Best: Dogs and Cats
Worst: Hippopotami, African Elephants, the Black Mamba, Right Whales, Pumas, Condors, Puffer Fish, Howler Monkeys, Rhinoceroses, Hammerhead Sharks, Lowland Gorillas, Geese, Cape Buffalo, Galapagos Tortoise, Bengal Tigers, Pronghorn Antelope… , and anything else that some jackass builds a house-sized chain-link fence cage in his backyard to “keep.”
On a pleasant mid-Spring day,
A bird landed -- no bounce or sway.
It perched, chirping - as if in play:
I blinked, and it'd flown away.
heron & reflection drift apart
until one of them vanishes.
deep autumn blue;
a harvested field,
alive with crickets.
butterfly on the jungle floor,
warmed by a shaft of light.
spherical blooms,
arrayed like planets,
bees zip through.
gusting Spring winds:
can the hunkered crow
take to flight?
lifelike bird sculpture
doesn’t fool the insect
that lands on its beak.
two wading birds
face each other so that
their reflections can chat.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 