AT MIDNIGHT
A midnight walk,
Amid the drenching dew
After the rains have
Yielded to the clouds beyond,
Marries solitude to summer's
Saturnine command.
Skimming the sky:
Bending to swoop
High, then low;
Bats inebriated with
The toxins of fireflies
Appear molten black
Against the full moon's heady glow...
Jupiter hangs in the deepening
Dark as a radiant prop;
Surrounded by Europa, Ganymede, Io,
Callisto, Valetudo, and
Amalthea;
I sense Galileo in
these shadowy
Fragrant hours before
the dawn.
-L.P.-G.
