A Galway and Suffock ram.
Both employed on our farm
to ****
When the midwife is due
Larry and Barry are left to themselves
and 2 in to Alpha doesn’t go.
Over the years, I noticed,
every business blow
reduced blood
from torrent to trickle.
When Larry developed meningitis
he was taken into care,
Barry had a look
that struck me dumb.
I can never be able to tell Barry
I was there
when life left his body.
A mountain crumbling into nothing.