The greater damage
is not so much the
crunching of bones
or terror-filled nights.
It's the soul's innate
need to recoil
a caterpillar poked
with a stick,
Trembling, immobile.
Terry Gibson, 2012.
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The greater damage is not so much the crunching of bones or terror-filled nights. It's the soul's innate need to recoil a caterpillar poked with a stick, Trembling, immobile.
Terry Gibson, 2012.
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Comments: 6
I remember as a child making little houses with my friend Lisa for a "family" of caterpillars. And in fact, the two of us were attacked by a boy, Mike, and it was altogether awful.
When I'd recovered, I thought of my fuzzy family and how he must have kicked their carefully built home across the construction lot.
I hope you are doing OK.