Autumn Song - a Quadrille

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dVerse Quadrille #259: Sing It! 

Pen us a poem of precisely 44 words (not counting the title), including some literal form of the word SING. 

detail of Pear and Crows in author's collection 

Summer’s melody has ended,

the cicadas song is done,

the crickets silent once again.


No birdsong, only cawing of the crows,

massed as one in the crab-apple tree.

Startled, they rise.


I pick up a feather, glossy black,

to add it to my collection.


©2026 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved  

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