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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZW link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I will give you the sentence in the poem, and I think you will see the Queen of Summer in the sentence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>What do you think?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I see with my entire body – by breath, my skin, the sounds I hear, the smells, and the feelings I have when standing outside somewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I stand there and I am memorizing it all – and take it back inside of me to the writing studio.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>L.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Stylist <stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jacobson, Shawn D via Stylist<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 26, 2019 9:21 AM<br><b>To:</b> Writers' Division Mailing List <stylist@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Jacobson, Shawn D <Shawn.D.Jacobson@hud.gov><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stylist] A Poem for late August_<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US>Linda<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US>That was very well done. I’ve never been a great nature person, and have never had the eyesight to see these things in minute detail, so I’m not experienced in these things to the extent you are. None the less, I see the beauty in it through your eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US>BTW—who is “The Queen of Summer”?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US>Shawn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Stylist <<a href="mailto:stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org">stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Linda Lambert via Stylist<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 26, 2019 8:28 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Writers' Division Mailing List' <<a href="mailto:stylist@nfbnet.org">stylist@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:llambert@zoominternet.net">llambert@zoominternet.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stylist] A Poem for late August_<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>For your enjoyment. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>“Graceful Choreography”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>The first announcements of shifting seasons<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>begin to materialize early on August mornings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Under-stated changes happened slowly <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>when the purple Pokeweed hangs in long clusters<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>beneath hearty leaves along the well-worn pathway. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Grasses in the meadow display delicate daisy clusters<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>urgently beckon me to pay attention today <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Tread lightly through the grass. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> I cast my attention towards the Queen of Summer <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Standing in the meadow, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>I remain motionless, wide-eyed, surrounded<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>as the celadon-green stems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>display the Queen Ann’s Lace in full bloom.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>These graceful ballet dancers hover<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>on the warm August breeze. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Orchestrations in rural fields and along roadsides<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>They each remember to arrive at this time every year<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Nothing can prevent the shifting waves of change<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>I’ll wait patiently for the blue Chicory to join the dance <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>In her wisdom, Nature placed them together on a stage<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>floral dancers on a late-summer stage.</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Graceful choreography. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Give them a standing ovation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>By Lynda McKinney lambert<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Note: this poem, originally written in 1991,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Was first published in a chapbook under the title, “August Mornings” in 2002.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>I chose this poem for the opening poem of Part 4 (For Seasons, Days, and Years) in my new book, <i>Star Signs: New and Selected Poems,</i> 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>This poem was published in <i>The Weekly Avocet,</i> August 25, 2019. 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