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Poetics Presents

Kathleen J. Stowe

Kathleen Stowe is a new member of WVU. Her background includes nursing, teaching, and working as a flight attendant. She has previously published a mystery novel Whalebone Junction and a short story "Oh Sure--I Understand, Honey" is scheduled to be published in the spring/summer 2002 issue of Virginia Adversaria. Kathleen finds that the discipline of writing poetry teaches her to write better fiction.

Writers' Village members look forward to reading more of Kathleen's work.

Summer You ask me why I like summer. I say I like the sun. I like the twitter of the crickets in the dark. I like the stickiness of your sweat on my chest, The way the ceiling fan cools us down, Ice cubes as you melt them on my belly. Everything is a little more trouble In the heat of the summer. Keeping the tuna salad fresh, Ironing a cotton dress, Settling a late night argument between lovers, Making me come. The heat shimmers off the asphalt. Blue turns to gray, turns to white. A dog lies unmoving at the end of the drive. You come home to clutch at a beer from the icebox, To listen to baseball scores on the droning radio, Before you touch me. Acres of tasseled corn, A mother full with child fanning herself on the porch, Expectation of harvest from Lumbering machines parked at the edge of fields, And you by my side spent satisfied and snoring. Summer ... when the day is quiet with the heat But the night grumbles with life. Copyright © 2002 by Kathleen J. Stowe