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Subject: ALLIGATORS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALLIGATOR'S DREAM, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A huge trunk stranded where the river flows
Last Line: Within a river's crystal palace fair
Subject(s): Alligators; Dreams; Rivers


CANTANKEROUS 'GATOR, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a cantankerous 'gator
Last Line: He would like as not swallow the waiter
Subject(s): Alligators; Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating


EATING WITH AN ALLIGATOR ISN'T QUITE THE THING, by ANGELA SIDEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was reading in a restaurant
Last Line: Your face is much too pasty %for a 'gator such as I
Subject(s): Alligators; Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating


FIELD NOTE (EVERGLADES), by PETER READING    Poem Source                    
First Line: As elevated nostrils
Last Line: With the choreographed dexterity %of a survivor
Subject(s): Alligators; Birds; Nature


THE ALLIGATOR, by BEATRICE WITTE RAVENEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He roars in the swamp
Last Line: In the spring.
Subject(s): Alligators


THE ALLIGATOR, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The alligator chased his tail
Subject(s): Alligators


THOSE ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS, by PETER READING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Delicately copulating in a lagoon
Last Line: Nor moral smartarse envoi
Subject(s): Alligators; Nature; Sex


WAKULLA: CHASING THE GATOR'S EYE, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you catch a gleam between pad stalks
Last Line: The reptile that moves beneath you.
Subject(s): Alligators; Boats; Night; Reptiles; Bedtime


WATCHING GATORS AT RAY BOONE'S REPTILE FARM, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While we stand behind the concrete railing
Last Line: The answer to all the animal inside us.
Subject(s): Alligators; Children - Lost; Zoos