wild things

These plants seem too wild for towns. Grass trees might swish
their skirts & move closer when you're not looking.
Cycad seeds like these, eaten by men on Flinders' expedition,
made them very ill. Ferdinand Bauer made wonderful
paintings of all the new & strange things they saw.
The wildest creatures I've ever seen: snow leopards at
a small Darjeeling sanctuary.

There's a movie coming, from Maurice Sendak's classic