Underwood Press - May 2019
You can find two poems by Ruth McArthur in the May 2019 publication of Underwood Press
Beginning of the End of Summer
These September highs are lower
than the lows of August.
She’ll be back, Summer,
before the weather finally cools,
but the object lesson that the heat
can abate fills me with hope.
filled by the first rains of fall,
the creek sings after summer silence,