sometimes the hummingbird

sometimes the hummingbird

A Poem by Katherine Ottaway
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poem

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sometimes the hummingbird

Boa cat
meows
the meow that means she's caught something
and wants to show me

and I go to look
it is a hummingbird
probably immature
dead

I pat her and praise her
Good Boa
I see what you caught

She taps the hummingbird
around the room a few times
but it is dead

so she eats it

and I'm crying

sometimes the hummingbird
gets eaten

and that is ok 
9/22/14
published initially on my blog

© 2014 Katherine Ottaway


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