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somethingdarkerSome of these don't fit the other categories while others could fit multiple categories (like critter). This also includes things that are borderline on being animals (like protozoa) for the same reason I've been putting mushrooms in the Plants category post and things that are probably mostly associated with one type of animal (like cub or flock) here. Dinosaurs are here because I don't want to put them in either Birds or Reptiles.
Abalone:
Within a crescendo of abalone light - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
The child with hair of ash and abalone - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Alewive:
Catch alewives in their hands - Elinor Wylie "Atavism"
Amoeba:
Next in order to the amoeba - Muriel Rukeyser "The Conjugation of the Paramecium"
amoebas in your motherboards - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Spaceshp For Sale"
Amphibians [category].
Anemone/Sea Anemone.
Animal.
Animalcules:
Dodged Miro's famished halo of animalcules - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Arachnoid:
The larval signs, the nets, the arachnoid - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan
Bacteria.
Barnacle.
Barracuda:
Barracuda in the blood - Ada Limon "Fin"
Barracudas hang in the water and watch - Alison Swan "Sand Key"
Bass:
Gave up their bass and speckled trout - Palmer Cox "The Brownies Fishing"
Beast.
Behemoth:
Entering the negative space of a corporate behemoth - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
Bird [category]
Brachiosaur:
Brachiosauruses by the bleachers - Haley Bossé "When the Time Comes to Split the Gym"
Bream:
Making a room bubble like a shoal of bream - Marianne Chan "The Lives of Saints"
Carnivore:
Place me above the carnivorous sea - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Puzzles crowd your path like carnivorous plants - Sarah Getty "Presbyopia"
Carnivores in their own essential food chain - Achy Obejas "Dancing in Paradise"
Carp.
Caterpillar:
Does the butterfly remember what the caterpillar did? - Danske Dandridge "Wings"
Centipede:
Writhe and bleed beneath the tread of the centipede - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
That loathsome centipede, Remorse - Henry S. Leigh "An Allegory Written in Deep Dejection"
Clam:
Every sober clam below her - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"
With spoons of clam-shell - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
My ears clams with mouths full of sand - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Cod:
Eat cod liver oil and oatmeal - Lou Barrett "Oliver Hill Hotel: 1932"
A liquor I mix'd with my cod-liver oil - Henry S. Leigh "Songs of the Sick Room No. 1: Cod Liver Oil"
Conch:
Dark scarf from the spiral of the conch - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Wishes Walt Whitman a Happy Birthday"
Who contains the echo in its conch - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
In the conch shell of darkness - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Coral.
Cowrie:
Cowrie shells, tea leaves, coins - Jacqueline Johnson "Oracle"
Crab.
Crawfish:
Staring at the door of the crawfish's burrow - Edgar Lee Masters "Theodore the Poet"
Creature.
Critter:
Fluorescent critters drawing ribbons in the air - Anne Carly Abad "Where the Waves Meet"
Cub:
Seek out the cubs in the tiger's cave - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson
Contrails tracing messages to bear-cubs and insects - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Cuttlefish:
As the crab does the cuttlefish - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"
Cuttlefish in this unnatural forest - Paul Cameron Brown "Slaughterhouse"
Cutworm:
The cutworm crawls in the almond-flower - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Cyanobacteria:
Cyanobacteria tattoos feathering my metal skin - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
Dinosaur.
Dragonfish:
Rockstrewn caves where dragonfish evolve - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"
Earthworm:
Every earthworm's bristle & every seraph's six wings - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"
Eel.
Extraterrestrial:
how to explain brazil to an extraterrestrial - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins
Fauna:
Fauna from a distant sun - Pablo Neruda "Ode to a Stamp Album" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Fire Fish:
Did fire fish tumble under his blades? - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time"
Fish
Flock
Flying Fish:
The time of the flying fish - Kaneko Misuzu "Whale Memorial" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi
Fossil.
Germ.
Ghost Crab:
Prowling the wetlands for ghost crabs - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Glowworm.
