Which animal would you compare yourself to and why?
Human being (Homo Sapiens) bears the closest resemblance.
Why? For starters, humans are animals. And I think if I were put in a lineup of varied species and a random intelligent person were asked to pick the Homo Sapiens, they’d pick me.
from still water
juts deadwood on which herons
perch with their shadows.
I don’t mind one crow,
on a rail or curb,
by its lonesome.
Nor am I troubled by
a large number of the birds.
(The group designation “murder,”
notwithstanding.)
But where two or three
are gathered, facing
each other…
That’s when I get the
heebie-jeebies.
swamphens strut
at water’s edge, and
i’m a farmboy again.
I take a sunrise photo
And find the glorious orb
Diminished by poor photography,
& upstaged by a flaring pigeon.
a moth, wings tattered,
basks in the canopy-
breaching spotlight.
snake wrestles fish
onto rocky home turf, &
blends with sun-warmed stones.
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