Christine Jordan

couple three: Still Rabbit With Life

My nemesis has offered up its life,

Caught in its livelong heavenly snare,

So now the end has come to many a strife.

Clamber of tools like rake and hoe and knife,

Prepares on this slab a cream and wheaten hare,

My nemesis has offered up its life.

Alive, your provender sings with a quiet fife,

Piping in this inadvertent dell, "Behold the fare!"

So now the end has come to many a strife.

O soft and gnawing creature still whole and rife

With greens, some sweet fear in your round stare,

My nemesis has offered up its life.

Duet of goats, caged dumb, observe the feed like cud and wife,

Blast a cautionary freedom to the two and bleat, "Beware!"

So now the end has come to many a strife.

This solemn canvas of mute stone and thick soil stifles

Your unheard shame. Cry out for what you had to dare.

My nemesis has offered up its life,

So now the end has come to many a strife.