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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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