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Séb Krier reposted Séb Krier @sebkrier · Dec 20, 2023 🥲 [Embedded poem card] The Mower BY PHILIP LARKIN The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found A hedgehog jammed up against the blades, Killed. It had been in the long grass. I had seen it before, and even fed it, once. Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world Unmendably. Burial was no help: Next morning I got up and it did not. The first day after a death, the new absence Is always the same; we should be careful Of each other, we should be kind While there is still time. Philip Larkin, "The Mower" from Collected Poems. Copyright © Estate of Philip Larkin. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd. Source: Collected Poems (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2001)
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Séb Krier reposts his own 2023 tweet of the Philip Larkin poem "The Mower," about accidentally killing a hedgehog with a lawnmower and the resulting reflection on kindness and mortality, captioned with a crying emoji.