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The Ocelot

The following narrative describes what occurred one emerging evening in the mysterious recesses of Brazil’s vast and uncanny Pantanal … behold the Ocelot!

Night's stygian pall covers the enigmatic jungle

Strange forlorn voices murmur from inky recesses

Netherworld conversations

Then

Silence

Portending silence

A vague shape precipitates in the underbrush

Amorphously it clings to shadows

After an eternity, the specter takes form

It climbs a limb

Then, melts into the ebon night

~ Anecdote, poem and Ocelot capture, The Ocelot © Jerry L. Ferrara