the cats in the hay mow or the spiders in the eaves or even the kernel of corn planted in the soil hed turned grown into the twelve-foot stalk ground into the silage chips fed to those cows collected in the manure spread on the frozen field flooded by the river in the spring carried off to the sea : a straight line sometimes requiring god force to be bent into a circle , but always bent , always a circle , never brokennot by illness or death or destruction or failure .