The Sound of Morning

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Joanna M. Weston

People get up early,  and they mow their lawns, even this late in the year with dew on the grass. Which makes me wonder who, or what, else is up and prowling …

A

THE SOUND OF MORNING

I take the roar                                     10450185
of the lawn mower
shove it down the drain

the sound mutates
through dream back
to tigers   lions
prowling gardens
for a taste of cat

or humans crouched
under cedar hedges
in fear of claws

the wide jaw strains
to take in newspaper
thrown tennis balls
and the early mower

A
A

willow treegirl8The Willow Tree Girl “… perfect for children in the 7-11-year-old bracket who love to read. …The characters are life-like and the plot intriguing …” Elizabeth Symon. Find it at Smashwords

About Joanna M. Weston

Born in England, she lives in British Columbia. She is married with three sons, Joanna has an MA from the University of British Columbia. She has published in numerous anthologies and in magazines in Canada, the US, UK, and New Zealand, such as Canadian Women's Studies, Convolvus, Endless Mountains Review, Grain, Green's Magazine, Prairie Fire, Spin, Wascana Review, CBC Gallery, and many more...
This entry was posted in lawn mower, morning, poem, sounds and tagged , , , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

2 Responses to The Sound of Morning

  1. Terence T. Miranda says:
    September 10, 2014 at 8:43 am

    I like it!

    Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:18:21 +0000 To: terencetmiranda@hotmail.com

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s