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The evening blinks with lightning bugs and rain.

The thirsty fennel softens on its stem

and crowns of cabbage palm and hickory

obscure the milky moon. Humidity,

like glue, confines us to our chairs. We sweat

and rock. The heat: a language that the whippoorwill

repeats, repeats. The garden smells of mold,

and air plants look like demons in the oaks.

The wicker gives and takes and creaks while frogs

ignite their throats tonguing jeweled insects

off the tusks of fronds, and isolated

lamps of houses burn behind their curtained

rooms. In this momentary equipoise,

in air too still to stir, we sit apart

and watch the poison glisten in the snakes.

Ann Wood-Fuller is a published poet living in North Central Florida. She has studied at the creative writing department of University of Florida and is currently a landscape poet. Her work has been published in many reputable journals across the United States and she regularly attends conferences where she reads and discusses her work.

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