Summer Solstice

sun-filled hours
as long as sunset shadows-
the longest day

Paint me a dark sky. Drop 
a moon in the corner. Dot
the blackness with twinkles - red, blue,
white, some a foamy shade of
green. Turn the lights off inside,
the better to look up. Watch
the day’s heat fork the sky
in the distance. It all gets
shorter from here, a race down
the back side of the year.

At d’Verse, Frank offered a challenge to write a haibun and reference the solstice, summer or winter. A haibun consists of one to a few paragraphs of prose—usually written in the present tense—that evoke an experience and are often non-fictional/autobiographical. They may be preceded or followed by one or more haiku—nature-based, using a seasonal image—that complement without directly repeating what the prose stated.

I cut my prose to 6-word lines, just because.

The other prompt I worked with today comes from 300 South Media Group on Instagram and is “midnight storm”, something we often get in Florida at this time of year.

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