the drive
June
first fireflies
time to see as lights above
the darkling field
something bigger with wings
that flew by the front
and we
did not collide
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For
June is
For
The end of spring
The summer of surprise
June is for
Berries
For first imagining
Of an adventure
All again
In green
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(MidAtlantic USA—you could write where and how it is for you)
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simply setting the scene
midsummer introit
a month from now
I guess
is
summer
or midsummer
by tradition
and assemblies
in the evening
with the fireflies
attending
and
berries
also in their time
afterward
for nourishment
‘til autumn
with better-known
celebrations
then
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End of June
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Six-thirty on six-thirty
June is ending
In the north it’s bright
There might be
Evening cool
And somewhere nightingales
Calling to the larks of dawn
July rising
Count the days
June hath thirty
The next month one day more
The summer count of days
(south it’s winter)
Continues
So green in places
Not yet time to think
Of turning into autumn
A peak of season’s glory
In our minds,
Trying to soften
Angles and edges
Of a hardened world
While green means life
And some might say retreat
Shade is good
And breezes, too
Moments for gratitude
And summer supplication
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