Summer Theory
I will write
a new theory about
a sun-bathed life
that touches on
the clear notes
of many former songs,
a ripe summer moon,
warm colors in the shade,
a clear single voice
that tastes of clouds
and melon.
A gentle wind will nestle
in many special places—
a gray porch floor,
a fresh stack of kindling,
lost new coins
and clarity.
There will be
no disputing this.
In the beginning
the sky may have had its
own quiet days, clouds
their sweet spots of tea,
white pillows their secrets
and Cadbury cremes. Now,
the heavy wooden sun
flows long and still,
sets on rows of new
yellow pencils with
deep-toothed scars,
the slow drone of
cottonwoods rousing
on the dune, the tips
of jumping lake waves
climbing to my knees.
Summer has become
the first dry leaves,
the early blue of dusk,
the spaces we make
for every empty word.
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