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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340953" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Bull Moose</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Down from the purple mist of trees on the mountain, <br>lurching through forests of white spruce and cedar, <br>stumbling through tamarack swamps,<br>came the bull moose<br>to be stopped at last by a pole-fenced pasture.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too tired to turn or, perhaps, aware<br>there was no place left to go, he stood with the cattle.<br>They, scenting the musk of death, seeing his great head <br>like the ritual mask of a blood god, moved to the other end <br>of the field, and waited.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The neighbours heard of it, and by afternoon <br>cars lined the road. The children teased him<br>with alder switches and he gazed at them <br>like an old, tolerant collie. The woman asked <br>if he could have escaped from a Fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The oldest man in the parish remembered seeing <br>a gelded moose yoked with an ox for plowing.<br>The young men snickered and tried to pour beer<br>down his throat, while their girl friends took their pictures.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the bull moose let them stroke his tick-ravaged flanks, <br>let them pry open his jaws with bottles, let a giggling girl<br>plant a little purple cap <br>of thistles on his head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the wardens came, everyone agreed it was a shame <br>to shoot anything so shaggy and cuddlesome.<br>He looked like the kind of pet<br>women put to bed with their sons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So they held their fire. But just as the sun dropped in the river <br>the bull moose gathered his strength <br>like a scaffolded king, straightened and lifted his horns <br>so that even the wardens backed away as they raised their rifles. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When he roared, people ran to their cars. All the young men <br>leaned on their automobile horns as he toppled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Submitted by cutebabystar</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alden+Nowlan">Alden Nowlan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340953" data-title="The Bull Moose de Alden Nowlan" data-description="Down from the purple mist of trees on the mountain, lurching through forests of white spruce and cedar, stumbling through tamarack swamps, came the bull moose to be stopped at last by a pole-fenced pasture. Too tired to turn or, perhaps, aware ..."></div> </div> </div>
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