The Summer Was Over

from Insects by Faith Eliott

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The summer was over when I got home
we were so brave when the days were long.
Now see the land draw up its thin silver cloak.
The supermarkets like plastic jewels neatly sewn
into the patchwork of suburbs and hedgerows.

Oh how the lake lay, a heavy black tongue
on the night that he left home.
Down by the water where the boats tuned old sediment and bone
to bright patina coats,
you told me what he had done.
I didn't understand, I was too young.

But the bats plunged about us,
loose snippets of darkness,
and the night air cooled the lawns.
And these events each seemed like artefacts of absolution,
each an absolution of its own.

On the pavement with the insects I played God.
With my bucket of water I made cities rise and fall.
Dusted their small brittle bodies with my side-walk chalk,
watched them waver on the concretes brittle contours.
And together we befriended the soil
and discovered what cruelty was for.

A stray swarm of lady-bugs
told how this land was before us.
Before our cowboy pylons lined the boulevards
all braided steel and electric jaws.
And the measureless exhale of these fossil fires
dissolved the grass-chant, wing-beat and cricket choirs.

But I could have sworn I heard their voices in the soil
beneath the low thunder of the road.
And with my laughter rattling like a skeleton in my arms,
I carry their courage home.

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from Insects, released September 26, 2016

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