July 2021
Bio Note: I am a retired educator so lucky to live on the North Carolina coast, with the ocean as my backyard. Regarding the July theme, I'm mostly still finding my head in my poems, but I'm working on losing it. I've started getting some poems recognized and published.
Again
4:30 a.m.
a meteor splashed
across the sky.
I slept.
My son, eighteen,
drove with his first true love
fifty miles to the Chesapeake Bay
into a deep spot of darkness
to share the magic
of exploding stars.
This must be what
we have children for.
Had I guessed
years ago,
I would have had
more, but I was beguiled
by my own quest
for a star-studded sky,
busy living
in the now
that now is his.
©2021 Joanne Durham
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