Potential Titles: Mammals [Category]
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somethingdarkerAlley Cat
Three alley cats remember - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"
Reading time in the eyes of alley cats - Emanuel Xavier "Americano"
Antelope:
With the secret antelope of compassion - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
Magic burned into the roots of antelope words - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"
Guarded by silver-footed antelope - John Presland "To a Robin in December"
Images of eagles and of antelope - Elinor Wylie "Let No Charitable Hope"
Ape:
Apes of kinship and grief - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"
Baboon:
Dream of baboons and periwinkles - Wallace Stevens "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock"
Baboon rattling the bedroom door - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Badger.
Bat.
Beagle:
A demon beagle dark as night - Benjamin West Ball "A Hermitage"
The beagles run like wind - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "Reynardine"
Bear (animal).
Bear-Cub:
Contrails tracing messages to bear-cubs and insects - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Beaver:
Two black cats and a beaver who eats carrots all day - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"
Not a beaver showed his head - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"
The beaver cut his timber with patient teeth - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Bison.
Black Bear:
Where wolves and black bears prowl - Mary Howitt "The Northern Seas"
Bloodhound:
Bloodhounds straining at the slip - John Breslin "The Cruise of the Catalpa"
And hell's black bloodhounds mark - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"
Launched your bloodhounds on the main - Joaquin Miller "Anglo-Saxon Alliance"
The bloodhound's hellish baying stills the hunted bondman's cries - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Heartbreak like a bloodhound - Carl Phillips "Blurry Finally in Too Soon Each of Us"
Blue Whale:
Blue whales undulate their slow song - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"
Boar:
The boar bears your final card - May Chong "Catering"
Which shelters boar and wolves - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"
A wave with tusks of a boar - Fanny Stearns Davis "Storm Dance"
His the lance to slay the boar - Henry van Dyke "The Vain King"
Brown Bear:
Tracked the brown bear and the deer - Arthur Weir "Jules' Letter"
Buffalo:
A white buffalo escaped from memory - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Among buffalos on fire - Pablo Neruda "What We Accept Without Wanting To" transl. by Alastair Reid
Bull.
Bulldog:
Stony face with bulldog jaws - Diane Wakoski "The Photos"
Calf:
And worship calves of brass and clay - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto I"
Sweet as the sound of a calf - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 14. E-Gida, the Temple of Ninazu in Enegir" transl. by Sophus Helle
The calves sang to my horn - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
Camel.
Caribou:
The caribou shadow the shining plain - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
The wilds where the caribou call - Robert W. Service "The Spell of the Yukon"
Cat.
Cattle.
Charger:
Death on his charger in battle is bounding - Robert M. Hart "Sweet Maid of Erin" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Cheetah:
About the cheetahs and the wind - Paul Carroll "Untitled [I want to write a poem the birds will understand]"
Chipmunk:
Window-perched cats and foraging chipmunks - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Colt:
Pursued the colts among the sand-hills - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part Second"
Two colts too strong for a tether - Countee Cullen "Spring Reminiscence"
Courser:
The coursers of the dark stamp down - Walter de la Mare "Nightfall"
Cow.
Coyote.
Cur:
A lagging line of babbling curs - William Somerville "The Chase"
Deer.
Dire Wolf:
Might commingle with a dire wolf's bones - Kendall Evans "This, a Kind of Prayer"
Doe.
Dog.
Dolphin.
Donkey.
Elephant.
Elk:
The bull-elk in the moonlight of my threshold - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"
The great elk in the dark door - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"
A herd of elk flows over the land - Alison Swan "True Story"
Ermine:
With an ermine robe around her - Emily Pauline Johnson "Lady Icicle"
Ermined floors and tangled seas of silk sheets - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
Fawn.
Feline:
Cats sneered at our pathetic need for feline love - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"
Ferret:
Ferret of flame & levity - Lindsey Boldt "A Bartable Enya Afternoon"
Ferrets by now a plague - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 2" transl. by Katherine Silver
Flying Squirrel:
Musk deer and flying squirrels quarrel by the stairs - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson
Foal:
Nags whose foals romped among stars - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
And lure the foals away - Florence Hoatson "The Pixies on the Moor"
A foal in an exile's country - Frank Stanford "The Forgotten Madmen of Menilmontant"
Fox.
Giraffe:
A giraffe beats a lion's ass every day - Jericho Brown "Aerial View"
For what pale giraffes have I left Byzantium - Joyce Mansour "The Sun in Capricorn" transl. by Carol Cosman
Goat.
