Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Chameleon (eye)



feru-leru:

entre las plantas by trasvorder on Flickr.


Scientists call me the “ground lion”
And ogle the transposing hues
Yet few zoom beyond my inward (eye),
Where colors don’t belie
With theatrics

For your entertainment
I could be your slow motion acrobat
My forked feet tight-rope narrow branches
I could be the camouflage ring master
Splaying fury in pointillist panther stripes
Across my pelican chin and abdomen
I could fly the dangle trapeze
With swaying gait and prehensile tail
I could clown my ancient crest with swiveling eyes
Like gun turrets and fire an extrudable tongue
For your entertainment

Yet I wait to be recognized
For the proprium in my (eye)s

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