a rabbit ran across my yard today.
inscrutible as a motive - silent like the clouds.
i sat until she slowed her pace,
came back and stood within my view.

she dawdled as she wandered close to me.
so beautiful in brown velvet - daunted by the morn.
she posed in stillness, non-challant, as tho
she'd nothing else to do.

as tho there were no dogs about,
and yet i knew that there were two.