In Red and orange early light
Coming from chores this morning,
I stopped as usual by the gate
To watch my roosters crowing.

"Eh-Eh-Ururr," they cried.
"Uh-Uh Eruuu," I answered back.

Our voices must have carried far,
For down the road a quarter mile
My neighbors daughter, Lisa Ann,
Her toys forgot on the kitchen floor,
Ran to the window on fat bare feet.

"Uu-Uuu,Uu-Uuuu," she said,
The sunlight on the frosty pane
Making her voice orange and red.

Listen! Hear Allen Curtis read "Roosters Crowing"

Allen Curtis taught English for 32 years at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire until retiring in 1999. He passed away in August of 2014.