Posted by miranda weigley on March 13, 19101 at 21:35:13:
In Reply to: need meaning of gerald stern's poem posted by Blake on August 08, 19100 at 20:59:58:
: Burying an Animal on the way to New York---
:
: Don't flinch when you come across a dead animal lying on the road;
: you are being shown the secret of life.
: Drive slowly over the brown flesh; you are helping to bury it.
: If you are the last mourner there will be no caress
: at all from the crushed limbs and you will have to slide over the dark spot imagining
: the first suffering all by yourself
: Shreds of spirit and little ghost fragments will be spread out
: for two miles above the white highway.
: Slow down with your radio off and your window open to hear the twittering as you go by.