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Only HumanAuthor(s): Constance MerrittSource: Callaloo, Vol. 23, No. 1, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender: Literature and Culture(Winter, 2000), p. 45Published by: The Johns Hopkins University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3299514 .
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ONLY HUMAN
by Constance Merritt
By the light of the new-minted moon You dream the fox's dream Of chickens.
Mornings you bask in the lizard sun And at the end of summer leave Your cast-off skin on the cast- Off river stone.
The owl's slow ghosting cry Hushes your heart; You shriek without waking From your mouse's dream.
Moon at the full, A lycanthrope, you prowl.
In the end as in the beginning, The hale abandon the halt To fang and claw.
Callaloo 23.1 (2000) 45
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