Sandra Irwin
remembering summer 1960
the air quivers with heat
time unfolds
without punctuation
no light flashes
no beep sounds
no bell rings
the only buzz is
the bees circling the plums
ripe in the orchard
in the bamboo shade
beneath my drowsing head
my only app lies quiet
a goat masticating his cud
all my world's news
shifting harmoniously
from one stomach to the next
Bio
Sandra Irwin holds an A.B. in English from Vassar College, a J.D. from the University of San Diego, and she is a 2009 graduate of the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California, where she received a full teaching fellowship. A microfiction piece of hers was published in the December issue of Luna Station Quarterly. Eight of her poems have appeared in recent months in Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poems, and in Indigo Rising Magazine.