More amazed than anything I took the perfectly black stillborn kitten with the one large eye in the center of its small forehead from the house cat's bed and buried it in a field behind the house.
I suppose I could have given it to a museum, I could have called the local newspaper.
But instead I took it out into the field and opened the earth and put it back saying, it was real, saying, life is infinitely inventive, saying, what other amazements lie in the dark seed of the earth, yes,
I think I did right to go out alone and give it back peacefully, and cover the place with the reckless blossoms of weeds.
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