of the ostrich who couldn’t walk
at the Reteti Reserve in Northern Kenya
until the Samburu keepers
added their paces to his.

Long’uro the elephant
lost a portion of his trunk
when he fell in a cistern as a baby.
He learned to eat like a cow.

The orphan Lentile won’t
stay around long at Reteti.
Release comes soon
among these reticulated.