Flat rocks and ripples in a stream, prairie winds and willows, cottonwoods and creeks, butterflies and blooms, sunflowers and snakeroot white, September afternoon fades into September moon tranquility, crickets singing, covering clouds come, early morning raindrops, few, fat, in dark air, distant lightning flashes light the sky, treading on time in my mind, how long til I turn home, before September storm, thunder rumbling, cracking, rushes in