Ancient temple carved with features:
Beasts, men, gods and mythic creatures.
Imagine my surprise when I
Came face-to-face with this lil’ guy.
The lizard did his level best
To stay stock still with puffed-out chest.
To pass for a chiseled dragon,
But couldn’t keep its tail from waggin’.
A Monitor Lizard strolls through the park --
A mid-day stroll, not at dusk or after dark.
The walkers and joggers give it wide berth
As it monitors them for all its worth.
Ah! What a life, to be a lizard:
Unacquainted with ice or blizzard,
Knowing only warmth and beaches...
All but for sand in one's nether reaches.
rock agama pops
over the boulder's top:
sniffs & scurries.
a young skink's
vibrant cobalt blue tail
says, "Not the Face!"
a garden lizard can't resolve whether to scurry, or to be master of all that it surveys?
monitor lizard trudges peppily for the cool morning hours
a lizard slinks up to the stone's edge, turning an eye on me
the frilly spines of an iguana catch light, marring camo
Tiger Riding for Beginners 