Summer is here!� For some reason, there is something special about summer for many and the same is true for me.� Unless I’m sitting on a boat sipping on something cold, I’m not a particular fan of extreme heat, but I do love all the wonderful things you can do. Both inside and out. I guess that is one of the reasons I like Summer so much…the options are pretty much endless and the memories to be made are boundless.
There is a line in the poem “The Botticellian Trees” by William Carlos Williams that to me sums it up perfectly.
“In summer the song
sings itself”
So go ahead, step outside. Enjoy life and let the songs of summer roll on.
Here is the complete poem:
“The Botticellian Trees”
by William Carlos Williams
The alphabet of
the trees
is fading in the
song of the leaves
the crossing
bars of the thin
letters that spelled
winter
and the cold
have been illumined
with
pointed green
by the rain and sun
the strict simple
principles of
straight branches
are being modified
by pinched out
ifs of color, devout
conditions
the smiles of love
. . . . . . . .
until the stript
sentences
move as a woman�s
limbs under cloth
and praise from secrecy
quick with desire
love�s ascendancy
in summer�
In summer the song
sings itself
above the muffled words�
-William Carlos Williams (1930)
