Evening falling and cicadas So loud you could still hear them Above the air conditioners First fireflies signal night To kids on bikes racing sundown home With spokes snapping playing cards Attached via clothespins The occasional smack at a mosquito And dogs barking Screen doors slamming on their springs With the rare late arrival The […]
Alan D. Roskam
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Break Through
Isn’t it interesting that lately Out of the corner of my mind I sometimes glimpse Our grey cat of thirty no forty No fifty years ago When I start to reach to pet him Without thinking of course he is too quick And slips silkily away But he has visited more than once And I […]