Manatee

I so much want to know how soft your skin.

Run fingers over sparce hairs wondering how

you perceive my presence.

If I am friend or I am foe.

You will turn your elephantine face to mine

and I wonder if you sense how I’m lost

to your gentle greyness, captivated

by the perfection of your curves

carved and shaped by evolution’s ribbons.

Your intelligent curiosity inherited

from land based cousins will tell you I’m no threat.

Just a pudding skinned fool prepared to defy gravity

in your crystal world or cruise the seagrass at your side.

Bathing in the same calming hypnotic gaze

you share with other more earthly cows.

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