GROUNDED By Kathryn Tate Jacoby, www.PoetryPoem.com/poetessktj Unlock all Features - Upgrade to Poetry Prime
When you sit on the grass
in the heat of a July twilight,
watching fireflies rise up into the humid air,
you feel small again
as if their hundred twinkling greetings
were messages from the past,
calling you back to remember yourself,
your roots.
This hour, this lavender duskiness
wraps me in its embrace and beckons me home to Ohio...
corn fields,
barns, painted with long forgotten slogans
rich brown soil,
popsicle smiles,
parents, remembered as they were then,
youthful and strong.
Summer windows open,
its scents and sounds wafting in
with the cooler evening breeze,
while watching the last pale sunlight flicker
on a gauzy, white curtain as it moves
makes me feel as if I could fly,
yet grounded.
Kathryn Tate Jacoby
copyright July 3, 2018
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