remember to respect

my eyes are tired as i work hours

at a setting on my play

while the summer heat

builds the allergy count

just outside my window

but i am not wielding a pickax

or tarring a road under the hot sun

so, i have little to complain of

when so many as worthy as i

are working in greater pain

who would have guessed

joy of caring for an animal pet

i would not have thought

could transfer to tending to plants

but i love needing to give the deck

flowers every morning enough water

to survive and thrive through our

ninety-degree days

through august

gentle rain, hardly more than mist

but it may be enough to give hope

that the far-flung

 rhodies will make it through august

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settling into summer

chill mornings settling into season

with heat building through the day

grass a brittle gray-green and sprouting

fine seed to contribute to the pollen-laden air

without rain, even these few days,

earth responds to the brutality

of summer

stoker

haiku

eight days of intense heat

relative cool of pre-dawn

quaffed by fireball sun