Moments Of Summer–Blue bird

The cloudy sky shadows faintly
through the faded vine shelf
down to a dilapidated wooden table
on which an old book is open
with the fuzzy characters 
in the yellowed leaves,
like a dimmed doze in summer.
The cool breeze carrying a daydream
wafts in mid-air
like a swing.


A tweeting blue bird flitters over
the high bush and
hides soon
in the dense green shades,
like lightning and thunder which streak through 
my chaotic consciousness–
how to paint the vacant time ahead?
only to pray and wait 
for an answer.

Min Katherine Liu
Virginia Tech
WVArts Solitude
Summer 2016