Cosmos from Rauhallinen Farm Gardens

Dusk

The common nighthawks

appear each evening

an hour or so

before darkness.

Airial foraging

on the wing

in the insect-laden

skies of the farm.

Effortlessly gliding,

compared to the

erratic flapping

of the brown bats

who inhabit

a lower layer of the

evening sky 

and employ

  a more frenzied

and random

approach to

securing a meal.

The subtle signs

of approaching Fall,

invisible a week earlier,

are introduced by

roadside goldenrod

and a sense of

what will soon be

a passing.
Saluting a dream
of Summer.

K. Carter