The raven lifted.
Circled like a skate on a groove of air -
the fur at the neck ruffled up.
Ruffling up,
each follicle trying
to leave that meat
as the raven swooped down, poked its beak
into that beating snuff,
the rabbit not dead not yet -
it pecked and pecked, until the one red spot welled up.
A thin steam from the rabbit, like a wick blown out.
The snow sparkling.
And the raven cocked its black eye, dipped its beak
in the red pool
it had made -
for the ink of elegy.