Two Does, Two Bucks

Two does, two bucks, couples grazing in snow
as the sun flashes orange robin breasts
up in green crown of ivy on oak snag,
luxury of light amid winter's cold

not exactly domesticity, but close,
creatures in accord with their own natures
doing what they do with nature's accord,
as my eye is itself part of the scene

the deer tarry, always in part alert,
the bucks come closer each one to its doe,
then they stoop to eat, restore energy,
as the robins flurry above on blue

the creatures move on, leave themselves behind,
does, buck, robins, snow, sunlit my delight