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“Keep Them Happy,” Said  Minnie Rose Lovgreen

for Nancy

Attrition has been steady

through two flocks now

infighting with nightly visits from raccoons–

egg laying becomes sporadic.

 

I persevere

but this time the rats come

& a young red–tailed hawk–now

I run a boarding house, fresh kill included.

 

Soon I am down to one

disconsolate, mourning, silent hen

brooding over a cold marble egg,

I rake up feathers, bury a foot.

 

That Sicilian Buttercup–

always distant, hard to catch–

stays by my side all afternoon.                

                                                                

                           ----Jan Prichard Cohen

                                 27 October 2010