The Alligator’s Children (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
The alligator is a creatureWith not a single pleasing feature;And even when it's very small,It is not cuddlesome at all.With ...
The alligator is a creatureWith not a single pleasing feature;And even when it's very small,It is not cuddlesome at all.With ...
Sad is the man who is asked for a story and can't come up with one. His five-year-old son waits ...
In the sky there is nobody asleep. Nobody, nobody. Nobody is asleep. The creatures of the moon sniff and prowl ...
The Slaver in the broad lagoon Lay moored with idle sail; He waited for the rising moon, And for the ...
How the mountains talked together, Looking down upon the weather, When they heard our friend had planned his Little trip ...
The clock of my days winds down. The cat eats sparrows outside my window. Once, she brought me a small ...
In the shop, a bit too pretty, pristine I caught a few subtle, furtive, slightly disdainful glances supposing, deciding we ...
Smooth glass, clear, or in the prism's spectrum Cool of polished marble in Washington's monuments smooth of a baby's skin, ...
He seemed so complacent in the hot August sun on the barrier islands not moving at all basking in the ...
Oh they got the name right when they named these Ancient flyers of the sun tail like an alligator's flesh ...
How fast can your move backward while in a crouched position with your eye in the viewfinder of a manual ...
TO MISS GRACE KING Down in the old French quarter, Just out of Rampart street, I wend my way At ...
Our mascot lives low, a baby alligator. She's our happy-and-sad mask all at once, Mona Lisa her name. She's my ...
The state with the prettiest name, the state that floats in brackish water, held together by mangrave roots that bear ...
You'll rejoice at how many kinds of shit there are: gosling shit (which J. Williams said something was as green ...
O MAGNET-SOUTH! O glistening, perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse, and love! Good and evil! O ...
As the immense dew of Florida Brings forth The big-finned palm And green vine angering for life, As the immense ...
So it is the duty of the artist to discourage all traces of shame To extend all boundaries To fog ...
I give you now Professor Twist, A conscientious scientist, Trustees exclaimed, "He never bungles!" And sent him off to distant ...
Did you ever see an alligator Come up to the air from the mud, Staring blindly under the full glare ...
Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root, Cocoa in pods and alligator pears, And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit, Fit ...
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