Good Night

Many ways to spell good night.

Fireworks at a pier on the Fourth of July

        spell it with red wheels and yellow spokes.

They fizz in the air, touch the water and quit.

Rockets make a trajectory of gold-and-blue

        and then go out.

Railroad trains at night spell with a smokestack

        mushrooming a white pillar.

Steamboats turn a curve in the Mississippi crying

        in a baritone that crosses lowland cottonfields

        to a razorback hill.

It is easy to spell good night.

                                     Many ways to spell good night.