Pet Store Iguana

from Face the Terrain by Stephanie Catlett

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Pet store iguana sitting
On branch made of wire
And construction paper, and the fake greenery
Even you don’t believe.

You’ve changed the color
Of plastic, and index fingers
Point to your signaling
But here it don’t mean anything.

You were meant
For a warm rock in Sedona
Panorama for your rotating eye
And I don’t understand why
You were doomed to end up
In a 12-inch aquarium, a pet store in Iowa
Looking up at a decal of the sky.

I’m sorry that I stare
When you can’t go anywhere
It’s perfectly unfair
And if the weather was better
I’d drive you to the desert.

Even if you escaped
Disguised in the aisles several days
Your life would be about the same
As any pet we ever save
A little bit more space inside a bigger cage.

You were meant
For a warm rock in Sedona
Panorama for your rotating eye
And I don’t understand why
You were doomed to end up
In a 12-inch aquarium, a pet store in Iowa
Watching me cry.

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from Face the Terrain, released February 5, 2024

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