Hurter, Jade

English

University of New Orleans

Ellipsis Volume 42 Article 8 2015 Hunting & Foraging Jade Hurter University of New Orleans Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ellipsis Recommended Citation Hurter, Jade (2015) "Hunting & Foraging," Ellipsis: Vol. 42 , Article 8. Available at: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ellipsis/vol42/iss1/8 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of English and Foreign Languages at ScholarWorks@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in Ellipsis by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@UNO. For more information, please contact scholarworks@uno.edu. Hunting & Foraging  Jade Hurter  Vassar Miller Poetry Award Winner      We were children eating violets for lunch: petals wilting in a wash of sink water. Sun-in-throat child, asleep in the dirt.  Dead bumblebee beneath my palm: soft as cotton, pollen puffing from out the body.  Imagine your consciousness swells into the ant body; aim to crush it with basketball on the rain-wet driveway.  We were children learning how to kill. Bring home violets & spider-bites for mother.  At dinner, I pulled the veins from my chicken: pink, purple, one by one. Don’t just pick at it.   Eat.  

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