History of Screams, No. 5: When a Rabbit Dies

Q.R. QuasarSad

when a rabbit dies, after having made no sounds all its life, it screams as it kicks its legs out— dislocates them in its final act.

then there is just the quivering

Q.R. Quasar

SourceLicence:Public domain

Mood:: Sad
Topics:: death, silence, rabbit, scream

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A rabbit lives its whole life in silence, and the poem is about the single moment that silence breaks. The speaker describes its death in flat, quiet detail: the scream, the kicking legs, the dislocation.

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