Friday, September 10, 2004

Feast Day by W. S. Merwin (1999) Almost at the end of the century this is the time of the pain of the bears their agony goes on at this moment for the amusement of the wedding guests though the bears are harder to find by now in the mountain forests of Pakistan they cost more than they used to which makes it all the more lavish and once they are caught their teeth are pulled out and their claws are pulled out and among the entertainments after the wedding one of them is hauled in now and chained to a post and the dogs let loose to hang on its nose so that the guests laugh at the way it waves and dances and those old enough to have watched this many times compare it with other performances saying they can tell from the way the bear screams something about the children to be born of the couple sitting there smiling you may not believe it but the bear does 2:13:46 PM    comment []