SEPTEMBER FOURTH DAWN

The neighbor's dog dashes
outdoors by the riverbed

as two scholar's books
about Nabokov's lapidary

butterflies fall
on powder lines

of the bocce game
set for after school

hearing about the sink hole
near Harvard

while others whisper about
his wife's rock garden phlox

extending into suburban bushes
by gathered memory moss

birdsong calls on branches
in radiant sunshine

a fox appears behind
the brambles

we heard about
another cosmic event

after her son was lost
in no man's land.