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Poetry

Summer Solstice

by Carrie Sandholz

Days age and fade like cheap cardboard.
Another whey-faced noon
rasps over the hardtack grass.
We barely remember the ginger water chortle,
the silver in the aspens.
The rubber hose is hot,
the water flat.
When will autumn hover,
break our brittle hearts,
and bleed up the mountains.