Another Summer

Shadows of daisies
Lie on my backyard walk,
Lazing in the sun.











Clustered in the shade
Goats continue their feasting.
They just never stop.


Even the rooster
Is unenthusiastic
In the sultry heat.

I walk my old road
Preparing to say good-bye--
Another summer.











Suddenly startled
A deer look up anxiously
And evaporates.

In late afternoon
Fairies come to this lawn
To lie in the cool.











Do they shout at me,
Tiger Lilies by the road?
I must turn towards them.