Lillian Susan Thomas - Chameleon

Fresh from leafery
slender green lizard
embarks upon the porch
to bask on the wooden deck.
I reach for him;
and startled from a nap,
he scrambles to the shadowy side of a post,
browning to the painted planks.

Lillian Susan Thomas

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