Sunday, February 20, 2011



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








Monday, February 7, 2011



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