Potential Titles: Insects [category]

Ant.

Bees.

Beetle.

Bluebottle:
The breeze from the bluebottle's blustering - John Bennett "To Marie"

Bug:
Feasted on the numb bugs - Chris Dombrowski "May"

A bughouse peddler of second-hand gospel - Carl Sandburg "Billy Sunday"

Bumblebee:
A bumble-bee fumbling for a foothold - Sandra McPherson "Poppies"

Bumblebees buzzing inside a lotus - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 16: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Butterfly.

Caterpillar:
Does the butterfly remember what the caterpillar did? - Danske Dandridge "Wings"

Cicada.

Cockroach: See Roach/Cockroach.

Cricket.

Damselfly:
The damselflies pass as they would - Carl Phillips "Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm"

Deathwatch Beetle:
Carved wood, wherein the death-watch ticks - John Masefield "The Haunted"

The death watch ticks within the walls - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Skeleton in the Cupboard"

Deer Fly:
Deer flies followed us back - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"

Dragonfly.

Fire Ant:
Fire ants crawled over and between each letter - John Murillo "Dolores, Maybe"

Firefly.

Flea.

Fly (insect).

Fritllary:
A common fritillary avoiding the wind in the yucca - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"

Gadfly:
Swift arrows like gadflies in flight - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson

Gnat.

Grasshopper.

Ground Wasp:
Stepped in a papery nest of ground wasps - Paul Guest "Walking the Land"

Honeybee.

Honey-Moth:
My spirit has turned honey-moth - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"

Hornet.

Insect.

June Bug:
eating up the neighborhood like a june bug - Emory Noakes "In Which My Grandma Kicks Ass and Takes Names During the Zombie Apocalypse"

Katydid.

Lightning Bugs:
Summer nights of lightning bugs and Johnny Cash - Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake "Someday I'll Love--"

The spectral traces of lightning bugs - Joseph O. Legaspi "Childhood Elegy"

Locust.

Luna Moth:
A luna moth in a chambered cage - Sharon Olds "Wonder as Wander"

Mayfly:
A small braid of mayflies - Chris Dombrowski "Going Home"

By ignorance of a mayfly's ending - Ann K. Schwader "If Cold Is a War"

Wavering as the May-fly's dancing - F.H. Wood "At the Mill" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.124-v.III, 15 May 1886]

Midge:
The tedium of midges lifted - Brian Blanchfield "Edge of Water, Portage Bay, Washington"

When midges' wings make a thin music - Francis Brett Young "On a Subaltern Killed in Action"

Monarch Butterfly:
The monarch butterfly of neurotoxins - Ennis Rook Bashe "How to Hallucinate Your Zombie Lover"

Mosquito.

Moth.

Paper Wasp:
velvet ants and paper wasps testify - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

Praying Mantis:
A praying mantis in white sheets - francine j. harris "why i haven't written"

Queen Bee:
Sonorous as the queen bee's fat hum - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Roach/Cockroach.

Sand Flea:
To hold each moment close as a sand flea - Rachel Dillon "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem"

Scarab:
Against the scarab of malachite - Zaina Alsous "Window Strike"

Silverfish:
Better to leave them for the silverfish to eat - Lu Yu "Harp Song--To Send to Chi-ch'ang Shao-ch'ing" transl. by Burton Watson

Swallowtail Butterfly:
Watching the swallowtails feed on the aster - Elizabeth Seydel Morgan "Without a Philosophy"

Termite:
The termites have worn jagged roads - Evelyn Flores "The Flame Tree"

Termite trails to the heart of the fire - Evelyn Flores "The Flame Tree"

Velvet Ant:
velvet ants and paper wasps testify - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

Wasp.

Weevils:
Discards those weevils on tarred roads - CM Burroughs "Elegy for a Server"

Yellow Jacket:
A syrup ripe for yellow jackets - francine j. harris "until it comes"

Vanished into the land of the yellow jackets - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"


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