Along this wall
Stones sun stoked
To frying point
The lizard
Green as a leaf bud
Newly opening
Insinuates himself
Three steps forward
Stops
One step slowly back
Three steps forward
And then again
Three more
Pausing at my shadow’s hem
Scurries under
Looks up at me
With a sidelong glance
As if to say:
“Fucking hell, it’s hot to-day!”
Kevin Patrick McCann
From Still Pondering https://www.amazon.co.uk/Still-Pondering-Kevin-Patrick-McCann/dp