translucent sheep
black face blotches stains
on hilltop landscape,
snow pulled over rain
and the old farmer
negotiates iced path,
eager forms shiver and huddle,
feed bag spills,
eyes seem without content
yet expressions aware
of eastern bite,
no other sounds
snow muffled nature
coating dry stone walls,
beneath wool they wait
moving agile on stick legs
through thickened drifts,
spring and lambs
a distance away,
reliant now
on human form
red land rover and flickering
headlights
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