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The Observer
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Completely protected on all sides by volcanoes
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a woman, darkhaired, in stained jeans
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sleeps in central Africa.
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In her dreams, her notebooks, still
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private as maiden diaries,
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the mountain gorillas move through their life term;
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their gentleness survives
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observation. Six bands of them
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inhabit, with her, the wooded highland.
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When I lay me down to sleep
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unsheltered by an natural guardians
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from the panicky life-cycle of my tribe
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I wake in the old cellblock
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observing the daily executions,
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rehearsing the laws
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I cannot subscribe to,
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envying the pale gorilla-scented dawn
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she wakes into, the stream where she washes her hair,
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the camera-flash of her quiet
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eye.
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