The world is a mask that hides the real world.
Thatâs what everybody suspects, though the world we see wonât let us dwell on it long.
The world has ways - more masks - of getting our attention.
The suspicion sneaks in now and again, between the cracks of everyday existenceâ¦the bird song dips, rises, dips, trails off into blue sky silence before the note that would reveal the shape of a melody that, somehow, would tie everything together, on the verge of unmasking the hidden armature that frames this sky, this tree, this bird, this quivering green leaf, jewels in a crown.â¦
As the song dies, the secret withdraws.
The tree is a mask.
The sky is a mask.
The quivering green leaf is a mask.
The song is a mask.
The singing bird is a mask.
Saturday, April 23, 2005
Another rabid Bronx raccoon
It's a Jungle Out There!
Reports the New York Post:
RABID RACCOON PUTS THE BITE ON BX. WOMEN
A rabid raccoon bit two women in The Bronx, the first confirmed cases in which a sickened animal has bitten a human in the Big Apple in almost five years, health officials said yesterday.
A foaming-at-the-mouth creature clamped down on a woman earlier this week in her back yard in Riverdale, city Health Department Commissioner Dr. Thomas Frieden said.
The animal was captured and later tested positive for rabies. The woman, who was not identified, and her husband, who was scratched by the raccoon, both received rabies shots, Frieden said.
A second woman, who lives two blocks away, was bitten earlier the same day by a raccoon believed to be rabid — and perhaps the same one from the later incident — and was also being treated.
Before the confirmed attacks, 10 rabid raccoons had been found in The Bronx.
potentially-rabid Raccoon