Gray Whale:
The ghost snare of a gray whale's call - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"
Greyhound:
Nor swifter greyhound follow - William Cowper "Epitaph on a Hare"
A small greyhound run down both hart and hind - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
The gallant greyhounds swiftly ran - anonymous? "The More Modern Ballad of Chevy-Chase"
As greyhound from the leash set free - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"
Grizzly Bear:
The clear, deep marks of a grizzly's claw - Keith Taylor "To Face the Ordinary"
Groundhog:
Let the groundhog dream his dream - Joe Aguilar "Let Water Be Water"
Hare.
Hart:
The sick hart eats a snake - Barten Holyday "Distiches"
A small greyhound run down both hart and hind - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
No hound's not wakens the wildwood hart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"
Hind:
A small greyhound run down both hart and hind - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Hippopotamus:
Shoot the hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: The Hippopotamus"
The shingled hippo becomes the gray unicorn - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"
Hog:
And find myself chased by a hog - Rumi "Who Makes These Changes?" transl. by Coleman Barks
Horse.
Hound.
Hyena.
Ibex:
The ibex leaps from your mouth to mine - Alicia Cole "On an Iranian Goblet, 5,000 Years Old"
Jackal.
Jackrabbit:
Marks the dust bath of a jackrabbit - Lucy Griffith "Attention"
Moved the jackrabbit from the road - Louise Mathias "Larrea"
The mind like a jackrabbit bounding - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"
Jaguar.
Kine:
Oxen and kine they drive abroad - "The Maiden at the Thing" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Kitten:
Under her knotted boards where wild kittens hide - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Ghost House"
Heard a kitten in the wilderness - Hart Crane "Chaplinesque"
A wind frail as a kitten's paw - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Lamb.
Lemur:
The unmasked smile of the lemurs - Ingeborg Bachmann "The Great Freight" transl. by Bill Crisman
Leopard.
Leveret:
Mice and leverets caught by flood - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"
Lion.
Longhorn:
A longhorn winding its bells through the Field of Reeds - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Lynx:
As we might mark a lynx's eye - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Mammoth.
Mare:
The Ghost of a Gargoyle riding his night colored mare - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
Marten:
On a robe of marten skins - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 10"
Mastiff:
Protects the mastiff's sleep - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Hovel" transl. by Frank Sewall
Mastodon:
Lost among the mastodons - Margaret Atwood "A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum"
Crashing its micro-mastodon bulk through a carpet forest - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"
Ere the mastodon was born - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"
Mole.
Monkey.
Moose:
A moose crossing the thin August river - Chris Dombrowski "Motherless Children (Traditional)"
Call down moose from the mountain - Carolyn Forche "Calling Down the Moose"
Mouse/Mice.
Mule:
A blind mule toiling at a task lost to time - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"
Bringing us mules from the future - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"
Labor walks beside the mules - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"
Musk Deer:
Musk deer and flying squirrels quarrel by the stairs - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson
Muskrat:
When the muskrats fight in the swamps - Roger Reeves "Black Laws"
The muskrat plied the mason's trade - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Narwhal:
And the narwhals wouldn't talk to her anymore - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Otter:
A romp of otter-uttered blessings - Mahogany L. Browne "I Remember Death by its Proximity to What I Love"
Each destination swims lithe as otters - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Consults the GPS"
Otters swam in the lagoon - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
Follow in the otter's track - William Walker, Jr. "[Oh, give me back my bended bow]"
Ox.
Palomino:
Urges the palomino up a burning slope - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"
Panther.
Peccary:
The flaming peccary of a comet - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Pig:
Keeps a box of baby pigs - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"
The pigs hold up the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger
Pig whispers and games of chance - Karen A. Romanko "Bosch in Hollywood"
You can't expect a pig to care - Kristen Tracy "Urge"
Polar Bear:
A month of spotting polar bears - Elizabeth Bradfield "Pursuit"
Polar bears patrolled the perimeter - Joanne Merriam "No Words"
These dogs once hunted polar bears - Matthew Thorburn "How We Found Our Way"
Porcupine:
Rise like porcupines - J. Patrick Lewis "How to Tell Latitude from Longitude"
Heartbreak's porcupine - Kamilah Aisha Moon "#17"
Porpoise:
A school of porpoise flashed in view - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Possum/Opossum:
A thoroughfare for raccoons and opossums - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"
Puma:
Footprints of the wounded puma - Pablo Neruda "Superstitions" transl. by Alastair Reid
Puppy:
Thousands of puppies loose - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org
Rabbit.
