An african Elegy

An African Elegy BY ROBERT DUNCAN In the groves of Africa from their natural wonder the wildebeest, zebra, the okapi, the elephant, sport enterd the marvelous. No greater marvelous know I than the minds natural jungle. The wives of the Congo express in that respect their red and the husbands hunt lion with spear and pigment finis-spore on their shields, wear his teeth, claws and hair on ordinary occasions. thither the Swahili plainspoken his doors, let exposed thru the trees the tides of stopping points sullen and distil from their leaves the terrible red. He is the consort of dreams I have seen, comprehend in the orchestral dark deal the barking of dogs. Death is the dog-headed gay zebra striped and surrounded by silence who walks bid a lion, who is black. It was his voice crying come top, that Virginia Woolf heard, turnd her fine skull, introduce and haunted, stopt, pointed into the scent where I see her in willows, in fog, at the river of sound in the trees. I see her prepare on that point to enter Deaths mountains like a clear Afghan hound pass into the forest, closed after, let loose in the leaves with much than grace than a hound and more wonder there even with flowers wound in her hair, entirelyowing herself like Ophelia a closing pastoral gesture of love toward the world.

And I see all our tortures absolved in the fog, dispersed in Deaths forests, forgotten. I see all this fuzziness like a hound in the water mess up upward and outwards beyond my dark hand. I am waiting this winter for the more complete black-out, for the negr! o armies in the eucalyptus, for the cities laid up to(p) and the cold in the love-light, for hounds women and birds to go back to their forests and leave us our solitude. Negroes, negroes, all those princes, holding cups of rhinoceros bone, consecrate magic with my blood. Where pretty-pretty Marijuana towers taller than the eucalyptus, turns within the lips of night and go, falls downward, where as giant Kings...If you want to get a dependable essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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