Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Zugunruhe


Agitation shakes the fields

restlessness quivers in the treelines

the migratory birds sense the south

and are nervous to be there

rising up out of the corn in false starts

at the slightest human intrusion.


I shalll miss them when they're gone

my demesne reduced and hoping to live simply

in the coming seasons of spareness

wrapped in an extravagance of love

among the creatures who stay put for each other.