Orbit 15 by Damon Knight

Author:Damon Knight [Knight, Damon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Fiction, General, Short Stories, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic
ISBN: 9780060124397
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1974-10-01T02:49:28+00:00

Then barefooted

To your cot. You fold your clothes

Under the transom, on cold stones.

Me, I’m suited

To this life, the agues

That shake and shrink the bones.

Or say I am. Glassy, slick,

My eyes are microscope lenses;

My fingers tweezers.

It isn’t politic

To say, “Humility cleanses.”

Once I was filthy with caesars.

~ * ~

iii Dwarves, Midgets, Pygmies, Others: A Meditation

Sometimes I think myself out of here.

It’s sweet, sweet: not to be bound.

Dwarves can’t help it;

neither can midgets.

It has to do with glands.

Pygmies are another story:

Deep in the Ituri

a blue brown blue people

under a green roof

they undergo circumcision sing the molimo dance under

elephants.

They would be thoroughly awed

if their leaf cover buckled,

greenly rolled back

(a tidal brocade sloughing, leaf by leaf its constituent

elements),

and

in one flashing

loud moment of apocalypse

revealed the sky.

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