{"id":57,"date":"2018-03-17T16:15:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T16:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deanieblank.com\/wp\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2018-08-01T09:49:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T13:49:04","slug":"silver-similarities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deanieblank.com\/index.php\/silver-similarities\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Similarities"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"for Gerry<\/p>\n

We stood before grown children
\nold friends, family, vowed to keep
\nlove found between twin sorrows
\nWe soared Sahara sands to Entebbe
\nwhere \u2014 click, click \u2014 trigger-happy
\ntravelers now take framed snap shots.
\nWe silver-tressed new wed widows
\ntrekked The Impenetrable Rain Forest
\nof dense jungle that fills hungry air.
\nClimbed to rhythmic machetes \u2014
\nslash, slash\u2026steep, steamy hours…
\nlungs breaking, mud legs aching\u2026
\nhush, hush \u2014 a bush moved\u2026
\nthump, thump \u2014 we saw the giant
\nsleepy silverback, his mellow
\nmountain clan, his adolescent son\u2019s
\nraw boast, met the mother\u2019s curious
\nregard\u2026all eyes agog.<\/p>\n

No more aware of breathless air,
\nwe twelve survivors \u2014 six human,
\nsix gorilla.<\/p>\n

Bliss \u2014<\/p>\n

Back to base camp, showered
\nlike pioneers from pails above.
\nSipped fine wine by night\u2019s fire,
\nsublime reminiscing with mates.
\nTap, tap \u2014 tropic rain on tent tops
\nas we sank into trim cots. My world
\nwide again, my love for you larger
\nthan this glowing golden land of Africa<\/p>\n

\u2015 appeared in Saturday Magazine<\/em>, January 1999<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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