Monday, April 27, 2015

Fauna Fantasy

Could have a game of chess


with those stone-still cottontails,


castled behind the fattest gray squirreI


pawns I've seen this side of winter.


The knights, of course,


would be the leaping black cats


who bolted blindly through yesterday's rush hour,


played against the big orange tom chasing them.


Two arrogant crows for swaggering kings


and one pair of brown wrens


beaks upturned


preened to queen over all


would complete the enchanted

faerieland field of battle.







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