Grim grey day starts in the dark, grumbles, glowers shoulders hunched Everyone in bitter agreement - "Miserable!" Rain driven against windows, streaming pavements, shoe-squelched curses cast at baleful sky.
Travelling home at last, raincoat defeated tricklebacked discomfort, Windscreen wipers ten to the dozen under sopping sorrowful trees, headlights strobing relentless rain
And -
Those aren't leaves. What are they? Tumbling across the road, crisscrossing parabolas of peculiar joy
Frogs!
I stop: I have to. The night is alive with manic delight as secret creatures fling caution to the wind and bound into sight, into frantic celebration, unphased by cars, by foolish bipeds who thought this planet was theirs -
Open mouthed and uninvited I gaze, displaced and foolish for not knowing It is, it is the most beautiful night that could possibly be imagined.