Terrier
A fountain of black bangs frame
chimpanzee eyes and a pink U of tongue.
The terrier struts into the room
all happy aggression.
The leash is taut as she dips her head
into the rotting railroad tie.
Her body is a trembling spring until
with a neck breaking shake
the snake is hers.
She bites its head clean off
and leaves it without a thought,
harmless and shiny as a bracelet in the moonlight.
Asleep on her back she's wide open.
The green tattoo on her inner thigh
hints a a tale of misspent youth.
One creak of a floorboard
and up she wakes,
snapping.
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