SLEEP GENTLY poem

By Richard L. Provencher

Tue, 16 Jun 2009

Sleep Gently

Sleep gently while moon’s
brightness is a swath
of glow across branches
with whispers on
our tent

enhancing the glow
of water
like diamond-glitter upon the
bay its shine watchful
as owls alight
other birds asleep
and soundless in the night.

Sleep gently
partridge and ducks
even frogs in the sloughs
among a scatter
of ducks

frost asleep
and coyotes singing
under a tired sky.