Hawks

Visitors looking for
a garden
waiting
to receive
sniffy birds
mirroring
themselves in twinkling water
finding
their future
in the deep,
their past
in the reflection of the sky.


While still alive
trembling branches and
shivering leaves
yearn to give shade.


With growing fear for the coming season
a gaudy tree waits
in the heat of the summer
for visitors.
Autumn fruit is glowing to attract
haughty observers
refusing the
invitation.