Backyard garden
Clear night 6degrees Celsius
Smell cold air, new green, some smoke?
Hear much quietness, distant downtown hum, mystery scrabbling, a bottle dropped
Saw stars, Mars, much light from neighbours' perpetually flooding floodlights
Felt cold against my skin and intangible sense of spring
I am struck by the beauty of outside at night. First the stars and air and trees and plants in darkness and backlit in silhouette, and then the garage and then the orange street light and then the hum and the smell of smoke and I am given an eloquent reminder that I and we, our homes and cities are all part of nature, are all natural, and that there is no way on earth not to be
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