Let the summer day end with a lightning storm.

Let the summer day end with a lightning storm. Dark clouds will roll across the late sky; dusk will rush in with the rising wind. The first lightly spattering drops of rain will scatter across the lawns and pavement. When lightning streaks down from the swirling clouds, thunder will let sleepers dream of how far away the lingering storm is drumming the ground with hail. When the last sounds of driving wind and rain are lost in the speechless distance, there will be long seconds to dream to some music that lifts the spirit in the day’s end. A light shuffle of drums under layers of saxophones defines a new time. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 15 July 2023)