GOLDEN SHOVEL NO. 7

            after Jane Kenyon’s “Heavy Summer Rain”

distrusting nearly everything,

I’ve taken to blooming.

In place of somber bows,

we simply simmer down

taking pleasure in

the past. I look to the

future—can you see it through the rain?

Caitlin M.S. Buxbaum is a writer and teacher from Wasilla, Alaska. She has published eight books through her company, Red Sweater Press, and currently serves as President of Alaska Writers Guild and Editor-in-Chief of The Poets' Touchstone. Learn more at caitbuxbaum.com.