late evening a violent predator molested a songbird leaving cuts of lark scattered upon load-bearing branches agitated in2 giving way staining the child trounced lawn below painting future moments of disillusion & trauma prey remade in2 a new legacy in blood & the carved remains as a personification of death 2 b carried well in2 adulthood a mourned morning a 1st visit with mortality 1 to squint eyes & shake heads with a learning demonstration of food chain vampirism 1 that exists outside of prepared meals & fast food playlands stricken blank unable 2 respond depositing a permanent cinematic vision a slacks sporting dad kicking dead things curbside swearing about the inconvenience making the life lost as trivial as a false fire alarm while cooking none of this is of concern 2 predators