In the mid-80s, I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya, East Africa. This poem recalls the day some friends and I found ourselves on an unexpected safari in the Maasai Mara National Reserve where we saw wildebeests on their annual migration path. The poem weaves together reflections on that experience and thoughts on an episode of PBS' Nature.

Anne Graue (she/her) is the author of Full and Plum-Colored Velvet,
(Woodley Press) and Fig Tree in Winter (Dancing Girl Press). Find her work in Sundress Publications “Best-Dressed” and in Poet Lore, Verse Daily, Spoon River Poetry Review, Gargoyle, and elsewhere. She is a poetry editor for The Westchester Review.

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