Napowrimo 2024. Day 5. Its Only Nature

Napowrimo 2024. Day 5, let’s get to our optional prompt! Today we’d like you to start by taking a look at Alicia Ostriker’s poem, “The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog.” Now try your hand at writing your own poem about how a pair or trio very different things would perceive of a blessing or, alternatively, how these very different things would think of something else (luck, grief, happiness, etc). Heres my take on it.

Its Only Nature

A Vixen stalks,
A nocturnal landscape.
Who will be her prey?

A rabbit happily crunches on a carrot.
Unaware she is in a predators sights.

The Vixen strikes,
Adrenaline surges.
The moment of the kill.

What is instinctive for the Vixen,
Happiness to be providing for her cubs.

Is a nightmare for the rabbit.
Whose kittens go unfed.

By Katie Haigh
@K.Haigh 5th April 2024

Drawing by Katie Haigh
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