Late Summer by Julia Jones Rose

The earth unfolds

  a flower in the sun

    light

      the butterfly

        illuminates

          the afternoon

            brilliant red and orange

              light

                flutters wings

                  over summer leaves

                    the trees

                      the rooftops

                        and is gone

the eucalyptus

  dappled trunk

    I remember

     that other time

       glistening

        streaming water

          you smiled

            and splashed me.

              silvery skin

                snakes

                 down the trees

                   bark hangs

                     dry leaves rustling

                      bring me back

                       Here-

                         it is –

                           late summer.

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Julia has always been a lover of poetry and has read it avidly all her life, graduating in English Literature (2:1) from Cambridge University, UK in 1989. She began writing poetry herself just over six years ago, her main influences being the poets Sophie Hannah, Louis MacNeice, T.S Eliot, Louise Gluck and Ted Hughes.  She is a single mother of three daughters, living and writing in Kent, UK.