Foxes and bears have their eyes on me,
a yorkie and a water hound lie at my feet.

A carved bird flies across the glass atrium,
while a giraffe hides behind a corner palm.

Chickadees feed outside the kitchen at noon,
a red poll questions me from inside the room.

Otters and whales swim on my walls,
a porcupine stares at me down the hall.

A moose in the twilight lies disguised as a rock,
an owl shouts out its presence flying over the bluff.

Glass frogs freeze between leaps as they sparkle at me,
my life has become a menagerie.

Poem & Photo by Therese Gramercy, copyright 2011, all rights reserved.

Photo shows a slice of the painting Calypso, by V Rae (Vicki Rae Pruitt), vraeart.com