Jane Blanchard

Fiona

A lonely sheep had lived so long
upon a shingle beach.
A kayaker thought it was wrong
to leave her out of reach.

She must have simply fallen down
a steep and rocky slope.
Two agencies of some renown
were called but just said, “Nope.”

Five farmers, though, were ready to
assist an ovine Scot.
They used equipment which could do
what man nor beast could not.

The sheep, amazingly obese,
was hauled unharmed at last.
Soon named, she had to lose her fleece,
then try to shed her past.

A native Virginian, Jane Blanchard lives and writes in Georgia. Her latest collection with Kelsay Books is Metes and Bounds (2023).