04-21-2016, 01:14 PM
In Spring the chickens start laying again
They’ll deepen to gold
later, when the chickens
get into new lucerne, darken
to orange when grasshopper season
arrives, but they’re pale, spring yolks,
almost white, like spring butter.
The first new season eggs
often arrive misshapen; yolks
without shells, or solid
walnut sized rocks; once
a single tubular specimen
two eggs long, with thick ridges,
like cinched belts.
I wondered how that felt
to the chicken.
They’ll deepen to gold
later, when the chickens
get into new lucerne, darken
to orange when grasshopper season
arrives, but they’re pale, spring yolks,
almost white, like spring butter.
The first new season eggs
often arrive misshapen; yolks
without shells, or solid
walnut sized rocks; once
a single tubular specimen
two eggs long, with thick ridges,
like cinched belts.
I wondered how that felt
to the chicken.