Raccoon.
Ram.
Rat.
Rhino:
Fledglings the size of rhinos - John Ciardi "Everywhere that Universe"
Dupes an attacking rhino - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"
Sabre-Tooth Cat:
Red feud and ravage of saber tooth and claw - William Francis Barnard "The Hymn of Labor"
Laced in saber-toothed cats - Diane Raptosh "American Zebra: Praise Song for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument"
Sable.
Saint Bernard:
Rowed his captain's Saint Bernard ashore - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"
Seal:
The seal's wide spindrift gaze - Hart Crane "Voyages II"
The sleepy seals aground - Mary Howitt "The Northern Seas"
A seal hook of bear claws - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
The path of seals is smooth - "Summer Has Come" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Sheep.
Skunk:
Like a skunk that roots about the heart - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Snow Leopard:
Snow leopards, wolves, and honey bees - Tina Chang "Hybrida: A Zuihitsu"
Spaniel:
The gleeful spaniel at my side - Lennox Amott "The Summer Shower"
After the sparrow and the spaniel - Ira Sadoff "Self-Portrait"
Squirrel.
Stag.
Steed.
Steer:
When stars stare at sleeping steer - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Swine
The sleep of Circe's swine - Isaac Rosenberg "Girl to Soldier on Leave"
Terrier:
Caught in the terrier mouth of rain - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"
Like a terrier watching a rat - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"
Tiger.
Vixen:
followed her off into vixen country - Lucille Clifton "one year later"
A vixen's courage in vixen terms - Adrienne Rich "Fox"
Walrus:
Flux and flows like herds of walrus - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
In constant fear of losing ground to walrus - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
Weasel.
Whale.
Wildcat.
Wild Dog:
To keep off the wild dogs snarling in the night - Keith Taylor "Our Castle and the Wild Dogs"
Hears the wild dogs at the gate - Oscar Wilde "Theocritus"
Wolf.
Yak:
The pride of envious yaks - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Zebra:
The street with its zebra crossing - Mary Jo Bang "Night After Night"
Maybe there will be more zebras - Mark Nowak "...Again"
Zebras zipped across the field - Kristen Tracy "Rain at the Zoo"
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Three alley cats remember - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"
Reading time in the eyes of alley cats - Emanuel Xavier "Americano"
Antelope:
With the secret antelope of compassion - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
Magic burned into the roots of antelope words - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"
Guarded by silver-footed antelope - John Presland "To a Robin in December"
Images of eagles and of antelope - Elinor Wylie "Let No Charitable Hope"
Ape:
Apes of kinship and grief - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"
Baboon:
Dream of baboons and periwinkles - Wallace Stevens "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock"
Baboon rattling the bedroom door - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Badger.
Bat.
Beagle:
A demon beagle dark as night - Benjamin West Ball "A Hermitage"
The beagles run like wind - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "Reynardine"
Bear (animal).
Bear-Cub:
Contrails tracing messages to bear-cubs and insects - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Beaver:
Two black cats and a beaver who eats carrots all day - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"
Not a beaver showed his head - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"
The beaver cut his timber with patient teeth - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Bison.
Black Bear:
Where wolves and black bears prowl - Mary Howitt "The Northern Seas"
Bloodhound:
Bloodhounds straining at the slip - John Breslin "The Cruise of the Catalpa"
And hell's black bloodhounds mark - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"
Launched your bloodhounds on the main - Joaquin Miller "Anglo-Saxon Alliance"
The bloodhound's hellish baying stills the hunted bondman's cries - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Heartbreak like a bloodhound - Carl Phillips "Blurry Finally in Too Soon Each of Us"
Blue Whale:
Blue whales undulate their slow song - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"
Boar:
The boar bears your final card - May Chong "Catering"
Which shelters boar and wolves - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"
A wave with tusks of a boar - Fanny Stearns Davis "Storm Dance"
His the lance to slay the boar - Henry van Dyke "The Vain King"
Brown Bear:
Tracked the brown bear and the deer - Arthur Weir "Jules' Letter"
Buffalo:
A white buffalo escaped from memory - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Among buffalos on fire - Pablo Neruda "What We Accept Without Wanting To" transl. by Alastair Reid
Bull.
Bulldog:
Stony face with bulldog jaws - Diane Wakoski "The Photos"
Calf:
And worship calves of brass and clay - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto I"
Sweet as the sound of a calf - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 14. E-Gida, the Temple of Ninazu in Enegir" transl. by Sophus Helle
The calves sang to my horn - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
Camel.
