TWO POEMS
Nov 01, 2019
2 minutes
KIM ADDONIZIO
Animals
I think I could turn and live with animals—Whitman
O Walt you were wrong, they aren’t placid or self-contained
I just watched a spoonbill make carpaccio out of a frog
& crocodiles dining on wildebeests trying to cross the Maro River
It’s wrong to say O in poetry these dayswhich makes me wantin an unashamed animal way
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