Poem in July by Samuel Amadon

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I felt perfected along the rectangle By its ragged side   Fences trees and mist dropping Some space for the flowers   I set an image in my head where Bushes in their out of focus   Made a green dearth about the door I wanted to do a book on   Pages left in the heat or rain But my desire seemingly disappeared   Picked up by a car in the middle of A pack of cigarettes   This trip into the forest The trees trading with memory to   Frame the various breaks The pleasures of small laws cut   Behind the mower with my eyes Running the grass blades   We don’t really get any older I can see what that means            Copyright © 2016 Samuel Amadon. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “We have a really terrific screen porch on the back of our house in South Carolina, and when the summer gets ridiculous, I sometimes go sit in the heat for longer than I should. It feels like being underwater, but protected, like in a shark cage. I wrote this poem out of that feeling.” —Samuel Amadon   Samuel Amadon is the author of The Hartford Book (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2012). He teaches at the University of South Carolina and lives in Columbia, South Carolina     Poetry by Amadon   The Hartford Book (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2012)   "The neighbor’s buddy watching my screen through the window" by francine j. harris "Dear Lonely Animal," by Oni Buchanan "Becoming Weather, 21" by Chris Martin Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038