Summer

eroding mountains
pushing back against the wind
resistant to change
–
warm breezes-
paisley dancing
in the wheat fields

bobcats and black bear
mark their territory in
the suburban wild
–
predawn-
awakened again
by coyotes

a warm summer night
the plaintive cries of a fox
echo from the woods
–
a burrow
tail wrapped
around her kits

faded cutoff shorts
bare feet out the car window
hair teased by the wind
–
hot skin
cool sheets
and promises

Draped on an elm bough
Branches dapple the sunlight
That warms up my cat

A desert reborn
As rain coalesces and
Falls to the parched earth

Salt spray in my face
The surf pounding the sand as
I comb for sea glass.

On the horizon,
the evening sun stretches low
beckoning the night.

I wish it was when
cold winter days were naught
but a memory.