jinian: (queen of cups)
hey love, I'm an inconstant satellite ([personal profile] jinian) wrote2012-10-27 10:07 pm

twilight tonight

Looking for somewhere to watch darkness fall, I wandered through the garden by the library, which was surprisingly occupied. Actors in the amphitheater, people with toddlers, a group practicing tinikling, a couple walking three Pomeranians.

At last I arrived at the reflecting pools, and found dozens of small bats dancing over them. I watched as delighted as the stray cat, though I didn't have her purity of intent; she took no notes as far as I could tell, though I suspect no mosquitoes bothered her either.

Sounds like little flute-notes, from bats or insects or birds, gave way to crickets like peeps, like mews, like bells. The clacking of bamboo poles echoed all through the park.