Article: Raccoon.(Poem)

Raccoon 
 
   So you really do exist. Slowly cautious, 
   slumping by this window 
 
   wide as the screens where I've only 
   ever seen you till now 
 
   where I sit and sit and 
   cannot write-- 
 
   you, foreign as inspiration 
   plodding as method. 
 
   Myopic, I take a moment to place you 
   plump as a homely cat and silent 
 
   thicker than fox and 
   masked in movement. 
 
   Now in focus, you evoke our numbat 
   and under threat--I hear 
 
   they call you fur-bearer  ...

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