Street-Corner Astronomy

Sidewalk telescope:
deep dark and cold, scattered stars—
hope constellations

Inspired by this article about Baltimore’s “star hustler.”

Summerendsong

evening purples
coneflowers, prairie clover
stirred by unhushed wings–

evening purples
asters, feathered grasses, pond-
held wary stillness

coneflowers, prairie clover,
rabbits quick-whisper
sun in slow descent

stirred by unhushed wings
sky quickens, blunt-crying geese
fade purple, southward

Written in the form of Troiku, inspired by this post at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie.

June Conjunctions

Planets blaze white; skies
soften primrose this sea-blue
bowl of sweet cherries

Resolving the Year

half-year: half-clouded
horizon, old thoughts cast new
loops around half-moon
 
Today begins our Family Poetry Project, brainchild of Number Three, in which each family member writes a poem a day for the duration of the school summer holidays. Can we keep it up? We are going to use a selection of prompts. Today I made a haiku per Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie.