Summer Sky

Scattered across the
summer sky,
clusters of pink cotton candy,
quickly melting
as the moon,
a few days short
of fullness,
turns on his light
and says goodbye
to another day.

- Dave Evans

Discovery

A sunlit arrangement
of miscellaneous garden flowers
in a plain glass vase
can change
an unimportant
living room corner
into an exquisite place.

- Alice T. Weger

Kansas Morning

Under a crystal blue
Cathedral dome,
our tires crunch
a steady litany of praise
on this rain-fresh
gravel road.

Tall, finely seeded grasses
ripple whishing sighs
as we pass,
and a chorus of birds
warble their "Amens."

Now a sermon in patience
from an old mud turtle,
hooded country parson,
making his solemn way
across the road.

As we pause for him
to pass,
the fragrance of sun-warmed wheat
rises in the air,
smelling like new-baked bread -
feeding our souls -
on this Hallelujah day!

- Marcia Schwartz