midsummer

watch the sprinkler send

small                      streams                up

into soft summer air

and drizzle in droplets on garden

growing

potatoes

beans

carrots

beets

lettuce

tomatoes

cucumbers

dill

squash

zucchini

all green leaves and forming fruit

for this is languid summer

when a walk in the woods

can bring blue saskatoons into fingers

dripping with rain

sweet explosion of wild fruit

between teeth

so watch and warm to the water

and sun of life’s glory growing