Spring rain spots the driveway and morning
is delayed as
23 earthworms
get added to the bait collection
alongside a bucket of minnows,
55 fish
reserved for catching bigger fish. Jean kills
2 birds
with one stone, feeds his minnows leftover dog
food. Speaking of birds he’s once seen a chipmunk
eat a dead bird’s brain, 34 per cent unsaturated fat: who
needs nuts? Speaking of brains his colleague
had to shoot a video to prove that squirrels predate
on hares, snapping off the heads of
10 small rabbits
in one go to eat the brains, caloric equivalent
of a winter’s stash or a month’s lesson
in foraging theory.
1 man
is going fishing today to forget about brains,
casting bated lines