There was blood in the garden
\nthick across the stepping stones
\nand paving slabs
\nechoes of a fight here last night
\nor the aftermath of one elsewhere<\/p>\n
between
\nwhat?
\ncats
\nand foxes
\ncats
\nand birds
\ncats
\nand cats<\/p>\n
or a hedgehog perhaps
\ndragged out of the dead leaves
\nbeneath the bamboo
\ncarved open
\nby tooth
\nand claw
\nand carried away
\nfrom this fenced-in prison
\nto someone else’s lair<\/p>\n
__________<\/p>\n
Notes:<\/p>\n
1. Written on September 15th, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br> There was blood in the garden thick across the stepping stones and paving slabs echoes of a fight here last night or the aftermath of one elsewhere between what? cats and foxes cats and birds cats and cats or a hedgehog perhaps dragged out of the dead leaves beneath the bamboo carved open by tooth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[8,33,119,191,490],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ephemera","tag-blood","tag-cats","tag-ephemera","tag-poems","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Support An Accumulation Of Things<\/a><\/h3>If you like the things you've read here please consider subscribing to my patreon<\/a> or my ko-fi<\/a>. <\/br><\/br>Patreon subscribers<\/a> get not just early access to content and also the occasional gift, but also my eternal gratitude. Which I'm not sure is very useful, but is certainly very real.<\/br><\/br>(Ko-fi contributors<\/a> probably only get the gratitude I'm afraid, but please get in touch if you want more). <\/br><\/br>Thank you!<\/i><\/br><\/br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"