Two Crows Call

               Rain falls

                        two crows call

                                from juniper trees in my back yard.

                                   builders square the trees

                                      seize wild land

                                          harden surfaces against landing

                                              or nests

                                                concretely

                                                  from here to the mountain horizon.

Rain falls

brings on night

bright streetlamps 

silhouette broad companies    

of water fragments                  

 slide down gravity                  

    through mercury vapor light 

        coalitions of water particles, 

           puddles on the sidewalk,

             reflect streetlights from the streets.

                        Steady rain falls in our muddy pond.

                                                Mallard ducks slide down rain

                                                skid on pond water.

                                                Mallard ducks

                                                swim in hard falling rain.