Day before yesterday the lingering
twilight hesitating to grow dark
began to shimmer and glow
as fireflies hatched
and rose on a cooling breeze
Yesterday green grass turned
to dust crunching like gravel of cicadas and katydids chanted
to soothe the heat-stunned world
Today dawned suddenly blue
as spring and though storm clouds
as spring and though storm clouds
grew in the western sky it seemed
best to act as if I didn’t know
the rain would ever come
As if nothing bad could ever happen
on a day like this
(c) 2019, by Hannah Six
Image: Sun setting over the wetlands
at the Flight 93 National Memorial
in Stoystown, Pennsylvania (USNPS photo)
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