I Dream of All Their Tender News (A Nocturne)

Vincent Hostak

September 10, 2023

Just before day and dusk align

Southern cicadas grow rhapsodic

I curl up beneath the chorus center,

sleep lightly in taut tall grass

Among the earth-forged pickets

which won’t surrender to the heat

I dream of all their tender news:

Coming light from north of west,

Scuttling nearness of the fox,

Savory sips from a greening pond,

Petrichor from dry-baked soil

When I awake the sun is always down

and the news is only about love.

Vincent Hostak is a writer and media producer from Texas now living near the Front Range of Colorado south of Denver. His recently published poems are found in the journals Sonder Midwest and the Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas and as a contributor to the TPA. He writes & produces the podcast: Crossings-the Refugee Experience in America.