Summer Twilights by Clayton Arble
Afternoon stars,
the green air
darkens.
The lake holds still
at the bottom of its breath.
The forest deepens.
Moonlight kneels
on a field
of water.
Clayton Arble is a poet from the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Cypress Literary Journal, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Brazos River Review, among others. They study literature and creative writing at Hampshire College.