August overtakes us, grasses brown- withering Purple shines on fence ©Nancilynn Saylor 20 August 2017
Tag: Texas Summer
Mellow yellow
Sunshine-yellow bellsColor of deep, deep SummerDay dreams of autumn. Nancilynn Saylor 18 August 2017
Here/ between day and fall of night/ thunder’s tease-no rain. ©Nancilynn Saylor 23 July 2017
Whipped cream sunrise spreads/ across blue Sunday sky/ July summer day. ©Nancilynn Saylor 16 July […]
July
Early too early the summer heat melts us like ice cream cones held too long in the hands of babes sticky hot mess our dogs loll about searching for a cool space to stake out on the tile beneath an air-conditioner vent coffee over ice for humans, we draw closed the drapes against the […]
Plumeria Blooming
I received my first stock from the woman my father married, a few years after our Mother died. They were both eighty and set in their ways-she was a hard-headed woman of German descent. She snapped off a piece of hers without fanfare, jammed it in a discarded pot of dirt and said, “here you go.Just […]
Texas Summer
I woke up early for a Saturday but not as early as I, as a rule, do. The weather today: typical Texas late June, 90’s with high humidity. This litany of weather will remain more or less unchanged except the final degree of heat, […]
Nancilynn is Writing again 