Caribou:
The caribou shadow the shining plain - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
The wilds where the caribou call - Robert W. Service "The Spell of the Yukon"
Cat.
Cattle.
Charger:
Death on his charger in battle is bounding - Robert M. Hart "Sweet Maid of Erin" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Cheetah:
About the cheetahs and the wind - Paul Carroll "Untitled [I want to write a poem the birds will understand]"
Chipmunk:
Window-perched cats and foraging chipmunks - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Colt:
Pursued the colts among the sand-hills - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part Second"
Two colts too strong for a tether - Countee Cullen "Spring Reminiscence"
Courser:
The coursers of the dark stamp down - Walter de la Mare "Nightfall"
Cow.
Coyote.
Cur:
A lagging line of babbling curs - William Somerville "The Chase"
Deer.
Dire Wolf:
Might commingle with a dire wolf's bones - Kendall Evans "This, a Kind of Prayer"
Doe.
Dog.
Dolphin.
Donkey.
Elephant.
Elk:
The bull-elk in the moonlight of my threshold - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"
The great elk in the dark door - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"
A herd of elk flows over the land - Alison Swan "True Story"
Ermine:
With an ermine robe around her - Emily Pauline Johnson "Lady Icicle"
Ermined floors and tangled seas of silk sheets - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
Fawn.
Feline:
Cats sneered at our pathetic need for feline love - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"
Ferret:
Ferret of flame & levity - Lindsey Boldt "A Bartable Enya Afternoon"
Ferrets by now a plague - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 2" transl. by Katherine Silver
Flying Squirrel:
Musk deer and flying squirrels quarrel by the stairs - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson
Foal:
Nags whose foals romped among stars - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
And lure the foals away - Florence Hoatson "The Pixies on the Moor"
A foal in an exile's country - Frank Stanford "The Forgotten Madmen of Menilmontant"
Fox.
Giraffe:
A giraffe beats a lion's ass every day - Jericho Brown "Aerial View"
For what pale giraffes have I left Byzantium - Joyce Mansour "The Sun in Capricorn" transl. by Carol Cosman
Goat.
Gray Whale:
The ghost snare of a gray whale's call - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"
Greyhound:
Nor swifter greyhound follow - William Cowper "Epitaph on a Hare"
A small greyhound run down both hart and hind - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
The gallant greyhounds swiftly ran - anonymous? "The More Modern Ballad of Chevy-Chase"
As greyhound from the leash set free - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"
Grizzly Bear:
The clear, deep marks of a grizzly's claw - Keith Taylor "To Face the Ordinary"
Groundhog:
Let the groundhog dream his dream - Joe Aguilar "Let Water Be Water"
Hare.
Hart:
The sick hart eats a snake - Barten Holyday "Distiches"
A small greyhound run down both hart and hind - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
No hound's not wakens the wildwood hart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"
Hind:
A small greyhound run down both hart and hind - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Hippopotamus:
Shoot the hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: The Hippopotamus"
The shingled hippo becomes the gray unicorn - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"
Hog:
And find myself chased by a hog - Rumi "Who Makes These Changes?" transl. by Coleman Barks
Horse.
Hound.
Hyena.
Ibex:
The ibex leaps from your mouth to mine - Alicia Cole "On an Iranian Goblet, 5,000 Years Old"
Jackal.
Jackrabbit:
Marks the dust bath of a jackrabbit - Lucy Griffith "Attention"
Moved the jackrabbit from the road - Louise Mathias "Larrea"
The mind like a jackrabbit bounding - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"
Jaguar.
Kine:
Oxen and kine they drive abroad - "The Maiden at the Thing" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Kitten:
Under her knotted boards where wild kittens hide - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Ghost House"
Heard a kitten in the wilderness - Hart Crane "Chaplinesque"
A wind frail as a kitten's paw - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Lamb.
Lemur:
The unmasked smile of the lemurs - Ingeborg Bachmann "The Great Freight" transl. by Bill Crisman
Leopard.
Leveret:
Mice and leverets caught by flood - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"
Lion.
Longhorn:
A longhorn winding its bells through the Field of Reeds - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Lynx:
As we might mark a lynx's eye - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Mammoth.
