Poems of the Season: Lyrics on the Subjects of Spring, Trees, and Summer -- Wow, Three of My Favorite Things!

I've been busy in June. Our son Saul got married on June 4, to Emma Siegel, perfect ceremony 

in a perfect place, the Tanglewood Music Center, in Lenox, Mass. 

Then I got Covid, and took about a week of sleeping a lot and otherwise taking it easy to 

make sure I was well and posed no danger to anybody else. 

Then we went to another wedding. (So far OK.)

So I've been slow to post notice of my poems in the June edition of Verse-Virtual, the monthly 

journal of the poetry community I am happily part of. 

My poems this month address subjects that mean a lot to me and, one hopes, to everyone 

else: spring, trees, and summer.

The Thing About Spring begins this way:

Once more the world, the landscape,

the place, the thing – everything that we are not

greens up, like a laugh in the heart of a 
     creature in love 
Something is loving the world

Once again people do not entirely matter 
The slaughter of the innocents enacted in this or that 
     corner of the world 
is not, to all appearances, the only story
Once more, before our eyes the face of The Other 

     changes, the object of perception 
What do the philosophers make of this?
Do they say – like us? – the eyes of my eyes
may now be freshly engaged, transfixed,
that the miracle has shaken the grip 
     of our disbelieving heart?

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To read the remainder of this poem, and my other poems, "Heroes of the Arboretum" and

"The Truth About Summer," and find your way to the rest of this issue,

here's the link June 2022