On a Cool Day in June (June 1, 2018)

Not quite summer, the sky is not quite blue,

The flowers not quite lush with mauve or red,

The air still too cool, a degree or two

Below perfection; he can go to bed

Comfortably in the cool of the night,

But he cannot sit outside with a beer

And a good book in the sun; there is light,

But insufficient warmth this time of year. 

Even a fire gives insufficient heat.

All winter long he waits for spring and prays

For warmer days to raise the dead, to greet

Tulips of April mornings, yet June stays

Cool this far north, and winds swoop from the plains,
And the darkening sky in the west brings rains.