Saturday, 24 April 2021

Reflections on the Women I have Loved


Day 24





She was cold-blooded.

She was a bone puzzle, put together wrong.

She posed the thorniest problem for would-be predators.

She was warm-blooded, with an arsenal of razor teeth.

She was better designed to move swiftly and easily.

She won mastery in the theatre of your air and water.

She was a low-slung, tank-like bruiser that could not be overturned.

She was a knot of nerves and could not bear weight.

Her mistrust was deep and beaked, with a flat crest thrust back above the neck.

She waved her spiked tail like a living mace.

She cast you adrift on a separate continent.

She was a devil, full of mischief, lodging fossils in the rocks,

Just to bewilder mankind.




 

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