I, An Innocent Reptile

My river is coming.

Now I am an infant

bouncing on a knee.

I am my own son.

The tiger tosses me a disc.

I said to Kaylee

cross the desert with me.

We crossed the desert.

Saturn’s rings were the brave

husks of a battleship.

God struck me with lightning.

I am four years old.

I am five years old.

A monster called to me from

Cypress Swamp.

I no longer swagger through

the moonlight.

I fatten like an innocent snake.

I kiss dead poets on the lips until

they migrate beyond the desert.