Greens dizzying array
Greeted you today
Mornings silence gave
Way to song
High and away
Like nymphs playing
Among the boughs
Zoe’s nails clacked
Across blemished streets
Like four-inch heels
At bar time
Pausing turning back
Sniffing and growling
Like aging Cossacks
Sun lighted polka-dots
Shone on the
Grassy toupeed lawns
As you walked
Behind her blindly
Sipping your coffee
During summers daydream
A bluish sky
Almost gray awakens
Me pink streaked
Broad marker clouds
Begin to evaporate
As the Saul
Stretches and yawns
Beyond hunter green
Trees far off
Distant bird songs
Like music boxes
Repeat delicate melodies
Coffee maker steams
Like stationed locomotives
Sending this morning’s
Aroma to bed
Flirting you awake
Sleepy you stumble
Groggy you pour
Add and stir
Joining me here
Kissing good day
Gathering on some
Far off horizon
In the evening
After humid days
Rain laden clouds
Plump with tears
Billow and spawn
Bringing angry downpours
Of unfettered emotion
Standing here alone
Wondering if this
Is a bellwether
Of something else
Turning myself skyward
Accepting my doom
Soaked and dismayed
Like prairie flowers
Shaking off all
Torrents and deluge
To bloom again
A bit weathered
Like barn wood
Sturdy and strong
And there in
I first saw
You splashing about
Swimming you said
Laughing I called
Dog paddling around
Just like Sparky
Have a drink
I asked you
Maybe you’ll relax
Then I’ll drown
Will you then
Jump in to
Save me sweetheart
My love I
Swim like concrete
Use the lime
And ice-cubes instead
Like lingering aromas
Of baking bread
Of newly discovered
Rustling tissue paper
Hiding wanted gifts
Of streets steaming
By summer rains
Of shushing tires
After thunder storms
Of white blankets
Bathing northern pines
Of orange moons
At harvest time
Of acrid smells
In hay lofts
Of espresso’s fingers
Tickling early mornings
Of the plumpcity
In children’s cheeks
Of the first
Wet lapping kiss
From a puppy
These always remain
As they were
Simply deliciously fresh
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 