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