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Claire Gunner
Pellets
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In school we had to rearrange
the bones of small mammals
choked out by birds of prey.
Some still bore sticky tufts of fur.
I wonder what that lesson was.
Save and stack a pile of bones
after picking off the meat.
Take each small death you get
and order it. Fix its earthy body
with school glue to colored paper.
Follow the hunter in secret, and find
the remains of the thing that fed it.
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Claire Gunner lives in Brooklyn, where she is an attorney for a legal services nonprofit. You can find her recent work in Neologism Poetry Journal, Stone Poetry Quarterly, and boats against the current.
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