Lizard does not know transformation.
Lizard is transformation.
Lizard not an “element”
Lizard is elemental
Nobody’s "stick" lizard
Not a "type" of design
Lizard knows not "lizard or human"
Lizard thinks blinks time to get real people
Lizard re-calls wetlands shining playas
Sees diked drained fenced clearcut Juniper
Knows the dying the displacing the replacing
Sees Coyote Brother Wolf comings and goings
una idea fija
una leyenda infantil
una desgarradura
el sol
como un gran animal oscuro
no hay más que yo
no hay qué decir
— Alejandra Pizarnik, Los Pequeños Cantos, XIII
...
A fixed idea
a children's story
a tearing
the sun
like a great dark animal
nothing beyond me
nothing to say
— trans. Yvette Siebert
NOTES
“Stick Lizard” — Mary F Ricks, 1996, A Survey and Analysis of Prehistoric Rock Art of the Warner Valley Region, Lake County, Oregon. Appendix IV p 156. DB noting: several other lizards as “petroglyphic elements” in this compulsive assemblage of Other.
Types of designs - Lizards — Luther H Cressman, 1937, Petroglyphs of Oregon, p 51.
“Lizard or a human representation” — Julian H Steward, 1929, Petroglyphs of California and and joining states. p 65. (Does not include Oregon. DB noting; Cressman followed Steward’s template as he researched and compiled Petroglyphs of Oregon in 1933-1934, published 1937.