Mare:
The Ghost of a Gargoyle riding his night colored mare - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
Marten:
On a robe of marten skins - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 10"
Mastiff:
Protects the mastiff's sleep - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Hovel" transl. by Frank Sewall
Mastodon:
Lost among the mastodons - Margaret Atwood "A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum"
Crashing its micro-mastodon bulk through a carpet forest - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"
Ere the mastodon was born - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"
Mole.
Monkey.
Moose:
A moose crossing the thin August river - Chris Dombrowski "Motherless Children (Traditional)"
Call down moose from the mountain - Carolyn Forche "Calling Down the Moose"
Mouse/Mice.
Mule:
A blind mule toiling at a task lost to time - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"
Bringing us mules from the future - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"
Labor walks beside the mules - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"
Musk Deer:
Musk deer and flying squirrels quarrel by the stairs - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson
Muskrat:
When the muskrats fight in the swamps - Roger Reeves "Black Laws"
The muskrat plied the mason's trade - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Narwhal:
And the narwhals wouldn't talk to her anymore - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Otter:
A romp of otter-uttered blessings - Mahogany L. Browne "I Remember Death by its Proximity to What I Love"
Each destination swims lithe as otters - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Consults the GPS"
Otters swam in the lagoon - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
Follow in the otter's track - William Walker, Jr. "[Oh, give me back my bended bow]"
Ox.
Palomino:
Urges the palomino up a burning slope - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"
Panther.
Peccary:
The flaming peccary of a comet - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Pig:
Keeps a box of baby pigs - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"
The pigs hold up the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger
Pig whispers and games of chance - Karen A. Romanko "Bosch in Hollywood"
You can't expect a pig to care - Kristen Tracy "Urge"
Polar Bear:
A month of spotting polar bears - Elizabeth Bradfield "Pursuit"
Polar bears patrolled the perimeter - Joanne Merriam "No Words"
These dogs once hunted polar bears - Matthew Thorburn "How We Found Our Way"
Porcupine:
Rise like porcupines - J. Patrick Lewis "How to Tell Latitude from Longitude"
Heartbreak's porcupine - Kamilah Aisha Moon "#17"
Porpoise:
A school of porpoise flashed in view - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Possum/Opossum:
A thoroughfare for raccoons and opossums - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"
Puma:
Footprints of the wounded puma - Pablo Neruda "Superstitions" transl. by Alastair Reid
Puppy:
Thousands of puppies loose - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org
Rabbit.
Raccoon.
Ram.
Rat.
Rhino:
Fledglings the size of rhinos - John Ciardi "Everywhere that Universe"
Dupes an attacking rhino - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"
Sabre-Tooth Cat:
Red feud and ravage of saber tooth and claw - William Francis Barnard "The Hymn of Labor"
Laced in saber-toothed cats - Diane Raptosh "American Zebra: Praise Song for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument"
Sable.
Saint Bernard:
Rowed his captain's Saint Bernard ashore - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"
Seal:
The seal's wide spindrift gaze - Hart Crane "Voyages II"
The sleepy seals aground - Mary Howitt "The Northern Seas"
A seal hook of bear claws - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
The path of seals is smooth - "Summer Has Come" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Sheep.
Skunk:
Like a skunk that roots about the heart - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Snow Leopard:
Snow leopards, wolves, and honey bees - Tina Chang "Hybrida: A Zuihitsu"
Spaniel:
The gleeful spaniel at my side - Lennox Amott "The Summer Shower"
After the sparrow and the spaniel - Ira Sadoff "Self-Portrait"
Squirrel.
Stag.
Steed.
Steer:
When stars stare at sleeping steer - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Swine
The sleep of Circe's swine - Isaac Rosenberg "Girl to Soldier on Leave"
Terrier:
Caught in the terrier mouth of rain - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"
Like a terrier watching a rat - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"
Tiger.
Vixen:
followed her off into vixen country - Lucille Clifton "one year later"
A vixen's courage in vixen terms - Adrienne Rich "Fox"
Walrus:
Flux and flows like herds of walrus - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
In constant fear of losing ground to walrus - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
Weasel.
Whale.
Wildcat.
Wild Dog:
To keep off the wild dogs snarling in the night - Keith Taylor "Our Castle and the Wild Dogs"
Hears the wild dogs at the gate - Oscar Wilde "Theocritus"
Wolf.
Yak:
The pride of envious yaks - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Zebra:
The street with its zebra crossing - Mary Jo Bang "Night After Night"
Maybe there will be more zebras - Mark Nowak "...Again"
Zebras zipped across the field - Kristen Tracy "Rain at the Zoo"
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