Only mid-June
cattails molting
time slips unfelt.
At the beach
the Indiana shoreline
turned unfamiliar overnight:
the tree line moved
stalks the coal stack.
This is how it happens:
familiar births unfamiliar
unwatched pot unboils
unwatched children age
unseen tomatoes ripen and split.
The linear dissolved
the life unmeasured:
summer lasts for days
winter lasts for decades.
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 28, Issue 2.
Michelle Geoga is a writer and artist from Chicago, now living in Southwest Michigan. She has a BFA in art and an MFA in writing from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Her work has been published in the Little Patuxent Review, Third Wednesday, Unleash Lit, Cleaver, and elsewhere. She was the beneficiary of a residency at Yaddo based on an early version of a novel in progress and was a finalist for The Big Moose prize by Black Lawrence Press.
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