Philip Neilsen Poems

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1.
Americans Are Shooting Elephants

A man fat and flushed as a tallow factory
scowls behind a lion he has shot.
His belly circumnavigates the acacias,
the scrap of a wife's hand on one shoulder.
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2.
Crow

Crows are clever.
They use sticks as tools,
speak non-idiomatic French,
start but do not finish cryptic crosswords.
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