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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"
A heavy dream roaming with mulleins and chameleons - Kostes Palamas "The Palm Tree" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
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.
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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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"
A heavy dream roaming with mulleins and chameleons - Kostes Palamas "The Palm Tree" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
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.
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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