summer_solstice
ovenbird
There's
hardly
enough
dark
for
dreams
,
just
a
shallow skim
of
moonlight teasing
a
tired
mind
.
The
coyotes
are
wild
in
the
bog lands, hunting
mice
among
the
cattails
and
selling
shivers
to
the
highest bidder
on
nights
when
the
ground
won't
surrender
its
heat
.
We
are
rich
in
yarrow
but
poor
in
rain
and
these
cracked
earth
days
go
on
forever
,
or
so
it
seems
, tasting
of
yearning
and
the
year's
first
blackberries
, tart
on
the
tongue
and
striving,
always
,
towards
the
sweetest
release
.
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what's it to you?
who
go
blather
from