Quiet (New Day)
Sitting with the window open, the earth hushed, still, I can hear a scatter of birdsong in colours of sunlight, yet to be blessed by the dawn of today. The first breath of morning slips through the ripple of drawn curtains, from across the garden, beyond the stream, the orchards, the edge of forest, to the broken ridge of sky, daylight awakens in light pastel blues, with gossamer threads of cloud and grey.
Inside, all is still.
Everyone sleeps, I listen to the silence grow as the dawn lengthens and sip my coffee only to hear the bells strike seven, the chimes echoing in the thin, empty morning air across the empty valleys.
Only I am here.
On the very cusp of night and day.The awakening world waits, as if for a sign, a signal, as the night retreats, draws his shadows, reluctantly, slowly slipping back into the last vestiges of darkness, the hidden silence of a February earth.
And for this dawn, the sun rises, behind a fog of morning clouds, even the birds, singing, crying, chorusing cannot lift the pre dawn gloom, and yet, and yet, as a first car chokes into life, a blink of light switches on in a neighbouring house, as the street lights turn off and somebody’s window rattles open, as a cat stealthy stretches across the lawn with predatory foot steps, silencing the birds, at least for a while, the day shivers awake.
Crows bark, a distant buzzard cries, a flap of wings flicker across the pond as two mallard ducks rise almost with an air of royalty across the garden wall, circling higher and then higher again above the street, the well kept gardens, the awakening houses, disappearing at last into the first fingers of morning light.
Suddenly, a woodpecker knocks upon the fallen hollow tree, born of winter gales and storm, once, twice, thrice. Disturbed, a jay bird nervously cackles, rising in a plume of colour and flustered irritation.
Somehow, the day is a part of me.
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