From a sequence, "The Countries Surrounding the Garden of Eden"
Gihon, that compasseth the whole land
At the first frost we found our sheep with strangled hearts, lying on
their backs in the frozen clover, their eyes wide open as if they were
surprised by a constellation of drought or endless winter. The wolves
walked into the snow, like men who have given up living without love;
cows would no longer let go of their calves, hiding them deep in the
birch groves. Everywhere the roads gave off their wild animal cries,
running toward the edge of what we had thought was the world. And the
names of things as we knew them would no longer bring them to us.