Girraffes can be
terribly romantic,
intimate with
the nuances of love.
Until I met you,
eyelashes melting
in the sub-Saharan rain,
I lived for years
doubting whether
this was true.
Yet there you were,
velvet nose
buried in sweet acacia,
ossicones gold with pollen,
the mighty thrumming
of your powerful heart
like a distant drum,
luring me.
I longed to nuzzle
your pale neck,
to count the hot brown
patches strewn across
your hide, and sighed,
Alas.
But at this humble sound,
your ears pricked up,
your brown eyes softened,
and time seemed
to trip and stumble.
Later—with the taste
of your hot urine mingling
with rain upon my
bruise-tinged tongue—
we wondered at a love
so vast that it could
barely be contained within
the rippling boundaries of
our sweeping Serengeti Plain.
(c) 2018, by Hannah Six
Image: 12019/Pixabay
- Giraffe FAQs: https://giraffeconservation.org/faqs/
- Types of giraffes: https://giraffeconservation.org/giraffe-species/
- “Fun facts about giraffe sex...” (which involves a mouthful of urine): https://www.popsci.com/giraffe-reproduction-birth-live-stream
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