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Wild Velvet<br />

jody DiSalvo<br />

breathing better after leaving<br />

heavy feathered air of the<br />

coop until I saw her standing<br />

all furry spots and eyes tethered<br />

by the weathered mailbox above<br />

leaves perched on their towering<br />

appendages stems erect ready<br />

to rustle she<br />

kidnapping my breath with<br />

eyes larger and browner than<br />

the lashes pulling them open<br />

Claudie a gentle man, husband<br />

to Rosie Breeze hap hazarding upon the<br />

orphan day before us arriving at their<br />

chicken ranch just inside the Arkansas<br />

border other side of Oklahoma<br />

my mother ignorant of wild things<br />

always screaming to my father's<br />

chant about me scaring to death the<br />

wild creatures rifle hoisted on his shoulder<br />

a couple of limp fox tailed squirrels in hand<br />

a snicker in his eye neither one noticing the<br />

fawn was as out of its element as I<br />

her spots whispering camouflage run<br />

both our hearts about to explode<br />

her velvet nose kissing my out held hand<br />

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