Goldfish:
The crystal pond where gold-fish play - Mrs. Elizabeth Dimond "Thoughts on Creation"
Gold fish far above the black arches - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Third cousin to the gold-fish - Adolf Wolff "The Babe"
Herbivore:
While burning herbivores strolled across a lean horizon - Bruce Boston "Surreal People"
Herd.
Hermit Crab:
Hermit crabs in shells just the size for sleep - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Becomes Our Mother"
A hermit crab seeing nobler shells - Adrienne Rich "Seven Skins"
The hermit crab who keeps me company - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Herring:
Fed wild dogs overripe apples and herring - Ruth Awad "The Years of Water and Light" [Poetry Oct. 2019]
Hybrid.
Inchworm:
Made a library for inchworms - Stephen Kuusisto "Letter to Borges from London"
Insects [category]
Invertebrate:
Made to it an invertebrate overture - Aditi Machado "then"
Jellyfish:
A jellyfish swam in a tropical sea - Grant Allen "The First Idealist"
Synthetic wind of pulsing jellyfish - Tony Hoagland "Better than Expected"
The shore was shocked with jellyfish - Raymond McDaniel "Assault to Abjury"
Koi:
A school of koi pausing at the surface - Katie Ford "Koi"
Lake Trout:
Lake trout and rainbows below us - Keith Taylor "The Numbers at Kitch-iti-kipi"
Lamprey:
As uninvited as the sea lamprey - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"
A forest of lances and lampreys - Pablo Neruda "Death" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Larva:
larvae ravening the bitter vine - Amy Beeder "My Poisonous Cousin the Pipevine Swallowtail"
The larval signs, the nets, the arachnoid - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan
The gold larvae may be clues - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time"
The cicada's larva reveals narrow secrets - J. Michael Martinez "[Untitled]"
Leech:
The velvet howl of a holding leech - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Prosperous leeches settling to their fare - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lunch at a City Club"
A spirit so riddled with leeches - Erika L. Sanchez "Quincenera"
Leviathan.
Lifeform:
No lifeforms exploded from your soil - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Limpet:
Tide pools that cradle the ribbed limpet and the rockbound star - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"
Lobster:
An intelligent lobster or well-inform'd crab - Henry S. Leigh "The Gift of the Gab"
The lobster cracking loose from its exoskeleton - Samantha Thornhill "38. Shedding the Old"
In the lobster-infested ruins of old Atlantis - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Mackerel:
How trout and mackerel plunged from the sky - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"
Mackerel that school by millions - Conrad Hilberry "Schooled in the Open Sea"
Mammals [category]
Marlin:
Whispered queries marlin-sharp - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
Medusa.
Microbe.
Minnow.
Mollusk.
Moray:
Morays have teeth made for rending - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"
Mussel:
Mussel of critical habit - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"
examining mussel shells, millennia in their hands - David Maduli "alameda point"
Shoals of mossy rocks and mussel shells - Alexander Posey "Song of the Oktahutche"
Nautilus:
I have seen the thin nautilus trimming her sail - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
A curse inside nautilus - Hoa Nguyen "Oxbow Lake"
Iris of tumbled nautilus - Francis Brett Young "Five Degrees South"
Octopus:
Fair sister of anemone and octopus - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
The octopus's footprints moonlit - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "Our Red Road"
Learning why one envies the octopus for its ink - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
Pushing octopus and urchin toward the sun - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Juniper"
Orb Spider:
Where the orb spider continues to spin a hole - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Oyster.
Paleontology:
Paleontological remnants of the future - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"
Paramecium:
The conjugation of the paramecium - Muriel Rukeyser "The Conjugation of the Paramecium"
Parasite.
