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+title: Serengeti
+genre: verse
+
+project:
+    title: Elegies for alternate selves
+    css: elegies
+    order: 20
+    prev:
+        title: The mountain
+        link: mountain
+    next:
+        title: The shipwright
+        link: shipwright
+...
+
+The self is a serengeti \
+a wide grassland with baobab trees \
+reaching their roots deep into earth \
+like a child into a clay pot \
+A wind blows there or seems to blow \
+if he holds it up to his ear the air shifts \
+like stones in a stream uncovering a crawfish \
+it finds another hiding place watching you \
+Its eyes are blacker than wind \
+on the serengeti they are the [eyes of a predator][formal] \
+they are coming toward you or receding \
+a storm cloud builds on the horizon \
+Are you [running][] toward the rain or away from it \
+Do you stand still and crouch hoping for silence
+
+[formal]: onformalpoetry.html
+[running]: squirrel.html