Blue Ghosts on an April Evening

from Miracle Strip by Matt Layne

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Music:
Ned Mudd
Gravity
from the album Time Travel for Dummies

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Blue Ghosts on an April Evening

Maybe the lamb in the clover-pocked field
prancing as if the world is nothing but an abundance
of dew-dressed dense green grass while the sun sets on an Alabama afternoon,
or maybe the cattle grazing, placidly gazing, or chewing their cud,
or maybe the chickens taking dust baths in one spot then the next,
or the boy with the just-found stick herding ducks like a Biblical hero,
or maybe how you press your shoulder to mine as we climb the mountain trail
to seek blue ghost fireflies in April’s early-dark,
or maybe the fireflies, themselves, rising around us like a thousand tiny lodestars
burning blue-white in the ocean of trees,
make me turn to you and say,
all I need
is all of this.

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from Miracle Strip, released August 31, 2022
Music:
Ned Mudd
Gravity
from the album Time Travel for Dummies

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Matt Layne Birmingham, Alabama

Poet, librarian, raconteur; Matt Layne has been poking hornet's nests and looking under rocks since he was knee-high to a peanut peg.
I reckon you oughta check him out.