arrayed in pairs, mythical guardians stand aside a stone staircase the tourists seem undissuaded by the figures - be they freakish, grotesque, or mean the most dismaying of them may be the ones with a warm, polite grin... and a lion's body
Pandemic street art
lingers on the walls —
just like its grounds
the white walls
of the funerary bath
glow with morning light
floodwaters rise.
peacefully drifting
around the calves
of those in search
of things that float
bats squeak & poop: unseen in the dark, but each sound amplified
a spider scurries
across the sand, without
dislodging a grain
There was a great General named Macbeth. All that kept him from kingship was a death, but - as with a Pringle - he couldn't do a single. So, he showed seven more their last breaths.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 