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country dweller
An original poem by MaryJane Nordgren
“Weren’t you afraid?”
the city man asked
i squinted, trying to remember
”No, not afraid. Awed.
I smiled and whispered
to him, ‘You are beautiful,’
and the bobcat, not twenty
feet from me, preened. He
knew I was an admirer, not
an enemy.”
not the first or last time
i’ve seen a wild creature
eye-to-eye