Faint chitterings greet
the approaching hush of night
- sweet promise of flight.
Nocturnal flyers;
strange fruit pegged to un-leafed limbs
- chrysalis clusters.
Colony alights
black scrabbles scratched across
molten lava sky.
Shy orchard raiders
prolific seed dispersers
- all too successful.
Landowner scans skies
Nature's averse witness and
dismayed sentinel.
