Potential Titles: Reptiles and Amphibians [category]

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Adder.

Alligator:
In which the alligator's peace splashes - Pablo Neruda "America" transl. by Jack Schmitt

From the devouring alligator's thrones - Pablo Neruda "Doctor Francia" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Where the snake and alligator lurk in endless everglades - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

For the eye of the young alligator - Wallace Stevens "Nomad Exquisite"

Anaconda:
The spectral forms of anaconda - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Anole:
Memorized sonnets while leaping around green anoles - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog"

Asp.

Axolotl:
Baby axolotls and crickets' songs surviving - P. H. Low "Ode"

Boa Constrictor:
Pythons and boa constrictors plucked from a gorgon's scalp - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart"

Bullfrog:
The burble of the bull-frog in the well - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Bogs churning with bullfrogs - Diane Seuss "Curl"

Chameleon:
Strange garrisons of emerald-mailed chameleons - Harold Acton "When Frigates from Long Voyages ..."

Chameleons run through twenty colors in the sun - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]

Like a vast chameleon changed - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Cuvier: The Vera Causa"

Cobra.

Copperhead:
Past copperhead ledge, where the ferns gave foothold - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

The lace the sultry copperhead sheds - Ruth Lechlitner "Elegy"

Cottonmouth:
how you hold a cottonmouth in a crosshair - C.T. Salazar "River"

Crocodile.

Diamondback:
Any diamondback unlucky enough to be on the road - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

Frog.

Iguana:
To impersonate iguanas in ruins - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Pegasus"

to explain civil unions to an iguana - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins

Lizard.

Newt:
Slowing to the pace of the newt - Maxine Scates "Look"

Painted Turtle:
Envied the painted turtle sunning on a log - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"

Painted turtles, pumpkinseed or green sunfish - Janet Kauffman "Wanting Ice"

Python:
Let pythons wrap themselves around you - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"

a Galatea in Python too cold to share a bed with - Caroline Mao "When My Father Reprograms My Mother {"

The python's murderous embrace - James Jeffrey Roche "Nature the False Goddess"

Pythons and boa constrictors plucked from a gorgon's scalp - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart"

Rattlesnake.

Reptile.

Salamander:
Old salamander basking in the fire - Arthur Davison Ficke "To John Cowper Powys, on His 'Confessions'"

A salamander shaking off light - Mark Irwin "Threshold"

Salamanders use the stars to find their way - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"

Some flame-red salamander pirouetting - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"

Serpent.

Sidewinder:
Sidewinders in the saloons of fools - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"

Snake.

Toad.

Tortoise.

Tree-Frog:
Heard the tree-frog foretelling a storm - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"

Tree frogs blossoming after a country rain - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Farmhouse"

When the tree-frogs chant in choir - Dorothea Mackellar "Canticle"

Turtle.

Viper.


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