Poem-A-Day: Rachel Hadas, Summer Nights and Days

	July 13, 2012 Today's poem is copyright © 2012 by Rachel Hadas. Used with permission of the author. More from this author Related Poems Dawn Dreams by Rachel Hadas Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where the bee sucks, there suck I] by William Shakespeare A Boy and His Dad by Edgar Guest A Green Crab's Shell by Mark Doty A Lesson for This Sunday by Derek Walcott You can unsubscribe from our Poem-A-Day emails at at anytime—either completely, or until next April. Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane Suite 901 New York, NY 10038 212-274-0343 academy@poets.org		Summer Nights and Days by Rachel Hadas So far the nights feel lonelier than the days. In light, the living keep me company, and memories of voices through the years. Each summer threads a green familiar maze. Emerging sun-struck, you can barely spy the slow kaleidoscope of clouds and hours. Those flannel nightshirts chilly sleepers wear as summer wanes: I'm giving them away. Pass it on: you keep at the same time. A bough has broken from the Duchess tree. Rain swelled the apples. Too much lightness weighs heavy: the heft of the idea of home tempered with the detachment of a dream, or tidal pulls, like ocean, like moonrise. Share Digg StumbleUpon Facebook E-mail to Friend