Daily Poetry Readings #352: She Seemed So Considerate by Ted Hughes read by Dr Iain McGilchrist

Part 352 of a daily series of readings of his favourite poetry by Dr Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and His Emissary. Today's poem is She Seemed So Considerate by Ted Hughes.

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~ She Seemed So Considerate by Ted Hughes ~

And everything had become so hideous
My solemn friends sat twice as solemn
My jokey friends joked and joked

But their heads sweated decay, like dead things I'd left in a bag
And had forgotten to get rid of.

I bit the back of my hand
And sniffed mortification.

Then the bird came.
She said: 'your world has died'.
It sounded dramatic.
But my pet fern, the one fellow creature I still cherished,
It actually had died.
I felt life had decided to cancel me
As if it saw better hope for itself elsewhere.

Then this bird-being embraced me, saying:
'Look up at the sun. I am the one creature
Who never harmed any living thing.'

I was glad to shut my eyes, and be held.
Whether dead or unborn, I did not care.

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