Reapers

 Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones
Are sharpening scythes.
 I see them place the hones
In their hip-pockets as a thing that's done,
And start their silent swinging, one by one.

Black horses drive a mower through the weeds,
And there, a field rat, startled, squealing bleeds,
His belly close to ground.
 I see the blade,
Blood-stained, continue cutting weeds and shade.

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