I often find the night sound of an Owl hooting to be soothing. Like the sound of the Loon, hearing it brings me a conjunction with nature, a familiar night sound that says the woods are alive with life. But, have you ever considered what that sound might mean to the little creatues of the woods, who are out and about at night? That is the inspiration for this poem.

This poem is a Garland Cinquain.
A Cinquain is a five line poem. The format, inspired by Adelaide Crapsey in 1915, has a fixed syllable count of: 2,4,6,8,2. Rhyming is optional.
A Garland Cinquain is a sequence of 5 Cinquains making stanzas, followed by a sixth Cinquain made up of fixed segments from the previous stanzas, typically line one from stanza one, line two from stanza two, and so on. So, if I represent the five lines 1,2,3,4,and 5 as a,b,c,d,e, and use capitals to show the repeated lines, the sequence would look like this:
Abcde aBcde abCde abcDe abcdE ABCDE.

So, the lines intertwine like garland and give an effect like other repeating poems.

For this poem I chose to use a mixture of rhying combinations and non-rhyme, just because I wanted to.

This photograph was taken by the author himself at Fort Snelling State Park along the Mississippi River bottoms in September, 2012.

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