Just another sunset

As a heat-wave Monday draws to a close, a summer night in Brooklyn begins. The park has a spent and quiet air, despite the dedicated cyclists and joggers who struggle up the hill and past the Long Meadow.

Across the drive, "Nellie's Lawn" is a peaceful green bowl in the deepening twilight.

PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn

Indicative that suns go down;

The notice to the startled grass

That darkness is about to pass.

 

—Emily Dickinson