Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

hot summer day
spent overlooking the lake:
sea breeze to land breeze

a patch of leaves.
some: light green and veiny;
others: black blobs

clock vines grow through
the peacock flower tree —
two blooms: one tree

old stone wall,
now overgrown with moss:
live & not alive?

neon signs fire, pulse, 
and send shimmers of light
between the black spaces

the cat that conforms
to a hollow in the wall
won't conform elsewise

in the dim temple,
candlelight flickers,
and bronze moves

dried plants
bobble in an autumn breeze
with erratic shakes

sunlight fires up
one patch of fall color
engulfed by shadelands

monitor lizard
trudges peppily for the
 cool morning hours