http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19339


Response

I think this poem is about how the jungle is being destroyed by mankind.  I thought it was interesting how two poets wrote this.  I think this is the first time I've seen  that.  I wonder if all there's poems are written by both of them.  I liked the repetition where they say
 "Monkeys know.
 Monkeys see.
 Monkeys do."

This seams to be a very common way for artist to rant.  For example, many artist will rant through song or paintings and poetry.   I liked the simile they used when they said "Noise like refined alabaster drifts across our monkeys."  I noticed these poets especially like to end almost every line with a period to make it more dramatic.  I'm not to sure what they meant when they said "Our satellites saw lilacs."  Maybe it means that they cut the forest down just for the lilacs or maybe the lilacs were the only thing left.  They also made it sound like foresters were taking the monkeys and talking to them about the evil things they will do to them.  I guess it's just a different way to say how humans treat wild life.  Or maybe it's the other way around, so that the monkeys discuss there intentions because there very last line is "No one wanders forever"  In the beginning of the poem there's a line that I noticed has words that have the same consonants sound. "Mist dissipates"   I like poetry because it can mean whatever the reader thinks of it as.  That's the same with painting too.