Sunday, June 21, 2009

Summer Solstice


Night in Day

by Joseph Stroud


The night never wants to end, to give itself over

to light. So it traps itself in things: obsidian, crows.

Even on summer solstice, the day of light's great

triumph, where fields of sunflowers guzzle in the sun-
we break open the watermelon and spit out

black seeds, bits of night glistening on the grass.

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