Ohio Evening Sounds

30 past 8 in the evening.

The mourning dove is mourning the death of her sun.

The other birds, lively as ever, oblivious, and uncaring as their world soon grows dark.

Voices come from faraway, talk of the weather and karate kid 2.

Peacocks cry in the distance, and some children join in their screams too.

Unyielding buzzing in low tones ooze out of the street light down the street, half-broken.

Cars come and the sound trickles away, like a highway house.

The noise and the quiet are in chorus together as the sun goes down.