Author: Lydia Millet

Cites

• W. S. Merwin (1)
  • IN: Pills and Starships (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Gray whale Now that we are sending you to The End That great god Tell him That we who follow you invented forgiveness And forgive nothing ... When you will not see again The whale calves trying the light Consider what you will find in the black garden And its court The sea cows the Great Auks the gorillas The irreplaceable hosts ranged countless And fore-ordaining as stars Our sacrifices Join your word to theirs Tell him That it is we who are important
    FROM: For a Coming Extinction, (1967), Poem, US