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

 

 

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.