The Consolation of the Animals

by Joyce Carol Oates
Issue #47
Winter 1988
It's their not knowing how they must die. The emptiness of their beautiful eyes. The heat and damp and pulse of their breaths, the way joy seizes them like a miniature death— and no shame in it.
A journal cover of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and an old rundown barn

Winter 1988

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