Pastoral

By the shore, with effortless strokes, he paddled. On the bank, a pasture with holstein cattle - Sitting there, up high on the wooden seat, he lazily dabbled. Softly crept the coyote, prepped for battle. Warmed by sun, a little one lagged to tackle dandelions, all nestled in the clover, grazing and addled. Overhead, a mockingbird spied the rabble, saw the calf who from the herd had now straggled. Shrieking then, she dived at the rascal, oh so noisily tattled. ---------- Haven't tried a sapphic stanza before - pretty picky placement of feet in a 4-line stanza. Not sure this hits very well, but as always, try and try again! Trochee, trochee, dactyl, trochee, trochee (3x) Dactyl, trochee