up the quad promenade
collected, calculated, cool
as a snake, working
in perfect measures of radial calculus
magnitude and poise
forward
slow and steadily toward
her prey.
chin up at a tilt
confident but not haughtily
like an attic statue
smock tailored precisely to form
patrol cap tipped forward
just so
bathing in darkness
two plummeting blue jewels.
strolling, languid
glibly in time to those marching
fore and aft
w the gate of a jaguar.
few men, i imagine
on this gods green earth
have seen this beauty
this singularly murderous creature
simply oozing w sex
w majesty
but i have
and before me, in formation
the devil walked slenderly