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Subject: ENDANGERED SPECIES Matches Found: 55 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMERICAN ALLIGATOR, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: They seek one another in the sedges Last Line: The slits of their eyes Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals AMERICAN BURYING BEETLE (2), by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: They kill nothing, but fly to the site Last Line: Death diminished, pulled out from under, undone Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals AMERICAN CROCODILE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Even before she slits the egg she is Last Line: Making the surface dance Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals AMERICAN PEREGRINE FALCON, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: The tercel transports meat Last Line: On separate ledges in the dark Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals APPALACHIAN MONKEYFACE PEARLY MUSSEL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Unrooted, she can extend her only foot Last Line: They bind themselves to the barrio of shells Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals AS I STAND ON THE SODDEN MOSS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Into my handkerchief, walk on Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals ATLANTIC RIDLEY SEA TURTLE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: In the give and take of water, she swims Last Line: Quaking in that first disorder Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals BALD EAGLE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Architect of twigs and sorrow Last Line: Asks for nothing more Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals BEFORE DAWN WE BOARD THE JONESPORT BOAT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: We are hungry for, the each to each Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals BEHOLD THE HOUSE YOU DIG, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Against the betrayal of my hand Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals BLACK-FOOTED FERRET, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Thief of darkness, her body Last Line: Into that black-masked equipoise Subject(s): Endangered Species; Ferrets; Rare Animals BLUE WHALE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Only the dorsal fin is comprehensible Last Line: To warmth, and back to ice again Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals CALIFORNIA BROWN PELICAN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: From adults she has learned Last Line: A heavy creature, mute but for the heart Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals CALIFORNIA CONDOR, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Who comforts the jeffrey pines Last Line: Carry us away again, sleepng Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals CAVE CRAYFISH, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: At noon she walks the bottom Last Line: The other, her hollow twin Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals DISKY SEASIDE SPARROW, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Search the corners of the cage: begin with Last Line: To perish in his dish Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals EVERY BOOKSHELF HOLDS YOUR TROPHIES, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Flippers, the scutes of throats Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals FLORIDA PANTHER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: High-browed, slim as a cypress Last Line: Untrusting, side by side Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals GIANT KANGAROO RAT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Against the wall of her burrow Last Line: Her body's alchemy %turns into wine Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals GRAY BAT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Born in synchrony, the infants gasp Last Line: The solid shape of things Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals GRAY WOLF, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: They do not wander but know Last Line: The other walks away Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals GRIZZLY BEAR, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Lethargy settles into her heartbeat Last Line: As nervous as water, as kind Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals HAWAIIAN MONK SEAL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: She swam the whole earth through Last Line: Unwilling to learn the preservng power of fear Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals HOUSTON TOAD, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: She comes out in rain, listens to insects hum Last Line: Until she touches that sound Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals; Toads I HAVE SEEN YOU WRESTLE A FISHHOOK, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Otherness, I remembered a lullaby, sang Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals IN THE MEADOW THAT SKIRTS THE MOUNTAIN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Severed it's hard to imagine the fall Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals IN THE PRESENCE OF SNAKES, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Shot from the bow of his insistence Last Line: In opposition -- for me! For me! Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals JAGUAR, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Born blind in a thicket of thorns Last Line: The authority of her spine Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals KEY DEER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Toughening begins at conception Last Line: Of watching when to run Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals LET ANY BEE FLY INTO THE KITCHEN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: The thing you mean so hard to know Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals LIFE MARKS ITS EQUATIONS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Of twilight are the constant %everything obeys Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals MANATEE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Born underwater, she mates Last Line: Keeps her world from being whole Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals NEW MEXICAN RIDGE-NOSED RATTLESNAKE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: The face of the snake mirrors the earth Last Line: Rubbed off, abandoned inside-out Subject(s): Animals; Endangered Species; Rare Animals; Snakes NORTHERN SPOTTED OWL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: She sleeps all day, taunted by crows, mobbed Last Line: The once and broken covenant of fir Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals NORTHERN SWIFT FOX, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: She circles into wind, lies down Last Line: Herself in the famine between kills Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals NOW I WATCH YOU, INTENT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Beside the sea for miles Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals ONCE, I WATCHED A PARAKEET, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Past their season, green Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals POINT ARENA MOUNTAIN BEAVER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Not a beaver, she builds no dams Last Line: Ignoring nothing, leaving nothing out Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals ROSEATE TERN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Drifting sideways before a heavy rain Last Line: Smelling the hunger of the young Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals SALT MARSH HARVEST MOUSE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Instrument of earth's diversion, she Last Line: Is a seed, heaving. She hardly exists at all Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals SCHAUS SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: By true and false legs, a larva Last Line: The adult it must become Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals SOCKEYE SALMON, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Salmon hatch strong, perceiving pain Last Line: Bodies turned into wheels Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals SONORAN PRONGHORN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Native of an ancient family, the one Last Line: Of the decimated carousel Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals STOPPED TO STUDY THE COWS, I FIND, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Go beyond the gold fur of the tail Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SPECIES MAY BE DISAPPEARING EACH YEAR, by JOAN PAYNE KINCAID Poem Source First Line: In an effort in an effort in an effort to Last Line: Suffocating us all in beds of extinction Subject(s): Endangered Species TEXAS BLIND SALAMANDER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: At birth she could see light bend Last Line: As if there were someplace else to go Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals THUNDER, AND THE MAGPIES BREAK, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Has yet to take the blaze away Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals TO A BISON; AFTER READING A RECENT ARTICLE ON HIS PRESERVATION, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Creature, regards! What though river and prairie Last Line: Since your mere mention brings dreams such as these! Subject(s): Bison; Endangered Species TOOTH CAVE SPIDER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Pale and freshly molted Last Line: To that swaying bridge Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals UTAH PRAIRIE DOG, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Hers is a call of pleasure in abundant Last Line: Among her white-tailed coterie, her clan Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals WE'VE WALKED FOR HOURS BESIDE THE RIVER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Calm themselves, perched and staying Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals WHERE TRAIN TRACKS CROSS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: With a steadiness I've never known Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals WHOOPING CRANE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: She stands in the ambiguity of mudflats Last Line: More leaping, more elegant bows Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals WOOD BISON, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Bulls punish the trees, smash Last Line: So rich, one suck is enough Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals WOODLAND CARIBOU, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: She has kept her summer antlers Last Line: Into music when she runs Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals |
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