Tiny creature upon my back door,
Are you looking in to see,
Strange humans,
Doing strange human things?
I have never seen you before,
Or your kind.
And yet you must live here,
Share the space.
I wonder,
How many others are here,
Right here, right now,
And I never see them.
Yesterday I saw a full grown horny toad, near the road in front of my house. That was the first time in all the time I have lived here. I knew there must have been at least one, as I have seen two babies under an inch long, I think it was a she, and she was lovely. Wonderfully fat, and she seemed to be very proud of herself, sitting under the sage. When we were children in Texas, we used to catch them, and tie a little string around their necks. We would carry them on our shoulders all day. They would sit quietly and observe the world.
