The just-born rabbits in the garden
huddled blind, translucent, hardly here
I called John (a farmer),
and asked him what to do:
Put your boot on them. Now you’ve been there,
the mother will never come back.
— life from whom
death also springeth green
— thy leave to sleep
huddled blind, translucent, hardly here
I called John (a farmer),
and asked him what to do:
Put your boot on them. Now you’ve been there,
the mother will never come back.
— life from whom
death also springeth green
— thy leave to sleep
Jean Valentine
Jean Valentine is the author of nine books of poetry, including Door in the Mountain, New & Collected Poems (Wesleyan, 2004). She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and was awarded the Shelley Memorial Prize by the Poetry Society of America in 2000. She lives in New York City.
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