Lizard of Possibility

I heard a sound in our garden last night 

A dragging shuffling sound – an animal sound 

Not angry but busy 

Rushing 

Inexplicable, zoological 

It’s a commonplace mystery, that sound 

I hear it most nights and 

Should I go out to look 

It will scurry

Here in the tropics 

That sound is rich with possibilities 

Civet, palm squirrel, crow snake, rat

Iguana even, or one of the bigger lizards:

The dangerous kabaragoya or the less aggressive thalagoya

The kabaragoya will eat your cuddly housepet snap snap

Best then sound stays sound