A Summer Solstice Diary

and other poems of nature's presence

This ACM Weekly begins with a diary of midsummer’s day. The weather varied a great deal throughout!

I wrote of the sights, sounds, and even scents as we moved through the daylight hours, completing the first draft of this poem on the morning of the 22nd. I was still modifying it as I prepared this post on the 26th, but it remains a very direct record…