Evening

Jennifer Paige©1997

From a caress of breeze

The leaves break into song

A sultry hymn before the rain

The children scurry inside

     Like rats

They hide form this beauteous storm

The wind a satin sheet newly lain against my flesh

     Cool and continuous waves

     Through the tall grass

     Thick and heavy with wet

From gray-white clouds

I fill my lungs with moist mist

     From sky and ocean and land

The essence of earth fills my chest

     And I too begin to sing

From my perch in the trees

A harmony to chaos

My gift and this wind send chills

Through open windows

With draped that shudder

To ears and eyes which cry like raindrops

And splatter against the windowpanes

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