Fat turnips flash purple 
at squash hilled beside a tomato plant.

Summer is slow as a rock
warmed by sun.

Bee balm nods in the breeze.
Hummingbirds dip, fly away.

I follow the direction of their going.
My feet remain in the dirt.

 

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Mike Wilson’s work has appeared in many magazines and in Mike’s book, Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic (Rabbit House Press). His awards include the League of Minnesota Poets Award, Maine Poets Society Award, and Chaffin/Kash Prize of the Kentucky State Poetry Society. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky.