early morning improv

July 12 - July 16 Week 17/72

the sky brightens

coaxing colors to reemerge

before the rhythms of people

start masking the beauty

of the morning's tempo

blackbirds. catbirds,

robins, nuthatches and wrens

sing spontaneously to the rising sun

ensembles, duets, call and response

then seconds of silence broken

by the solo of a mourning dove