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Actual IB unseen poem. May 11 I think.

WIFE HITS MOOSE
By Thomas Lux

Sometime around dusk moose lifts
his heavy, primordial jaw, dripping, from pondwater
and, without psychic struggle,
decides the day, for him, is done: time
to go somewhere else. Meanwhile, wife
drives one of those roads that cut straight north,
a highway dividing the forests

not yet fat enough for the paper companies.
This time of year full dark falls
about eight o'clock -- pineforest and blacktop
blend. Moose reaches road, fails
to look both ways, steps
deliberately, ponderously . . . Wife
hits moose, hard,

at slight angle (brakes slammed, car
spinning) and moose rolls over hood, antlers --
as if diamond-tipped -- scratch windshield, car
damaged: rib of moose imprint
on fender, hoof shatters headlight.
Annoyed moose lands on feet and walks away.
Wife is shaken, unhurt, amazed.

-- Does moose believe in a Supreme Intelligence?
Speaker does not know.
-- Does wife believe in a Supreme Intelligence?
Speaker assumes as much: spiritual intimacies
being between the spirit and the human.
Does speaker believe in a Supreme Intelligence?
Yes. Thank You.

So...how do you do a commentary on this?

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Update:

I read up more on Thomas Lux, and I must say, I am now very interested in reading his poems, or rather the poems from his latest book 'God Particles'. From what I gather, hes not Christian but there certainly are a heck load of religious themes in his books. Neutral ones, they're neither 'for' or 'against' it.

Heres a review:

God Particles displays the distinctive originality and unpredictability that prompted the Washington Post Book World to name Lux one of this generation’s most gifted poets. A satiric edge, tempered by profound compassion, cuts through many of the poems in Lux’s book. While themes of intolerance, inhumanity, loss, and a deep sense of mortality mark these poems, a lighthearted grace instills even the somberest moments with unexpected sweetness. In the title poem Lux writes, “there’s no reason for God to feel guilt / I think He was downhearted, weary, too weary / to be angry anymore . . . / He wanted each of us, / and all the things we touch . . . / to have a tiny piece of Him / though we are unqualified, / of even the crumb of a crumb.” Dark, humorous, and strikingly imaginative, this is Lux’s most compassionate work to date.
- http://www.decaturbookfestival.com/2010/authors/detail.php?id=123

More detailed reviews:
http://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/life-on-a-piecemeal-planet-god-particles-by-thomas-lux/2
http://www.amazon.com/God-Particles-Poems-Thomas-Lux/dp/0618931821/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/14/entertainment/et-book14

Anddd, after a mega long time, finally managed to find a link to the poem 'God Particles'.
http://books.google.com.sg/books?id=Ao-dnzm1ZfkC&pg=PT41&lpg=PT41&dq=God+explodes,+supernovas,+and+down+upon+the+whole+planet+a+tender+rain+of+him+falls+on+every+cow,+ladle,+leaf,+human,+ax+handle,+swing+set&source=bl&ots=ld2w-6t4Xa&sig=-y4ts56A3EQiHl5PyEinYhRzU-M&hl=en&ei=ZaGWTuagII-JrAe0urCNBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CEwQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=God%20explodes%2C%20supernovas%2C%20and%20down%20upon%20the%20whole%20planet%20a%20tender%20rain%20of%20him%20falls%20on%20every%20cow%2C%20ladle%2C%20leaf%2C%20human%2C%20ax%20handle%2C%20swing%20set&f=true

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