Rand Bishop

Rand Bishop has offered English courses at several universities, primarily at the State University of New York (Oswego), and including a Fulbright Professorship at the Universite Nationale du Gabon. He has several academic publications; his poems have appeared in about two dozen literary journals.

“Ode to Baboon,” “Elephant, Room” and “Reaching Out”

Were you and your healthy
liver nearby?
Were you an excess mouth to feed
in some municipal zoo?
Or were you carefully culled
from some robust family
roaming the Ruwenzoris
and in a frenzy flown
Bujumbura-Pittsburgh,
held incommunicado
until the propitious moment?

Issue 41, September 2020

Rand Bishop

Rand Bishop has offered English courses at several universities, primarily at the State University of New York (Oswego), and including a Fulbright Professorship at the Universite Nationale du Gabon. He has several academic publications; his poems have appeared in about two dozen literary journals.

“Ode to Baboon,” “Elephant, Room” and “Reaching Out”

Were you and your healthy
liver nearby?
Were you an excess mouth to feed
in some municipal zoo?
Or were you carefully culled
from some robust family
roaming the Ruwenzoris
and in a frenzy flown
Bujumbura-Pittsburgh,
held incommunicado
until the propitious moment?

Issue 41, September 2020

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