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Subject: RATTLESNAKES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ORIGIN OF RATTLESNAKES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You know a'tosis, the snake?
Subject(s): Rattlesnakes


PHOTOGRAPHING A RATTLESNAKE, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On smooth sand among stones
Last Line: Back to its still life
Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Rattlesnakes


PHOTOGRAPHING A RATTLESNAKE, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On smooth sand among stones
Last Line: A teardrop of venom %back to its still life
Subject(s): Photography And Photographers; Rattlesnakes


RATTLESNAKE, by BYRD BAYLOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I move so flat against
Last Line: A shadow of fear
Subject(s): Rattlesnakes


RATTLESNAKE, by IRENE BRUCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beware, but understand the rattlesnake
Last Line: He bites because your foot has pressed him there
Subject(s): Rattlesnakes


RATTLESNAKE, by JULIA ERIN NUNNALLY DUNCAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her husband is frying rattlesnake
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Rattlesnakes


RATTLESNAKE, by BREWSTER GHISELIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I found him sleepy in the heat
Last Line: From the wild grain of the hill
Subject(s): Mormons; Rattlesnakes


RATTLESNAKE, by MAURYA SIMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: One summer the rattlesnakes were everywhere
Subject(s): Rattlesnakes


RATTLESNAKE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the stony land
Last Line: With head erect you crawled along
Subject(s): Rattlesnakes


RATTLESNAKE, by LISA WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: What I remember is a cabin
Last Line: Before I let it fall
Variant Title(s): The Rattlesnak
Subject(s): Rattlesnakes


RATTLESNAKE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He's asleep, or dead, numb with wind
Last Line: And noisy, his dry music %still singing in our ears
Subject(s): Rattlesnakes


RATTLESNAKE MOUNTAIN FABLE II, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: August sauntered down the mountain-side
Subject(s): Rattlesnakes


STATIONS, by JOHN CIARDI            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An organization of clear purposes
Last Line: Country keep to the station
Subject(s): Rattlesnakes


STATIONS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An organization of clear purposes
Last Line: Country kept to the stations
Subject(s): Rattlesnakes


THE COPPERHEAD, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dwarfed limb
Last Line: All spine and nerve.
Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Death; Rattlesnakes; Enigmas; Oddities; Dead, The


THE SIDE-WINDER, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lazy loop of lozenged gray
Last Line: And sleep for him that wakens me.
Subject(s): Rattlesnakes


THING TO DO, by INGRID DARLENE WENDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though what I did that day was right
Last Line: And menace never multiplied, one season to next
Subject(s): Nature; Rattlesnakes


TO A RATTLE SNAKE READY TO STRIKE, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fork-tongued, furtive charmer!
Last Line: And cruel, primal curse.
Subject(s): Cruelty; Poisons & Poisoning; Rattlesnakes