In The Desert

"In the Desert" is the name given to a poem written by Stephen Crane (1871–1900), published in 1895 as a part of his collection, The Black Riders and Other Lines. "In the Desert" is the third of fifty-six short poems published in this volume. The poem is only ten lines and briefly describes an interaction between the speaker and a "creature, naked, bestial" encountered "in the desert", eating his... (Wikipedia)