snakes across the 

asphalt.
 

Crows caw-cuss

in silent elms.
 

Starlings in silhouette 

pepper the waning sun.
 

In angled flights

geese gaggle through 

reddening clouds.
 

A silver slivered moon 

pierces the indigo sky.

drift across the lane.
 

White blankets

the fallow field.
 

Glistening crystals fall

from sagging branches,

swirl near the fence,

dance in the wind.
 

Glazed, the rill

runs still.