Litowa Moonlight

Forty years ago in Litowa moonlight
I saw myself a naked ape and laughed...
fever of unknown origins had held me
four days in its sweaty embrace and loosed

my bowels innumerable times so
I staggered from the hut in search of wide
green leaves and staggered weakly back again –
this night as I returned I saw outline

of my dim shadow in African dust,
rec…