behind an old man

two trailing bloodhounds

floppy jowls

 molehills

on both sides

of his fence

the hare watching 

from a farm gate

I run faster

skipping molehills
as I run -
parallel lives

two fat pugs
chase a frisbee -
the memories of wolves

a seagull
descends with the breeze
as another rises

little lizard
on a stone path -
panic attack

two cormorants
on a black rock -
white spume

bloody feathers
in a circle -
dinner plate

crossing the
cattle grid -
size thirteen boots

blank eye-sockets
of wall mounted deer -
roast lamb dinner

magpie takes
the zebra crossing -
black and white and...

published by poetrypea

a motorway verge
eight crows inspect
a ruined fox

little black dress
and little black bag
of dogshit