Grazing contracts and fleeces over the years
The steel blue of Iris the sheep’s hip is revealed as shears pass across her, peeling the matted dull iron tinged gray of her fleece away, a process uncannily like taking a grinder to rusted metal and leaving ridged circles of brightness behind with each swipe. I’m shearing her while we are out on a […]
Community Flock
Slender tendrils of grass thread their way between the trampled thatch of dead grey matter formed from generations of oxidizing plants, left standing until we arrived. The electric green cotyledons of wild radish speckled the cool fall ground. The sinking sun gave shining edges to the clouds, moving swiftly through a sky like a dusky […]