OPW: “The Mower” by Phillip Larkin
Today’s “Other People’s Words” is short but sweet. It’s a poem by Phillip Larkin about cutting the grass and discovering the sanctity of life.
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 carefulOf each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.

2 Responses to “OPW: “The Mower” by Phillip Larkin”
1 leslie — Aug 24, 2007 at 7:27 pm
I am delighted at your choice of Related Posts…voodooolinks, as it were.
2 Link Banana » A Rage for Simplicity — Apr 20, 2008 at 4:10 pm
[…] I should also note that Philip Larkin wrote one of my favorite poems. […]
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