<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=346187" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lizards And Snakes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the summer road that ran by our front porch<br> Lizards and snakes came out to sun.<br>It was hot as a stove out there, enough to scorch<br> A buzzard's foot. Still, it was fun<br>To lie in the dust and spy on them. Near but remote,<br> They snoozed in the carriage ruts, a smile<br>In the set of the jaw, a fierce pulse in the throat<br>Working away like Jack Doyle's after he'd run the mile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aunt Martha had an unfair prejudice<br> Against them (as well as being cold<br>Toward bats.) She was pretty inflexible in this,<br> Being a spinster and all, and old.<br>So we used to slip them into her knitting box.<br> In the evening she'd bring in things to mend<br>And a nice surprise would slide out from under the socks.<br>It broadened her life, as Joe said. Joe was my friend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we never did it again after the day<br> Of the big wind when you could hear the trees<br>Creak like rocking chairs. She was looking away<br> Off, and kept saying, &quot;Sweet Jesus, please<br>Don't let him near me. He's as like as twins.<br> He can crack us like lice with his fingernail.<br>I can see him plain as a pikestaff. Look how he grins<br>And swings the scaly horror of his folded tail.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anthony+Evan+Hecht">Anthony Evan Hecht</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=346187" data-title="Lizards And Snakes de Anthony Evan Hecht" data-description="On the summer road that ran by our front porch Lizards and snakes came out to sun. It was hot as a stove out there, enough to scorch A buzzard's foot. Still, it was fun To lie in the dust and spy on them. Near but remote, They snoozed in the ca..."></div> </div> </div>

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