More Than Poetry

I’m in love with a dream.
Sloppy pants and farmer boots
wearing socks on a day
when mosquito bites
do not make me happy.
Some victims take a swig of gin
I soak myself in deet.
The dawn is what makes
me smile
a wild heart stilled
like a whispering shadow
sky ablaze--promise of summer.
I come alive in the dance
of field and sky
the glory of daffodils
a loon’s melodic cry
red embers on a sleepy night.
I live--I live.

© Richard L. Provencher
Website: www.wsprog.com/rp/