poetry, Volume 5 number 5, June 2003 © 2003 by Doreen Fitzgerald

June

Solstice runs toward us,
her feet and shoulders bare,
the smoke of wildfire
tangled in her golden hair.

She runs a steady circle,
I crawl and bend and lean,
making up a garden,
holding close the green.

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