[Critique Group 2] Emailing: An Integral Part of Life - For 4-28-22 Group-2-critique session./BC

[James]

An Integral Part of Life
C By Brad Corallo
Word count 230 

Leaden, evening sky hangs over the salt marsh.
Carefully picking a way through the tidal flats
a young girl comes upon the body of a dead seagull.
Half closed lids reveal lifeless deep brown eyes.
Crushed feathers and the neck at an unnatural angle,
cause of death cannot be determined by casual observation.
She is assailed by conflicting emotions
certainly sorrow but with a sense of disbelief
that such a creature can be so clearly dead.
The stark vulnerability of the inanimate corpse,
seeming somehow too final and unreal.

As she makes her uneasy, disconcerted way home over the weathered flats-
she meets an old man who daily combs the shore and tide pools .
She turns and points at the dead seagull.
Giving her a penetrating look, he speaks.
 A Voice like rusty metal and trodden oyster shells, declaims:
"anything, powerful or weak, free or caged, tame or wild, beautiful or
unsightly
ultimately will be killed by something .
Expected or unforeseen, the inevitability of death
Is an integral part of life." 
As they head in opposite directions she wonders how such can be true,
and,  when and how her moment of inevitability will come. 
As she comes in sight of the lights of home
she whispers to her self :
"even if it is true, the thing I don't understand, is why?"

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