Summer dusk idles in like old Caterpillars on back roads and the maples at the foot of my hill roll about in background rubies, drumming bottomless emerald heads at the riverbed stones and the chain-link walks in the gravel, downhill with sandals stuck to my toes and all the hay and last watered roses christening diamonds while crows chortle steam from their noses.
Though dark is quick to cover all I lack in any light, first is only one seen: a lantern pupiled of sun, and much too low this night at the flat of my hill. Though dusk has yet left, she would dangle such lightbulbs on fishing lines and they are now many a lure of chartreuse hanging whilst river birds sing Cajun banjos, whistling amber-ed humidity to none other but my hill and me.