Elegy as Long as a Summer

David Freeman
| poetry

 

Summer burned easily. And everyone had something to say.

The rock said, be finished with sweetness.

The tree said, repeat like a lie.

The ground said, a mouse is a garden.

The mouse said, stay out of the garden.

Summer continued to burn. And everyone had something to say.

The corpse said, who will walk me.

The tree said, repeat like a lie.

The ground said, that is easily opened.

The mouse said, stay out of the garden.

Summer continued to burn. And everyone had something to say.

The apple said, have a doppelgänger.

The dog said, who will I walk.

The ground said, summer is ending.

The mouse said, stay out of the garden.

Summer continued to burn. Until summer said summer is over.

Summer said, summer is over.

The mouse said, you may enter the garden.

David Freeman is a poet from Long Lake, MN. His poetry has previously appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, and others. He is the recipient of a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award in Poetry.

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