haiku sort of by inferior human

[ChristopherSea]

ellajam's criticism made the poem less obvious and more "poetic", I thought. I also agree about it not being clear from gentle dog that it was playful.

I usually get some sort of image from an expression like "killing spree", but I'm still searching my memory to think of what that is usually applied to.

I have visiting rights to a very gentle dog. He is never frightened by strangers and very happy and calm and harmless. Then when a nest fell out of a tree he was playing with them while killing them, before I could get there. It was the first time I had seen anything violent in him.

It was more than one bird, and killing spree implies that. I'm unsure.

It's not the acuracy of the story that I was addressing. It's the fact that the gentlest of beasts still has feral instincts. 'Killing' just sat there for me, but killing spree (or something like that) emblazed the piece with vivid imagery and some deviant anthropomorpism, albeit disturbing. I like ku's with high impact!