Saturday, 27 June 2020

Not yet the hiss of summer lawns



When the moon
is wet with the tears
of its own shadow
the crescent of our strawberry
moon missed
shines – the light
white mist from a cracked fossil
and a nod, un fathom able
until a nightingale’s song
- this song flashes
through the litmus
paper thank you
rust to blue
with a ribbonned bow –
for in a drawer,
next to the Kimono
an expanding meadow of poppy
unwrapped a yielding more precious 
than Monet, a wildfire 
or door in a field of Vincent’s iris
where you are. The breeze 
to your back is May to June’s 
gentling and the sweetness 
of summer wine.

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