Perch:
Scared the river eels and perches - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"
Pest:
To bear the torture from those pests of air - Palmer Cox "The Brownies Fishing"
That he would rid the world of every pest - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
A land of pebbles and pests - Camisha L. Jones "Haunted"
Pet:
Pocket pet of witches - Flower Conroy "Frog"
Caged as a prisoner, kissed as a pet - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
The petted passion and the shallow dream - George Santayana "The Poetic Medium"
Pickerel:
The gray pickerel from his reedy shoals - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
Pike:
A field of spears, a lake of pikes, a sky of hawks, a hundred winters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"
Pilot Fish:
Bad luck drawn away like pilot fish following his wake - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Pollinator:
The garden song calls the pollinators - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."
Predator.
Prey.
Protozoa:
A shore strewn with protozoa bracken - Kevin Killian "Deep Red"
Pterodactyl:
As famous as the pterodactyl or the dodo - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"
Reptiles [category].
Rock Trout:
Forded the river for rock trout - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 14"
Salmon:
Salmon race up into the freshet - Robinson Jeffers "Salmon-Fishing"
A pleasant salmon in the unchainable sea - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
The water where the silver salmon play - Robert W. Service "The Rhyme of the Remittance Man"
Sardines:
The plural pavilion of sardines - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Scorpion.
Sea Anemone.
Sea Horse:
The woman riding a stampede of seahorses - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"
The herds of the dread sea horse to view - Mary Howitt "The Northern Seas"
Fossil of a seahorse entombed - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"
Sea-horses glisten in summer - "The Sea-God's Address to Bran" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Sea Lamprey:
As uninvited as the sea lamprey - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"
Sea-Sponge:
The simplicity implicit in sea-sponges - Timothy Donnelly "To His Own Device"
Sea Urchin:
The friendship of a sea urchin - Pablo Neruda "A Dog Has Died" transl. by William O'Daly
Pushing octopus and urchin toward the sun - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Juniper"
Sea Violet:
The sea-violet fragile as agate - H.D. "Sea Violet"
Shark.
Shrimp:
The shrimp's crooked smile - Mahogany L. Browne "If Love is For the Fishes"
Silkworm.
Slug:
Searches for slugs of amethyst - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"
As sluggish waters in duress - Lola Ridge "Still Water (To D.L.)"
Snail.
Species.
Speckled Trout:
Gave up their bass and speckled trout - Palmer Cox "The Brownies Fishing"
Spider.
Sponge:
The simplicity implicit in sea-sponges - Timothy Donnelly "To His Own Device"
A sponge of living light - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
Squid:
Black ice and squid ink - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"
Starfish:
The starfish with its five blunt fingers - Heather McHugh "The Matter Over"
Tide pools that cradle the ribbed limpet and the rockbound star - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"
Starfish stiffened by the sun - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]
Like a starfish pulled from the fog - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Letter in Fog"
Stone Fish:
Watching out for the camouflaged stone fish - Tennessee Reed "Fantasy"
Sturgeon:
And followed wherever the sturgeon led - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
Watches the new spirits arriving in the belly of the sturgeon - Margaret Noodin "Sometimes" transl. by the author
From the cold Caspian to the Volga thus the sturgeons pour - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Caught sturgeon in the reed-filled Caspian - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"
Sunfish:
Painted turtles, pumpkinseed or green sunfish - Janet Kauffman "Wanting Ice"
Swarm.
Swordfish:
The fights of the quarrelsome swordfish and shark - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
Swordfish armed with hard arguments - Pablo Neruda "To Those at Odds" transl. by Alastair Reid
T-Rex:
Saw a T-Rex fight a comet and lose - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Tarantula:
Wasps and scorpions and tarantulas - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Silver-like thread the tarantula weaves - Ida Lee "The Forest King's Lament"
Triceratops:
Herds of triceratops lunge up on their hind legs - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"
Trilobite:
Trilobites and shells embedded underfoot - Terry Blackhawk "At the National Gallery of Art: Memorial View"
Mortared with the shells of trilobites - Adrienne Rich "Two Arts"
The doomed trilobites neglect to make out their wills - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"
As trilobites filled up my hand - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Fossil"
Trout.
Vermin.
