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| 2 | title: Serengeti | ||
| 3 | genre: verse | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | id: serengeti | ||
| 6 | toc: "Serengeti" | ||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | project: | ||
| 9 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
| 10 | class: elegies | ||
| 11 | order: 20 | ||
| 12 | prev: | ||
| 13 | - title: The mountain | ||
| 14 | link: mountain | ||
| 15 | next: | ||
| 16 | - title: The shipwright | ||
| 17 | link: shipwright | ||
| 18 | ... | ||
| 19 | |||
| 20 | | The self is a serengeti | ||
| 21 | | a wide grassland with baobab trees | ||
| 22 | | reaching their roots deep into earth | ||
| 23 | | like a child into a clay pot | ||
| 24 | | A wind blows there or seems to blow | ||
| 25 | | if he holds it up to his ear the air shifts | ||
| 26 | | like stones in a stream uncovering a crawfish | ||
| 27 | | it finds another hiding place watching you | ||
| 28 | | Its eyes are blacker than wind | ||
| 29 | | on the serengeti they are the [eyes of a predator][formal] | ||
| 30 | | they are coming toward you or receding | ||
| 31 | | a storm cloud builds on the horizon | ||
| 32 | | Are you [running][] toward the rain or away from it | ||
| 33 | | Do you stand still and crouch hoping for silence | ||
| 34 | |||
| 35 | [formal]: onformalpoetry.html | ||
| 36 | [running]: squirrel.html | ||