Hummingbird, bumble bee, butterfly, grasshopper the katydid, monarchs On milkweed, yarrow, black-eyed susan, prim rose, hosta, coneflower, phlox, spirea… From wet green groundblades, from neighboring fronds, heliotropes in sunwaved air kinking Legs, wings, antennae that pop upon need, approach, licks of desire.
Optics bleed into compound swirl of wet purpose above, Videos of a confined kid’s candy-colored hormones, No longer cosmic yellow but the hot brilliance of cellular Activity following the beckon of rolling time. Music you can see. Feel it? Summer from dawn to death, pend to pit. You were named in the stomach of god’s portrait, A clock for the stars, a rhyme from her visit.
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Dennis Doherty is author of four volumes of poetry – The Bad Man (Ye Olde Font Shoppe Press, 2004), Fugitive (Codhill Press, 2007), Crush Test (Codhill Press, 2010), and Black Irish (Codhill Press, 2016), as well as an extended meditation on Twain’s great novel: Why Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (New Street Communication, 2014). His essays, poems, and stories appear throughout the literary press.
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