Poems of the Week

Escape Claws

by Alex Steelsmith

“[A] 4- to 5-foot monitor lizard was spotted running loose on the freeway…
Troopers arrived on the scene and called the Phoenix Herpetological Sanctuary…
The troopers, joined by Arizona Department of Transportation personnel, kept watch on the lizard…”
UPI

Diligent, vigilant
local authorities
keeping a monitor
lizard in view

always appreciate
herpetological
experts who monitor
monitors too.