The Daily Boost #543

Loosening the reins of summer

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

GIRL RIDING A HORSE IN A FIELD OF SUNFLOWERS
David Allan Evans

Sitting perfectly upright,
contented and pensive,
she holds in one hand,
loosely, the reins of summer:

the green of trees and bushes;
the blue of lake water;
the red of her jacket
and open collar; the brown
of her pinned-up hair,
and her horse, deep
in the yellow of sunflowers.

When she stops to rest,
summer rests.
When she decides to leave,
there goes summer
over the hill.

(My thanks to David Allan Evans, via Stephanie Carney at Words That Fly, a lovely Substack for poetry readers.)

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