Wild

quirquincho

the screaming hairy armadillo

digs the hole I fill daily

next to the garden wall

wild, the young hare

beds among zucchini

shiny black eye

wild fountains of sand

los ocultos architect

underground mazes

wild, the giant snail oozes

across asphalt

pink-rimmed pallium

wild, the parrot flocks

patrol fruiting vineyards

the sky screams

wild foxes, bald with mange

one by one, dead

for the black vultures feeding

wild, the turquoise-spotted toad

buried overnight

in the sprinkler box

wild, the whistling heron

yellow plumes fan

along the riverbed

wild slaty-breasted wood rail

the plumbeous rail

deep in the pond lilies

wild, the vines

bearing cayote squash

scraped & boiled for jam

wild cactus, the prickly pear

long spines spear

my hat’s crown

wild, the verdolaga

common purslane

succulent scourge for the weeder

wild, the dung-feeding beetles

noon mists of grasshopper

palm-sized bats at dusk

wild pink-spotted hawkmoth

wings battering bathroom tile

under the cat’s paws

wild, the tyrant flycatcher

morning’s choral voice

benteveo

benteveo

— 4 May 2013