Poem: [The streetlight's blue shadows...]

The streetlight's blue shadows
Pool on the macadam of 24th Avenue

As stars coruscate through a nebulous fog.
I tilt my head to see The Big Dipper,

Polaris, Ursa Minor, Cassiopeia, and Andromeda.
The streetlight's falling shadows

Mark a twilight world I take for granted.
The bats' sonar, the chirp of the crickets,

And the muffled bark of sea lions
Are songs I only hear those moments

I step outside to scan the heavens
And thank God for this.
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