July 24*

the vast of deep summer
          the lazy waft of heron
          rolling swells of dry flaxen field grass
          the sweet chill air of dawn/dusk
          leaves luxuriating under strong full sun

                    and the horizon stretches
                    beyond the edge of the earth

                    and the sky is not a bowl
                    but an expanse of warm infinity

*Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.