Summer solstice
There's a downside to everything
not necessarily bad
our way of watching the clock
ticking off the seasons
the years like a handy roll of film in a camera
pictured spooling off or on
click click looksee looksee
that's how the present gets shaped
first closeup then distant
as we look over our shoulder
turning the yet-to-be into the once-was
forgetting what comes next is now
distinctions like Spring -Summer
are threaded by our feelings, our wishes thoughts
into daisy-chains to play with in fancy
this Spring that is now waxing into Summer
foretells a waning of the sunlit hours
turning Summer on its head
and with the downside we expect
travel fun holidays delights at the table meetings
but life is all one picture
unembraceable as that one picture
and the glimpses we get
startle us into recognizing
all seasons have their fling
Summer solstice, mmvii
