Crimes of Nature

a patch of vivid blue
caught my eye

i looked down to see
a bird, its body facing one way

its severed head, a few inches off,
facing the other

i wondered
how had this happened?

i first imagined
a person was to blame

before settling my mind
it was the deed of the neighborhood cat

but by then,
i felt sorry i had blamed humanity first

and sorry how we as a species
have earned that due suspicion

as if we were
the parents of a murdered child

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