Sunday, February 10, 2013

field notes





sparrow chip-hopping over brush in front of my feet
hollow knocking of downy woodpecker
rising shriek of pileated woodpecker
crows dropping their messages over bare fields
the soft rattle of the breeze as it moves through clinging beech and oak leaves
the various sounds of footsteps over slushy snow -- melting crackle ice -- frozen bare earth
the silences between

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