This poem is called "Knot Eye" K-N-O-T E-Y-E KNOT EYE The diagnosis was peculiar, the doctors agreed, but so was the condition. He had knot eye. He was unable to see a piece of...
When I was a child I loved the circus, and what I was more fond of were circus animals, especially the elephant, which as I later learned, was also the animal preferred by other children. During the...
These are some of the last pictures of Joyce and Hatty, two of the five circus elephants who performed together in the small traveling Circus Vargas. Both died last week. It is the belief that...
START COMM: In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, seventeen year old Workitu Debebet looks like a typical teenager. But she has sent her whole life hiding her bizarre physical condition. She is the oldest person...
play in slow rock rhythm I came alive in the storm Through the time that was between you and me You don't even know where to start And on the hill across the line you wouldn't believe...
CHAPTER: THE BUTTERFLY THAT STAMPED THIS, O my Best Beloved, is a story--a new and a wonderful story--a story quite different from the other stories--a story about The Most Wise Sovereign...
CHAPTER: THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF HEAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The Dog was wild, and the...
CHAPTER: HOW THE FIRST LETTER WAS WRITTEN ONCE upon a most early time was a Neolithic man. He was not a Jute or an Angle, or even a Dravidian, which he might well have been, Best Beloved, but never...
CHAPTER: THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN KANGAROO NOT always was the Kangaroo as now we do behold him, but a Different Animal with four short legs. He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was...
CHAPTER: THE ELEPHANT'S CHILD IN the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from...