Summer in my Garden

strange things happen

i become smaller and smaller

sister to the small things

 

i scurry with chipmunks

hop with grasshoppers

scare crickets with my fiddle

i congregate with blackbirds

to steal the raspberries

before the children come out to play

then hide in a petal

to watch their eyes grow wide

i get drunk on petunias’ perfume

bumblebees invite me to dance

at dusk

i fall in love

with a butterfly