July 2024
Bio Note: I like to write about nature, especially birds, which I came to early as a child when my grandmother instilled a love for them in me, then through my early adult years I lost interest in them while raising my children and life in general; in my fifties I found a renewed interest in them while becoming concerned about them, so I write poems, take photographs, and make paintings of them often.
Going Against My Nature
Being an inherent night owl,
I’m not used to marveling
early mornings,
going outside before dawn,
to hear cardinals tick, tick, tick
and chickadees serenading
from silhouettes of trees.
A stunning sunrise
as it breaks the horizon.
The sky, a palette
of pastels. Pinks and lavenders.
Oranges and yellows.
A beautiful impression
like a Monet painting,
the glinting light
off the feathers of a plump
and majestic redtail hawk,
on a fencepost, as it searches
for its first prey
to power through the day.
©2024 Lylanne Musselman
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