Life Lizard Poems

Empty

The gas tank is empty. 
I have five more miles to go. 
The car glides to a stop, 
beside the road. 

I get out. 
I...

Read More

the lizard hears the muffled sound of the locusts coming,
his drool drips from his mouth and wets the floor,
everything is germ or germination.
the strong and...

Read More

Lizard Snail
What does it matter what you say
What does it matter what you do
What does it matter what you think
What does it matter what you...

Read More

past-present-futures echo now

evolution demands some future safety
for unsung potentials from life's blueprints
drawn up now in the present chain of life

natural species protections involve a blending
of...

Read More

There’s a lizard in our house,
At the last there was a mouse.
And we called the mouse Klaus,
Now there’s a lizard in our house.

Soon there will...

Read More

Green clinger on arid arroyo rock, 
Spring blooms of faded yellow you did drop.
Desert dry took a toll of leaf and branch
Leaving photosynthesis to your...

Read More

hot sun burning
night foraging
once cold time comes
then hibernate...

Read More

Even the Lazy Lizard

Even the lazy lizard knows when not to beg,
when not to emerge, from behind the hungry black rock of 
another dying hand,...

Read More

( Written with the tune 'Riders on the storm' in mind)

Unpredictable and wild
At times a Jekyll then a Hyde.
A rebel on the run
Just looking to...

Read More

It spread its grizzly legs on the whitewashed wall
Firmly baked in the early summer heat 
Spitting perspiration dripping from the white crisps ceiling
While I cling...

Read More

Rain, Tree, Lizard – Haiku

wet functionary
scaled feet slip, tree knows better
reptilian off...

Read More

Is something abstract real
Good question if devising magical seal
But lizard man is real
Flesh and blood and if hurt wound needs to heal

But what about his...

Read More

Hmmm, where do I start? With deep sighs, I am sighing right now.
I just finished burying 2 lizards, and my heart is heavy...

Let me back...

Read More

Lizard is truth
Lizard is foul
Lizard! You and I are what we are distinctly

Truth or bitter
Freshwater or saline water
It mixes with our life
-in our wounds.

I am...

Read More

Out in the middle of the boundless sea,
As far away from land as ever it could be.
An island stands alone with water all around,
And the...

Read More