Year of the Rabbit

1 That rabbit you killed last time around 
2 is still dead in that cold, clay ground.
3
4 Rabbit year, long as a hare's ear,
5 wide-eyed, in shock to be here,
6 a victim fallen, life's fragility clear,
7 still running, an unrelenting gyre
8 of symbolic time, its pace never slowing,
9 its message, to all of us, showing.
10
11 You killed that rabbit two years ago.
12 We watched it shutter and let go its soul.

12.28.22