An anole drops his pennant and nods emphatically yes
The finch too nods in a full-body paroxysm
Tabby rubs her cheek first on my trouser leg
And then on the leg of a table

The pituitary flicks the switch on reproduction
The mere sight of a plum provokes salivary effusion
A thorn in the heel takes its sweet time alerting the giant’s brain
Flopsweat aggravates the audience’s rebellion

A diagnostician reads pustules fever the dispatches in stool
The cartographer delights to limn the sleeping beauty of terra incognita
The skull and bones announce poison and pirates
But thine eyes how lights dart about their aspect at bedtime