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Pepper

By Aaron Suranofsky

Boldly striding into the snow,
swallowed up to her ears
protruding like two curly radar dishes,
snow exploding in clouds
as like a plush black bear,
she bounds above the surface,
two eyes locked on something they cannot see
softly swaddled in the sheet set just for her.
Sharp snorts of snow echo something softly squeaking
like with her stuffed duck
she’s already training,
plowing her little muscles through the weightless snow
to catch her little toy
who squeals a sound so satisfying
as its twisting grey body is flung to the light,
only to disappear
into a crimson imprint
and reappear again
in a rave of crystal confetti
over
and over again,
until the sweet squeaking
suddenly cuts off,
as she lays in the bed she beat for herself
with a mole crushed and dead
hanging from her jaws.
 

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Also by Aaron Suranofsky: Ripples, Simply Kitty

Filed Under: 2021 Issue, Poetry

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