Smokey Gray Blues

cloud covered skies
turn on smokey gray daylight
offering a blues cafe ambiance
falling leaves seat themselves
upon mounds green grasses and clover
a solitary cicada rattles
an almost a mellow yellow calm.

soft subtle minor key tonalities
felt but not heard
syncopated cricket chirps
accompany black carpenter ants
watching closely
as the hummingbird
enjoys a final feast
before southbound