Linger

                          by Marjorie Moorhead


here, in the longing
twilight’s pinking clouds, 
purple dusk holding humid mist.
Peepers chirping song thick as carpet 
over evening surfaces. River current, 
dark and cool. Amber tinged grass. Flowers, 
yellow petaled, black-eye and brown-button centered.
Full Sturgeon Moon lamplights the sky. 
Faint breeze flutter flutter whispers through leaves.
Does this whispering sing of stars to come? 
Constellations set to shine through the crisp night. 
Soon, we’ll long for full body hugging heat to linger 
as an envelope that holds us. 
Cocooned thus, who is brave enough for winter’s breath?


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Marjorie Moorhead writes from the VT/NH border, surrounded by mountains in a river valley, with four season change. Her work addresses environment, survival, noticing the “every day”, and how we treat each other. Marjorie’s poems can be found in many anthologies, websites, and her two chapbooks Survival: Trees, Tides, Song (FLP 2019) and Survival Part 2: Trees, Birds, Ocean, Bees (Duck Lake Books 2020).