Just before I go to bed,
I always step outside
to look around and listen.
If it's a warm, wet spring,
the Peepers and Chorus Frogs
are calling from the wetland.
If it's a late, lazy summer,
I listen to the rasping of Cicadas
and Snowy Tree Crickets.
If it's a cool, calm autumn,
there's the faint tick of leaves
falling through dying leaves.
If it's a clear winter night,
I view a coliseum of stars
suspended in a moonless sky.
© 2020 Richard Havenga
Photo Locations:
1. Video: Home Woods - Cannonsburg, Michigan
2. Home Woods
3. SaddleBrooke, Arizona
