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Metropolis Wild Animal Report, #1
This morning's shuffle through the lovely neighborhoods of southwest Minneapolis yielded the exciting citings of:
20 squirrels (some may have been counted twice (or thrice))
1 chipmunk (dead, alas, on the sidewalk, but quite serene in its repose)
hosts of sparrow- and finch-like twittering birds (quite likely, they were actual sparrows and finches)
1 cardinal
1 woodpecker (unpilleated; it's not THAT wild in the metropolis)
1 discarded hubcap (lying on the tree lawn)
In memory of the ill-fated chipmunk, today's Dickinsonian oracle says:
Death sets a Thing significant
The Eye has hurried by
Except a perished Creature
Entreat us Tendery
(E. Dickinson, from 640)*
*I've been remiss in failing to cite the source of the Dickinsonian oracle (mea culpa). These prophetic snippets come from R. W. Franklin's beautiful edition of the poems of Emily Dickinson (Franklin, R. E., ed. The Poems of Emily Dickison. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, 1999.)
This morning's shuffle through the lovely neighborhoods of southwest Minneapolis yielded the exciting citings of:
20 squirrels (some may have been counted twice (or thrice))
1 chipmunk (dead, alas, on the sidewalk, but quite serene in its repose)
hosts of sparrow- and finch-like twittering birds (quite likely, they were actual sparrows and finches)
1 cardinal
1 woodpecker (unpilleated; it's not THAT wild in the metropolis)
1 discarded hubcap (lying on the tree lawn)
In memory of the ill-fated chipmunk, today's Dickinsonian oracle says:
Death sets a Thing significant
The Eye has hurried by
Except a perished Creature
Entreat us Tendery
(E. Dickinson, from 640)*
*I've been remiss in failing to cite the source of the Dickinsonian oracle (mea culpa). These prophetic snippets come from R. W. Franklin's beautiful edition of the poems of Emily Dickinson (Franklin, R. E., ed. The Poems of Emily Dickison. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, 1999.)
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