Cold Front Coming
A crescent moon
reached slim arms into the house.
My brother rested.
Bittersweet’s burnt orange
and thorns tapped the glass.
Musty scent of wet leaves,
clouds like smoke signals.
He said hunting all day
was too strenuous. Did he know?
It was the end of Indian summer,
I locked the house.
Plume: Issue #103 March 2020