Friday, Oct 16, 2026
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summer

White Clouds The Long Light

White Clouds

–-This poem reflects on white summer clouds drifting over a field, and the quiet calm they bring to a season often known…

15 May 2026 · 1 min read
Bees at Noon The Long Light

Bees at Noon

–-This poem reflects on bees at midday as the living pulse of summer, where heat, bloom, and quiet labor gather into one…

14 May 2026 · 1 min read
Garden Rows The Long Light

Garden Rows

–-This poem reflects on a summer garden as a place where care, labor, and light come together in slow growing abundance. The…

13 May 2026 · 1 min read
Creek Water The Long Light

Creek Water

–-This poem reflects on creek water as one of summer’s quiet mercies, offering coolness, motion, and a place of calm within the…

12 May 2026 · 1 min read
Open Screen Door The Long Light

Open Screen Door

–-This poem reflects on an open screen door as a simple threshold where summer enters the home through sound, air, and familiar…

11 May 2026 · 1 min read
Clover in the Yard The Long Light

Clover in the Yard

–-This poem reflects on clover as a humble and abundant sign of early summer, where small blossoms quietly fill the yard with…

8 May 2026 · 1 min read
Laundry on the Line The Long Light

Laundry on the Line

–-This poem reflects on laundry drying outside in summer, where ordinary household life becomes touched by light, wind, and a quiet sense…

7 May 2026 · 1 min read
Strawberries The Long Light

Strawberries

–-This poem reflects on strawberries as one of summer’s first intimate gifts, small and vivid signs that the season has begun to…

6 May 2026 · 1 min read
Longest Day The Long Light

Longest Day

–-This poem opens the summer series with the long generous light of early summer and the sense that the world has widened…

5 May 2026 · 1 min read

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