After the Heat Wave

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D Minor swells: slivers of  wind
scatter twigfuls of pear blossom
over dandelions and lush grass
under a baleful and sagging sky.
Apple blossom red buds wait.

Something spooks the birds, a prowl
of felines palpitates them, maybe.
Again and again their staccato alarms,
yet nothing manifests, only darks
of wind and sky, innocent of intent.

Raven's over, but blackbird carols
a snatch from tangled sticks of elder,
defiantly, even as she crosses us.
That wasn't it? Yet alarms resume.
Oh, something's out there in the wind.

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