Home at Dusk

by David R. Solheim

In the long grass in the ditch

Two glowing eyes blink

And fly off in different directions.

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I am startled back to childhood

Campouts when lightning bugs

Dotted the night like shooting stars.

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They flash their mating code.

Like my remembered dreams:

Phosphorescence floating,

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Luminescence on the windshield,

Evening star on the western horizon.

I drift among flickering flames.

Born in Elgin, DAVID R. SOLHEIM is a North Dakota native and was the North Dakota Centennial Poet. He is an emeritus professor of English for Dickinson State University; an emeritus associate poet laureate of ND; and a member of Bismarck High School Alumni Hall of Fame.