Northern Summers

In the far north summers

are sweet and intense

They come on too fast

and leave even quicker

But what a glorious time they are!

 

If you don't mind mosquitoes and midges

You can grow things if the soil will melt.

Flowers and sedges,

tundra up north,

and forested taiga down south

Green everywhere, so brief, so delicate!

 

And then winter will return,

sometimes suddenly in a day.

Summer is short, it never will last.

But it leaves a sweet taste anyway.