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.