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Subject: X-RAYS
Matches Found: 13

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER X-RAY, by LINDA PASTAN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To shine somewhere like strung beads of coral
Subject(s): X-rays; Bones


DAY OFF, by RICK CANNON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm carrying x-rays of my wife's breasts down the hall
Last Line: Across her shoulders together we'll float out away %from the antiseptic expert into his holiday gift
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Examinations; Sickness; X-rays


ELEGY ON AN X-RAY PHOTO OF MY SKULL, by ELENA SHVARTS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flautist boasts but god's enraged
Last Line: But what a shame you won't be filled again %with all that soft old curd
Subject(s): Skulls; X-rays


THE X-RAY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now science, with her keen, amazing eyes
Last Line: Receive no thought thou darest not confess!
Subject(s): X-rays


TRANSPLANTING, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother carried the chest x-ray
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Sneezing; Food & Eating; X-rays; Pigs; Boars; Hogs


WALK IN WURZBURG, by WILLIAM PLOMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Passing a dull red college-block
Last Line: To coax the delicate wings from the commonplace husk %and detect why the horde we are destroys itsel
Subject(s): Germany; X-rays


X-RAY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: What truth the doctor reads
Last Line: And breath.
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Medicine; Physicians; Skeletons; X-rays; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors


X-RAY, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strangely my mother's sad eyes
Subject(s): Disease; X-rays


X-RAY OF MY DAUGHTER, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath growing breasts
Last Line: Passing through the black and white %revelations of bone
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; X-rays


X-RAY PICTURE, by OSTEN SJOSTRAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: He saw a park bench broken in two by a large rock
Last Line: Dogs he had once taught to hunt
Subject(s): Microfilm; X-rays


X-RAY PICTURES OF TWO MEN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By chance they met in the doctor's room
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): X-rays


X-RAY TECH, by PAMELA GEMIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shayla's my daughter's age if I had one
Last Line: And our luminous neon grins lit the darkness, wide %and white-hot in that tiny world
Subject(s): X-rays


X-RAY TECH, by W. GREGORY STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: (music for a shattered sun)
Subject(s): X-rays