Nicknamed the Dog Star, Sirius’ prominence in early July daybreak skies ushers in the Dog Days of summer. Throughout history folklore ascribes all manner of good and ill fortunes to said moniker. Befitting the latter, this year our neck of the woods still endures heat, drought and torrential thunderstorms. Sultry days and nights slow the pace of life. Hope banks on memories of crisp fall airs to take the edge off the misery. At wits’ end, humanity makes submissive overtures to Orion the mythological hunter and asks he leash his wretched hound.
Dog Star ablaze sways tales of antiquity,
Wherein Orions’s storied hound bodes misery.
Hot, humid days slow life and minds befog,
Until crisp autumn airs leash wretched dog.
© Ilija Lukić 2019
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| Dog Day Afternoon (Haw River near Bynum, North Carolina USA) |
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