Hovering Silence

 

  

A sudden greyness;
Clouds have swept the sun away.
(Was it ever there?)

 

 Yellow, brown and green
Sway and shudder in the wind--
Autumn tricolors.

 

Geese and chicken cry;
Rooster crows above them all--
This cock must be heard!

 

 Suspended in air
Puff clouds roll across the sky--
Hovering silence.

 

 They were in the sky--
White puff kings of the air.
Now they're in the stream.

 

 Old mother log
Now host to dead leaves and moss--
Nourishing decay.

 

 Hollow shots ring out;
Woods have become a war zone
For the unarmed deer.

 

Monster in the woods
Hiding from the loud hunters
Sits there, still as death.