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Silent Night
Tropic moist swamp
The sky is blue purple and black
The stars begin to sparkle overhead
A little fawn by herself
Trudging across the ground
The mushy gooey brown ground
The trees swaying in the light breeze
Slowly approaching the water
Everything seems still and tranquil
Drinking from the muddied water
Ripples extend from her
And something else
Thick like the tree trunks
Oblong like a boat
Subdued like the night sky
Pointing it’s U-shaped muzzle
Towards the petite fawn
The fawn looks up
As the dark log swims nigher
There is no dread
Not yet not there
A lurch
A bite
An immediate snatch
Not a trace of the fawn
Just the waves in the water
And the alligator whose disappeared
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