An Aviary of Small Birds by Karen McCarthy Woolf

Author:Karen McCarthy Woolf [Karen McCarthy Woolf]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781906188252
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
Published: 2014-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Rabbit kits grow commensurate

with her wane and wax

while the leveret embryo

is more Lenten:

it takes approximately 40 days

for a litter to emerge, fully furred,

from the capsule of the womb,

eyes already open.

The does are her familiars.

In the mating season

they rear up

and box with the bucks,

the last left standing mounts.

We see one flash into the woods

on the hill behind the house—

mistake it for a deer.

Her ears are everywhere:

the motorway’s waterfall of noise

floods the morning, a train shrieks

at a teenage copse whose saplings

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