Gecko!
Gecko! the mating shriek.
Gecko! in gilded grapes
on the frame of the tinted photograph
of my dead virgin aunt.
Gecko! the waiting head
sees in the central slit
of its unlidded eye
myself, waiting.
Gecko!
slick at the kitchen window
gripping warm glass with footpads
fast
at the lamp, at the screen, at the lintel
doormat, bookcase, wall
it cries Gecko!
out of its modern body
built like a shriek.