Weekend-feeling Weekday
Sharon Van Etten’s Taking Chances croons in my earbuds. Late afternoon heat breaks, and a pale-blue sky remains at sunset. Some cardinal flies from branch to branch, as the hoot of an early-rising owl sounds.
More songs play, while twilight descends, and our nightlight turns on.
Last birdsongs. My hand slaps my leg and kills a mosquito. Frankie leans against my chest, and his mother’s, while reading.
first starlight
no wishes needed
tonight
first published in Image Curve, February 8, 2018
photo by Ostap Senyuk
Frank J. Tassone 
Leave a comment