Year
Monarch of the weeds that adorn the roadsides,
and is a dainty wedding gown for fairy brides,
of summers past remembrance of
June high school graduations
on a sleepy Saturday,
and when your love held you close,
to slowly dance in the screened porch,
as your soft cotton dress flowed
of sunflowers.
Delicate Queen Anne's lace, among
goldenrod and wild daisies,
how I feel a rush of nostalgia,
and can still smell cooling rain,
while ambling down country roads
in my jeans shorts,
passing tall wooden electric poles
with humming wires,
those gently scented Queen Anne's lace
of those summertides fills the hurt
in me with fond youthful memories.
Regina, first class.
M