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Subject: GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
Matches Found: 5

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BLUE BOOBY, by JAMES TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blue booby lives %on the bare rocks
Last Line: Like the eyes of a mild savior
Subject(s): Birds; Galapagos Islands


CLOSING TIME AT THE SAN DIEGO ZOO, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The keepers / walk among galapagos turtles
Last Line: In the san diego dusk.
Subject(s): Caregivers; Galapagos Islands; Turtles; Zoos; Tortoises


MESSAGE OF ONAN, by MICHAEL+(2) HOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the galapagos is a sea turtle who falls in love with a rock. Early in
Last Line: As pubescent maidens is the message of onan, ironically named
Subject(s): Animals; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Galapagos Islands; Science


PASSAGE, by MATTHEW JAMES BABCOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I hear that over the last three months
Last Line: Head a purple menagerie of fourteen new finches
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Ecuador; Evolution; Galapagos Islands; Maturity; Teenagers


THE BLUE BOOBY, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blue booby lives / on the bare rocks
Subject(s): Birds; Galapagos Islands