A Field, Imagined

embracing the trumpet blast heat a boy and girl hide and seek midst tall grasses rising like promises at dawn vibrant lightness of limbs in a green reach lush effortless two youths seek rush conceal never quite hidden nor wanting to be in verdant bits of impulse rotating rolling aromatic blooming that bridges heckling trouble with energy deflating in a random shuffling of touch she ruffles his hair, tufts of flaxen straw to trace sweat lines on a sun-brown cheek as if happiness could be cupped like water in hand in this field absolved from the discord of home their plain surface vows comforting like the grass rolled flat under surges of joy Poem composed March 26, 2022