Evensong

 

“Autumn Evening” by Letitia Smith-Burnett

 

dovecotes emit oblique octaves

as corn-yellow sun settles down

among lavender raiment of sky

plaintive lyrics of homing at close

of the wearying day carried high

inside soughs of domestic retreat

over pole-barns and stables where

livestock relax into reverence and

farmhouse beds settle in prayers

every day is a blessing of labors to

gratify yearnings of body and soul

what the minor key birdsong of

psalms understands even better

than voices of husbands and wives

caught up worrying work yet undone

 

 

From my books Bohemian Scents and Legacies (vol. 1)