Marjorie A. Buettner...

April of mornings

These bird-trees that surround the house host all of them this morning: woodpecker, blue jay, robin, cardinal. It is the kind of spring morning that becomes a second skin; you enter it and suddenly you are showered by its palpable presence, and, then, it enters you. Somehow even the sky seems closer to the earth.

April of mornings walking in the clouds all day long

WHCHaibun 2002-05-01