I live in the desert
with a low bird
bath, everyone
comes

doves and muskrats
Vireo, beautiful bandit
Bats drink up
side down

Armadillo, missing links,
fill their armor
trickle away, dank
spelunkers

The fuchsia dragon
fly, my hero, I sport
phosphorus limbs
in your honor

Everywhere the dark
and lowly, the dazzling
and mundane; all pay
obeisance

Even those, with only
reptilian brains know
better than to waste
Holy water

© 2013 Abby Smith, Writer