Poem By New York state poet, Nadine McLaughlin
TWILIGHT CELEBRATION
There’s a time
in early evening
when the dark
has finally come
And the
flashing
lights of fireflies
sparkle like small chips
of suns.
Blinking out a
Morse-code message
to all fairies:
“Time has come:
Time to dance
in celebration
that the night-time
has begun.
“Bring your bullfrogs
and your peepers;
let them join
the revelry
With their songs
of raucous calling
from the ponds
and nearby trees.”
(How I wish
that I were tiny,
so they’d want
to dance
with me.)
© Nadine McLaughlin, 2012