They weighed and measured
Prodded and poked my organs
Emptied my stomach
To see what I ate last...
Dandelion, water cress
And goodies from the nut trees
My muddy feet puzzled them
They found me
Eyes wide open
Toward the blue sky
In the warmth of Spring
Unattended death
Gets me a "Y" incision.
17 comments:
The muddy feet puzzle me too.
I hope her muddy feet imply that she knew what was coming and decided to go for a stroll, to enjoy Nature in the flesh one more time, to see the sky with living eyes...
thought provoking - the y and why of it ~
Intriguing.. sounds like a mystery novel... A Jane Doe found, and the muddy feet with the food sending the clues to the detectives.
Hmmmmmm...all those things...eaten!?!?...:)JP!
Wow.
me thinks you are watching to much TV or movies.. LOL... that has to be where your mind went..
I found the muddy feet to be the easy part . . . no Y about that at all . . .
Perhaps he/she died of pure happiness being in the great out of doors.
What a corpse would say at autopsy chills my mind! This one, so yooung and innocent . . .
LOVE this, if not the fact that someone is dead.
It's law here (Louisiana also) that a death not in the hospital calls for an autopsy.
Gail, I wouldn't give up on those trees. Ours have bloomed and now leaved already, sooo early after our warmest winter ever. But I think where you are Spring is hesitating (we were up to 80F yesterday, 77 forecast for today).
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BTW, you might like my John Deere I have for today. It's always Green.
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Almost scary, surely chilling, and I wonder about those muddy feet myself, but I worry more about what was ingested! Yikes.
Kind of scary thinking of an autopsy incision...you've been watching too much CSI.
Well, from a country girl at heart who loves to be barefoot, I understand it. Enjoying the out of doors - better than dying standing in front of a kitchen sink!
I have always said that I would love to die in the woods, looking up at the trees and sky and not in a hospital bed hooked up to machines. I love your poem.
Lynne x
Did anyone ever tell you you're slightly twisted? (Oh yeah, that's right. I did.)
;)
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