Snapshots for Midsummer’s AlbumWilted birds and flowersmust patiently waitas black hose flushes smoldering hot waterto cool; to quench thirstythroats and flood parched beds.When long days overstaywhen shy short nights hideeyes long for moonlight in midsummer darknesstwinkling stars and fireflieslost in cool’s magicI grab the bigger canto fill with rec gas;cutting the grass has become avocation.Robins…
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24 SSPC 33 (1st week) The Beginning of Summer, (May 5 – 19) Rikka and dVerse OLN 361 — transition, joy, and mystery
transition father’s wishing well restscrumbling in the yardhome to small brown ants and large haunting regretspushed over, rolled asidereplaced by lighthouse joy sleeping koi awakenin warming waterconfetti swirls, hungry anticipationfor gifts from tiny handsdelighted to give mystery turtles and frogs clump onlogs and algae bedsafter long sleeps; how they rest in quietudeamidst hue-song riot is…
