The French horns drone beneath
The sun’s high notes dappled through the oaks .
The orchestral argument enters
After the morning dew
Fades in strings and the mockingbird
Skitters the grass like a dinosaur .

Bassoons accompany duck
Walks comic along the lakeside,
The allegro cadence of water birds
Splashing in shimmer,
As glissando waves slide
Through octaves about the watershed .

Drums of woodpeckers distantly echo,
Stabbing at the score .
The woodwind owls accompany
The staccato of thrashers .
The soaring piccolo hawk cries
And crow caws end the scherzo .

*[ WSB ]_.