Bringing in the Harvest
In our hay day of dating
we brought our collected
bales of experience
from the trusting country boy
and the wary city girl
gave them a ride on your
zooming red motorcycle
into the winding
we flew over the pot-holed roads
where you showed me how
the air could change
in a split second
we went from warm updraft
to chilling undercurrents
we traveled the thrills
and the teases of the turnings
even after the bike was sold
to make room for the snow blower
and the cushioned lawn chairs
we continue to find new routes
to get to our flourishing
© Susan Shea
Susan Shea is a retired school psychologist who grew up in New York City and now lives in a forest in Pennsylvania. Her poetry has been published in or is forthcoming in Chiron Review, Invisible City, Ekstasis, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Green Silk Journal, The Write Launch, The Gentian, Across the Margin, October Hill Magazine, Litbreak Magazine, Poemeleon, Beltway Poetry, Foreshadow, New English Review, and others. Within the last few months one of her poems was nominated for Best of the Net by Cosmic Daffodil, and three poems were nominated for a Pushcart Award by Umbrella Factory Magazine.
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