Shotgun-boys waited,
sure patience would bring rewards:
Crow just stayed away.

Image: Andreas Moe på Rypejakt (ca. 1910), posted by Municipal Archives of Trondheim under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) license.

This poem was first published (in a slightly different version) in the Spring 2016 Showcase edition of The Zen Space.