Evening Signal

Dusk settled over the balcony deck. I moved from the planter box to the far outer railing where the wind caught a loose strand of solar string lights. The copper wire had snagged around a bracket, dangling a small micro-LED bulb against the concrete. I braced my boots against the iron post, untangled the thin filament, and looped it securely through an empty screw hole. As darkness deepened, the diode pulsed with a faint amber glow. The post is clearly marked for my return trek inside.