lightning crackling across a roiling sky a black, lumbering cloud bank spitting out seagulls a meteor unwinding its tail before plunging into a lake wet forest floors etched by countless pine needles orb spider webs clinging, bolted bridge cables high pitched whistles and chirps in singular silence moss on fields of mountain boulders dripping beneath a white fox leaping above snow covered burrow
fire engine red lurking down our street, stopping food stained Styrofoam, pressed into a corner of refuse wet blanket near a boarded up store front rumbling jet howling its decent into a siren busy city blood in a bag, teeth barred, too many scattered feathers red robin armies raiding a plump red holly cold rain, rain, rain, old siliconed gutters, ice shattered *** a flickering porch light spelling out random Morse code