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Subject: OTTERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN OTTER, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Underwater eyes, an eel's
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Otters


GIANT OTTERS, by JACKSON MACLOW    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They were a close family of giant otters
Last Line: No demand for clarity %as the eyes are unsealed and the world flows in as light?
Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson
Subject(s): Language Poetry; Otters


LIFE OF THE OTTER; TUCSON DESERT MUSEUM, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From sand he pours himself into deep water
Last Line: Potency %set in fur %like an ornament
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Otters


OTTER, by BRIAN CARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sun-flickery
Last Line: In dark liquefaction
Subject(s): Animals; Otters


OTTER, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you plunged %the light of tuscany wavered
Last Line: Heavy and frisky in your freshened pelt, %printing the stones
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Otters


OTTER, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Underwater eyes, an eel's
Last Line: To this long pelt over the back of a chair
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Otters


POSSIBILITY THAT HAS BEEN OVERLOOKED IS THE FUTURE, by MICHAEL HARTNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I look along the valley of my gun
Last Line: There is a chance he will swim towards me. %will he take it?
Subject(s): Otters


RADCLIFFE OTTER HUNT; BALLAD FROM RADCLIFFE, LANCASHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a bold otter, as you shall hear
Last Line: Drink a health to all true-hearted hunters, %success to our country and king
Subject(s): Otters


SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now and then there will arise
Last Line: The otters
Subject(s): Otters


THE OTTER, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you plunged / the light of tuscany wavered
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Otters