Spider Woman / Collage

Summer one, you're powerful.

I love your collection of things

and I love your limbs.

Push Mower

I cannot say in confidence

that so much depends on you.

You have rusted and I have

no idea of your origins.

When we bought this house

you were here

and I have used you.

But during summer months,

when the green grass lengths lean,

we walk together

over crabgrass

and dandelions

—beheading some and pushing over others

while the children ride by.