Durer’s Hare
Occupying foreground,
the heretical hare
trembles in wet pigment.
A study in fur—inked whiskers
glossy as though birth-stroked,
every stray filament is
goldsmith-touched.
Only a sure printmaker’s care
could lift and focus such
a delicate presence,
or render palpable
this downy lack of flesh.
Albrecht’s rhino,
his dust-speckled tortoise,
divined like the feint
of a grey base wash, are
guess-sketched myth
compared to how a lurcher
might sniff and lick,
(dog-snout to twitching nose),
this leveret.
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David Mohan is based in Dublin, Ireland, and received a PhD from Trinity College. He has been published in Necessary Fiction, Opium, Contrary, elimae, Flash International magazine and The Chattahoochee Review. In 2012 he won the UK-based Café Writers’ International Poetry Competition. He has been shortlisted in The Bridport Prize and nominated for The Pushcart Prize.