I see a mother teaching her toddler how to feed pigeons. The child is trying to hit them with chunks of bread. The mother is laboring against deepest instincts.

Addendum (December 18, 2012)

When I sent this haiku to my beloved as a mobile-phone text-message while she was still in her office, she quickly responded in kind: “They were used for target practice not so long ago, after all.” Whence so-called clay pigeons, indeed. Clay pigeon shooting, formally known as Inanimate Bird Shooting, nowadays uses ceramic saucers. As a quick search on the World Wide Web shows, live pigeons were used for target practice until less than a century ago, when they were made illegal first in the United Kingdom and then in the United States. Of course, my beloved hails from the rugged Balkans, just as I do.