The following is a poem written by Sonja Johanson, shared via www.thewritersalmanac.org
The Truth about Fences by Sonja Johanson "They only hold in those who are willing to be held. Horses prove it all the time, unlatching gates in their idle moments. I once saw a cornered ewe leap a six foot buck fence because she didn’t feel like going where the border collie wanted her to go. She wasn’t even afraid. When they were young, I took the children to the state animal farm. Every inhabitant - begging raven, crippled otter, trained bear - had become too used to humans. The biggest draw was the cow moose. We gaped as she browsed in a swale behind the tissue paper of some hurricane fencing. The game warden explained it wasn’t so much that they kept her as that she didn’t mind staying."
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