THERE ARE A FEW THINGS
A new lamb insists upon, really
only one thing, and so her bleats
increase into a screaming mantra.
But spring shadows a rough beast
who drags his feet through the grass
even in the day-long sun, even as
the breeze massages the dry pasture
slowly awake. Just when old Mother Ewe
can’t take one more snowfall, the sky
darkens, the flakes begin to dress her fleece,
and she lays down on her bags to low
the same prayer with her lambs.
C. Mikal Oness is the author of Oracle Bones and Water Becomes Bone. His latest collection, Works and Days, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press.
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