Perseids

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Hot nights make

for Challenging Sleep.

Maybe we are supposed to get up,

watch the Stars,

just be in Nature.

So we got up before 4 this morning.

Richard made a cup of Coffee

and took the 4 Leggeds

(Scamp, Max, Ladd)

on Rounds.

I came downstairs

and began to clatter away

at these Keys.

Richard came back in

to let me know

we must be in the middle

of the Perseids,

whose meteors make for a Phenomenal Light Show.

So I headed outside too.

We parked ourselves

in the Rocking Chairs

on the East Deck.

The Constellations

Cassieopia, Perseus and the House

were in the Eastern Sky.

The Milky Way ran East to West.

When I noted that it ran

North to South in the Winter,

Richard said it runs differently in Summer.

The "educated" person

that I am

once again

learned something new.

I looked intently

into the Black Night Sky.

Meteors were flashing.

Don't blink because you'll miss it.

In the meantime,

Richard heard

what sounded like

rattling in the Corn.

He headed out

with Flashlight in hand.

Upon return,

his conclusion was

that it must be the bursting

of the Seedheads

of the Sorghum Cane.

While we sat on the Deck,

all around,

we could hear

Ladd barking those short high pitched barks

which mean Visitors

we Humans could not sense.

In the background,

we heard that deep "Hah-Hah-Hah"

whose illusive identity

is still unknown to us.

We Humans know so little,

and we try to be open

to so much.

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Glinda Crawford, 2010

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