The Two-Headed Calf by Laura Gilpin

Mar 15, 2019 00:04


"The Two-Headed Calf"

by Laura Gilpin

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, he sees

twice as many stars as usual.

from The Weight of a Soul, 2008
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