Summer Wedding
The cicadas chant
Their song of sex, sex
And longing, like a Greek
Chorus, courting
The inevitable divorce.
Nobody listens.
Humidity provides
A bond that holds close
The ceremony. Everything
Clingy–clothes to body,
Skin to bone, nerve to nerve–
Each to other. Flowers wilt
As they should, parched
In the heat of the moment.
Bruce Morton divides his time between Montana and Arizona. He is the author of two poetry collections: Planet Mort (2024) and Simple Arithmetic & Other Artifices (2014). A chapbook, Olive-drab Khaki Blues, is forthcoming from FootHills Publishing. His poems have appeared in numerous online and print venues. He was formerly dean at the Montana State University library.
