Cold Scenery

Cold Scenery.

The fat duck stands on ice, the pond
has frozen over, shifting its appetizing
weight from leg to leg, must be cold.
Little snow around, too cold for that;
so why doesn’t it stand on some dead
grass? An arctic fox sneaks up wears
expensive fur, but as it lunges the bird
jumps up in the air, the fox loses its
balance and slides to the other side of
the pond; gets up runs, head down to its
hole in the ground, by the cold boulder.
The duck stands as lost in thoughts,
the Nordic landscape is perfectly still
and the sun is a frozen Florida orange