by Peggy Simson Curry

by Peggy Simson Curry
     Long after we are gone，
     Summer will stroke this ridge in blue；
     The hawk still flies above the flowers，
     Thinking， perhaps， the sky has fallen
     And back and forth forever he may trace
     His shadow on its azure face.
     Long after we are gone，
     Evening wind will languish here
     Between the lupine and the sage
     To die a little death upon the earth，
     As though over the sundown prairies fell
     A requiem from a bronze-tongued bell.
     Long after we are gone，
     This ridge will shape the night，
     Lifting the wine-streaked west，
     Shouldering the stars. And always here
     Lovers will walk under the summer skies
     Through flowers the color of your eyes.