Evening Comes Sweetly

Evening Falls Sweetly

By Elece Hollis

• The sun is sinking and the clouds are bottom rimmed with gold.

• Two geese fly honking overhead to settle on the farm pond for the evening.

• A mockingbird runs through his whole repertoire.

• Bees buzz in the clover.

• The air smells of wild onion, cut grass, and wild garlic.

• Dandelions give up their gray hairs like tiny seed parachutes on the wind.

• Woodpecker rat-a-tat-tats on a tree in the apple orchard.

• Peonies are tight pink buds …waiting…waiting.

• Spring breeze rustles the tree's newborn leaves and makes the swoosh and sweep of a waterfall.

• Across the road Locust blossoms sway like strands of orchids in the trees.

• The wind chimes jingle and tinkle as if to complete the percussion of the symphony.

• An owl calls from one of the great old oaks down beside the creek.

• The creek's water trickles and sings as settling into its bed.

• Hydrangea smells sweet in the falling light.
  
  
  

• Swallows swoop and sweep like black satin ribbons.

• Evening comes sweetly on the prairie.