Author: Peter Brown Hoffmeister
Cites
- Robinson Jeffers (1)
- IN: Too Shattered For Mending (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: ... but the great redtail
Had nothing left but unable misery
From the bone too shattered for mending, the wing that trailed under his talons when he moved.
We had fed him six weeks, I gave him freedom,
He wandered over the foreland hill and returned in the evening, asking for death ...
FROM: Hurt Hawks, (1928), Poem, US