Gators in the Florida Wetlands

During our last Florida outing, we toured a nearby Wetlands, and I took tons of pictures of water birds of all shapes and sizes. More interesting to my Step-Dad and friend Ole, though, were the alligators. According to one hiker, more than 21 were spotted during our late morning stroll.

The pictures I took reminded me of a poem about alligator-mouthed dogs:

The Yard in Oklahoma

A five -foot chain link

around a sage lawn

cut weeds and razor grass

stinging

like the bee hive I mowed over on Thursday.

Two dogs nap on a shaded patio.

A neighbor’s chicken feed

batting for corn

 into the wind

over the fence.

The collie herds the chicken toward the hound.

Looking like alligators

their long snouts open to rows of white

slicing breast

 like grass.