Deserted-Landscape monostichs

The sea-gulls had gone,  all at once,

as if they had spotted a better place.

-- John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974), p. 50

the sky was black   with waiting rain

-- John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974), p. 246