SUMMER

 

I savor the blue-diamond mountains

unfurling like bolts of denim,

emerald fields of corn  pop up

beside Hyatt-Mill Creek

babbling past Holcomb's Farm

as black angus cattle graze

in celery-colored pastures.

Monarch butterflies flit

and dip on knockout roses,

the bluebirds sing cheerful

ballads in the piney woods.

On this summer day,

sunbeams burst through the clouds

and dance across Lake Chatuge

sparkling with a thousand diamonds,

I wade through the icy waters.

                --Brenda Kay Ledford