The Morning Porch

November 15, 2013 by Dave Bonta

The last patch of snow in the yard has shrunk to half the size of a handkerchief. Three chickadees explore the woods’ edge, comparing notes.

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When the wind dies, I can hear the roaring of the creek. I sit in the dark, composing a limerick in my head.
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Thick fog that lasts for hours. Sunrise must’ve been that big flock of red-winged blackbirds and grackles crackling and creaking like old doors.
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Cold and still, with an almost-mackerel sky that Vs of tundra swans keep crossing—their clarinet notes, their breast feathers golden with sunrise.
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Robin singing in the rain. It could be April but for the lingering patches of snow and the lack of a blush on the red…
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Fourth-quarter moon just above the trees. The dawn chorus begins with a mourning dove. Then Carolina wren, crows, a red-winged blackbird.