{"id":26795,"date":"2016-08-14T02:34:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26795"},"modified":"2016-08-14T02:34:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:34:45","slug":"26795","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/26795\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerenuk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sipping a Rasputin stout,<\/p>\n

hoping for animal inspiration,<\/p>\n

I watched the household pet,<\/p>\n

a Japanese bobtail cat leap<\/p>\n

from four-paw standing to<\/p>\n

mid-air leap on a moth quest.<\/p>\n

She stood tall on two paws<\/p>\n

her ears spread wide apart<\/p>\n

with aggravated intent.<\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/p>\n

She looked like a gazelle<\/p>\n

and a giraffe, tall and swift;<\/p>\n

then I remembered the zoo,<\/p>\n

when I braved the school bus,<\/p>\n

field trip mom amid 3rd graders.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

An African gerenuk, goofball<\/p>\n

of the Savannah, big eared,<\/p>\n

whistle mouth, tongue clicker<\/p>\n

that stood hind leg tall in the<\/p>\n

branches seeking choice leaves.<\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/p>\n

While the cheetahs and lions<\/p>\n

drew the crowds, the tree<\/p>\n

dancer oddity, half breed<\/p>\n

or so it seemed, of flight<\/p>\n

and height, panic and poise<\/p>\n

stole my attention, ever the<\/p>\n

soft touch for the under dog.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And hard as I tried to bring<\/p>\n

the children to her windowed<\/p>\n

habitat, they didn’t understand.<\/p>\n

“That’s weird,” my own daughter<\/p>\n

declared, and I contented myself,<\/p>\n

alone in my fascination for freaks,<\/p>\n

to have learned about this wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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