summer solstice

call the children back, and let them
sow the smoldering fields with ashes
they picked up along the way. In this way,
all that has passed over time will have passed
opportunely, and grow endurable.
Until even what has not yet taken place
is here for the taking. Which means it must catch fire
today at noon, spellbound as the sun
beating at the heart of the hundred-petaled rose.