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birthday present

to self: the still-beating heart

of a giraffe 

Life, chronicled by art.

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sky whales
hoot across the heavens
shots ring out

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stoop
wind rushing
mouse looks up

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The Hide


the
skin
on the
wall rippled
in a phantom breeze
its head lifted to peer over
the trader's shoulder as he turned and turned the native
war
knife
in his
trembling hands
he mumbled "the eyes"
and jerked his gaze to left and right
while behind him claws unsheathed sheathed and unsheathed again

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the love song of rabbits
where fur meets fang
and the green slit-pupil eye
the old man has still got it
though white hairs freckle sable
and he pauses
before a high jump

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anole curled
or pressed flat
don't last long when
all the water's
in the cats' bowl