Wildlife spills from the refuge, and it is common to see flocks of snowy egrets perched on lawns and several gopher tortoises crawling beside the heavily speed-restricted roads and numerous bike paths.
It was a thrill to step out of the bus queue, resentfully observed by ordinary passengers as I turned from frog to princess and stooped to crawl in beside the professor.
I visit at least once a month for some days, run alongside Gus as he rides on his two-wheeler without training wheels, and crawl around beside Zeke, who laughs at me.
She heaves the bags of money into the back seat, crawls in beside them, and gives the driver, who wakes with a snort, her address.
"If an animal doesn't want to enter here, what's to stop him from moving down a few dozen yards and crawling in beside the fallen pine?" "What's to stop him?" asked the rabbit, and he picked up his heavy stick and bashed the snake's head in.
To feel myself break with tiredness at their needs and still want to crawl into bed beside them and feel my own breath at the soft base of their necks..
If it goes like the others, she'll come home in the middle of the night, crawl into bed beside me, and tell me all about how she and Paulo had sex.
Later, when Anne, upon returning home from the hospital, made Georges promise she'd never have to go back, I thought of my grandfather's room in the geriatrics ward — of how we'd read the newspaper together on the edge of the bed he would die in, the bed my grandmother convinced the nurses to let her crawl into to sleep beside him.
Another time, I saw a pigeon crawl into a enclave beside my front door.
He crawled into bed beside me.
