Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

by BRUNELL LIPPY
(8.27.03)


squash vines
long and hollow
the last late evenings


deep in the sink
the great veins of chard
summer's end

curl
of the corn worm
lingering heat

a shower darkens
in the summer bookstore
the smell of new novels

the frayed rope
swings back into the shade
country swimming hole
one firefly
clears the house
summer midnight

crooked bra strap
of a cafe waitress
the heat


the long gap downstream
to the bridge's shadow
evening coolness

lightning flash
how short
the stubble

summer dawn
coolness
of the egg's taper

the flatness
of watermelon seeds
August dusk
the long segments
of the Big Dipper's handle
summer fields

-- BURNELL LIPPY
These poems appear in late geese up a dry fork, Red Moon Press, 2003.