Serengeti
Beyond the manicured lawns
there is a Serengeti, a place where
grass is wild and dry, though
no long-necked giraffes roam
or wild elephants stampede.
Beyond the Serengeti
is an ocean of cerulean blue, the shade deepening
as the sun wanders overhead
and a terrier scampers over the dunes
in crazed delight.
We share a lobster roll, the poor creature
from the sea boiled alive.
And in a world gone mad, the sun still sets
in a blaze of hues, and after
a torrent of kisses, your arm crosses my waist
anchoring a fitful sleep.
Harriet Shenkman is a professor emerita at City University of New York and over seventy years old. Their one collection of poetry is Wonder Wheel, recently published by Grayson Press. They are a first generation American born in Brooklyn.
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