Friday, 4 February 2022

late summer

 late summer 


we are sharing the depth of grasses

as a summer’s day turns away

slowly the russet darkens

in the deep loved fields of hay 


lie still for so it is planted

just the way you wanted 

the way you called my hands to till 

the fertile flesh of a life laid still


and not one stemmed breeze uttered

the time of the day or the mood

of a sun so high that it doesn’t matter 

that the ant queens on her brood


i’ll stop there now for the sun

as sunk deep into the west 

for the feelings from long days won

are best now put to rest

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