Summer Light

In summer light the

sky is wider, taller, its

blues

belie their name, a

light requiring

shadows

concentrated to

maintain the constant

dark-light balance

There's only one

season and its faces

Some kinds of truth

hide beneath words

like shadow under

leaves

Our raspberries ripen,

drinking water and light

losing their early

tartness, slipping from

their stems

to stain fingers and

tongues as sweet as

strawberries

Also gorged on light

and water, the hedge

plants thrive

gesturing with new

branches over and

along their fence

weigela, lilac,

rhododendron,

forsythia, camellia, red

barberry

while in raised beds

awaited beans and

carrots sleep

--Don Brandis