The Morning Porch

Dave Bonta October 3, 2009 1

Thick fog. Silence punctuated by the muffled thuds of black walnuts landing on the lawn. The distant, mad cackle of a pileated woodpecker.

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Crafty Green Poet
15 years ago Permalink

this is lovely but also somehow sinister, the thuds, the mad cackle….

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