in between the beats of an oompah band

Leonardo da Vinci - Lily, 1480, chalk & ink on paper

fresh quail eggs for breakfast

fresh quail eggs for breakfast black coffee
strong enough to lift a man and boy
without hardly trying sunrise broken by the tracks of coyotes calling february by its first name
like a friend putting a fine western saddle
on a gray wisp of cloud and riding hard
above the long dr…