Kit Kelen #1019 - listening

1019

listening

5.30 am, mid-October

rooster and bellow

a paddock off

in still star dark and turning

cloud again

and dripping

through the highest leaves

frogs down

birds like a motor begin

and moss – you’ll hear that too

then a real road

and a last bat flits

I must be a silence to them

all soft inside

damp, warm, well fed

listening for first sun