The Marabou Who Crossed the SeaBy Rohanna SsanyuSmall Harbor PublishingBefore you look up what this African stork looks like, read an excerpt from “Marabou,” the second poem of The Marabou Who Crossed the Sea, a newly published chapbook by New Haven Adult Ed teacher Rohanna Ssanyu:Skeletal legs, an inkblot heldto cloud, a grainy beak, pink flesh,a nape of hair, a head splatteredin orange blood! This ugly marabou goes on a long journey, popping in occasionally throughout the book. Originally from the savanna, it eats black plastic in Kampala, then crosses oceans to go to a Lord & Taylor. And the marabou, who once called that large river home? The poet Ssanyu will give a reading of her chapbook, “The Marabou Who Crossed the Sea,” and lead a still-life drawing program at the Pardee-Morris House on Sunday, Aug. 9 at 2 p.m.