wrap-around porch

Wrap-Around Porch

The porch is now empty after much
womanifesting and storytelling
and sipping and fanning
and swatting and funning
and coming and going
through the screen door.

The mosquitoes have passed out,
so drunk, full of our blood moonshine.
Green-gold fireflies pulse again,
visible against the darkness.
The crickets, hushed by our belly-deep laughter,
rehearse a comeback song.

Then, slowly, night’s moon,
full of herself, as a grand gesture,
releases her pull just enough
so that we may find embrace in our dreams
until we meet again,
here on this wrap-around porch.

Tracy Chiles McGhee

 

Wrap-Around Porch appeared in Mary Jane Ryals Poetry Corner, Tallahasee Democrat, (August 25, 2010)

First published in Aspirations: Mosaic of Thoughts, 2nd Edition

(Althea Dixon, July 2010)

———————-

Do you have porch memories? What does the porch symbolize for you? Where do you gather for womanifesting?

 

And that’s A Wrap…

 

Advertisement