Giraffe-Spotted Junonia Shell
Bottle caps like empty shotgun
shells—guardian angel descends
with marble Venus thighs—
freight train drops cargo
in Des Moines & Missoula—
Flytrap eyelashes to challenge
Mardi Gras snags me
in the subway—says, Why you
running . . . slide your Metro Card
through my slot . . . right here . . .
this secret just between us.
You have a dog, I ask?
Of course, she answers.
Alan Britt has published over 3,000 poems nationally and internationally in such publications as Agni, American Poetry Review, Ann Arbor Review, Bitter Oleander, International Gallerie (India), Irodalmi Jelen (Hungary), Letras (Chile), Pedrada Zurda (Ecuador), and Stand Magazine (UK). His poetry appeared recently in Verse Daily. He interviewed at The Library of Congress for The Poet and the Poem in January 2013. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, he has published twenty-five books of poetry and teaches English/Creative Writing at Towson University.
