All Things Rhapsodical

All Things Rhapsodical

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Fireflies

Fireflies

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Alexander Riley
Aug 03, 2022
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The luxuriant heaviness of the early evening August air deep in the Susquehanna Valley. 

I recall similar dusks when I was a boy in another place, so far away now in miles and years.  But this eternal moment is still here, now that I have a child, and then two children, with whom to live it again. 

Two nights, a decade apart, separating the youth of firs…

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