Not in some stone circle, nor upon a mountaintop, but in a back garden, to the rear of a block of houses. A sacred square of confederacy. In each house the occupants are sealed in their tombs of un-knowing. On the roof of many, a totem bird sings, a blackbird, a starling, or a sparrow. Harbingers of light, stealing a march on everybody, except the sold out hippy in a cosmos of community.
A waning, sharp-edged moon peeks through the lightening clouds. Crows fly east, the seeking Magi. More-robins, swifts, gulls, cry out for other. A bat flies one final sortie before passing on the baton. Trees stand still in stupor.
Out of place, out of sight, girls shriek out from a passing car. A raiding hen party, scrambling at dawn. Implausibly, the birds sing louder, in a claim of ownership, as the day arrives fully, drowning in coffee.
©AJM
City Jackdaw 
Beautiful and very vivid, Andy. And that’s how I spend my morning: drowning in coffee!!
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Yes, nothing like the caffeine kick!
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I love this series! I am reading it backwards, so it took me a minute to see it as a series. I love the way you are capturing these moments.
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Thanks-it was never my intention to do a series. I got up and sat outside alone before dawn. As the morning arrived, so did these lines, so I wrote them down. Then the afternoon and evening posts followed what I thought was just going to be a one off post. But what do I know! I’m just the blogger 🙂
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