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		Poems about Sharks
		Angel Shark by Hailey Leithauser

		Ants and Sharks by Tomasz Rózycki

		Ashore by Ernest Hilbert

		At Shark Reef Sanctuary by Eva Alice Counsell

		Beach Walk by Henri Cole

		Coffee and Oranges by Joel Brouwer

		Flying Fish: An Ode [excerpt] by Charles Wharton Stork

		Haunted Seas by Cale Young Rice

		I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned? by Robert Graves

		In a Breath by Carl Sandburg

		Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks by Martín Espada

		Murray Dreaming by Stephen Edgar

		No Place Like Home by Stephen Cushman

		Ode on Dictionaries by Barbara Hamby

		Plague of Dead Sharks by Alan Dugan

		Rome by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

		Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling

		Sharks in the Rivers by Ada Limón

		Sharks' Teeth by Kay Ryan

		Shoal of Sharks by Richard O'Connell

		Song of the Paddlers [excerpt] by Herman Melville

		Submarine Mountains by Cale Young Rice

		Summer [excerpt] by James Thomson

		The Bluefish by Isaac McLellan

		The Maldive Shark by Herman Melville

		The Ripple Effect by Jamey Dunham

		The Sea is History by Derek Walcott

		The Shark by Isaac McLellan

		The Shark by Lord Alfred Douglas

		The Shark by Judith Beveridge

		The Shark by William Henry Venable

		The Shark's Parlor by James Dickey

		The Sharks by Denise Levertov

		The Sirens by James Russell Lowell

		The Steel Rippers by Patricia Carlin

		Untitled [There, by the crescent moon, the shark] by Shido

		Upon Shark by Robert Herrick

		What To Do About Sharks by Vivian Shipley

		White Sales by Allen Grossman

		World Below the Brine by Walt Whitman

Tiger Shark
by Hailey Leithauser

Fear streamlined to elegance and elegance made mute within this skin of gunmetal and gash mouthed grin. Repute would have the monster cruel—untrue— for mannerly cruelty demands a heart, unwitnessed in its calm machinery.

Published in Margie. Copyright © 2009 by Hailey Leithauser. Used with permission. All rights reserved.