Morning came
too quietly,
neither chirp nor trill,
but only cicada’s
serrated drone.
A very timid cricket
tuned his small pipe.
There I stood,
knee-deep in July,
prickly and unsure,
so restless was the quiet.
Now the dark of August nights
and no firefly winks.
The Green Heron blats
like fallow French horn
once or twice a day,
and maple leaves,
scorched,
bleed at their edges.
Do I imagine
the urgency?
Time is out of sorts,
as am I.
Oddments 
August 12, 2020 at 12:45 pm
This is marvelous in so many ways.
August 12, 2020 at 2:00 pm
Thank you!
August 12, 2020 at 5:59 pm
I love this. It’s the answer to the heat waves (plural) and the virus that never ends and keeps on giving. Thank you for posting today and every day. 🙂
August 12, 2020 at 6:21 pm
Thanks, Judy! Indeed, the virus that keeps on giving. Our masked world is not a healthy one.
Change of subject: have you noticed troubles with WordPress? The Likes aren’t coming through, and I’ve been noticing other problems also. Could be I’m not the only one.
August 13, 2020 at 10:41 am
NO, I was going to ask if anyone else was having issues. Either there is no like available or if I hit it nothing happens. Whew, glad I wasn’t just have a senior technical moment. 🙂
August 13, 2020 at 10:53 am
Senior moments? Us? Well, not this time! Thanks for your input. You might have noticed in Susan’s comment that she too is having some problems. What mysteries in these machines!
August 14, 2020 at 2:09 pm
And, now they are going to move us (force us) to the new Editor. I do not think we are the group they are marketing to.
August 14, 2020 at 3:15 pm
I almost didn’t get your comment — it is becoming increasingly difficult to find what used to be obvious. Is this their way of forcing us to the new editor? You are so right that we are not the group they are marketing to. We really don’t need more discouragement in our lives at this moment!
August 14, 2020 at 10:39 pm
Exactly – I don’t need or want to learn one more ‘new’ online darn thing. 🙂
August 14, 2020 at 10:59 pm
Amen. Except I’d use stronger language.
August 12, 2020 at 10:13 pm
Those green leaves seem to be singing despite the out of jointness which I feel too. I have been having a few problems today with both your site and Laurie’s getting to the likes. I ended up searching for you in the Reader which (today) is working OK for me. It might be more widespread – I haven’t been around much to find out. These things do not seem to stay still for as long as they might, to all our comforts.
August 12, 2020 at 11:22 pm
I’m guessing the out-of-joint feeling is fairly common. Nothing seems right. But the green in the sunlight does seem to be singing. and we’ll take that as some small sign of rightness. I do want to think it’s somewhere.
Thanks for your observations about my site and Laurie’s. It’s been most confounding.