July 2021
/Happy July! The first full month of summer is here, and we are more than ready to celebrate this year. Bring on the heat, bring on the humidity, bring on the hamburger-and-tofudog feasts. Bring out the SPF 50, and bring down the ancient box fans. What’s a little sweat when something like normality is returning in the familiar, quotidian details of the barefoot (and bare-face), sizzling season, back again for many of us, at long, long last…
Summer Haiku
~~ by Lynn Horsky
five lines
seventeen
syllables
In a heat wave
night and day sizzle
Too hot and humid
to sleep
hot midnight
presses wrinkled
twisted sheets
Black embraces
pigments of green
stars interstice
coordinates
with leaves
Moon rings
clouds amidst
branches
cast shadows
enclose sensitive leaves
Side-view mirror scene
my sunburnt
elbow and one
sun-glassed eye
reflects
Thick green grassy
traffic islands
asphalt to fry
an egg
sunny-side up
Hydrangea clumps
clipped lawns
concrete sidewalk squares
ants and grubs
dig under
Sun blind
we retreat
air conditioned
in modular
similitudes
Lynn Horsky works at Process, a graphics and fine art studio in Boxborough, MA.
She writes poetry on the side, and participates in Plein Air poetry events.
