Aubade at the Summer Solstice, with Language Study and Work Clothes by Anna Phillips Bell
"Who asks a person to work in this light?" — Anna Phillips Bell
Midsummer, Tobago by Derek Walcott
“Days I have held, / days I have lost, // days that outgrow, like daughters, / my harbouring arms.” — Derek Walcott
City Lake by Chelsea B. DesAutels
“What was I waiting for? Frogs to rain from the sky? / A great love?” — Chelsea B. DesAutels
Summer by Robin Coste Lewis
"I peeled / a banana. And cursed God—His arrogance, / His gall—to still expect our devotion / after creating love."
From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee
"O, to take what we love inside, / to carry within us an orchard, to eat / not only the skin, but the shade, / not only the sugar, but the days
I Remember by Anne Sexton
"what / I remember best is that / the door to your room was / the door to mine." — Anne Sexton
Summer Stars by Carl Sandburg
“So near, a long-arm man can pick off stars, / Pick off what he wants in the sky bowl,” — Carl Sandburg