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Fraiku: On The Menu
Sweaty summer day jalapeño rice demands an ice cream desert
Summer Evening Sonnet
When the sun stays up late because it isn’t a school night, we spend the evenings playing outside, a pack of neighborhood kids tossing a baseball, football, Frisbee, whatever isn’t stuck on a roof or disappeared down a storm drain. … Continue reading
Fraiku: Summer Triangle
A swan — An eagle The lyre of Orpheus Nights warm but all too brief
The Secret Life of Fireflies
After a day of sprinkler runningunder the glistening sundark clouds swoop in from the westwith a sudden chilling air. A flash in the darkened skyand thunder menaces from afar.The storm drapes and drenches the grasscompleting our rain dance. With a … Continue reading
Canis Redivivus!
Canis Redivivus! My dog sleeps like a beach towel drying in the sunafter a vibrant afternoon throwing his tennis ballinto the lake, scaring fish and snapping gnats. When he’s had his fill of fecund water, he collapsesonto the sand, panting, … Continue reading
Childhood Memories of an Afternoon Nap
Childhood Memories of an Afternoon Nap Sneaking out the bedroom windowjumping off the porch roofrunning to the park pastthe fragrant rose bushes Climbing the cherry treeback to the turtle sandboxwith our crimson treats Then to the big swingswhere we pump … Continue reading
Fraiku for the Sunset
Day stretches out like a deserttoo long — too longsun grinding me down
Grateful for Blueberries
Grateful for Blueberries Blueberry pie may be purplebut it tastes like the bluesummer sky reflectingoff a cold mirror lakein New England. I brace for the shockas flavor soaks my tongueand drown in a sweetthanksgiving. (Another prompt combo: blue and gratitude.)
Angry Afternoons on Whispers and Echoes
Whispers and Echoes has published one of my new poems on the timely theme of summer, titled Angry Afternoons. My thanks to their editor Sammi Cox.
The Cardinal
The cardinal pontificates from the upper branchesvivid red feathers glinting in the sunI watch him flash from limb to limbtree to tree — inspired by his ambition I scribble details in my notebookhow he contrasts with the sharp green leavesthe … Continue reading
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 