Viral/Virus.
Water-Beast:
The water beasts roaring in the night - Ben Hecht "Moods"
Tarnishing the homes where water-beasts are born - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"
Worm.
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Abalone:
Within a crescendo of abalone light - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
The child with hair of ash and abalone - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Alewive:
Catch alewives in their hands - Elinor Wylie "Atavism"
Amoeba:
Next in order to the amoeba - Muriel Rukeyser "The Conjugation of the Paramecium"
amoebas in your motherboards - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Spaceshp For Sale"
Amphibians [category].
Anemone/Sea Anemone.
Animal.
Animalcules:
Dodged Miro's famished halo of animalcules - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Arachnoid:
The larval signs, the nets, the arachnoid - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan
Bacteria.
Barnacle.
Barracuda:
Barracuda in the blood - Ada Limon "Fin"
Barracudas hang in the water and watch - Alison Swan "Sand Key"
Bass:
Gave up their bass and speckled trout - Palmer Cox "The Brownies Fishing"
Beast.
Behemoth:
Entering the negative space of a corporate behemoth - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
Bird [category]
Brachiosaur:
Brachiosauruses by the bleachers - Haley Bossé "When the Time Comes to Split the Gym"
Bream:
Making a room bubble like a shoal of bream - Marianne Chan "The Lives of Saints"
Carnivore:
Place me above the carnivorous sea - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Puzzles crowd your path like carnivorous plants - Sarah Getty "Presbyopia"
Carnivores in their own essential food chain - Achy Obejas "Dancing in Paradise"
Carp.
Caterpillar:
Does the butterfly remember what the caterpillar did? - Danske Dandridge "Wings"
Centipede:
Writhe and bleed beneath the tread of the centipede - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
That loathsome centipede, Remorse - Henry S. Leigh "An Allegory Written in Deep Dejection"
Clam:
Every sober clam below her - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"
With spoons of clam-shell - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
My ears clams with mouths full of sand - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Cod:
Eat cod liver oil and oatmeal - Lou Barrett "Oliver Hill Hotel: 1932"
A liquor I mix'd with my cod-liver oil - Henry S. Leigh "Songs of the Sick Room No. 1: Cod Liver Oil"
Conch:
Dark scarf from the spiral of the conch - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Wishes Walt Whitman a Happy Birthday"
Who contains the echo in its conch - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
In the conch shell of darkness - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Coral.
Cowrie:
Cowrie shells, tea leaves, coins - Jacqueline Johnson "Oracle"
Crab.
Crawfish:
Staring at the door of the crawfish's burrow - Edgar Lee Masters "Theodore the Poet"
Creature.
Critter:
Fluorescent critters drawing ribbons in the air - Anne Carly Abad "Where the Waves Meet"
Cub:
Seek out the cubs in the tiger's cave - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson
Contrails tracing messages to bear-cubs and insects - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Cuttlefish:
As the crab does the cuttlefish - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"
Cuttlefish in this unnatural forest - Paul Cameron Brown "Slaughterhouse"
Cutworm:
The cutworm crawls in the almond-flower - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Cyanobacteria:
Cyanobacteria tattoos feathering my metal skin - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
Dinosaur.
Dragonfish:
Rockstrewn caves where dragonfish evolve - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"
Earthworm:
Every earthworm's bristle & every seraph's six wings - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"
Eel.
Extraterrestrial:
how to explain brazil to an extraterrestrial - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins
Fauna:
Fauna from a distant sun - Pablo Neruda "Ode to a Stamp Album" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Fire Fish:
Did fire fish tumble under his blades? - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time"
Fish
Flock
Flying Fish:
The time of the flying fish - Kaneko Misuzu "Whale Memorial" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi
Fossil.
Germ.
Ghost Crab:
Prowling the wetlands for ghost crabs - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Glowworm.
