still summer

quiet morning
except for the noisy birds
in their breakfast conference

from my kitchen door
i see
foggy soybean fields
dressed in summer green
corn stalks
reaching toward
the july sun
rabbits
scrounging around
under the bird feeder

i hum along
with the
music in my head
wait for
the sound of small feet
running down the hall

@Bonnie Pignatiello Leer
(published in Cram3)