I was walking through Tompkins Square Park yesterday afternoon, when I saw this makeshift tombstone painted on a tree, complete with shadowy figure standing over it:
She walks these hills in a long black veil She visits my grave when the night winds wail. |
The cross indicates that the deceased was a christian. The lack of name indicates that the deceased had no name, just the initial "S". Squirrel, perhaps.
There's no freshly-turned soil to indicate that the squirrel was buried; maybe it's just a memorial. Maybe a hawk ate a squirrel in this tree.
Squirrelly, we hardly knew ye!
#eastvillage #tompkinssquarepark #trees #squirrels
i think it is a memorial. it is like those crosses you see along the highways, marking the place where someone was killed in a car crash, but they are not buried there.
ReplyDeleteas you say, it may very well be where hawk ate skwirl, as there are RTHawks in TSPark.
I-)