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D O R O T H Y     H A R T Z        from  H i G H   W A T E R M A R K   S A L O [O] N  volume 1 number 3

June/Rose/Strawberry Moon

Rose moon rose hot and heavy, hot, heavy,
a strawberry too ripe for stem to keep,
too round and red to hold for long, too long
to keep the sweet inside all spilled on grass

We rolled on grass all sweet inside too sweet
to last inside we spilled the hot ripe seed
round and red it rose again red hot stem

rose all round, round red sweet berry split --
moon shafts seeds grow hot and heavy, heavy
I rolled away all crushed and heavy on
cool red grass ripe with seed, sweet seed to keep

Flower moon done, buck moon to come, moon turns
hot then cool turns red berries round and blue.

 

 
BIO
Dorothy Hartz is a native of Sullivan County, NY, currently living and gardening in Fremont Center. She is a retired teacher of English with an MA from SUNY Oneonta. Her poems and articles have appeared in local publications since 1997 when she returned to challenge Thomas Wolfe’s assertion that you can’t go home again. So far, so good. She is currently a grant coordinator for Delaware Valley Arts Alliance and a member of the Upper Delaware Writers Collective. She has considerable community theatre experience, both on and off stage, and is fluent in astrology.