Sharing a pasture
July 27, 1984
Cows crop grass and eye the shadow where willows hold back
pond from meadow.
Fishing's slow.
As morning passes,
I finger-crop
five kinds of grasses.
Yellow bees
circle, zooming,
then zero in
where clover's blooming.
When the bees
no longer hover,
I pick and knot
a chain of clover.