You should remember
the shot birds, we eat
that are delicious with wine.
I had eaten
the morning like a dense
wing, to try
to explain this eating
of my remaining doves.
I will finish
these creatures to give
me courage at the end.
From pages 236-237 of The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand by Jim Harrison (Grove Press, 2001).