by Debdutta Pal Go play with the chickens.I knew that tone, I knew when to conserve my battery.A week on a farm wasn’t going to tilt the city girl in me,I liked wide open skies,fields greener than two crayons, and the static of Television just fine,but even at eight, I knew it wasn’t mine. IContinue reading “Bird or Broccoli?”
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Give Me The Bird
by Lilli-ann Buffin I never thought I would say this, but… give me the bird. I’m not the only one asking. According to the National Chicken Council, in 2018 Americans consumed an average of 93.5 pounds of chicken per person due mostly to the American love affair with rotisserie chicken. But a council of chickensContinue reading “Give Me The Bird”
my broken rooster
by Maylea Harris my rooster who crows at sundownis nothing more than wasted meathe keeps the farmers awake, my pigs restlessmy hens begging him to come nest but he screams at the end of the workdaylike someone is acknowledging him(if we do, he’d never stop)I’ll do the same at my time, but it’s still annoyingContinue reading “my broken rooster”
A Tale of Two Chickies
by Mouli Sharma Digitized Pen Sketch Mouli Sharma is a journalist from New Delhi, India.
Cage-Free
by Vishali Muthuvinayagam She had lovely white feathers draped down her side. They never got as dirty as mine did. I’m not sure how she did it. She had a really kind laugh. To a human, our laughs sound the same, but I could always tell when she was laughing. She stood up against theContinue reading “Cage-Free”
The Chicken Mutiny
by Leah Mueller My mother and I didn’t talk much during the summer of ‘76. She reclined in her bathrobe, chain-smoking and re-reading old Mike Royko columns. Mom hated downstate Illinois. She’d always identified with Eva Gabor in Green Acres, who fervently desired a luxury high-rise apartment. Thirty chickens lived in an enclosed coop behindContinue reading “The Chicken Mutiny”
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
by James Joy A scientist will tell youevolution proves the egg came firstcracked from a creaturenot yet a chicken as we see. An Indian might tell youlife as a force began from a sacred eggthat roseout of the primordial ocean.Shell splitting into sky and earth. An Egyptian myth tells the story of the first egg,laidContinue reading “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”
Providential Night
by Ciro Soleda Avian of the yard, awake — open your adorned eyesBeneath the jagged, barbed border of yourCherry-bright crest: caruncle, crimson red.Discharge your drastic daytime decree,Explosive, expulsive envoy, ejector of stars. Sullen forage I frugally offer;Gallant Giro, you gulp with grateful gusto.Handsome herald of the hollow hours,Ideal invoker, incendiary, invincibleJudge of the joust! JovianContinue reading “Providential Night”
A gentleman
by Milli Vedder Photography Milli Vedder is a photographer and chicken tender in Washington, USA. She has over 40 chickens, each has a name and they come when called in hopes she has tasty grubs or scratch for them.
to the chicken at the back of my kitchen
by Taiwo Hassan thank you,for showing up every day,for being a constant reminderthat my mother’s voice is never too farto guide me back home,for picking every grain of rice and dissectingevery bone left unpicked from my kitchen sink,for diluting all the earnest pleas this big purple roomcan’t thin out anymore with your crows.thank you forContinue reading “to the chicken at the back of my kitchen”