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the cat slept in the box
by the stove inside
the kitchen watching
with one eye open
the man who sat outside
watching the chicks
with the mama hen
the man who loved to
watch, both eyes open
now stunned to see the
hen lying dead who
had stepped on the chick
he threw the rock to but
scare her away when it
struck her and now…
the chicks scattered
peeping and then the
man without hesitation
gathered the chicks to
take them into where
the cat lay to set them
inside the box behind the
stove where they settled
a cat watching, one eye open
© April 2013
Renee Espriu
Just returned from visiting my dad in CA to write this per the dVerse prompt, a story dad has told over and over again about his stepdad. The cat raised the chicks as though they were its’ own.
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