To George Orwell, in memoriam

In all the courtyard
the smell of fresh-baked bread;
just the dog enchained
*
An empty courtyard –
sitting on the clothes line
a flock of swallows
*
A horse is grazing –
perchedon the parade saddle
a long-tailed magpie
*
Sat in the front yard
only a man and a dog –
the full Universe
*
A fisher’s hamlet.
On the chimney the crane’s nest
neighboring the sky
*
A horse being shoed –
the dog is alse hitting
the air with the paw
*
Fost in the orchard –
the canteen for singing birds
plundered by the crows
*
After a yoke-day
the buffalo goes grazing
with a crow on his back
*
Cats in heat again –
only some steps away
hesitates the fall
*
Under the white beat
grandmother is dozing off –
the cat is purring
*
The dog immobile
in the middle of the road…
The New Year passes!