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"Lizard."

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"Volatile, a hybrid of dinosaur
and toy, this living remnant

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throbs on the hot stone.

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A prehistoric off cut, six
inches of chlorophyll green,

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dusted with pollen.

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A trick of nature,
lithe, ectopic, uniform,

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stocking filler, out of place
everywhere but in the sun.

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Frisking the wall,
it snatched run

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as a dotted line
of fits and starts.

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Spasmodic and stopped,
it pulses once,

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slips into a rock, the gulp.

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This morning, one
flits across the room.

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Three floors up from the garden,
its curiously boneless toes

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seem already extinct.

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Struggling for purchase
on the polished tiles,

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its back feet frantic
mops on a curling rink.

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When I lifted to the
sill, it jaunts over,

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reverting to rubber as
it falls, and bounces off

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the stones below, dead still,
darts away, rewinding."

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