty, on my gaze at last
Last Line: Has death no triumph-hours, save on the battle-day?
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844); Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania


WYOMING, by JILL OSIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You recognized the land, and I recognized you. And I
Last Line: Beside me. I saw grass, I saw sky. You saw wyoming
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Travel; Wyoming


WYOMING, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: With each new death I push
Last Line: The sky that leads us on
Subject(s): Death; Loss; Travel; United States; Wyoming


WYOMING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A demon yell, a flesh of steel, and massacre complete
Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania


WYOMING, by CHARLES E. WINTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the far and mighty west
Subject(s): Wyoming


WYOMING REMEMBERED, by MAXINE FRANKLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At evening %all is changed
Last Line: I bite into peppergrass %gather my fire
Subject(s): Wyoming


WYOMING TOWNS, by PAUL DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They brag of mountain hamlets, the canyon villages
Last Line: Daring the spread earth's danger, %the vast threat in what wind can do %with snow across the mad fla
Subject(s): Wyoming