Branko Manojlovic
A postcard from the jungle
I am sending you a postcard from the jungle.
Shame, I thought, they haven’t invented
the audible ones, so you could eavesdrop
the inconsolable shrill of peacocks,
baboons chatting on vines, the rain
spattering the highest leaves overhead,
rarely touching the ground. Or hear my voice
in the background, spilling your name
over the canyon’s edge. That is why I cache
these ‘Afternoon Tapes’ (find them among
crumpled papier mâché). Get all the sounds,
but none of the heat, sweat, or the mosquitoes
each the size of a Buick. Take them, my love,
to the zoo, say in front of a panther’s cage.
Play them. Observe his pace, unsteady eyeballs,
watch closer as he grows impatient,
for you’d be looking at me, trampling
my own footsteps, at the canyon’s edge.
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