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Adult female Leopard (Panthera pardus), Vumbura Plains, Botswana: photo by Steve Jurvetson, 1 July 2011
The eyeballs on her behind are like fire
Leaping and annoying
The space they just passed
Just like fire would do
The ground have no mouth to complain
And the girl is not braver herself
She is beautiful in her spotted
Leopard ensemble. Heartless so
To keep her fashionable in New York
Leopards are dying
Crude comments flutter around her
At lunchtime. She sure look good
She remembers nine banishing speeches
More powerful than this is the seam
Of the leotard under her clothing
Her tail in the leotard is never still
The seam!
She feels it too familiar on her leg
As some crumb says something suggestive
The leopard embracing around her
Is too chic to leap and strike
Her thoughts fall back to last semester’s karate
Underneath, the leotard crouches up on her thigh
It is waiting for its terrible moment!
Lorenzo Thomas: The Leopard, from Chances are Few (Blue Wind Press, 1979)
Female Leopard (Panthera pardus), hunting in the Sabi Sands, South Africa. Note the white spot on its tail, used for communicating with cubs while hunting or in long grass: photo by Lee Berger, July 2007
Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus), Botswana: photo by Michael Potts, 2 July 2011
Leopard (Panthera pardus) relaxing on a tree: photographer unknown, n.d.; image by Bogdan, 26 November 2008 (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Young leopard (Panthera pardus) charging, Rhino and Lion Park, Gauteng, South Africa: photo by Rute Martins, 25 February 2010
Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus). Serengeti, Tanzania: photo by JanErkamp, 13 February 2007
Leopard (Panthera pardus) standing in a tree, central Serengeti: photo by Caelio, 29 September 2009
Female Leopard (Panthera pardus), Samburo National Park, Kenya: photo by Steve Garvie, 8 July 2010
Female Leopard on the prowl (Panthera pardus), Samburo National Park, Kenya: photo by Steve Garvie, 8 July 2010
Leopard (Panthera pardus), Africa: photo by Rupert Taylor-Price, 16 September 2008
Leopard (Panthera pardus) in a tree: photo by David Berkowitz, 16 September 2008
Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus ciscaucasica), Iran: photo by Tamar Assaf, 2 January 2010
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