Missed Connection: Lizard in the Dog Park
By Polenth Blake
7 November 2011
you had a lizard on a lead
scales glowing bronze
claws trimmed
told me it was a dragon
I laughed
I know an anole when I see one
you saw rippled grain as wrinkles
my leaves a wig
I showed
the fresh knothole on my hand
you laughed
you know illusions when you see them
your lizard's smoke chased me but
now my roots are deeper and my
number carved on my arm coated in
fireproof varnish with no dragon to burn it
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