Summer Mandala
My spirit draws in
the deepening summer.
Craving fulfilled by cinnamon
yellow goldenrod illumining
the dark of cattails and binding
Fra Angelico blue chicory to Earth.
The horizon holds heavens call
in the cricket’s Evensong.
Alpha and Omega here now in
the bounty of the afternoon sun
as it warms the harvest of
sweet corn, blood red tomatoes
and the herbs of the field.
Carole Walker Trickett
