The busy vole busies herself
Scurries amongst leaf litter
Keeps herself clean
Feeds her young
Whilst far above
Handsomely dressed, preened
Strong, angular, sleek
Magnificent hunter
With oh so to die for eyes
Fire streaked
Focuses on the tidy movements
Identifies and assesses
The challenge
And waits
Hangs on the wind
In familiar territory
Happily being busy
The vole naīve
Despite her globular eyes
Will barely see until too late
That she has been
Targeted, circled, cornered.
Flight, fight or freeze?
Voiceless, useless, helpless
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CLP 26/11/2018
n.b. Rapere is Latin meaning to take by force, to seize from which the words raptor and rapist derive
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