The mink delved among nettles and dead bracken
Moving
quick and ferret like
It
was brown, as a weasel
It
slunk under rotten willow limbs and logs
Until
it came to an abandoned rabbit hole or badger set
And
sunk in
As
one youth chased it and wielded a log above his head
Prepared
to throw it
The
mink bravely poked his body back up above the parapet
Of
the bank
It
stood there proud and unafraid
Perhaps
more curious of the danger
Because
it was both threat and interest that the two parties showed
We
the onlookers on the other side of the bank could not have offered threat only
curiosity
But
the youth with the log was less curious more a real threat to the mink
In
the event we stopped the youth from throwing his weapon at the animal
Out
of humanity for its off spring as her death would have left them helpless in
all likelihood
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