Epiphany on a Day in June
After “Love, your waters, your melodies,” by Rumi (translated by Haleh Liza Gafori)
Love of summer brought us here:
Your swift feet led us where
waters meet in the meadow.
Your voices, your laughter
—melodies—
whirl. They swarm
me, like mayflies
and minnows,
whirl all through
me, like my breath.
I’m almost dizzy with
the joy that drifts like a
wheel of cottonwood seeds
in the breeze,
a scattering from nature’s
mill. And as we race in a
whirl over the grass—you two,
me—I glimpse this day shining
forever.
Laura Hannett’s poems have appeared in Sheila-Na-Gig, Ink Nest Literary Journal, Willows Wept Review, Abandoned Mine, Macrame Literary Journal, Neologism Poetry Journal and The Bluebird Word, among others. Her work can also be found in several anthologies, including Black Bough Poetry’s Winter & Holiday Anthology, Vol. 6 and Go, The Prayer Has Been Sent: Poems for Christmas (Orenaug Mountain Publishing). Her micro-chapbook, Little Songs Brought in From Outside, was published by Origami Poems Project. She carries on the quest for the right words in Central New York.
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