1. Hyena – Edwin Morgan

2. “I am waiting for you”

3. “I have been travelling all morning through the bush”

4. “On a dusty path that leads from the edge of the burnt-out kraal.”

5. “I am very fierce without food”

6. “I have a rough coat like Africa.”

7. I trot,
I lope,
I slaver,
I am a ranger.

8. “I hunch my shoulders.
I eat the dead.”

9. “When the moon pours hard an cold on the veldt I sing”

10. “I howl my song to the moon-up it goes”

11. “Would you meet me there in the waste places?”

12. “When it comes lolling out over my jaw”

13. “It is said I am a good match for a dead lion.”

14. “And I am laughing?
I am not laughing”
“showing you
What I grip”

15. “I am waiting”

16. “For the foot to slide”

17. “For a glazing eye”

18. “I am crouching in the shadows”

19. “And leave your bones to the wind”