black mamba

she was,
in all important respects,
though not from skin tone,
but from poise,
and speed,
and lethality
of her strike,

the darkest,
most elegant,
fastest
and
deadliest;

she moved so
certainly,
so
deliberately,
so
quickly,

that I never
saw her eyes,
or felt that bite.



April 14, 2009.

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