Saturday 19 May 2018

Shape of the Beast


Chew
grass is bad now
smells not sweet
grass is dry now
taste of dust
sticks to tongue 
Not filling hunger


Smell 
smell of Acacia tree 
tree here good 
makes shade from hottest sun
between nights.
Tree makes food shade 
Smells of gerenuk
so no leaves to reach up
in the sand 
fallen leaves fallen fruit
good good fruit sweet chewy 
plenty fruit fill hunger…
fill...
fill…

Itch
itch on shoulder
no tick birds here
Acacia tree here
good for scratching…
gooood for scratching...


Listen 
Distant
Small roar not of lions
lions are beyond the hill
small rumble
not of elephants…
rumble bigger…
not stampede of wildebeest 
no wildebeest when ground is driest…

Turn 
turn from tree
face ears to sound…
listen more...
smell more...
taste the air...
Rumble not of rhino
no smell of rhino…
rumble and chatter clatter…
not monkeys…
not porcupine…
not wind, no wind, much heat
chatter of hyena...


Louder
smell of…
smell of… 
smell of the long black track beyond the lion hill
The beasts of the black track are here 
beasts that roar and sting
beasts that kill lions
kill elephants

kill  

Turn
face them 
Face Them 
Rumble not of thunder,
smell of the long black track
shape of the rumbling beast  chatter clatter

Flashes
flashes not of lightening
Face the beast 
Horn down…
CHARGE...

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