Fever

Transports of hereafter pass one leaf to unclasped heaps. Flirty winds rearrange the hedgerow plumage, wisp in gentle whispers. Chipping sparrows play hid and seek with a watery sunlight. Business is flourishing for the snuffling groundhog. It’s the narrow part of the day, a shoaling light ripples where squirrels dart. A Blue Jay raps his usual rib-digging oldie. Felicity flutters the loose and drifting: the soft green carousels of evening, the pirouette and circumvolve promenading. Leaf bundles are ransacked by delving voles but gently. Seeing all this I paint the hedgerow again with this eventide wash, watch it all spun into dusk from these owl bright eyes.