Relieved, I let the book fall behind a stone.
I climb a slight rise of grass.
I do not want to disturb the ants
Who are walking single file up the fence post,
Carrying smal white petals,
Casting shadows so frail that I can see throught them.
I close my eyes for a moment, and listen.
The old grasshoppers
Are tired, the leap heavily now,
Their thighs are burdened.
I want to hear them, they have clear sounds to make.
Then lovely, far off, a dark cricket begins
In the maple trees.
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