{"id":4793,"date":"2022-06-30T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2022-06-28T23:13:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T22:13:03","slug":"ghost-moose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/ghost-moose\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Moose<\/span>Hilary Menos<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

The moose haunts my dreams, his palmate rack<\/span><\/p>\n

begging me for alms, or succour, or release.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now he stands at the end of my bed in the dark,<\/span><\/p>\n

chewing cud. I must scare him to save him<\/span><\/p>\n

as the men here kill rogue moose, their rifles cocked,<\/span><\/p>\n

their wool caps low on their heads.<\/span><\/p>\n

He will die, he is dead already, though not by my hand.<\/span><\/p>\n

But first he has something to show me.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He clops downstairs, jangling the chandeliers,<\/span><\/p>\n

and shambles uneasily into the brush,<\/span><\/p>\n

his muzzle flecked with foam, his coat rank,<\/span><\/p>\n

and leads me through the evergreens and hardwoods<\/span><\/p>\n

of Minnesota, Manitoba, Nova Scotia,<\/span><\/p>\n

wading in ponds, testing his northern range,<\/span><\/p>\n

his nose a spectral finger pointing the way to where<\/span><\/p>\n

we are all heading, maybe, or maybe anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

April is the cruellest month, for moose.<\/span><\/p>\n

Long warm autumns and late snow cause an uptick<\/span><\/p>\n

in brain worm, winter tick, liver fluke,<\/span><\/p>\n

and the moose get sick. The herds no longer congregate<\/span><\/p>\n

at river beds and lakesides and salt licks. He shows me<\/span><\/p>\n

one moose strung with pearls which feast on his flesh.<\/span><\/p>\n

He shows me one moose turning in circles,<\/span><\/p>\n

only loosely attached to her own breath<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and then he shows me the calves \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

their spindled legs barely supporting their weight, their fur<\/span><\/p>\n

rubbed to pale undercoat, their skin rubbed raw,<\/span><\/p>\n

their marrow drained dry, each just able to drag<\/span><\/p>\n

their burden of bones through winter into spring<\/span><\/p>\n

only to loosen and place it down as the snow thaws \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

and a great light breaks in my mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

I say what I saw.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

CALL TO ACTION:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read <\/span>the recent poetry anthology\u00a0<\/span>100 Poems to Save the Earth<\/span><\/i>\u00a0 (Seren, 2021) edited by\u00a0<\/span>Zo\u00eb Brigley and Kristian Evans. Because sometimes only poetry can find the words to describe the sensations of a planet\u2019s shifting, sing to what hurts, and evoke non-human beings as our kin.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hilary Menos<\/b> is a\u00a0poet. Her first collection,\u00a0Berg<\/i> (Seren, 2009), won the Forward Prize 2010 for Best First Collection. Her\u00a0second collection is\u00a0Red Devon<\/i>\u00a0(Seren, 2013),\u00a0and her most\u00a0recent pamphlet is\u00a0Human Tissue<\/i>\u00a0(Smith|Doorstop, 2020).\u00a0She lives in France and\u00a0is editor of The Friday Poem<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  The moose haunts my dreams, his palmate rack begging me for alms, or succour, or release. Now he stands at the end of my bed in the dark, chewing cud. I must scare him to save him as the men here kill rogue moose, their rifles cocked, their wool caps low on their heads. […]<\/p>\n

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