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                                  Dik-Dik

 

I ate one, once,

For lunch,

Or a bit of one, rather,

And now I'd rather I hadn't

(Although I said thanks at the time).

Look at the sheer size of it, for a start –

What sort of heartless fellow could munch on a deer

No bigger than a dog?

 

The steak was prime,

The taste delicate as a gourmet might say,

But not as delicate as the dik-dik’s quivering thighs,

Not as delicate as the dry summer brown of its flanks,

Less delicate by far than the fey dark amber of its eyes.

The Images of Africa collection contains twenty-nine photographs and thirty-five poems. To download the whole collection, click on the link below.

 

Images of Africa