Promised Meteor Shower

Many years ago I witnessed a spectacular meteor shower, and have been in search of a similar experience ever since. The conditions need to be just right: late night or predawn, no clouds, and no ambient light.

I thought I had nailed it last summer at the cabin. But the timing of predawn darkness in the northland differs from that farther south.

As an aside, I will be traveling the first two weeks of August, so my blog will contain no new entries until the middle of the month.



Promised Meteor Shower


The best seat dockside:
an hour before sunrise or so it's written
         by someone in southern latitudes.

My laughing alarm pushed me
           into the far north predawn, lucent enough
                            to mask the faintest of fireballs.

Steam drifted off the water;
             the mirrored lake beckoned me to stay
                            but, bent on a firecracker sky,

I sulked away.



Marilyn Aschoff Mellor