.zoo Over My Body Poem by Rommel Mark Dominguez Marchan

There's a lion inside me
roaring loud withing my belly

and the stallion on my feet
kicking out my tarantula fingernails

There's a Thai elephant over my head
and the arwana in my eyes
circling around my forehead bowl

There's a chimpanzee in my phalanges
gripping like a hatch ostrich
pasting like a lacoste in chest
a giraffe in neck
a shark atacking my heart

There's a serpentine sneakingly my ventral butt
and obsolete dinosaur freed
from my jurassic breath

like a ghost of Philippine eagle
endangering -

almost gone in numbers
like my my jungle mind fading
while exploiting wild
the commercialized species privacy