My dog Midnight, a
black German Shepard,
at the reptile fair,

where scales are pornography,
runs

chromatic in a cobalt mode. The coin-slot
on my lizard terminal is loose (shoddy
work!) and something huge and scaly

slips out of its aquarium-cage.
Midnight catches it in her mouth

and swallows: scales: peeling back to show
the poison-pink flesh. Midnight lays down;

she's sleeping still now, with no twitching
legs. The sky has her color tonight, and runs

minor chords across our heads.

2003/02/09 11:19:02




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