gruff Report This Comment
Date: August 01, 2005 06:32AM

The Mower by Philip Larkin

The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.

I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help:

Next morning I got up and it did not.
The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful

Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: August 01, 2005 08:28AM

wtf

burp Report This Comment
Date: August 01, 2005 08:47AM

its the lawnmower, man

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: March 01, 2006 04:05AM

Do hedgehogs have nipples? Because I bet they look cool.