Food Chain

                                                               

                                                                                               

Ten days ago                                                

The great horned owl appeared                  

Sitting on a light pole

Calling.  ‘Come here, Come here’.

Mama kitty disappeared

Two days before

This morning, again,

She sat calling

For the others.

‘Come out, come out

Wherever you are’.

I chased her away.

The coyotes are singing tonight

Not their usual, happy,

‘We got some dinner,

We got some dinner’, song.

Like the night she went missing.

This was more of a

Sister got hurt song.

Last week it sounded like the

‘Send us more furries

She tasted good’,  Song.

They tell me

There’s bobcats around.

She was a baby alone on the prairie

When she found me

She survived all that before

and

Snakes too.

Even the two legged kind.

Wish I had a gun.

But what would I shoot?

©2005