C. J. Sage Safari, Safari The antelope, as if clouds and clouds overlapping, floated like veils of rice paper. Uninvited, a pride of flesh like lions moved in pieces, one by one. The brown boot, the red earth, the split skin, the scope. I watched the antelope jump, inexhaustibly. I watched cloud upon cloud become clouds, become rain. C.J. Sage 's poems have appeared in a wide variety of magazines and journals most recently including The Threepenny Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Seattle Review and Pif Magazine. Her new poetry collection, Let's Not Sleep, will be published in early 2002. C. J. serves as Managing Editor for the poetry magazine Disquieting Muses.