Shearing Pen
If we don't sheer the woolly buggers
they will bleat themselves to death
and standing in the pen,
we blather on about it
until they do.
* Dianne Feaver lives in Canada, she's been writing about for 20-ish years and says she prefers formal rhyme but dabbles in free verse – and is currently an artist working in oils.
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LILY, SWIMMING
part of this watery
other world,
a ghost of herself,
she glides from
one side to the next,
the light on
the surface like a net
she slips through
* Nigel Pickard's first collection Making Sense was published by Shoestring (2003), his first novel, One, by Bookcase (2005).
