Happy Summer

 

Happy Summer! Missed two months of my blog so here's a poem for each month I missed!

Homecoming

how quickly nature returned 

to take back

what was hers, 

what we stole with our shouts

and raucous laughter; 

and later, 

with the crunch of car tires

and bright white lights;

how foolish we were to think

the land was ours.

even as the field became

overgrown

and the stream— 

once so lively,

became a gulley 

of dirt and rocks.

how truly blind we were

not to see them,

to think we owned the land

and not to see them

simply waiting 

Solstice

let me fall backwards

into summer

into the bright sunlight

that scorched into ash

the pages of my book

while I scraped bald,

the seeds

of the sycamore, 

and picked

the fragile stems

of tiny blue 

blossoms

that grew between

sidewalk cracks. 

It has grown cold here.

I am so tired

of lost and broken things.

Let me fall backwards

into a fragrant forest

where the roots 

of the sturdy linden

have just begun 

to search for water

and the bark 

of the white pine seedling

is a smooth, silvery gray.