#leap up

[whats-in-a-sentence]

April

Yvor Winters

The little goat

crops

new grass lying down

leaps up eight inches

into air and

lands on four feet.

Not a tremor –

solid in the

spring and serious

he walks away.

"Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle... And Other Modern Verse" - compiled by Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders, and Hugh Smith