Poetry by Bonnie Demerjian
Sing a song of summer’s end —
crickets in the grass
katydids seesaw away while
locusts buzz of shortened days.
Half moon in the evening sky
veiled with trailing cloud
while the winds shush through the weeds
All restless, so restless.
The cats play ambush in the grass
heedless of the gathering dew.
In the field the dry corn stands
waiting, waiting.
Summer gathers in her skirt
apples, pears and grapes,
fragrant asters plump with bees,
sheaves of scraping insect song, and
waves of birds as they depart.
With a long and backward glance,
step by step she leaves us
soon to sink her body down.
Autumn, it’s autumn.
Bonnie Demerjian writes from Alaska. She has written as journalist and as author of four books about Alaska’s history, human and natural. Her emerging poetry and flash work has appeared in Alaska Women Speak, Tidal Echoes, Bluff and Vine, and Blue Heron Review.
