Dear Wandering Wildebeest

Spend a day at a water hole on the African grasslands. Welcome wildebeest / and beetle, / Oxpecker and lion. / This water hole is yours. / It offers you oasis / beside its shrinking shores. From dawn to nightfall, animals come and go. Giraffes gulp, wildebeest graze, impalas leap, vultures squabble, and elephants wallow. Irene Latham''s gorgeous poems are accompanied by additional facts that provi...