Crossing Points
An African Journal
by Anne R.P. Dewees
A journal in poetry of an unforgettable trip through Tanzania. This handsome chapbook is printed on fine papers with colored endpapers.
From January 20 until February 5, 1995, a small group of us traveled on a tented safari through Tanzania in East Africa. Our route took us into the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Arusha National Park. We saw over four hundred species of birds and forty species
of mammals.
—From introduction by Anne R.P. DeweesCHEETAH COUCHANT
Cheetah lay still
Watching me
His golden eyes
The color of grass
But light-filled
Like shallow gravelly pools
With the sun in them.
About the Author
was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and received her BA from Smith College. She lived for many years in California, where she began to write poetry. She resides now in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She is an active member of the New Hampshire poetry community. She has written articles for the New Hampshire Writer’s Project, attended their workshops, and participated at the Frost Place. She belongs to the Seacoast Writers, the Poetry Society of New Hampshire, and the New England Poetry Club, as well as to several writers’ groups in the seacoast area. She has published poems in anthologies such as Compass Rose, Exquisite Reaction, Portsmouth Unabridged and has contributed to various other publications such as Aurorean and Avocet. She is on the board of the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program.
40 pp, Chapbook
ISBN 0-9760896-2-9 / Price $8.95
