SMALL POEMS| Summer

   

in the park
four crows eating
at the picnic table

 

stunning heat:
even the birds
are silent

 

swallows chase
insects -- sweeping
the blue floor

 

sun on dark leaves
canaries
in the hedgerow

 

heat
even the
gnats fly slowly

 

father's day
    how he bent
    over his cane

 

summer solstice ~
    longing for someone
    who doesn't long back