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Summertime Walk-Poems

swimming through evening shade
air lightens from light to pleasing dark
humidity dissolving, becoming refreshing
last hurrah of today's sunlight
obscured through long sky and rising smoke

pastel skies fade into a flaming horizon
a canopy crowned by the dregs of day
trees stand tall—a moment—then exhale
twinkles of fireflies and starlight waiting
reminding us what we have never lost

trunks and limbs, supports of shade in day
become darker, pillars of shadow spreading
asphalt's sticky heat becoming memory
more mirage than ground's noontime waves
"time now to rest" says ever-turning nature

and

but

yet