Angular Slide

Summer comes in on an angular slide

wary at first, witdrawing at the first sign

of popular acclaim

reticient as an aging movie star

she phones ahead books a place


and then arrives

oh so fashionably late

It is during this time of hesitant arrival

where I find myself there but not

really there

as she is so quick to remind me

Not one for moment by moment awareness

I am reminded by one elgant as a swan

of meditative awareness

of the here and now

she is there always and I

like this years summer

tend to live

on an angular slide