Potential Titles: Duck

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Guarded indifferently by deer, ducks, and flamingoes - Duane Ackerson "The Great Gnome Escape"

A duckling imprinted on a robot duck - Merri Andrew "Robot Duckling Learns the Land"

Backstage ducks preening in the wings - Julie Babcock "Jonah's Trick"

Six little white ducks running out to play - "The Ducks" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]

Where the black duck rears her brood - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"

Wild ducks and geese at rest - Liu Cheng "Poem without a Category" transl. by Burton Watson

The wild duck come to glean - John Masefield "The Wild Duck"

Vagrant ducks skidding on the pond - N. Scott Momaday "Meditation on Wilderness"

As a wary duck parted from its mate - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

Chattering ducks who never lose hope - Naomi Shihab Nye "Big Songs"

Where ducks study the revolutionary texts - essa may ranapiri "Hinemoana"

Ducks strafing the unfrozen pools - Richard Solomon "Ice in Formation"

Ducks awkward on the bough - Richard Solomon "The River Through Your Eyes (For Linda)"

The wild duck alert on the stream - Robert J.C. Stead "The Prairie"

One last look at the ducks - Wallace Stevens "The Hermitage at the Centre"

Rafts of ducks diving for mollusks and fish - Keith Taylor "Dear Erie"

Nimbler than a winging duck - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

The ducks' black squadron anchored lay - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The waters which the blue duck rules - "XXI: Huexotzincayotl | A Song of the Huexotzincos" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton


A duckling imprinted on a robot duck - Merri Andrew "Robot Duckling Learns the Land"


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