there was a picture
stacks of shark fins
drying on a rooftop
a picture
hundreds of wild ducks
quiet at the feet and shoulders
of a handful of hunters
i've lost my bearings


squirrels are busy
doing the work
armadillos and possums once did
crows quack like ducks
as they fly overhead
farmers prepare small fields
churning furrows of earth
an azalea in bloom
in the October sunlight