Luminescence
pink perigee moon of August
scent of wild rose and honeysuckle
where fireflies dance in the grass
and frogs croak in the swamp
swallows are flying to roost
barn owls are flying to hunt
bluefish and stripers run in the floodtide
churning the surface of the sea
comb jellies bob in the currents
their tiny combs refracting moonlight
underwater rainbows
shimmering in liquid darkness
Anne Whitehouse is the author of poetry collections: The Surveyor’s Hand, Blessings and Curses, The Refrain, Meteor Shower, Outside from the Inside, and Steady, as well as the art chapbooks, Surrealist Muse (about Leonora Carrington), Escaping Lee Miller, Frida, Being Ruth Asawa, and Adrienne Fidelin Restored. She is the author of a novel, Fall Love. Her poem, “Lady Bird,” won the Nathan Perry DAR 2023 “Honoring American History” poetry contest. She has lectured about Longfellow and Poe at the Wadsworth Longfellow House in Portland, Maine, and Longfellow House Washington Headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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