I'll tell you a half-dozen things that happened to me in Indiana when I went that far west to teach. You tell me if it was worth it. I lived in the country with my dog— part of the bargain of coming. And there was a pond with fish from, I think, China. I felt them sometimes against my feet. Also, they crept out of the pond, along its edges, to eat the grass. I'm not lying. And I saw coyotes, two of them, at dawn, running over the seemingly unenclosed fields. And once a deer, but a buck, thick-necked, leaped into the road just-oh, I mean just, in front of my car— and we both made it home safe. And once the blacksmith came to care for the four horses, or the three horses that belonged to the owner of the house, and I bargained with him, if I could catch the fourth, he, too, would have hooves trimmed for the Indiana winter, and apples did it, and a rope over the neck did it, so I won something wonderful; and there was, one morning, an owl flying, oh pale angel, into the hay loft o...
This one and the last are - enchanting, powerful. I wish I could follow your trail in finding these gems - and the perfect (and surprising) images.
ReplyDeleteDid you know that my BIL had a heart attack and fell down for a goner in Paris in the 15th arrondissement, while people on a Saturday morning on a sidewalk adjacent to a park just walked around him though he had bashed his head on the sidewalk, and a woman, an immigrant, in a famous bakery across the street, who has a heart problem of her own, stared, thinking something wasn't right and took her cellphone ever so slowly from her purse and called the SAMU but not slowly enough so that as the emergency tech told her later, "In a matter of minutes he would have been dead. You saved him." He was dead and now he is alive. And you posted this poem today, which is exactly the tale, except for the autopsy part...
ReplyDeleteBrilliant, just brilliant. Leave it up for Friday. And don't forget to dress in red!
ReplyDeletethis one makes you breath deeply and enjoy every sensation that causes....
ReplyDeleteThank you....smiles.
ReplyDeleteWow! The poem. The image. Blew me away.
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