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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STALKING LEMURS, by KAREN SWENSON Poet's Biography First Line: 4 a.M., the moon down world is dark Last Line: Into leaves and dawn. Subject(s): Hunting; Indonesia; Hunters; Dutch East Indies | |||
4 AM, the moon down world is dark as the river's black volcanic bed outside my bamboo door. A knock wakes me. Fumbles of shoelaces, flashlight, clothes. I enter the night escorted by the river's invisible sibilants, track my guide's heels over stumbles of roots with my flashlight's circle until we must walk without it. In the jungle's moist shroud, surrounded by bat shrill gossiping we breathe the dark. A flick of flashlight spots the copper-penny eyes; spidery fingers clasp a branch. Among trees hung with watchful gleams my guide and I, compassed by our illumination, are bound by family resemblances to these hands and faces vanishing into leaves and dawn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MANOKWARI, IRIAN JAYA; IN MEMORIAM, ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE by KAREN SWENSON NO EXEMPTION FOR TOURISTS by KAREN SWENSON ORANGUTAN REHAB by KAREN SWENSON THE BALINESE WITCH DOCTOR by KAREN SWENSON WEDDING BED IN MANGKUTANA by KAREN SWENSON THAT KIND OF POEM' by KAREN SWENSON |
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