Raising Cane

~

never a specific date and

doesn’t depend on the 

proclivities of Easter 

or the position of a 

precocious moon,

~

not on temperature or 

a succession of sunny days

or due to a particular letter

or the lack of it 

in a certain month,

~

not the altitude, number or 

position of nesting birds

the changing of clocks or 

the changing of clouts

~

no! summer begins 

with a gentle sound

the rattle and scrape 

of a brittle brush, the 

melodious snip of twine

being cut and tied,

runner bean canes

are cleansed and

lean together in discourse

for what the new season 

might have in store

*

© Graham R Sherwood 05/23