![]() ![]() Learning to stand, then endure, enduring all How she fared with her new owner: inside of her is the baby she was, ![]() The author also thrashed the abused creature, and God only knows The donkey’s feelings are not evoked in the book He has stopped talking about his cat, or his own bedĪnd asks some questions over and over, while swerving in and out of sense Talks that end either in tears or furious impatience I wait until my mother, sister, or brother is there, and have short, stilted We talked every night for months, then less and now Speak to him, and anyway, he will have been asleep for hours He was better then: my phone reminder CALL DAD still appears each night atĮight, but there are no phones where he is now, no nurses to plead with to let me The kinds of sounds that strike like hammers, later on in life ![]() I was lying beside him, listening to the sounds of small, solid hooves and Not having realized that he loved her unable to retrieve her I was there, in the first of the long-term care centres, when he finished the story,Īnd we all shared the narrator’s sadness about giving up his donkey, We have each tried to read to him, with no success, except for James, who read him all of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes ![]()
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