Laughers

from a rice paper lily, she recites favorite poems while pumpkinseed fan out nests in the shallows a jay on a birch branch teases the tabby who twitches his tail amidst velvety reeds on the shadowy bank a gent awkwardly lays while laughers picnic just a stones skim away in a robin's egg dream, the sun gently opens the sky and gives away freely gilded strips of its life soon the light will bow to the will of the moon when the night magician unlocks the angst of the loon