Goldfish:
The crystal pond where gold-fish play - Mrs. Elizabeth Dimond "Thoughts on Creation"
Gold fish far above the black arches - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Third cousin to the gold-fish - Adolf Wolff "The Babe"
Herbivore:
While burning herbivores strolled across a lean horizon - Bruce Boston "Surreal People"
Herd.
Hermit Crab:
Hermit crabs in shells just the size for sleep - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Becomes Our Mother"
A hermit crab seeing nobler shells - Adrienne Rich "Seven Skins"
The hermit crab who keeps me company - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Herring:
Fed wild dogs overripe apples and herring - Ruth Awad "The Years of Water and Light" [Poetry Oct. 2019]
Hybrid.
Inchworm:
Made a library for inchworms - Stephen Kuusisto "Letter to Borges from London"
Insects [category]
Invertebrate:
Made to it an invertebrate overture - Aditi Machado "then"
Jellyfish:
A jellyfish swam in a tropical sea - Grant Allen "The First Idealist"
Synthetic wind of pulsing jellyfish - Tony Hoagland "Better than Expected"
The shore was shocked with jellyfish - Raymond McDaniel "Assault to Abjury"
Koi:
A school of koi pausing at the surface - Katie Ford "Koi"
Lake Trout:
Lake trout and rainbows below us - Keith Taylor "The Numbers at Kitch-iti-kipi"
Lamprey:
As uninvited as the sea lamprey - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"
A forest of lances and lampreys - Pablo Neruda "Death" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Larva:
larvae ravening the bitter vine - Amy Beeder "My Poisonous Cousin the Pipevine Swallowtail"
The larval signs, the nets, the arachnoid - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan
The gold larvae may be clues - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time"
The cicada's larva reveals narrow secrets - J. Michael Martinez "[Untitled]"
Leech:
The velvet howl of a holding leech - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Prosperous leeches settling to their fare - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lunch at a City Club"
A spirit so riddled with leeches - Erika L. Sanchez "Quincenera"
Leviathan.
Lifeform:
No lifeforms exploded from your soil - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Limpet:
Tide pools that cradle the ribbed limpet and the rockbound star - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"
Lobster:
An intelligent lobster or well-inform'd crab - Henry S. Leigh "The Gift of the Gab"
The lobster cracking loose from its exoskeleton - Samantha Thornhill "38. Shedding the Old"
In the lobster-infested ruins of old Atlantis - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Mackerel:
How trout and mackerel plunged from the sky - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"
Mackerel that school by millions - Conrad Hilberry "Schooled in the Open Sea"
Mammals [category]
Marlin:
Whispered queries marlin-sharp - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
Medusa.
Microbe.
Minnow.
Mollusk.
Moray:
Morays have teeth made for rending - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"
Mussel:
Mussel of critical habit - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"
examining mussel shells, millennia in their hands - David Maduli "alameda point"
Shoals of mossy rocks and mussel shells - Alexander Posey "Song of the Oktahutche"
Nautilus:
I have seen the thin nautilus trimming her sail - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
A curse inside nautilus - Hoa Nguyen "Oxbow Lake"
Iris of tumbled nautilus - Francis Brett Young "Five Degrees South"
Octopus:
Fair sister of anemone and octopus - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
The octopus's footprints moonlit - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "Our Red Road"
Learning why one envies the octopus for its ink - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
Pushing octopus and urchin toward the sun - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Juniper"
Orb Spider:
Where the orb spider continues to spin a hole - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Oyster.
Paleontology:
Paleontological remnants of the future - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"
Paramecium:
The conjugation of the paramecium - Muriel Rukeyser "The Conjugation of the Paramecium"
Parasite.
Perch:
Scared the river eels and perches - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"
Pest:
To bear the torture from those pests of air - Palmer Cox "The Brownies Fishing"
That he would rid the world of every pest - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
A land of pebbles and pests - Camisha L. Jones "Haunted"
Pet:
Pocket pet of witches - Flower Conroy "Frog"
Caged as a prisoner, kissed as a pet - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
The petted passion and the shallow dream - George Santayana "The Poetic Medium"
Pickerel:
The gray pickerel from his reedy shoals - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
Pike:
A field of spears, a lake of pikes, a sky of hawks, a hundred winters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"
Pilot Fish:
Bad luck drawn away like pilot fish following his wake - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Pollinator:
The garden song calls the pollinators - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."
