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Subject: SALAMANDERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AXOLOTL, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I may practice divination with the bones
Last Line: Now the face of an axolotl.
Subject(s): Salamanders


DESCRIPTION OF A SALAMANDER, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As mastiff dogs in modern phrase are
Last Line: If this be not a salamander
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Salamanders


FORTY-FIVE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was forty-five I lay for hours
Last Line: And for a while was mine.
Subject(s): Salamanders; Sex


IN A FORMER LIFE, by MARLENE PEARSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a salamander I think about sex
Last Line: Alive, boys too young for sex
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Life; Salamanders


THE ORDEAL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O crimson salamander
Last Line: O crimson salamander.
Subject(s): Salamanders