i will not forget to keep checking the mirrors overtaking past ~
CLP 23/08/2021
Liberté, Égalité, Humanité
i will not forget to keep checking the mirrors overtaking past ~
CLP 23/08/2021
you no passenger I hold my breath fearful of emergency stop
~
CLP 23/08/2021
when we appear at the gate
their bleating starts
calling of ewes to lambs
lambs to ewes
locating each other in panicked calls
so anxious are they at our arrival
~
a pair of sturdy lambs burrow under a ewe
knocking the flighty beast off-balance
pull hard at her teats for comfort
lambs who already feed happily on grass
who merrily join patrols of this pasture
party to a gambolling gang
who normally ignore the stark-shorn ewes
lined by tines of electric shears
that have scored their skinned fleece pink
~
When our red quad-bike appears
these adolescent lambs cry
for more mother’s milk
perhaps instinctively aware
of what drives our human kindness
~
CLP 27/06/2021