Ashes for Breakfast by Durs Grünbein

Ashes for Breakfast by Durs Grünbein

Author:Durs Grünbein
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466886131
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux


TO AN OKAPI IN THE MUNICH ZOO

The clank of a steel door, and the ignominious entrance

Of the heraldic beast, trembling, because it’s feeding time,

And the keeper wants to knock off, and the beastly onlookers are laughing …

These are things not writ in any unicorn legend. Okapi—

The word is from jungle languages, now themselves extinct.

Insufficiently tall for the savannah, this patient, rust-colored

Throat merits its pellets of straw, and its locked stall at night.

Because the free range world will be strange to him,

As strange as to the bemused visitor

This combination of giraffe and zebra,

Equally remote from the familiar child cutout of either.

One more ruminant from the olden days, a sentry

Planted on the zoological roadside, as though to warn

Against the pathos of the exotic throwback.



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