title serengeti id serengeti genre verse project title elegies for alternate selves class 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