Read full poem →Between are the green and marching potato vines.
The lightning bugs go criss-cross carrying a zigzag of
fire: the potato bugs are asleep under their stiff
Dictionary Entry
An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
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Poetry examples for “bugs”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →There must have been something.
If I go bugs I want to do it like Ophelia.
There was class to the way she went out of her head.
Read full poem →got dull. [would go out and walk around in the backyard, looking at things,
bugs mostly. Or I would sit on the grass and imagine things. One thing I
imagined was that I was a great baseball player, so great that I could get a
Read full poem →up to your you know what in water or
with the bugs crawling right all up
all everywhere over you all me everyone
Read full poem →Devours them. And the pitcher plant holds out
Its cup of green for larger bugs, which fall
Into the water, treasured there like tears
Read full poem →net. They call him the state something-ologist. He goes around
and--and--_hunts bugs_. But do you want to know what I think of a crank
like that?” I wanted to know. He told me.
