Corn moon

Dave BontaDreamy

Too hot to sleep I bask in the moonlight’s illusion of coolness

A warm breeze fireflies come blinking out of the shadows

Katydids chant full moon full moon full moon a passing jet

Staring at the moon I wish I too could be buried up to my neck

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Dreamy
Topics:: moon, summer, firefly, katydid

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A hot summer night keeps the speaker awake, and the poem follows what they notice while lying there. The moonlight looks cool, but the speaker calls it an "illusion of coolness," so the relief is only a trick of the eye. Then a warm breeze arrives, and fireflies blink out of the dark.

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