Poetry Magazine
The Snow Leopard
In the Metro Toronto Zoo
He pads on grassy banks behind a fence,
with measured paces slow and tense.
Beyond his cage his thoughts are sharp and white;
he lives a compelled anchorite.
A solid ghost gone blind with all the green,
he waits and waits to be unseen.
-For Paul Strong
Source: Poetry (August 2000).
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This poem originally appeared in the August 2000 issue of Poetry magazine
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Biography
Jason Gray is the author of Photographing Eden (2008), winner of the Hollis Summers Prize, and two chapbooks, How to Paint the Savior Dead (2007) and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo (2003). He currently co-edits the online journal, Unsplendid.
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