"Sheri S. Tepper - The Companions" - читать интересную книгу автора (Tepper Sherri)

AND WITH JOYOUS APPRECIATION OF

PUPUP AND LULABELLE, THE CURRENT

GLAD REVENANTS OF THE SPECIES




THE LITANY

OF ANIMALS




elemental, monumental, fine phantasmic elephants;

hairless hippopotami, huddled close as spoons;

riotous rhinoceri, roistering on grasslands;

tiny tender tarsiers, eyes like moons;



plump pied pandas, pretty as a picture;

gay, giggling gibbons, gamboling in the trees;

awl-nosed aardvarks, excavating anthills;
glowering gorillas lolly gagging at their ease.



light on the leaf mold, feather-footed field mouse,

tiny as a hazelnut, the bloodthirsty shrew

off in the outback, wombat, numbat,

gone to have a meeting with kid kangaroo



bulky-shouldered bison, built like a bastion,

wily alligator, floating like a log

wolf in the wildlands, jackal in the jungle,