Disappearing Animals -- A Melancholy Elegy for Beautiful Creatures: A Melancholy Elegy for Beautiful Creatures

Author: Simon
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Publish Date: 2003-11-01
Features: Animals stare wide-eyed at the void, while only our eyes seem to invert, encircling it like a trap, surrounding its free exit and everything beyond. We only understand this through the animal's face, for we turn infants over and force them to gaze backward, at their form, rather than the profound void that appears so deep in the animal's eyes, free from death. Only we can see it; the free animal, with death behind and God ahead, steps into eternity as it walks. Animals stare wide-eyed at the void, while only our eyes seem to invert, encircling it like a trap, surrounding its free exit and everything beyond. We only understand this through the animal's face, for we turn infants over and force them to gaze backward, at their form, rather than the profound void that appears so deep in the animal's eyes, free from death. Only we can see it; the free animal, with death behind and God ahead, steps into eternity.