Calender with Magpie

Early spring, late winter

wobbly magpies busy with sticks

it begins again

Late spring and magpies

kill jackrabbit leveret

unloved assassin

Summer comes, time

for weaning fat magpie chicks

raucous noise follows


On sunny lawn a
magpie pecks sleeping rabbit
futile kicks follow

Amid green leaves

many loud magpies come to mock

embarrassed tabby

Fall and teenaged

magpies wrestle the plant tags

but for now wire wins

Winter magpies watch

as we slog thru slushy snow

watching just watching
                                   
                                                            Guy

Dreams of Disarmament

Harry the great polled Charolais

swollen as the sin of pride,

heavy with muscle and vitality

counts his kingdom of one

way out in the far field.

He spares us only one baleful glare

for his thoughts are far away

down to the main corral where

Morely the half-pint Hereford

flashes his horns for an admiring throng.

                                 Guy