You Almost Bathed Your Tongue

Photograph — Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

She sights a Bird — she chuckles -
She flattens — then she crawls -
She runs without the look of feet -
Her eyes increase to Balls –

Her Jaws stir — twitching — hungry -
Her Teeth can hardly stand -
She leaps, but Robin leaped the first -
Ah, Pussy, of the Sand,

The Hopes so juicy ripening -
You almost bathed your Tongue -
When Bliss disclosed a hundred Toes -
And fled with every one -
Emily Dickinson

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