Quotation by Philip Levine

I can smell
the blade that opens the hole
and the pudgy white fingers

that shake out the intestines
like a hankie.
Philip Levine (b. 1928), U.S. poet. Animals Are Passing from Our Lives (l. 6–10). . .

New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.
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