<p>Spare raw exquisite these elegiac haiku speak for all of us who have lost our beloved animals.</p><p>-Eileen Sypher</p><p><br></p><p>The theme of an elegy.&nbsp;The form of a haiku.&nbsp;But elegies are usually not for cats and haiku mostly have a set number of syllables.</p><p><br></p><p>Yet the pain of parting with your cat or your dog is both deep and unique.&nbsp;It is a grief most of us keep to ourselves.&nbsp;It is magnified because we live inside with them and with our birds and turtles sometimes fish and snakes.&nbsp;Up here in Maine in the old days the animal barn and the household were connected against the winter.&nbsp;In even older days many of the necessary animals lived right in our dwellings as well their warmth important for us.&nbsp;From gerbils to horses we physically love and spiritually bond with animals that are not us.&nbsp;We rarely speak of this when they die.&nbsp;We don't know what to say.&nbsp;They were mainly silent with us and now we are silent without them.</p><p><br></p><p>So raw haiku renegade haiku all with the tone of elegy might be a new form of language for an ancient grief.&nbsp;Try them yourself.</p><p><br></p><p>When my wife and I drove home from the veterinary clinic after Sonnets had stretched out her front paws and died I was numb and silent.&nbsp;Some months later these awkward but apt little phrases came to me.&nbsp;Over some weeks there were more and more.&nbsp;It was like playing with Sonnets again.&nbsp;I decided to call them Raw Haiku.</p><p><br></p><p>Duncan writes the English professor Dr. Sypher and the ordained minister Rev. Eileen is a poet preacher psychotherapist who probes with rare words of love what few of us are able to:&nbsp;the raw edges of this awful grief.&nbsp;He makes Sonnets famous 'for sad people everywhere.'&nbsp;These poems open worlds.</p><p><br></p>
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