IS IT GONE???

IS IT GONE??

 

I have not seen that ghostly stripe

For at least a night or two…

Has our resident forager

Quit the current field too?

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I didn’t see him last night,

Nor smelt the skunk perfume…

Has the grub population been decimated

Enough to move on, we presume?

 

–Jonathan Caswell

 

GHOSTLY APPARITION

GHOSTLY APPARITION

It wanders up and down the lawn,

Looking for grubs to feed upon…

A white stripe

Ethereal at night,

Shows it’s not gone.

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Pity the employee

Who is too close to this animal free…

Fearing should it say,

“Let us pray”,

Supplications olfactory.

–

Leave it alone and hope it strays

Somewhere else one of these days…

To find its meal

With great zeal,

Without human target arrays!

–Jonathan Caswell