Photo & Poem: Ducks and Geese

June 17, 2018 / Anna Blake / No Comments

 

Seven iced-over winters followed
by sweet bugs on long summer days.
Flightless old girls with twisted
toenails and dim eyes, each year

their webbed feet turn a bit more
inward, carrying the weight of their
front-heavy bodies. Was it a plan?
The hens began to answer the barking

terrier, marching wing to wing and
four abreast, heads tucked to the
left, bills dropped low, and on each,
a single eye glaring straight, baiting

the dog with a righteous chorus, fences
give courage to a time-honored battle. One
morning, necks at broken angles, perhaps
they won the day. Old bones rest free. Not

many feathers, not much fight. Maybe a
weasel or a house dog, blame doesn’t matter
now. Just to acknowledge their small lives,
as families of goslings appear on the pond.

 

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Anna Blake at Infinity Farm
Horse Advocate, Author, Speaker, Equine Pro

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