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The Diamond Leopard

to George Volceanov

„Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous"
` Albert Einstein

One morning the diamond leopard entered
the room
And leapt onto my writing desk.
It stared at me, exhaled,
And gold and milk magma gushed from its fur and nostrils.

Its breath dispersed my letters from the sheets
and the poems running like mad
in the computer.

Then it started to slowly shake its head,
it closed its eyes, waggling its tail with a dominant, rhythmic motion.
I didn't notice at which point
it started to systematically sharpen its claws
against my past.

It may have been a stray commander,
yet another mercenary of tenderness,
a collage of martyr and quinine,
maybe the Elfin colonel's adjutant - a burn,
a faked resurrection occurring in my sight
on my writing desk in the morning,
one never completed.

Impassibly, the Elfin colonel's adjutant
was minding its business with a martial and graceful pose.
It descended, got lost while diving,
and so did its kamikaze piano,
in the body of the dazzling beast
with its diamond fur, body and claws,

leaving behind a trail of clear and sparkling blood-

As if, while dispersing them in the air
with its gold and milk breath,
The diamond leopard had systematically slit itself,
in the morning,
with my poems...

 

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