Shrikes alighting frightless,
conniving little misers
arriving in battalion
upon our picnic parapets
pursuing fallen lakeside bits
of oven roasted turkey breast
and to think these dainty invaders
impale their prey on spikes
the likes of the little hooks
on the flies we brought along
to fool the fish beside us
What ironic danger lays
unbidden in a day upon a lake
and imagine going out
pierced and pecked to pieces
by the needling steely tools
of our own toying invention
It would be a kind of cutely
gruesome poem, would it not?
an apropos way to go
much like the shrike itself
https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/weirdest-shrike