Summer Days Recited

SUMMER DAYS Watch a swallow swoop and pass above an old meadow, lush with grass. Speckled starlings sing with delight over flying ants in nuptial flight. Buckthorn in a dense hedge screen. Ceanothus ,shaded green Jasmine,Honeysuckle,Bittersweet scents to mingle in summer heat Clouds of teasels spiral tall 'midst dancing grasses against a wall wandering wasps picnicing un-checked onto perfumed petals,paperwhite first intoxicate,then delight, high above Cauliflower clouds,nimbus topped weep a shower of warm tear-drops. PASTURES GONE buttercup yellow kissing cowslips dandelion,poppy and daisy, corn marigold cow parsley and clover, a willow that weeps and meadow-sweet, deep in a forgotten pasture. Listen to me read these poems on youtube under name ichthyschiro