Delicate creatures

Skin more like leather than shell

So easily smashed

Celtis pallida

Prosopis casts its shadow

Beans and berries mix

Scientific names

Bit esoteric, perhaps

I like to show off

Hidden in the grass

My shears blindly cut in twain

Crotalus atrox

You may think it odd

Stricken by remorse, not fear

Not concerned with bites