Sunday, August 1, 2021

Sunday Afternoon




It's all so simple really. I stand

at the kitchen window peeling


potatoes. Red maple, white birch

border our patch, green and growing.


On the road, a John Deere tractor

sputters by, kicks up gravel and dust.


I can't see your eyes, shaded by

your Red Sox cap as you push


the mower in neat rows

across the lawn, seed the air


with the sweet scent of cut grass.

I dry my hands and cup a ladybug,


open the screen door to free her

outside on a bed of marigolds.


I hear the small birds

at the feeder. I hear song.


--Nancy Ann Schaefer


[Photo of Douglas and Killian mowing].



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