Night breathes as deep as day,
but it doesn't sigh
bugs buzz faintly, encircling warmth
and fireflies blink lazily,
on and off,
on and off

Then a sudden burst shatters quiet,
booming, slicing, crack!
they burst upon my sight,
for a second, blazing
electric-blue chrysanthemums,
bigger than the moon under wispy clouds, hazy

and then they wilt, slowly,
disappearing

Golden shrieks crackle and snap
upon the smoky grey-black
a velevety sky,
invisible stars