<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455385" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Difficult Body</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A story: There was a cow in the road, struck by a semi--<br>half-moon of carcass and jutting legs, eyes<br>already milky with dust and snow, rolled upward</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as if tired of this world tilted on its side.<br>We drove through the pink light of the police cruiser,<br>her broken flank blowing steam in the air. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Minutes later, a deer sprang onto the road<br>and we hit her, crushed her pelvis--the drama reversed,<br>first consequence, then action--but the doe,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">not dead, pulled herself with front legs<br>into the ditch. My father went to her, stunned her<br>with a tire iron before cutting her throat, and today I think</div><div style="margin:10px 0">of the body of St. Francis in the Arizona desert,<br>carved from wood and laid in his casket,<br>lovingly dressed in red and white satin</div><div style="margin:10px 0">covered in petitions--medals, locks of hair,<br>photos of infants, his head lifted and stroked,<br>the grain of his brow kissed by the penitent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O wooden saint, dry body. I will not be like you,<br>carapace. A chalky shell scooped of its life. <br>I will leave less than this behind me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mark+Wunderlich">Mark Wunderlich</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=455385" data-title="Difficult Body de Mark Wunderlich" data-description="A story: There was a cow in the road, struck by a semi-- half-moon of carcass and jutting legs, eyes already milky with dust and snow, rolled upward as if tired of this world tilted on its side. We drove through the pink light of the police cruis..."></div> </div> </div>

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