let us
you and me
be what
the light
leaves behind
long shadows
beads of dew
on the grass
a whip-poor-will
chirping
somewhere
let us be
this
half-remembered
summer night
as eternal
as we are
fleeting
—
Lora Hawkins is an assistant professor of English at Appalachian State University. Her work has been published in English Journal, WhirlyBird Press’s Anthology of Kansas City Writers, and Helicon 9th’s In the Black and in the Red. She has taught for 16 years and earned degrees from Columbia, Brown, and Warren Wilson.
