over the packed ice of two days
dog footprints
© Rachel Green 2018
Walton Dam
where the ducks are frozen out
of the frozen end
geese land clumsily on morning ice
thick and opaque
except where someone has broken it
with an old housebrick,
and the fresh ice is clear.
The dogs are excited
new paths, new smells,
though wary of the waterfowl
who cluster round
hoping for bread
though that's discouraged these days.
Too much rubbish in the bread
leaves it undigested and heavy
inside a sinking duck.
© Rachel Green 2018
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