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Animals

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  • Poem
    By Kate Partridge
    I don’t want to get emails from
                the wolf people anymore, but
    they know where I am—have known
                precisely…
  • Poem
    By Camille T. Dungy
    Ask me if I speak for the snail and I will tell you
    I speak for the snail.
                             speak of underneathedness
    and the welcome of mosses,
                                           of life that springs up,
    little lives that pull back and wait for a moment.
  • Poem
    By Bashō
    Translated By Lucien Stryk
    Wake, butterfly—
    it's late, we've miles
    to go together.
  • Poem
    By Jack Collom
      "When one is seen gliding through the woods and close to the observer, it passes like a thought, and…
  • Poem
    By Emily Dickinson
    Grief is a Mouse—
    And chooses Wainscot in the Breast
    For His shy House—
    And baffles quest—
  • Poem
    By Ada Limón
    On my way to the fertility clinic,
             I pass five dead animals.

    First a raccoon with all four paws…
  • Poem
    By Laura Gilpin
    Tomorrow when the farm boys find this
    freak of nature, they will wrap his body
    in newspaper and carry …
  • Poem
    By Russell Atkins
    The probability in the yard:

    The rodent keeps the cat close by;

    The cat would sharp at the bird;

    The…
  • Poem
    By William Olsen
    Observation isn’t serious play. It is living serious. Same heron. It’s used to us, we are as twilight…
  • Poem
    By Maya Khosla
    Water minus air becomes wound.
    Her blowhole, bursts of breathing,
    trapped in an endless curtain of netting…
  • Poem
    By Milan Děžinský
    Translated By Nathan Fields
    I had taken him to his mother
    and was returning along the D8.
    In the breakdown lane several cars, and …
  • Poem
    By Brenda Hillman
    Having stopped using dolphins to locate explosives in the Cold War
    they had 30 leftover dolphins.
    An officer…
  • Poem
    By Christina Rossetti
    Brown and furry
    Caterpillar in a hurry,
    Take your walk
    To the shady leaf, or stalk,
    Or what not,
    Which…
  • Poem
    By Julia Fiedorczuk
    Translated By Bill Johnston
    From within my bodily singularity
    I play at sending out gentle sunbeams.
    I don't believe in myself, but…
  • Poem
    By Ada Limón
    My brother holds a snake by its head. The whole
                length of the snake is the length
     
    of my brother’s body. The snake’s head
                is held safely, securely, as if my brother
     
    is showing him something in the distant high grass.
                I...
  • Poem
    By Ada Limón
    Is it okay to begin with the obvious? I am full of stones—
                is it okay not to look out this window, but to look out another?

    A mentor once said, You can't start a poem...
  • Poem
    By Ada Limón
    I pass the feeder and yell, Grackle party! And then an hour later I yell, Mourning dove afterparty! (I call the feeder the party and the seed on the ground the afterparty.) I am getting so good at watching that...
  • Poem
    By Tilsa Otta
    Translated By Farid Matuk
    I saw a herd of toads in the gully of my reflection
    Staring at each other arguing over insects 
    It wasn…
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