Beasts In Shades Of Gray Poem by David Kowalczyk

Beasts In Shades Of Gray

Rating: 4.8


As a boy growing up
on a poultry farm, every
Saturday morning would find
me collecting carrion from the roadside:
skunks, oppossums, raccoons,
groundhogs, and an occasional
red fox or two.


Even as a child, I sensed more
than coincidence was at play
behind these legions of animal carcasses,
behing all that protoplasm splattered
across a winding rural road.


Some mornings, I could hear
angels talking to the dead animals.
'Stay still, ' the angels whispered.
'Stay still.'

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Marvin Bell 13 December 2008

I recommended this precisely because the writing was so compelling.

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Greenwolfe 1962 18 August 2008

I decided to recommend this. Not because I found the writing compelling. But because I found the story meaningful because of the aspect of the angels adding a creative element that added some mystery for those who like such things. GW62

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David Kowalczyk

David Kowalczyk

Batavia, New York
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