Predator.
Prey.
Protozoa:
A shore strewn with protozoa bracken - Kevin Killian "Deep Red"
Pterodactyl:
As famous as the pterodactyl or the dodo - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"
Reptiles [category].
Rock Trout:
Forded the river for rock trout - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 14"
Salmon:
Salmon race up into the freshet - Robinson Jeffers "Salmon-Fishing"
A pleasant salmon in the unchainable sea - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
The water where the silver salmon play - Robert W. Service "The Rhyme of the Remittance Man"
Sardines:
The plural pavilion of sardines - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Scorpion.
Sea Anemone.
Sea Horse:
The woman riding a stampede of seahorses - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"
The herds of the dread sea horse to view - Mary Howitt "The Northern Seas"
Fossil of a seahorse entombed - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"
Sea-horses glisten in summer - "The Sea-God's Address to Bran" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Sea Lamprey:
As uninvited as the sea lamprey - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"
Sea-Sponge:
The simplicity implicit in sea-sponges - Timothy Donnelly "To His Own Device"
Sea Urchin:
The friendship of a sea urchin - Pablo Neruda "A Dog Has Died" transl. by William O'Daly
Pushing octopus and urchin toward the sun - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Juniper"
Sea Violet:
The sea-violet fragile as agate - H.D. "Sea Violet"
Shark.
Shrimp:
The shrimp's crooked smile - Mahogany L. Browne "If Love is For the Fishes"
Silkworm.
Slug:
Searches for slugs of amethyst - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"
As sluggish waters in duress - Lola Ridge "Still Water (To D.L.)"
Snail.
Species.
Speckled Trout:
Gave up their bass and speckled trout - Palmer Cox "The Brownies Fishing"
Spider.
Sponge:
The simplicity implicit in sea-sponges - Timothy Donnelly "To His Own Device"
A sponge of living light - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
Squid:
Black ice and squid ink - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"
Starfish:
The starfish with its five blunt fingers - Heather McHugh "The Matter Over"
Tide pools that cradle the ribbed limpet and the rockbound star - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"
Starfish stiffened by the sun - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]
Like a starfish pulled from the fog - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Letter in Fog"
Stone Fish:
Watching out for the camouflaged stone fish - Tennessee Reed "Fantasy"
Sturgeon:
And followed wherever the sturgeon led - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
Watches the new spirits arriving in the belly of the sturgeon - Margaret Noodin "Sometimes" transl. by the author
From the cold Caspian to the Volga thus the sturgeons pour - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Caught sturgeon in the reed-filled Caspian - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"
Sunfish:
Painted turtles, pumpkinseed or green sunfish - Janet Kauffman "Wanting Ice"
Swarm.
Swordfish:
The fights of the quarrelsome swordfish and shark - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
Swordfish armed with hard arguments - Pablo Neruda "To Those at Odds" transl. by Alastair Reid
T-Rex:
Saw a T-Rex fight a comet and lose - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Tarantula:
Wasps and scorpions and tarantulas - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Silver-like thread the tarantula weaves - Ida Lee "The Forest King's Lament"
Triceratops:
Herds of triceratops lunge up on their hind legs - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"
Trilobite:
Trilobites and shells embedded underfoot - Terry Blackhawk "At the National Gallery of Art: Memorial View"
Mortared with the shells of trilobites - Adrienne Rich "Two Arts"
The doomed trilobites neglect to make out their wills - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"
As trilobites filled up my hand - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Fossil"
Trout.
Vermin.
Viral/Virus.
Water-Beast:
The water beasts roaring in the night - Ben Hecht "Moods"
Tarnishing the homes where water-beasts are born - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"
Worm.
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