Lizard Time

curling our little lizard tails
pumping our little lizard legs
blowing up our little red balloons
beneath our little lizard throats

blowing up our little red balloons
until they look like they might pop
beneath our little lizard throats
we’re little lizards looking fierce

sun up: heat leaping
under our little lizard feet
we hang ten on asphalt heat waves
surfin’ safari lizards

sun down: sky-black slouch hat
over our little lizard heads
humphrey bogart lizards

today we're all on lizard time
flies of the world, time's up!

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Peggy Landsman is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Our Words, Our Worlds (Kelsay Books) and To-wit To-woo (Foothills Publishing). Her poems and short prose pieces appear in many literary anthologies and journals, including Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes (C&R Press), Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press), SMEOP Urban (Black Sunflowers Poetry Press), Bright Flash Literary Review, Mezzo Cammin, The Offing, and Scientific American. She lives in South Florida where she swims in the warm Atlantic Ocean every chance she gets. https://peggylandsman.wordpress.com/