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Friends of Philly Zoo Elephants is a grassroots group of individuals living or working in or near Philadelphia dedicated to helping the voiceless.
- "God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages."
- Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien
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"The Panther" by Rilke
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Translated by Robert Bly
From seeing the bars, his seeing is so exhausted
that it no longer holds anything anymore.
To him the world is bars, a hundred thousand
bars, and behind the bars, nothing.
The lithe swinging of that rhythmical easy stride
which circles down to the tiniest hub
is like a dance of energy around a point
in which a great will stands stunned and numb.
Only at times the curtains of the pupil rise
without a sound . . . then a shape enters,
slips though the tightened silence of the shoulders,
reaches the heart, and dies.
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