Janet McMillan Rives

Cooler Air

  

Long-sleeved shirts

nights with open windows

flower pots overflowing

in amber, violet, magenta

abundance.

 

Fall opens life on the desert

bare feet on patio flagstones

the gift of mountain views

            vermillion sunsets

breath.

 

I will inhale each moment

of these dwindling days

wait for soft December rains

the rare snowflake melting

on the arm of a saguaro.

 

 

Janet McMillan Rives lives in Oro Valley, Arizona. Her poems have appeared most recently in Creosote, The Gilded Weathervane, Still Point Arts Quarterly, and Audi Locus. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks—Into This Sea of Green: Poems from the Prairie, Washed by a Summer Rain: Poems from the Desert and On Horsebarn Hill: Poems and a hybrid memoir, Thread: A Memoir in Woven Poems. She is co-author of a recently published hybrid chapbook, Reflections of France: Images and Poems. https://janetmrives.com