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.