LAMB

Lamb in the seething heart

Of the nervy flock

Butted and nuzzled

Reddle-daub rainbows

On weather-damp wool

Circling soft

There the wall fallen

Opens on precipice

Bleats and barging

Lamb nudges hocks,

Tough mutton and tender

Hogget and mouflon

Upward she draws them

Stompers and sleepwalkers

Sheep of this pasture

Up the rock stairway

Of sunlight and silence

The lamb, she leads