Playing Chicken

   by Michael Dylan Welch and Tanya McDonald

First published in Prune Juice #43, August 2024, page 40. Originally written on Highway 97 between Shaniko and Madras, Oregon on 3 June 2011.

the headless chicken still learning to fly Michael

a rooster crows at the solar eclipse Tanya

chicken feet in a pile by the outhouse Michael

warm on my lap the broody hen Tanya

a wet chicken feather stuck to the axe Michael

pipping a hole in its egg the last chick Tanya