Sharon Charde
How to Get from Summer to Fall
dress in layers
eat roses
don't look too hard at leaves
stay married
remember to breathe
listen to the tree frogs
for at least an hour each evening
bury the five dead bluebird babies
in a shoebox in your backyard
there's been a change in the love story
don't regret
just remember to harvest the hollyhock seeds
put them away for next spring
really, it's easy
you just have to know where the fault line is
and, after all, the mosquitoes will die
also the poison ivy
so carry in wood for a fire
can tomatoes
boil sugar and berries for jam
make preparation
but know it will never be
for what you expect
Sharon Charde, a retired psychotherapist and writing teacher since 1992, has won a number
of poetry awards and is published in many journals and several anthologies of poetry and
prose, with six Pushcart nominations to her credit. She has also edited and published I Am
Not A Juvenile Delinquent, containing the work of the adjudicated teenaged females she has
volunteered with since 1999 at a residential treatment center in Litchfield, Connecticut. She
has two first prize-winning chapbooks, Bad Girl At The Altar Rail and Four Trees Down From
Ponte Sisto and a full-length collection, Branch In His Hand, published by Backwaters Press in
November 2008
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How to Get from Summer to Fall
dress in layers
eat roses
don't look too hard at leaves
stay married
remember to breathe
listen to the tree frogs
for at least an hour each evening
bury the five dead bluebird babies
in a shoebox in your backyard
there's been a change in the love story
don't regret
just remember to harvest the hollyhock seeds
put them away for next spring
really, it's easy
you just have to know where the fault line is
and, after all, the mosquitoes will die
also the poison ivy
so carry in wood for a fire
can tomatoes
boil sugar and berries for jam
make preparation
but know it will never be
for what you expect
Sharon Charde, a retired psychotherapist and writing teacher since 1992, has won a number
of poetry awards and is published in many journals and several anthologies of poetry and
prose, with six Pushcart nominations to her credit. She has also edited and published I Am
Not A Juvenile Delinquent, containing the work of the adjudicated teenaged females she has
volunteered with since 1999 at a residential treatment center in Litchfield, Connecticut. She
has two first prize-winning chapbooks, Bad Girl At The Altar Rail and Four Trees Down From
Ponte Sisto and a full-length collection, Branch In His Hand, published by Backwaters Press in
November 2008
Home
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