DOG DAYS

DOG DAYS from 1919 by Amy Lowell  ( 1874-1925) 

A ladder sticking up at the open window, The top of an old ladder........

And all of Summer is there

Great waves and tufts of wiseria surge across the window....

And a thin, belated blossom

Up and down ......sunlight.

Purple translucence against the blue sky

Tie back the branch, I say......

But my hands are sticky with leaves,

And my nostrils widen to the smell of crushed green,

The ladder moves uneasily at the open window,

And I call to the man beneath.

Tie back that branch.........

There is a ladder

Leaning against the windowsill

And a mutter of thunder in the air............

Photographs 2021

* In 1926 Amy Lowell was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926