Poems About: AUGUST

first the seed

...in March the muffle cover of snow disappears
and good Illinois soil emits read more »

beyond reason the damage
done to the southern white
sensed as the nervous sky
keeps breathing in and out read more »

Song of Khan Zada

Only in August my heart was aflame,
Catching the scent of your Wind-stirred hair, read more »

Hot restless August days
Can’t seem to quench my thirst
Dry summer August nights
Can’t seem to get you off my mind read more »

It seems kind of odd to me
When you have to start
Turning on the heat in August
In the middle of the summer read more »

After nights of madness
mornings become grim,
dissonant as sadness
lowered like a scrim. read more »

hazy moonlight
through the bare branches
'Goldberg Variations' read more »

summer heat
a line of ants moving
across Das Kapital read more »

And, what of those
Petunias gracing
Your new deck
Would they not die read more »

Melancholic skies
Skilled at hiding mournful eyes
Cry tears of April. read more »

winter mist
another bowl
of veggie soup read more »

Trance on the beach
... and the incessant roar
of the phosphorescent seas read more »