SUMMER RENEWAL

In summertime,

I need to sidle down and idle

On Mother Nature’s bed awhile.

To recline on a hayfield hill,

It’s Heaven. Just one hour, fill

A nest of soft , green grass.

Feel it growing against me.

Hear birds and hypnotic bees.

Then close my eyes

And watch a radiant sun

Glow orange, red and yellow

Through my translucent eyelids.

All around me, nature precipitates.

But I, for this occasion,

Am in renewal.

• dc HILL September 3, 1992