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Title: Jaguar
Author: Lola Ridge [ More Titles by Ridge]
Nasal intonations of light and clicking tongues... publicity of windows stoning me with pent-up cries... smells of abattoirs... smells of long-dead meat. Some day-end-- while the sand is yet cozy as a blanket off the warm body of a squaw, and the jaguars are out to kill... with a blue-black night coming on and a painted cloud stalking the first star-- I shall go alone into the Silence... the coiled Silence... where a cry can run only a little way and waver and dwindle and be lost. And there... where tiny antlers clinch and strain as life grapples in a million avid points, and threshing things strike and die, letting their hate live on in the spreading purple of a wound... I too will make covert of a crevice in the night, and turn and watch... nose at the cleft's edge.
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