MICHAELEEN PENNINGTON
PREDATOR
(poetryrepairshop 99.10:116)
Nose twitches, briefly
catch the scent of my
fear. A dark shadow
passes over swiftly.
The predator hunts.

I nibble jasmine petals.
Their scent hides my fear,
as another shadow,  smaller
this time, less dark,
passes over the brush.

Deep in darkness,
my toe-claws clutch
at the moist loam
beneath, as I hide.

Ears perked to the light
sounds of claw-scrap
on tree bark.
It waits above.

I dare not move,
                  yet I must.
I wait.
                I must.

It voices warning;
sound of imminent death-
mine?


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