Bad Day

The pic is for Voodoo I ran her over and killed her today.A beautiful and friendly little cat.I am so Sorry.A horrible accident I couldn't have gone any slower she just ran under the wheel.

Larkin always has the perfect poem.

The Mower

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 careful

Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.