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sweet, tiny creatures
of leathery skin swift, 
acting as
familiar as pets
 
in the afternoon, 
I sight a huge gecko, 
in sweltering, sweat-warm shade, 
in Sarasota FLA, 
by a home-community, man-made pond, 
basking in heat that is
so comforting, so encompassing
 
bending over, 
I say something to it, 
'How ya' doin' there fella? '
or some such countrified nicety
 
it turns its head, 
not in fright, it seems, 
but in curiosity; 
no scurry to obscurity as I walk around it; 
it just sits, 
taking in the day
not at all like the skittish lizards
I am used to seeing
from 17 years
of bi-yearly trips here
 
I ask my parents about it, later, 
'Oh, yeah, 
some of them are very friendly, '
they say
 
that night
with childlike delight, 
I stumble on a sleeping
frog
planted on a stuccoed window sill, 
eyes glazed, 
slumbering deeply

(this is a rarity, 
a delicacy; 
I have never encountered a sleeping amphibian) 
 
willful, human child-man that I am, 
I wake him as I pass, 
speaking a nighttime cordiality
 
in groggy, nocturnal
haze
he lifts his head
and pokes the air with his nose, 
sniffing out the intruder, 
then, unmoving, 
 lazily writes me off
as I walk on my way

domesticated green
2007

Marc Mannheimer

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