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| 2 | title: Serengeti | ||
| 3 | id: serengeti | ||
| 4 | genre: verse | ||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | project: | ||
| 7 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
| 8 | class: elegies | ||
| 9 | order: 20 | ||
| 10 | prev: | ||
| 11 | - title: The mountain | ||
| 12 | link: mountain | ||
| 13 | next: | ||
| 14 | - title: The shipwright | ||
| 15 | link: shipwright | ||
| 16 | ... | ||
| 17 | |||
| 18 | The self is a serengeti \ | ||
| 19 | a wide grassland with baobab trees \ | ||
| 20 | reaching their roots deep into earth \ | ||
| 21 | like a child into a clay pot \ | ||
| 22 | A wind blows there or seems to blow \ | ||
| 23 | if he holds it up to his ear the air shifts \ | ||
| 24 | like stones in a stream uncovering a crawfish \ | ||
| 25 | it finds another hiding place watching you \ | ||
| 26 | Its eyes are blacker than wind \ | ||
| 27 | on the serengeti they are the [eyes of a predator][formal] \ | ||
| 28 | they are coming toward you or receding \ | ||
| 29 | a storm cloud builds on the horizon \ | ||
| 30 | Are you [running][] toward the rain or away from it \ | ||
| 31 | Do you stand still and crouch hoping for silence | ||
| 32 | |||
| 33 | [formal]: onformalpoetry.html | ||
| 34 | [running]: squirrel.html | ||