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Ken Hada<br />

At the Zoo<br />

We went to a zoo,<br />

stood in line before the cages,<br />

taking our turn – gawking<br />

at our brothers lazing<br />

around artificial wildness,<br />

rocks softened<br />

into meaningless<br />

obstruction, vegetation<br />

drooping in abstraction.<br />

It was eerily quiet:<br />

too much of not much,<br />

a heavy sky bending<br />

behind us – bars<br />

constraining in ways<br />

we fail to understand,<br />

consuming us –<br />

exchanging imagination<br />

with dull breathing.<br />

158 WINDWARD REVIEW | Vol. 18

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