It's Still Life

The Greens and Blues of It

Here I am wandering around,
lost on oak-spiked hilltops,

and admiring the serenity
of sheep and shadows,

and I am as surplus to this day
as ribbons are surplus to a gift.

And until today, I’d never seen
a kestrel kill a rabbit.

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