walking ecotone

five walks in two days

bliss

 the first walk was near the neighbors

 and much, much later this sky

 and between, a monarch

 trapeezed about

 and then i walked out back

through chin high goldenrod

and vicious raspberries

 into the woods, where quiet ferns waited
fooling feet into confidence
(those hidden rocks 
making jokes)

 there was a tiny scrap of text

 and the stream was jungle overgrown and almost disappeared

 even the upper pond was low

 and this caller

screeched about me, maybe, or the coyote i heard bark.

do you know this bird?

there were two

too far for my tiny camera.

 and three gifts i brought home

and tonight's walk

wendy and me (two walks in two days!)

saw this moon coming up

and when home again home again

i heard a white throated sparrow,

a woods friend in the ecotone.