Post Meridian / George J. Dance

Post Meridian

Venomous time is slithering
across manicured lawns
in stealth, hidden
by lengthening
squares of
eclipse.

Bit
by bit
it crawls
at its leisure
into the flowerbeds

and their lights go dark
and their melody falls silent.

~~
George J. Dance, 2020

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George J. Dance biography

Atb17, James Madison University, early fall 2015; CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.