Oh, see how we’re double-blessed as night sky
and forest’s edge surround Lake Ouachita,
stars and trees holding their vast and trusty
stations while nature reflects its art far
across smooth water’s smoke-glass surface. Love,
see how Jupiter’s glow, though a dwarfed moon,
still highlights the Milky Way’s sequined gloves
both above us and along the shore. Soon
fireflies will try to match this radiance,
their colonies of pale reddish light caught
in the crickets’ rhythmic song, swirling dance
of flaming pearls sprinkling the tall pines. What
can we do to share this lustrous surprise?
Ah, yes. I see the answer in your eyes.
Roger Armbrust
July 31, 2008
