July Lyric

Kerry Carnahan

Whats green whats golden 
then red
reduced to dust by heat. Whose shadow 
owns you
Youws rough
a ghostly Butterick pattern 
earned with tears

Arson. Alfalfa 
faints. Traipsing
singing through a grove 
over bountiful cicada
adamant in Ubelaker's place
lace gloves
lovesick Fox, Maxine 
ineluctable so

Sower and seamstress 
stress dream
amen to your thickened joints / Parched Eden 
engulfed by the Lower Solomon
on these drowned fields our Francis 
is blurred
unredressed

sedate as who intimately 
lives with rain