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The Man Who Moved Animals by: Carol Sherman This poem is offered in memory of Houn Cuthbert Juettner F.O.B.C, who was a Buddhist monk in the Soto Zen tradition at Shasta Abbey, California, for ten years. On November 8th, 1991, he was killed by a truck in a hit and run accident. Small heaps of fur on the side of the road: Cats, dogs, coons, possums. They ate, drank, scurried about Till the cataclysm - The thud of steel on flesh. At the moment life left their bodies They were alone. One man, bald and robed, Tended to their remains, Stopping at the side of the road To move the bodies And say a blessing, To send them off with ceremony. In Montana, they called him The Man Who Moved Animals. If I tell you That he died suddenly The thud of steel on flesh His bicycle bent and twisted His glasses flying off his face Whirling in the gusts of karmic coincidence The sweetness of his smile Hovering at the side of the road Blessing the distraught driver, you would say it couldn't be.