CHIA PETS

Those terracotta figurines
like the alligator
lizard, bear or kitten
we cannot help
liking you
bent to gather our thoughts
in our slippery animals
of memorable garden faces
making believe
that intoxicate an adolescent
monologue of conversation
on days of loneliness
seeking companionship
with a brief monomania
in our mother tongue
trading with a friend
in Pennsylvania
to initiate a private zoo
of an experimental
model imitation of mammals
from the morning nonchalance
viewed to different polygons
from our imaginations
in passing a geometry
of fur and hairy prodigality
opening up a new world
in the popularity of enthusiasm
you freely transpose our mood
from chimerical geography
to transplant us by sprouting myth
from another seed of kingdom
dislocating our own reality.