was at the Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve today
observed
- 1 ferocious shower spelling no relief passing
- 2 monitor lizards basking sunburst glory
- 3 monitor lizards languid snake in brack two faraway shelter cathedral roots last dauntless cross an open dash of light
- 1 unending orchestra of crickets meticulously tuning their instruments
- 1 monitor lizard beatup tailless heave off coppery pool almighty splash
- 1 rainbow now no more
- 1 monitor lizard standoff ... flickering tongue on foot path refusing to get out of the way and me not versed in lizard and nervous and nervous if he knew i come in peace
- 1 mosquito on my left arm abdomen ballooning with my blood that i promptly dispatched from this earth and too brief life left me humming
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- 1 mosquito on my left arm bloodless next to mosquito pool of blood who was also dispatched henceforth with same palm slap left me scratchy memory
- schools of glistening fish dart past pond
- 2 kingfishers flashes of blue
- 1 mudskipper turkey drumstick sinewy in oily water spastic on land
- 1 whooping call from an unseen bird in bent back canopy rush memory where i used to live each morning and roused the same and swore bloody revenge but now most fondly
- 1 monitor lizard expired flotsam upsidedown
- 3 labourers siesta in hide tousled by my inopportune arrival
- 5 sideways fiddling crabs brooking no audience retreating
- 1 evil looking wasp-like bug who seemed to think i was following him and meant harm when i was just going down boardwalk direction and more afraid than he before we parted buzzed his displeasure in my ear full of language i cannot repeat here
- 1 juvenile monitor curious polished head peeking out of hollow stumped at my being
- too many clear instances of short-sightedness
- 4 shiny sudden skinks
- 1 mudskipper walking on water why not swim
- 2 waterhens conversation
- 2 movements on mudflats indistinct just off field of vision imagined perhaps
- 2 singaporean families reluctant children parents complaisant too white legs fish out of water in tow
- 3 distinct bursts of noises beyond language meaning memory
- 3 flights of rowdy pipers wading out the distant winter shopping for crustaceans and exchanging news from home
- 1 ten foot crocodile round bend whereby i went holy shit! out loud to no one and feel blessed who bids me with one primordial beady eye soundlessly slips into water on the other side goodbye
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