Moon Behind Mountain – Carolyn Dyle

Spirit of the Puffing Wind, 2022

Moon Behind Mountain

Warbling wood thrush sing
Whistling from thickets afar
Soft sounds this evening

Sandhill cranes take flight
Snowy plovers dance in dunes
Trumpeter swans watch

Flocks in formation
Sign it’s time for migration
Better weather south

Tundra swans seek asylum
On river delta islands
Their flight long and far

Solemn granite sentinel
Stands silent under a Prussian blue sky
Awaiting shadowy silhouettes
Sandhill cranes soaring by

Carolyn Dyle