Enter Leisure

The thick stillness of a hot
summer night was suddenly 
rapped by the muffled crack
of a composter's lid pried away
by familiar raccoons waking
dogs to softly bark awareness.
Soon a grey dawn sent its
tentative shafts through
bedroom windows and the
piercing whistle of a hawk
announced the day. The
disagreement between twilight
and daylight revealed the
grey displaced by rosy fingers
of the mounting day's sun
as sleepers roused themselves
to greet a good-natured day
heralded by the penetrating
trill of a cardinal welcoming
the prospect of pleasure.