“Giant Tortoise Filmed Attacking and Eating a Baby Bird” by Michael Meyerhofer
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Michael Meyerhofer
GIANT TORTOISE FILMED ATTACKING AND EATING BABY BIRD
—from Poets Respond
August 31, 2021
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Michael Meyerhofer: “This ended up not making it into the poem but when I read about this, I immediately flashed back to another story from nearly twenty years ago about Kumunyak (‘Blessed One’), a Kenyan lioness praised in newspapers for adopting and safeguarding baby antelope. Specifically, I remember the consternation the article’s author felt when one particular baby antelope died (presumably of natural causes) and the lioness who had previously been protecting it immediately changed gears and ate it (hunger is hunger, after all). If horror and beauty are the two seemingly opposite threads from which nature is woven, those threads crisscross constantly. Maybe that’s true of society, too.” (web)
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