Summer Idlings

Chris Northrop

From: Volume 42, No. 3
April/May 2022

Sudden thunder

breaks

the cat runs—

A tiny

Steady rain

Is still wet—

On the broad leaves

The sunflower leans into

Rain as subtle

As a gray cat

Among sunflowers—

At dusk

The sunflowers bend

toward dawn

Chris Northrop

Chris Northrop is a poet and freelance writer originally from Indiana, who graduated from Indiana State University with a minor in creative writing. He is a student of all forms of poetry, but some of his specific influences are the Japanese haiku poets, the Romantic poets, Shakespeare, Milton, and T. S. Eliot.


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