With These Long Limbs
So many things in the world reaching.
Myself,
I am content,
In the dark hours of the morning,
To reach simply for you.
Love 'Em Anyways
Me: Hand me the wrench.
Salamander: Have you seen how tiny my legs are, Dude?
Dwarf Salamanders'll show up when you're fixing the sprinkler system, but they never end up helping out. And they never bring pizza.
The Brownian Motion of Tadpoles
The Narrow Mouth Toad does have a fairly small mouth, but is not in fact a toad. Small and terribly shy, they come out in the rain to mate sounding like a flock of ailing lambs calling desperately for their mothers. Tracking the furtive, imperfect bleats to their source can be impossible at times, but that just increases the joy of actually finding one.
Fragrant Rest
By ten in the evening the anoles have had it, especially the young ones, so they climb up into the honeysuckle or the ferns or a densely leafed section of the boxwoods where they are safe from the nocturnal ground hunting predators, and they drift off to meet with Morpheus.
The littlest ones prefer the comfort of the mint patch in the back yard, and by mid summer, when the spring clutches have all hatched and the tiny reptiles have had time to learn a bit of the layout of things, you can find five or six of them stretched or curled like strange fruits at the tops of the tallest plants, eyes closed, dreaming warm dreams of fat insects and sunny tomorrows.
