Poetry Pick

UNDER AUGUST

by K. V. Skene
Dorset, U. K.

Under August
rain, the outside world
swells to bursting—
water flows like wine
at weddings
and wakes.
This is neither. This
is our last summer night.
Candle-light flickers,
shape-shifts above
and below
our separate darks,
swallows up shadows,
fades
out of sight.


 

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