Quote of the moment
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
-Wendell Berry: The Peace or the Wild Things
The snake chokes
On the mouse it ate
Unable to release
So resigns to fate
Despised by the world
Mourned by no one
Though it meant no harm
Never understood the shun
So unable to even
Crawl away and hide
His carcass picked clean
Sympathy denied
G - Sept 2009
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