<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=545353" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Animal Funerals, 1964</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">That summer, we did not simply walk through<br>the valley of the shadow of death; we set up camp there,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">orchestrating funerals for the anonymous,<br>found dead: a drowned mole—its small, naked palms</div><div style="margin:10px 0">still pink—a crushed box turtle, green snake, even <br>a lowly toad. The last and most elaborate</div><div style="margin:10px 0">of the burials was for a common jay, <br>identifiable but light and dry,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">its eyes vacant orbits. We built a delicate <br>lichgate of willow fronds, supple, green—laced</div><div style="margin:10px 0">through with chains of clover. Straggling congregation, <br>we recited what we could of the psalm</div><div style="margin:10px 0">about green pastures as we lowered the shoebox <br>and its wilted pall of dandelions into the shallow</div><div style="margin:10px 0">grave one of us had dug with a serving spoon. <br>That afternoon, just before September and school,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when we would again become children, and blind <br>to all but the blackboard's chalky lessons, the back</div><div style="margin:10px 0">of someone's head, and what was, for a while longer, <br>the rarer, human death—there, in the heat-shimmered</div><div style="margin:10px 0">trees, in the matted grasses where we stood, <br>even in the slant of humid shade—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we heard wingbeat, slither, buzz, and birdsong—<br>a green racket rising to fall as though</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in a joyous dirge that was real,<br>and not part of our many, necessary rehearsals</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Claudia+Emerson">Claudia Emerson</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=545353" data-title="Animal Funerals, 1964 de Claudia Emerson" data-description="That summer, we did not simply walk through the valley of the shadow of death; we set up camp there, orchestrating funerals for the anonymous, found dead: a drowned mole—its small, naked palms still pink—a crushed box turtle, green snake, ev..."></div> </div> </div>

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