The Two-headed Calf
By Laura Gilpin
Tomorrow when the farm boys find this
freak of nature, they will wrap his body
in newspaper and carry him to the museum.
But tonight he is alive and in the north
field with his mother. It is a perfect
summer evening: the moon rising over
the orchard, the wind in the grass.
And as he stares into the sky, there
are twice as many stars as usual.
Copyright Credit: Laura Gilpin, "The Two-headed Calf" from The Hocus Pocus of the Universe. Copyright © 1977 by Laura Crafton Gilpin. Used by permission of Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Source: The Hocus Pocus of the Universe (Doubleday, 1977)