Re: Snakes in the garden
- Subject: Re: Snakes in the garden
- From: t* c* g*
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 09:48:49 -0700
I also encourage garter snakes...and we have a lot of frogs in our pond,
which eat slugs. Unfortunately, sometimes the snakes eat the frogs. My
spouse rescued a frog recently by grabbing a snake by the tail so that it
dropped the frog from its mouth. (Black ground beetles eat slugs, also.)
I am reminded of Emily Dickinson's "Zero at the Bone" about snakes
A narrow Fellow in the GrassOccasionally rides--
You may have met Him--did you not
His notice sudden is--
The Grass divides as with a Comb--
A spotted shaft is seen--
And then it closes at your feet
And opens further on--
He likes a Boggy AcreA Floor too cool for Corn
--Yet when a Boy, and Barefoot--
I more than once at NoonHave passed,
I thought, a Whip lash
Unbraiding in the Sun
When stooping to secure it
It wrinkled, and was gone--
Several of Nature's PeopleI know, and they know me
--I feel for them a transportOf cordiality--
But never met this Fellow
Attended, or alone
Without a tighter breathing
And Zero at the Bone--* Emily Dickinson
I found the poem at
http://www.cswnet.com/~erin/ed10.htm
Skyler
----- Original Message -----
From: <Blee811@aol.com>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 6:09 AM
Subject: Re: Snakes in the garden
> In a message dated 5/12/02 12:17:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
ECPep@aol.com
> writes:
>
>
> > I am encouraging snakes and it is hard for me because I don't like
snakes.
> > They move quickly and turn up when you least expect them.
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