Stalked
Richard Dinges, Jr.


A blue blur behind
chicken wire, she bends
over tin water buckets
surrounded by red hens
and one black rooster.
Feathers fluffed in
frenzied quarrels,
one leads a queue
to peck at seeds
and cracked corn she
dumps into feeders
and spreads at their
feet.  The center
of their attention,
she is heedless of
my steady stare.

 
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