Two-Headed Calf ~ Laura Gilpin

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow when the farm boys find this
freak of nature, they will wrap his body
in newspaper and carry him to the museum.

But tonight he is alive and in the north
field with his mother. It is a perfect
summer evening: the moon rising over
the orchard, the wind in the grass. And
as he stares into the sky, there are
twice as many stars as usual.

Comments

[duathir.livejournal.com]

Sad and strangely beautiful; thank you. I hope you are well; it is good to see you still here.

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I am still here and well. Hope the same for you!

This piece is so gorgeous and so human and so injurious. It staggered me. I had never heard of Gilpin or this poem before!