Goodnight

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.

— Carl Sandburg