Last Friday night, at Leon Coverson Stadium in Greenville, Georgia, the Patriots faced the Cougars.  It was the red and black against the blue and white.  At the start of the game, the sun lingered behind a cloud.  A few minutes later, smoke from the concession stand floated over the field.  After four long quarters, the mighty Brookstone Cougars emerged victorious. 

photographs courtesy of Jennifer Horne

Louise Gluck writes:

I summoned you into existence

by opening my mouth, by lifting

my little finger, shimmering

blues of the wild

iris, blossom

of the lily, immense,

gold-veined—

from “September Twilight”

The Wild Iris