The Wood

enter the wood, end of the day deep deep reverb, everywhere eerie sound from between the trees from bowels of earth, around the sky then chilling stillness, flee or stay? thump thump! disturb the very air flurried dance, the following breeze as yowls of mirth personify monsters lurk and skulk, hide away blink blink, acerbic scary stare belly scales grow knobbly knees fat jowls of girth, the fleshy eye children scamper, fierce games they play beat beat, why curb their merry dare ? carefree clamber through ill-at-ease with howls of worth they yelp and cry fungi feast while dank leaves decay sleep sleep superb in fairy lair life poking head, no guarantees where scowls give birth, when dreams do die look up beyond where branches sway squeak squeak perturb the glary glare past hazy stars, the " Pleiades " night ghouls of dearth by radar fly