Night-Crawlers Festival (Senryu) Poem by NHIEN NGUYEN MD

They are night-crawlers
Left their night trails on clay court
Which I saw at times.

These brick dust tunnels
Laced together like a web
Of moist red brick dusts.

Here again last night
They danced their best snaking rhymes
Under moist dark sky.

It's their good display
But I couldn't see them play.
Sleep kept me away.

Under dark Fall sky
These earthworms had their good times.
Is this dating night?

I was so surprised:
Their trails were well organized
In the dark of night.

Before dawn, they're gone
Burrowed back into moist ground
Where they call sweet home.

NHIEN NGUYEN MD
10/18/2020