Koi Girl
The koi was an artist, so Kitty studied its movements in the neighbors’ pond. Its scales kissed the water’s surface: cherry blossom blobs and ink stripes against a white canvas of a body. Kitty hushed feed flakes from a zinc shovel that pulsated onto the koi’s head, grazed against the sun-burned waterlilies. Sun cut Kitty to angular shadows that sharpened onto the koi’s left eye. The koi was also…
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