Close of Day

by Brooke Herter James

 
Nighthawks skim
the barn in pinking sky
while you spray 
the old wooden dinghy 
with soapy water,
a whole summer
washing away.
 
I should help—
but here I sit
on an overturned bucket
under evening’s spell,
thinking I never want
any of this to end.


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Brooke Herter James is the author of several poetry chapbooks and one children’s picture book. She lives in Vermont with her husband, two donkeys, a mess of chickens and a dog.