"To the Rescue"

2007

Think of a lizard as a spot of day-glo green,
insect-sized, though in all ways perfect.

Lost in this kitchen of chrome-souled
recipes for oblivion, he looks hard at me.

His skin, my skin, our heartbeats tight with
trauma, I carry him out where, tack-sharp,

two green push-ups, and a cool survey
of the universe, my endangered species

walks, not runs, away, leaving his savior
staring at two brown leaves pasted by rain. 

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