Brown Hare

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                     Brown Hare knew

                     as he entered our clearing

                     this was no kind of dare

                     so this was no kind of fearing











I sat reading

about Man's search for meaning

Brown Hare was out

due to Hare's need for eating











                     [Brown Hare

                      camouflaged

                      just right

                      for the evening]











Theoretically

                                       it's possible

that Brown Hare

couldn't see Me blended into

the steel shrubbed overgrowth of the panel van











                                       It's possible











So Brown Hare

No dare

No care

Just 4 feet from My motionless stare





He remained in his idling gallop gait

Across My anterior reach and back again





I think then Brown Hare's equipment

picked up waves from my fix

Idling gallop gait switched

to moderate bound gait

Up in pace

But no need to race

Just a pulse of auto-impulse

to guide his exit from our union space





Then Brown Hare arced under the electrified wire

and rounded the coarse bushes











                                       I returned to my book











Its words kissed by the Dane evening

Its pages illuminated by the dusked delight

of Brown Hare watching Me watching Brown Hare