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Subject: EVERGLADES, FLORIDA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALLIGATOR HOTEL, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When skies are dry and temperatures cool
Last Line: And eats one of his guests
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


DAWN IN THE EVERGLADES, by HALLE W. WARLOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day, while still the dawn denied the call
Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Everglades, Florida


HEY YOU, MANATEE!, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: You're no mermaid mama
Last Line: I love you, manatee!
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


HURRICANE SONG, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: You can crack me. %you can smash me
Last Line: Tall and green and strong
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Sometimes I am the prey
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


IF I HAD A VULTURE, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want to get a pet
Last Line: We would look so cool!
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


IN THE BEGINNING, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the beginning, when the earth was new
Last Line: And stop that fighting! You hear? No more!'
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


IN THE GLARE, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The glare of sunrise
Last Line: Is the zebra %butterfly
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


INTERLUDE IN THE EVERGLADES, by THOMAS CASEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pinched in the silence of the swamp
Last Line: And scornfully wiggled away.
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


MANHUNT IN THE EVERGLADES, by HILDEGARD OTT RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Crack of pursuer's gun
Last Line: Dogs on the scent.
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida; Manhunts


MY LITTLE MOSQUITO, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: All night you kept me tossing, tangled in my bed
Last Line: Fly to your destiny, my little mosquito!'
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


NIGHT RIDE, by MILDRED PLEW MEIGS MERRYMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rough was the road that groped the everglade
Last Line: "where did the humpy little rough road go?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mildred Plew
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


OLD MAN MANGROVE, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Till the tide comes in %and he sets sail
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


PANTHER'S LIFE, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I ate the meat
Last Line: I roam far %and %alone
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


PREENING, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Preening every day %what a chore!
Last Line: Flying day and night %what a delight!
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


SAFE AT LAST, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I took the everglades
Last Line: I will not worry anymore!
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


SOME RIVERS, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some rivers rush to the sea
Last Line: With no hurry in her at all
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida; Rivers; Southern States


SPIDER IS A LOVELY LADY, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And it brings them there
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


STILLNESS, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stillness waits %for sun to shine
Last Line: For moon to rise %and stars to shine
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


STRANGLER FIG, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's just a matter of time
Last Line: He grow's to take %his victim's %place
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


THOSE EYES, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I held you in my hands
Last Line: Could %ever %be %the %same
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


TWO BABY SNAIL KITES, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Apple snails for brunch
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


WATER MOCCASIN, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Curled like a rope
Last Line: Who's the lethal one?
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida


WHO CUTS THE SAWGRASS?, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Until it's cold and tame
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida