#internationalhyenaday — Public Fediverse posts

For #InternationalHyenaDay :
#Hyena mask
Winiama blacksmith, central Burkina Faso, 19th - 1st half 20th c.
Ceiba(?) wood, pigment
H 11 1/2 × W 8 1/2 × D 8 in. (29.2 × 21.6 × 20.3 cm)
on display at Metropolitan Museum of Art (1979.206.200)
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Saki’s THE CHRONICLES OF CLOVIS can be downloaded as a free ebook from @gutenberg_org

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3688

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“Constance and I and the hyæna were left alone in the gathering twilight”

Proving that there are more hyenas than you might think in Scottish literature, let us also submit the short story “Esmé”, by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) from THE CHRONICLES OF CLOVIS (1911)

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Oh, no no no—
𝑛𝑜—I wouldn’t say
that‚ not hyenas…

Another poem for International Hyena Day – “No, no”, by Alexander Hutchison, from his pamphlet SPARKS IN THE DARK (Akros, 2002)

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I am waiting
for the foot to slide,
for the heart to seize,
for the leaping sinews to go slack,
for the fight to the death to be fought to the death…

—Edwin Morgan, “Hyena”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)

As well as being Edwin Morgan’s birthday, today is also Hyena Day. Happy International Hyena Day to those who celebrate

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https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109967/centenary-selected-poems/

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