This is about things that go bump in the night- and the daytime, too. (Sorry about the irregular spacing. Cutting and pasting from Word seems problematic today.)
or sometimes sound more
like a roulette wheel
spinning for a winning
number and the soil it seeks.
One in a thousand makes it
there and even fewer
get to grow in nature’s noisy
and silent games of chance.
Yet oaks will stand here
long after this roof
begins to rot, despite
our lifetime shingles and
limited warranties.
Early Fall
The acorns thump the
roof
like slow, heavy hail
then roll like tiny
bowling
balls toward the gutteror sometimes sound more
like a roulette wheel
spinning for a winning
number and the soil it seeks.
One in a thousand makes it
there and even fewer
get to grow in nature’s noisy
and silent games of chance.
Yet oaks will stand here
long after this roof
begins to rot, despite
our lifetime shingles and
limited warranties.
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