Out of the Eggs of Ants: An African Sketchbook and Other Poems
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In the twilight and the twittering dawn
My life goes flitting like a spotted fawn.
A scent of something stalks the tall, dry grass
The fragrance of the rainI come; I pass.
Acacia thorn and zigzag lightning rend
And scratch their whistling way into the wind.
Ant-castles silhouette the fire-swept plains
Where tawny kings in limbo shake their manes.
The clouds collapse; musk mixes with the breeze.
Birds dart into the hard-knot of the trees.
A vultures wing is passed across the sun.
Blood stirs to surly muscle on the run.
The lion scans the landscape as it lies,
His dignity indifferent to the flies.
Edward Fisher
Edward Fisher taught school in Africa in the Peace Corps, and worked as a play-therapist and adventure-based counselor with special needs children. He holds a bachelors in literature and a doctorate in psychology. A Pushcart nominee, his prize-winning work has been published by several small college and university presses.
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