Wet June

I will compose a song

in the tune of June

while the dark clouds

let light in at the distant edges

and four red lilies and one campanula

have opened in the rain

and a squirrel 

chomps almost-ripe cherries

shaking raindrops from the branches

Wet June

cloaking the length of days

so close to solstice

summer so far away.

©Wendy Mulhern

June 13, 2012