A Terrier, a Fly, a Squirrel and a Goose

New York City never fails to provide me with extensive material for photographs. Here are four of my photographs of some of the non-human, non-plant living members of NYC.

Biking Roxie
Battery Park City, Manhattan

Begging Squirrel
Parkchester, Bronx

Fly On Bench
Battery Garden

Disturbed Goose
Morningside Park, Manhattan

All images in this post are Xiomara A. Maldonado's original photographs of animals in New York City. All of these images are copyrighted and watermarked. If you are going to utilize any of these photographs, please credit the artist as follows: "Photo courtesy of Xiomara A. Maldonado. Copyright Xiomara A. Maldonado 2008;" and create a hyperlink to this blog post. Please email me with a link to where my work is used. I would love to see what you do with it.

Skiouros

squirrel sitting in the shadow of his tail,

begging, with whiskers needling his grey-gold snout,

and eyes, unmoving, like black séance balls.

braking the bike, I surrender to his badge of white

as if to the fatal allure of headlights. fearfully, he looms,

centered between rails, green beams running uphill.

sweating, i shiver.

i imagine the black front wheel

kneading, imprinting its grooves into his lean meat—

do his clenched fists sweat too?

Copyright Xiomara A. Maldonado 2009

Photo Copyright Xiomara A. Maldonado 2008