After Glow

. for public domain After Glow Having no holiday lights to glow, I left my salt lamp light on low, and went outside to the prairie road to see what the nighttime sky would show. Alas. The winter clouds hid all starlight, the moon and planets were gone from sight. For a moment I felt denied a right as Nature bestowed me one more slight. Then a beaconed horizon caught my view, not just one, but at least a dozen few, some orange, some red, some yellow and blue, and colors that before I never knew. From across cornfields shown sparkles of light, from unshaded windows of dwellings upright, and my soul swelled an urge to reignite my extinguished self against the night.