Two-Headed Lamb

From the October Séance Series: The Gilpin Variations

Photo by [USask] licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Cropped and color adjusted.

Tomorrow the shepherd will find it
stiff in the morning frost, and burn it
before the children wake. Bad omen,
he’ll say. Unnatural. But tonight
the lamb stands in the clover field,
both heads breathing the same air.

One head sees the moon rising
over the black trees. The oth…