When there are large trees on either side of a deep creek, even in the intense heat of a summer’s day, the wind will sometimes push cool chills from underneath the leafy canopy out onto surrounding fields.

Cool Dispensation

The summer wind
slipped through the trees
to sheltered streams below.

Caught cold the chill
of shadows deep,
and swept it in one blow

up 'ore the ridge,
near where he worked
hard, sweating in the field,

where pleasantly
it glided past:
a gift that nature spilled.

Next poem: Morning Song

Author: Jerry Dan Deutschendorf
from: Red Earth Whisperings
Part I: Nature and the Nature of Things