Pre-Obituary for a Rabbit
Francis Walsh
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pre-obituary for a rabbit
he was, he was, he was
asleep on the carpet and stretched
like a strand of dough
his paws tucked beneath his chin
perhaps dreaming of hay fields
and bananas
and all the other morsels
that occupy the wide-eyed dreams
of rabbit sleep and nictitating eyelids.
I sat on the couch,
a witness.
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Dedication
To Leo, who is still thriving.
Francis Walsh is a writer from Portland, Maine. Their work appears Arts & Letters, Big Muddy, The McNeese Review, PRISM International and elsewhere. They are the co-editor of Scraps, a journal of rejected and abandoned work.
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