Liz Ahl

PEEPERS

 

Driving home nights,

as I slow for the ragged, patchy asphalt

done in lumpy layers over the years,

piecemeal, I hear the spring peepers’

revival meeting in the greening fields

on either side of the road.

 

Even with windows rolled,

late NPR blaring old news anew,

work heavy on my mind –

 

they cut through

with their insistent song,

so happy in the damp grass

so happy to see the gigantic beams

of my brights as they sweep past:

two crazy moons

they want to serenade.

Liz Ahl

Liz Ahl teaches at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH. PEEPERS is from her chapbook THE MUSIC THAT SAVED HER.