August 2024-

The Light in August on the Sound

In August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s cool, there’s a lambence, a soft, a luminous quality to the light, as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times. It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods and—from Greece, from Olympus in it somewhere. It lasts just for a day or two, then it’s gone. . .the title reminded me of that time, of a luminosity older than our Christian civilization.”

― William Faulkner, Light in August

Sonic Aquarium

Your August ears kissed kneel in noon genuflection

Resounding last look on that day full sunshine echo warmth

Everything was exploding in concussions

The mad bird frenzy fucking/ building nests upon the motion

Lights over the garage like incubators

Engines roar bad exhaust pipes somewhere

 in hot pursuit sirens wobble

Bells chime as a crow laughs

From down the block children shriek

The sidewalks echo in basketballs bouncing

Towards the courts net less orange hoops

Your August ears kissed knelt in noon genuflection

Submersing you in the bottom of a sonic aquarium

4/15-Retread Rubber Eden 2020- Revised 8/1/24