Long thin legs
Long lanky bodies
Long cane poles in hand
Long red blanket draped over shoulders
Long strides in a long purposeful walk
Long tradition - Maasai men
Maasai baby boys
Much too young to walk
Still, small stick in hand
Old man
Long switch
Under the shaded tree
Herds of goats grazing
Do you think about standing there as a young boy?
And your father and grandfather before him?
Long cane pole
Resting on shoulders
Wrists over the pole
Two hundred goats on the side of the road
One boy
One long switch
Young boy
In America you would not be left alone
But here you are tending the village’s most prized possessions
Cattle, sheep, goats
Moving slowly across the land
Where predators are real
And back home again
Too small to wear the red blanket across your shoulders
But holding your tradition and the long cane pole
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