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God as Edie: The Knoxville Zoo Elephant Who Crushed and Killed Her Keeper, Stephanie James, 14 January 2011

God as Edie: The Knoxville Zoo Elephant Who Crushed and Killed Her Keeper, Stephanie James, 14... GOD AS EDIE THE KNOXVILLE ZOO ELEPHANT WHO CRUSHED AND KILLED HER KEEPER, STEPHANIE JAMES, 14 JANUARY 2011 They had to believe she knew not what she’d done. Pent up, spent of a thousand, thousand wasted days, though, maybe she meant that murderous misbehavior, the one myopic tragic move left in her DNA, no longer able to judge distances or love. In the colonnade of her bones a stampede had waited for the trunk of her to swing, perhaps, her tusk a wish to brush a human clavicle, let go the cavalcade of snorts her trunk in exhortation held back every other time before just like a blessing. The lively blithe blonde lifted upward her final gift, an offering of communion toward the open grey-pink, wrinkled mouth a precious snack, unwitting sacrifice, without a breath of hesitation at the evening’s altar. There is no way to punish this calamity: The keeper’s lovely body fell, it falls, it is falling, the memory of the falling held above all else, 114 a plodding memory capable of holding every equal sorrow inside that tree-bark skin and lumbering bone and blood, inside the mind inside that massive drudgery of skull. SUSAN O’DELL UNDERWOOD http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

God as Edie: The Knoxville Zoo Elephant Who Crushed and Killed Her Keeper, Stephanie James, 14 January 2011

Appalachian Review , Volume 46 (3) – May 28, 2019

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University of North Carolina Press
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GOD AS EDIE THE KNOXVILLE ZOO ELEPHANT WHO CRUSHED AND KILLED HER KEEPER, STEPHANIE JAMES, 14 JANUARY 2011 They had to believe she knew not what she’d done. Pent up, spent of a thousand, thousand wasted days, though, maybe she meant that murderous misbehavior, the one myopic tragic move left in her DNA, no longer able to judge distances or love. In the colonnade of her bones a stampede had waited for the trunk of her to swing, perhaps, her tusk a wish to brush a human clavicle, let go the cavalcade of snorts her trunk in exhortation held back every other time before just like a blessing. The lively blithe blonde lifted upward her final gift, an offering of communion toward the open grey-pink, wrinkled mouth a precious snack, unwitting sacrifice, without a breath of hesitation at the evening’s altar. There is no way to punish this calamity: The keeper’s lovely body fell, it falls, it is falling, the memory of the falling held above all else, 114 a plodding memory capable of holding every equal sorrow inside that tree-bark skin and lumbering bone and blood, inside the mind inside that massive drudgery of skull. SUSAN O’DELL UNDERWOOD

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: May 28, 2019

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