March 2025

by Jo Anne Sever, a resident of Carriere and a member of Coast Electric

a nighttime horizon with fireflies

Pounding rain on a tin roof.
Singing frogs after a rain.
Creaking of Maw Maw’s old wooden rocker
on the front porch.
Whooing owls in the night.

A sweet aroma of honeysuckle
on a cool spring evening.

FIREFLYS! The first firefly!

My porch swing.

All these things make up
the joys of my home, my heaven, my Mississippi.

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