"I have been exploring Wordwaves with pleasure. I admire the fused dictions of 'a Japanese garden of human ash,' also the poignant accuracy of 'Dream Tigers,' and I could go on--" Pulitzer Prize winning Poet Richard Wilbur (His page can be visited on this site)

Dream Tigers

Invited to the Everglades
I do not want to go.

Traveling in the mind
is more exciting
than an Allligator's
Green-flecked eye.

I go, but I know
when I get back
dream tigers

Will be waiting
flexing muscles
sniffing Freon air.

They pace
in the cramped corridors
of the mind

dreaming
wet leaves & morning smoke.

They push hard
against the bars,

back & forth
in that relentless swaying

we are all a part of
when we can no longer stay.