Sleepy Fox Hollow extrusive ii

he follows the horse, because the horse shits a lot.
bringing winged bugs and swift-flying swampdarners -
an entire ecosystem springing to life from a single ball of shit

he stalks the reeds behind her and picks off a few victims.
a mouse impaled by his beak, down the gullet.
once or twice a snake - his favorite meal besides seafare;
and presently, as she sinks her fat ankles into mud,
blue mist stabs a rutting bullfrog
tilts back his lethal face
and swallows that fat fuck whole.