Sweet Morning

Sweet Morning

1993

 jp

sweet humidity warmly softening all

the edges of burgeoning deep green trees

maple, spruce, ash, and hawthorn

in the distant forest and along the tractor lanes

sweet breeze blessing softly all

the grasses waving thick in pasture

the easy swaying clover and alfalfa blossoms

the rye dancing on the hill

sweet sunlight breaking over the horizon

brushing over those same fields

kissing the millions of shimmering leaves

streaming yellow in my windows and across the floor

sweet gaiety chattering softly all

the sparrows and swallows and robins and dove and finch

piercing whistles and tatata and dtooo dto dto dto

away away in the distance a rooster crows

and above the blue sky swept with strokes of white cloud...