Reunion

titian streamers hang listlessly

in heavy air, the signs of summer

reappear.  crumbling pickets

start to droop.  until next may,

they hide indoors – turning gray,

like thinning hairs on towering men

who return en masse to trod these steps

 

Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Joanna Friedman is currently a graduate student in English literature at the University of Oxford, specializing in Renaissance drama.