The Nearness of the Sun

The Desert in Midsummer

We are within one of month of the summer solstice now, and the direct rays of the sun are very intense. It is this, more than the heat, which makes me long for the milder days of the year, just as I often feel in midwinter, when the sun is dull and chilly.

Sonnet to the Midsummer Sun

The month of May has come and with it fire
Of Sun upon the earth as his …