Author: 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.
Summer Idlings
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