Monday, September 10, 2007

The Promise of Spring

I heard a loon call out today
Plaintively beneath the clouds
The swallows and the goldfinches
Chatter in their busy crowds.
The heron stalking silently
Along the shallow’s rim
Is shadowed by the hunting seal
Who dives beneath the waters dim.
The cormorants have gone away
The “hummers” buzz and whir
The air is softer now, somehow.
I think Spring’s astir!

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